After nearly a week, the poutrage over that Coca-Cola ad in wrong languages hasn't abated much. Jon Stewart wonders what the fuss was about -- possibly the ad's "dangerous levels of schmaltz"? No, it's all that scary foreign talk in an ad with a bunch of brown people. How dare they desecrate our national anthem! And so The Daily Show takes on the complete idiocy of complaining that there's something un-American about the iconography of "attractive immigrants" (and Native Americans, but let's not quibble -- non-English equals furrin) singing "America the Beautiful" while drinking Coca-Cola.
And Coke, for its part, will be airing an extended version of the ad during tonight's Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Oh, fine, then, we'll applaud a gigantic corporation. Won't be the first time.
And what about Interstate H-3?
Are those nitwits still concerned about our "national anthem" not being sung in gud merican english the way the baby jeebus wrote it?