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.
It is difficult to carry on a discussion when one of the participants is simply trolling and not serious about the topic at hand. Or, as some anonymous wag put it, "Never argue with a pig. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
Does that mean You support the corporations and stand against individual freedom?
A conclusion both irrelevant to this discussion and not supported by the facts.
I mean other than me trying to make a point in an article full of shallow people , WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Read the splash that Jim Robinson put on the welcome page of FreeRepublic sometime. That will give you a good idea of what I stand for. To quote for your edification:
"We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it."
Your trolling in this forum, running personal attacks against other posters, and questionable "debating" technique are pathologies that I experienced early in my Usenet career. I dealt with them successfully then, just as I will deal with you now. Good day.
**PLONK**
Never mud wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Yes it's GROSS with Carville laying in bed and scratching his bare leg. Nauseous! Notice to MSNBC: that ad makes me change channels.
I spent 15 minutes checking out his posts on other threads. What a twerp.
The rest of your response amounts to liberal double speak;
I didn't vote for clinton or bush
who asked you who you voted for?
You can't deal with the Truth.......
Watch Tom Cruise movies too much?
I'm an American , too bad You can't understand the concept.
I participated in combat operations in Southwest Asia at 19 (try that for American education)...I understand the concept better than you ever will.
Some people are willing to accept a corrupt governments OK as a reason to kill.
Other people see taking a life more seriously. So like the differences of opinion here the definition of American also has different meanings to different people.
I'm happy I have provided you people with a little entertainment. But it has proved I came here to discuss articles and you have come here to sling insults and distract from what someone is trying to say.
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