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Pepsi's Prez insults America
Worldnetdaily ^

Posted on 05/20/2005 9:46:04 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper

Pepsi president likens U.S. to middle finger Food giant now doing damage control in wake of speech to Columbia grads

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 20, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joe Kovacs © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Food giant PepsiCo is now fizzing in damage-control mode after the company's president likened the U.S. to a middle finger.

The remarks by Indra Nooyi, an India-born woman who also serves as PepsiCo's chief financial officer, came during a speech Sunday to graduates at Columbia Business School in New York, some of whom took offense as an anti-American attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: indianamericans; indranooyi; insults; pepsico
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To: daybreakcoming

Thanks for calling--they need to know what real Americans think about what Ms. Nooyi


61 posted on 05/20/2005 11:11:28 AM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: krunkygirl

...correction: about what Ms. Nooyi said.


62 posted on 05/20/2005 11:12:45 AM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: WKUHilltopper

I'm a Pepper! Don't you wish you were a Pepper too!


63 posted on 05/20/2005 11:13:42 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: krunkygirl

"I just checked PepsiCo's stock price---gagg! it is UP $.03 a share! "

I guess my sell order hasn't gone through yet!


64 posted on 05/20/2005 11:13:56 AM PDT by Law is not justice but process
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To: midwestmidnight
I'm a Barq's Root Beer kind of guy!

ICB is good too.

65 posted on 05/20/2005 11:16:00 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Law is not justice but process

Good for you, Law!

I don't have any to sell...I always was a Coke kinda girl.


66 posted on 05/20/2005 11:16:16 AM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: bertmerc1

You left out Caffine-Free Diet Pepsi Cherry-Vanilla!


67 posted on 05/20/2005 11:17:31 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: itsamelman

Where's her red dot?


68 posted on 05/20/2005 11:18:25 AM PDT by eaglesiniowa
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To: TexasCajun

Sorry Tex. Just a copy of their web site listing.


69 posted on 05/20/2005 11:18:36 AM PDT by bertmerc1
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To: UseYourHead

Since World War II the primary reason Americans are not liked is presumed to be envy. On top of that you have Europeans who are predominantly liberal. [If you think OUR press is bad, you should listen to BBC and other European news broadcasts.]

The U.S.A. is liked in Eastern Europe, but it's a toss-up in Western Europe. It's been that way for years.

If you need convincing, remember that the current German leader was elected on a platform of bashing Bush. The current Spanish government won its election based on pulling out of Iraq and slamming the U.S.


70 posted on 05/20/2005 11:19:41 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: midwestmidnight

I might break down anf buy a big gulp coke


71 posted on 05/20/2005 11:20:37 AM PDT by woofie ("Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!!")
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To: eaglesiniowa
Where's her red dot?



72 posted on 05/20/2005 11:21:26 AM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: bertmerc1
I was just kidding...

Coke and Pepsi both seem determined to lose money by inventing concoctions like Lime-Coke and every other imaginable combination that very few actually purchase.

73 posted on 05/20/2005 11:21:40 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: CollegeRepublican

Compared to what they were in the '50's and '60's, they're both nothing but sugar water now.


74 posted on 05/20/2005 11:22:05 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: TexasCajun

I know. Rush is talking about this now!


75 posted on 05/20/2005 11:24:11 AM PDT by bertmerc1
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To: bertmerc1

Now it will take off...buh,bye, Ms. Nooyi!


76 posted on 05/20/2005 11:26:12 AM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: bertmerc1

just called
1-800-433-2652

press zero for 0 for other comments
and say that you have read the speech and the statement that was released. That way they cant throw you off by asking you to read everything.

at the end they will for your zip code.


77 posted on 05/20/2005 11:30:59 AM PDT by minus_273
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To: WKUHilltopper

The republican party drinks coke...


78 posted on 05/20/2005 11:31:52 AM PDT by an italian (without Victory there is no Survival...)
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To: the_Watchman

Nearly all anti-Americanism is media driven and media fed. One on one, most people from other countries like Americans just fine - they are concerned about American politics and policies and proceed from a base of fear fueled by the media.

Envy has nothing to do with it. Non-US muslims frown on western decadence AND FEAR it may influence their young - so they brainwash their children with hate hoping it will blind them to any influence.

As for foreign elections, that is nationalism that is actually driving those votes, something apparently we can't show but all other nations should. To us it looks like they are anti-American and their media feeds off of the appearance.

Pepsi is saddled up to do 500 million dollars worth of business with India - if they can make a sweeter deal by playing a little nationalism with India in order to distance themselves from US politics, they will do it in a second.


79 posted on 05/20/2005 11:32:26 AM PDT by UseYourHead (Time for the Federal Sales Tax - ALL pay, legal and illegal.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

call the board of Directors tel # and leave message: 866-626-0633


80 posted on 05/20/2005 11:37:04 AM PDT by hilaryrhymeswithrich (I love the Swifties...their book literally changed my life for the better....good story there!)
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