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Miller’s Apology Is Insulting

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded today to the latest news regarding Miller's sponsorship of anti-Catholicism:

"The Miller Brewing Company and the Board of Directors of the Folsom Street Fair have both issued press statements this week apologizing for the offensive Last Supper poster that was used to promote the event. As such, they have insulted Catholics one more time. Let me be specific.

"The poster was the least offensive part of this Catholic-bashing forum. What was even more offensive was the sight of Christian symbols being sold at this Miller-sponsored fair as sex toys. The obscene and blasphemous names of these vulgar sex toys are so disgusting that no mainstream newspaper would print them. Then there was the incredible sight of a stripper and a man dressed as Jesus hoisted in cages above a Catholic church on a Sunday. This was done to provoke, taunt and insult Catholics. And who greeted everyone at the street fair? Men dressed as nuns. Had they been dressed like Al Jolson — with blackened faces — they would have been run out of town as racists.

"The Folsom Street Fair news release on this subject shows how utterly clueless its officers are. It says, ‘The mission is to create volunteer-driven leather events that provide the adult alternative lifestyle community with safe venues for self-expression while emphasizing freedom, fun, frolic and fetish and raising funds to benefit charity.'

"To which I say: If your idea of a ‘safe venue' ‘self-expression' and ‘fun' includes men being beaten with chains in broad daylight, men who masturbate in the street, and men who perform oral sex on each other in public — I have pictures of these acts — then spare Catholics of your ‘fun.' Leave us out of it and you can do to each other whatever you want.

"The only thing Miller is worried about is its logo appearing on a poster for an event it could not possibly defend. Not until it pledges not to sponsor Catholic-bashing events will the Catholic League call off its boycott and its anti-Miller PR campaign. We're like that proverbial fly who just won't go away."

Contact Miller VP Nehl Horton at horton.nehl@mbco.com.

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    Unbelievable.  This has gone way beyond tolerance;  it's become promotion while simultaneously being aggressively intolerant toward Catholics.  As Bill Donohue says, this would never be tolerated if it were directed toward another group, such as African Americans, or even Muslims.

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    And I would like to know why incidents like this aren't discussed on shows like Oprah;  if this were targeted toward any other group, it would be all over the media.

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    rosary4peace  They aren't discussed on Oprah because she is afraid of offending homosexuals.  That is the "unforgiveable Sin" in Hollywood.

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    Well, if she were really as open-minded as she claims to be, she would realize that in this case they're the ones behaving offensively toward another group of people.

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    I followed the link on this story in an earlier post to view the pictures of the "Fair." If the bondage portrayed in these pictures is what a "leather event" is all about, then a "volunteer-driven leather event" is surely an oxymoron of the nth degree. As for Oprah, it's a sad day indeed when we rely on her (and others of similar bent) to be the conscience of America.

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    And thus was my email comment to MBC:

     

    Your support of the Folsom Street Fair leads this long time Miller consumer to steal a line from your own commercial: "You've lost the right to sell Miller beer here!".  Miller's idea of the "High-Life" will never again be tolerated on my premises, or in my presence.
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    As a beer drinker I think Miller beer is insulting, but that's a taste preference. De gustibus non disputandum. We can however dispute their taste for raw unbridled perversity. The forum for that discussion would not be that alternately fat and skinny lady on TV. 

     

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    Dear goral, whether or not Miller beer is palatable, that 'lady' ain't no "lady"!  Check your nearest dictionary, kiddo.

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    I should have put quotes around the "alternately fat and skinny lady" because it's attributed to Bill Buckley Jr. He's a gentleman and gave her the benefit of the doubt. I never watch her Cooky, so she gets the benefit of my ignorance. Are you saying that she's not palatable as well?

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    The television  character in question has everything backwards including the name of her production company, "HARPO".

    I wouldn't watch her for a nanosecond during  channel surfing.  (It's the only type of surfing I do anymore:)

    She and her ilk must be boycotted as vigorously as MBC:  They're both in bad taste and both taste bad!

    Pass the microbrew and a few hands of "Hearts" around the family dinner table if you want to enjoy an alternate lifestyle. 

     

     

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    Smile  Bill, you're a great American!  Smile

     

    http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~dcc/pub/flag/

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    Boycotting Miller for this is a no-brainer. As far as Oprah, I thought she was bigger than Hollywood. She has been blessed with much success, although I am still puzzled how. Much been given to her, therefore much is required of her. She has much influence, especially on consumers. If she even looks at a book, it goes on the best seller list.

    I will also add that it is much of the public's responsibility to how people such as Oprah, Dan Rather, etc. get into such a high postion in media. Why do we public tolerate it.

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