Am I the only one who thinks the Mercedes-Benz "Sympathy for the Devil" ad

[rzemanfl]

is seriously weird? Did they listen beyond "...a man of wealth and taste?"

[limpyhobbler]

1. i haven't seen it but I hate it already from a disance

[rzemanfl]

2. There were two or three versions during the football game. About the upcoming debut of

some new car that costs more than our household's annual income. Jon Hamm does the voice over.

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Um, given Daimler Benz' close association with Hitler and the

Nazis in the 1930s and '40s (including Benz' use of POW slave labor), I'd say their use of the song makes perfect sense.

I always get a perverse laugh in Los Angeles when I see an African American driving a Benz. My wife and I will look at one another and go "WTF???" But that's just us. I once had a Greek boss who drove a Benz and I gave him shit mercilessly about it. He was sheepishly guilty about it at least, unlike most dumb-ass Americans.

http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1324886-1-1324898-1-0-0-1345593-0-0-135-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

[Lizzie Poppet]

6. A friend of mine, years ago, had a BF give her grief...

...because she drove a Mitsubishi. "They made airplanes that shot down Americans."

He drove a Porsche. I am NOT making that up...

[rzemanfl]

7. That would be why it doesn't make sense to me.

"I rode a tank
Held a General's rank
When the blitzkreig raged
And the bodies stank"

Do they think Jagger was talking about Poland or France?

[coalition_unwilling]

10. The Germans suffer from a serious case of Irony Impairment, methinks. Economic

supremacy tends to blind one to one's past foibles and follies. (That's being charitable, I guess.)

[hibbing]

4. agree

Hey,
I thought it was weird, very weird. Kind of kills that dark song for me. Being a Dylan fan I have had to put up with him having his tunes in commercials...blah.

Peace

[Benton D Struckcheon]

5. Me too

Couldn't believe it.
Wait'll the Christian Right figures this out. That'll learn em.

[TeamPooka]

8. agree with you. Thought it ws a strange choice. Who is their market? Dictators?

and other bad guys...

[Recursion]

9. An SUV ad used "If I should fall from grace with God"

I boggled, to say the least