The person who should have been Time person of the year.
@thegreatdebater (7316)
United States
January 28, 2013 8:54pm CST
The Time person of the year should have been the person who engineered the infamous Chick-fil-A market campaign. I have no idea if this was engineered by the CEO, or a marketing director, but who ever did this was a genius. They played the right wingers like a fiddle, and all the time they were pandering to the LGBT community, even getting them to call off boycotts. This was one of the most intelligent market campaigns ever rolled out, with what would appear to be a small amount of money (which would be considered a donation, and thus tax deductible). The funny part is that no one noticed that Chick-fil-A was moving from a mall based company to a stand alone which led many to wonder if they would be able to get people into the stand alone locations. Then a video is "leaked" to the press, and a huge national debate is started. Never mind the fact that the charity stopped donating money to the questionable organization the year before. Never mind the fact that the company let the leader of a LGBT organization, Campus Pride, see their tax returns to show them they didn't make any donations to this organization last year. It was all made up to push people into their local Chick-fil-A to boost sales, and make right wingers feel like they are support one of their own.
IT WAS ALL AN AMAZING MARKETING PLOY!!
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/28/us/chick-fil-a-philanthropy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
31 Jan 13
I really don't know how you could see it any other way. The company hasn't donated to them in over a year, but they never made that public. They also reached out to the LGBT community, and even got them to call off protest while again never letting the public know about it. While most on the right go off on the MSM, it is funny to see a conservative company use both MSM, and right wing hate radio to increase sales, while they are working with groups that both oppose. Who ever came up with this idea is a genius.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
1 Feb 13
I have to laugh that you think the right-wingers were "played". It took the left-wing to react with boycott threats to the CEO's statements made in an interview. If the left's knee hadn't jerked first, there would have been no reaction.
And that's really the problem - the way the left reacts so strongly when a conservative says something but doesn't blink when a liberal says it. Cathey expressed the same opinion that Obama originally expressed and no one organized a protest when Obama said it. Sure, he caved later when he needed the LBGTQR-etc vote, but his original stance was anti-gay marriage.
Revisionist history and a way to make yourselves feel better about an epic fail, that's what I see going on.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
1 Feb 13
So, you agree that the left attacked Cathey because of his religious views.
Right wingers supported Cathey and Chick Fil A because he was attacked for his religious views and to support his right to freedom of speech and religion.
That's the basic problem here. The left doesn't get it.
@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
1 Feb 13
Cathey, wasn't attacked because he was against gay marriage, he was attacked because his company funded an organization that attempted to "cure" gay people. To the LGBT community that would be like liberals creating an organization to "cure" the thinking of conservatives (which could be considered an illness, which is what some crazy people think being gay is).
So you are telling us that you would support a restaurant that supports gay rights, and making gay marriage legal?
Very interesting, seeing how that is the OPPOSITE reason many right wingers claimed they were supporting Chick-fil-A. Didn't Mike Huckebee call for right wingers to support Chick-fil-A because they were standing up for straight marriage?
Your logic may need to be "cured" on this one Rollo!!!!!
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
1 Feb 13
I don't make it a point to find out who a restaurant owners voted for, supports with donations, or what church he goes to. I just go for the food. So, WHO did the research to find out what donations he made debater? And when the sh!t hit the fan over all this, it was because he said he supported traditional marriage. The donation thing came up later.
Who cares what a business owner does privately? I don't. It isn't like he wasn't hiring gays, or not letting gays eat there. Heck, I even saw a gay blog SUPPORTING Cathey!
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
30 Jan 13
It could not have happened if the Liberal National Media had not picked up on the comments about gay marriage. If it was a designed campaign then it was a great one that gave it all the free publicity they needed. I agree if it was planned then the person behind it should be person of the year.
@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
30 Jan 13
If you read the article you will see that they were working both ends of this situation. If this wasn't planned, then why didn't they ever come out and say they stopped donating to this organization? Why didn't they say that they were working with the LGBT community to deal with this? Because, they get all of the free marketing, don't have to worry about any protest because they are working with the opposing groups.
The end result is that the right wingers were played like a fiddle by Chick-fil-A.
@teotimoponcerosacena (1552)
• Philippines
29 Jan 13
It seems every now and then people have their own ploy of tax avoidance. Bad, for when it comes to loopholes in public governance, they are the most noisy commentator. That's life.
