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Holo Lukaloa
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6/18/2009 6:58:37 PM
Boycott Olive Garden. They removed their ads from Letterman show for Palin's folly.
I used to eat at Olive Garden several times a year. I took my mother there for Mother's Day. But I will never eat there again. They are idiots who don't deserve my business.
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thebernreuter
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6/18/2009 7:36:30 PM
Hmmm, after glancing at your previous blog titles, I now wonder if you looked at the color of your party button to help you decide which side to take on this issue, and if this happened in complete absence of actually watching any Letterman footage or subsequent news articles.
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Holo Lukaloa
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6/18/2009 7:45:06 PM
If you were actually paying attention at all you would have noticed that we had a long discussion here about the Palin Letterman thing on a blog I started referring to Palin and her husband Todd as imbeciles.
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Kevin White
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6/19/2009 2:09:49 AM
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I'd never been there before last Friday.
I'm definitely not going back.
It's expensive and the food isn't that good.
I could not care less where they advertise or don't.
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Kevin White
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6/19/2009 2:09:54 AM
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Fade to Black
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6/19/2009 3:28:45 AM
It depends what you had, and also on the particular location. We have one here that is consistently pretty good. Of course I also like the endless salad bowl.
I'm not for the withholding of advertising as a political tool generally, although there are some extreme cases where it may be warranted. Probably not this one.
Letterman's show hasn't changed much from his earlier late-late night show, and it's long ago worn thin. He has contempt for his audience and makes no attempt to hide it. There's little effort to do anything. Is this what they mean by "phoning it in"?
Leno's Tonight Show run was mercifully ended, but how long do you think he will last in primetime five nights a week? Who thought up this? Please.
Conan's new show shows promise. But a few years down the road, Jimmy Fallon looms as the next Johnny Carson. He's got all of the elements.
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jingo (what remains)
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6/19/2009 5:07:41 AM
I agree with Fade - Letterman's show has worn thin, and I think Conan will be the last nail in the coffin. I don't see the Palin joke as such a big deal, it was a bad decision, to be sure, but Dave just reads what's on the card. Seems like somebody would have caught it, changed it up or decided to scrap it all together before it wound up on Dave's __script - stuff happens. It could have easily have been re-wrtitten as Bristol wasn't there for fear she would get knocked up in the seventh inning stretch etc. Then it would have been "edgy" ,which I am sure is what the writers have been told to do, without the underage sex component.
How much ad spend did Olive Garden take away? Were they a primary advertiser (seems unlikely)? All of the Olive Gardens in my area seem to do well with the "after church" crowd, so I can see where they would want to put ad money in places that don't (justly or unjustly) piss off their core customer. Maybe they weren't getting much out of the spots they ran on Letterman and this gave them a way to pull the money AND get additional play out if it. It's just marketing, happens all the time, with every ad dollar spent. No big whoop.
If it REALLY bothers you, Holo, don't eat there, I agree. I never eat there, but I couldn't care less about who they (or anybody) spend their ad dollars with. If you start worrying too much about ad spends you will drive yourself crazy.
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Gary Stockton
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6/19/2009 5:12:08 AM
Consider it done.
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