Chick-fil-A PR goes Rogue

If they're anything like the CFAs in our area, just fine. About 50 percent of the football tailgate parties at the several schools around us have huge platters of CFA nuggests and strips.

 

If either one of you could explain how, exactly, Barack Obama is responsible for the Chick-fil-A flareup, that'd be ... interesting.

 

Yeah, but how much outrage and lather?
Enough to retweet and click "like? Sure.
Enough to go out for lunch? OK.
To stand in line for several hours for a sandwich? Well some.

I don't know I think it's lazy outrage and lather.
It may be popular or trendy - to be one side or the other - but not sure how effective it will be a few weeks from now. Or how impacting this kind of stuff is.

 

I disagree. President Obama did not create this cultural divide. You might argue that he exploited it for political gain, but it'd be just as fair to say that plenty of politicians on the right did so as well.

 

IMO, Facebook and Twitter simply make it way easier to stir people up, leading to an increase in the sheer number of people who are going to be stirred up in any given controversy. I don't think people get any more outraged than they did in the past -- although I honestly think this has got to be one of the most stupid controversies EVER -- it's just that more people actually get clued in to the outrage before it's yesterday's news.

 

How did liberals go batshit about CFA? I mean, aside from a couple of politicians using it to get headlines, what was done en masse by the left against CFA?

Huckabee was calling for a CFA Appreciation Day just a few days after Cathey's interview and Jim Henson's company saying it wanted nothing to do with CFA any longer.

 

Absolutely agree with this. It's shallow and lazy, and a lot of ginned-up sound-and-fury "controversy" that I think will ultimately signify nothing. Which is increasingly what these "culture war" flare-ups amount to. And I agree that this stuff is exploited by every politician, nobody "caused" it.

 

So, nobody was calling for a boycott? There weren't politicians who said they would block CFA moving into their cities because they don't agree with the politics and the religious views of the president of the company?

Right... That must've been imagined...

 

It's generalizations like that on both sides that cause problems. For example, in an article posted on HuffPo, a Chick-Fil-A waiter was taking a tray of food to a customer in a Food Court. Someone yelled at him for working for "a bunch of homophobic Christian assholes," or words to that effect.

 

I'm adding scarecrows to my list of creepy things that already included mimes and clowns. Goddam that's frightening.

 

Then PETA would come to your house and protest.

 

Cathy is actually killing people? I must have missed that.