Tea Is Stronger Than Coffee
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Yes, now you can answer twenty questions about how you want your coffee poured, form a line in your own kitchen, and wait until your name is called!
SEATTLE - As it turns out, marketing overpriced homemade coffee is not without its political risks. When noted Seven Dollar a Cup Coffee vendor, Starbucks, launched its new ad campaign to convince people that they could also spend lavishly on instant coffee, they ran a commercial. The premise was that certain groups of individuals would not be able to tell the difference. The last group identified in the original commercial was “people who yell at town hall meetings!” Well, the bible-thumping undereducated Banana Republican Tea-Baggers — who simply have no sense of humor — saw this as a slight against their year long campaign to convince people that seeing a doctor was socialism and that the secretly-muslim-but-also-extremist-christian-and-yet-somehow-really-a-hippie president was in fact a Nazi! Since they had spent the entire Summer yelling at their Congresspeople that the guv’mint ought’a jes’ keep its hands offa’ Medicare, they were not amused. So, Starbucks had to reshoot the commercial referring instead to the “indisputably tall.” Ignorance knows no bounds.
