Absolut Apologies
World-bettering boozemaker is sorry. I’ll say. And that’s nice. But first, here are some more Absolut worldviews from clever readers. This one neglects to put Absolut Sweden in the Nazi camp, which is more or less where the Nazi-enabling neutrals spent the war. via Gateway:
This one’s good, too. via Jawa.
Here’s the original Absolut Mexico ad that caused all the fuss:
This one’s better:
Topics: America, Mexico, Nazis, Spain, booze, history, shameless self-promotion
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:55 pm on Sunday, April 6, 2008
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April 6th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
To ensure that we avoid future similar mistakes, we are adjusting our internal advertising approval process for ads that are developed in local markets.
Translation: We fired the idiot who dreamed this up.
This is a genuine and sincere apology,
Honest. You believe us, don’t you? (Please, please, please, we don’t want our market share to tank)
April 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Jules — Frankly, I’m less concerned about advertisements than I am about miscarriages of justice. That said, I invite you and your readers to help me convince New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to PARDON PETER LYNCH. Lynch is the Air Force veteran who was found guilty of a crime after he removed a Mexican flag from the University of New Mexico after he found it flying alone, told officials about the violation of flag protocol and ran up against a “brick wall” before taking matters into his own hands.