{"id":17558,"date":"2011-10-31T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-31T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:44:09","slug":"coke_launches_idiotic_new_campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/10\/31\/coke_launches_idiotic_new_campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke Launches Idiotic New Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Coca-Cola, by the way, it\u2019s so sad, but it\u2019s great for my tea company. Well, they\u2019re changing their packaging. They\u2019re going to white cans. They\u2019ve aligned with the World Wildlife Fund. They\u2019re gonna repackage Coke over the holiday season to go to white cans featuring an image of a mother polar bear and her cubs on the side. They\u2019re gonna try to sell Coke and Diet Coke on the basis that we\u2019re killing polar bears. Kid you not. Kid you not. Each <\/line>purchase of a white Coca-Cola can supports false testimony on global warming perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears. It\u2019s a hoax and they are raising money for a hoax through the holidays by way of the sale of Coke products in white polar bear cans. (interruption) Who got to \u2019em? I\u2019m thinking nobody woulda had to get to \u2019em. <\/line><\/p>\n

There are plenty of stupid people in this country running corporations and working, and they look out there and they say, “Okay, the rest of the stupid people think that the polar bears are dying. I want to sell Coke, so I\u2019ll market to the stupid people. I\u2019ll market to people who believe Algore. I\u2019ll change the marketing of my company and my product and I\u2019ll just aim for the lowest stupid common denominator I can find. I\u2019ll do it with the polar bear hoax.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who was it that had the car commercial? Was it Nissan? This polar bear goes traveling from the North Pole down to Chicago or somewhere and keeps encountering people destroying his habitat. He finally runs across some guy with an electric car in the driveway and waits for him and hugs him. Now Coke is in on it. <\/line><\/p>\n

“For years Coca-Cola has given millions of dollars to eco-extreme group World Wildlife Fund, whose alarmism and perpetration of falsehoods are unmatched among its cohorts in climate activism. Now Coke has initiated a new campaign with WWF that features its iconic advertising species in an effort to drive more funding to the international nonprofit group to ‘protect the polar bears\u2019 Arctic home.\u2019 The promotion will include new packaging for Coke over the holiday season, changing its familiar red cans to white, and featuring an image of a mother polar bear and her cubs on the side.<\/p>\n

“Coke says it will donate $2 million over five years to WWF for ‘polar bear conservation efforts,\u2019 and will also match donations made at iCoke.ca. Last year Coke gave WWF $1.64 million for its various activities globally. ‘The planet is changing very quickly, and nowhere more quickly than in the Arctic,\u2019 says Gerald Butts, president of WWF-Canada. ‘It\u00c2\u2019s really important that we all understand that they need our help,\u2019 he added. ‘Climate change is changing livelihoods, it\u00c2\u2019s changing migration patterns for species, and we want to plan ahead. We want a future for the Arctic where the communities of people who live there are vibrant and sustainable, and the iconic species — in particular the polar bear — has a long-term future on the planet.'”<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s nothing about this that\u2019s true, even according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The estimated numbers of polar bears have increased by somewhere between double and quintuple, that is growing from between 5,000 and 10,000 to 25 to 25,000 from the 1950s until now. They\u2019re also known to be tremendously resilient and in some areas where they have declined the reason has been attributed to too much ice, not too little. Anyway, it\u2019s all a hoax, but Coca-Cola is figuring that there\u2019s enough idiots in our society that buy products — that\u2019s GE, too. You know, all these companies that go green, have these sales promotions that go green, they figure there\u2019s enough idiots out there that think that buying the product will help save a polar or the planet that they\u2019ll do it. Even if they don\u2019t happen to personally believe in the politics of it, they\u2019ll still do it. So I have to continually laugh at this notion that big businesspeople are Republicans. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Here\u2019s George in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for having me on.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just had a suggestion. I was thinking, you could market your tea to the enviro-foods head-to-head against Coke because you don\u2019t have those nasty carbon dioxide bubbles in your —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Our beverage is not carbonated, you\u2019re exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, you know, you won\u2019t kill polar bears or anything drinking your beverage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true. I have to hand it to you, that\u2019s another positive thing about Two If By Tea<\/a>. There is not one aspect of it that is environmentally destructive. Quite the opposite. Our tea does not emit carbon, pure and simple. We can\u2019t be destroying ozone or anything else. All we do with our tea is bring smiles of pleasure and enjoyment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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