Pepsi Gives Americans the Finger
Reading this simply aggravates to no end.
Charmaine Yoest is all over Indra Nooyi, President and CFO of PepsiCo for such charming condescension as:
So, remember, when you extend your arm to colleagues and peoples from other countries, make sure that you’re giving a hand … not the finger. You will help your country, your company, and yourself, more than you will ever know.
No more Pepsi (don’t drink soft drinks except for the occasional root beer) or Gatorade for me.
Tired of this Hate America First crowd. They’re bores, and as Donald Sensing notes, they can’t deliver a speech either.
He compares Nooyi’s drivel to MacArthur’s speech at West Point (reading the words is a wonderful rhetorical romp, but listening to an original recording of the speech will inspire).
Duty, Honor, Country.
Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
And to fill the eyes with the tears of pride:
As I listened to those songs [of the glee club], in memory’s eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God.
I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death.
They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.
Always, for them: Duty, Honor, Country; always their blood and sweat and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth.
And a conclusion with few equals:
But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point.
Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country.
Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps.
I bid you farewell.
General MacArthur sweepingly honors both the past and the future.
Contrast this with the nauseating and suffocating political correctness exhibited by PepsiCo’s President.
Thank you General for teaching us.
May the purported leaders of today learn to inspire, and not simply give America the finger.
UPDATE:
Kudos to PowerLine for breaking the story — follow-up here.
Roger Kimball is displeased as well.
UPDATE II:
Hugh Hewitt asks, “Where is the CEO?”