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Dear Mormon Chicks: Why Don’t You Stop Boycotting Carl’s Jr.’s And Boycott Islam?
Townhall.com ^ | September 7, 2014 | Doug Giles

Posted on 09/07/2014 7:21:14 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: ChildOfThe60s
My way. LOL

I hear you, but that stance makes me thankful for regicide.

101 posted on 09/07/2014 12:32:33 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone

What’s killing Reggie got to do with this?


102 posted on 09/07/2014 12:33:50 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: DesertRhino
cheeseburgers are as American as an AK47

Now just a bleepin' second...

103 posted on 09/07/2014 12:45:57 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

There were two periods of hard times for CKE corporation, one in the 80’s while Carl Karcher still had some influence and one in the late 1990s well after Carl had no say in the company’s daily operation.

In 1999 CKE stock fell from 40 to 9 as a result of problems from new management’s acquisition of the Hardee’s chain. Carl was 86 when he left his ceremonial position on the BoD.


104 posted on 09/07/2014 12:58:00 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Pelham

The Karcher’s were absolutely wonderful people. It was a shame that they couldn’t keep the Business in the Family like the owners of In and Out have (so far).

It has to be said that if they were still running the Company, you would not see the kind of Advertising we see today. Of that I have no doubt. As I recall the Family was none too pleased with the tone of its Advertising many years ago.

The rub is that it works for the current incarnation of Carl’s Jr. in a very competitive marketplace. Even in S. CA, In and Out Burger is doing more advertising that I have ever noticed before.

All these guys are fighting for every dollar of revenue. I know some people in Management of a large CJ Franchise Group. With Government meddling, Taxation and the requirements that Obamacare has forced on them, they had to reinvent their entire Business Model to stay competitive.


105 posted on 09/07/2014 1:57:41 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kaslin
Last time I had Hardees I was in Longmont, Colorado for work about a yearago. They had recently rolled out waffle cut french fries with bleu cheese and Frank's Red Hot sauce (Buffalo Bleu Cheese Fries)...

I generally don't do things with crappy sauces, but I tried it and it was like, well... like crack. It got to the point that I would go get just 2 orders of the fries with extra bleu cheese crumbles (they obliged my request), a salad, and an unsweetened iced tea... and just skip the sammich.

106 posted on 09/07/2014 2:29:03 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Kickass Conservative; Pelham

My brother lived in the San Fernando Valley briefly about 10-15 years ago... when I would visit, I was blown away by the competition in the burgerjoint industry out there. I mean with Carl’s Jr., In-n-Out, Foster’s Freeze, and Tommyburger (to a degree), I had no idea why ANYONE would step foot in a Burger King, McDonald’s, or Jack-in-the-Box.

Being in the Northeast... all we had was BK, McD’s and Wendy’s... a rare White Castle here and there... oh and Checkers... but out of those choices none approached what was available in Southern California... but still, paled in comparision.

I fondly recall my brother flying home for the holidays... and one time brought a box of In-n-Out double-doubles for me... I didn’t care that they were cold and the bread soggy. I could not get them in NJ.


107 posted on 09/07/2014 2:47:14 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Kaslin

Do these possibly proud daughters of Zion read fashion magazines? Those objectify women more insidiously than most things aimed through the mass media at a male demographic.


108 posted on 09/07/2014 3:24:55 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Nothing, unless that’s your name.


109 posted on 09/07/2014 3:30:37 PM PDT by xone
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Nothing, unless that’s your name.


110 posted on 09/07/2014 3:31:03 PM PDT by xone
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To: Kickass Conservative

I’ve often wondered why Carl took the company public. I suspect that it might have had something to do with parceling out assets to his many children and grandchildren but that’s just a guess. I’m sure that in hindsight he wished that he hadn’t done it.

You’re right that the competition in SoCal is fierce and In-N-Out does its share of advertising but I doubt that it has to pay anything near what Carl’s must pay for its spots. And In-N-Out still benefits from word of mouth like Carl’s used to. Carl’s wouldn’t be feeling as much pressure from the also rans if it had kept its quality.

It’s a decent product, but at one time it was great. To keep it family owned it would have had to remain a smaller firm or at least have grown more slowly. There’s a number of very small chains in Orange County that turn out good hamburgers. Filling the niche. May they remain small!


111 posted on 09/07/2014 3:41:42 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Kaslin
Doug, you spent 12 paragraphs talking about two people that were unknown before you started pushing them into the national spotlight.

Is there not a more influential group you could talk about? You complain that they are firing at the wrong target. But aren't you doing the same?

112 posted on 09/07/2014 3:51:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Tax-chick
He seems to be saying that, because Islam is bad, public licentiousness must be considered good. Odd reasoning for a Christian.

Odd reasoning for anybody. But that seems to be the meem now days. If don't want to send your children to public schools you are a science denying recluse who wants to burn witches.

Believe in holiness and purity? You want women to wear burkas.

Think that animals should be treated decently? You are a vegan bunny hugger.

Don't think a bunch of your neighbors should be shooting off their guns into the air in a densely populated neighborhood? You gun grabber!

113 posted on 09/07/2014 4:03:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes, this is pretty pathetic as an example of reasoning. Yet, he seems perfectly comfortable with asserting that these commercials are GOOD ... not just “shouldn’t be illegal,” but GOOD, as in “nobody should object.”

I wonder what he would write if the people getting sexually involved in car washing in a commercial were men? “Islam is bad, and Islam condemns homosexuality,” so men having orgasms about cars and each other is GOOD?


114 posted on 09/07/2014 4:13:32 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Rodamala

Once she decided Carl’s Jr. wasn’t good anymore, my mother liked Whataburger. It was originally a Texas chain, or at least that’s where we encountered it, but it got to Oklahoma in the 90s.


115 posted on 09/07/2014 4:15:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

I agree, this article is pathetic and the idea that you cannot object to both Islam and bad commercials is ridiculous


116 posted on 09/07/2014 4:15:39 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL; Harmless Teddy Bear

Unless the author is engaging in transports of irony far beyond my experience - and I’ve been through FIVE teenagers so far - he thinks soft porn is a positive good. I’ve had little patience for Doug Giles since he advocated homosexual rape for juvenile offenders.

Maybe there’s a dig at the LDS faith here, I don’t know. To me, it would make no difference whether the young ladies protesting the ads were Mormon, Catholic, Baptist, or Orthodox Jewish. The concept of reserving intimacy for those who demonstrate they deserve it transcends many religious disagreements.


117 posted on 09/07/2014 4:23:10 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

I agree why is he focusing on Mormon females? A lot of people are going to find those ads distasteful. And, again, you can oppose the ads AND Islam at the same time.


118 posted on 09/07/2014 4:28:50 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: OldNewYork

“mass media” reaches a much bigger and younger audience than a magazine


119 posted on 09/07/2014 4:29:26 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

I guess it just happens that there are Mormon young ladies promoting a boycott of Carl’s Jr., and not others that the author noticed.

I worked as a temp for an advertising company that was shopping a commercial to Carl’s Jr., and it was perfectly clean. It had to do with ballet dancers. I remember seeing it on TV, long after I was finished the temp job.


120 posted on 09/07/2014 4:31:43 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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