Absolut Reconquista Update: Coming to a billboard near you?
Scroll down for updates…Photoshop time: How about a fence?
The beverage of open-borders used to be Miller Light. Now, it is Absolut Vodka. The vodka maker’s latest ad redraws the map of North America to please Mexican consumers. (Hat tip – Snapped Shot and Jim Hoft).
Reconquista? What reconquista? Oh, yeah. That reconquista:
I hear McCain campaign advisor Juan Hernandez and Hillary campaign advisor Dolores Huerta both approve.
Bottoms up!
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The “In An Absolut World” ad campaign site is here.
Laura Martinez, who apparently approves, spotted the Absolut open-borders ad in the print edition of Quien magazine.
Contact information for Absolut:
Jeffrey Moran
Director of Public Relations and Events
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
1370 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
USA
Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20
E-mail: jeffrey.moran@absolut.com
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The Absolut Reconquista ad is on billboards as well (hat tip – reader Scott):
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Methinks the developers of this ad campaign have been overtaken by the vapors of their product.
Can you imagine the fun narcotrafficantes who run Mexico right now would have with this kind of land grab?
Shoot to kill on the borders. Have a nice day.
quick! call pageant girl to fix this map.
Hmm… the economies of the annexed states cause Mexico to no longer be a third-world country… we get rid of California… let’s do it!
“We” get rid of one of the ten largest economies in the world. Heh?
Surely they realize this is commercial suicide!
Absolut is junk vodka anyway. When I have a drink with vodka (which is rare), it’s usually TÜRI, good stuff from Estonia.
Boycott.
yo, I called the number & somr poor bastard is taking calls… have at em!
Why is “In An Absolut World” in English?
If anyone tries giving the Alamo back to Mexico, which this redrawing of borders would do, they can expect to have a fight on their hands.
The company was sold Monday
Pernod Ricard SA Buys Absolut Vodka for $8.34 Billion
What a joke! You’d have to be absolutely sh!+faced to believe anyone would want to live where it’s green.
Up until now, I’ve been known to occasionally enjoy a shot of Absolut.
Nevermore.
Simply amazing and stupid beyond logic.
Pandering for Votes for this election is getting out of hand. The Maverick needs to get his head out of his SIX!
Open borders is a recipe for disaster!
Shouldn’t a vodka company be more interested in giving Alaska back to Russia?
Yeah, yeah. Reconquista, reconshmista. Funny, they never mention the Spanish Conquistadors who conquered Mexico and the Inca Empire when trying to lay out that “you stole our land” guilt trip crap. But, I digress.
All of the state supported Universities in CA have their own sections for La Raza and et al. Reconquista is actively promoted. It has been promoted for many years.
Welcome–the rest of the U S — to California world.
Remember – too – Calderon (Pres. of Mexico) stated that Mexico has NO BORDERS!
I think it’s time we just invade and annex everything down to the Falklands. I’m sure there’d be a way to convince both political parties to go for it— Republicans for the immense oil reserves, and Dems for the seemingly limitless potential for new voters who would undoubtedly be classified as impoverished citizens. As an act of good faith, we could offer California to staunch dissenters of the new path to American citizenship. Absolut brilliance
A comment from the Laurie Martinez site.
Boycott Absolut? Absolutely!
I’ve drunk my last drop.
As an American of Hispanic descent, I can easily say that all this ad proves is that in a Reconquista world, Mexicans would be jumping illegally into Washington, Montana, and Louisiana…Thanks for the “What if” scenario, Absolut!!…buncha tools..
Wow, this ad is rich with irony.
This ad decision was either made in Sweden…nordic trash!! Or in Paris by the French concern which just bought them out…probably just a bunch of froglegs who are still pissed that Napolean sold the majority of America to Thomas Jefferson for a song, just to raise a little cash to continue his conquest of Europe!
mexicans drink tequila and beer! cmon now Pernod, you own at least two tequila factories
Some great posts people…some had me laughing after being so damn mad after watching one of the dumbest commercials i’ve seen and i’m a senior citizen. Not just because if the illegal aliens reconquista crap, just the whole idea and presentation.
