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God bless Ad-merica. (Selling it: Goofs\Glitches\Rip-offs).
Faith Popcorn, a marketing consultant and trend expert. predicted that the war and its aftermath would bring on "a new kind of flag-driven marketing." Well, we're here to say that the flag-driven future has arrived, and it's not always pretty
* A Web site selling patriotic T-shirts said that 10 percent of profits would go to the Red Cross. which was unaware of the site.
* An e-mail offered to ship a novelty dollar to soldiers. Cost: $2.
* Unsolicited e-mail touted potassium iodide "nukepills."
* Contractors went door to door offering to build shelters, promising protection from airborne nuclear-, biological-, and chemical-warfare agents.
But the flag-waving pitch that won our top honors arrived at a reporter's computer recently with the subject line "Support for Our President." It offered a "FREE God Bless America T-Shirt" for answering what it called an important survey question. "With the war overseas and constant threats of terrorism here on our shores," it said, "NOW is the time for Americans like you to make your voices heard." The question: "Do you support President Bush?" Survey responses, the e-mail said, would be sent to Congress.
When our reporter clicked to ...
- For every body, Provo, UT, is donating 15% of every God bless America!...
- Magazine article from: Household & Personal Products Industry November 1, 2001 700+ words
* For Every Body, Provo, UT, is donating 15% of every God Bless America! limited edition candle sold to The American Red Cross. The God Bless America! candle is available under the Home Baked and Folk Art collections...
- 'American Idol' Finalists Enter Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales Chart at #1;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 29, 2003 700+ words
...Year to Go to American Red Cross NEW YORK, April 29...of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." has...benefiting the American Red Cross. The patriotic anthem...Studdard and Trenyce. "God Bless the U.S.A...
- Target Offers Barbra Streisand's 'God Bless America' as Exclusive Bonus On...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 30, 2001 700+ words
...to feature Streisand's version of "God Bless America" as a special added track to...from the sale of this CD to the American Red Cross. About Target Stores Minneapolis-based...including on-going support to the American Red Cross. Since opening its first store in 1962...
- God bless America (warts 'n all). (Canadians have benefitted from their close...
- Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder September 1, 1996 700+ words
...five of them does some volunteer work. After the 1995 bomb attack in Oklahoma City, so many local people turned up at the Red Cross to donate blood that the agency could not collect it all. Millions of Americans work tirelessly for home-grown organizations...
- In times of distress, people want the comfort of singing `God Bless...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service De la Vina, Mark September 23, 2001 700+ words
...re busting out with renditions of "God Bless America" at every event imaginable...John Mellencamp concerts. But why "God Bless America" and not "The Star-Spangled...anthem _ or even Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A"? "The words to `God...
- Armistice Day and `God Bless America'
- Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) November 11, 1995 700+ words
...00-00-0000 Irving Berlin's song ``God Bless America'' was first sung on the radio on...This is the song he gave her. [sound of `God Bless America' sung by Kate Smith] `God Bless America' was written for a 1918 show called...
- God bless this wonderful piece of music.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Eisner, Jane R. October 18, 2001 700+ words
...spontaneously broke into song. The strains of "God Bless America" drifted down the streets of...easier to sing than the official one. "God Bless America" is an emotion. It speaks to...full-throated Celine Dion singing "God Bless America." The official national anthem...
- Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America'.
- News wire article from: United Press International November 2, 2001 700+ words
...voice. The song, of course, was "God Bless America," and he was surrounded by...one of the kindest things said about "God Bless America" in 1968. It was "an anthem...Yet America was at war in Vietnam. "God Bless America" was a song of peace. It seemed...
