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Absolut
Worldnetdaily ^ | 4-7-08 | Matt Sanchez

Posted on 04/09/2008 3:43:04 PM PDT by Mattsanchez

By Matt Sanchez © 2008

In an attempt to be "edgy," the Absolut Vodka manufacturer created an ad that hearkened back to the first Mexican Empire and included much of what is indisputably the United States of America. The ad (seen at right) placed California, Colorado and Texas in Montezuma's Revenge territory, which would be a disaster for the average human smuggler; could you imagine having to cross Texas on foot just to get a decent job or drink clean water?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absolut

1 posted on 04/09/2008 3:43:04 PM PDT by Mattsanchez
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To: Mattsanchez

As far as Norte Americanos are concerned...Absolut should be avoided..absolutely!


2 posted on 04/09/2008 3:49:59 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Mattsanchez

Michelle Malkin had a nice column about this today.


3 posted on 04/09/2008 3:52:29 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (I'm a happy man, I have a new battery for my remote control!!!)
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4 posted on 04/09/2008 3:55:25 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: Mattsanchez
Absolut Vodka

"..Absolut Vodka is a Swedish brand of vodka, produced near Åhus, Scania, in southern Sweden..."

5 posted on 04/09/2008 4:04:33 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: concentric circles

Every time I see or think of this product, I am going to remember that photo of a couple years ago, showing thousands of Mexicans/protesters flying the Mexico flag on USA soil, while holding my country’s flag upside down.


6 posted on 04/09/2008 4:08:09 PM PDT by Gator113 (Obama has "changed" me. I am now "a Typical White Person”.)
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To: Mattsanchez
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7 posted on 04/09/2008 4:25:34 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I wonder if they run ads in the Baltic countries and Poland showing them as part of Russia? Or maybe they are showing East Prussia and Alsace and Lorraine as part of Germany in their European ads?

Boycott hell! These socialist America-haters deserve to have their product banned from import into the United States, as they would be banned in Latvia or Poland if they pulled a similar stunt there! Let’s see Congress do something about these fat Euro pigs in an election year!


8 posted on 04/09/2008 4:26:50 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (Patriotism to DemocRats is like sunlight to Dracula.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Good point! They won’t get banned, but I hope people notice and by some other Vodka.


9 posted on 04/09/2008 4:40:00 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Boycott ‘em until they fold.


10 posted on 04/09/2008 4:49:48 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Where’s the ad of Norway as a provence of Denmark? Sweden as a protectorate of Nazi Germany?


11 posted on 04/09/2008 4:52:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president!)
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To: Gator113
Every time I see or think of this product, I am going to remember that photo...

How much more idiotic could these people get?
America used to buy the biggest share of their product.

They Absolut-ly screwed up!

12 posted on 04/09/2008 5:27:46 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Mattsanchez

“Absolut: The official vodka of the North American Union!”


13 posted on 04/09/2008 5:35:04 PM PDT by Rob112586 ("...a decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.")
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anybody got an email address for these morons?


14 posted on 04/09/2008 5:49:33 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: concentric circles
The map itself is sort of silly. Others have pointed this out, but it seems to claim the state of Oregon, the lower 3/4 of the state of Idaho, a large chunk of Montana and the entirety of the state of Wyoming as well. That might have surprised the English, the U.S., and the settlers of the Oregon Territory, all of whom did have a claim there. It would have surprised the contemporary Mexicans as well, who didn't.

One can hardly expect cartographic accuracy from the opium dream of an earnest if undereducated nationalist, but this is a bit much. The U.S. once claimed large swathes of Canada ("54-40 or fight!") but I would hardly think it good manners to suggest to the Canadians living there that in some mythical Absolut world they'd be Yanks. Most of them sort of like things the way they are.

Although it would get rid of that 55-yard line...

15 posted on 04/09/2008 6:02:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Gator113
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16 posted on 04/09/2008 7:19:48 PM PDT by randita (I'm a "typical white person" and I voted for Lynn Swann.)
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To: randita
Looking at this pick, I got an idea for a politically incorrect dystopia novel (Orwell's 1984 is a dystopia.)

All the whites in America move back to Europe, the blacks to Africa, the Chinese to Asia, the Indians to India, and the present territory of the U.S.is left to these "indigeneous peoples", the ones you see in front of Home Depot stores, the ones who carry leaf blowers on their backs. Europe, Asia, India would only benefit from the influx of Americans (I don't know about Africa), but what would happen here? Meheeco all over the place, which is what is now happening to Texas and California, the culture is following the leaf blowers,like it or not, except they on this side of the border they are "rich" enough to drive low riders!

17 posted on 04/09/2008 7:31:04 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("I am like...Dude......do you really....like want the Sex?")
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To: Billthedrill

In an Absolut world the Canadians would be freed of socialist health care shortages and September 14 would be celebrated as Occupation Day commemorating the American occupation of Mexico City. As it is, no one really cares. We paid for the only parts of Mexico we were interested in and the Marines gained an opening for the Corps Hymn.


18 posted on 04/09/2008 7:31:49 PM PDT by concentric circles
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