Pic Of The Moment: Conservatives Shocked And Disgusted By Utterly Inoffensive Coca Cola Ad

[EarlG]

Coca-Cola's Multicultural Super Bowl Ad Really Angered Conservatives

The disgusting America-destroying ad:

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[LittleGirl]

1. Stupid racists

forgot how they got to this country. It's disgusting to witness.

[nightscanner59]

10. I busted one of these idiots and he never recognized it.

I plink around on SodaHead, a polling site that cannot be taken seriously b/c of an unusual number of RWNJ's there. Funny thing was one of them lambasting all "immigrants" for ruining our country, turned right around and gave me a straight answer to "so where did your lineage immigrate from?" He answered with approximately all 3rd generation european. No native blood mentioned at all.
I left that as it was, did not reply again.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. They don't recognize their own racism. They believe white European heritage = OK. nt

[Enthusiast]

140. It's really an extension of manifest destiny. We know God favors Western Europeans.

For one thing he made us white, the preferred color for human beings (everyone knows that).

God guided us to America and gave it to us because we were favored. He smote the enemies that stood in our way (native Americans, Spaniards, the French, English and the Mexicans). See? No racism. God given favoritism.

[lapfog_1]

2. They sure get worked up over things being "shoved down their throats". -n/t

[albino65]

4. Isn't that part of the definition of tea-bagging? n/t

[lunasun]

7. The ad is perceived as a slap in the face to them too!!

[Xipe Totec]

65. Oooh, that's bad. nt

[nightscanner59]

12. Then turn sharply right and dictate who I may not marry

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. But not about things being probed up "other people's" vaginas. nt

[AAO]

63. huh huh huh... he said vagina

[JoePhilly]

103. They blame their inability to work the remote on others.

[irisblue]

3. when my moms' people got off the boat

we didn't speak English either. Hey repubs/right wingers...HA

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Neither did the German side...

of my family.

[caledesi]

78. My Italian grandmother never learned English...grandfather did. nt

[caledesi]

85. If ol' Ben Franklin had his way, we'd be speaking German. nt

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

137. No, that's not true

See the write-up at http://www.watzmann.net/scg/german-by-one-vote.html

[caledesi]

139. Read it...good find..guess I won't have that great job working for Rachel LOL! nt

[nomorenomore08]

92. 200 or so years ago, my Scottish ancestors spoke "English" but were probably unintelligible

to Americans. Think of a Robert Burns poem...

[3catwoman3]

152. In 1974...

...I listened to a lively 15 minute narrative from an elderly gentleman in the Edinburgh train station, and understood only 4 words - "me and my wife." I must have smiled and nodded at the right times, because he just kept on talking.

Had a similar experience in the state of Georgia, on the way to Florida, when we stopped to ask directions. No GPS back then. Didn't understand a word. Said, "Thanks very much," and drove off.

[nomorenomore08]

164. Regional accents/dialects are a fascinating thing. Too bad they're slowly dying out.

[niyad]

110. nor did I when I came here.

[Hissyspit]

5. So the MSNBC Tweeter gets their job back?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

46. That was my thought as well.

Good thing some MSNBC staffer didn't predict this reaction.

[kairos12]

6. Whenever these idiots spout their usual racist crap I call it teabragging. n/t

[onehandle]

8. Can we now agree that the GOPNRAhadist party is the party of racism? nt

[Daemonaquila]

19. I'm cool with that.

[SummerSnow]

61. I totally agree with you..

They are blatant racist. They can no longer hide who they really are.

[PsychGrad]

97. Exactly.

If you haven't been reading on the Coca Cola FB page, you should be. Talk about shining a bigot spotlight on themselves! I have seriously been laughing at their distress for the past 24 hours - laughing so hard that I've cried! They are apoplectic over this! Initially, many of them even missed the gay couple at the end - I got popcorn while I waited for them to notice (and maybe clued them in some too).

