Thank you for all this information on this. It was completely unncesssary to say what Ms. Bernhard said. It came out of pure hate.

From the above "list" link look at Citizenship, commitment, and priciples. The type of advertising Lauder is using with Sandra Bernhard opposes almost every prnciple listed. Are they serious about their commitment to citizenship or is it just lip service? This ad is hurting the image they are trying to project.

everyone's offended these days. grow a pair, ladies.

jarjar: everyone's offended these days. grow a pair, ladies.

"You First, You 'Cracked Out, Welfare Dependant, Moonbat Democrat, Nigger-Lipped Whore"

You be cool with Sandra/MAC/Estee Lauder running that one, right JarJar?

Sure, except for the ethnic slur.

Yeah, please leave the politics out. Just concentrate on Sandra's DSLs.

JarJar, what a bunch of BS. Why the hell should I buy products from a company that obviously doesn't respect me or want my business?
Think about it. Would you buy stuff from a company that is obviously anti-whatever you are (most likely a partisan Democrat, but I won't assume).

Don't be so obtuse. We didn't get our *feewings* hurt, we just DON'T LIKE stupidity and nastiness. NOR WOULD YOU.
It's amazing how intellectually dishonest some people are.

Buy Blue lately?

/eyeroll

Great post, ladies! It's so sad that makeup has become political.

But, speaking from experience as a former Democrat, Republican women are the hottest BY FAR. Trust me. I've been to both sides political events and the GOP babes are WAAAY better to be around. :D

if you don't like stupidity or nastiness, why are you a Republican?

Yeah, 'cuz, as a Republican, you're gonna get a lot of that stupidity and nastiness tossed your way.

JarJar: Sure, except for the ethnic slur

You don't see "thin-lipped" as an ethnic slur? How about "slanty-eyed"? You can't even see your own bigotry.

"the services of a hate-monger who out and out attacked every single Republican women with her statement '...little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch'"

How does that attack "every single Republican woman?" That was just one descriptive word in the whole rant. I don't think Sandra was implying that all Republican women are by definition thin-lipped, or frightened, or little, or a bitch, or freaked out, or even right-wing. She was outlining a very specific sort of woman, which required a lot of descriptive words beyond Republican. Otherwise, she would have just said Republican.

You have to have a really thin skin not to see that.

Well... I don't buy the stuff, and I've made sure my wife won't. I sent the following...

Well - guess you don't want any of my money... I'll make sure my wife and a host of others do not spend any more money on your products.

That BIG freaked out, intimidating, REPULSIVE, LEFT-wing DEMOCRAT FAT-lipped bitch cinched it for me - and 95% of the friends I've shown the ad to.

Keep politics out of your ads, apologize and offer Republican affiliated voters 25% off on the product for a month - and you ~might~ stave off catastrophic consequences... but, I doubt even that will save you.

Beside,what makes it even worse is that most of estee lauder brands are made in FRANCE.....I have been and am still boycotting french products...

I sent the following DIRECTLY to Estee Lauder:

Re: Your *hateful* M.A.C. Cosmetics Internet campaign.

I am returning one Clinique product. Will never buy any Estee Lauder products ever again.

Some people would be happy to accept an apology. I maintain that the ad should never have been made in the first place.

And I'm not even a Republican!

Sincerely,
Julie Kelleher

THIS MESSAGE DOES *NOT* GIVE THE RECIPIENT PERMISSION TO USE MY EMAIL ADDRESS IN ANY ADVERTISING SOLICITATIONS.

She said, "right-wing Republican." That is liberal code for Christian.

It's almost funny to see the lib Dims come out in support of intolerant, race-baiting, culture demeaning, ethnic slurs. At least they are not bothered by that hobgoblin of consistency with their hypocrisy.

They've always held that hatred is ok, for those who don't blame America first and who are proud to be Americans and who will defend the freedom and peace for the whiney assclowns who would abuse the same. Their idea of freedom is to suppress those with differing beliefs, such as their idea of supporting the troops is to have them surrender in Vietnam and Iraq.

They are soooo predictible. And they wonder why they always suck in the one poll that counts - the elections.

grow a pair, ladies.

Kind of funny. Liberal women look like men, why would we want to?

Besides her comment being rude, she's incredibly unattractive. I concede she has nice lips, but I sure wouldn't want to look like her.

