Lipton Iced Tea Dixie Chicks Ads Pulled

AdAge.Com ^ | June, 19, 2003 | Hillary Chura

[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.

[sheltonmac]

Speak of the paleocon, guilt ridden and full of denial about their anti Semitism (amoung other things) and they appear!

...after all the conspiracies you Paleocons have elightened me on FR about the culpability of world events concerning the parasitic Joooooooz?

Wow! How can anyone argue with such a well-substantiated rebuttal like that?

[ElectricStrawberry]

We just got back from freepin' 'em in Boston and there were big Lipton trailers everywhere.

[TigersEye]

I don't think Eustace has gotten the point yet. More people need to reply to him. Remember, you're free to speak your mind!

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

You again.
zzzzz

[Arpege92]

FREEDOM is ringing Eustace.....even for a DING A LING like you! :-}

[JOE6PAK]

SNAPPLE ICETEA RULES!

[Terridan]

Same here... though it is a start, I still ain't buyin'!!!

[Terridan]

Yes, freedom rings, and denounces ANYONE against his own President ESPECIALLY during war time... Thank God, it is easier to identify internal enemies of this great nation. Best wishes!

[buffyt]

Well, good. I am a big drinker of Lipton iced tea in the summer and I really don't like other brands as much. Just for iced tea, other brands make GREAT hot tea. We drink Lipton's by the gallon in the summer to avoid drinking coke, etc.

[Arpege92]

That's a great idea for Snapple.....they should get Toby Keith to do a couple of Snapple Ice tea comercials!

[buffyt]

I have NEVEr liked the Dixie Chicks, I don't like that kind of "music".

[buffyt]

EXCELLENT IDEA. Toby Keith has a beautiful voice!

[Arpege92]

Freedom of speech is such a wonderful thing.....Don't you agree Eustace? Eustace.....where are you?

[Arpege92]

Mabey I should send an email to the Snapple company and encourage them to get Toby Keith on board.

[zip]

trollin', trolling, trollin on the website (sung to the tune of rolling on the river)

Shelton, what a profile. whooooeee

[zip]

Eustace? Eustace.....where are you?

I think he went back to PU, errr DU.

[Oztrich Boy]

America , land of Free Speech ( unless someone doesn't like what you have to say ).

Yep. You can speak about anything you like, and people don't have to pay you. Can't get freer than that.

[Arpege92]

LOL....so Eustace is a man?

[billbears]

Wow, down to blatent lying now are we? I must have really struck a nerve.

LOL, as usual I submit you or anyone who reads this to a challenge to find one word I have ever said against the Jewish people. As a fundamentalist Christian and a Southerner, I recognize not only the importance of these people as the Chosen of God Almighty but also to the role they played in defending the nation of my ancestors from northern invasion forces

What, like I even have to try after all the conspiracies you Paleocons have elightened me on FR about the culpability of world events concerning the parasitic Joooooooz?

This whole embrace of Israel is new from the Paleocons. I wonder if it will "stick"...I got a better question. I wonder if I care what you insane kooks think?

Nope. That was easy.

Wow, what wit!! What an argument!! Such namecalling I have not seen since perhaps third or fourth grade!! Perhaps I choose to question this war and perhaps I am a paleocon. But I know the neo-cons are more than willing to sell out Israel with this half ass 'road map' to gain a peace that the Bible itself says will not be retained for any period of time until the end time. Who has the best interest of Israel in mind again?

[billbears]

So? That one post paints all who believe in the 'Old Right' as anti-Semites? Good grief, the CI nuts were pro-war but derned if they aren't anti-Semites. They've said things that I don't think the worst paleocon could even imagine. Does that make the entire neo-con wing anti-Semites?