Got to admit it aroused my curiosity when mentioning losing California. Land of fruits and nuts and one of the largest(bankrupt) economies in the world.
Nothing will improve in this country until we get some back bone and get rid of the crooks in Washington. McAmnesty included..i still don’t see myself voting for the guy the democraps nominated for us.
maybe it is time for Bush to read something other than the comics.
¡Bienvenidos a Los Angeles,
CA, Mexico!Remember that ad?
Get used to it America. You have become the single mother of many children of your deadbeat boyfriend, Mexico. You stupid gabachos hire the illegal labor and this is what you get.
This is Texas in reverse. Remember Texas was once a Mexican state. Now much of the rest of the Western states are becoming states in Los Estados Unidos de Mexico. Realize that there are representatives in the Mexican Congress for Mexicans living in California.
I hate preaching to the choir but I have to tell you that you need to tell your fellow Americans to stop hiring the illegal nannies, maids and what not. Practice what you preach. You must go cold turkey.
Up yours, McCain!
As T. R. Fehrenbach noted in “Fire and Blood,” his excellent (and un-PC) history of Mexico, the area Mexicans claim the U.S. “stole” from them was never really in its possession because “the predatory Apaches of Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora and the terrible, hard-riding Comanches of the Texas plains, presented the northern frontier with a problem the Spanish never solved. … the horse Indians were neither conquered nor pacified. They defeated Spanish arms severely in Texas in the 1750s; they destroyed Spanish settlements everywhere on the frontier. They did worse: Comanches and Apaches raided hundreds of leagues beyond their territory into New Spain. The terror continued until the second half of the nineteenth century,” and before it abated, Mexico besought its northern conqueror to protect it from Indian depredation, to which the U.S. assented in Article XI of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:
“Considering that a great part of the territories, which, by the present treaty, are to be comprehended for the future within the limits of the United States, is now occupied by savage tribes, who will hereafter be under the exclusive control of the Government of the United States, and whose incursions within the territory of Mexico would be prejudicial in the extreme, it is solemnly agreed that all such incursions shall be forcibly restrained by the Government of the United States whensoever this may be necessary; and that when they cannot be prevented, they shall be punished by the said Government, and satisfaction for the same shall be exacted all in the same way, and with equal diligence and energy, as if the same incursions were meditated or committed within its own territory, against its own citizens.”
“Aztlan,” my ass.
I wrote Jeffrey an email and voiced my displeasure and sincere vow to never drink Absolut again, which I do often.
No more.
Here I was in Phoenix, minding my own business. Knocked back a few vodkas at happy hour. The next morning I found I was in Mexico.
That Absolute gives me the worst hangovers…
This is inciting violence to a degree. I suppose the makers of this map just haven’t thought exactly how Mexico (even if it willed such a thing) is going to do this.
Folks, you can relax a little on this because most of the internal migration patterns are to the former Spanish colonies.
And most Hispanics prefer to keep English as the dominant language, provided the left doesn’t use its white guilt agenda on them.
As for boycotting, well, I don’t drink it, so I don’t buy it anyway. I’ll give Jeff a buzz this morning and see if I get anything.
Spain stole the American South West from the Indians.
Mexico then stole it from Spain.
The U.S. then stole it from Mexico.
So when mexicans demand of America the return of annexed territory, they’re basically demanding the right to receive stolen property.
I ain’t white, so it ain’t racist when I say “that’s typical mexican behavior.”
As I told Mr. Moran in my e-mail, the In An Absolut World campaign is offensive. My household will not consider purchasing the product unless the campaign is pulled.
They can have the Californian cesspool of the Bay Area if they like, but why do they have to take Texas too?
Didn’t the founders of Texas beat the snot out of them both at its founding and ever since? I’d like to see the People’s Republic of Conquistadores Corruptos even try.
They ain’t getting Texas, BKennedy. Not without one whale of a fight. Period.
Could we make this happen ASAP? Then McCain would have to drop out because he would be a citzen of Mexico and we could nominate a real candidate.
Many of already don’t drink Vodka, let alone absolut. What OTHER commercial products does the new company own?
