And that's the point of the commercial, Sally.

A commercial is aimed at the peoplel who will BUY the product... not just ride in it on the way to work.

So God made a 1986 El Camino.

The stupidity of the article is that the entire thing is about the writer being a bigot them self. Where are the African American farmers, Asian farmers, etc.... The writer should be banned for being plain out right stupid.

Logan-

I sure hope you were being sarcastic...otherwise that was the dumbest comment have ever heard. Are you really ok with painting an entire ethnic group, of any kind, with the same brush?

No, the stupidity of the whole thing is that the writer AND those protesting miss the real problem. If you want to reflect the current situation of the American farm, maybe a majority of the pictures should have included a bunch of board members in suits telling workers, migrant or otherwise, what to do. The "American Farmer" is a vanishing breed - most "farms" are owned and run by corporations, not folks in straw hats driving pickup trucks.

And Logan, thanks for the racist interjection. Just change "latino" for "Polish" or "Italian" or whatever and you will have the essence of the past rants about them thar durty furriners. Yeah, they are always lazy, they never want to learn English (which is NOT the official language - we have none), etc. And those durty furriners are often responsible for building this country up. Wnat to get rid of those awful migrant workers? Good. Hope you enjoy the idea of paying $10/lb for produce, if not more. And you want to know who is really responisble for all those workers? The people that hire them...and you.

they never want to learn English (which is NOT the official language - we have none),

Only because Congress was too cowardly to pass the law making it so.

Our immigration laws say that all immigrants have to learn English in order to become citizens of this country.... so English should be made the official language.

Instead, a passion for mollifying Hispanic illegal aliens and their activist groups prevented the most logical law of all time from being passed by our legislators.

This is the type of things that has turned American citizens against the Hispanic community and divided this country into racial camps.

Is an AD folks, not a political platform! Sheeeeez! Dodge/RAM obviously knows their market niche. I'm sure there are farmers in the United States from as many countries as you can name from A-Z. It's not an ad about Latino's or Asians, or African Americans or Germans. It's an ad about a freaking truck. GET OVER IT ALREADY!

Good, glad to see you are able to take quotes out of context. I'll bet I know what your favorite "news" channel is. However, we do NOT have an official language, no matter who you prefer to blame (maybe you could blame Franklin...I think he preferred German).

So illegal immigrants from countries that are not south of our border are just fine, even though they often don't learn English either. Have I got that right? After all, it is only the Latinos that are bad, all the rest are just fine. If you think that the only people here illegally speak Spanish you are a fool.

Couple of clues for you folks that like to whine about Latinos but really have no clue what you are talking about. The people that have "turned American citizens against the Hispanics" are not the Latinos...they are people with an agenda; people that must find somebody to vilify and align people against. Do you think immigrant farm workers would work on farms if those farms refused to hire them? Would they work anywhere if nobody would hire them? Would you? Want to stop illegal immigrants from working on farms? Go after those that hire them. And then be prepared to pay dearly for food. But, hey, at least you can pound your chest and crow about how we got rid of those awful illegals.

Those that point fingers and state how "lazy" Latino farm workers are have never spent a day, much less a season, working on a farm. These arguments are asinine.

In the meantime, we "legally" import talent to work in middle class jobs, such as IT. This is far more damaging to our country than people that perform jobs that most of us refuse to do. But who is talking about this? Fox News? Yeah, sure. Why, those folks are legal, so who cares if they are undermining the economy of our country? But let's all whine about people that keep our food affordable, more or less, performing jobs nobody else wants. When a certain southern state put their foot down and forced illegal immigrants out, it was a disaster to their farms. Why? Because everybody else was too lazy to do the jobs of the "lazy" immigrants.

To be clear, I think any group that whines about who is or is not in that Ram commercial is clueless. I knew a farmer that was Italian by birth (his mother, the awful immigrant, spoke no English...OMIGOD!), yet I was not able to specifically identify any of those farmers as Italian. Didn't see any that looked like my grandfather, either. Both of them drove pickups, too. And none of the looked Amish, either, but I doubt that is the demographic an automobile manufacturer is going after.

Sorry for the rambling, but I am tired of the whining about this topic. Learn more about it, all of it, and then make more informed posts.

can't WE just watch TV without everything be scrutinized !

besides most latino's I know like soccer more and not american football !

It is an advertisement selling a truck. Nothing more nothing less.