I am REALLY going to enjoy my vanilla coke tonight.

[whopis01]

102. Vanilla Coke? I don't know... sounds kind of racist to me...

[PsychGrad]

128. Lol...

Well, I do PREFER vanilla flavoring in my coke OVER other flavorings.

[whopis01]

105. Wow - no kidding about the FB page. It is almost hilarious if it wasn't so sad and stupid. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

146. One person in particular is quite amusing

He was schooling people, incorrectly, on the origins of the song. And being re-educated.

If you follow him to his FB page, a few hours later, he recites the information he was dragged kicking and screaming to onto his own FB page, as if he intentionally went out and found it.

[PsychGrad]

157. Still laughing...

I'm not kidding, I'm STILL reading the comments there and laughing at them! I know it's "elitist" and "mean" to laugh at ignorance, but hey, if you have internet (and if you are posting on the Coke FB page, you have internet!) and continue to be that ignorant - you are making a CHOICE to not understand the world, or know about things beyond your front door. That, I feel absolutely okay with laughing at. I also really love the "You are racist for calling us racists!"... oh, and, "Why are we all talking in English on here then if it's not our language?". I'm telling you, I cannot wait until this part of our society no longer exists - it HAS to go away at some point, right? I mean, what percentage of the population do they represent now? Less than a quarter, right? Or, is that just those too stupid to be quiet?

[Ms. Toad]

162. Love this one -

Call me a bigot if you so choose but I see it as the National Anthem was written in English. Not Russian, not German, not French, not Spanish and not Indian. ENGLISH!!! I feel that English is the only language that the National Anthem should ever be sung in. I see this commercial as a disgrace to our nations anthem.

**knock-knock** Last time I checked I only wished America the Beautiful was our national anthem, rather than the Star Spangled Banner. Did it change sometime when I wasn't looking?

[PsychGrad]

163. HA!

All I know is that I'm getting a LOT of laughs out of the whole thing. It's either laugh or cry, and if I really stop and think about the ignorance and stupidity, I would surely cry, so I'm choosing laughing now. There are some really great ones on there though!

[tclambert]

9. So conservatives oppose multi-culturalism?

What, are they all Cherokee?

[nxylas]

20. I hope Coke does the same thing in different Native American languages next year

It'd be fun to watch the RepubliKlan wetting their pants over this disgusting promotion of Iroquois and Sioux over real Americans. If English was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for them.

[Coyotl]

43. Let's do a spoof RIGHT NOW! And use water from a nice lake instead.

Part of the spoof could be that America was beautiful everywhere before the English arrived.

Now, we cult worship the few placed not yet destroyed!

[AlbertCat]

55. before the English arrived.

I think you mean the Spanish.

[nxylas]

72. No-one expects the Spanish extermination

Seriously,though I think it would be more accurate to say "Europeans" rather than "English".

[Coyotl]

29. The real scandal here, not one Native American language featured. Cherokee would have been

a good choice, but Navajo would be better.

[DeShawn]

33. No such thing

There's no such thing as "Native American". The Cherokee and Navajo came from Asia, they immigrated over the Bering Strait. Even the term "Native American" is a modern invention and had historically it would have had no meaning to the Cherokee or Navajo.

[Coyotl]

34. If you have lived in the Americas for 15,000 years, you are a Native.

Also, there was no Bering Strait back then.
Also, they did not immigrate, they migrated over time.

[DeShawn]

40. Why 15,000

Why 15,000? Why not 15 years, or 150? It seems like a bit of an arbitrary place to draw the line.

In fact, there were several different waves of migration over thousands of years, when the Bering Strait wasn't under water. The earliest wave were white and Black. The Olmecs were Black, and Kennewick Man and the Solutreans were white. Some of the Asian tribes came later and ethnically cleansed the white and Black population, so really the Cherokee and Navajo have no more claim to America than anyone else.

