Posted on 02/09/2011 10:41:43 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) took to the House floor Tuesday night to criticize what she called a "demeaning" Pepsi ad that aired during the Super Bowl.
In the ad for Pepsi Max, a black woman sitting on a park bench gets angry with her husband after an attractive, white female jogger sits down next to the couple and smiles and waves at the man.
After the man smiles back, his girlfriend or wife gets angry and whips her Pepsi Max can at him. The man ducks, and the can hits the attractive jogger in the head. The ad is titled "Love hurts."
Jackson Lee said it was ridiculous for the soft drink maker to air the advertisement during African-American history month.
"In this month of African-American history where we're trying to celebrate what is good and great, it certainly seems ridiculous that Pepsi would utilize this kind of humor," she said. "It was not humorous. It was demeaning — an African-American woman throwing something at an African-American male and winding up hitting a Caucasian woman."
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The seeds of O.J. Simpson's violent ignominy and our nation's obscene reaction to it are displayed in that commercial.
The commercial got a little dicey bc they sneak away and leave the unconscious woman there. Also, usually they don’t have you throw the product away like that, they usually dramatize that you can’t part with it.
I thought the violent quotient was a bit high, knocking an anonymous young woman out w a soda can, imho.
How about it’s none of your business, Sheila.
I wouldn’t really care, actually. It’s an ad, the damage is simulated, and it doesn’t make me want to buy State Farm.
Other than that, funny is shock at unexpected event. This was that, including a prat-fall. If it were reversed, I’d laugh at that too.
The ad really crystalized it. It was okay that the (dumb) white woman was injured and assaulted, it was okay to run away, we have no concern if she was seriously injured.
I mean it is highly comical when a white woman is hit in the temple with a 12 oz piece of aluminum.
Anyone who thinks this is funny should aks themselves if they would laugh if it was their sister, mother, wife or daughter hit in the temple. I mean getting hit in the temple with a heavy object in the temple is incredibly comical.
I am amazed at some of the idiots who post here on FR.
Or Pepsi, for that matter.
I like Dr Pepper and Coke. Pepsi is too sweet to the taste.
That entire series simply makes me want to change the channel. And I’ve heard that Nationwide has such great rates because their policies basically exclude the possibility of paying claims.
What is your daughter was hit in the temple with 12 oz of aluminum and the perps ran away. Would that be comical? Idiot.
Then the black women in your group agreed 100% with Daniel of the KKK on Howard Stern who said “white bitch got what she deserved” (for marrying a black).
And btw OJ and Nicole were separated and I don’t think OJ was refraining from “cheating”.
Anyone finding this commercial funny is absolutely clueless as to what is going on around them. Must be nice. For now.
Well I can accept adult humor but the ad was shocking really because it treated violence as light hearted.
IF the white woman was a celebrity you might accept it as outrageous comedy.
In this case it was very odd to have the product used as a weapon knocking a young woman out, and it was thrown in anger, also knocking a woman out and running off to leave her there was pretty extreme.
Yawn. Brilliant. Not even worth a retort.
>>What is your daughter was hit in the temple with 12 oz of aluminum and the perps ran away. Would that be comical? Idiot.<<
Um, my daughter is not a paid professional actress.
You know that the whole commercial is not real, right?
I know you don’t watch tv, but for heaven’s sake, to call someone an idiot because he/she doesn’t blur the lines between reality and the boob tube, is uncalled for.
I resent the ad’s condoning of women’s domestic violence towards men. It is really not funny when women throw cans, plates and whatever else at men.
BTW, I am a woman
Some needs to remind me-—use VERY small words, please, as I was educated in a one-room elementary school—just exactly why anything that Jackson-Lee says is relevant???
She can see black words typed on a piece of white paper & find racism in that, also.
She is an ignorant piece of trash. Her constituents needs some brain cleansing to get them to see her for what she really is.
Either you forgot the < /sarcasm> tag, or you have not been paying attention. I think that is a gal the imposter IC was checking out at the G20 conference last year.
Unfortunately evolution has not yet given us the psychic ability we need to read the female mind to guarantee our survival. Maybe that will come soon?
Until then, here's to fast reaction time!
Hey, you want equal rights - you got equal rights.
If the roles had been reversed, and a White woman had got hit in the head, no doubt everything would be jake...
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