There's a difference between a farmer and a laborer. From my experience there's more latino laborers then there is latino farmers. This is of course from the mid-atlantic region I'm from, it maybe different in other areas though

Left wing nut job, You sure don't know many farmers do you? In my area we have large commercial farms, but they are by no means large corporations that sit around in suits. They actually do go out to their many fields and inspect them. They work if necessary too. It's just not all Mexicans. Sorry but you are way too uninformed. Don't worry about my credentials. I've been farming since I was 8 and guess what we still do our own farming. We don't even have mexicans to help.

As we continue to submerge ourselves in the vomit of political correctness.

The God Made a Farmer was my absolute favorite-- it immediately resonated. Brilliant and compelling!

But as to the asinine dispositions of those complaining about it, it is difficult to fathom a more exaggerated sense of entitlement to have everything be all about a particular ethnic group! That is not only truly "wierd", it is also insufferable:

"This is weird," said Julio Ricardo Varela, an NBC Latino contributor and founder of LatinoRebels.com, after he saw the commercial. In a column for NBC Latino, he wrote that "the reaction via the Latino social media space has been overwhelmingly negative for the simple reason that the commercial does not reflect the reality of the farming industry in the United States."

A lot of real whiners winners in the group. The story says it all: 71% of agricultural workers are Latino. "God made a farmer" may have been "just an ad", but it touted a product by imputing a divinely inspired work ethic to the other 29%.

And maybe there's a point to that after all: Migrants perform work of backbreaking drudgery that is as a far from divine as heaven is from hell. Anyone who thinks that this comes with an "exaggerated senses of entitlement" ought to try it for a season, then see what they think.

The exaggerated sense of entitlement emanates from the idiot raising a non-issue in the article.

But wait-- I just decided how positively upset and outraged I am and how wierd the ad was. The truth is, I just cannot believe that the God Made a Farmer commercial was not presented in French! Where was the French? That's so wierd! As soon as the Chrysler corporation realizes that there are French speakers in America, they will be better off! C'est necessaire parler Francaise! J'adore les frommages de chèvre!

Left Wing Nut Job

No, the stupidity of the whole thing is that the writer AND those protesting miss the real problem. If you want to reflect the current situation of the American farm, maybe a majority of the pictures should have included a bunch of board members in suits telling workers, migrant or otherwise, what to do. The "American Farmer" is a vanishing breed - most "farms" are owned and run by corporations, not folks in straw hats driving pickup trucks.

And Logan, thanks for the racist interjection. Just change "latino" for "Polish" or "Italian" or whatever and you will have the essence of the past rants about them thar durty furriners. Yeah, they are always lazy, they never want to learn English (which is NOT the official language - we have none), etc. And those durty furriners are often responsible for building this country up. Wnat to get rid of those awful migrant workers? Good. Hope you enjoy the idea of paying $10/lb for produce, if not more. And you want to know who is really responisble for all those workers? The people that hire them...and you.

#1.7

Hate to be a critic, but you missed the whole problem, but you are not far off.

Of course I don't know what region of the country you come from, but out in fly over country, i.e. the Midwest. Most (all actually) of the farmers I know are still "Family Farms" even though they have incorporated much of their operations for tax and inheritance purposes. So I, guess you could call them "Corporate Farms" but in name only, they are still family runs businesses.

But you are correct, the American Family Farmer is a vanishing breed. And is soon to be overtaken by the True Corporate Farm of which you speak. And boy look out when that happens. You people bitch when the Gas prices go up because of those Greedy Oil companies, wait until you get a taste of greedy food companies. You are already getting the Appetizer via, Cargil, Con Agra ADM, and Tyson. You want to rethink your bitching about Farm Subsidies as well, the best way I know of to keep a relatively cheap, safe and reliable food supply in this country is through the Family Farmer. Might be a good idea to look after them. But I am biased, even though I no longer do any real farming. (I just help out on occasion) You people might want to pay attention to what goes on, out here in fly over country, As city, folk, you are WHOLLY dependent on your food from here.

And from my perspective, the Superbowl Ad did an excellent job of portraying the farmer, and to some extent motivating the target audience, the next generation of farmers. If you didn't notice, there was an FFA logo below the Ram logo at the end of the Ad. The Ad wasn't only about Ram Trucks, it was also about future Farmers.

It looked to me like they had a couple Latinos, about 3/4 the way through, holding the peppers and behind the produce stand (b/w photo), I could be wrong. [and maybe that was what the complaint was about, Stereotyping ;-)] But as the population of farmers is about 98%(wag) white, my guess is they were just showing most likely demographic, I noticed only one woman in work clothes, and that just isn't the reality either, their are a lot of working farm wives. .

www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html

As far as the pejorative about Mexicans and Latinos in general. As someone with real world experience in the Construction, Ag, Landscaping and other businesses with high concentrations of immigrant workers...Logan is mostly correct. Why do you think Wal-mart made all their vendors, put Spanish on the labeling. other stores followed suit. why do you think you have to "push one, for English" and "el markay dos, for Spanish"

If I could I would sue them for discrimination against the Chinese, Irish, German, Vietnamese, etc. but my pockets aren't deep enough. Suffice it to say, we are in fact doing them a disservice, by allowing all this dual language stuff.

