the "new" Colonel Sanders

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(06-24-2015, 11:38 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Colonel Sanders was supposed to be a southern gentleman.  WTF are they thinking coming up with this new guy guy who is a stupid wise ass?  KFC is a family oriented restaurant, not a hipster hangout.

It would be like re-casting Ronald McDonald as Homey the Clown.

Firstly, I'm not bashing you fred, just the opposite. Positive Rep in fact. In general you just validated my suspicion of how the general public would react to these spots.

A few weeks back when I had seen the first commercial I told my wife "It is only a matter of time before someone, or several, start complaining about a stupid commercial calling it blasphemy and disrespectful yada-yada-yada.... maybe start a petition, have the spots removed from tv....so on & on..."

I could care less about the ads one way or the other personally - as there are so many friggin ads that drive one batty, but this goes to prove my point being simply - nothing in this country can be let alone. There will be someone, somewhere, that takes offense to anything, and pressure the rest to fall into line with their line of thinking and belief as to what is PC.

I have every bit of belief that in time, backlash from society forces KFC to pull the plug on this. Not poor response to the ads mind you, but backlash.

Is it wrong to portray the man as they did? No. Free country, freedom of speech.

Is it disrespectful? Sure, to those who admire the man for what he had accomplished. But who is to say he didn't have a sense of humor and wouldn't have approved??? Not me. I didn't know the man. Not my place. I trust the bigwigs at KFC must have known he'd be ok with it. Maybe they consulted his family, or next of kin, or children if any? Who knows? And that is fine with me. They want to run their childish commercials, have at it.

Time will tell if I'm right, and somewhere there is growing pressure to stop the ads due to the Colonel's perceived negative image.