[Coyotl]

42. You might want to take an intro class in anthropology!

Your info is seriously flawed and hints of racism. Are you a troll?

[DeShawn]

45. Also

They worshipped white gods. The Incas worshipped Viracocha who was a white man, and the Aztecs worshipped Quetzalcoatl, who was also a white man. When the Spanish first arrived, they thought it was the gods returning.

Are you denying this?

[RoccoR5955]

53. The only reason that they were worshiping "white" gods

Is because these "gods" were actually space travelers, trying to communicate with them. If you look, they all have space ships, and they all look like grey aliens, in one way, shape or form.

[Coyotl]

75. O.K., that settles it. I'll make the enrollment appointment myself if you will just tell me

where your nearest community college is located, (or high school, so you can qualify for community college).

You will soon learn there are no "races" white or otherwise.

[DeShawn]

81. That's right

That's right, anthropology is highly politicized these days, so you're not allowed to use the word "race". However, we all know the reality of race; we just have to use the latest politically correct euphemism to describe it instead. It all amounts to the same basic thing though.

[Coyotl]

88. Science is not a political euphemism. We better get you enrolled soon.

Before you are tombstoned here and you can't contact me.

[DeShawn]

91. It's politics, not science

There's nothing scientific about it. Scientists are happy enough to differentiate and classify the rest of the living world into genus, species, sub-species, etc; the only reason some scientists are reluctant to apply normal biological classification schemes to humans is for political reasons. Science was kicked out of anthropology a long time ago. It really took hold in the 60s and 70s, but it has earlier roots with the charlatan Franz Boas.

In the medical field, physicians and scientists can't afford to be politically correct because people's lives are at stake. Ask them about racial characteristics. You'll get a more honest answer from them than you will from highly-politicized social anthropologists.

[nomorenomore08]

94. And centuries of racist pseudo-science had nothing to do with that?

If anthropology in the past basically consisted of trying to prove the white race's superiority, then I'm not going to cry "political correctness" just because that's changed for the better.

[Coyotl]

118. O.K., that settles it, you have never even read a book on the subject, or you would know better.

FYI, all humans are one species. We know this because we anthropologists DO apply normal biological classification schemes to humans. Science has never been kicked out of anthropology. Physicians will be the first to tell you all humans are one species.

Your not old enough for high school yet, are you?

[3catwoman3]

153. For a number pf years...

...when filling out forms that have the little check boxes for race, I have written in an additional square and put "HUMAN."

Less opportunity to do that these days with everything being on line.

[Coyotl]

160. My fav is "100 meters"

[caledesi]

108. What would you like on your pizza DeShawn? nt

[JustAnotherGen]

111. Not just yet please

Enjoyong Coyotl have so much fun with him. Throw some anchovies on it a little later!

[caledesi]

116. The message was for DeShawn not Coyoti. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

149. I know

I think you misread. I don't want deshawn getting his/her pizza until Coyotl is done with their fun. I've never seen someone call a polite troll so quickly in all of these years at DU.

[Coyotl]

119. ^^^ THIS ^^^

[VanillaRhapsody]

151. Quetzalcoatl was white?

How did you come to this conclusion....I did a quick google search for an image to show this and found none. So I don't know WTF you are talking about!

[AlbertCat]

57. You might want to take an intro class in anthropology!

So what IS the statute of limitations on ancestry?

If you go back far enough, we're all from Africa.

If you go back even further, we're all fish.

[nomorenomore08]

93. Then by that definition, there are no "natives" anywhere, except maybe parts of Africa.

American Indians have been here thousands of years, whereas Europeans (like me) have been here only a few hundred. So based on that, who appears to have a greater claim on American being their "homeland"?

[niyad]

113. so which term do you prefer? first nation, or indigenous?

[cinnabonbon]

58. I think they featured a pueblo dialect

That counts, doesn't it?

I agree that they should have had a more recognizable one, though.