So illegal immigrants from countries that are not south of our border are just fine, even though they often don't learn English either. Have I got that right? After all, it is only the Latinos that are bad, all the rest are just fine. If you think that the only people here illegally speak Spanish you are a fool.

This argument is so tired. So where are the vast majority of illegals coming from genius? Do we really need to specify every nationality when we are talking about the problem? If we were to control our southern border and stop the massive amount of illegal Mexicans and other Hispanics flooding into our country, our illegal problem would be negligible. So logic dictates that when those of us who want to have our laws enforced and stop importing massive amounts of poor people, we will probably focus on where the bulk of the problem is, which is as you know south of the border. Come here legally that is all we want and it is a pretty reasonable request. Try viewing things without the twisted veil of political correctness, it's quite liberating to think rationally.

There are 11 million illegal aliens or more, in this country. The vast majority of them are illegals of Hispanic descent. LESS THAN 5% of those illegal aliens, of all nationalities, work in the fields. That means, on average, only 550,000 work in the fields. So, where do the other 10,450,000 work? In fast food, in grocery stores, in auto repair shops, construction, driving taxis, hotels, landscaping, under the table wherever they can. This is a commercial, freaking get over it, Latinos. YOU are NOT the only race in this country! You don't see the Asians, the Africans, the Chinese, the Middle Easterners, or any other nationality whining about it. Just Latinos.

This ad depicted farmers back in the 30 ies and 50ies.

Today the equipment and Hispanic do all the work and the frames rake in Billions

You think not , Just look at what Tulare county farmers make as a group. then look up how many people live here. It is Fu%$ing funny.

I will save you some time pop is less than 650,000 and total ag production is 5 fu^%king billion

mj899

This ad depicted farmers back in the 30 ies and 50ies.

Today the equipment and Hispanic do all the work and the frames rake in Billions

You think not , Just look at what Tulare county farmers make as a group. then look up how many people live here. It is Fu%$ing funny.

I will save you some time pop is less than 650,000 and total ag production is 5 fu^%king billion

#1.23

Yup, that's for sure, they had Axial Flow Case IH Combines with 40 ft heads back in the 50's, that's what my grandpappy taught me on. They also had 200 hp tractors with cabs and AC. Oh yeah those were the good ol' days.

And I believe they call that "suspension of disbelief" in the entertainment industry. The affect was to harken back to "the good 'ol days", and give it a more romantic appeal. I guess you fell for it.

But I will agree, the equipment, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars EACH, does a lot of the work. A new combine cost between $300k to $375 and another $30k to $50k for each attachment, header and picker. A tractor goes for $150K to $300k plus all the attachments that go with that, disks, cultivators, planters, etc. And even with all this fancy equipment, they will still put in 12, 14 hours days, just not as many as they used to.

I know dairy farmers who still get up at 4 am milk the cows work the rest of day, milk the cows again, 7/365. Vacation time for them is very rare.

But ask my three brothers how much work the Hispanics do? (careful they don't knock you on your a$$) Not around here any way. Maybe out in California.

And while I'll admit, since about 2008 the farm economy has been doing great, that hasn't always been the case. There was room for three brothers to take over my dad's farm, there wasn't room for more, economically speaking, which is why I am the dumb farm boy, because I volunteered to leave.

I am guessing you weren't around in the late 70's and the Carter Administrations culling of the nation's farmer herd. It was then that I learned of the MSM left leaning and misguided tendencies.

Something else you may not understand, if the cost of fuel, fertilizer, etc, goes up, the farmer is stuck for it. Farming is one of the few industries that BUY retail and SELL wholesale. They don't get to add the costs to the product they sell, they sell at what the market will pay. And the best part is, they are totally at the mercy of the weather, too much rain, too little rain, too cold, too hot, hail, wind, any one little thing goes wrong, and they are out.

And if you think the farmers are raking it in, remember this, even at $7/bu. there is only about $.27 worth of wheat in that $2.89 loaf of bread. The rest is labor and transportation. So who is really sticking it to you? Union labor? The Teamsters?

But you just keep bitchin', just be glad you can do it with a full stomach. I'll tell my brothers you said thanks.

