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Pepsico flipped off due to middle finger
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | FRiday May 20 2005 | Joe Kovacs

Posted on 05/21/2005 1:04:44 AM PDT by Brian Allen

Rush Limbaugh sounds off on controversy as many urge boycotts, firing of president

An apology by PepsiCo's president who likened the United States to a middle finger is apparently doing little to calm outrage caused by her remarks.

In the wake of WorldNetDaily's coverage of Indra Nooyi's commencement speech to graduates at Columbia Business School in which she compared the U.S. to the middle finger with both positive and negative connotations, consumers are vowing to boycott the company, and the topic is being widely discussed on talk radio.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: cary; cfo; dhpl; drinkdrpepper; finger; hahahahaha; hostilemigrants; idiotamericans; indranooyi; ismellboycott; kneejerk; likens; middle; overreaction; pepsi; pepsico; to; usa
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To: chgomac
Don't you think others have a right to critique her?

Critique? Certainly. Fly off the handle? Go ahead, but please keep it to yourself. Most of the rest of us aren't interested.

Maybe I just don't have enough Machiavellian in me, but I can't see what good using the tactics of the left does us. There were plenty of commencement addresses this spring, including the one I attended at Meredith College last weekend, that were far more egregious than this one. Let's not waste our time on something this silly.

121 posted on 05/21/2005 8:41:36 AM PDT by NCSteve
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To: Brian Allen

Hmmm, what am I going to do? I eat Quaker Oats for health reasons and the generic brand oats is just awful.


122 posted on 05/21/2005 9:12:16 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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To: NCSteve

Scuse me, if you're not interested, why are you on this thread?

I'm not calling for her head or even a pepsi boycott, but her commencement address & her views seem ironic to me since pepsi is the drink offered at the BX food court.


123 posted on 05/21/2005 9:15:46 AM PDT by chgomac
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To: elli1

Thanks for the tip, I'll try Sam's diet cola.


124 posted on 05/21/2005 9:16:42 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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To: chgomac
Scuse me, if you're not interested, why are you on this thread?

I guess I'm just here to express my amazement at how the herd mentality crosses all ideological lines. Maybe just one lemming will look up and say, "Hey! He's right. What am I doing?" Just that possibility makes each of my posts worthwhile.

125 posted on 05/21/2005 9:33:40 AM PDT by NCSteve
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To: EarthBound

Still like Pepsi?

If it ain't Coke in this house, it's RC Cola.

Period.


126 posted on 05/21/2005 10:01:55 AM PDT by MacDorcha (In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
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To: Waco

Hear Hear!


127 posted on 05/21/2005 10:02:38 AM PDT by MacDorcha (In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
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To: Brian Allen

I don't know...

I can give up Pepsi because I never drink it anyway, but Mountain Dew?

Mountain Dew is the nectar of the gods for people who hate coffee.


128 posted on 05/21/2005 10:07:37 AM PDT by Chewbacca (My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and thats the way I like it!)
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To: Brian Allen

Personally, RC Cola is the BEST!


129 posted on 05/21/2005 10:10:44 AM PDT by Chef Dajuan (Its a pork fat thing!)
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To: The Red Zone
There are now many store brands of Cap'n Crunch like cereals.

Are they not made be Quaker?

130 posted on 05/21/2005 11:16:49 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Happy Armed Forces Day!)
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To: Brian Allen

Boycott ping


131 posted on 05/21/2005 11:18:20 AM PDT by Cruz
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To: TaxRelief

Humm I don't know. Looking on the bag or box might tell. Some private brands, like Aldi, seem to have a policy of multisourcing any given storebrand item. If there was a patent on the Cap'n Crunch production process, it lapsed long ago.


132 posted on 05/21/2005 11:23:10 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: Poser

Gatorade's patent has lapsed, and there are many Gatorade clones now. Not in a bazillion flavors like Gatorade, but decent.


133 posted on 05/21/2005 11:24:27 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: alicewonders

My email to mailto:BoardofDirectors@Pepsi.com

"Let me make this clear and succinct.

Your CEO had the ability to review and edit her anti-American views before she spoke. This was not someone who gave a clumsy answer to an unanticipated question. This was a predetermined disparagement on the USA (as well as a racial disparagement of all non-Asian countries).

Her self-serving apology is irrelevent. She knew what she meant before she said it. She is only apologizing now because she got in trouble for it.

It is clear Pepsi does not share American value. Fine. Neither I nor any of my family members nor anyone else I can talk to will be purchasing Pepsi Cola products until Ms. Nooyi is removed (WITHOUT separation pay) and a REAL apology by Pepsi and her replacement is forthcoming."


134 posted on 05/21/2005 11:33:57 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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To: Jim Robinson

JR:

Can we gat a call to arms on the home page? This is as bad as the Reagan hit piece, Garafolo's TV show or Whoopi (all wins by FR).

We defeated them then and I think we can get this America-hater out of Pepsi and remind them who buys their products.


135 posted on 05/21/2005 11:36:22 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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To: chgomac
I understand your negative feelings. I have very negative feelings about the CFO's comments. Since the CEO has had to come out and speak on the issue I am sure he has an opinion on her speech as well and I am sure he has expressed those feelings in no uncertain terms to her.
136 posted on 05/21/2005 11:38:45 AM PDT by armymarinedad (Character makes you draw a line in the dirt.)
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To: Brian Allen

Believe me, I hate Diet Coke. It's a little like drinking battery acid.

But not ONE drop of Diet Pepsi will pass my lips until Indra's gone.


137 posted on 05/21/2005 11:40:15 AM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: freedumb2003
We defeated them then and I think we can get this America-hater out of Pepsi and remind them who buys their products.

Yeah! Let's "Git 'er gone!"

138 posted on 05/21/2005 11:43:05 AM PDT by alicewonders
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To: alicewonders

We rock.

We probably have had more influence than MoveOn.org, the DNC and of course the 600 or so non-FReeper Trolls on DU (it has taken them over a week to get a measly 800 donations -- FReepathons do that in a day).


139 posted on 05/21/2005 11:54:36 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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To: armymarinedad

Be sure your bosses know that the grunts are grunting about this, at least in non-LaLa Land.


140 posted on 05/21/2005 11:55:36 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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