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To: doug from upland

It they want to sell cars they should make the car look fun-cool-beautiful-and a driver’s machine.

I wouldn’t cite Ali as Mr. Work Ethic. He could train up but sometimes he under-trained and it cost him against Leon Spinks and Jimmy Young (even though Young was robbed by a terrible decision).


2 posted on 02/07/2014 7:40:26 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I agree, not a good reference. It took me three or four seconds of wondering Ali Who? before I recalled a great boxer with brain damage. That is not what is wanted when you’re making a commercial; it distracts from the sales narrative.

The car does look beautiful, though.


3 posted on 02/07/2014 8:04:33 PM PST by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: Monterrosa-24
I would not cite Muhammad Ali in any advert touting American values. I don't approve of his having taking a powder on military service - "I ain't got no quarrels with no VC's." But to be fair, as my late MIL pointed out, he served his time in prison for that - can't say the same about lots of others who were given the same choice.

It is his embrace of Islam that concerns me more. He began all of his interviews with an accolade to "Hon. Elijah Muhammad" and was a strong advocate of the Black Muslims.

After his having lived off the fat of the land for decades, he never condemned the 9/11 attacks or any other of the manifold Muslim atrocities of the last several decades.

So I guess in the final analysis, this commercial typifies what is the custom in today's America - adopt the buzzword or current argot and forget the basic tenets of Western Civilization, born, nourished, and protected through several millennia against the attacks of Persian satraps, Mongol Khans, Muslim Caliphs, jack-booted Storm Troopers and Soviet commissars.

The ancient enemy is still on the attack, and our society is committing collective suicide with our preoccupation with supposed "rights" of every perverted class that can thrust itself forward in the Tweeter and Facebook age.

I'm proud to stand in the shadow of my ancestors who came to this Nation in the steerage of coffin ships from Ireland in the aftermath of An Gorta Mor, who made their way into this nation serving as laborers, maids and servants, and helped build the great Nation under whose aegis we enjoy our precious Freedoms.

End of rant.



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17 posted on 02/07/2014 9:31:28 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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