Stephen Colbert gives his own take on the Coca Cola commercial that was aired during the Super Bowl that has caused some controversy in right-wing xenophobic circles. He also provided a little known fact about the writer of the song America the Beautiful.
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So full of win. 🙂
The problem is they won’t understand why or what it means -- xenophobia? Please explain? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiOAXZuIOdg
See the 1 minute 15 seconds mark & :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson
&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4tZRZSGxcE
WARNING some possible Not Safe for Work language sand references on the last and first (?) link.
Apologies if too much of an Aussie in-joke. But when the X word comes up I always think of Hanson.. Aussies equivalent of Sarah Palin or Anne Coulter or the “I’m Not a witch” lady or sorta like that.
Xenophobia makes no sense to me. What is it about a Warrior Princess that’s not to like?
@3 kevinalexander
No no, it’s Xenophobia, silly. The extraterrestial dictator of the Galactic Confederacy who brought billions of people to Earth (in spacecraft that looks like DC-8), stacked them around volcanoes and killed them with hydrogen bombs!
@3 and 4
I thought it was fear of the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan Dynasty.
Or possibly of films featuring Olivia Newton-John on rollerskates