news.yahoo.com— I don't know how many Latino customers, this vodka company will get for this advertisement. But you can bet it's going to lose some!
Apr 8, 2008View in Crawl 4
In this era of 24/7 dissemination and recycling of news on all platforms--cable & satellite, broadcast TV, Internet, radio, the blogosphere--it seems incredible that Absolut vodka would risk alienating boycott-prone American customers, especially those residing in California and the Southwest, most imperilled and at risk from the '"reconquista" by having a revanchist map depicted in the advertisements of their product(which is an optional, discretionary purchase anyway)
I would disagree with the hype over this. Frankly most Americans just don't care if California gets its feelings hurt. They care even less about advertising in Mexico for a product most Americans don't drink. Unless they knew it would be controversial and were going to pull it anyways, it was a blunder for them to pull the ad to satisfy reactionaries.
Actually I think Absolut has touched on a good concept. But instead. what we should do is simply annex north Mexico from Nogales, Arizona directly westward to Baja to include the whole penisula. Since there's so many illegals here may as well make them and their land citizens, tax them, auction off lands to raise funds for their up-keep and then build condominiums.
msk61Apr 8, 2008
In this era of 24/7 dissemination and recycling of news on all platforms--cable & satellite, broadcast TV, Internet, radio, the blogosphere--it seems incredible that Absolut vodka would risk alienating boycott-prone American customers, especially those residing in California and the Southwest, most imperilled and at risk from the '"reconquista" by having a revanchist map depicted in the advertisements of their product(which is an optional, discretionary purchase anyway)
hellokerryberryApr 8, 2008
AN absolute blunder
bradhart2Apr 8, 2008
I would disagree with the hype over this. Frankly most Americans just don't care if California gets its feelings hurt. They care even less about advertising in Mexico for a product most Americans don't drink. Unless they knew it would be controversial and were going to pull it anyways, it was a blunder for them to pull the ad to satisfy reactionaries.
blueberryboyApr 9, 2008
Actually I think Absolut has touched on a good concept. But instead. what we should do is simply annex north Mexico from Nogales, Arizona directly westward to Baja to include the whole penisula. Since there's so many illegals here may as well make them and their land citizens, tax them, auction off lands to raise funds for their up-keep and then build condominiums.