...an incredible and tawdry commercial use of our American symbol and American ideals.
I suggest telling MLB, news outlets and forums, etc., how you feel about it.
...an incredible and tawdry commercial use of our American symbol and American ideals.
I suggest telling MLB, news outlets and forums, etc., how you feel about it.
Link to article (commercial promotion):
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080604&content_id=2838046&vkey=allstar2008&fext=.jsp
Oh Please. Save your energy for more important issues.
There are 1000 cartoons published every day with some variation of Statue of Liberty.
There are people impersonating Statue of Liberty nearly in downtown in every city. You pose with them and you give them money.
Finally, the INTENTION of this campaign is not to denigrate Lady Liberty, but celebrate it.
You can’t control free speech.
It would be mother of all ironies if its Statue of Liberty that you are trying to control.
its not my national symbol, The flag is.
I think it’s disgusting.
but this is definitely officially licensed and some of the profits i am sure go to the lady's preservation. it might be ugly and in bad taste, but the all-star game is in NYC this year.
all these sports are massive whores to the almighty dollar and this is just another drop in the bucket. and until we stop going to the games or buying this crap, it will not change. it will get worse.
I’m glad I checked out this Breaking News story.
Lighten up Francis
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."
- Jacques Barzun, "God's Country And Mine", 1954
Couldn’t they come up with a better idea than this. Not only are those ugly, but it’s just a dumb thing to do with an icon like that.
I think defacing the Presidential Seal is more tacky by far. As far as the SOL goes, the worst defacing was when it was on NYS license plates.
I wonder how our friends in Canuckistan will feel about the Blue Jays version?
You are getting worked up over this? This isn’t disrespect to the statue, quite the opposite.
How tacky!
I don’t think of the French statue with the bleeding heart Emma Lazarus inscription to be “our national symbol”. It is one of many, and this doesn’t bother me as much as Obama’s perversion of the Great Seal and changing E Pluribus Unum.
Yeah because nobody has ever used the Statue of Liberty in an ad campaign before, or modified the image for anything.
They aren’t painting crap on the actual statue so they aren’t really defacing it.
Relax dude. It’s not like they’re painting crescent moons on her.