The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I'm really getting tired of all this negative talk surrounding the Coca-Cola Super Bowl commercial, but read another article today which has me scratching my head and wondering what planet some people are from. The article, titled, "Culture: The problem with the Coke ad: You don't get to invent your own definition of America," comes courtesy of Sarah Barnes of CainTV  (yes, Herman Cain). One part of the article which stood out to me was this: "That's ironic, because failure to communicate is exactly the problem with this ad. We no longer communicate if communicating means defining anything. Nothing has a definition because everyone now invents their own definition for everything. And that's what Coke did in this ad: It invented a new definition for America. That's a problem, because America actually has a real definition connected to its founding and history. And we need the America of that definition. The real one." That is ironic, bec...

Not only has the new Coca-Cola commercial sparked outrage amongst conservatives due to "America the Beautiful" being sung by Americans in different languages, a gay couple featured in the commercial has also had a similar affect. Here are some of the tweets regarding this portion of the commercial: - "Apparently, Coke had a gay couple in their super bowl commercial too. Appeasement much?" - "Holy cow did I just see a gay couple in a commercial which also mentions god? Way to go coke" - "While tweeting my hate of #coke cause of the language thing, I missed the gay dads part. What, no time to show an abortion too? #dickheads" The ironic part about all of this is the fact that the writer of the song "America the Beautiful" is Katharine Lee Bates, who happened to live with Katharine Coman for 25 years. After Coman passed away, Bates published a collection of poems about her former "partner." That's right - the writer...

Many far-right conservatives' negative reactions to the Coca-Cola Super Bowl commercial have received a great deal of attention from the media. After these conservatives have been painted as racist and/or xenophobic, Kyle Becker of the ultra right-wing site Independent Journal Review decided to write a piece defending such individuals. In his article, titled, "Coca Cola Airs Controversial Multi-Cultural Version of 'America the Beautiful' During the Super Bowl," he wrote the following bits: - "While people expect fairly universal messages when it comes to corporate advertising, they don't expect nationally significant songs like 'America the Beautiful' to be chopped up into multiple languages." - "The sentiment behind the ad might be laudable: people of different nationalities living side by side without the divisive viewpoint that everyone who is different is the 'other.' But some people might rightly take offense that thei...

I had to continually go into facepalm-mode after reading some tweets regarding the new Coca-Cola ("America the Beautiful") commercial last night: "From now on the national anthem is in one lanquage---ENGLISH! Got it Super Bowl!" Psst... That's "language," and at last check, "America the Beautiful" was not the National Anthem. It's Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Okay, next? "Hey coke cola. Are we Americans of foreign decent or are we foreigners living in America hate your commercial. Speak English" He should heed his own advice, for the language he's speaking definitely isn't English. It sounds more like a hybrid of ignorance and gibberish, or gibberance. "Still pissed about that coca cola commercial. Get out of America you a*swholes." Hmm... Now there's an odd visual... "Speak American if your in America commercials are dumb" ...as is refusing to use punctuation. S...