Boycott them too. Or who are the main competitors? Remember the boycotting of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys? I’m told French exports took a nice hit. Maybe we don’t visit Scandinavia or buy Swedish cars Volvo, Saab or give business to Ikea, etc.
BKennedy,
Sorry my friend, its already happening. If you are a Texan, then you are one of the enablers allowing this to happen by sitting on your rump and waiting for Joe Blow to fight your fight. Problem with Joe Blow fighting for you is that he outsourced his labor to a cheaper fighting force from Mexico. Jose Blow doesn’t have the same interest that Joe Blow used to have in America.
This insanity will not stop until we wake up these corruptocrats like we did when we defeated AMNESTY>
Well, at least they stopped at the Red River.
Seriously, though, is it not treasonous to call for the dissolution of the union? I think the question deserves discussion.
Collin
http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com
Absolut has a blog on their web site here:
http://absolut.com/iaaw/blog/give-us-your-best-shot#comment
Have at them
Here is my comment:
“In an Absolute world, a company that produces vodka fires it’s entire marketing department in a desperate attempt to win back enraged north American customers after a disastrous ad campaign backfire.”
If we give Mexico California maybe this border issue will go away. I never cared for California!
“To continue in English, Press 1…”
Things to come? Absolut Sharia with an image of the Crescent covering the Earth? I’ll never buy Absolut again!
Since alchohol is haram, no. The good folks at Absolut would be looking for new jobs.
Very offensive. No wonder I don’t drink vodka.
My comments on their Blog:
My “Vision” is of a world where the entire marketing department is “Absolut ly” fired for insulting the U.S. of A!
My “vision” is of my personal bar being “Absolut ly” bare of any Absolut and/or Pernod products!
My “vision” is of a world where insulting one of your largest customer bases results in “Absolut” backruptcy for the offending company!
Enjoy your paychecks while you can! I, and my family and friends, will be boycotting all your products for this slap in the face!
by Bill from Florida
Rotten Bas%ards!
I don’t think liberals will be happy until Mexico takes over all the western states and forces all Christians there to speak Spanish and eat Chimichangas. They pray for desert Jihad to conquer the eastern states so Bin Laden can carry out the racial purification they secretly want but don’t have the spine to carry out. Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro, and Manuel Noriega will split Florida among themselves leaving Ayn Rand fearing Christians no place to go but Montana.
I like Montana!
BTW, lgm, it is a little surprising that you seem to be against this invasion on our land from the south.
I’ve always wanted to climb up a billboard with a bucket of paint.
Heh, I clicked on their blog. “Views expressed are not from ABSOLUT.” Obviously.
(In Wisconsin, I recommend Rehorst. Very smooth.)
It doesn’t take big brass ones to insult the United States these days when doing so is all the rage. Absolut is just doing what everyone else around the world is so apt to do. I’m just surprised they didn’t throw in a jab at Christians while they were at it.
Screw ‘em.
Thank god I drink scotch!
There is another upside to this — the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals will be in the “green” zone” as well…
One could reasonably deduce that for this scenario ever to occur, one would, of necessity, have to be wasted out of his mind….
It’s a good thing I quite drinking alcoholic beverages after being diagnosed with “Addison’s Disease” back in 1989. Except for special occasions I have done a pretty good job of abstaining (too much booze plays hell with one of the medications I take giving moderate to severe muscle cramps). I can guarantee I will “Absolutely” not drink any of their products every.
They give the Mexican reconquistadors credit for controlling way to much land. The Shoshone, Ute, and Comanche did an excellent job of handing the Spanish and later Mexican invaders their butts. They never really controlled anything other than California, which IMHO they can have as soon as we can rescue and relocate our fellow conservatives and move them to more friendly states.
I prefer single malt scotch anyway. However, I almost wish I were an Absolut drinker just so I could quit out of principle!
I just find it amazing that businesses are quick to alienate a large block of consumers to prove a point – have they learned nothing from boycotts of the past… They work!!
Ford recently decided on a more neutral position with respect to supporting Gay and Lesbian causes. The boycott hit them where it hurt.
Absolut, not a intelligent move here.
low budget vodka for low budget idiots.
