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Gatorade Banned and Fined $300k for Bad-Mouthing Water
New York Post ^ | September 21, 2017 | Ruth Brown

Posted on 09/21/2017 8:36:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Gatorade has been banned from insulting its main competitor — water — and fined $300,000 after it slandered nature’s sports drink in a video game, California’s Attorney General announced Thursday.

AG Xavier Becerra sued the neon-colored beverage company over its cellphone game “Bolt!” in which players guide track star Usain Bolt around to collect coins and bottles of Gatorade but must avoid water — which slows the Olympian down.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; advertising; becerra; bolt; freedomofspeech; gatorade; liberalfascism; nannystate; usainbolt; videogame; water; xavierbecerra
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1 posted on 09/21/2017 8:36:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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This is not a joke. I want to get that game now.


2 posted on 09/21/2017 8:39:18 PM PDT by Hildy
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Electrolytes!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqA


3 posted on 09/21/2017 8:43:30 PM PDT by sagar
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Gatorade has what people crave. Its got electrolytes.

4 posted on 09/21/2017 8:45:00 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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I'll show them ... hold my beer and waaa........

5 posted on 09/21/2017 8:45:45 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s what plants crave


6 posted on 09/21/2017 8:49:31 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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Government slobs are worried about insults and false statements?


7 posted on 09/21/2017 8:49:42 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Damn these dihydrogen-monoxide zombies. The stuffs in radiators, for pete’s sake, why would you punish any company for wanting to avoid it? Dozens die each day from exposure to dihydrogen-monoxide, and here is some yahoo state attorney general FINING a company for callin’ it liquid death. Unreal.


8 posted on 09/21/2017 8:55:50 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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We truly live in a proto-fascist state when a state AG can rob you of $300K for that.


9 posted on 09/21/2017 8:56:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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$120K will be used to fund research on water consumption. I wonder what they’ll find out.


10 posted on 09/21/2017 8:57:12 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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We will see more, and more of this sort of bullshit from the fearless Democrat dictators leading this State down the rathole.

The Democrats have bankrupted in every way possible this State, and created an atmosphere in which there really is no hope of ridding our State of their lunacy.

Such crap as this the Democrats have pulled on Gatorade will become one of, if not a mainstay means to acquire the money the Democrats need to buy the votes to keep them in office.

They blew all the rest of the money, so now they have this, and other creative means to keep them afloat.

Democrats are noseblow.


11 posted on 09/21/2017 9:07:51 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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I will insult water —

It is causing rising seas and flooding. It is not healthy. Just look at Irma and FL.

Gatorade is correct.


12 posted on 09/21/2017 9:07:52 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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And to think this is going on when water is attacking California:

On last day of summer, California is hit by unusual snow and hail storms , September 2017 posted by aquila48 · 8 replies


13 posted on 09/21/2017 9:10:01 PM PDT by piasa
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To: sagar

It’s like Idiocracy came out, and the world decided that’s where we need to be.

Life imitating art, or vice versa?


14 posted on 09/21/2017 9:26:09 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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15 posted on 09/21/2017 9:29:12 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: sagar; Blue Jays; Vaquero; FreedomStar3028; DoodleBob
Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy, not a documentary.


16 posted on 09/21/2017 9:38:14 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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Gatorade has been banned from insulting its main competitor — water — and fined $300,000 after it slandered nature’s sports drink in a video game, California’s Attorney General announced Thursday.

When he's not busy denouncing Trump and suing to prevent construction of a border wall, California's Attorney General apparently has the time to impose ridiculous fines punishing the exercise of free speech.
17 posted on 09/21/2017 9:53:22 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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“Just look at Irma and FL.”

Fresh water never committed any crime, you insensitive waterphobe!


18 posted on 09/21/2017 10:03:53 PM PDT by sagar
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To: nickcarraway

“Making misleading statements is a violation of California law.”

Seems to me that misleading statements are what masquerades as the wisdom of leadership and the resultant legislation in that formerly great state.


19 posted on 09/21/2017 10:08:36 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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Seems like everyday I’m reading about this Bacerra stooge suing someone. CA must be desperate for money if it has to sue every Tom, Dick, Harry, and US government for cash to keep it afloat.


20 posted on 09/21/2017 10:17:01 PM PDT by Boomer (Can we ban the name associated with the initials HRC for a decade please?)
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