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Oh, the things the left gets pissed about:
[C]ritics have slammed the campaign as insulting and exploitative.“It’s outrageous,” Sharon Akabas of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University, told the New York Daily News. “What’s next? Are we going to start taking guns out to some of these remote places and ask them which one they like better?”
Marilyn Borchardt, development director for Food First, called the campaign insensitive.
“The ad’s not even acknowledging that there’s even hunger in any of these places,” she told the Daily News.
The campaign has also stirred up a welter of online commentary. Brian Morrissey, writing on Adfreak.com, likens the campaign to colonialism and declares it “embarrassing and emblematic of how ignorant Americans still seem to the rest of the world.”
“It doesn’t get much more offensive than this,” noted The Inquisitor blog. “If visiting poor people in remote locations, some who would be at best surviving on below poverty levels and throwing a burger in their faces isn’t bad enough, it gets better, because they also ask the Whopper Virgins to compare the taste of the Whopper to a McDonalds Big Mac as well.
“It’s hard to place exactly where this begins on the level of wrongness.”
Interestingly, they never really say what their problem with this is, just that it’s OFFENSIVE!!!! I guess giving extremely poor people free food is a bad thing. I mean, come on… not only are they getting a free Whopper, but they’re getting a free Big Mac, too! But then again, it’s just us hicks in Flyover Country who are willing to eat nasty disgusting fast food, right?
I sort of wonder if these same people would have complained if Burger King offered them tofurkey burgers, soy milk, and sushi.
Also, what’s with the gun comment? Since when are hamburgers and guns even remotely similar? I think Rachel had my favorite comment on the issue here, though:
Why, of course! That’s the logical next step: GUNS! Hamburgers, guns, what’s the diff? Probably ought to throw in some smallpox and AIDS while we’re at it, see which one they like better.
That one made me LOL. Because, you know, us EEEEEVIL Americans would do that just for fun and all.
I think I’m going to go pay a visit to the BK Lounge tonight, just because of this article. Get a Whopper Junior with cheese and no onions, and some cheesy tots. Mmmmmmmm.
Hat Tip: Copious Dissent
Let me get this straight..they are offended by the idea of going to an impoverished place and seeing whether they like Whopper or Big Mac..hmm and they have never heard of ‘creative license’ in marketing? These people think they ‘actually’ went to the most remote places to find these people??
I’m sorry, the people who are ‘offended’ by this illusion (its an advertisement people) need to get a life. As one who worked for the King many years ago (oh the fond days of people looking for Herb)I have seen many of their attempts at marketing firsthand. In fact look up the Herb campaign. It was about a person who had never had a Burger King burger. Its called marketing. You think there really was a ‘Herb’? Eventually there was, at the end of their campaign. They had to end it somehow. Guess what, I’m thinking he really wasn’t named Herb and may have actually had a Burger King burger once or twice. Again it an illusion. But then again we live in a time where the line between fantasy and reality is not only blurred but altogether obliterated. We live in very sad times indeed.
Funny, rural Romania, Thailand and Greenland have never been high on the radar of places confronting famine. I suspect in many ways the folks in those places are a lot more similar to us hicks in flyover country than the liberals doing all the complaining – including preferring a Whopper OR Big Mac to tofurkey and a Starbucks soy latte.
Glenn says: I find Burger Kings marketing desperate at best, one stupid commercial after another. That and there food for the most part sucks. If anyone thinks they go to the amazon and throw some hamburgers at pygmies they deserve to be offended!
spike says: maybe the libtards are offended because someone got a meal without the government being involved
of course, if they want to offend me, all they have to do is make another commercial with that creepy king plastichead
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