{"id":25788,"date":"2011-07-10T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25788"},"modified":"2011-07-10T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T22:55:43","slug":"iava-and-miller-hates-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25788","title":{"rendered":"IAVA and Miller hates veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen this disingenuous commercial from Miller Beer;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqKTdptr-c8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the commercial, the spokesperson claims that if you send them your Miller bottle caps, they&#8217;ll donate a dime to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. That&#8217;s not exactly true &#8211; they donate a dime to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Notice all of the T-shirts with tire tracks on them in the commercial.  Those are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23582\">&#8220;branded&#8221; merchandise of IAVA<\/a>. Apparently, the twelve packs of Millers has the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25142\">brand<\/a>&#8220;on them, too. While it&#8217;s partially true that the dime will go to benefit an Afghanistan or Iraq veteran, it&#8217;ll be one of those 13 veterans employed by IAVA&#8230;or one of the 26 non-veteran employees. I wonder how many of the people in the commercial were veterans.<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder how Miller got away with filming the commercial without Rieckhoff&#8217;s knobby head in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Our buddy Alex Horton tweeted this morning;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HortonIAVA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25789\" title=\"HortonIAVA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HortonIAVA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel ya, Alex.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I never drink Miller&#8230;even if someone buys it for me&#8230;but I&#8217;ve turned away advertising and publicity for other organizations who support IAVA (including the singing group 4Troops who donates part of their CD sales to IAVA), and I&#8217;ve told them why I&#8217;m turning them down. I hope you join me in my lifetime boycott of IAVA and Miller Beer. And tell your local vendor why you&#8217;re not buying Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen this disingenuous commercial from Miller Beer; In the commercial, the spokesperson claims that &hellip; <a title=\"IAVA and Miller hates veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25788\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IAVA and Miller hates veterans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iava","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}