Wow, I'll never buy MAC products again. The Republican comment of course is offensive; but I had no idea they were marketing to bitter, old hippy bags. I cannot relate. "These lips are from the '60s." Who cares? Will this era ever stop wimpering and just go quietly off into the woods and die?

someone's offended. call the waaaaaahmbulance.

I had to laugh at a lib telling a lady to "grow a pair". He/she has no clue that conservative females LIKE being female and only like "pairs" on our men.

Liberal men don't have them, so the women need them I guess?

The great thing about this ad is that it took me to your site for the first time! Great site, I'll be back!

Yes, sure. Boycott Estee Lauder.

That's exactly what pro-terrorists would want. Estee Lauder has been the victim of an Arab boycott for years.

Their ad was stupid, they have now corrected it. That's not a cover up, it's a smart response which should be applauded not sneered.

I would urge you to save your outrage for more worthy causes and reconsider your position on this one.

Here's the letter I sent. I guess I should be used to this kind of thing by now, but for some reason this really got me angry.

Imagine if the situation had been reversed - " ...left-wing Democrat thick-lipped bitch" is about as directly opposite as I can make it. Used in a marketing piece. For a division of a big, publicly-traded company. The outrage would be huge, and justifed IMHO.

Anyway, I'm sure our liberal elite "betters" are getting a big laugh out of all of this over there at the trendy M•A•C marketing department. I'm sure this only reinforces their sense of superiority, but I'm sick of their attitude towards people like me.

I vote Republican and I vote with my wallet too.

-Cody

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Attn M•A•C Corporate Leadership:

I have been a loyal M•A•C customer for many years. I've spent thousands, probably tens of thousands, of dollars on M•A•C cosmetics. Now I feel mighty stupid for having done so.

I will never spend a single penny on any of your products again.

You can thank your marketing people and spokesmodel Sandra Bernhard for that.

I suppose I am what your company regards as a "…little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch" even though I am none of those, except a Republican voter.

Thanks for letting me know what you really think of me although I'm now certain you're not at all interested in what I think of you.

There's a lot of competition in the fashion & beauty industry. Yours will get my money from now on. I'm sending this message to Estée Lauder as well, and will be happy to avoid not only the M•A•C brand but all of the brands listed below.

Sincerely,
xxxxx
(Name and email address not to be used for public distribution or commercial solicitation of any kind)

Estée Lauder
Aramis
Clinique
Prescriptives
Lab Series Skincare for Men
Origins
M•A•C
La Mer
Bobbi Brown
Tommy Hilfiger
Kiton
Donna Karan
Aveda
Jo Malone
Bumble and bumble
Michael Kors
Darphin
Rodan + Fields
American Beauty
good skin
Flirt!
Donald Trump, The Fragrance
grassroots
Sean John Fragrances
MISSONI

not only do you broads have thin lips, but you also have thin skin. someone's offeeeended. stop the presses!

and lol at those who think i'm a lib

I don't see her as a very good spokesperson for makeup because she just isn't very attractive. I think that lip plumper made her look worse. Ever heard of trout pout? Yuck.

They did take the Republican bashing out of the ad, but she still goes on about the 60s and "Flint, Michigan". Didn't anyone tell her Michael Moore isn't really from there? Jeez.

Why would anyone want makeup that makes them look like Sandra Bernhard, anyway? Haven't they noticed she's remarkably hideous?

^Hatshepsut hehe, true

Hey... I might have left the bar with her in a pinch, but only if it was getting close to last call and I was really drunk.

Here's the link to the unedited original video on YouTube.

Yes, she really does say that.

Dear M.A.C. company,

Redeem yourself to the Republican women of this Country. Make the women of the Cotillion "the blog fresh faces" of your products. Nobody has ever done that angle of advertising before. We will even bring our tiaras to the photo shoot. Please provide Top-shelf Margaritas, put us up in a five star resort for 5 days, with airfare paid for and we will call it even. We would defintiely help your company move up in exposure and stock! We will even blog about the experience which will bring you free exposure and advertising.

Greta & the Cotillion Gals

Two words, ladies: Mary Kay.

I just stumbled onto your site!
I sent MAC a little love note.(see below) I will let you know if they respond! Thanks for sharing this story! I will be a frequent visitor to your site from now on!

