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Mercedes Apologizes for Using Che Guevara to Sell Cars
Townhall.com ^ | January 15, 2012 | Daniel J. Mitchell

Posted on 01/15/2012 7:46:37 AM PST by Kaslin

Editor's note: This story contains language from liberals that some readers my find more offensive than the normal America-bashing, God-hating, left-wing spew that's become a staple of their discourse. Be warned.   

Along with many others, I complained a couple of days ago that Mercedes-Benz was morally bankrupt for using the image of a notorious racist, communist, and murderer as part of a marketing gimmick.

Here's the original story:

I’m Surprised the Amoral Jerks at Mercedes-Benz Don’t Use Hitler’s Image to Promote Cars

January 12, 2012 by Dan Mitchell

I hope my car doesn’t break down anytime soon. I’ve already sworn I will never buy a car from General Motors or Chrysler, and now I have to add Mercedes-Benz to my personal boycott list.

Mercedes Spokesman Glorifies Totalitarian Murderer

Maybe I’m being naively dogmatic, but I refuse to patronize a company that uses a mass murdering communist and racist like Che Guevera as a marketing ploy.

It’s not like I would ever spend a lot of money for a car anyhow, but even if somebody deposits $10 million in my bank account, you can rest assured that I won’t be cruising around town in the MB Guevera C230, the MB Hitler E350, or the MB Mao GL450.

Michael Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation says it much better than I can.

There’s something about Che Guevara that convinces older European men that they will become cooler through association with his “brand.” We saw that again yesterday when Mercedes-Benz Chairman Dieter Zetsche launched a new car under a banner picture of Guevara. …Che Guevara, not to put too fine a point on it, was a psychopath whose sadistic lust for blood was not easily quenched. He killed for pleasure. He had, moreover, little time for youthful rebellion and none at all for individualism. Lastly, Che Guevara was a racist who specifically held blacks in contempt. I think about this often when I see deluded young African-Americans wearing a t-shirt with his likeness. But a German born a handful of years after 1945 really ought to have known better. Much has been written about how Guevara executed men and boys in prison in the early revolutionary years in Cuba, disposing of such bourgeois niceties as trials. …Speaking of blacks he said: “The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.” Yes, quite a model that Che Guevara. You’d buy a car from him, wouldn’t you? What will Mercedes-Benz come up with next? The Baader-Mienhof super coupe?

Almost exactly one year ago, the Baltimore Symphony used the Hammer and Sickle emblem of the Soviet Union to promote an event. That was disgusting, but at least the event involved the work of a Soviet-era composer.

Mercedes-Benz, by contrast, is using the image Che Guevera because the amoral executives of the company think this will help sell cars to an amoral public.

Please don’t buy anything from a company with that cavalier attitude about human decency.

Well, the company has backed down. We won. It’s only symbolic, but let’s enjoy a small victory.

Here are some excerpts from a Foxnews.com story.

Daimler AG, the German company that manufactures Mercedes-Benz luxury cars, called its promotional use of an image of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara a “thoughtless” and “stupid” decision that was not intended to offend people. …In a statement sent to FoxNews.com, Daimler said it “was not condoning the life or actions of this historical figure or the political philosophy he espoused.”

That’s probably not the most heartfelt and sincere apology ever issued, but it will have a positive impact. Somewhere at Daimler AG, there’s a marketing executive that is going to lose a bonus (and maybe even a job). Other people in the fields of advertising and public relations will have seen the backlash and be much less likely to make similar mistakes.

And perhaps a few people who were ignorant will actually learn a bit about history and begin to understand the evil nature of communism.

I doubt this will have any impact on the empty-headed kids who wear Che t-shirts, but you can’t have everything.

From a personal perspective, the best thing about this episode is that I’ve been attacked by a water-carrying apologist for totalitarianism.

In my line of work, one way to measure whether you’re doing a good job is the degree to which you get criticized by bad people.

Being called a “dickhead” by this tool may be even better than the time a left-wing British columnist called me a “high priest of light tax, small state libertarianism.”


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1 posted on 01/15/2012 7:46:40 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
You have to have some sympathy for them. It's not Germany has any homegrown totalitarian thugs of its own or anything.
2 posted on 01/15/2012 7:49:32 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Well said.


3 posted on 01/15/2012 7:53:56 AM PST by arkady_renko (I want to believe.)
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To: Kaslin
Che Guevera advertising the new Marx-edes Benz.
4 posted on 01/15/2012 7:57:01 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s not like I could afford one of their cars anyway.


5 posted on 01/15/2012 7:59:46 AM PST by I Hate Obama ("Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther Party." -Forest Gump)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 01/15/2012 8:00:23 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Kaslin
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7 posted on 01/15/2012 8:00:39 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Kaslin

With 2 home-town boys (Adolph Hitler and Karl Marx) it is surprising that Mercedes had to go out of town to find a role model.


8 posted on 01/15/2012 8:01:14 AM PST by Bernard (When the only Problem is overspending, all the Solutions look like TAX INCREASES to liberals...)
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To: Kaslin

Wouldn’t modern day marketing involve making a google search “Che + controversy”?


9 posted on 01/15/2012 8:01:41 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: Kaslin

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After retiring, he advocated many liberal-left causes, including a single world government and the end of U.S. veto power in the United Nations

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10 posted on 01/15/2012 8:07:29 AM PST by Haddit (Heartless)
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To: SMGFan

Wasn’t there Che images associated with some ACORN office?

And doesn’t America tolerate people selling shirts with this murdering scumbag’s picture?
And when was the last time someone was cited or punished for wearing a Che shirt?
But I know there have been students punished for wearing an AMERICAN flag shirt!


11 posted on 01/15/2012 8:10:44 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: SMGFan
Wouldn’t modern day marketing involve making a google search “Che + controversy”?

Worst marketing/focus group disaster since Ferry Porsche selected Joachim Peiper to be their U.S. representative. (True story.)

12 posted on 01/15/2012 8:11:34 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Kaslin

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13 posted on 01/15/2012 8:13:34 AM PST by Haddit (Heartless)
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To: Kaslin
And perhaps a few people who were ignorant will actually learn a bit about history and begin to understand the evil nature of communism.

It is not ignorance, it is the creeping of marxism, beginning to show green shoots as they feel more acceptance.

14 posted on 01/15/2012 8:15:05 AM PST by oldbrowser (They are Marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: Kaslin

Recently I saw some commercial business van with that famous image of Che on the side panels. Good way to lose a lot of potential customers. Hiring rabid leftists to perform a job is subterranean on the priorities list.


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16 posted on 01/15/2012 8:22:58 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: hoosierham

Che ...Alinsky ...ACORN ...Obama


17 posted on 01/15/2012 8:27:06 AM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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18 posted on 01/15/2012 8:28:00 AM PST by Haddit (Heartless)
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To: hoosierham

I’m not sure, but judging from the number of Che posters you see hanging in college dorms - they might reward you a few points on your gpa for displaying his image.


19 posted on 01/15/2012 8:29:30 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: Haddit

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20 posted on 01/15/2012 8:30:33 AM PST by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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