[Coyotl]

73. That cool. It makes the redneck reaction that much more insulting though!

[cinnabonbon]

83. Oh, we definitely agree on that. nt

[Moonwalk]

70. There is one Native American Language featured: keres

Pueblo Indians of New Mexico speak it.

[Coyotl]

74. Thanks. I should have listened closer, but I'm no linguist,

just an ordinary anthropologist.

[countryjake]

84. Here's the "Behind-the-Scenes" companion video...

and it shows that Indians were included in the commercial:

[caledesi]

77. Good smackdown! nt

[MisterP]

82. to them, "culture" is what other people have: they of course are the default

[Hayabusa]

11. Such xenophobia...

Oh well, I figure Subway, Coke and Cheerios taste better when covered with Conservative tears.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Right on. nt

[HotRod Deluxe]

13. Duuuhhh!

Will these imbecile bigots ever realize that they're not Native Americans either!

[valerief]

14. There is something disgusting about this ad. The HFCS product. But that's it.

The rest is fine.

[HuckleB]

22. The product is crap, regardless of the type of sweetener.

[geardaddy]

23. That was my first thought

when I saw the ad last night.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

49. No HFCS in the Mexican version...

I guess there's some irony in there somewhere.

[valerief]

51. Ha! Right. If the US version was just sugar and water, I wouldn't have called it disgusting. nt

[underpants]

66. The Kosher version should be out soon

I only see it in the spring but they surely make it year round.

Yellow cap = sugar / no HFCS

[valerief]

67. Good, thanks. I wish there was a stevia version in the US. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

69. Sugar is the fuel that powered the "immigration' of Africans to the west for many years. Labor

intensive crop it was. A lot less genocide and slavery occurred over HFCS than sugar to be sure.

[valerief]

115. True. And people today work for poverty wages to pick our fruits and vegetables.

[notemason]

15. Watched dairy farmer

shove long feeding tube down throat of newborn calf because calf couldn't seem to figure out how to nurse the mother; was necessary to save the calf. If that's what it takes---

[Daemonaquila]

17. Well, thanks for making me start my morning in a haze of outrage.

Seriously, WTF? It's good to know that now "unity" has been redefined by Breitbart, though.

[geardaddy]

21. Stupid baggers.

btw, does anyone know which languages are in it? I'm a language junkie!

[rdking647]

38. theres a you tube video showing the making of the commercial

i cant quickly find it but among the languages i know are tagalong,hindi,hebrew,arabic,keres (a native american language),spanish and sengalese frence

[geardaddy]

39. Cool. Thanks! n/t

[efhmc]

24. Made me proud and brought tears to my eyes. Since I am a feminist and

a progressive Democrat, this ad must be inherently evil.

[Rozlee]

25. As a matter of fact, Todd Stearnes, my parents WERE illegal. And they DID like Coca-Cola.

Even if it is a rot-gut product that did business with Hitler and only quit ALEC under pressure.

[alp227]

26. Fuck Todd Starnes. How does that bigoted POS still have a job while Martin Bashir doesn't?

The modern American media: Get fired for telling crude truths, get promoted for telling crude lies.

[Enthusiast]

141. +1 a whole bunch.......nt

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

27. Not only that

Coke is sold around the world and the SuperBowl was shown around the world. Jeez is there anything they don't complain about?

[merrily]

32. They rarely complain about the "defense" budget.

[Amimnoch]

28. Each year they become less Relevant. GW was their swan song (how sad is that??)

The reaction to this commercial is just one more painfully obvious example for them.

Their country club membership is shrinking. They will either get with the times, or they will become as obsolete as the old English aristocracy (ref Downton Abbey).

[Coyotl]

30. They won't be happy until the whole world speaks English and worships their idea of God.

If you think I'm kidding, read the history of the Pope giving the two halves of the world to two Catholic princes. That resulted in the worst genocide in history, still ongoing from the Native American perspective, especially in Brazil). And English in America followed together with two centuries of genocide just to create a manifestly-destined USA.

