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It's good to know these guys can still surprise me. I would not have expected this.
I like Glenn's take. Messages of unity are divisive, because they divide people who value unity from people who don't. And the people who don't value unity don't like that sort of division.
Right radio pops off on Coke Super Bowl ad
Conservative talk radio is criticizing a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad that featured multiple languages, with Rush Limbaugh joking it might be a ploy from Republican leaders on immigration reform.
Radio hosts were reacting Monday to Sunday’s ad from Coke, in which several voices sing “America the Beautiful†in multiple languages, as faces of people of different cultures are shown. The ad has been both praised as a display of multiculturalism and slammed as divisive as immigration reform remains a controversial political hot topic.
On his radio show Monday, Limbaugh said he wanted to take back earlier comments he made that watching Super Bowl ads gives viewers a sense of the pulse of the country, according to a show transcript. Companies are just trying to sell product, he said, and he questioned Coke’s methods.
“I thought maybe the Republican leadership was behind the Coke commercial … when I saw it,†Limbaugh said in an apparent reference to immigration reform. “I said, ‘Whoa, who got hold of this advertising campaign?’ The Republican leadership’s gotta be doing this.â€
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Another popular conservative radio voice, Glenn Beck, also criticized the ad, calling it divisive and politicized amid the immigration debate. On his show Monday, Beck said he got a tweet from a viewer asking what he thought of the spot.
“I said, ‘Why? You need that to divide us politically?’ Because that’s all this ad is,†Beck said. “It’s an in your face — and if you don’t like, if you’re offended by it, then you’re a racist. If you do like it, well then you’re for immigration, that’s what it is. You’re for progress. That’s all this is, is to divide people.â€
Conservative talk radio is criticizing a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad that featured multiple languages, with Rush Limbaugh joking it might be a ploy from Republican leaders on immigration reform.
Radio hosts were reacting Monday to Sunday’s ad from Coke, in which several voices sing “America the Beautiful†in multiple languages, as faces of people of different cultures are shown. The ad has been both praised as a display of multiculturalism and slammed as divisive as immigration reform remains a controversial political hot topic.
On his radio show Monday, Limbaugh said he wanted to take back earlier comments he made that watching Super Bowl ads gives viewers a sense of the pulse of the country, according to a show transcript. Companies are just trying to sell product, he said, and he questioned Coke’s methods.
“I thought maybe the Republican leadership was behind the Coke commercial … when I saw it,†Limbaugh said in an apparent reference to immigration reform. “I said, ‘Whoa, who got hold of this advertising campaign?’ The Republican leadership’s gotta be doing this.â€
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Another popular conservative radio voice, Glenn Beck, also criticized the ad, calling it divisive and politicized amid the immigration debate. On his show Monday, Beck said he got a tweet from a viewer asking what he thought of the spot.
“I said, ‘Why? You need that to divide us politically?’ Because that’s all this ad is,†Beck said. “It’s an in your face — and if you don’t like, if you’re offended by it, then you’re a racist. If you do like it, well then you’re for immigration, that’s what it is. You’re for progress. That’s all this is, is to divide people.â€
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