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Maybe They Weren't Drinking Kool-Aid Afterall...

There I was late last night watching Desperate Housewives recorded earlier on my DVR. I was forwarding past the commercials when something caught my eye. It was a commercial for Pepsi which looked suspiciously like an ad for something or rather someone else.

What do you think? Coincidence or something more? And since Diet Pepsi is my drink of choice should I now switch to Diet Coke?

Posted by Michelle Chamberlain - Suburban Philadelphia Mortgage Broker on 01/05/2009 07:35 PM

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14 Comments on Maybe They Weren't Drinking Kool-Aid Afterall...

JAN

Michelle, Nice to have you back posting again. As for the commercial I am glad i prefer Coke, they may have just as well put his picture in there.

Hugh, Thanks. I'd actually rather post this stuff but I have to pay the bills too. Even some of the catch phrases in this commerical are suspect. I am not sure why a major worldwide corporation would either use their marketing to 1) either endorse a political figure or 2) piggyback off the success of a political figure and that's regardless of who is in office.

JAN

Pepsi has always left a bad taste in my mouth so I drink Coke.

Michelle - one thing about ad companies, they will try to make a connection to anything they perceive successful and popular. I really don' see this ad doing it, it will never "teach the world to sing in perfect harmony". Ice tea is my drink of choice, followed by diet coke. It is a rare, hot, thirsty day with no options before I will have a diet pepsi.

I assume you are saying this ad is political in some way...? At the risk of being the only guy in this thread that may have missed the point, I don't see what you see in this ad. Explicitly, please, what am i missing that you all picked up on?

Cheri - I actually will buy whichever one is on sale but I prefer Pepsi.

Mike - Now that was a classic commercial. A

Austin - The new Pepsi logo looks suspiciously like the Obama logo. It's unclear who copied whom. I never noticed the similarity however until they used it to replace the letter O in the this commercial.

JAN

Michelle - as I am from the Atlanta area and a small share holder I am suppose to be "a Coke Drinker". But being a good southerner I will drink Iced Tea when I have a choice. I think your are right about the ad.

Ah i see. I was uneducated as to the Obama logo. I made a point this time around to 'quarantine' myself from the media and all political advertisements during the election. My purpose was to make a decision based completely on the candidates' stance on on certain issues rather than falseties conjured and maintained by the media and mud-slinging advertisements. For those of you who suffered from 'election-burnout', i recommend a quarantine. Less stress, less stuff to keep up on, all around the way to go.

JAN

Brian - it's ok to drink coke. this ad is for pepsi.

Austin - just curious, where you got your info while quarantining yourself from the media

A number of ways, thank you for asking. Speeches, campaign websites, and several other objective sources. There were several booklets distributed throughout the election that contained information on the candidates' stance(s). State-sponsored voter-information websites are also helpful.

There is a vault of information out there that is un-marred by FOX News or CNN or what have you. Throughout the course of my studies as a journalism major I have come to realize just how inaccurate our mainstream media is most os the time. Just like an evolution/creation debate, newscasters constantly take quotes out of context and report facts 'spun' any way they please. The great thing about reporting is that before you (the reporter) make your report, the listeners have no bias one way or the other; only after they listen to your words, your interpretation, do they then take a side. Reporters/newscasters/journalists/anchors, they are all aware of this and act accordingly, which most of the time means pulling the wool over the eyes of the general public.

There are many facets to journalism, and I hope I am not construed as an anti-jounalism advocate. How could that be after all, since I'm studying to be a journalist. I simply have a problem with the way mainstream news is reported, the way truth is often distorted.

JAN

I confess I had to read the comments to figure out "who". I guess I really do live under a rock.

JAN

Michelle ~ You watching Desperate Houswives? No, never. That is funny what Austin Smith said, " I simply have a problem with the way mainstream news is reported, the way truth is often distorted. "

Is that the understatement of the year?

Nicholas, I actually don't watch anything remotely intelligent on TV. It's my one guilty pleasure. Yes, it is pretty hard to take the MSM seriously, expecially since the local Philadelphia papers are selling an opportunity for readers to write a personal message of Congratulations to Obama to be published in the paper at $10 and up. Give me a break.

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