Re: http://www.maccosmetics.com/whats_new/plushglass_video.tmpl
To whom it may concern:

In regard to this "ad" which has shown up on your website, I would like an immediate apology or retraction of this ad or I will be compelled to take my business elsewhere.
I have been a user of MAC cosmetics for many years. I have also spent many thousands of dollars on your sister brand La Mer. I have been invited to and have participated in trunk shows at my local Neiman Marcus (Short Hills, NJ) when new product lines debut. I am disgusted that one of your spokespeople has been allowed to politicize your brand and make obscene and derogatory remarks as part of an advertising ploy. I trust that you will make this right; pull this ad and issue an apology to your customers. Thank you for your kind attention and anticipated courtesies with regard to the above.
Very Truly Yours,
"msintheforest", Esq.

You know what? Let's not let them get away with something like this for once.

Of course it's not the biggest issue in the world. But it's somehow so personal when a company whose products I use every day decides that it's in their best interests to insult me for no apparent reason.

Write a letter. Can't we be free of the political Left's hatred and vitriol at the makeup counter, at least?

Cody,

You are absolutely correct - they shouldn't slink away from this one. And even if it is a small issue in the grand scheme of life - it's still important. The small things culminate into the larger issues and in this case - it's the rabid hatred of all things conservative by both the elitist hollywood and leftist crowds. I for one have had enough of being bashed by them and specially through a company at which I spend hundreds of dollars annually.

I think this has angered me so much not in spite of its triviality, but because of it.

I'm not upset that Sandra Bernhard says such things. Free country and all that. But a major national cosmetic brand embracing it as their public image? The subtext of this message: Shut up and do as we say, Republican bitch, or we'll mercilessly hound you everywhere no matter how unrelated or inappropriate.

Nothing, it seems, is out of bounds anymore.

Just found your site. Beautiful! Will come back to visit again. I am also an avid makeup buyer. I adore makeup. My main makeup of choice is Liz Arden [hey they have Catherine Zeta-Jones!] -- I would never buy makeup to look like Sandra bernhard -- eew! and certainly a company that sells products to women should never refer to us as b*tches, I dont care what your political stance is. I've already emailed MAC and Estee Lauder. I will certainly be telling every female I know..and as a bartender.. I will also tell all my cutomers. I am outraged and no matter what solution they come up w/will never buy their makeup. In fact going home to throw away any of their products I've bought in the past.
--There are plently of makeup companies out there w/out buying from one w/such mean spiritedness.

Am I the only one here who saw the video and thought, "This would have made an incredible MST3K short"? I mean, her facial contortions are so awful, they undermine the whole point of the commercial, and as a result I can't even get annoyed when she makes that comment about some timid frightened right-wing Republican thin-lipped b*tch -- her whole face-scrunching thing, and the strange shapes her mouth forms as she goes through her little speech about the 1960s and eating a Belgian waffle in New York City and throwing you onto a bed and ravishing you, make her look so freaky and unattractive. It's like watching somebody with six missing teeth and one eye an inch higher than the other one, striding into the room with absurdly overblown confidence, thinking she's drop-dead gorgeous and bellowing at your female friends to eat their plain-Jane hearts out.

I would dearly love to have seen what Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo might have done with this. I can't BELIEVE the company thought this performance would sell makeup. Unless the company is gambling that scrunching up your face and thrusting out your all-too-noticeable fish lips while you're talking is going to be the next "in" thing among the nation's Bush Derangement Syndrome set.

rethuglican bitches are still crying over this? get a life you politically correct broads. :D

JarJar,

Hello - really you are telling the ladies to get a life - yet your life is so pathetically lacking that you find yourself back at this blog for the third day in a row - even after getting your "pair" handed back to you by several of the "politically correct rethuglican bitches". How about you take your advice and well just go get a life ;) See you tomorrow - cause I know you will be back for more lovin' from us ladies :)

Wow....don't any of you have anything more important to argue about? It's makeup for goodness sake. If youre a republican...so what. get over it. People are judged and slurred at each day whether theyre black, white, fat, skinny,republican, or democrat, and yes its tasteless and rude but what isnt tasteless and rude these days in our society? I say you suck it up and go worry about something a little more important than this....just a suggesstion.

Christina,
This is a commercial. We are consumers. Consumers have a certain amount of clout. I don't think that the parent company was even aware of that sentence in the commercial, and we brought it to their attentions.

And we do worry about a lot of things more important than this issue, but you know, words are important. They have meaning, and if you allow someone to call you a thin lipped bitch and you don't stand up to them, well, they will call you worse tomorrow!

