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Lipton Iced Tea Dixie Chicks Ads Pulled
AdAge.Com ^ | June, 19, 2003 | Hillary Chura

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.


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To: Arpege92
....so Eustace is a man?

ooops, ah, yes, well no, maybe. Oh he!!, no profile page so who knows. lol

81 posted on 06/19/2003 7:39:59 PM PDT by zip
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To: TennTuxedo
Lipton Iced Tea is the best!
82 posted on 06/19/2003 7:40:01 PM PDT by MatthewViti
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To: PeoplesRep_of_LA
I certainly hope their manager. . .

Speaking of managers, maybe the gals' new one can help:


Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

83 posted on 06/19/2003 7:40:03 PM PDT by mikeb704
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To: Arpege92
....so Eustace is a man?

ooops, ah, yes, well no, maybe. Oh he!!, no profile page so who knows. lol Trolls don't have to use gender specific names. (How's that for a slick recovery?)

84 posted on 06/19/2003 7:40:14 PM PDT by zip
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To: PeoplesRep_of_LA
I certainly hope their manager. . .

Speaking of managers, maybe the gals' new one can help:


Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

85 posted on 06/19/2003 7:40:19 PM PDT by mikeb704
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To: sheltonmac
How can anyone argue with such a well-substantiated rebuttal like that?

I really don't know. The only thing I could come up with that even approached that level of argument was 'Im like rubber, you're like glue... whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you'

But considering I left fourth grade about 25 years ago, I issue a challenge that can't be debated. Although I expect to see an answer something of the sort 'You can't expect me to go through your posts, they're not worth reading anyway', or something to the effect

86 posted on 06/19/2003 7:40:53 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: mikeb704
Sorry about that. It was not, repeat, not my fault. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
87 posted on 06/19/2003 7:41:24 PM PDT by mikeb704
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To: 7 x 77
Hey, they're luckey no one's thrown them over the side into the harbor!
88 posted on 06/19/2003 7:43:00 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: milan
Is that the new stealth interceptor?
89 posted on 06/19/2003 7:44:48 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: PeoplesRep_of_LA
>>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.<<

Now I understand the mentality of you FReepers! What a bunch of subversives you are! Anybody with such hateful thoughts will no doubt get a kharmatic retribution.

Clearly this is another right wing attempt to silence those of us who speak for the downtrodden and the unvoiced who can't possible meet the standards this oppressive nazi-like dictum mandates.

The government needs to protect victims of color from opressive speech from The Man. If all of us followed your so-called "freedom" then only white and rich people, with the loudest voices, will have any rights all.

Shame, shame!
90 posted on 06/19/2003 7:47:41 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (If I have to label this with "/sarcasm" we are in BIIG trouble)
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To: zip
Mabey Eustace ought to change his/her name to "Useless" it has such a nice RING to it. Don't you agree?

Hey Eustace....excuse me, Useless......FREEDOM of speech is RINGING!!!!
91 posted on 06/19/2003 7:49:33 PM PDT by Arpege92
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To: Arpege92
You have mail. BTW, where did useless go?
92 posted on 06/19/2003 7:55:13 PM PDT by zip
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To: zip
Poor Usless....probably left the same way he/she came in....on a broom through the window! BTW....check your mail :-}
93 posted on 06/19/2003 8:18:22 PM PDT by Arpege92
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To: freedumb2003
then only white and rich people, with the loudest voices, will have any rights all. Shame, shame!

You're right, I feel guilty. If it makes you feel safer I can add some things like "free speech" and "seperation of church and state" as well as "the right to privacy" to those "Old" constitutions to make them better.

94 posted on 06/19/2003 9:48:59 PM PDT by PeoplesRep_of_LA (Press Secret; Of 2 million Shiite pilgrims, only 3000 chanted anti Americanisms--source-Islamonline!)
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To: somemoreequalthanothers
No more Lipton iced tea for me

Lipton tea is owned by the French. That's the reason no more Lipton for me.

95 posted on 06/19/2003 10:12:34 PM PDT by patriciaruth
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To: Eustace
About boycotts. Do you recall when Russ Limbaugh made ads for Florida orange juice and the liberals all called for a boycott of Florida orange juice until he was dropped???

I do.

Turnabout is fair play.

96 posted on 06/19/2003 10:15:46 PM PDT by patriciaruth
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To: buffyt
Lipton iced tea company is owned by the French according to the information I have.
97 posted on 06/19/2003 10:23:39 PM PDT by patriciaruth
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To: Eustace
America , land of Free Speech ( unless someone doesn't like what you have to say ).

What? Even if I don't like what somebody has to say, they can keep saying it as long as they so desire. Nobody is infringing on the Dixie Chick's right to free speech. If they want to continue to say moronic things, they have that right and nobody can legally stop them from doing so. But if I don't like or agree with what the Dixie Chick's are saying, I can refuse to buy their CD's in protest, which has absolutely nothing to do with infringing on their free speech rights.

98 posted on 06/20/2003 12:23:04 AM PDT by judgeandjury (The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.)
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To: austinTparty
Luzianne oughtta sponsor an Austin "Tea Party".

Hey I've seen that Freeper!

99 posted on 06/20/2003 12:31:32 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: somemoreequalthanothers
"No more Lipton iced tea for me...."

PepsiCo, Lipton's parent company, also owns the following...

    Gatorade/Tropicana/Mountain Dew/Slice/Dole juices/Aquafina water

    Frito-Lay (Doritos/Fritos/Lay's Chips/Ruffles Chips/WOW! non-fat chips/Cheetos/Santitas/Sun Chips/Tostitas/Grandma's cookies/Fuzum's onion-flavored rings/Cracker Jack/Smartfood Popcorn)

    Rold Gold Pretzels

Frito-Lay alone accounts for two-thirds of PepsiCo's profits.

100 posted on 06/20/2003 1:27:52 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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