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Thanks for the headsup Van. Anything made in Texas has to be hands down better than something made in Euro-Moonbatopia! EeeeHaaaaw!

"2) Lower the price of Ketel One vodka to $2 a shot indefinitely to build loyalty."

Randi Rhodes should be pleased, if she can bring herself to go to a bar owned by someone who doesn't hate America.

Tito's huh? I'll have to give it a try.

I like my premium vodka. No more Absolut though, there are plenty of alternatives. I'm not even American (I'm British, although I have visited all the states involved apart from California and been made most welcome), and the advert disgusts me.

New bottle of Absolut down the drain. Best money I ever wasted. Dang but that felt good.

Keep in mind that Absolut was recently purchased by Pernod Ricard, a publicly-traded company based in France. Visit http://www.pernod-ricard-usa.com/ to see their brands sold in the US. You may reach Pernod Ricard USA at http://www.pernod-ricard-usa.com/contact/.

Shakers is an American vodka that is available most everywhere, and puts many of the vodkas people regularly drink to shame.

Good, good stuff.

Thanks for the heads up. I keep a nice bar in my basement with plenty of vodka. I have never purchased Absolut, mainly Smirnoff or imported patatoe vodka. But I will definitely look for that Tito's.

Dumb Swedes

y'all realize this could have adverse effects?

yup.

millions of latinos within that border have given up tequila~in lieu of absolut!

WOOT - MORE FOR U.S.!

Dear God, one wishes these lib idiots, the Mexicans, the scum at La Raza and all their vicious ilk would get their history straight! No one "stole" the lands in the Southwest now subject to the (alleged) Reconquista; these lands are part of the United States of America, you morons, by means of victory at war and treaty -- if you want 'em back, you're going to have to fight for them.

Absolut,

Reference the “Mexican Ad”;

• It doesn't matter if it used to be Mexican territory. It’s been a collection of American states for well over a century now.

• Would Absolut have dared run a similar ad in Greece, depicting much of modern-day Turkey as still within Greece's borders? The Turks would sure love that.

• Or how about a campaign in Russia, showing the old USSR borders intact? I'm sure Baltic countries and nations like Georgia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan would just love that.

• How about a German campaign showing Germany's borders to include all of Hitler's Fortress Europe?

Unless you insult other nations equally, than you are clearly hostile towards ONLY the USA and it’s not funny. So go ahead, let's see you prove to us that "it's only a vodka ad" and run equally insulting and divisive ads other nations as previously mentioned. Go ahead, double dog dare you.

Bottom line, in the age of the Internet, there's no way to "hide" an ad campaign from ANY audience. If you running a campaign insulting an entire nation, they're going to find out about it.

I will never use Absolut products again, and I've encouraged friends and family to take the same stance. I hope Abosolut's sales plunge to nothing in the United States. Try to make up for it in Mexico.

Pissed off in the USA

I can't believe Absolut would do that.
Certainly not going to buy that in the future, though it's really not a big sacrifice for me. I rarely drink at all, and I never drink vodka.

If only mexico sent tanks to our borders instead of untrained peasents. THEN we'd have a reason to attack.

Houston day laborers vote to form workers rights network
They National Day Laborer Organizing Network has groups in more than 20 cities

The ILLEGALS voted to demand FAIR PAY and WORKERS RIGHTS, but did not put PAYING TAXES on the UNION agenda.....But, they did hand out free ABSOLUT....before the vote.

We are so fuc*ed in the USA.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5677684.html

MOONBAT SF Waste, Fraud and Abuse for stealing Boarder Security funds......

This is, just, beyond belief....

S.F. topped border counties for crime grant.....????

WTF?

'After checking a sample of the lists and finding no referrals, the auditors concluded that all of the money San Francisco had taken in was not justified.'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/05/MNEV100953.DTL

Hey, a little good (?) news from the Morgage Meltdown...

Realtor stops immigrant loans

Best line in the article is:

'has largely stopped selling homes to people without Social Security numbers, often a sign that they are here illegally.'

YOU THINK?

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/apr/05/alien-workers-losing-loan-access/

All this anger over an advert? Dear God, get a life! The ad was aimed at the Mexican market, and as such, was funny as hell.

If the ad was run in the USA, and showed our borders bloated to include Canada, Mexico and Central America, you'd all be slapping each other on the back and yukking it up.

Your response to the Absolut ad reveals more about your simple-mindedness than it does about the taste of the advertiser.

Chuck

You're just making that up. On what basis do you say "[we]'d all be slapping each other on the back and yukking it up"?

Absolut Boycott

Many more examples than that - England in France and Ireland might be contentious. However the one they really should try is a mad of Scandinavia with the old Swedish Empire. How would that go down with their neighbours?

Fox News headlines this morning says Absolut has apologized. No time to read it, but here is the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346964,00.html

I'm afraid the bad taste left in my mouth will remain.

To ChuckL: If you don't have an ounce of indignation for such a blatantly insenstive ad during a time of invasion, you got problems, bud. You need to get more than a life, you need to get a four wheel drive conscience. Don't forget to ask for a few principles to go with it. Ask about the red, white and blue package. A GPS system will help guide you as you go from your current stupor to patiotic passion. Always keep your windshield clean and your vision will never again becomes so limited, hindered by all your smug.

