Fox News host: Not using God to sell beer means ‘the terrorists have won’

[babylonsister]

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Fox News host: Not using God to sell beer means ‘the terrorists have won’
By David Edwards
Friday, July 5, 2013 11:38 EDT


A Fox News guest host asserted on Friday that “the terrorists have won” because brewer Samuel Adams was not in invoking God in its television commercials to sell beer.

In the “Independence” television spot that began airing last month, an actor in a Samuel Adams Boston Lager commercial quotes from the Declaration of Independence.

“Why name a beer after Samuel Adams? Because Samuel Adams signed the Declaration of Independence,” the actor says. “He believed there was a better way to live: all men are created equal. They are endowed with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Smooth, flavorful, we bow to no kings. Samuel Adams Boston lager: declare your independence.”

On Friday, the three Fox & Friends guest hosts expressed outrage that the brewer had not included the phrase “endowed by their Creator” in the commercial.

“When political correctness takes over the beer advertising industry, the terrorists have won,” said Watters, who is better known for his job as a producer on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show. “I mean, this is absolutely outrageous!”

“You know, maybe it’s because Sam Adams was the tea party guy — he started the Boston Tea Party — maybe the tea party’s being targeted here,” he added.

For its part, Sam Adams has reportedly explained that the Beer Institute Advertising Code advises against using “religion or religious themes” for marketing purposes.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/05/fox-news-host-not-using-god-to-sell-beer-means-the-terrorists-have-won/

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

1. That sounds so.....REPUBLICAN!

God and beer...and if the two don't go hand in hand, the terrorists have won!?!?

[Buzz Clik]

4. You're close -- it's a holy trinity:

God, beer, and guns.

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

16. Haha! You nailed it!

I live in rural Pennsylvania and I am exposed to it EVERYDAY!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. sympathies.

I hate that mindset! So sick of this shit. And the fact that they get attention, get their jackass no-brain pukes on tv, in political office making laws that ruin our lives, own corporations.....I could go on....

[Buzz Clik]

2. Fortunately, Fox News watchers are far too intelligent to buy into this.

I wonder how American atheists enjoy being branded as terrorists in this way?

[Heather MC]

72. I love it! because I know the Truth...

The irony is most terrorist are very religious. Even the Domestic ones. I bet they will boycott Sam Adams Beer too LOL

[Rex]

3. When future historians look back at this time period they will say

...

[BlueJazz]

5. These people would have to go to college for 10 years, have their IQ upgraded 40 points...

...to be known as "Average"

[Journeyman]

6. Maybe the people at Sam Adams revere their Creator too much to "use him" to hawk product. . .

Not everything need be seen through a bubble of partisan politics.

[customerserviceguy]

43. Besides

it's well known that his son was more fond of wine, according to legend...

[chelsea0011]

7. So begins "The War Against Beer"

[pinboy3niner]

9. It's been brewing for some time

It's just now coming to a head.

[Scootaloo]

13. I'm sorry, what? I was barley paying attention

Guess I better hop to it.

[pinboy3niner]

14. Wheat are you, some kinda hefeweisenheimer?

[Buns_of_Fire]

36. Fermenting discord, I'd say... nt

[Android3.14]

37. Put a cap on it

sheesh

[pinboy3niner]

45. That's really beyond the pale

I hope you'll soon recover from your bitter mood and be bock to your old self soon. Have you tried some amber dextrinous (two-fisted) attitude adjustment?

[riqster]

58. What the Ale are you all on about?

Myself, I'm just stout, and somewhat bitter.

[pinboy3niner]

65. Feeling Superior, are you?

I suspect you're just trying to Eggenberg me on, but I'm Pabst all that. I Amstel in a good mood and I refuse to let anything Rainier on my parade.

[riqster]

66. You made your pint.

One must be on one cider the other, I guess. I'll draft a response later, right now it seems I am over a barrel, trying to stave off the puns.

[pinboy3niner]

67. Well, my puns HAVE been known to reduce groan men to tears--and I ain't Lion

Someone tried to sneak up on one of my puns once, but it Doppelbocked on him.

Asahi was saying...oh, wait...I think I hear someone Carling my name. Be Bass later...

[riqster]

71. You're Killian me!

I hate to see us at lagerheads over this.

[treestar]

53. Come back lager

[TxDemChem]

70. Lol you all cracked me up this morning

Nicely played

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Duzy!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mindwalker_i]

28. Ouch

That made be go rather low-in-brow.

