Posted on 04/17/2023 6:37:37 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Budweiser has released a new patriotic advertisement as its parent company struggles with controversy over its endorsement partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The advertisement, which was released on social media Friday, features one of Budweiser’s famous Clydesdale horses traversing the country from New York City to the Grand Canyon, passing by scenes in the American heartland as a narrator delivers a patriotic message.
This is a story bigger than beer,” the ad’s narrator says in the ad. “This is the story of the American spirit.”
As the ad plays, the Clydesdale horse passes by some of the most famous American landmarks, showcasing the New York City skyline, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, small towns, and farmland.
At one point, the ad showcases two people raising an American flag as one places her hand over her heart.
“Brewed for those who found opportunity in challenge and hope in tomorrow,” the ad’s narrator says as the horse passes by the flag raising duo and the Lincoln Memorial.
The patriotic ad comes as Anheuser-Busch, which owns Budweiser, continues to deal with backlash over a partnership between another one of its popular brands, Bud Light, and Mulvaney.
Anheuser-Busch has suffered a financial hit as calls to boycott its brands have spread across the country, with one Missouri bar owner telling Fox Business last week that sales of bottled Bud Light dropped 30%, while draft sales dropped 50%.
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“Dissin’” the Clydesdales. That’s sad. They don’t do the tranny thing. They are smarter than that.
LOL - I’d never seen that!
They really think we’re idiots.
Examples must be made in this mess of social policy forced into private industry thru government and financial institutions. This is one such example. AB needs to be decapitated and messages need to be understood outside the Beltway echo chambers.
Correct; they have carefully calculated costs/risks/benefit, and concluded that the best path was to push an insincere apology than to do anything meaningful. They’re ethically bankrupt. This was revealed with pushing a pervert on us, and is now underscored with this ‘action’. Never liked Bud, but would manage to drink it if offered, just to be polite. Never again.
Fire the bush, Anheiser.
Maybe if they put sunglasses on the horses. You know, to make them cool. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Was Dylan Mulvaney driving the Budweiser team of horses?
Just curious.
That's what everyone is being told.
agreed!
If they fire everyone that was involved in the hiring of Mulvaney, they MIGHT get some customers back. Anything short of that will not help sales one bit.
“Adolphus Busch was the first American brewer to use pasteurization to keep beer fresh; the first to use mechanical refrigeration and refrigerated railroad cars, which he introduced in 1876; and the first to bottle beer extensively.”
“Anheuser-Busch Companies...Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), now the world’s largest brewing company, which owns multiple global brands, notably Budweiser, Michelob, Stella Artois, and Beck’s.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch
I suspect she will be reassigned to the VP of Seltzer at a reduced salary at some point.
More likely she has been told by her boss that it would be a good idea that she should look for a job at another company.
Toooo late everyone knows what you’re really like now
The latest news is in! It’s Exciting! The old marketing team has been fired wholesale with a brand new team in place. It will be headed by no more that Keed Rockowski! His vision is of a parade with Pride and Trans marching along Main Street when suddenly a stampede of wild Clydesdales come storming after them! Screaming and running trans people with multi-colored hair are be trampled by the victorious horses to the cheers of the spectators.
Yep, and immediately
They might as well be showing a herd of Clydesdales getting wrecked by artillery fire in Ukraine.
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