The eventual total cost of the commercial was $250,000 — an unheard of price in 1971 for an advertisement. The finished product, first aired in July 1971, featured a multicultural group of young people lip syncing the song on a hill outside Rome, Italy. The global unity of the singers is emphasized by showing that the bottles of Coke they are holding are labelled in a variety of languages.The theme of multiculturalism recurred in nostalgic revivals of the campaign in 2006, 2007 and 2010.
"Buy the World a Coke" was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love sung by a multicultural collection of teenagers on the top of a hill.So American conservatives have been putting up with this provocation for four decades but at last their patience is AT AN END. Our observers* of the human centipede of the rightwing bloggosphere inform us that the CCCorp, by recognising the existence of non-white, non-English speaking
Executives at Coca Cola thought it was a good idea to run a 60 second Super Bowl ad featuring children singing "America the Beautiful" – a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity – in several foreign languages. The ad also prominently features a gay couple....When the company used such an iconic song... to push multiculturalism down our throats, it's no wonder conservatives were outraged.
* More precisely, Yestreblansky, to whom we would reply directly except the Disqust commenting system no longer accepts a Google account as a way of logging in.
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That's unspeakably vile. One reason I went to Disqus was fambly who couldn't comment with Blogger. But then that was their own fault (one was a Luddite WordPress user).
Wait.
You mean when those kids suggested they wanted to world to consume coke at their cost, they meant soda pop and not a couple grams of Peruvian Flake™?
Well, that probably explains why they never paid my invoice...
That's unspeakably vile
I checked the Gmail account I used to use for commenting through Disqus, and discovered a new trend of What's-hot-around-the-WWW spam *from* Disqus.
or down through the windy corridors of Memory, for those of us gifted or cursed with that old-fashioned attribute
Smutes the Memorious...
Good lord. Do these people actually read what they write? Or am I being too generous in assuming that they can read? And the "logic" in there brings to mind the underpants gnome's business plan.
I would think that reading things and writing them are separate duties, and specialization makes for industrial efficiency.
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That's why cops travel in pairs, according to the folklore I was brought up with: one does the reading and the other does the writing.
Do these people actually read what they write?
I suspect that they read it and rub their chins sagely, nodding -- "Yes, that puts it so well!"
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