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Caption Absolut Vodka's new anti-american reconquista ad
michelle malkin ^ | April 3, 2008

Posted on 04/03/2008 8:15:21 AM PDT by Mount Athos

Advertisement appeared in Quien magazine, in Mexico City, and billboards.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absolut; absolutcrap; ads; aliens; azatlan; boycottabsolute; illegalimmigration; immigration; invasion; mexifornia; reconquista; spirits; vodka
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To: messierhunter
Right, causing me and everyone else who cares about the country to boycott their products isn't bad? Despite your stupid cliche, threatening a country that gives you tons of your business does not generate revenue.

Yeah Absolut vodka is as a big as the threat from the islamofascists.

JMO, maybe you should be putting down the rotgut vodka you seem to drink.

81 posted on 04/03/2008 9:01:00 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Dane
"there is no such thing as bad publicity".

That's why Ford's still selling Pintos as fast as they can crank them out, right?

82 posted on 04/03/2008 9:02:16 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Mom MD

LOL, just kidding.


83 posted on 04/03/2008 9:02:26 AM PDT by Sender (Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
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To: Dane

I can see you don’t work for a marketing department. There is very definitely such a thing as bad publicity - driven a Corvair lately? If they were after the effect you propose they’d have published this in the United States. This was a bonehead blunder by a marketeer who was too cute by half. It happens a lot.


84 posted on 04/03/2008 9:02:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Dane

Oh so you’re saying the american LEFT wing will LOVE absolut for threatening america? I don’t believe many of the american people are anti-american, even the ones who lean left still love the country for the most part and simply have a different idea about how it should be. This isn’t one of those “different ideas,” this is just a hateful threat that will piss both sides off. The potential for loss is far greater than the potential gain of a few radical reconquista.


85 posted on 04/03/2008 9:02:43 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: Sender

good, I was worried for a minute! :-)


86 posted on 04/03/2008 9:04:20 AM PDT by Mom MD (The scorn of fools is music to the ears of the wise)
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To: Dane
The ad basically states in a dream drunken world, that would happen.

The ad isn't trying to say that - and it's a real stretch to even interpret it that way. It's a straightforward, classic appeal to Mexican machismo - "Drink Absolut and you'll be the kind of man who will win back for Mexico the lands the gringos stole from you."

It's the Mexican equivalent of Reverend Wright's message to blacks: "You are owed."

Now it's true that a vodka ad doesn't amount to much in the grand scheme of things, but I find it significant that an international company deems the message potent enough to its intended audience to make it into a slogan.

87 posted on 04/03/2008 9:04:21 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Dane

Dane, while there is “no such thing as bad publicity,” there is certainly such thing as bad advertising.


88 posted on 04/03/2008 9:04:36 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: DuncanWaring
"That's why Ford's still selling Pintos as fast as they can crank them out, right?" Haha, so true, so true!
89 posted on 04/03/2008 9:04:40 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: Republic of Texas
A. You're an idiot.

B. Ads can and do, backfire. This one has that kind of potential. Being talked about on TV and radio is not the same as being ordered in bars. If anything this is a sign that Absolut is nervous about being crushed in the market by Grey Goose/Belvedere/Chopin.

Really, Absolut just got free tons of publicity, and doing it by running an English language ad in a Spanish language magazine, which would be probably 10 times less in an equivalent English language magazine.

Brilliant I say, and sad, in that the marketeers can play you reactionaires like a violin.

90 posted on 04/03/2008 9:05:43 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Dane

If they had wanted a faster vitriolic reaction they SHOULD have run it in an english magazine where it would be seen by more americans. Getting people pissed off by threatening their country does not get you sales. You seem to think there are millions of mexicans just waiting for someone to threaten the US so they can buy their products... If so, bring it on, maybe they should follow through on the threat so we can crush their skulls.


91 posted on 04/03/2008 9:09:26 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: 1rudeboy
I tried to find an e-mail address for Absolut with no success. Their website apparently is just for show

From the V&S Group website ... which owns Absolut:

Jeffrey Moran
Director of Public Relations and Events
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
1370 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
USA
Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20
E-mail: jeffrey.moran@absolut.com

92 posted on 04/03/2008 9:09:37 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: Mount Athos

Makes me want to take up drinking again so I can boycott the crap.


93 posted on 04/03/2008 9:10:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: messierhunter

Incidently, even if there were millions of mexicans who wanted to reconquer the US, what good would it do the company to piss americans off? It won’t increase the popularity in mexico as much as it will decrease the popularity in the US...


94 posted on 04/03/2008 9:10:57 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: puroresu

Hehe.


95 posted on 04/03/2008 9:12:08 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are doom and gloomers (and liberals) so bad at math?)
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To: Republic of Texas

Monopolowa is my brand, keep it in freezer for my martooni.


96 posted on 04/03/2008 9:14:19 AM PDT by billygoatgruff
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To: VeniVidiVici; Petronski

“When I lived in Berlin I could go into East Berlin and buy Stoli for .50 a liter.

Ahhh. Those were the days :)”

AS the CIA guy in Hudson Hawk said “Aahhh the Cold War those were go times, God I miss it!”.


97 posted on 04/03/2008 9:14:52 AM PDT by neb52
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To: puroresu; Dane
There is no such thing as bad publicity.

I guess that explains why you advertise your stupidity here with such vigor.

brilliant ...

98 posted on 04/03/2008 9:14:54 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: Mount Athos

ABSOLUT INVASION


99 posted on 04/03/2008 9:18:26 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
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To: shbox; Clam Digger; StarCMC; Shyla; najida; absolootezer0; nuke rocketeer

Ping


100 posted on 04/03/2008 9:20:45 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
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