[merrily]

31. The rest of us are shocked and disgusted by utterly offensive bigots.

[EC]

37. Just shows their closed minds

The commericial had people from other countries SINGING THE PRAISES OF AMERICA and all they could think was that these people were stealing "their" song. How stupid.

[awoke_in_2003]

41. I am shocked and disgusted...

that someone finds this commercial shocking and disgusting. This song has always caused a shiver down my spine (odd, me being an atheist and all) the Star Spangled Banner has never done a thing for me.

[Dopers_Greed]

44. According to conservatives

Bottling plants supervised by paramilitaries in South America with workers in slave-like conditions = Totally OK

Coke running an ad with non-'Merican languages = Total Outrage

[proudretiredvet]

47. I'm simply tired of this racist crap.

Grow up and smell reality, Please. There are GAY people, black people, brown people, and people with different shaped eyes all around us and they have always been here. Get used to it, get over it, and get on with life. Why should this be an issue for anyone in a country that was originally made up of many different peoples?
You better take a look over your genetic shoulder before you start talking down to people who are different from you. You just may be one of them.

[rustbeltvoice]

48. i second several great comments

#20--Nyxlas
#27--Ghost of Tom Joad
#37--EC
#44--Dopers Greed

The petty meanness has no end with some people, and they wish to rule over everyone. Stupidity endures.

Also the hypocrisy, such a song, or exercise (even if flawed) attempts brotherhood and unity. When someone is not of their liking and association they complain about that person's divisiveness.

Coca-Cola has clever advertising. Coca-Cola has some vicious business practices. Their commercials often are artful. The comments are made just on the art and spirit of the commercial, which were lovely.

[erpowers]

50. I Really Do Not Understand

I do not see why so many Conservatives/Republicans dislike this ad. For many decades the United States of America has been promoted as a melting pot of many different cultures and languages. It seems that this commerical promotes the United States of America as it is; a country composed of many people from many cultural backgrounds and who speak many languages.

[Skittles]

126. it's their loss of power

they know their little lily-white straight Christian conservative world is slowly being drowned in a bathtub

[AlbertCat]

52. Imagine if they would get all worked up....

..... over something that matters!

But then they may actually have to think about and DO something.


So they stick with the forgettable, superfluous non-issues.


Conservatives: No ideas and nothing useful to offer.

[PsychGrad]

98. I just really want to know

what they are all going to drink with their fast food now? I mean, they are gonna be THIRSTY! Bwahahaha.

[CBGLuthier]

54. The only thing funnier and almost as stupid is the reaction some liberals have had

to a mega corporation's propaganda.

[PsychGrad]

99. Eh.

I'm excited. Coca Cola took a bet that those in favor of the ad would outnumber those against the ad - and they predicted correctly. And that makes me VERY happy inside, even if I never drink another Coke in my life - it still makes me VERY happy.

[reACTIONary]

124. Eh. Coca Cola is GLOBAL...

... and so is America.

[Burma Jones]

56. The Money has spoken......and it's multilingual

Those market forces getting you down you dumbasses?

You know, without the influx of fresh and new ideas and cultures, the US is dead, fucking dead.

Hey, it's not all bad, you still get to push "1" for English........

[cinnabonbon]

59. I wish I could say that I was surprised

But I'm not. I'm really not.

[W T F]

60. Want to hear English only??? Go move to England…This Is America! You can speak any language you want

[nomorenomore08]

101. I've heard of American English, in a tongue-in-cheek way, being called "American"

since it's almost a different language, in many respects, from British English.

[bravenak]

62. They're just mad cause Mexican Coke is better than ours.

They use real sugar.
Delicious and refreshing. Delicioso y resfrescante! Salud!

[Enthusiast]

142. Mexican Coke is actually worth drinking.

US Coke, not so much.

[Jamaal510]

64. Hm...they talk about multiculturalism

as if it's a bad thing. No wonder why the Right struggles with every minority group in elections.

