Will Clear Channel issue an apology like Absolut did?

4:39 pm on April 7, 2008 by Infidelesto

Los Angeles, Mexico

World Net Daily

An e-mail to supporters of Americans for Legal Immigration states: “We just received this photo of a billboard in CA that reads ‘Los Angeles CA’ but the CA is crossed out and replaced by the word ‘Mexico.’ It looks like this billboard is compliments of Clear Channel.”

The billboard reportedly sits along the 605 freeway in Southern California. A photo of the ad was taken by a commuter who says he first thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.

This picture was posted not only in a regular ad but an entire freakin billboard in Los Angeles.

In the center of the billboard, placed within the L.A. skyline, is an image of the Angel of Independence, a well-known monument in Mexico City, further suggesting the merging of Los Angeles and Mexico.

Last month, ClearChannel, the apparent owner of the billboard, announced a “Multicultural Sales and Marketing Initiative” to expand its focus on “serving the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic and African American population.”

I don’t remember the outcry like the one currently going on about the Absolut ad that was put out last week. If you haven’t seen the unbelievabably outrageous offensive ad, I’ll gladly post it here too…

Absolut-ad-Mexico-border

Absolut has issued multiple apologies, but it seems like the damage is already done.

FoxNews

The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers.

The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan “In an Absolut World,” showed a 1830s-era map when Mexico included California, Texas and other southwestern states. Mexico still resents losing that territory in the 1848 Mexican-American War and the fight for Texas independence.

…More than a dozen calls to boycott Absolut were posted on michellemalkin.com, a Web site operated by conservative columnist Michelle Malkin. The ads sparked heated comment on a half-dozen other Internet sites and blogs.

“In no way was it meant to offend or disparage, nor does it advocate an altering of borders, nor does it lend support to any anti-American sentiment, nor does it reflect immigration issues,” Absolut said in a statement left on its consumer inquiry phone line.

There Are 6 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Rudy on 7 April 2008:

    I don’t understand what all the hubbub is about. Mexicans have a big enough country to run away from and come work in the US illegally, mainly in CA, TX, NM, and AZ. If they take those states back, they will undoubtedly turn them right into the third world hole that Mexico currently is, thus making it harder for them to escape illegally to the US, since they will have added another 1000 miles of frontier to cross. And before any liberal retards call me racist, both my parents are Mexican, and crossed the border LEGALLY, before giving birth to me in the United States.

  2. Comment by Richard on 7 April 2008:

    Only Liberals who aren’t really Liberal will resort to calling people names.

    Freedom of Speech means both that you have the freedom to say what you want, but it also means that you need to take responsibility for what you say. Absolut believed that they offended their customer base in the US, so they apologised. That is their choice. Why are we now clambering to be the first to denounce this new company? I found the Advertisment a little amusing, but that’s beside the point.

    And Rudy, just to tell you, simply because your parents are Mexican does not mean that you cannot be a racist. Black people can be Racist, just the same as White people. It is simply that people expect it more out of White people, as pathetic as that is.

  3. Comment by Rex on 8 April 2008:

    Althought this billboard is probably a Photoshop creation, it underscores the frustration of Americans who are watching the transformation of U.S. occupied Mexico take place.

    Unfortunately America is slowly losing its identity to multiculturalism and PCism. If the remaining seeds of our Founding Fathers do not unite and turn the tide against its enemys, America will succumb to becoming a watered down European satellite nation incapable of stopping Islamification…

  4. Comment by Richard on 8 April 2008:

    Whatever. i wrote a big, long response to the idiocy that you wrote Rex, but i figured that you probably wouldn’t read it in the first place, and even if you did you would just respond by calling me an idiot who can’t see what is “really” going on in the world.

    so yeah. have fun believing that, and justifying racism and hate and prejudice so you can “protect the identity of America”

  5. Comment by Rudy on 8 April 2008:

    Richard,

    What racism??? All Rex is saying is that people who come here to the US need to adapt to OUR culture, not the other way around. While I worked and lived in Qatar, I had to observe THEIR customs. When I am in Mexico with family, I observe THEIR customs. Is racism the best you can do to shout down the argument that people coming to the US should reciprocate???

  6. Comment by Lesly on 17 April 2008:

    Richard you said, “…so yeah. have fun believing that, and justifying racism and hate and prejudice so you can “protect the identity of America.”

    If you think it’s racist to expect people to enter this country legally and follow our laws then you don’t know the meaning of word “racist.”

    According to Websters racism “is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”

    I don’t read anything there having to do with obeying the law. Do you? Wake-up! All countries have control of their borders. No border — No country. The Mexicans know this which is why Absolut ran that ad. It’s the border as Mexico wishes is was and hopes it will be again.

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