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December 5, 2008
Moonbats Bemoan Free Whoppers
Burger King has launched a "Whopper Virgins" campaign, which involves traveling to remote parts of the world like Greenland and rural Romania and presenting people with free Whoppers and Big Macs to see which they like better. Moonbats are incensed at such capitalist exploitation:
"It's outrageous," Sharon Akabas of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University, told the New York Daily News. "What's next? Are we going to start taking guns out to some of these remote places and ask them which one they like better?"
Marilyn Borchardt, development director for Food First, called the campaign insensitive.
"The ad's not even acknowledging that there's even hunger in any of these places," she told the Daily News.
The campaign has also stirred up a welter of online commentary. Brian Morrissey, writing on Adfreak.com, likens the campaign to colonialism and declares it "embarrassing and emblematic of how ignorant Americans still seem to the rest of the world."
"It doesn't get much more offensive than this," noted The Inquisitor blog. "If visiting poor people in remote locations, some who would be at best surviving on below poverty levels and throwing a burger in their faces isn't bad enough, it gets better, because they also ask the Whopper Virgins to compare the taste of the Whopper to a McDonalds Big Mac as well.
"It's hard to place exactly where this begins on the level of wrongness."
Even moonbats have one redeeming quality. Their capacity for completely inappropriate sanctimonious indignation is a bottomless barrel of laughs.

Hat tip: Copious Dissent; on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 5, 2008 7:56 AM
Comments
Are those mary janes on the Burger King? How queer is that!
Posted by: fellowes at December 5, 2008 8:10 AM
"It's hard to place exactly where this begins on the level of wrongness."
I'm having trouble figuring out what's wrong with it too. Giving a burger to someone who may or may not be hungry and has never had one before? Well, um, I'm not coming up with any problems with that.
To progressives, our culture just sucks. Sharing any aspect of it with other people, Whoppers included, is evil. The foreign people need to be "protected" from any and every thing having to do with us. We are evil, and people in remote areas are simpleton idiots (yet quaintly noble) who need to be sheltered from us by the more enlightened and superior western liberals.
People can't be allowed to try our food, but it's mandatory for hipsters to eat unusual foreign foods, and anyone who doesn't partake in the local Mongol restaurant or whatever is a xenophobic knuckle-dragger. The smug leftists can handle all manner of exposure to foreign cultures, but at the same time must deprive foreigners of exposure to our culture, because, you know, they just can't handle it bacause they are "simple" and need to be made to stay that way.
Elitist jerks as usual.
Posted by: forest at December 5, 2008 8:27 AM
Moonbats secretly, or not so secretly, want us to live in poverty just like the people that's being given these burgers. The idea of us exposing them to fast food just gets these burger hating anti-Westerners in a twist.
Wal-Mart should build a few stores in these impoverished locations. That's really incense the moonbats.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 5, 2008 9:01 AM
mmmmmmmmmmm - free whoppers -------- drooooooool
Posted by: Homer at December 5, 2008 9:03 AM
LOL Fellowes, those maryjanes are soooooo queer!
The costume designer should have used boots.
The moonbats quoted in the article don't even get around to the fact that it's meat. I wonder if they would be all atwitter if it was one of those disgusting inedible tofu hotdogs?
Posted by: Karin at December 5, 2008 9:23 AM
"What's next? Are we going to start taking guns out to some of these remote places and ask them which one they like better?"
LOL! Only a stupid liberal could equate a Whopper with a gun. I bet there are posts to be found out there where they compare BK Fries to the Bible.
Silly liberals. Put 30 of them in a room you might find one live brain cell.
Posted by: Jimbo at December 5, 2008 9:56 AM
they should have sent gay-friendly mcdonald's...
Posted by: nanc at December 5, 2008 10:02 AM
If that is what virgins look like in those remote parts of the world, where do I sign up?!! Damn it's GOOD to be the King!!
Posted by: Eric at December 5, 2008 10:04 AM
Moonbats: Stupidly offended by everything since 1968.
