To: TLI
“”Quien (a spanish language magazine read my Mexican people) claims a “total audience” of 513,000 readers in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.”””
Its business. Surely it will offend alot of Americans. I don’t like it...but it is directed to a certain group of people. Others outside of this particular ad’s target audience that will never pick up that magazine will happen along and see it but the small number of people offended will not outweigh the pleased number of people that the ad was intended for.
I think its disgusting. But it was not meant for me to see it.
They would not get away with this ad in Alabama, its just business.
9 posted on
04/03/2008 10:18:56 AM PDT by
envisio
(If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. 8^O)
To: envisio
Web sites like this one and blogs make targeted marketing harder to hide than it was even 10 years ago. I do not know why they ran this ad; it may have been the free publicity, as Absolut vodka may not be consumed much by white male middle class conservatives and a big uproar may help sales with groups like homosexuals and assorted “alternative lifestyle” types. It is also possible that the marketing director may have his head firmly planted in the 1980s, when the MSM and the entertainment giants controlled virtually all news and entertainment media.
To: envisio
As I stated on another post, someone always shows up to apologize for idiocy.
13 posted on
04/03/2008 10:33:24 AM PDT by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: envisio
They would not get away with this ad in Alabama, its just business. Ok, I am in Texas and that is part of the southwest. They are suggesting I loose my part of the nation but hey, "it's just business?" It's ok here in Texas?
I don't think so.
14 posted on
04/03/2008 10:36:47 AM PDT by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: envisio
Boycotting Absolut is also “just business”.
To: envisio
Pretty sad, if Treason is now “just business.”
To: envisio
They would not get away with this ad in Alabama, I doubt you've spent much time in Bama son. Your opinions are very..ahem....Northern.
51 posted on
04/03/2008 3:35:56 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(My cousin just graduated SEAL team training (BUDS) at Coronado.)
To: envisio
They would not get away with this ad in Alabama, I doubt you've spent much time in Bama son. Your opinions are very..ahem....Northern.
52 posted on
04/03/2008 3:35:56 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(My cousin just graduated SEAL team training (BUDS) at Coronado.)
To: envisio
They would not get away with this ad in Alabama, I doubt you've spent much time in Bama son. Your opinions are very..ahem....Northern.
53 posted on
04/03/2008 3:35:57 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(My cousin just graduated SEAL team training (BUDS) at Coronado.)
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