HuffPo Posting the Politico story re Olive Garden...Who Do You Believe????

[monmouth]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/18/olive-garden-pulls-letter_n_217534.html

Sarah Palin has forgiven David Letterman, but one restaurant chain will never forget. Olive Garden has announced that they are pulling their ads from "The Late Show With David Letterman" following his jokes about the Alaska Governor.


Following a week of back and forth between CBS late night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor's daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is canceling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman's "Late Show" for the rest of the year.

In an email obtained by Politico, a spokeswoman for the chain told a Letterman-criticizing pasta fan that "there will be no more Olive Garden ads scheduled for 'The Late Show' with David Letterman in this year's broadcast schedule."

"We apologize that Mr. Letterman's mistake, which was not consistent with our standards and values, left you with a bad impression of Olive Garden," wrote Sherri Bruen, the company's guest relations manager.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It was OLIVE GARDEN'S "mistake", not Letterman's, that left a bad impression.

Take responsibility for your narrow mindedness Ms. Bruen.

[EFerrari]

2. Yahoo! has it up, too. n/t

[masuki bance]

3. What do you mean- Who do you believe? nt

[Thrill]

4. well Democrats stop eating at Olive Garden

thats all :)

[Drunken Irishman]

5. The Olive Garden sucks anyway.

Seriously, I'd rather have the world's fattest man fart in my mouth than eat their food again.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Tacky chain restaurants like Olive Garden

are fighting for their lives lately... and Olive Garden
has just given everyone really good reason not to give
them any of our business. Their investors should be
rioting. What a boneheaded move.

btw... you can get better Italian from Chef Boy-R-Di

[Sebass1271]

7. WELL, we should contact olive garden and tell them

we will NOT eat at their restaurant again.

[Birthmark]

8. What this means to me...

...is that my 51 year streak of never eating at Olive Garden will continue.