Offended by Pandas

Did you happen to see the Superbowl commercial that featured cartoon pandas talking with Chinese accents? Well, apparently the ad didn't go over very well with some people. According to the New York Times:

"THE sponsor of two commercials during Super Bowl XLII for Salesgenie.com, which drew complaints from viewers because of the characters’ ethnic accents, says he is sorry and promises to stop running one of them."

... and later in the story:

“We never thought anyone would be offended,” said Mr. Gupta, who developed and wrote both commercials himself.

“The pandas are Chinese,” he said. “They don’t speak German.”

Still, “if I offended anybody,” Mr. Gupta said, “believe me, I apologize.”

You can read the entire article here:

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