Posted on 06/19/2003 2:45:32 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
LIPTON ICED TEA DIXIE CHICKS ADS PULLED
Unilever Says It Will Continue Running Current Spots June 19, 2003 QwikFIND ID: AAO77M By Hillary Chura
BOSTON (AdAge.com) -- An ad for Lipton Iced Tea that features the Dixie Chicks is being pulled, according to people familiar with the situation. The country music group's lead singer in March during a concert was made comments critical of President Bush in the days leading up to the country's war with Iraq.
No comment A spokeswoman for Unilever, which jointly markets Lipton with PepsiCo in the Pepsi-Lipton Tea Partnership, would not comment on why the Dixie Chicks ad is not running but said, "Lipton has a number of different advertising and promotional plans in the works and has opted for now to run the commercials that currently are on air."
It's uncertain when or if the ad will run. The ads were to have debuted in May to coincide with the group's first world tour in three years.
Three current 30-second spots, which focus on getting back to a healthy way of living, started running in May in the slots designated for the Dixie Chicks ad, according to one person familiar with the situation. The person said the ads were rushed into production after comments made by Natalie Maines, the group's lead singer, caused a furor among some country music fans.
Texas dustup In a concert in England just prior to the start of the war in Iraq, Ms. Maines told the crowd: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The group is also from Texas. Radio stations organized boycotts, and Ms. Maine's later issued an apology
J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, produced the Dixie Chicks ads as well as those on air now. The decision not to run the ad has had no effect on the Lipton's sponsorship of the Grammy-winning group's "Top of the World Tour." The plan was for the tour was to offer Lipton a portable integrated marketing opportunity that would have included an associated Lipton Iced Tea TV spot.
PepsiCo and JWT, part of WPP Group, did not return calls for comment.
Lipton Iced Tea spent $2.9 million in measured media last year, according to TNS Media Intelligence/ CMR.
But hell , no one cares anymore.Unless you try to take their TV's or cigarettes.
That wasn't a pick up line was it? I wouldn't want to offend You.
They may not be told what to say , but they are told what they can't say. Which is the samething.
You people don't understand that I'm on your side , the side of Liberty and individual Freedom's and responsibility.
If our churches can no longer say what Christ would say about us our society or our government then they no longer speak for Christ. So You see we do not have Freedom of Religion or Speech.
Seeings how I see Jesus Christ and only Jesus Christ as my Lord , even if You get the upper hand on me , all You have done is set me Free.
Which looking at what's here , is something I look forward to.
Peace be with You
You people don't understand that I'm on your side , the side of Liberty and individual Freedom's and responsibility.
That's not up to us to read your mind, explain it, don't assert it. Even still, your example has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the topic, so you simply look like another moron defending the Dixie Chicks "free speech"
In fact, why else would you say something "true" like that on this thread if you were not rationalizing for them. You are full of it.
The crow doesn't taste good , but I appreciate everyones efforts here to straighten me out.
I don't know how you get anymore conservative than that.
:-)
You can do better than that , can't You.
That's all.
There is no one on Free Republic or in this country that is more willing to defend our Freedoms.
My point was going to be that our Constitutional Freedoms are becoming illusions and "We" shouldn't hasten that end.
Excuse me.
Jews are people too and not all of them are innocent.
But like many people you try to label someone when you don't want people to hear what they're saying.
Keep trying , I won't stop and You won't bait me into saying something so You can run back to Free Republic crying Abuse ,Abuse.
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