A Coca-Cola ad that aired during Sunday nights Super Bowl has faced serious criticism for featuring Americans singing America, the Beautiful in languages other than English.
The companys official Facebook page and the ad video on YouTube were flooded with criticism, and many commenters said they were boycotting Coke products.
Today we are throwing away all our Coca-Cola products and replacing them with Faygo, the Facebook page for the Tri-County Congregational Church in St. Cloud, Minn., wrote, CBS Atlanta reported. Faygo represents Christian Values and follows the Constitution. Mexicans singing the National Anthem is an abomination.
The way this ad was done was a bad decision made by the advertising agency and by the executives at Coke. You should have used a different song or it should have been done in the [E]nglish language. You made a decision that is costing you customers how stupid is that bet your stockholders will not be happy, wrote Cheryl Swarner Overbey on Coca-Colas page.
The commercial showed Americans of different races and ethnicities singing America the Beautiful in seven different languages. It was meant to showcase the countrys incredible diversity, Coke said.
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**FILE** Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speaks Jan. 1, 2010, during ... more>Prominent conservatives also came out to denounce the ad. Radio host Glenn Beck told his listeners Monday that it was meant to do nothing but divide Americans.
Thats all this ad is. Its in your face, and if you dont like it, if youre offended by it, youre a racist. If you do like it, youre for immigration. Youre for progress. Thats all this is: to divide people, he said.
Former Florida Rep. Allen West called the ad disturbing.
If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing American the Beautiful in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come doggone we are on the road to perdition, he said.
Radio Host Rush Limbaugh took a jab at Republicans by suggesting maybe they were behind Cokes advertising.
I thought maybe the Republican leadership was behind the Coke commercial. Thats what I thought when I saw it. I said, Whoa, who got hold of this advertising campaign? The Republican leaderships gotta be doing this, he said.
Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/4/coca-colas-its-beautiful-ad-draws-ire-conservative/
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