Ahem!!!! Er uh no, that’s his rather wierd attempt at sarcasm. Rather limited in imagination, I thought.
#30 we didn’t steal Mexico. Pick up a history book. We won it and paid for it. Oh Polk was President!
Same with us. When I told my husband to come and look at the reason we won’t buy Absolut every again he said, “Again? Do we ever drink that stuff?” It was the same with Miller. I refuse to buy it, but that doesn’t change anything for us – we wouldn’t have bought it anyway.
I sent my letter off letting them no I am boycotting their products now.
Hmmm- does that mean we bought a “Pig in a Polk”??
#61 LOL! I guess so if you ever been to any of the outskirts of Mexico which is one big pig sty!
I too, find it amazing that a company could so easily forget about the consumers who made its product successful in the first place. Appealing to the “lowest common denominator” (something that lgm appears to do or mock when he can), is only a short-term marketing strategy.
As a former bartender, I’ve never recommended Absolut. It doesn’t appeal to more “refined taste buds.” Instead, try Grey Goose, it’s a little pricy but it’s good on its own or as a martini.
I’m sure illegals will be over the moon that this new ad compaign appeals to their “demographic.” Is it any wonder that they’re committing the DUI’S, vehicular homicides, and hit and runs while inebriated? Absolut is just another company trying to make a quick buck at the expense of the native consumers who helped them make a name for themselves.
If I wasn’t already a Stoli drinker this would settle it.
Love single malt too… but then I am in the south at the moment and the mere mention of alcohol is enough to send me to eternal hell fire.
This ad has clearly worked… people are talking about it….
I’m not much of a drinker but I’ll make sure and never drink Absolut!
This entire comment is absolut-ly nosensical.
We said it at the Battle of Gonzalez, and I’ll say it again…
COME AND TAKE IT!!!
nonsensical
What the hell? I don’t understand.
Good, then it’s ok if I park my RV on his lawn.
Very funny!
The corrupt and degenerate Republic of Mexico can’t even control those Mexican states that border on the USA, so how the heck are they gonna conquer the Southwestern USA?
Even if a majority of Mexican-Americans voted for reunion of their states with Mexico, I do believe something called the U.S. Civil War determined that once in the Union, always in the Union.
WOW, two trolls taking shots at Christians but not at a company who is taking shots at Americans. To be fair, snausage is not an American.
lgm, the idiot, thinks Mexico will take over to make me speak english. Hey idiot, Christians are not the only ones who have to press 1 for english.
Snausage thinks if you talk about alcohol in the south Christians will send you to eternal hellfire. No, that is not how you get a free ride there pal.
With you there!
Absolut stupidity.
If Absolut (or Budweiser!) were to run billboards showing the United States extending down into Mexico with just the bottom half left, the shrieks of “RACISM!” and “AMERICAN IMPERIALISM!” would be deafening, but this is A-OK?
Just another reason to drink Ketel One.
If they want to be Mexicans so badly, then why are they coming here to have children that are U.S. citizens?
We have two options.
1. Close the anchor baby loophole and come down hard on employers.
2. Annex Mexico. We’ve already got half their population, at least we’d get their oil and could deal with the whole drug problem. Besides, they’ve only got a little teeny southern border. Maybe we could secure that since we obviously can secure the big one we have now.
O villains, vipers, damn’d without redemption! Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man! Snakes… Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!… terrible hell make war upon their spotted souls for this offence!
If the mexicans take over their ‘proposed’ land they will only ruin it like they did their own country. Corruption, business acumen that doesn’t exist, poverty. Of course, then Ted Turner’s world would come about sooner. I wonder how much of the Mexican population would want to go green, and I’m not talking agriculture. The co2 from the beans alone…..
Just remember, anti-white racism is encouraged.
I see what you did there
I think people are taking this advert waaaaayyyy to seriously.
Funny what you, sausage, choose to take seriously.
sausage,
You say the same thing about the threat that Islamists pose. At what point am I suppose to start taking you seriously?
I wonder how much I would have to pay grafitti artists to “enhance” one of those billboards?
The Fins hate us, they really hate us!
