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| Rick Warren: Chick-fil-AÂ’s owner told me they set a new world record in sales today |
| 2012-08-02 |
And the day’s not over yet. Somewhere, a Burger King ad man’s toying with the idea of having “The King” declare himself “100% pro-life.” Not a word about today’s activities has been whispered on Chick-fil-A’s feed even though CFA has been trending on Twitter off and on all day. As noted in the earlier post, the suspicion is that the company’s lying low about what’s happening in order to extricate itself from the front line of the culture war, but I wonder if today’s outpouring will draw some sort of recognition tomorrow. If Dan Cathy’s willing to tout the numbers to Rick Warren, presumably an official acknowledgment and thank you is on the way. There’s no shortage of local news stories out there about huge lines at the neighborhood CFA; if you’re curious, these two, from Iowa and Kentucky, are fairly representative. Meanwhile, I assume some sort of “Unappreciation Day” is in the works on the left, if only to respond to such an impressive show of strength, but I don’t know. Could be that, between this and the thuggish idiocy of Rahm and Mumbles Menino, they’re ready to cut their losses. Exit question: How big a political victory is this for Huckabee? Per this Fox News clip (via Mediaite), even he sounds surprised. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #11 Oh well, I'll just do the next best thing and give a big FU to the elite by sending that 40 bux to Fred. It's been a while since I mentioned that I adore you, Ptah. That was seriously elegant economy of communication. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-08-02 14:18 |
| #10 Guess too many years have past in history for the 'elite' to remember literally the bloody lesson of not listening to vox populi. So true. I think a reminder lesson is being queued up for them. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2012-08-02 12:59 |
| #9 Done via Amazon. painless, immensely satisfying, and zero calories to boot. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2012-08-02 12:31 |
| #8 Exactly. I'd have gone to a CFA if there was one in driving distance, even though most of their fare is not on my diet, mainly to give a big FU to the elite. Heck, if they were soliciting funds for a corporate sponsored charity, I'd have chucked in 40 bux. Oh well, I'll just do the next best thing and give a big FU to the elite by sending that 40 bux to Fred. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2012-08-02 12:29 |
| #7 Nothing makes the elite angrier than the proles doing voluntarily with their dollars what they won't be dragooned into doing the opposite of. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2012-08-02 10:31 |
| #6 Don't mess with chicken lovers. |
| Posted by: Wholuse Check2701 2012-08-02 10:21 |
| #5 It's nice to see a very loud, collective "FU!" directed to the pinhead "elite" (spit). |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2012-08-02 10:09 |
| #4 Occupy Chick-A-Fil (for Lunch)! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-08-02 09:22 |
| #3 ..one way they can finally express their opinion of Guess too many years have past in history for the 'elite' to remember literally the bloody lesson of not listening to vox populi. Just repeats the game later of (real) historians and chroniclers of "why didn't they pay attention to what was happening?" The real answer is that they didn't want to pay attention, they thought they were in charge and could bend the world to their view. Caution - bending can lead to breaking. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-08-02 09:18 |
| #2 My big suspicion: people don't really care about gay marriage per se, this is just one way they can finally express their opinion of TinkerRahm and his ilk. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-08-02 09:03 |
| #1 Now if Dan and Bubba would donate yesterday's proceeds to the Willard's campaign...... Total smack down! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-08-02 07:49 |