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Judith Apter Klinghoffer

DANISH ARTICLE ABOUT "BUY DANISH"

As I noted before our efforts are not going unnoticed in Denmark. I was just sent this link today. Politiken is one of the leading national papers in the country. You do not need to know Danish because our readers were kind enough to translate. In any case, you will recognize History News Network, Little Green Footballs and the American Thinker as well as well as the list of recommended products and "SuperBowl parties."

Here goes:

"Americans are making a 'buy danish-campaign'
Denmark has been isolated and with few friends the last couple of days. But now the audience with the worlds biggest purchasing power, are willing to buy danish products and support little denmark."(Thank you Mr. Molin)
"Americans are making a 'buy Danish-campaign' Denmark has been isolated and with few friends the last couple of days. But now the audience with the worlds biggest purchasing power, are willing to buy Danish products and support little Denmark."(Thank you Mr. Molin)
The Americans start "Buy-Danish campaign" Denmark has been isolated and with few friends the last couple of days. But now the worlds richest consumer audience wants to buy Danish goods and support little Denmark.
In the last few days many Danish companies feel themselves a bit alone in this world - isolated and struck by boycott.
But the case with the Muhammad-cartoons has reached the ears of the worlds most purchase-able (sorry couldn't find a word hehe) audience. And there (e.g. America) there is much needed support for the Danish companies.
Large networks like CNN and MSNBC cover the diplomatic crisis, and in the political underground on the Internet, several popular webbloggers criticize the Muslim reaction to the satiric(?) cartoons.
Many Americans want to support Denmark.
The wrath is so powerful that, according to Berlingske tidende (www.berlingske.dk another of the countrywide dailies, Politiken being a leftie, and the berlingske a conservative) a counterpart to the arabic boycut, a Buy-Danish-campaign has been launched. Judging by the reactions on the web the campaign has fairly many Americans participating.
"It is actually encouraging, the rate at which this campaign spreads. Thanks, guys, for helping to spread the message" says the popular weblog, History News Network, who organized the campaign, after readers of another weblog Little Green Footballs (Små grønne fodbolde :-) ) had incited each other to buy Danish goods.
Danish Beer for the Super Bowl Sunday good advice on how to buy Danish products in the US began to pop up:
Lego, ham, butter cookies, royal porcelain,Gevalia-coffee, B&O, Havarti-cheese - and - not least, beer.
Danish breweries can therefore expect a nice increase in revenue in connection to the upcoming final match in American football - the Super Bowl.
"Serve Danish beer, when you meet for Super Bowl. And a ham- and cheese sandwich sounds nice too", a reader writes on HNN.
"Stands up against Islamic fascism" One of the largest American weblogs, The American Thinker, has joined the "Buy-Danish-campaign" to support "a little country", who during the second world war stood up against nazism and "not just put up with Jews being sent to KZ-camps. So they smuggled them to Sweden instead."
"Maybe Denmark will now take the credit of being the first European country to oppose the Islamic fascism" says The American Thinker according to Berlingks Tidende.(Thanks, Henrik)

I have also received a copy of an interview with me about our campaign in JP. I will post a link when I find one.

We are standing up to evil. So, don't forget go out and buy stuff.

Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 10:38 AM | Comments (4) | Return

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