[Jack Rabbit]

68. No, Earl, these aren't conservatives.

I would like against to make my pitch for decoupling the terms conservative and right wing. When they are conflated, we get those ridiculous moments like last week when RNC chairman Reince Priebus demands MSNBC President Phil Griffin to be made to all "right of center" Americans for a tweet saying that "right wingers" will hate the new Cheerios TV spot featuring a bi-racial American family. The really ridiculous part is that Phil Griffin actually apologized.

A conservative is a person with whom I disagree more often than not, but who is capable of making a rational case for keeping taxes low. At least he's expecting some bang for his buck when the government takes it. I wouldn't include the modern Reagan worshipers as conservatives, since one cannot possibly make a rational argument to cut taxes on the "job creators" since, first of all, all empirical evidence shows that cutting taxes to this level on the wealthy starves state and local governments for revenue that might be used for such unnecessary things as repairing roads, preparing for hurricanes or educating children and second, "job creators" have an abysmal record of creating jobs in the decade since the Frat Boy and the Republicans drastically cut their taxes.

A right winger is more interested in social values than economic issues, and his interest is what groups to exclude from social or political participation. Generally speaking, these people are bigots or one kind or another and usually several at once. These are the people who call the late Trayvon Martin a "thug" with no evidence that his behavior fit that epithet and conflate speaking Spanish with being a illegal alien, as in the above remarks on the Coca Cola spot. These are the people who support using voter ID to bar people they don't want voting from polling places and forcing women contemplating terminating a health threatening or otherwise unwanted pregnancy to get a vaginal ultrasound. They assume all Muslims are terrorists, all blacks are stupid, lazy and violent, all Hispanics are illegal aliens no matter where they born and any woman who insists on making her own health decisions is a slut. In short, they are racists, sectarian bigots and misogynists. It is no wonder why the sentiments expressed by these people about the Coca Cola ad are more fitting coming from a member of the Ku Klux Klan than a Republican member of Congress, or at least it used to be before Jesse Helms became the model for Republican members of Congress.

Which brings us back to Reince Priebus and his insistence last week that Phil Griffin apologize to all Americans "right of center." Neither Mr. Griffin nor anyone else owe an apology to the reprobates in the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazi movement, to misogynists like Mike Huckabee or Phyllis Schlafly (yes, she's a misogynist), to sectarian bigots like Pam Geller or Frank Gaffney or to social elitists like Dave and Charlie Koch, who think they have some divine right to rule over the rest of us because they have money. Mr. Priebus knows what his party represents these days when he demanded an apology from a television executive for a tweet directed at "right wingers" who would find something intrinsically offensive about a biracial family and didn't use the word the word "Republican" at all. By demanding such an apology, Republican National Committee Chairman Priebus has admitted that the his party is no longer conservative, but aligned with the worst and lowest elements on the right wing.

[Enthusiast]

143. +1. Beautiful post.

I mean beautiful.

[3catwoman3]

155. And the ultimate irony...

...is that the tweeter was right on the money. Just like when then-candidate Obama commented about people clinging "bitterly to guns and religion."

[Moonwalk]

71. Surprise, surprise, surprise! I mean, really, is anyone surprised by this? I knew the second....

...the commercial came on and the "Oh Beautiful" switched from English to Spanish (I think that's the first transition) that conservative heads would be exploding all around the country. Laughed my own head off thinking of teabaggers with their "all american" beers, all nestled in their armchairs with American and Confederate and "don't tread on me!" flags on the walls behind them, enjoying the start of it, thinking it was going to be something right up their alley with a cowboy on a horse and all then....

Bam! Blindsided. First shot to the heart with that first language switch (how dare it be sung in any language other than English), and final shot to the head with the woman in the headscarf toward the end (Islamics can't be American!)....