First - I'm heartened to see that we GOP Foxies like good makeup. I am a big Mac and Estee Lauder user. What a slap in the face to go to the MAC website and see that stupid ad. If I went to a Sandra Bernhard performance, I'd expect to hear that and more, but not at a site where I'm just about to buy something. Obviously, I did not buy. But I am glad Estee Lauder has apologized. No harm, no foul there. I'm still wondering if I'll ever buy MAC again...

I'm a Democrat through and through, but I despise MAC (for their reduction in quality since joining EL, as well as shady ethics), so I'm thrilled with all the uproar.

Jesus Christ. Sandra gets more incensed every year. My ex wife thought she was funny up till oh, 10 years ago. Now she's no better than Michael Moore. God what a (false)generalization she makes about women of [fill in favorite way of thinking or political party insult here].

My mother is one of those "pouty lipped right-wingers that collect Hummels and speak softly". OK that was my description. Sandra, to that I say, don't let that belief in modesty, respect and fine living fool you . She would knock you out of your chair for such disrespect. She, at 63 now, could still probably do it and her sister would hold you down while the asskicking commenced.

And I'll be holding the camera.

Keep it up Sandra, YouTube, myspace, and a plethora of other places are readily available to "viral" your little Vagina Monologues.

This is my email sent to M.A.C. today.

Re: "...little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch"

I am a 63 year old male, who has always bought Estee Lauder products as gifts for any number of women I have met in my lifetime. As recently as two weeks ago. A young 19 year old woman that I work with has never used lip stick. I arranged for a sales lady to help her pick out a color of lipstick and any fragrance she chose.
I can assure you that I will never do this again. I will find another manufacturer to but from.

These are my sentiments as well;

" I will not purchase another product from MAC or any of the Estee Lauder brands until an apology is issued and Ms. Bernhard is removed as your spokesperson - because she obviously does not espouse tolerance and beauty. Until then I will take my business to a company that truly believes in their values."
Here, http://cotillion.mu.nu

Jim Treat

Companies like Estee Lauder that behave this way are so short-sighted. A very good cosmetic/skin care line available to everyone (including maligned conservatives!) is Artistry - offered through Quixtar. Actually, the soon-to-be Republican candidate for governor in Michigan is Dick Devos, a principal in Alticor (parent company to Quixtar). Here is a link to Artistry:

http://www.quixtar.com/products/content.aspx?pid=1484&ctg=1702

Hey JarJar... as has been pointed out our men have "the pair".. we aren't required to buy anything from a company as stupid as Estee Lauder has now proved themselves.

I haven't seen anyone nearly as hateful as you.. so if you are liberalism at its best.. it isn't doing so well..

And I challenge you to grow a few brain cells and look up the idea of censor vs censure, and realize that if you are stupid enough to use your freedom in speech in a way that someone else doesn't like they aren't required to buy movie tickets, concert tickets or recordings or make up.

We just don't have to.. so if your really wierd advice of "growing a pair" to women still stands, I am going to point out. .we have.. by speaking out.. making a noise and refusing to buy something from someone that doesnn't give a hoot about us or our feelings. We aren't forced to be sheeple like your side of the aisle.
Get a grip darling.

If you want the quality of MAC but not the garbage visit www.emmert.unfranchise.com. This is a company, and my wife as an independent distributor, that stood beside our President on 9/11 in the GAMA (Get America Moving Again) program.

WOW Where to begin?
Jar Jar, I am not sure you are aware; but as a woman I have a pair...a pair of breasts and a pair of ovaries. Need I say more? I believe our 2 pair wins over a single pair any day.
I read a few Waaaa’s and I think it is actually Sandra who is whining.
It is obviously she who has the problem she which she deems necessary to share with the world.
Saraphina, I have to agree with you. Sandra's lip contortions had a life all their own.
They stumble all over her face like those of a drunken schizophrenic clown.
TUI? {Talking Under the Influence}
There’s no question, hence her need to over emphasis her “soliloquy�.
Some may think its only makeup…uh ya.
However, do you really think it’s makeup that is the problem here?
What is taught to children all around the world in various family incomes and many religious sectors? We teach that name-calling is not the way to handle anything.
This is hate dispersed flippantly.
We should not blow this off, as “It’s just Sandra and her mouth again�.
Even Howard Sterns’ over the top, in your face, adolescent without taste style has become Passé’. {Out-dated, whack, tired, etc}
MAC had a choice to make prior to airing this and it was obviously not.
It wasn’t that long ago we as women were not allowed to vote.
We still do not have an equal income to a man in the same position.
We are not treated equally in many countries.
Try to purchase a car without a man and watch the sales man speak to you as if you are an elementary school child.
Why would a makeup company geared to a large percentage of women, and whom is trying to promote a product with an edge, call any of its potential clients names?
They chose political fence playing and Whoops fell off the edge.
Now these actions will force them to suffer some consequences.
Glad I bumped into your site.

