Coke's Multilingual 'America the
Beautiful' Ad Draws Fire
Sunday, 02 Feb 2014 11:07 PM
By Greg Richter
Coca-Cola bought more than a Super Bowl ad when it
aired a commercial featuring "America the Beautiful" sung in
various languages – it also got a lot of controversy for its $8 million.
"If we cannot be proud enough as a
country to sing 'America
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," wrote
former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., on his website.
West called the 60-second ad "truly
disturbing" and included a lengthy quote by former President Teddy
Roosevelt, which ended, "We have room for but one language here, and that
is the English language for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people
out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot
boarding house; and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty
to the American people."
Twitter lit up with people on both sides
of the debate, some praising the ad for inclusiveness and others saying a
patriotic American song should not be sung in other languages.
One Twitter photo showed someone pouring a
can of Coke down the toilet.
"Apparently singing a song about America in any
language other than English is totally unacceptable to a whole lot of TV
viewers out there," read a post on SuperBowlCommercials.org. "And for
the record, people… this is not the National Anthem, so stop calling it
that."
Coke also aired the first Super Bowl ad
featuring a gay couple Sunday night, but it
sparked no noticeable controversy.
Coca-Cola
Howard G.
Buffett is a director at the Coca-Cola Company,
a director at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
Note: Donald R. Keough
was a director at the Coca-Cola Company,
a director the Millennium Promise, is a director
at the Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and a friend
of Warren E. Buffett.
Warren
E. Buffett is Howard G. Buffett’s
father, a friend of Donald R. Keough,
the chairman & CEO for Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,
an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), and was a director at the Coca-Cola Company.
Sam Nunn is
a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), Michelle Nunn’s
father, and a director at the Coca-Cola Company.
Dem Nunn leads GOP rivals in Georgia poll
(Past Research)
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a board member for the International Crisis Group,
was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Millennium
Promise, the Urban Institute (think
tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Roosevelt
Institute, the International
Rescue Committee, and the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and is a board member for the International
Crisis Group.
Carla A.
Hills is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think
tank), an international advisory board member for the Coca-Cola Company, and was a board member for the International Crisis Group.
Ernesto
Zedillo was a board member for the International Crisis Group,
and is an international advisory board member for the Coca-Cola
Company.
James
D. Robinson III is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at the Coca-Cola Company.
Donald F.
McHenry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a governor at the Roosevelt
Institute, and a director at the Coca-Cola
Company.
Janet A.
Howard is a governor at the Roosevelt Institute,
and was the VP for the Coca-Cola Company.
Clifford
S. Asness is a director at the International Rescue
Committee, and supported same-sex marriage
in New York.
Kati Marton
is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, and was married to Richard C. Holbrooke.
Richard C. Holbrooke was married
to Kati Marton, an international advisory
board member for the Coca-Cola Company,
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Evan G.
Greenberg is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, and a director at the Coca-Cola
Company.
Tarun Das was
a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and
is an international advisory board member for the Coca-Cola
Company.
Daniel
R. Glickman is a director, Congressional Program for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an international advisory
board member for the Coca-Cola Company.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Richard
M. Daley is a director at the Coca-Cola Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Mellody
L. Hobson is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the chairman for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc.
Paul G.
Allen is an investor in DreamWorks Animation SKG
Inc, and the chairman for the Seattle Seahawks.
Seahawks celebrate Super Bowl win
at MetLife Stadium (Slide show)
The Seattle
Seahawks earned the
franchise's first national football championship when the team defeated the
Denver Broncos 43-8.
Team owner Paul Allen and
Coach Pete Carroll picked up the Vince Lombardi Trophy while Seahawk blue and
green confetti rained down on them at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
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