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Posted on 01/12/2012 5:56:58 PM PST by ColdOne
Updated at 7:31 p.m. ET: Ernesto Suarez, who organized the online petition calling for Mercedes Benz to withdraw the altered image of Che Guevara, says he welcomes the apology from Daimler AG, Mercedes' parent company.
"I'm very satisfied with the reaction from Mercedes Benz," Suarez, a Cuban-American who lives in Kansas City, Mo., told msnbc.com Thursday evening. "I believe that they have done the right thing.
"The victory, if there is one, is not mine, but belongs to the descendants of (Guevara's) victims (and) the survivors, to common sense and to civility," he said.
Updated at 6:15 p.m. ET: In a statement to msnbc.com, Daimler is apologizing for using the altered image of Che Guevara in its Mercedes Benz presentation this week at the Consumer Electronics Show:
In his keynote speech at CES, Dr. Zetsche addressed the revolution in automobility enabled by new technologies, in particular those associated with connectivity. To illustrate this point, the company briefly used a photo of revolutionary Che Guevara (it was one of many images and videos in the presentation). Daimler was not condoning the life or actions of this historical figure or the political philosophy he espoused. We sincerely apologize to those who took offense.
(Excerpt) Read more at bottomline.msnbc.msn.com ...
I’m glad I don’t own a Mercedes.
Mad Mo’ sayz — Piss be upon Che.
Che by some accounts was responsible for 4000 deaths, the nazi's 6 million, hell if MB wants to use a genocidal madman look closer to home.
Ironically Che, probably would look at the idiots that wear his image and deem them unacceptable for the new world order an have them eliminated...
Sick!
The author’s computer should have had that paperclip icon tapping on his screen saying “don’t you mean to make a better choice?”
Too little too late. The nazi Dr Z stepped on his own jewels with this one. It should never have been made in the first place. How did this guy keep his job after the Chrysler debacle?
For Dimler-Benze, they could have used Hitler's image... after all he was a revolutionary too, and home grown!
It was supposed to make it “edgy” I think.
It’s uncool to conduct “kill-ins.”
Some hero. `((
Even Castro got tired of his crap.
I have heard that the Castro brothers tipped the CIA on where to find him. The guy even scared the hell out of them. They know he was a total psychopath.
Notice the MSNBC mantra of “some consider Che to be a mass murderer”.
Since Che said that he had tortured and killed hundreds of Cubans, “HE IS A MASS MURDERER”.
What part of “admitted mass murderer” doesn’t the writer understand?
Oh, MSNBC, sorry. Master Station of National Bull Crap = MSNBC.
I guess Mercedes will just have to go back to using the picture of Himmler for their ads.
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