Good grief.

Ann Coulter can go on for years about liberals and democrats and not one of you have a thing to say. Sandra Berhnard says boo and you all get the vapors.

Looks like you have some pretty thin skin to go along with those thin lips.

Like all bullies, conservatives can dish it out but they sure can't take it.

Jimbo just because we're conservatives it doesn't mean that we walk in lockstep with Ann Coulter. I've disagreed with her loudly and publicly on many things. Not every conservative believes that bomb throwing invective is the best way to make a point.

However it looks as though you feel the need to resort to insults and name calling to make your points. Maybe you should reconsider your criticism of Coulter's style since you seem to be happy to imitate it.

And like a liberal robot, Jimbo2K6 breaks out the inevitable Tu Quoque argument - "oh yeah? Well you guys are mean tooooo!"

Note to libs: that doesn't make you look any better, just pettier.

I'm sorry - what company hired Ann Coulter to sell a product? Oh, right... There isn't one.

Hey CODY,
I just ran into your blog/archive about the MAC-SB ad campaign. I have been preparing a short essay with the intention of sending out to 50 fashion/women's magazines. And although I harbor little hope that it will get published, the article's main thrust is to voice the erroneous profile of the conservative woman and dispel some of their stereotyping. This ad and the reaction to it is timely indeed for my research.
Personally, I'm continuously frustrated with the rhetoric, approach and messages that are conveyed in these magazines that I have also stopped purchasing them. So, for those of you libs who think we're just whinning, who gives!!! My dollars are as good as yours and I expect the same respect and consideration you should grant any human being independent of gender, color, or political affiliation.It irks me to realize that my preciously earned dollars have gone to pay this ....contorted, unattractive has been actress/comedian? just so she can insult/demean and reveal her yet ugliest side.
I am a full lipped, latin-asian-caucasian whirlwind, energetic and outspoken, proud of the job I'm doing raising four kids, with a solid 3 digit IQ, trained as an Architect, with 2 masters, working from home and very happily married. I love fashion/beauty products and my voice is not SB's voice. I'm also conservative to the bone in principles, morality and political affiliation. I don't give it a rat's bottom if SB feels this way, I do care if she's used as a spokesperson in an important company which is competing for a slice of a billion dollar slice of pie (Beauty products). So let me protest in piece, I'm protesting lack of respect. At least I (and my fellow "ladies in RED") don't go around writing about our vaginas or giving more value to a terrorist's life than a child from our womb!
All I need...is a little respect....Famous words, right Tina?
(I know I sound pretty P O'd but I did get a bunch of good laughs reviewing everyone's postings.)
Lin-Dai K.(Lastsamurai)

Addendum:
Before any one gets on my case, I wrote piece when I meant PEACE....ooops.

Lin-Dai

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I voted for a Democrat for senator because the Republican running in the last election was so far to the right that I found him scary.

What bothers me about many, not all, of the above blog comments is the name-calling. Despite the actual problem being stated with name-calling of Republican women by a spokesperson for a cosmetic company that is what I am seeing on this blog.

I just e-mailed Kenneth Cole (a company that sells handbags and shoes) for an ad run in the September 2006 issue of Vogue magazine on pages 210-211. It reads, With the government recording personal phone calls, our rights aren't the only thing on the line. Are you putting us on? - Kenneth Cole.

I had just purchased a Kenneth Cole handbag about six weeks ago and loved it. The ad made the connection of carrrying the bag and a political statement. I will not ever purchase another Kenneth Cole product. The company can't come back from this for me. I thought all that ads were supposed to do is to sell a brand. Silly me, I thought companies were in business to make a profit.

I hope that Kenneth Cole's ads make Democrat women more likely to purchase its products than it does make Republican women less likely to purchase them. Political statements need to be kept out of marketing. Think Dixie Chicks.