71 percent of agricultural workers in the U.S. were born in Mexico and Central America,

This ad was aimed at farm owners not (mostly)illegal migrant workers. What a load of @!$%#.

Dumb Farm Boy painted an accurate picture of the area in the mid west where I live. This is the reality.

Idyllic farms hardly exist really. People, look at the darned sticker on the produce you have decided to buy OUT OF SEASON - It's traveled an AVERAGE of FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES. From idyllic farms in South America, Spain, Canada, Mexico.

What is more, the people portrayed in the advert are mostly cattle ranchers and that last scene with the truck, a factory pig farm in the background where pigs are caged in crates their entire lives. Not very romantic is it?

Fact is most of the corn/grain belt products are grown for animal feed. These aren't fruit and vegetable farmers featured in the advert. They are hard core producers selling to the meat industry. Not really romantic is it?

The people that have "turned American citizens against the Hispanics" are not the Latinos

Ah, so it isn't the latinos all over walmart blocking aisles and jabbering in spanish that irritate me. It isn't the latinos that demand their medicad welfare while driving an edge or cadillac that irritate me. It isn't the latinos working at mcdonalds that can't speak english to take my order right, and take up jobs so that my son, a teenage citizen, can't get them.

Glad you set me straight there.

This was a @!$%#ing tv ad for a truck. This author needs to get the @!$%# over himself as he is the bigot and racist @!$%#.

Dear Latinos,

If you were offended by the Dodge Ram trucker farmer commercial then you are not or ever will be a real american.

You will just be a cry baby Latino, and nothing more, who complains about everything.

My grand father, and now my uncle, still milk 50 head a day in up state new york and they employ NO immigrants or latinos. Our family still runs and works this farm.

Latino Rebels... how pathetic. The commercial was great.

Here is LATINO REBELS web page about themselves....notice the MAYHEM part at the end.

What a disgusting group.

Latino Rebels LLC is 100% owned by Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77 on Twitter). The Latino Rebels are a collective of social media influentials, bloggers, journalists, poets, writers, producers, photographers, and marketers. We use humor, commentary, opinions, independent stories, cross-links to others blogs, and our social media platforms to share our universe. We do this for the love of the game and to elevate the issues that matter to us and our community.

We are not just a journalism site, or a comedy site, or a music site, or a "Latino" site. We are a site that reflects the world views of about 20 like-minded Rebeldes. We are a site about us. We are new media, independence, and mayhem.

I call bullshlt on this article and the group latino rebels.

So, they complain that the commercial was all white people, instead of featuring some Hispanic farmers, but then they turn around and make one that features nothing but Hispanic farmers, instead of showing a mix of all the kinds of farmers we have.

Uh, yeah. Way to make your case there, folks.

That said, no matter which races and/or ethnicities were or weren't shown in the original, it had way better photography in it.

Dodge truck ads have had the cheesy "buy our trucks out of patriotism" theme for many years. The actor with the deep voice saying "glory" at the end of each commercial. I saw this ad as another cheesy version of it where they really ratcheded up the theme. I also think it was stupid as an advertsiement. It's a TV ad people! It is not a philisophical lecture from a professor ! IT is not a theological lesson. It's not gubmint policy and it's not going to be taught in school. Just a dumb TV ad - not a life lesson.

We needed people to cry wolf at every opportunity and nag about little & dumb things....

...so God made annoying people to complain about this commercial not showing Latinos.

Two families shown in the ad are working ranch families from Montana. Those people were simply living their daily routine and a photographer was there to capture it. Most places in Montana are exactly what you saw, tons of hard work and a love of the land.

herewego-619672

Two families shown in the ad are working ranch families from Montana. Those people were simply living their daily routine and a photographer was there to capture it. Most places in Montana are exactly what you saw, tons of hard work and a love of the land.

#1.35

Actually, Everybody, if you want to get technical about it, Herewego, is correct.

The question shouldn't be, "Where were the Latinos in the Ad?", but "Where were all the FARMERS in the Ad?" Most of the imagery showed ranches and ranchers, not Farmers.

But then again, most are really Farmer/Ranchers that is they both, till the land, and tend livestock.

The irony is that if Dodge made a commercial featuring only hispanics in the fields, those groups would be pissed off claiming more racism that "that's all people think of hispanics is that they work in the field." Stop the whiney bs & just work to become a valid American (that goes for all races).

Without immigrants, Americans would starve. In another odd twist, most farmers are Republicans and their employees are Hispanic. What's up with that?

Are you saying that without Republicans, Hispanics wouldn't have jobs?

