BurgerKing - hold the smear or we will hold our ads!

[merh]

kskiska (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-20-04 10:02 AM
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Big Beef About Sinclair's Anti-Kerry Plans (Burger King–Hold Everything)

Burger King says: Hold everything
This just in from the presidential election's front lines:
Sinclair's Swift boat, its specially outfitted video cannon bristling as it steams toward the battleground state of Ohio, has been heavily damaged by anti-flak weapons and is changing course.

According to media reports, Sinclair is in such a pickle that it may be unable to fire the special anti-Kerry weapon. As usual with 21st century warfare reporting, those reports are highly misleading.

(snip)

But it was a bigger burger—Burger King, in fact—that lobbed the biggest grenade at Sinclair. The fast-food giant announced that it was withdrawing all its ads from all Sinclair stations all day on the date the weapon is broadcast—now scheduled for Friday, October 22.

"Burger King wants to maintain neutrality during this election," spokesman Eric Anderson told Bill Carter of The New York Times.

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000323.php

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=918887#918915


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[meganmonkey]

1. Yeah Yeah!!!

[meganmonkey]

2. oops - duplicate post

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. Wow

I may actually eat there now. Ok, who am I kidding?? I'll go once as a thanks for this and back to Thanks, but No Thanks for me.

[tomfodw]

4. Woo-hoo! Burger King to Sinclair - You CAN'T have it your way!

I know where I'm having dinner tonight!

[karlrschneider]

5. Only for that one day? BFD

:grr:

[merh]

8. A day's revenue is alot!

BK wouldn't be advertising if it didn't need the ads to help its business.

It is a Big deal.

[Deb]

6. Good for them

Time for a BK veggie burger.

[Arkana]

7. Good!

I eat BK every Friday on the way home...now I'll have a reason to, other than raising my cholesterol.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Another Burger company?

Well my next burger will be at Whataburger and the one after that at Burger King!

[Lilli]

10. Well thats a relief!

One of the hazards of living in a tourist town is crappy fast food.
BK is the ONLY burger place around that doesn't suck.

[sandnsea]

11. Whataburger pulled ALL ads

Hit Burger King again. Thank them for taking a stand, but remind them Whataburger pulled all ads and you're still buying burgers from them.

[TexasSissy]

12. Yaaay! I'll stop at a BK this weekend and BUY SOMETHING!

[AmerDem]

13. I'll go buy Whopper today.

BK has my biz!

[cheezus]

18. they only pulling sinclair ads on anti-kerry day

and that's the only day we should patronize them

[cthrumatrix]

14. good job Burger King..... let them know.... I'm going to BK for lunch !

[seabeyond]

15. i called robert in consumer relations

and told him he was going to like this call

i said, people are challenging if boycotts will work, and never having participated in one in the past, i was no longer going to use a business that took my money and gave to the republican party, especially to bush, especially for a smear campaign to influence this election.

robert and i bonded, wink

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. I don't eat at Burger King

Not even sure there are BKs in San Antonio, if so, I'll have to seek one out and have a burger.

[Algorem]

17. The King's gonna be gettin some now,huh?

Yer gonna be WAKIN' up with that King!

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[merh]

20. Kick