ChuckL - if it's just an advert, then let's see Absolut run an "All White Absolut USA"; or a "No Gays Allowed in the US of Absolute". Then we'll see who pitches a fit and who tells everyone to get a life and stop being so simple-minded. Putz.

Grain vodka is better than potato vodka any day...

Like I said in the previous thread, I'm drinking Lake Vättern Svensk instead, now, since it tastes better.

UCA, I agree with what you say, but this:

Dumb Swedes

... is it really necessary? You can get the point across quite admirably without having to call people dumb.

Add this Photoshop job to the pile of those spoofing the Absolut ad.

Another Article - Absolute throws in the towel......

OOPS.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/06/MNNR100Q0J.DTL

"The ad was aimed at the Mexican market, and as such, was funny as hell. If the ad was run in the USA, and showed our borders bloated to include Canada, Mexico and Central America, you'd all be slapping each other on the back and yukking it up."

You're about a century behind Manifest Destiny! And if we had any wackos with those delusions, we certainly wouldn't pander to them!

More sighs of Global Warming across great swaths of the UK.

Snow has fallen across much of the UK overnight, with forecasters warning that there is likely to be more later.

How is this for a forecast.....(with the mandatory hint of Global Warming thrown in to boot)

He forecasted intermittent snow showers, between spells of sunshine, in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Mr Fawkes said temperatures in large towns and cities are set to fall to as low as -2C.

"This makes it a very cold day for April. It follows on from the warmest day of the year so far on Thursday, in Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire, where the temperature was 18.9C," he said.

Idiots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7332986.stm

I noticed that at the Ministry of Truth website today too. Kinda funny how they always manage to get in a global warming reference when there is hot weather or a hurricane, but no mention of it in this article.

Although this comment was close: "follows on from the warmest day of the year so far on Thursday"

April 3rd was the warmest day of the year so far? Well that's just shocking! April is warmer than January, February and March - let's alert the rest of the media and cut our carbon footprints immediately!

I find it funny thaty the US paid over 20 million for the Gadsden Purchase, the land of Guadelupe-Hildago.

We spent that much on the Louisiana Purchase.

Archonix,

I'm just a simple old Polak.
And we Polaks have been called worse then dumb.
Heard any good Polish jokes?

UCA, I prefer Irish jokes. :) I'm just hypersensitive at the moment, a lot of people have been calling swedes names well beyond the usual "swedes vs denmark" stuff I've seen, for no reason that I can discern. My wife is swedish. It makes for... "interesting times".

$10 million for the Gadsen Purchase is still a good deal though at the time the need for a rail line and the real estate value of Tucson far exceeds that amount even adjusted for inflation. The land would sell for way more than that today even after adjusting for inflation. Though $7 million for Alaska was a steal. And the $23 million for Lousiana was an even better deal.

Hey Archonix,

Ever see Nash Bridges? Cheech Marin plays an old, bald cop with a good looking Swedish wife. Tall and blonde of course.
Are they really tall and blonde beauties?

I have a Swedish uncle who is a disbled veteran.
He has been in a wheel chair for over 35 years.
Now he is closing in on 80 years old and the doctors said he would never make it to 55.
Guy just keeps on truckin'.

Here is the response I got from Pernod Ricard USA:

Thank you for contacting us regarding the Absolut ad from Mexico. Pernod Ricard is not yet the owner of Absolut and has no involvement in the management of the brand. The acquisition is expected to close this summer.

Nevertheless, we understand that this advertisement has caused offense and we have passed your comments on to V&S, the Swedish owner of Absolut. They have informed us that the ad in question was withdrawn on April 4 and will not be used again.

Please rest assured that your comments are valuable to us, and that we have taken note of them. Pernod Ricard has a strict internal code of ethics which all our advertisements are checked against.

As soon as Pernod Ricard becomes responsible for Absolut, we will integrate its advertising into our approval system.

Corporate Communications

Pernod Ricard USA

You may contact Pernod Ricard via their website at http://www.pernod-ricard-usa.com/contact/.

I was actually very surprised at Wikipedia's openly anti-conservative attitude about this. Their "gatekeepers" act as if it's a known fact that wiki is a liberal site and non ant-American views are not welcome and are viewed as extreme right-wing. They openly recommend suppressing the truth if it doesn't support their left-wing agenda.

More than the foolish Absolut ad, this was an eye-opener about wikipedia.

And for the record, wikipedia did NOT present a fair and balanced addition to the absolut entry regarding this ad campaign. What they did was present an anti-Michelle Malkin paragraph.

If the entry was about Michel Malkin, that's one thing, but the entry is about Absolut and yet they present it as if it's a story simply about some extremist right winger who didn't like some innocuous ad.

Once again, all about the messenger and little about the message.

I'm a vodka drinker. I won't buy absolut anymore and I emailed all my friends to do the same. But I'm just too pragmatic not to drink it if it's already bought. Damn, if I could have all the absolut people spilled down their toilets I could be drunk for a month.