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11:15 - Humboldt? They should have known better...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/14/BU236636.DTL
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You know that Subaru ad, that sweet little story about the girl and her mom driving out into the woods in their Forester to release their bunny into the wild?
Well, Subaru has had to pull the ad, because of the complaints of rabbit fanciers.
The Chronicle reported the rabbit brouhaha on Wednesday. On Thursday Mark Darling, vice president for marketing at Subaru in Cherry Hill, N.J., said he had made the decision to pull the ad.
"Unfortunately, the message yielded an unintended conclusion, that being a domestic rabbit was released into the wild," said Darling. He said the critics were a "relatively small but passionate group, and, quite frankly, we have other things to attend to and do not need the distraction."
In other words, "Jesus Christ, you people! Get a frickin' grip!"
I've been very unsympathetic toward people who want certain things taken off of TV ever since Beavis was forced to stop saying "Fire". You don't like something, grit your goddamned teeth. You don't see me lobbying to get The 700 Club taken off the air, do you?
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