Are we really mad at the Coca Cola multiple language ad?

I keep seeing on my facebook feed that apparently us conservatives are protesting coca cola or something? Is that some sort of reflection from liberals that they just assume we all had a conniption over it? I haven't seen anybody even discuss or show anger on it on freerepublic or conservative blogs. I highly doubt Rush Limbaugh has even mentioned it.

I honestly think they are making up the controversy because where is our outrage? I think this is how they view us to be racists and narrow minded and just assumed we would be angry about some ad

Oh I’m not going to even try to navigate the Obamacare website, as long as I can’t afford the insurance and it’s full of security issues. The latest I heard was that part of the code for Healthcare.gov was written by folks in Belarus, the former Soviet republic that really wishes it was “back in the USSR.” I wonder why Washington outsourced it, when there are liberal geeks in Silicon Valley who would probably see it as a patriotic duty to write it for little or nothing. Finally, if you’re like me, you must feel that it’s just not right for the government to fine us for not buying something we don’t want, from a website that doesn’t work.

The song is the thing. It’s not about her.

If you had followed to silliness @ Breitbart or politico you would have seen that the song was only the occasion, or the pretext, and mockery was "the thing".

They planted a seed called "outrage" (think about the connotations of the word and then apply it in context to the reaction to this silly ad) and then did their best to fan the flames in order to further their point - that being that "Rethuglikkkans" (I kid you not) hate everyone who doesn't look exactly like them (insert white reference here).

The lesbian angle was offered up as a dovetail wedge issue with a similar trope - right-wingers are intolerant of homosexuals so shove it in their faces that a song they adore was written by a (gasp!) lesbian. Nevermind that no one can prove that she was anything more than a female spinster who had a platonic relationship.

In fact, one pointed me to an "article" he had published when prompted for evidence (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/america-the-beautiful-author-is-rush-limbaugh-s-favorite-lesbian-socialist) that not only failed to shed any light on the homo issue but did illustrate how they were attempting to link conservative pundits including Rush by false attribution.

My favorite libtard mix-up was where a couple of them insisted that "E Pluribus Unum" meant "out of one, many" as a parallel to the insipid diversity is our strength BS. I guess my point is that it is they who invented the controversy, incited and inflamed it, all to astroturf a situation where they could gather an intemperate comment or two to use against us. We should make them have to work for it.

Any conservative who doesn't have a problem with the Coke ad is completely missing the point.

Why do you think that the Colorado school was able to initially stop its students from celebrating US patriotism while allowing the celebration of Cinco de Mayo (or as Obama calls it, "Cinco de Quatro") or other ethnic celebrations? It's because of the multiculturalism/diversity indoctrinization we are bathing in.

The conservatives who find no objection to the Coke ad are like frogs in a pot. Sure, it seems like a warm bath right now. But they won't notice the scalding and boiling until it's too late.

Teddy Roosevelt said it best:
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have no room for but one flag, the American Flag . . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
- Theodore Roosevelt, from a letter Roosevelt wrote to the American Defense Society
January 3rd, 1919

I don't object to immigrant citizens having their own language and ethnicity. But singing America the Beautiful or any other American patriotic song in a foreign tongue dishonors this country. I would have preferred that they sang in English tinged with whatever foreign accent they possess. That would have demonstrated the singer's AND Coke's honoring of America.

I'm 1st generation born in this country (German WWII refugees). My grandparents did everything they could to learn English and become US citizens ASAP. My mother's English is so perfectly pronounced she sounds Canadian. Maybe that's why I am so offended, being an American meant and continues to mean so much more to my family.

I find it so sad that some conservatives don't feel the same way.

But here's the part that really chaps me about all of this. Coke airs an offensive ad and the conservatives who object are the only ones smart enough to recognize the offense. Meanwhile, the liberal blogosphere immediately demonstrate their own "tolerance" by calling conservatives intolerant, stupid, racist, bigots for taking offense.

Definitely CITGO. I’m not a big boycotter—it just gets too complicated. I have been 5 months without Starbuck(in an outlet—I did buy a bottled mocha in a convenience store when they were out of fresh coffee)
First Starbucks claimed they would respect WA law and let patrons carry in the WA stores, then they changed their minds. Shame, shame. They claimed it was due to pressure from customers who didnt feel “safe”. Considering the track record of publicized “gun free zones” I feel less safe in their outlets now. I would like to see the characters who pressured them.

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