[pinboy3niner]

73. I hear there's a cure for that

Some swear by Miller High Life, but there are O'Douling opinions...

[awoke_in_2003]

76. This sub-thread is a DUzy. nt

[opiate69]

79. seconded!

[Initech]

22. Begun the beer wars have.

[mindwalker_i]

29. It's just what we need

for what ale's us.

[Enrique]

8. to hell with the terrorists pushing their secularist agenda!

[pinboy3niner]

11. Beating them is my most ferment hope!

[Eleanors38]

34. Well, let's hop to it.

[Android3.14]

39. Resistance is yeast-less.

Drink Borg Beer.

[bowens43]

10. I keep looking through the bible for the part where god tells them

they have the right to keep and bear Arms........

hmmmm don't see it anywhere........

[louis-t]

48. Keep and beer arms.....

[dhill926]

12. once again......

not The Onion....

[pinboy3niner]

15. Once again, F&F is hosting under the influence

[babylonsister]

20. Well I'm not ... sorta. :)

[Sheepshank]

18. I don't think Mormons like God selling beer. n/t

[customerserviceguy]

44. They don't like anybody selling beer!

I lived in a Utah suburb of SLC for six months in 2005 (worst decade of my life) and we had two supermarkets in town. One sold only the weak 3.2 swill, and the other was proud to say it sold none. Further, they were always closed on Sundays, and their movie department had "Clean Cut Videos" with all the objectionable parts censored out of them.

[mick063]

19. What a strange bubble they live in.

The same bubble that had them shocked and dismayed when they discovered Nate Silver wasn't a biased outlier.

I guess they are no closer to seeing outside of the bubble now, then they were back then.

[Initech]

21. There aren't enough facepalms for that kind of stupid.

I have a few Sam Adams in my fridge, I'll drink those tonight thanks to this!

[miked62916]

23. Typical Faux News nonsense

Their stupidity and ignorance never ceases to amuse me.

[uppityperson]

30. U Are Right

[AlRod]

40. But its on Faux News,

do you mean its not true?

[krispos42]

24. Ow!

[Daemonaquila]

25. Yes, it does.

Apparently companies with no interest in sending a religious message on a secular holiday are oppressing the poor christians by failing to do so. The mind boggles.

[krispos42]

27. I know, right?

[nyquil_man]

26. The problem with stupid is that it hurts smart people the most. nt

[mindwalker_i]

31. You know, I wonder if God drinks

It's hard to imagine that he wouldn't be drinking at this point, and it would explain a lot of things.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

68. The platypus,...for one.

[Blue Owl]

32. Osama bin Lager has tapped into the nation's fearmongering

n/t

[babylonsister]

42. Ha!

[TNNurse]

33. You can just bet

that there would have been just as many who would have screamed that they were using God to sell beer. The mindset of those who think that we should live by Biblical law is very narrow. I wish it was treason to try to thwart the Constitution, but it isn't it is just Unconstitutional. Those second amendment freaks need to learn that separation of church and state IS constitutional. Those who want to live by God's laws are going to be missing some stuff they enjoy.......OK, I wandered, but you get my point I hope.

[tiredtoo]

35. Reading this post makes me sad

But wiser!

[allan01]

38. re:Fox News host: Not using God to sell beer means ‘the terrorists have won’

Last edited Sat Jul 6, 2013, 10:28 AM - Edit history (3)

and the felgercarbe ( legacy battle star galactica refrence )continues . Next .!!!!!! No. wait . really. who writes this stuff and what are they on ?

[zbdent]

41. That would be interesting if Faux could get their followers to boycott

the original tea party guy ...

[mainer]

46. What do you expect from a beer created in godless Massachusetts?

Fox: can we say "jumped the shark"?

[malaise]

47. There are only two words needed for all Fox hacks

Fucking stupid

[Kablooie]

49. No! The terrorist WON'T WIN!!! Jesus will save us!!!!

[timdog44]

50. I knew there

Was a reason I drink Sam Adams beer when I drink beer. "My god that is a good brew"

[gopiscrap]

51. Fucking crazy assholes

this is part of the reason why so many of the European countries think that this nation has become a joke.

[mwooldri]

52. Why would an alcoholic beverage manufacturer invoke God?

I guess the hosts of the aforementioned television viewing opportunity aren't aware that a number of religions exclude the consumption of alcoholic beverages. That includes Sam Adams' products.

