Showing posts with label Katharine Lee Bates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katharine Lee Bates. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2014

Breitbart "offended" by America the Beautiful Coke commercial...

huh?
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. read the rest at Breitbart
Number one - it is not a "deeply Christian patriotic anthem."

There is some question whether the author, Katharine Lee Bates, was even a Christian.  She wrote the song while teaching for a summer in Colorado. 
One day, some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse. source
There are actually three different versions - the original poem in 1893, a 1904 version, and the final version written in 19031913. (Oooops)

I won't go into all the lyrics or their meaning, nor will I delve into the life of Ms Bates, all of which is easily accessible to anyone who gives a rip.

As to the ad?  Sure I saw it, and I also thought it was stupid.  However, Coca Cola makes more money overseas than it does here.  Was that their message?  How the hell do I know?   And furthermore, I don't care.

The Coca Cola company has one goal or "agenda" as the hysterical commenters at Breitbart are calling the ad.  Sell more product.  It's as simple as that.

Sure, I get tired of all this diversity crapola, but the people who don't embrace that notion are not going to be swayed by a Coke commercial.    And the people who do?  They're a bunch of libtards who haven't had an original thought in their entire lives.  You  see, they have a "vision."  The fact that their vision is divorced from reality is of no consequence to them.  Hit them with a fact and they stick their fingers in their ears and screech, "La, la, la, la."

The country is going down the crapper and people are "deeply offended" by a commercial?