http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcfbdiiEQDM&feature=player_embeddedWhat a beautiful, inspiring video! Created by Discover America to invite vacationers to our beautiful country by highlighting the diversity of our people...Yes, everyone is welcome!
Watch the first ever television commercial for Discover America featuring the "Land of Dreams" song written by Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal and performed by Rosanne Cash with guest artists Los Lobos, Bebel and TREME. From the French Quarter in New Orleans to a Redwood Preserve in California, we encourage you to visit and explore all of the amazing travel possibilities the USA has to offer. Discover this land, like never before.
So heartwarming and inviting, isn't it?
WAIT
WTF?
What the hell is this at 33 seconds in??
The horror! Showing the world that the diverse America actually has homo's? No real America has homo's!
Naturally, the right wing kooks have their assorted panties in a wad...
The Blaze headline says it all:
Swamp People, Hippies, Hijabs, and a Gay Couple: See How the Obama Admin Is Branding America AbroadDuh! Of course! It's all the black President's fault!
Naturally, homophobe Tony Perkins of the
Family Research Council led the charge:
“A new batch of U.S. travel ads should send some leaders packing–permanently,” Perkins asserted. “[W]hen Congress passed the Travel Promotion Act, people thought it’d be a great chance to highlight American attractions. What they didn’t know is that it would highlight same-sex attractions.”
“That’s right,” he added. “The commercial invites people to America-not to see the Grand Canyon, but to celebrate homosexuality. In one scene, a gay man is sleeping on his partner’s shoulder in a trolley.”
“According to Brand USA, the ads were supposed to ‘open up some minds as to what America really is’ — which, based on this commercial, is a country of radical values and backwards priorities. I suppose this is part of the President’s push to ‘rebrand’ America.”
Shudder!
It's not just the homo's, though.
Others are just pissed the ad doesn't show enough
real, honest to goodness white Christian Americans in it.
For example, the ad attempts to define America with scenes such as: a man raking a huge sand pattern alone on a beach, two Muslim women in burkas shopping in New York City, a Hindu festival, a Hispanic biker gang, a traditional African bongo circle under a bridge, a Cuban low-rider parade, a pony-tailed old man in a canoe in a swamp, an interracial marriage ceremony, an Asian grandmother riding a Harley through the forest, a man catching a hawk whilst parachuting over a cliff, and what seems to be a colorful-hippie-powder-blowing-festival (see below).
Btw - More videos are available here:
http://www.discoveramerica.com/
