So as you may have heard, Barack Obama is going to be sworn in as our nation’s 44th president on Tuesday, and while that’s an important historical event, it’s also a reason for America’s businesses to use the moment for some free publicity. Not exactly shocking — it’s that kind of can-do pandering that has made America what it is.
So Krispy Kreme decided that they would give away donuts on Tuesday, because it will attract business, and because of some boilerplate:
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day, by offering a free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day, Jan. 20. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are making an oath to tasty goodies — just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet ‘free’ can be.
Seems pretty innocuous, doesn’t it? Well, not if you’re an anti-choice zealot. You see, Krispy Kreme dared to use the “C” word — choice — and That Will Not Stand:
“The unfortunate reality of a post-Roe v. Wade America is that ‘choice’ is synonymous with abortion access, and celebration of ‘freedom of choice’ is a tacit endorsement of abortion rights on demand,” the group’s president, Judie Brown said in a statement.
Really? “Choice” is now synonymous with “abortion rights” — the two mean the same thing?
Awesome! That means that anytime the right wing talks of “school choice,” they’re suggesting that we’re creating schools where our kids can have abortions at will! Who knew?
Seriously, of course, the right wing’s outrage meter’s needle is currently buried beyond “Impotent Rage.” The American people seem to actually like Barack Obama, and seem genuinely relieved that George W. Bush is finally, mercifully leaving office. Anti-choicers can count, and know what an Obama presidency means for their goals of eliminating abortion rights — and frankly, they can count, and realize that South Dakota’s defeat of an abortion ban — again — is a signal that frankly, America doesn’t actually want to outlaw abortion.
And so they’re reduced to getting upset about pretty basic, straightforward language in a press release by a donut company. I’d almost pity them, if I wasn’t enjoying the Schadenfreude so much.
This is too funny. I’d heard about the donuts thing around the blogosphere but being Canadian I didn’t get it until you explained it. Thanks! I guess however the right-wingers can soothe themselves with the thought of what all those donuts will be doing to the arteries of the people eating them.
i just hope obama dont turn out to be Just another poly-trickster who happens to be black
I’m wondering what Krispy Kreme intended ‘freedom of choice’ to mean in their statement, then. Choice about what? It’s not as if this is the first time America has been able to select its president from a choice of candidates. What else, then?
Um…the fact that we got to choose our president. They could have written the exact same thing had McCain won, and probably would have.