What kind of nutjob would protest this????

[RB TexLa]

We are talking about some seriously screwed up people if this upsets them.





Absolut vodka ad stirs a U.S.-Mexico debate

Some in the north take offense at the depiction of an old border.
By Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson, Special to The Times
April 5, 2008
MEXICO CITY -- The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut seemed to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it ruffled a few feathers in El Norte.

As word of the campaign spread across the border, primarily via the Internet, some in the United States began giving the campaign a much more hostile reception.

The colorful ad, created by the Teran\TBWA agency and the vodka maker, is a sight gag depicting what a map of North America might look like "In an Absolut world," i.e., a perfect one.

It shows the Mexican border extending, very roughly, to its position during the 1800s before the Mexican-American War.

At that time, California as we now know it was part of Mexican territory and known as Alta California. Those territories eventually became U.S. property after the voluntary annexation of Texas and, later, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Jeffrey Moran, a spokesman for Absolut in New York, said Friday that the company had received numerous complaints about the ad, which won't be running in the United States. The ads ran for about two months in Mexico and had been scheduled to end this week.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-absolut5apr05,1,3887663.story?track=rss

[dkf]

1. I dunno, but it strikes me that an advertiser needs to be aware

of their audience, and an ad that antagonizes people is kind of self-defeating if you ask me.

[RB TexLa]

2. It's people in "Merica" that were upset, not in the target market of the ad.

[dkf]

3. Its the age of the internet...nothing is local anymore.

[JackRiddler]

11. Does this mean that no one should say anything anymore? nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. It means that companies need to be mindful of not offending its largest market

I suspect that Americans buy more Absolut Vodka than Mexicans do.

[JackRiddler]

14. This American is gonna get boatloads of it...

Using boatloads of cash, after we achieve dollar-peso parity.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Of course Americans would take offense to this

Mexico belongs to us!

[MikeNearMcChord]

5. The poster The Red Pen chronicled the Freeper reaction in the Daily Kos

Here it is, for your enjoyment.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/3/204524/6536

[mainegreen]

6. I imagine they'd get a little miffed if an ad ran in Denmark showing Sweden and Norway as Danish.

Because, once upon a time it was.

Not really worth protesting, though. Reality differs from the ad. Just.. not well thought out for a global company.

[acmavm]

7. They were intended to stir up shit and appeal to a certain demographic.

That's why they won't be running in the US.

[JackRiddler]

8. Woah! Appeals to nationalism in a national advertising campaign!

[RB TexLa]

9. I guess I'm immune, I would take 10 of those American pieces of shit for my Glock

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. A Minuteman idiot

[calimary]

13. I think it would be an excellent additional cause to obsess about, during breaks

in the action of that fabulous polygamy bust in Texas!

I mean - hey, let's get our priorities straight here! Polygamists and print ads!!!! Rightfully should dominate the public discourse at the moment, dontcha think?

NOTHING ELSE of note going on at the moment, is there? :sarcasm:

And now back to Britney and Lindsey Go To Hell...

[JBoy]

15. This would be awesome. I could drive to Mexico by this afternoon!

[devilgrrl]

16. This nut job would protest this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=213853

Dig the feigned outrage:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3124221&mesg_id=3124403
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3124221&mesg_id=3124401

A nut job deluxe!

:popcorn:

[RB TexLa]

17. I saw that. Of course the NeoKnowNothings have a vibrante left wing

No to foreign investment. No to trade. No to immigration. No to anything but English.

Usually best to just laugh in their face and just answer "I'm just laughing at you."