Posted by: Jaeson at December 5, 2008 10:11 AM
P.O.O.P.
People Offended by Offended People.
Probably more calories in one day than they get in a week. I think it gives the noble yet quaintly ignorant natives the impetus to come here and get "succesful" like us. They are probably raised in stature in the tribe for tasting the west. Didja ever have In n Out?
btw, The whole "king" thing is creeeeepily gay
Posted by: czuch at December 5, 2008 10:25 AM
You know, liberalism, in many ways, is getting so blatantly stupid. I'm pinching myself. I always considered these folks masters at twisting reality, but lately it seems that operating in (believing) their own twisted version of reality is catching up with them, and it's causing them to do outrageous things like this. Maybe they're not going to win after all. You'd really have to be an indoctrinated liberal to buy into this outrage. Anybody else can see it pretty plainly, I think.
May it happen in other aspects of their agenda as well.
Posted by: Thorne at December 5, 2008 10:29 AM
The Burger King prepares to show the Dairy Queen his Whopper.
Posted by: baslimthecripple at December 5, 2008 10:56 AM
bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!
Posted by: nanc at December 5, 2008 11:05 AM
Ronald McDonald wants to put his Big Mac into Wendy's hot & juicy
Posted by: burger porn at December 5, 2008 11:10 AM
SNORTCHORTLE!
Posted by: nanc at December 5, 2008 11:25 AM
Brian Morrissey, writing on Adfreak.com, likens the campaign to colonialism and declares it "embarrassing and emblematic of how ignorant Americans still seem to the rest of the world."
I'd rather the world see us as nice fun-loving burger eaters than as some blue-nosed self-righteous marxist prig like you, Brian.
Posted by: Kevin R at December 5, 2008 1:01 PM
Does Burger King want to butter her biscuit?
Posted by: Anonymous at December 5, 2008 1:13 PM
I don't eat fast food except on very rare occasions. Tonight I'm going to have a Whopper because...well, just because.
Posted by: single stack at December 5, 2008 2:07 PM
The Fez is back. Sorry to miss all the "important" debates folks. Busy with family and work.
The real problem would be the quality; is it molested and contaminated, slow poison food, like much of the American diet or more wholesome, clean etc. Those of you who grow your own, and do it right know what I'm talking about, vegetables and meat both. I Have nothing against burgers but you know the good capitalist will typically cut every possible corner to bring you "ECONO-MEAT" ...as long as you can stand and walk away from the table after eating, it's all OK... I try to avoid that stuff like the plague and eat well grown stuff (organic, freerange, local). You can believe or not believe there is a difference but remember, its your very own hated Government scientists that has decided that the crap diets so many of us eat are just fine, thanks to the various lobbies "helping" with those decisions.
Now before you start bitching about hippy, elitist, damn liberal... bla bla bla... ask yourself, how's your health? How many pills does it take to keep you alive?
Posted by: Fez at December 5, 2008 2:08 PM
I feel so ignorant and inferior. But then I have to stop and breath thru my mouth inbetween bites of a meat sandwich. Would my elitist street cred improve if I ate some Oriental food? Here, kitty kitty....
Posted by: Gregory at December 5, 2008 2:25 PM
"Now before you start bitching about hippy, elitist, damn liberal... bla bla bla... ask yourself, how's your health? How many pills does it take to keep you alive? "
My health is fine, thanks for asking. I'm not some fat-ass couch potato who lives off of this shit. I understand about things like personal responsibility and making healthy choices. Don't need the government to interfere with my life there.
Posted by: NoObamunist at December 5, 2008 2:42 PM
There's that bitching I mentioned...
Posted by: fez at December 5, 2008 2:50 PM
Do you have a garden Fez? If so, great.
I just can't stand rich know-it-all progressive types who have never really grown anything or killed anything going around lecturing people about food.
Posted by: forest at December 5, 2008 3:01 PM
My health is fine, Fez. Sorry to disappoint you that I don't fit into your stereotype of everyone who isn't like you being an obese slob about to keel over from a heart attack.
