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theweaselkingEx-grocer sets ice cream ablaze in protest of 'PantsonFire-Mobile'
You'd think a good scoop of Cherry Garcia, Caramel Sutra or Phish Food would transcend politics.
Chuck Bradley doesn't think so. Yesterday he set fire to almost 30 pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream to protest statements by the compa-ny's co-founder, Ben Cohen, who has publicly called President Bush a liar.
The pints were taken from the Midway Corner Grocery, which Bradley owned for 21 years before he sold it to one of his sons.
The protest drew an amused response from Cohen.
"What a waste of some really great ice cream," Cohen said in an e-mail statement yesterday.
"I didn't think you could burn ice cream," he added.
[...]
The political statement Bradley just couldn't swallow involves Cohen's group True Majority ACTION and its "PantsonFire-Mobile," a visual protest of the Bush administration.
The traveling display shows Bush with fake flames coming out of his pants.
Bradley said the display was "un-American."
"We've got a great country -- thousands of men have died so we can stand here today and speak our minds but not bad-mouth the leader of the free world," Bradley said.
[...]
customers won't find any Chunky Monkey on the Midway grocery's shelves anytime soon.
The Corner Grocery, at 301 North Winter Street, will now sell Haagen-Dazs, which Bradley views as "more American."
Charlene Harris brought her two sons,-Cheney, 2, and Jay, 4, to the protest after learning about it from a Scott County Republican Party e-mail.
Harris said she was happy to bring her children to the ice cream burning, but she knows they didn't understand what was happening.
"It was kind of hard to explain to them why the ice cream was bad," she said. "We do support the president, but they like ice cream."
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So, let's get this straight. It's un-American to use your right to free speech to point out the president's lies, and foreign ice cream is "more american" than domestic ice cream, AND there are people who've saddled their poor child with lifelong shame by naming him after President Dick?
You'd think a good scoop of Cherry Garcia, Caramel Sutra or Phish Food would transcend politics.
Chuck Bradley doesn't think so. Yesterday he set fire to almost 30 pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream to protest statements by the compa-ny's co-founder, Ben Cohen, who has publicly called President Bush a liar.
The pints were taken from the Midway Corner Grocery, which Bradley owned for 21 years before he sold it to one of his sons.
The protest drew an amused response from Cohen.
"What a waste of some really great ice cream," Cohen said in an e-mail statement yesterday.
"I didn't think you could burn ice cream," he added.
[...]
The political statement Bradley just couldn't swallow involves Cohen's group True Majority ACTION and its "PantsonFire-Mobile," a visual protest of the Bush administration.
The traveling display shows Bush with fake flames coming out of his pants.
Bradley said the display was "un-American."
"We've got a great country -- thousands of men have died so we can stand here today and speak our minds but not bad-mouth the leader of the free world," Bradley said.
[...]
customers won't find any Chunky Monkey on the Midway grocery's shelves anytime soon.
The Corner Grocery, at 301 North Winter Street, will now sell Haagen-Dazs, which Bradley views as "more American."
Charlene Harris brought her two sons,-Cheney, 2, and Jay, 4, to the protest after learning about it from a Scott County Republican Party e-mail.
Harris said she was happy to bring her children to the ice cream burning, but she knows they didn't understand what was happening.
"It was kind of hard to explain to them why the ice cream was bad," she said. "We do support the president, but they like ice cream."
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So, let's get this straight. It's un-American to use your right to free speech to point out the president's lies, and foreign ice cream is "more american" than domestic ice cream, AND there are people who've saddled their poor child with lifelong shame by naming him after President Dick?
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Date: 2004-07-28 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-28 06:10 pm (UTC)LOL
This is just too out there.