To: Kaslin
Where are the usual hand-wringers and boycotters beyond the Cuban community? An evil corporation is profiting on the image of a killer! Or is there no outrage because he was way out there on the far Left? Let’s all try and imagine Mercedes using the image of Senator Joseph McCarthy in a car add. He never killed anyone, and to the best of my knowledge he never committed a crime of any kind. But Mercedes would be out of business by now had they used his picture.
25 posted on
01/15/2012 8:55:54 AM PST by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: ElkGroveDan
[Where are the usual hand-wringers and boycotters beyond the Cuban community?]
You'd think the Left would decry the use of a marxist icon to sell a “decadent” capitalist icon.
29 posted on
01/15/2012 12:06:00 PM PST by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: ElkGroveDan
Where are the usual hand-wringers and boycotters beyond the Cuban community? An evil corporation is profiting on the image of a killer!
I'll catch flak for this, but if it would really piss Che Guevera and his followers off, then use his image.
Honestly, the only Mercedes I'd buy would be this one, which ironically was favored by totalitarians:
1939 Mercedes Benz G4
Picture from the side
Picture from a front angle
Looks like it would be fun to work on.
Off-road capabilities, good clearance, only 9 miles to the gallon, but whose complaining? Getting replacement parts is difficult.
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