Busch Light fan gets his face on cans

Yet another in a long list of reasons not to:

1) use Skankbook, Twaddle, Instacrap, or any other social media*;
2) buy the Des Moines Bird Cage Liner; and
3) patronize AB-InBev.

* Except for Beer Advocate.

 

All praise independent breweries. AB was in it for some predatory pr points and little else.

 

This story went national now that the Iowa paper has apparently fired the reporter --- well, according to the paper, at least, he "...no longer works for the newspaper."

Here's a link to the Washington Post story (sorry, might require one to sign up/subscribe).

Reporter who outed racist tweets by viral fundraiser leaves Des Moines Register after his own offensive posts surface

As for AB, the article notes:

 

Exactly, especially when the 8 year look back goes to when he was 16. It's not like he was running for office or was nominated for the Supreme Court. It's a good lesson for today's teenagers (really anyone) and their use of social media.

 

Great for Carson King, really cool story.

To hell with Aaron Calvin, and most other “journalists”, for being envious venom-spitting snakes. These assholes are poison.

 

Kudos to King for promoting the beer that makes people go "Busch Lite...are you from Iowa?" thanks to ISU fans drinking two football bowl cities out of BL.

Kudos (or perhaps boos), too, to the Register for reminding those of us who left the state that it's a miserable rag, even on most good days.

One-hundred and fifty demerits to AB InBev for caving to the cancel culture mob.

This is why I tell my kids to stay the hell off of social media. I'm not on Facebook, Twitter, or anything else. Ironically, far-worse crimes than comments like these have a much shorter statute of limitations.

 

Thats turgid sh&t there..but kudos to the guy giving it to charity

 

So: the Register had done their due research, but hadn't decided whether to publish it or not (perhaps they thought a 16 year old kids tweets weren't worth reporting?), but dude did the right thing, stood up and acknowledged his past (before any media reported it). Good on him.

But, once he brought his own history up, the Register would not have properly done their job, if they hadn't reported on his comments.

No aspect of this is good. Except for the the fact that a bunch of cash was raised for the kids. That's good.

Inbev bailing on dude at the first whiff of bad P.R.? Fuck those folks.

 

I hope this comes back to bite them in the ass, big time. It'd warm the cockles of my heart to see frat boys bail on AB en masse.

 

So they get demerits for not putting the guy's face on the can. Do they get any credits for the over $350,000 donation to be made to the hospital?

 

All he wanted was beer. Then they promised him beer for a year. Then beer with his face on the can. Then reneged on that. They’re in for the good publicity but quickly exited. I guess you take what you can with these soulless corporations. He didn’t ask for all that.

 

Absolutely. It was great that they did that. I never said otherwise. (Although, don't kid yourself, the $350,000 was, at least at the time, some of the most cost-effective national promotion they could have dreamed of).

BTW, I'm not giving demerits because they didn't put the kid's face on the can. Demerits because they joined the cancel culture train and disavowed further association with a kid who did a great thing merely because of something the kid did when he was barely old enough to drive. I'd venture to guess that most of InBev's upper-level management would be "cancelled" as well if the world knew every single intemperate thing they ever said, wrote, or thought when they were immature. Simply put, it speaks volumes about the state of our culture, where some people seem obsessed with tearing down any person credited with doing something good and decent, even normal ordinary people who don't seek out fame and fortune.

 

Right, you joined in with the thought police and never gave them credit for anything, just demerits

 

Wrong. I gave a great deal of credit to InBev at the outset, as it did a great thing. (In fact, in my previous post that you just responded to, I said "it was great that they did that") So, you will have to pin the hypocrisy allegation on someone else. I just refuse to let InBev off the hook for reversing course. Nonetheless, I always have been (and will continue to be) a frequent Busch Lite drinker, (we Iowans tend to wear the stereotype rather proudly actually), even if I disagree with InBev's decision. Free country and all that.

 

By the way, I take note of your posts often and enjoy reading your thoughts and opinions on all things beer. We probably just don't see this situation the same way and that's cool. FWIW, it's probably my fault for giving an opinion on a tangential cultural issue instead of sticking to the beer itself. Cheers.

 

Gotta agree that this is just simply a dick move on InBev's side. The right thing to to do would of been to double down on the fact that this random guy did a good thing and now we are standing by his good deed with our own match of the funds for charity. Only focus on that and keep your word of giving this guy free beer.

I just cant believe society has gotten this bad....

 

The tragic thing, other than the media wolves playing amateur proctologist with this guy's very brief and otherwise very nondescript private life is that anyone believes AB's reaction is somehow unique.

MSM can essentially browbeat any company or any public figure into submission through endless virtue-signaling and contrived righteous indignation.

I love that the smarmy punk who wrote the hit-piece got fired, wish the editor who approved it got the same, and hope as hard as I can hope that she does soon.

No good deed goes unpunished by the cancel culture creeps.

Ride on Amerikans.

 

Bumping this post because liking it is not enough.

 

Get real, they donated a lot of money, the Liberal newspaper and the weak culture that this nation is headed down caused the issue not Busch Beer.

 

What are you talking about, making a $350K donation to a hospital is awesome.