Thread: From Michelle Malkin - Absolut Reconquista (You need to see)

Dang! and Absolute with club soda and lime was one of my favorites.
Nasty e-mail has been sent.

Ablsolutely never again!

Def

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

OMG!! How do I tell this one to my husband? Absolut and grapefruit is his drink.

May I recommend Grey Goose Vodka. Our son is a chef in a prestigious restaurant in Las Vegas. This is the most preferred vodka for some. I don't drink it but my daughter-in-law does and her preference is Grey Goose.

Originally Posted by Gogo

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

OMG!! How do I tell this one to my husband? Absolut and grapefruit is his drink.

May I recommend Grey Goose Vodka. Our son is a chef in a prestigious restaurant in Las Vegas. This is the most preferred vodka for some. I don't drink it but my daughter-in-law does and her preference is Grey Goose.

You beat me to it gogo. The other recommended brands would be Sky and Belvedere.

Well I broke the news to my husband. He said WHY? What do they hope to gain, don't they know how many people this will ##ss off. As he said this is going to be a P.R. nightmare. I asked him if he was going to drink Absolut anymore and he said no he will switch to Skye.

I am going to make a copy of this ad and take it to the only pub in town. Most of the locals gather there in the afternoon to talk and argue about politics. Believe me illegal immigration discussion's get pretty heated. We are in the Central Valley where the farmers insist they need the illegals to work in their orchards and everyone else is against illegal immigration. Luckily most of the locals have known each other since they were in diapers, but I have had to breakup many a argument over the issue.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

Well I broke the news to my husband. He said WHY? What do they hope to gain, don't they know how many people this will ##ss off. As he said this is going to be a P.R. nightmare. I asked him if he was going to drink Absolut anymore and he said no he will switch to Skye.

I am going to make a copy of this ad and take it to the only pub in town. Most of the locals gather there in the afternoon to talk and argue about politics. Believe me illegal immigration discussion's get pretty heated. We are in the Central Valley where the farmers insist they need the illegals to work in their orchards and everyone else is against illegal immigration. Luckily most of the locals have known each other since they were in diapers, but I have had to breakup many a argument over the issue.

Boy oh boy I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you take that in. LOL

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-tod ... nia-mexico

OR if top is too long, click on the link below

http://tinyurl.com/3wbmws

Absolut Ad Reconquers Land for Mexico

Time-Warner: Vodka Ad Campaign Reconquers California for Mexico
By Warner Todd Huston | April 3, 2008 - 09:23 ET

Taking the Reconquista concept all the way to the end, Absolut Vodka launched an ad campaign that appears on billboards and at least one magazine that features a map of the western U.S. and Mexico with nearly the entire west coast appearing as a part of Mexico. This ad appears in Quien Magazine, which is owned by Time Warner and also appears on billboards in Mexico. Quien claims a "total audience" of 513,000 readers in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.

The map covers what used to be Mexico's claimed borders before our 1846 war with them from which the U.S. took possession of California, Texas, New Mexico, etc. But, the ad shows those states as part of Mexico with the "Estados Unidos De America" situated to the north and east of the "Absolut World" Mexico.

In a day when immigration issues are incendiary between our two countries, Time Warner accepting ads that stirs Mexico's sentiments to "take back" parts of the U.S. (as the term Reconquista means) as their own territory is quite extraordinary.

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One would think that such a hot button issue would have raised a few eyebrows with Time Warner? Even worse, this ad never raised a fuss with anyone even as ads for other products were pulled because of "offending" people.

Last year, a Snickers ad was pulled from airing on TV when gay activist groups complained that the ad, which showed two men eating a snickers and accidentally locking lips, was "offensive" to gays. A GoDaddy ad was pulled in 2005 for sexual content. A pro-life ad was even pulled in Ontario this year because the pro-life message was somehow "offensive."

Yet, an ad showing the west coast reconquered by Mexico doesn't raise a peep?

Michelle Malkin has a page on this, so does Hot Air, Snappedshot.com and Gateway Pundit, among others.

If you'd like to voice your concern to the importer of the alcohol, try V&S Group.

They can be reached at the follow email addresses:

Claes Ã…kesson, VP Corporate Responsibility - claes.akesson@vsgroup.com

Sofia Leffler Moberg, Manager Corporate Responsibility - sofia.leffler.moberg@vsgroup.com

Jacob Broberg, Senior Vice President V&S Corporate Affairs & Communications - jacob.broberg@vsgroup.com

Bengt Barron, CEO - bengt.barron@vsgroup.com

Contact information for Absolut:

Jeffrey Moran

Director of Public Relations and Events

The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.

1370 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10019

USA

Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

OMG!! How do I tell this one to my husband? Absolut and grapefruit is his drink.

MontereySherry- thats my husbands drink too- or else cranberry/vodka. He said he will definitely boycott Absolut! He will also get Grey Goose instead.

Originally Posted by butterbean

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

OMG!! How do I tell this one to my husband? Absolut and grapefruit is his drink.

MontereySherry- thats my husbands drink too- or else cranberry/vodka. He said he will definitely boycott Absolut! He will also get Grey Goose instead.

Yep that's the way to do it. Call, fax, email them and quit giving them your dollars. Email this offensive ad to everyone in your email address book.

Here's who is ultimately responsible, in my opinion:

VP Marketing - Matthias Aeppli
matthias.aeppli@absolut.com 212-641-8700

Cheif Financial Officer - Mike Misiorski
michael.misiorski@absolut.com 212-641-8705

Kevin Fennessey - CEO of Absolut Spirits Company US
kevin.fennessey@absolut.com 212-641-8700

Chairman - Claes Dahlbäck

President and CEO - Bengt Baron

SVP, Finance - Ola Salmén

EVP; President, V&S Distillers - Rolf Cassergren

SVP, Business Development - Mats Andersson

SVP, Corporate Affairs and Communications - Jacob Broberg

SVP, Legal Affairs - Mikael Spångberg

SVP, Human Resources - Gunilla Winlund

VP Manufacturing, V&S Spirits - Krister Asplund

VP, Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific - Andreas Berggren

VP Marketing, V&S Absolut Spirits Eva Kempe-Forsberg

President, V&S Wine - Anders Carlson

President, V&S Absolut Spirits - Ketil Eriksen

President, Cruzan - Jay S. Maltby

Director, Global Travel Retail Division - Anders Olsson

Director, Corporate Affairs - Peeter Luksep

Director, Global Brand V&S Absolut Spirits - Michael Persson

Director, Corporate Responsibility and Quality Management - Claes Ã…kesson

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

OMG!! How do I tell this one to my husband? Absolut and grapefruit is his drink.

there are other brands of vodka out there, some I understand are pretty good.