Posted on 03/17/2005 2:02:45 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The USA TV network just ran a commerical for Chrysler cars.
Variety seemed to be the theme of this ad. A wide assortment of models was shown, as well as a variety of different ethnic types and groupings.
Toward the end, a young family was shown loading items in the back of a mini-van, and I believe it was the young mother who was shown holding a bright multi-colored kite that clearly seemed to reproduce the gay pride flag, as below:
Some might say this would make no sense, since the kite was shown in the context of a clearly heterosexual family. I'd argue that showing a same-sex couple with the kite would have been too provocative for Chrysler, but that perhaps there was a subtle message that "there are all sorts of families," etc.
I can already hear some of my fellow FReepers: "you've got too much time on your hands." "Stop looking for things that aren't there," etc.
To which I'd reply: can we agree that nothing turns up in a TV commercial - particularly for by a major international corporation like Daimler-Chrysler - that has not been carefully reviewed, considered and market-tested?
Do you think the hip, younger, creative people who put together these ads, and who presumably count a fair number of gays in their ranks, would not be keenly aware of the gay flag and that it wouldn't have just found its way into the ad by accident?
In any case, the ad ran during the airing of the Bay Hill golf tournament. Perhaps it will air again during the course of the next few days of the tournament. I'd encourage people to be on the lookout for it and to give their views.
Sometimes a kite is just a kite...
I suppose if you looked at a crayon box hard enough, you might see a color pattern that disturbed you too...
I anticipated some responses along the line of yours. And it's true that, as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But as I suggested in my post, I believe there are no coincidences in national TV ads for major international corporations.
Amen. Why'd the sodomites have to ruin the rainbow? Now no one can use it anymore without someone getting the wrong idea.
95% of the population has no idea what that flag represents.
Its a flag with a bunch of pretty colors.
SOME-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE OVER THE RAIN-BOWWWWWW!!!!!!
I'd ask you to respond to my point about the younger, hip, creative types who tend to put these ads together. Do you really think it's likely they were unaware of what they were doing?
Statistics? Links? Actually I think more people than you realize know what it means.
Just like the word, "gay", rainbow colors have been corrupted by the Homo/Lesbo gang.
I refuse to pevert my mind enough to assign every rainbow design I see as being gay.
Being an attractive woman with kids is actually the new model for homosexual women. They are trying to get rid of the homely lumberjack woman as their role model.
What's the name of that group that watchdogs the networks and sends complaints to the FCC. A hefty fine might be in order here.
I was in a play once in which the costumer sewed a gay pride flag as a patch on my overalls. When I found out what it meant, I quietly removed it one night, in private and without a fuss. The next day, some of the gay cast members accosted me about it, saying that I had a problem.
"You're the one making an issue of it," I said. "I think you're the ones with the problem."
I object to the movie 'The Wizard of Oz'
The song "Somewhere over the rainbow" is an obvious attempt to push the Homersexual agenda on the country.
Also, the lollipop guild was an effort to make unions (and by extension, socialism) more acceptable to the masses.
"...no coincidences in national TV ads for major international corporations..."
Did you know that virtually everyone involved in the JFK assassination is dead? Coincidence? I think not.
Exactly - which bolsters my point. Chrylser might well have calculated that it could get away with using the kite, since the average viewer would neither know nor care, while the target audience would get the message: "hey, Chrysler is 'gay friendly.'" As you know, many major corporations have special outreach programs for gays, advertising in their publications, having speakers [such as VP Cheney's daughter for Coors], etc.
Next crisis, please.
... at least the advertisement didnt show some guys packing some fudge in the back of the mini van.
Good line, but I'll stand by my two points:
1. ads for major corporations are reviewed, considered and test-marketed frame-by-frame;
2. the odds that the hip, creative, urban types who put these ads together were unaware of the kite's symbolism = 0.
I would like the explore the whole lollipop guild conspiracy thing...
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