I occasionally eat fast food (I just had Burger King on Monday evening), but like most Americans, I'm smart enough to know that overeating at such places is unhealthy.
Posted by: Adam at December 5, 2008 3:02 PM
Don't feed the trolls.
Unless its Whoppers you're giving them.
And they're aboriginal.
:-)
Posted by: Mike at December 5, 2008 3:18 PM
Frankly im getting tired of the food police whining every some fast food place makes sucha office why cant these wheat germ inhaling health freaks just butt out of our lives were getting tired of their stupid mindless clucking so why dont they go and suck some wheat germ up their noses till their brains turn to raspberry jam
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 5, 2008 3:46 PM
Frankly im getting tired of the food police whining every some fast food place makes sucha office why cant these wheat germ inhaling health freaks just butt out of our lives were getting tired of their stupid mindless clucking so why dont they go and suck some wheat germ up their noses till their brains turn to raspberry jam
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 5, 2008 3:46 PM
As I have mentioned before on here, the next target for the moonbats is going to be fast food.
The next thing after that will likely be caffeine and/or sugar.
The Leftists will not be happy until the government controls each and every aspect of human life.
Just like the good little fascists that they are.
Posted by: Mike at December 5, 2008 4:28 PM
You see, according to Cocteau's plan I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-o all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
Edgar Friendly from the movie Demolition Man
Liberals would have us live like the people in this movie. Scary!
Posted by: Hemlock at December 5, 2008 4:56 PM
yo quiero, taco bell?
Posted by: nanc at December 5, 2008 5:53 PM
I despise this whole "Whopper Virgin" promotion, but not because it is culinary imperialism. It is merely wildly inane and ridiculously stupid...as have been the majority of fast food spots for the past decade.
On a separate note, exactly what are those tassels hanging from the Burger King's skirt tied to?
Posted by: Uchuck the Tuchuck at December 5, 2008 5:55 PM
ding-dong?
Posted by: nanc at December 5, 2008 7:07 PM
This idiot MORGAN SPURLOCK who made a crappy movie SUPERSIZE ME would you like to shove a DVD or VHS of his movie right down his throat? and as for those who stupid mindless clucking hens but ol SPURWING PLOVER IS GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF THEIR STUPID CLUCKING WHY DONT THEY KEEP IT TO THEMSELVES AND JUST BUTT OUT OF OUR LIVES WE DONT NEED THESE DING-BATS TELLING US HOW TO LIVE SCREW VEGETARIANS LETS EAT MEAT SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 5, 2008 10:32 PM
I have no problem with people being vegetarians but having them force it on me through legislation is another matter entirely.
They can go out and graze on their lawns, for all I care.
Just let me enjoy my bottle-nose dolphin brains in peace. :-)
Posted by: Mike at December 5, 2008 11:20 PM
Tip from the King: 'Hey baby, wanna see my whopper?"
Posted by: Douglas at December 6, 2008 5:08 AM
Hemlock, I loved that movie, especially that scene.
Indeed, the "Utopian" society shown in that movie is a pretty clear portrayal of the kind of society that ultra- liberals would seek to inflict on us (i.e. the hilarious scene in which the cops unsuccessfully try to re- arrest Simon Phoenix at the computer/ATM machine perfectly illustrates the way an overly liberal justice system would castrate our police forces).
I think 'Demolition Man' should be required viewing for all conservative citizens.
Posted by: Adam at December 6, 2008 8:02 AM
Gotta go with UpChuck on this one. The ads are so friggin' stupid but then -- this is fast food -- not real food. Eat fast food probably 3 times a year tops. My digestive tract is unaccustomed to styrofoamed pseudo-food. Beside which, I couldn't eat at a establishment where "the king" wears mary-janes. Way too gay for moi.
Posted by: fellowes at December 6, 2008 10:38 AM
Why do moonbats equate Burger King with the USA? They're a British chain.
Posted by: Corona at December 7, 2008 9:14 AM
HUNGRY OUTTA WORK EAT A MOONBAT
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 7, 2008 2:52 PM