No Jake, as has always been the case in America and other parts of the world, "necessity is the mother of invention", so instead of illegal aliens working for peanuts in the fields, Americans could have had real jobs making the machinery that cheap labor made impractical to develop. The other option of course would have been the going wage for field workers would have gone up to the point that Americans would have taken those jobs. Either way you look at it illegal aliens have been devastating to our country. I'm not anti-immigration or racist, that's just the way it is.

@ Jake - you apparently did not come from farm stock. FAMILY helped out family. Sure they hired people if the job was too big.

Latinos do not attend school meetings nor do they speak English. I have even been asked why I do not speak mexican. Probably I live in the United States and have no need to speak mexican.

THIS is why they were not included - the name of the Facebook page - Latino Rebels. Yeah - I want that for the Super Bowl ad. If they do not like it - leave.

Mexican is not a language you idiot!

thats the the new normal complain about everything, that's what sharpton and jesse jackson been doing for years and worked, so the latino activist groups have now started to catch on. because nobody wants anybody to get along or ALL these activists would be out of a job !

Jake Reyna

Without immigrants, Americans would starve. In another odd twist, most farmers are Republicans and their employees are Hispanic. What's up with that?

Without slaves cotton didn't get picked either. Sorry but you argument is just so ignorant. So we must have all been starving before the noble Hispanic came to pick our fruits and vegetables.

Reality is the ad is about Americans, not illegal aliens

No, reality is the ad is about selling trucks, but Dodge used imagery and the late, great Paul Harvey to tie their least-farm-used truck in America to farmers, and the vast majority of drooling mouth-breathers are going right along with it.

Don't you realize when you are being manipulated? Played? Conned?

I'm all for farmers, but this is a sale job, nothing more.

I'm all for farmers, but this is a sale job, nothing more.

When you get down to it, aren't they all just "sale jobs"? I mean, the Ford and Chevy ads make it seem like anyone who is interested in their trucks are either farmers, field workers, construction workers, or people who haul heavy loads. Don't even get me started on Toyota's ridiculous "we towed the space shuttle, yay us!" ads.

They con people into believing they need these vehicles for the 1% of the time (or less) that they may actually have a need for them. The vast majority of these trucks that I see out on the road haven't been used to "haul" anything more cumbersome than a few bits of lumber from a store, or maybe an appliance.

My gosh- you are an idiot. Where I live trucks haul hay, feed, fertilizer, equipment, pull trailers with livestock. "1% of the time"? Try hauling hay or pulling a loaded stock trailer with a car.

My gosh- you are an idiot. Where I live trucks haul hay, feed, fertilizer, equipment, pull trailers with livestock. "1% of the time"? Try hauling hay or pulling a loaded stock trailer with a car.

You speak the truth mi'lady!! I happen to live in a redneck town where the majority of the trucks are dodge (as is mine, love me a hemi!).

We have cowboys, ranchers, farmers and the best places to shop are Big R and the Grange!

Then you folks don't live ANYWHERE near where I do, because NONE of those behemoths do any work in my area, aside from hauling a few extra rugrats around to soccer practice.

Farmers DO need them, but the vast majority who buy them do NOT farm NOR work with these vehicles.

And Lisa, we can disagree and still be polite, at least we can where I come from.

well said Captiosus. thanks.

Have you seen the luxurious Lincoln PU ? or the Cadiallac PU ? Usually owned by lawyers who own acreage, a horse for the kids, and only hauls feed sacks.

I know an Asian farmer, so I'm pissed off they didn't show an Asian farmer in the commercial!!!

Who will join me in crying over that???

I will What the 81: I know a family in Hawaii, Okinawans came to Hawaii 80 years ago to work pineapples. Typical hard working, loyal as Norman Rockwell or John Wayne. Still in Hawaii. Adult children in nursing, fishing and the normal AMerican stuff. Kids are all A's and B's in school. Never got credit in a commercial but I don't think they own and Dodge trucks.

Fred- If you don't want to be considered an idiot, don't make claims that can't be substantiated. You just make yourself look the fool. Of course I know that plenty of "city idiots" buy trucks and just like to parade around town like a cowboy. But you can't state that only 1% of trucks are used for farming and ranching purposes. In my small town alone, your ratio is blown. You need to get out of the city, where, contrary to your observations, the majority of full-sized trucks are bought and used.

The ad is about SELLING a product by appealing to the emotional side of a person. They said "Hey, we like god too, buy our truck."

Exactly Jim. They are shilling for your dollar, nothing more.

Good point! I bet that hardly any of the hispanics bitching and moaning about this own a farm. In fact I would not be surprised to find out that all of them live in cities.