I knew exactly what I'd be hearing from them today concerning that ad. And I'm not disgusted; I'm pretty satisfied. Thanks Coca-Cola for upsetting these assholes so outrageously (and beautifully as it is a beautiful commercial).

[PsychGrad]

100. Same!

I have been so delighted over their rage for the past 24 hours, I almost feel like I'm walking on air. My cheeks hurt from smiling and my stomach hurts from laughing.

[mackerel]

76. I'm confused? I thought Coca Cola was sold globally?

[reACTIONary]

121. YES. I know at least one word in EVERY language in the world...

"Coca Cola"

[Moonwalk]

123. It is. But (1) The Superbowl is not a global affair and (2) The Song is not a global affair....

Which is to say that, unlike soccer, American football is not watched globally. It features a game played almost exclusively in America with only American teams. Hence, commercials played during the Superbowl are rarely intended for a global audience. Add to this the song "America," a patriotic hymn sung exclusively by Americans, and we can conclude that though Coca-cola is global, the ad was not. The ad was "American" for Americans.

Which is why conservative viewers who think: American = white men who speak English are pissed. Because this is commercial had that patriotic hymn performed in languages other than English (some would consider that sacrilege) and featured people who who were not white men (or at least not all in uniform, which is the only way conservatives accept multiculturalism).

Does that clear up the confusion—or didn't I understand your question?

[mackerel]

134. i know a few Australua who watched over

In Canberra and Melbourne.

[Moonwalk]

161. My Husband is a fan of Australian Football, but I'm sure if he saw a Coca-cola commercial during...

...one such game, with the Australian flag waving, and different Australians in different Aussie cities drinking coke while "Waltzing Matilda" was sung in several different languages...I'm pretty sure if he saw that, he wouldn't think that the ad was aimed at him Especially as he knows that not many Americans watch Australian football.

But hey, as Coca-cola is a global company, maybe they'll make such commercials for a dozen different countries to be shown at prime sporting events. Wouldn't that be cool?

[Tikki]

165. Hi Moonwalk...I am a Aussie Rules fanatic...Pre-season has just started...

How about that NAB pre-season match..HAWTHORN HAWKS (154) to BRISBANE LIONS (23)

I have been a HAWKS FAN for over 30 years...never been to Australia but try to catch every game on TV or radio.

My husband is a CARLTON BLUES fan.

CARN the HAWKS
Tikki

[Moonwalk]

166. LOL! Very happy to meet another U.S. fan of Aussie football. We are rarities...

[HockeyMom]

79. 1971 "I'd like to teach the world to sing"

2014 ONLY if they sing in English, or AMERICAN as far too many supid, ignorant Americans seem to think.

[Jack Rabbit]

125. Yes, I like that one, too . . .

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[caledesi]

86. Didn't Jeb marry a Columbian woman? Go figure! nt

[Cha]

87. We're all gonna "Burn in Hell!1111"

Gracias EarlG

[riverbendviewgal]

89. I love it.

You all should be proud of this beautiful ad.. America for all .

[rhett o rick]

90. I am not a big Coke fan, but must give them credit here. nm

[SoapBox]

95. Righttttt....And Pukes, exactly who was one of the first illegal immigrants in this country?

White Folks!

Native American Indians are the only ones with true squatters rights to America.

[Thor_MN]

96. The poutrage is what the conservatives call "Outreach"

I'm starting to think the dinosaurs became conservative...

[James48]

104. Winger heads explode

[Thor_MN]

106. Perfect!!!

Morons...

[indie9197]

122. "Lanquage" LOL

Mr. Robert Crater needs some help with his first language.

[warrant46]

147. Morans

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

167. Xenophobic RWers blatantly flaunting their ignorance yet again.

So fking predictable.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

107. My message to conservatives

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

That's what they used to say to us when we complained about the war, or social issues.

[DesertRat]

109. I honestly don't understand their objections

I saw the commercial and thought it was kind of sweet. Today I'm shocked to read about the firestorm it caused. I just don't understand conservatives.

