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Related: About this forumCoke Embraces 'Controversy,'Will Run THIS LONGER Ad During Sochi Opening Ceremony
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Full article here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/coca-cola-embraces-controversy-will-run-longer-ad-during-sochi-opening-ceremony/
Be sure to go to YouTube and rec the video on the Coke page too
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)they are an 800lb international gorilla in regard to the money they spend in advertising and marketing. In short, they could not care less what American right wing media says about the company's commercials.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Without visas mow their lawns, cook their food, clean their houses, gather the produce and take care of their kids so why are they are they complaining. Oh, ye of such small minds, where did your ancestors come.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Gotta admit I do not drink colas or sodas. But I sure do appreciate the stance Coke has taken on this issue.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)to be a bigot any longer. So glad the good ones are getting coverage...like the minimum wage, coming up. It's becoming cool to pay a living wage. Thanks to PBO. Is it possible our culture is progressing? a little?
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)legal and illegal, make up over half the population of the U.S. For Coke, that's a smart money ad. Most Whites are cool with it, except the serious Republicans and the RW Noise Machine. They are not worried at all, they know that ultimately, this country will be more accepting of other cultures as populations change and the world grows smaller. (If you can say "grows smaller?"
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)have a gay, interracial couple singing America the Beautiful in Spanish.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)before. A brilliant creative idea, congratulations to them.
I deeply hope that the response to this will bring them
around on the environmental and other humanitarian
issues of our time. They have so much money, and
power. Here is a hint of beauty and good. It seems
authentic and not manipulative (in an evil way, I mean).
Hope they have started a snowball rolling for the
good they can do here in America, and around the
world. Let's make it beautiful and safe again for
everyone.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)I went to YouTube & gave it a