Boycott Kellogg’s, Support Ronaldo
February 9th, 2009 by Perry
In the latest twist that is the Michael Phelps photo.
Ronaldo, a fallen Brazilian soccer star, recently came out in support of Phelps, although, I don’t know how much Ronaldo putting his name on the line helps these days. The Telegraph, a leading British paper, recently called the swimming star “disgraced” after the incident in an article referring to the support.
Disgraced? I wouldn’t go quite that far. I mean, if you look at from a bad PR standpoint, he could have done much worse, and Ronaldo knows this all too well (A Google search of the soccer star’s name and the word “transexuals” currently yields about 631,000 results, in case you don’t know what I’m talking about.)
Another bizarre twist includes a petition calling for a Kellogg’s boycott, because it recently announced it was dropping Phelps as an endorser. Getting stoners to vote is one thing, getting them to boycott junk food? Not likely. But it places the everyman stoner in a strange dichotomy. Marijuana users are a pretty large group that consume Kellogg’s branded “stoner food” (i.e. Pop Tarts, Rice Krispies, etc.) and to off a spokesperson that’s seen smoking weed seems a bit hypocritical. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Even members of the law enforcement community have shown support for Phelps — talk about a mixed message.
Personally, I like Phelps on the Green Party ticket in ‘16.
