McRIB!
It's neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral. <|:)~
Posted on 12/18/2002 5:08:18 PM PST by Stultis
You're right.. I bet every time Larry Flynt hears "Chicken Lover" he has flashbacks.
Then again, maybe you're just an idiot with a word processor..
at least for people who like bacon and cheese on their sandwiches
Then, at the end, he brings in the heavy artillery, to fire some blanks:
And while I obviously remember the commercial and the products it was touting, it did not make me want to run out and buy a hamburger or chicken sandwich with bacon and Swiss cheese.
He's such an inept, humorless writer, that he undermined his own credibility. He's a guy who doesn't eat the product (and probably never eats at Wendy's, period), writing for other humorless phonies who will also dishonestly claim that this ad soured them on Wendy's.
But how much you wanna bet, that after this moron gets other people repeating his talking points, that the corporate weasels wimp out, and pull the ad?
McRIB!
It's neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral. <|:)~
Man, what does that make this guy's editor?
P.S. This guy doesn't sound like a football fan to me. I suspect him of trying to contrive some "regular guy," populist credentials. Maybe someone who had watched the game told him about the ad.
It also appears that he is seeking to exploit the Trent Lott story to pile on with opportunistic white-baiting.
But since that has racial undertones, and I don't want the lynch mob outside my house I will apologize in advance for almost posting what I was going to post before thinking better of it and deciding not to because it sounded racist.
And if anyone is mad about it, just tell them I am a Democrat.
There...
When I first saw your column, I thought "this has to be from the Onion." But, upon further review, it's apparently a real live column. Don't worry, I'm not incensed. In fact, I'm still laughing. Just out of curiosity, did you write a similar column when Will Smith shot a cardboard cutout of an eleven year old white girl in "Men in Black"? How about when Michael J. Fox tried to steal credit for Johnny B. Good in "Back to the Future"?Anyway, thanks for the column. That was the funniest thing I read all week. However, you'll find you'll enjoy life a lot more if you quit looking for Klansmen under the bed every night.
The commercial caught me by surprise while I was tuned in to the Cowboys-Giants football game.
This is another clue that the guy needs a life. Good grief, I've watched the Cowboys since 65, but I don't know how anyone could watch that corpse masquerading as a football team (I hung in for nearly ten minutes).
Honestly, I think he didn't have anything to write about so he made this up. Basically he has to get paid, if I was the editor, I would have went ballistic and felt conned. This is pure drivel, and shows absolutley no effort. I have a hunch he wrote this up right before the deadline to hand it in.
This presstitute POS is the kind of idiot that keeps racism alive ! He profits on keeping people of any color at each others throats. A Sh*t & Shineola Spinmaster of the worst kind IMO.
Stay Safe CMSGOP !
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Y'know, Bob Ray...
...as one who is old enough to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1964 Civil Rights Act first hand, I thought your "chicken lover" column was a joke at first reading. When I finished it, and found that you're actually serious, I can only shake my head, and sadly at that.
The whole point of the civil rights movement was to make race a non-issue in America. Unfortunately, we've been using race, gender and ethnicity as a factor in everything we do, from hiring, to firing, to prosecution, to education, and even when selecting actors for TV and models for print. In order to make race a non-factor, as Dr. King implored us, we've made it everything instead. The cure has become far worse than the disease, increasing tensions between self-hyphenated Americans instead.
Finding racist understones in the phrase "chicken lover", presented in a light hearted manner during a TV ad, confirms my suspicion that some people can find racism in absolutely anything, given the motivation.
PETA is currently all in a lather over the current crop of ingenious and very funny California Cow radio and TV ads, demanding that they be pulled because in reality, "Cows never have a nice day." Their single-issue, lock-stepped, monotone, talking point existence indicates to me that these people, no matter how well intentioned, want to make the rest of society as miserable as they are by demanding that we boycott those who give these wonderful, humorous moments of levity.
I would hope that newspaper columnists would have the objectivity and common sense not to sensationalize the overheated issue of race, especially as we consider the media feeding frenzy over Trent Lott's ill advised remarks at a birthday party. (So where's the companion frenzy over Robert Byrd, an admitted Klan member?)
Surely, you can do better than inventing a race issue to attract readership.
I'm disappointed.
(name redacted)
My comment: a BIG bump for being reality-based!
LOL, that was Venus and Serena Williams.
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