[caledesi]

112. Where is the BIG tent? Somebody...anyone?? Now that

I'm on a roll...Party of Lincoln...Log-cabin Republicans...don't hear that now ...do they think we forgot?

They are showing their TRUE colors and they ain't red, white and blue!

PBO has a very white mother (who was an anthropologist) and a very black father.

So, they will get old and go to a hospital. I hope that those old, sick people get a very black doctor who is female, atheistic and gay! What will they do...can we all say Schenfraude (sp)!

[DCBob]

114. My wife who is from the Philippines thought the ad was wonderful.

Then I told her today how the Republicans felt about it and she was shocked.

[reACTIONary]

117. +100 (nt)

[reACTIONary]

120. Of the eight (or so) languages in the commercial...

... my family speaks three! English, Mandarin, and Tagalog!

[muntrv]

127. Hey Teabaggers!

[brewens]

129. Next year Coke should do a totally bagger friendly spot and let them choke on it!

Maybe it will go completely over their heads but let see fat white guys pitching horse shoes, pie wagons cramming pie into their faces at church picnics, rednecks screaming threats at little league umpires, real "Mericans!" Just like they would love! Bring it on!

[noiretextatique]

130. idiots. whaddya want? whites only commercials?

America has never been 'white only.'

[Behind the Aegis]

131. It isn't just the RWers.

Apparently if you are a liberal and like this commercial you are a mindless sheep, who approves of union busting, poison water, and incapable of seeing that this commercial is the equivalent of the promotion of the Third Reich! The only thing both extremists have in common is they think the commercial is "baaaaad."

[AProgressiveThinker]

132. Why are Liberals?

Up in arms in praise of the Coca-Cola ad? You realize this is nothing more than bourgeois multi-culturalism? Not only that but don't you Liberals realize that Coca-Cola is an imperialist corporation that hires thugs and right wing paramilitary organizations to murder and brutalize trade-union activists in Colombia?

[yuiyoshida]

133. HATERZ gotta Hate!!!!!!111

WAKE UP AMERICA! THIS IS A MULTICULTURAL Nation. Check out the SF and LA phone books in different languages...and the BALLOTS. WE who were once immigrants are here to stay..no one is leaving.. so get over it! OH!! AND WE ARE DEMOCRATS!!!!

[mackerel]

135. Coke is one of the few companies

that can make it commercial like this, how many rednecks are going to give up their Coke

[Myrina]

158. Don't forget the Coke/Nestle dude who wants to privatize water

The Baggers ought to LOVE this company!!

[psiman]

136. I find Allen West Insanely Funny

In my family alone, we speak Spanish and German and Danish and Korean and Mandarin.

The big joke is that you have to speak English to become a citizen, but a citizen can speak any damned language he pleases.

The icing on the cake is that the German speakers are natives of Kansas while the Spanish speakers are natives of Vermont.

Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, you nativist bastards.

[santroy79]

138. go ahead and beat me up

Im as left as they come and I did not like the Ad.

[polmaven]

144. "Utterly Inoffensive" is just the start!

I found it to be thoroughly what America is all about! Inclusive and beautifully done are words I thought of while it was playing. I loved it!

[Javaman]

145. the bigger question: what aren't repukes shoked and disgusted by? nt

[allan01]

148. hem

[Divernan]

150. Yup!Unregulated W. VA. tap water is official Tea Party drink!

With Pepsi on record for supporting gay rights, conservatives have nowhere to turn, except for a nice tall glass of unfiltered, unregulated West Virginia tap water.

[santamargarita]

154. Nothing new ; Prohibition was as much about...

immigration as it was about alcohol. That's why they used the KKK to steal elections back just prior Hoover Hell.

[Myrina]

156. Last time I checked, Cacao/Coca wasn't indigenous to the US

... so who's drink is it, really, anyway?

[Crewleader]

159. Today's Cartoon