Posted on 12/17/2010 6:35:21 AM PST by Don Corleone
Big mistake even mentioning politics. Should just have said we made a financial and strategic decision that we’d get better results with our advertising budget elsewhere.
Costco’s meat is excellent.
There’s good and bad of course.
But what I love about beef (ok, all red meat) is that the local produce cooked in the local custom by far always delivers!
Look at brisket. A terrible cut of meat from any breed. But....add time, low, low heat and a bit of smoke, and DAMN if you don’t have a plate that make vegetarians melt (I’ve seen it turn a californian vegan..no kidding.)
Skirt steak. Awful! Until it’s a fajita, or Steak Tampiquena.
On the other hand, I was at a steak place in Tampa Bay that had fantastic filets from who knows where for $50+ per.....and one of the SOB customers at our table ordered it “well done.” If I were the establishment, I’d have kicked his ass out on the street.
So, anyhow. Omaha Steaks can keep their PC product.
Can you post their response?
I just sent them an email and told them that I would make future purchases from Allen Brothers.
Their stuff is AWESOME and they used to advertise on Rush.
Here is there site:
http://www.allenbrothers.com/?gclid=CJnZxqfF86UCFYHu7QodokRIog
Does this mean you two are in love?
Obama steaks?
Wonder how their PC department feels about PETA?
Its the result of brownshirt intimidation.
Nice mark up there, huh.
Just in time for Christmas. Idiots.
The left wing democrat party is against red meat and the killing of innocent animals. Yet they align themselves with the left wing. Do they even know who their customers are?
He should have been escorted from the restaurant and told that beef jerky was available at the convenience store around the corner.
I won’t buy steaks through the mail because I like to hand pick the steaks I buy. I also like my steaks fresh rather then frozen.
Dear Omaha Steaks:
I understand that you let yourself get pushed around by the pencil-necked big mouths over at the stopbeck.com web site. I've been informed that you got out of your TV buy that was rotating into the Glenn Beck program and redirected it to avoid his show.
I further understand that issued the following statement (in part):
“Omaha Steaks buys large units of national television advertising during the holiday season. This year, we bought a package of advertising through the Fox Network. We did not specifically request to be included on the Glenn Beck program. As part of our contract, the Omaha Steaks ads run in a variety of time slots throughout the day.
“We took your comments regarding the Glenn Beck Program to heart. After further review and careful consideration, we have decided to pull all advertising from Glenn Beck programming effective December 20th, 2010. Unfortunately, due to advertising cancellation policies, we were bound to continue possible ad placements through Sunday, December 19th.
“At Omaha, we greatly value the loyalty and support of our customers, fans and followers and thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention.”
I'm sure that during your “careful consideration” you factored in the possibility of a severe blow-back to your actions. If not, you might carefully consider the firing the jackass who made the decision to pull the ads and create a soon to be massive PR blunder.
Ask yourself why are these pencil-necks at stopbeck.com threatening advertisers with boycotts? Obviously, they hate Beck for, among other things, his discussions on the history of progressives/liberals/socialists and the activist leaders of that movement. They believe he must be stopped.
Meanwhile, you are in the meat selling business. FOX and Beck have monster sized audiences that want to know about good meat suppliers. Who gives a flying fig what the pencil-necks want, unless you too are in the pencil-neck business on the side? I've been told Omaha Steaks donates most of your campaign money to Democrats, especially in Nebraska.
I'm not going to get into a philosophical/political argument in this lowly email.
I do, however, have an honest recommendation for your consideration: Have the individual to whom the jackass who pulled the plug reports to, read a well-researched book by Pulitzer-winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas (New York Times) entitled “Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America.”
Here are some quick excerpts from reviews (lifted from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Big-Trouble-Western-Struggle-America/dp/0684846179):
— The story begins with the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, an ex- governor of Idaho. His murder was rumored to be the work of vengeful labor bosses, and Pinkerton detective James McParland tracked Wobbly organizer Big Bill Haywood all the way to Colorado to bring him back to stand trial, where he and two other men were defended by a team of lawyers that included Clarence Darrow.
— Lukas has gone great lengths in Big Trouble to re-create the entire social, political, and economic context of the murder trial. Here are the histories not simply of mining, railroads, and unions, but of detectives, “modern” journalism, baseball, land speculation, and frontier-town boosterism. In its capacity to translate historical facts into an engrossing, insightful read, Big Trouble stands as a final testament to Lukas's well-deserved reputation as a top reporter of America's growing pains.
— If you stick with it, you will come away understanding many of the forces that led to the ‘Progressive’ reforms a couple decades later, and you will meet many very interesting people along the way.
— One of Lukas's multitude of trivia items in his narrative almanac of the Steunenberg murder and subsequent miscarriage of justice (procured in large part by Darrow's witness tampering) is that the presumptive leader of the conspiracy, Haywood, wound up his years in Leninist Russia in the warm red glow which began that country's retreat from modern civilized political and economic practice. (Note: Big Bill Haywood is buried in the Kremlin Wall)
— Lucas was a remarkable writer who turned mere history into a life that the reader can relive. His talent for detail, both in facts as well as illumination, provides for fascinating reading. If you live in the past, you will find relief from our modern life. If you think that the past is irrelevant, read BIG TROUBLE to find how little we have evolved in 100 years.
— Lukas has woven a glorious tapestry of Americana, and given us a picture of an age that is rarely revisited, when the possibility of an armed uprising was not merely a phantom in the minds of the far-Right, but a very real and immediate possibility.
Now, I'm going to reserve my thoughts about Omaha Steaks. You have damn good beef, I know, I come from a cattle family. But, I can get damn good beef other places, too.
People make mistakes, and your jackass made a horrible mistake. You do realize that the Tea Party and conservative blogs are abuzz with your PR bungle?
Please don't tell me you are just going to ride this out and hope it goes away?
By the way ... do you say “Merry Christmas” in your advertising or have you been cut into becoming politically correct steers?
In spite of your jackass, I do pray that you have a profitable season and the best margins in the New Year!
Merry Christmas,
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