I live in rural TX and all the farm owners, who happen to be hispanic, that I know are just like any other American farm owner. The are Americans first and foremost and don't give a @!$%# about mexico or illegals.

There is a huge difference between a tax paying, American citizen(of any race) who owns his own farm and would be buying one of these trucks and an illegal alien, migrant farm worker, who sends 90% of his earnings back to the third world.

Cry me a river for the invading force of attrition!/s

Hispanics may be complaining, but how many overpaid urban/suburbanite white folks who think they need to go on the offensive on behalf of Hispanics are complaining. a Lot. because they don't understand it's an ad directed toward a specific customer group. It was not paid for by a politically correct school budget. It was paid for by people trying to sell something to a specific group. Next week they'll launch an ad on Univision directed toward hispanics and in that ad they will tell the Hispanics that "they" built America using Dodge trucks and so it's time to buy another. Then another on BET and tell the Black folks that "They" built America using Dodge trucks and it's time to buy another.

AMEN!

Nuff said.

If illegal inmmigrants, didn't do the farm work you would starve, dumb asses. Shows how little you know about reality

Picking lettuce does not qualify you as a farmer. Is this the kind of bellyaching that we have to look foward to if the illegals become citizens? Remember, this is America, not North Mexico.

Doug, read post 2.3 and see who's the DA. A hint, it isn't Joe, James, or I.

First off they are "ILLEGAL ALIENS" not the immigrant thingy, that is for those that come here legally and second off, you must own, rent or lease your farm in order to be a farmer. I do agree that anyone who doesn't like it here should leave ASAP. Need a boot?

For all of you who say we would starve to death without ILLEGALS. Think again nutjobs - why is it Southerns had huge families? Farm workers. F A M I L Y!!!! Read a book about history - OUR history - first before you spout off and then we know.

Make me leave. I was born here and I will die here. If you are so tired of us bitching, move up to Rhode Island or something or anywhere else for that matter. You are slowing us all down.

Ah, so you are an American that is desperate to be called something different and feel that Illegal Aliens have some sort of imaginary rights? Look, Americans have been farmers without any help other than family and friends and can EASILY be again, so what are you upset at?

Sorry for all those that think Latinos are the only ones that do work around here. There are still a lot of farms that could easily be done with just the farmer's family. My family has been doing it for years. With the technology we have it is becoming less and less needed to have large number of hired help.

If there were no illegals slaving away for next to nothing picking fruit and vegetables, there would be thousands of additional well paying jobs for Americans working in heavy equipment manufacturing.

Likewise those American workers would pay taxes and recirculate their earnings here in our country instead of getting paid under the table and sending most of the money back to the third world.

Too bad both political parties loves the cheap slave labor and will do nothing to protect us from this war of attrition.

If illegal inmmigrants, didn't do the farm work you would starve, dumb asses. Shows how little you know about reality

Actually we wouldn't starve, we'd figure it out. All the people on unemployment and welfare could have it made part of the condition of their government money to work a few hours in the field.

When I was a teenager I picked blueberries, when I get laid off in the dot com crash I worked in a vineyard for a season. You do what you have to do.

Sadly that mentality is on it's way out of our country because of this entitlement (welfare) mentality that the government has given the people.

Jose ... I do live all the way up here and you're still bothering me ... if a freaking commercial for a pick up truck about American Farmers offends you do us all a favor and drop off the face of the Earth. So sick of this crap.

If illegal inmmigrants, didn't do the farm work you would starve, dumb asses. Shows how little you know about reality

No, worse comes to worse, we'll just send all the deadbeats that collect welfare to work the fields.

Best trucks I've had, perform amazing in the winter weather (snow/ice). You wouldn't be disappointed!

If the stage setting was the past, there wouldn't have been shiny new 2013 Dodge trucks shown. Unless, you know, they had those in the 1960's.

Duh, that's the whole point of commercials: to advertise your product and try to tempt you into buying it. If the logo hadn't been there, who would you have given credit for the ad, the Anglo-Latino Coalition?

Without immigrants, Americans would starve. In another odd twist, most farmers are Republicans and their employees are Hispanic. What's up with that?

Please list a source for your post.

USAF,

My source is the article itself. And thank you for your service.

"The Ram truck is built in two plants, one in Warren, Mich., the other in Saltillo, Mexico. Italian automaker Fiat purchased Chrysler Group LLC in 2009 and owns a 58.5 percent share."

