An Important Update: Subway Blames America First!
Well, the Subway tray liner controversy that we first discussed here yesterday seems to be gaining momentum. GOPUSA has a new piece entitled Subway Serves Up Anti-Americanism to German Customers.
In addition to reiterating Tom DeLay’s ridiculous assertions that the tray liner promotes “Michael Moore’s blame-America-first conspiracy in a foreign country,” our friends at the GOP provide us with some shocking new developments.
The National Legal and Policy Center has called on Subway to immediately stop the promotion it says is designed to exploit anti-American sentiment in countries like Germany.
You know, anti-American sentiments like good health and better eating.
Chairman Ken Boehm said, “Subway has defined a new low in corporate behavior with this campaign.”
Yeah, next to this, Ken Lay looks like a saint. After all, he never would have told people that eating fast food was unhealthy!
He added, “Inflaming cultural tensions to increase market share is immoral and dangerous. Americans deserve to know about Subway’s campaign to insult us abroad and to attack our national symbols.”
I guess that makes it official. In the eyes of the GOP, we are now The United States of McDonald’s.
And as if that wasn’t enough, Kerri Houston, Vice President of Policy for an organization called Frontiers of Freedom, had this to say in a letter to Subway:
“Your support of Morgan Spurlock and Subway’s promoting him as the “new” far left Michael Moore are very troubling. Both men’s misleading and factually dishonest ‘documentaries’ advance a ‘Blame America First’ message.”
I think maybe Kerri’s had one too many supersized sodas. Better lay off the caffeine, sweetie.
If you want to see just what it is that the Wing Nuts find so incredibly horrific, here’s a large format version of the Subway tray liner we discussed yesterday.
For those of you who don’t read German, the text basically tells the story of how Morgan Spurlock, the guy who made the film, ate nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days and how this caused him to gain 25 pounds and alarmed his doctors by causing a rapid decline in his health.
It goes on to describe Spurlock’s exploration of the massive fast food industry (and its effects on health) and then says that Spurlock delivers an ironic blow to the stomach with his take on the shady “Mega-industry.”
In other words, it’s all pure anti-American propoganda designed to rip our country from its very foundations. I wouldn’t be surprised if John Kerry’s behind the whole thing.
How do they get the energy to find things to be outraged about?
I think you miss the obvious person behind this blatant attempt to stir up anti-American and anti-Big Mac sentiment in Germany….Hillary Clinton.
I have to agree with Merl. How do they find the energy to be outraged?What more why do they scour the world in search of things to be outraged about?
Why is this all of sudden a big deal to the Republicans? Having talked to many German exchange students in the 1980s about this very topic, they would have agreed with Spurlock’s movie even then.
Hmm… Jack in the Box sounds good for lunch. Thanks! I was going to have trouble deciding what to eat today, but now I know that I can be patriotic while making that choice!
I guess that makes it official. In the eyes of the GOP, we are now The United States of McDonald’s.
GREAT line, Pete.
Oh, and I think that that Heritage Foundation-sponsored mothers’ group that Rebecca Hagelin told us about (the one that wants to force commercials to be more Christian) should move to Germany so they can get right on this kind of thing.
I guess that makes it official. In the eyes of the GOP, we are now The United States of McDonald’s.
GREAT line, Pete.
Oh, and I think that that Heritage Foundation-sponsored mothers’ group that Rebecca Hagelin told us about (the one that wants to force commercials to be more Christian) should move to Germany so they can get right on this kind of thing.
Will they start requiring wingnuts to eat at McDonald’s now to show their patriotism? I think Ann Coulter might have a problem with that–the eating and stuff.
GOPUSA will go ballistic if they listen to Morrissey’s new album.
In America, It brought you the hamburger,
Well America you know where, You can shove your hamburger
And don’t you wonder, Why in Estonia they say,
Hey you, Big fat pig
You fat pig, You fat pig
mmmmm, Jack in the Box rocks!
Speaking of Subway, their wraps are awesome. I’m not on any kind of low-carb diet, but they’re still good!
How do they get the energy to find things to be outraged about?
By eating a lot of Big Macs, of course!
I don’t think Ann Coulter would have a problem with the McDonald’s diet. As Mr. Spurlock made quite evident during his film, value meals are easily vomited.
As a loyal and patriotic American, I am against the Blame America First approach, even (and especially!) in cases where America is explicitly at fault.
Where are the patriots in Hollywood? When will documentarists sit down for their country in the great musical chairs game with Truth? When will they begin Blaming America Last, as is required of every good citizen?
I wonder when the GOP will be outraged over the album cover for Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America,” which portrays the Statue of Liberty as a fat waitress.
*crickets chirping*
Oh. Okay. Just wondering.
I think the reason for this is simple and informative but a bit banal. People who work by rote and routine have a rule, which is to review the recent past and extract ‘lessons for the future’. It has arisen in what they call their minds that the ‘freedom fries’ gimmick raised the profile of their support demographic (rednecks), so they are trying to repeat the same psychological template to get the same result. Defending ‘McDonalds’ and eating ‘freedom fries’, it’s the same message.
By the way, greetings from London Town, capital of Airstrip One and the axis of poodles.
Whether Subway’s actions were right or wrong is not the main issue here. It turns out even Germans think Americans are fat and eat too much of unhealthy foods! That’s like the chess club making fun of your physique; just plain embarrassing. If this isn’t a wake up call, I don’t know what is.
McAmerica’s
Why is it un-American for one restaurant to mock another in order to sell its products? Are they also against competition between Coke and Pepsi? This whole thing boggles the mind. Subway, like Mickey D’s, is an American chain, right? Right?
Hi, there’s no doubt that overstating your case can be as ineffective as understating it. overstated