Coca Cola, America the Beautiful, and Right Wing Rage

[Dylan]

[Spider]

[Indy]

GMA this morning had a segment about the "controversy" surrounding the ad.

So let me get this straight: an ad featuring people singing "America the BEAUTIFUL" in seven different languages--people still take offense to even THAT?

F*** me, we are in a race to the bottom.

[PoS]

More lefty shrill fauxrage

[Dylan]

TBF the right hasn't exactly been a model of restraint on cultural issues. Shrill applies ad strongly to, eg, Todd starnes or the rest of the white male victim hood clique

[Indy]

[John Galt]

there are a non zero number of catholics that wish for latin mass

the thing is, internet allows for 3 people to seem like 3000, and so on and so forth. plus, people like to troll incessantly, i don't know if you guys have ever seen that happen but it does

point is, sure, some people are traditionalists. and sure, they can voice their opinion on the internet, but it seems to me that the reaction to their reaction is far far more of an overreaction. this is the same bullshit that came about with the mixed race family cherrio commercial. msnbc decides to declare all republicans don't like mixed race families. that person was canned after they did it, but i'm sure there was a lot of smugness going around with people thinking they are so much above the neaderthal conservatives that don't like that kind of stuff. the same smug people that then calls people who happen to actually have mixed race families uncle toms (e.g., clarence thomas) or mocks them for adopting black children (on msnbc: "one of these things is not like the other, hahahahaha", pointing and laughing at a picture of the Romney family). but whatever, get all upset that a few thousand other americans are upset that america the beautiful was sung incorrectly. and mind you,it was sung incorrectly, because the song was written in english. but it kjust seems to me that the response to that is so overblown and ridiculous (as in, people mention it) that it's just trying to make mountains out of toperas

[Bauce]

[Gremlin]

I dont even know who the right wing is anymore.

Im active in the political community in AZ at the activist level (both left & libertarian) and at times in the political structure. If were only talking about 40+ year old GOP card holding MKers, then yea, i know what your talking about when "right wing" is mixed into the conversation. Im not sure if its because the demographics of AZ being libertarian leaning but from where im standing if you really have an issue with this mythical right winged bird... just wait 5-20 years, they'll be wearing diapers or be 6' under.

I know this forum is heavily weighted in the left nut, but ya'll need to stop fighting yesterdays battles, its silly.

[jimmyz]