#57 On April 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 am, txvet2 said:
“On April 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 am, rooster said:
BTW, lgm, it is a little surprising that you seem to be against this invasion on our land from the south.
Ahem!!!! Er uh no, that’s his rather wierd attempt at sarcasm. Rather limited in imagination, I thought.”
That’s what I thought, too, txvet2. A lame, New Yorker-type attempt at sarcasm/cleverness.
California State Constitution
But does the Government here in CA recognize or enforce this?
Opps posted this in wrong thread, it is suppose to be in the left-wing mortgage one.
sent my comments in…
Absolut sure knows their market, don’t they? Sitting around getting wasted, talking about Aztlan!
Mornin’ everybody. Here’s some potentially bad news for us non-vodka drinkers. Absolut was recently bought out by Pernod.
According to Wikipedia,
“Pernod Ricard owns a wide variety of beverage brands worldwide. These include:
Royal Salute (scotch whisky)
Chivas Regal (scotch whisky)
The Glenlivet (single malt scotch whisky)
Jameson Irish Whiskey
Seagram’s gin
Pernod aux extraits d’absinthe
Wyborowa (vodka)
Ricard and 51 (pastis)
Martell (cognac)
Wild Turkey (bourbon)
Jacob’s Creek (wine)
Pernod (anise-based spirit)
Zuco
Becherovka
DITA (lychee-based spirit)
Havana Club (rum).
As of 26 July 2005, the brand portfolio expanded to include former Allied Domecq products:
Ballantine’s scotch;
Kahlúa coffee liqueur;
Malibu coconut-flavored rum;
Beefeater gin;
Tia Maria liqueur;
Stolichnaya vodka (distribution in the USA);
Mumm champagne;
Perrier-Jouët champagne.”
So it looks like there are plenty of brands to boycott, if you are so inclined.
My absolute and cranberry will now become STOLI and cranberry…….How stupid can advertisers get…they are about to find out!!
I saw a report on FNC last night that Absolut is being bought by a French distillery for a few $billion, so maybe the Fins are just doing a little preemptive advertising in anticipation of the sale becoming final.
Screw it – I say we steal Chihuahua and Sonora as reparations for the insult.
What’re they gonna do about it, after all?
#90 maisy,
Stoli is on their list of brands as well. Switch to Grey Goose, it’s definitely worth a few extra $.
The marxists are right. The corporate pigs would sell their own sisters for a buck. Why not their country. Thanks Miller, thanks Bank of America.
Thank God I only drink Kentucky bourbon and English gin.
In 1994 California citizens passed Prop 187. The courts have subsequently ruled against the people. So when the fight begins we know who gets a rope. Make no mistake California is not like you see on TV its not San Fransisco. My next door neighbor came from Tijuana he speaks perfect English he owns his own business and if the crap hits the fan he is marching with me not them. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. You want to know what we unseen Californians are like check out Michael A Monsoor that’s the real California not the TV show version you see. My guess is that these mouths that we hear talking trash about us wouldn’t last five minutes against even a tiny minority of us. We have veterans coming out our ears here anybody including Americans who wants some come and get it. Same thing goes for these south of the border insurgents. On a side note I just received a jury summons, that’s right, these idiots think they can cancel out my vote and I am going to sit on their juries. I will, as soon as these legal rats are the ones that are on trial.
Phew! Thanks for posting that list J S. I am pleased to know that I will not be hurt by this. When we drink we stick to single malt Scotch, English gin, and my husband’s homebrewed beer.
Unfortunately, they already ARE getting Texas (and other border states) and hardly anyone IS putting up a fight.
Already registered my complaint with the Moran fellow.
Whatever Absolut we may have on hand is headed for the toilet, as soon as I get home. But, I can substitute Smirnoff of something else, since vodka isn’t one of my favorite drinks anyhow.
Now, if Samuel Adams does something stupid like this, I will be in a world of hurt.
OMG, don’t let McSame see this map. He’ll use it to stop building the Duncan Hunter caliber fence on the true American southern border. His seventy one years experience as a demigod makes him the best choice to make such a decision for the sake of fighting terrorism.