Showing posts with label Super Bowl 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Bowl 2014. 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?







Saturday, February 1, 2014

Super Bowl Sunday: Wait for it - I actually agree with Alex Jones (and Reason TV, too)...

Let's start with Reason TV's analysis of the the bread and circus we call professional sports, in particular, the NFL.

And then we'll move on to Alex Jones, who also "gets it."  You heard that right - Alex Jones. While Alex Jones may be a bit rough around the edges, he scores a touchdown with this video.  I actually prefer his no nonsense-cut to the chase analysis.

Since when did professional sports become the "sport of kings?"  Ever check out the prices of NFL tickets?  I won't even bring up the cost of Super Bowl tickets, which are obscene. 

There is no way an average family with two or three kids could ever afford to attend these events.  Yet the taxpayers are stuck with the bill for building mammoth stadiums, and if they're lucky, can maybe, just maybe, watch the game on TV.

Witness the mess in Minneapolis where moonbat Governor Mark Dayton has pushed through the building of a new stadium for the Vikings that will, no doubt, run over a billion dollars.  You heard that right - a billion dollars for which the state is responsible for close to half the amount.  For what?  So the well off can hob nob with each other and watch a losing team?

Dayton had a scheme to raise revenue with some sort of pull-tab gambling.  It didn't go well so now he wants to close corporate "tax loopholes" to raise more money.  That makes sense.  Let's punish the job creators to fund a billion dollar stadium so he and his cronies can sit in a sky box and pat each other on the back.  The peons, if they're lucky, will be sitting in some sports bar paying inflated prices for Buffalo wings while they cheer on their team.

What's really funny is reading comments from people who voted for Dayton and are now so shocked, shocked, I tell you, at what he's doing.  Did any of them vet him before casting their votes, or did they just pull the lever for him because he was the "anti-Republican?"