If any alcoholic beverage manufacturing company decided to try and publish an advertisement in Saudi Arabia and invoke Allah, I think the clerics would be out there claiming heresy and issuing fatwas and death penalty statuses to the people of the alcoholic beverage manufacturing company.

[jmowreader]

59. Extremely bad example

Alcohol is absolutely forbidden in Saudi Arabia.

[LiberalFighter]

55. My response posted at a Facebook site.

Fox News continues to stir up controversy with their insanity. They get upset anytime they feel (their) religion has been slighted. In this case due to not including "endowed by their Creator" as in the Declaration of Independence for the Samuel Adams beer commercial.

The fact of the matter is that the Beer Institute Advertising Code advises against using “religion or religious themes” for marketing purposes. Their research probably has found that it does more harm than good with too many groups being offended.

Anytime Fox News is offended about a slight they blame it on the terrorists. And they use logic that is beyond reason. A three year old would have better reasoning than those on Fox News.

= =
Fox News Logic excerpt
"If the beer code ethics code guideline, whatever bogus organization that is has more authority than our Declaration of Independence," he argued, "why don’t you just pull out the Declaration of Independence and say, 'I’ve got this document here, does this trump yours?’"
= =

Really? The Declaration of Independence does not do what they think it does. It was a document that only stated our grievances against Great Britain and the justification for independence. Those grievances did not even include anything about religion. The Declaration of Independence had only one purpose and did not have authority beyond that scope. The Constitution does have authority and provides the structure for our government.

If you watch Fox News you are likely to suffer serious brain damage.

[Fuddnik]

56. Oh God. It's enough to make me want to have a beer.

But all I have in the fridge is Cigar City Jai Alai, and Heineken.

[Bluzmann57]

57. That may be the absolute dumbest thing anyone's ever said.

And there are an awful lot of dumb things to choose from. But saying the terrorists have won because a beer company didn't invoke some higher being in a commercial? Because they followed standards? Wow. Just wow.
I kinda like Sam Adams beer. Now I think I may go have one just so I can gripe about them "not using the phrase 'endowed by their creator'." Good grief!

[Cleita]

60. I was under the impression that God doesn't approve of beer, or other alcoholic

beverages. This is what my fundie Christian neighbor tells me.

[tomm2thumbs]

61. BUT forgetting to complain the country's 'sacred document' was used to push profits on the 4th

Guess they missed that more salient point while on the road to their show meeting

Jesus Christ Beer is probalby in the fridge at FoxNews. "Good enough to baptize a baby in."

[Major Nikon]

62. What "endowed by their Creator" really means

If the Christians that make these ridiculous assertions understood deism, they would be more afraid of it than atheism.

Deists don't believe in a god that intervenes in the lives of humans. Deists believe that god created the universe and left us all up to our own means. They rejected revelation, religious dogma, and even organized religion itself as silly nonsense.

The phrase "endowed by their Creator" really means that everyone is born equal with the same rights, and it's up to all of us to defend and protect those rights rather than relying on god to do it for us. It was a big "fuck you" to the Christian religious establishment which dominated western governments at the time.

[Alkene]

74. Specifically George III,

Supreme Governor of the C. of E. = integration (no separation) of church and state.

[The Wizard]

63. Normal people don't watch Pox (NT)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

64. Sam Adams was a tax collector.

wonder what the kids at fox have to say about that.

[Jamaal510]

69. .

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[8 track mind]

75. This is why i only drink Samuel L. Jackson Beer...... (nsfw)

[47of74]

80. The one dude in that commercial.

He looks a LOT like Mittens!

[awoke_in_2003]

77. Because nothing says "Islamic terrorists"..,

more than beer

[47of74]

81. Yep.

[3catwoman3]

78. Oh, for...

...Gawd's sake. Talk about a stretch.

Thanks to all for the string of brilliant puns!

[ButchT]

82. Questions for the guest

I'd like to ask the guest a few questions: "Do you think God would approve of his name being used to endorse prostitution? Gambling? Smoking? I mean, we already know you use his name in vain; we'd just like to know to where you draw the line against using it for selling vices."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

83. Who else thought of this?

[DainBramaged]

84. This made my day

The idiots have won, not the terrorists. Te people that watch FAUX drink swill anyway.

[gopiscrap]

85. What a bunch of fucking idiots

[chknltl]

86. Hey Fox Noise: Didja know that pot growers are now doing GOD's work?

With the striking down of DOMA there will be more and more same sex marriages.
I believe there is a passage in the Bible that says: When man lays with man they both shall be stoned. Go ahead Fox, you wanna argue with GOD now too?