It's never been clear to me why people like Bill O'Reilly think about gay people so often. Perhaps he really
doesn't care but he knows that those grunting knuckle dragging Budweiser drinkers and super-size fries addicts who keep him in the money do care, but be that as it may or may not be,
Bill's at it again, focusing his dull perceptions and limp wit on a French McDonald's commercial. With a passionate pose he hopes will remind you of Churchill's famous "we will fight them on the beaches" speech, he assures us that such a thing will never run here. Yes, the ad features a lad whose father doesn't know he's gay. It's a bit wittier than you'll see in the US market, so perhaps he right. I just wonder why he cares so much.
"We wanted to show society the way it is today, without judging. There’s obviously no problem with homosexuality in France today”
said the brand director for McDonald's France, but there sure as hell is in the Fox Nation.
"Do they have an Al Qaeda ad?"
asked O'Reilly. Do you think he dreams about bearded gay men with AK-47's?
I LIKED the commercial and wondered why we don't get understated commericals like that in the United States..
ReplyDeleteThen I watched Bill O'Reilly and realized that if something isn't stupid, vulgar, loudmouthed, and in your face it just wasn't going to fly here...
Oh, and some people call O'Reilly the 'culture warrior'
He sure is....he kills any culture that could ever exist...
Hell naw, us Americans only eats us some freedom fries, ya heer?
ReplyDeleteToo many commercials, at least here in les Etats-Unis, seem to me determined to annoy and/or disgust us into buying the product:
I call to witness burger commercials in which the main thing is apparently to inform us how juicy and delicious the featured gunk-slab is. And how do they do that? By making us listen to some crude slob with no table manners chomp noisily on said item as it oozes hideous condiments and, presumably, a good dose of spittle.
Are they trying to impress some special subset of customers to whom one can only appeal by such vile means? Do they think I'm one of them because I'm watching a sports game?
And then there are the pizza and beer commercials that seem calibrated not only to the intelligential LCD but to something considerably lower: the actors must appear to be as feeble-minded as possible in all situations. To me, this indicates the commercial-makers either believe that only a driveling idiot would buy the product in question, or that they're following some theory that says just selling the product on the merits is no good: you have to irritate the bastards almost to the point of waterboarding them five times an hour just to make sure they remember your name. If so, the worst thing is that it probably works. Sort of like a bad pop song that you can't get out of your head for weeks....
Look, I'm not even human -- I'm a dinosaur who salivates at the sight of rotting stegosaurus kills -- and even I find that sort of crap offensive!
I really like the part where the Dad says something to the effect "you are a handsome guy and too bad there are no girls in your class..."
ReplyDeleteThe look on the kids face was just priceless!
It was a nice touching commercial that makes McDonalds seem like a nice place to enjoy some time with other people...it was a comforting commerical...
Its not like the food is great or anything...and considering the food competition in France what else could McDonalds advertise?
Oh, no! Those amoral French are at it again, trying to spoil one of our greatest national treasures...
ReplyDeleteTAO - Its not like the food is great or anything...and considering the food competition in France what else could McDonalds advertise?
ReplyDeleteAmerican fast food chains operating abroad tend to have more wiggle room on their menus and are subject to local laws. In France, for instance, some McDonalds offer soups, salads with prawns, and ... wine.
In Europe, all Pizza Hut employees have health insurance unlike their American counterparts.
Bullshit O'Really is a very parochial and ignorant man (but you don't need a progressive Tree Octopus to tell you that). Viva la France (Yup, that is where I decided to go after I sell my condo)
I remember visiting a "MAC donnel's" in France with my long-time friend Laurette. It didn't taste any better than the burger I'd eaten many years ago in the US.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the bread was better, but it was totally forgettable. Laurette thought it would be fun for me to visit a MacDonald's in La Belle France. I went along with it to be nice, but I would much rather have been chomping on cuisses de grenouilles à l'ail.
Oh, and Bill O'Reilly is a frog's ass.
I am really pukey sick of the Bill O'Reillys of this world. They operate like a drag chute on America. I can't think of a single clever or amusing thing to say about them anymore. I'm just mad, now.
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