So for now on we should sub-title each and every persons immigrant background on all ads, shows and movies in order not to offend anyone! I want to know which of these people represented Italian immigrants, German, Irish, Jewish or French, etc! Get my point. This is getting ridiculous. I thought the ad was great depicting the "birth" of the American farmer. I'm all for the Latino population being treated fairly, but hope you get my point. My daughter in law is Asian, I didn't look or even think to look if there were any Asians, nor did she. UGH!

Just because I can't help myself one more thing. Someone noted that most Farmers are Republicans and the laborers are Hispanics. And I haven't a clue if that is true. But if it is, then that leaves a lot of Democrats who would starve without either if that is the case. So see how crazy this all is!

Pat,Loved your comments.We have many Asians in our family and they never point out the lack of Asians in commercials.They all call themselves Americans.Here in the Central Valley we also have Hmong's and Japanese who farm and they could care less about this advertisement.We have many Porteguese dairy farmers and none of them identify with Portugal,even those who immigrated from that country.They refer to themselves as American.This Hispanic group complaining is what's wrong with America.Why can't people proudly state that they are Americans and stop picking apart everything that they feel slights them or their race.

I'd be surprised that few if any are democrats. The ideology of democrats doesn't work with farmers. Farmers have high morals, common sense, and intelligence. Whoever thinks a farmer is dumb or uneducated doesn't know many farmers, and is otherwise uninformed. In my area I can't say I know any farmers that are Democrats. I sure am not.

Are they buying the trucks?

It says farmers not farm workers.

Have any of you guys noticed the latest advances in Agra-Robotics. In the future, I see a lot of those "Latino Farmers" rioting because there are no jobs for Farm Laborers. The problem we're having here in the U.S., is the perception that the U.S. is a "Magical Fantasy land" where all your dreams will come true. What will happen when the robots start taking those "Jobs American don't want" and dreams are not fulfilled?

Latinos don't pull their weight as farmers, they might make hard working farm hands, but lack the intelligence or education to be farm owners. One day after they have integrated into American society better, then maybe.

Logan, do you ever tire of this nonsense? Probably not. Lacking intelligence? It isn't the Latinos...more likely those that don't have the intelligence to avoid painting with a broad brush. Oh, and you might want to look up "Latino" in the dictionary and see just what that word means.

I live in a predominately Mexican neighborhood. I am white. In the year I have live here, NOT ONE of my neighbors have spoke to me. If I say hello or wave, they ignore me. They do not speak english, they play their music loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear, and get mad when you ask them to turn it down. I say if you want to be treated as Americans, then act like one. If you miss Mexico so bad that you have to turn the neighborhood into a little Mexico, then go back.

Maybe they're all from Hispania

Good one, lol.

Yes - nuke all the unborn baby gay whales and let's all get on with important issues. Truly is their not one thing we can stop whining over?

As president of the Unborn Baby Gay Whale Society, we find your comment wholly offensive.

Then you continue to be part of the PC problem

I see no issue with gay unborn baby whales. They have rights too. Also, your Bronco's logo offends us as well. Bronco's are known to roast and eat unborn baby gay whales.

Touche' PocketClam!!

I see you offer no value.

I see you like your own posts :-D

I am very upset that the God Made a Farmer commercial was not presented in French! Where was the French? That's so wierd! As soon as the Chrysler corporation realizes that there are French speakers in America, they will be better off! C'est necessaire parler Francaise!

screw the truck ....Just buy the local peppers local.

We HAVE to listen to the whiny babies now don't we? You know PC and all that cr@p.

Clammy, you shall be my new best friend!

i know he cracks me up. who says you can't have a little humor?

Yeah since you put it like that ....they will all leave for sure. Because nobody has ever said that before .....

Exactly, the reason they aren't farmers is because, contrary to popular belief, farming takes intelligence. You have to be hard working and have a business sense about you. Latinos are good at manual labor, hence this is what they do. Someday, their kids might get the education necessary to make good farmers, but right now they seem to lack either the drive or brains to own a successful farm operation.

Logan, I wonder how many farmers you actually know. I grew up in a farming community, and some of these farmers were some of the least intelligent people I've ever met. Hardworking and dedicated, without a doubt, but intelligent...not so much. That's one of the reasons that the "family farm" has been disappearing from the U.S.--farming is a business, and it takes a higher level of intelligence to effectively run a business these days than it did in the sepia-toned "good old days" that Dodge wants us to fondly remember.

As far as Latino farm owners go--I would guess that there are quite a fair number. Many of the farms where I grew up in central Illinois are now owned by Latino families that are legal U.S. citizens. Those Latinos are no more nor less intelligent than their Anglo predecessors. What's also interesting is that many of those Latino farm owners hire Anglo farmhands, which probably sets some heads spinning for those who believe that every Latino is an idiotic illegal immigrant.

