The Five’s Bolling Slams Coca-Cola: ‘You Ticked Off a Lot of Americans’
Eric Bolling was more or less alone in his opposition to Coca-Cola’s multilingual “America the Beautiful” Super Bowl ad during Monday afternoon’s episode of The Five. While he could agree that “America is a melting pot,” he thought the soda company “used the wrong song” to demonstrate that point.
“The problem here,” Bolling said, “and it’s not even bad if you have all the different cultures singing a song, showing America is a mix of different cultures, but don’t put it to ‘America the Beautiful.’ You used the wrong song. You ticked off a lot of Coke drinkers, you ticked off a lot of Americans.”
“For whatever you gain in this diversity thing you’re going for, Coke,” he added, “you blew it with a lot of people who are very, very patriotic about that song.”
“I would be very happy if every language in the world was singing ‘America the Beautiful, because that means we have people focused on the best country on earth in history,” Dana Perino responded. For that reason she thought the whole thing was “a little overblown.”
While he didn’t like have “multiculturalism” sold to him in a soda commercial,” Greg Gutfeld said he saw the ad as a “compliment” to the United States. “People know we’re the best country in the world,” he said, “which is why they want to come here.”
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