{"id":536,"date":"2008-04-06T00:24:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2008-04-06T00:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T05:26:39","slug":"absolut-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Absolut Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/04\/05\/america\/LA-GEN-Mexico-US-Absolut-Ads.php\" target=\"_blank\">Internatonal Herald Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Absolut apologizes, ends ad showing California, Texas as part of Mexico<\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY: The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan &#8220;In an Absolut World,&#8221; showed a 1830s-era map when Mexico included California, Texas and other southwestern states. Mexico still resents losing that territory in the 1848 Mexican-American War and the fight for Texas independence.<\/p>\n<p>But the ads, which ran only in Mexico and have since ended, were less than ideal for Americans undergoing a border buildup and embroiled in an emotional debate over illegal immigration from their southern neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen calls to boycott Absolut were posted on michellemalkin.com, a Web site operated by conservative columnist Michelle Malkin. The ads sparked heated comment on a half-dozen other Internet sites and blogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2251\/2383371667_df5fc24e2d.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Internatonal Herald Tribune Absolut apologizes, ends ad showing California, Texas as part of Mexico MEXICO CITY: The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan &#8220;In an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}