Tuesday, January 14, 2020

They're damn mad

We all know people like this, poor souls who wake up every morning, and the first thing they reach for is something to get all worked up about.

All right, maybe the second thing, but still, the definition of society as "several hundred million people in search of something to be mad about" is valid.

Speaking of numbers, an organization called One Million Moms is currently all a-churn over a hamburger commercial.

And if you think there are really are a million moms out there with enough free time to get mad about a Burger King commercial, please stop asking the ones with maids and chauffeurs.

The Twitter acct. for "1MilMom" has a current following count of 4,658, leaving them 995,342 moms short of a million.

But here's what has their knickers in a twist:

They claim that Burger King "crossed the line" in running an Impossible Whopper commercial that uses the "D" word.

“Burger King is airing a commercial that uses profanity to advertise its Impossible Whopper -- a burger made from plants instead of beef,” whinges their website. “The language in the commercial is offensive, and it’s sad that this once family restaurant has made yet another deliberate decision to produce a controversial advertisement instead of a wholesome one.”

In the commercial, people are shown eating the meatless burger with considerable euphoria. One man responds to his mouthful of soy leghemoglobin, or "heme," by ejaculating, "Damn, that's good."

“One Million Moms finds this highly inappropriate. When responding to the taste test, he didn’t have to curse,” the group complained. “Or if, in fact, it was a real and unscripted interview in which the man was not an actor, then Burger King could have simply chosen to edit the profanity out of the commercial.”

“It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear,” they droned on.

I will step in long enough to say that I have yet to eat a fakeburger, but I can promise that if that ever happens, I will be able to contain my enthusiasm just short of screaming about it.

One Million Moms wants us to contact Burger King to entreat them to cancel the commercial, “or at the very least, edit out the cuss word immediately.”

One can only hope that OMM never hears about the words of a certain high government official. This orange man grumbled about “goddamn windmills” in a speech right here in Baltimore!  This same bleached blond bloviater told people in North Carolina that ISIS "will be hit so goddamn hard,” and he also told a businessman, “If you don’t support me, you’re going to be so goddamn poor.”

One can only assume that the staff at One Million Billion Mommies never heard of that politician, who shall remain nameless because it would be a damn shame not to.

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