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calimary

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1. Too late.

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Wed Oct 3, 2012, 11:47 PM

Oct 2012

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KitchenAid Tweets Joke About Obama's Dead Grandma [View all] LTR Oct 2012 OP

Too late. calimary Oct 2012 #1

Precisely. Kitchen Aid's damage control won't be fast enough to erase this. n/t VespertineIconoclast Oct 2012 #12

WTF? SoapBox Oct 2012 #2

wow -- wtf fishwax Oct 2012 #3

WTF! lonestarnot Oct 2012 #4

"... is in no way a representation of the brand's opinion." PSPS Oct 2012 #5

Holy shit. I imagine someone will be fired over this. nt ZombieHorde Oct 2012 #6

Hopefully after the company loses A LOT of business. n/t JusticeForAll Oct 2012 #7

I hope not Le Taz Hot Oct 2012 #9

I know...and I was planning to buy one soon adigal Oct 2012 #17

ditto n/t calikid Oct 2012 #18

I like my Viking stand mixer just fine. marble falls Oct 2012 #19

I"m going to go look at Viking SemperEadem Oct 2012 #23

The pasta maker is a bit chintzi - extruder rather than a roller, but it also has a blender dock ... marble falls Oct 2012 #47

same here SemperEadem Oct 2012 #22

Here's hoping you suffer financially for something your drunken uncle says. TalkingDog Oct 2012 #28

See post #25. They need to feel the pain. Ikonoklast Oct 2012 #29

this wasn't some asshole spewing nonsense in the breakroom.. frylock Oct 2012 #34

And I don't policy decided corporately against where I want my money to go. They have freedom of ... marble falls Oct 2012 #48

I imagine that should some unnamed employee decide to speak his mind LanternWaste Oct 2012 #53

If people buy one of their dishwashers word will get around proReality Oct 2012 #31

The article I read Sherman A1 Oct 2012 #14

+1. One can't boycott every company that used to have an asshole working for them Orangepeel Oct 2012 #16

I don't want to pay for the idiots working in my workplace.... Darth_Kitten Oct 2012 #52

I won't SemperEadem Oct 2012 #25

If that is how you feel, I would urge you to Sherman A1 Oct 2012 #27

I did exactly that. SemperEadem Oct 2012 #40

Actually, carla Oct 2012 #51

One could be diaspointed by that suspicion, too. marble falls Oct 2012 #49

Will never buy a Kitchen Aid mixer or dishwasher again PossumSqueezins Oct 2012 #8

When company management.. sendero Oct 2012 #15

Me, too and I won't either. It sure took the shine off my grandmom's mixer standing in my kitchen. marble falls Oct 2012 #21

I've boycotted since the 70's Marthe48 Oct 2012 #26

I know it's been said a million times, but montana_hazeleyes Oct 2012 #10

"why are these right wingers so hateful?" BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #11

How horrible, to attack one's dead Mema. fasttense Oct 2012 #13

That is heinous beyond compare. Foul, vile, and the end of any custom I gave Bluenorthwest Oct 2012 #20

Spot on. JNelson6563 Oct 2012 #33

Wow Blueprogress Oct 2012 #24

Even if this was about an unknown person it is in very poor taste. Kitchenaid will not be one of my jwirr Oct 2012 #30

I would fire that person immediately. AtheistCrusader Oct 2012 #32

And I was just going to buy a heavy duty kitchenaid mixer. montanto Oct 2012 #35

How tasteless. Mad_Dem_X Oct 2012 #36

Some people need to calm down. Beacool Oct 2012 #37

This message was self-deleted by its author 47of74 Oct 2012 #42

There goes my future purchases of KitchenAid budkin Oct 2012 #38

Ok nevermind, I didn't read that it was just some random employee budkin Oct 2012 #39

It wasn't a "random employee." It was the person hired to tweet on behalf of the company. yardwork Oct 2012 #44

Un-fucking believable! StarryNite Oct 2012 #41

The only way they could make up for this in my eyes 47of74 Oct 2012 #43

I like that idea. They need to do something to show they are really sorry Justice Oct 2012 #46

Imposible! That would imply KitchenAid is a person. Oh, that's right, corporations are made 24601 Oct 2012 #45

Too late fuckers!!! and-justice-for-all Oct 2012 #50