How many farmers do you know, Ransom? The ones I know are some of the sharpest, hardest-working, learning people on the face of the earth. If you don't understand accounting, mechanics, algebra, trigonometry, computer useage, animal husbandry, appropriate fertilizer use, and on and on and on......... I would like to see you try to run a farm, Ransom, and see how long it takes you to run your family farm into the ground.

Stupid, indeed!

Bob, if you had read my post, you would know that I've known quite a few. The successful ones were smart. The ones who sold out (some of them to Latiinos) were not. My brother was a farmer, my father and one of his brothers was a farmer, my grandfather was a farmer, and so on back to 1883 in central Illinois, so I would say that I know a little bit about the profession and how important farmers were to the backbone of our country. Most "farmers" these days are business owners and know much more about business than getting their hands dirty.

My specific argument was with Logan, who is painting all Latinos as unintelligent, uneducated illegals, which is quite simply not true. The farmer who owns several thousand acres next to my brother's land (and rents some of my brother's land) is Latino. The farmer who owns the land that my father used to work is Latino. Neither of them are stupid, my point is simply to rebut Logan's rampant racism that Latino's are smart enough to be farmers, couple with the assertion that all farmers are smart (and therefore successful), which is also certainly not true.

And for what it's worth, I seriously considered following in the family tradition for a time. I have no doubt that I had the intelligence and business acumen to make it work, what I didn't have is the patience to deal with building an agri-business from the ground up and having to deal with a lot of the backward people who live in rural areas who have attitudes like Logan.

Ransom Stoddard1,Excellent posts.

1/2 of my nearest relatives own farms in Michigan. They are all multi-millionaires. The farm 1,000s, yes that is correct, 1,000s of acres of land. They employee no one outside of the family. They use combines that cost $250,000.00 dollars. Farming is big business. I stand by my statement that most latinos lack the drive and intelligence to be good farmers!

I live in Idaho and I don't know any latino farmers. I suspect that Logan is correct in that they just don't have the drive and/or business sense. They are smart, but they simple don't want to be farmers. They are happy where they are. I do know that because I talk to them.

"I stand by my statement that most latinos lack the drive and intelligence to be good farmers". That's a quote from logan. It's textbook racism. No, really, that quote could be in a textbook about understanding race.

"Most people lack the drive and intelligence to be good farmers." would be more accurate I think. For that matter, most people lack the skills to be lawyers, or carpenters, or whatever. We can't all be good at everything. I'm sure I'd make a terrible farmer, even though I'm white, very intelligent, and very hard working.

Ransom Stoddard1: What's also interesting is that many of those Latino farm owners hire Anglo farmhands, which probably sets some heads spinning for those who believe that every Latino is an idiotic illegal immigrant.

I'm confused. It is always said that only Latino illegal aliens will do the labor needed on U.S. farms. Where did those Latino farm owners find non-Latinos to do that work?

jrdrop, you're confusing "agricultural workers" who do things like pick lettuce with "farm workers" who operate equipment, tend to animals, and other tasks that are less menial that what the stereotypical job is that we associate with "illegals"

We could eat them

Wooooeeee.....Ok Then PocketClam....Easy now ...

Sorry, got a little carried away :)

I beg to differ. You CAN send them back. And SHOULD. If they are here illegally well I guess they just need to be arrested and sent back. Then tell the to try the legal route.

I've got no problem with any LEGAL immigrant from anywhere: North South East or West. It just needs to be legal. I don't care how long they were here, if they are not documented...it's adios time.

We do end up eating parts of them...why do you think we have so many food recalls for E coli?

My pops also Shawn .....He would be pissed if he was still alive.

I don't understand the entitlement mentality people have, as a whole -- not divided by ethnicity. THAT, children, is the problem in the world today.

I live in south Oklahoma City where we have a very large population of latinos. The problem I have with a lot, from interaction and experience, is that they do in fact have a lack of respect for people. Now, I'm white (be PC!! British, French, Cherokee, German, Polish American) so I don't know if it is toward all people but the disrespect I have witnessed by obvious illegals (I've seen their ID cards from other countries, reluctantly handed over at a register) here is appalling. I don't know if it is a cultural difference or "the way they were raised" but they are generally rude in all aspects of their interactions with "non latinos".

AND another thing... why is there always so much emphasis placed on race and ethnicity? Isn't the whole point to be viewed as equal to all other human kind?

Also, I get tired of seeing Mexican flags flying on vehicles (or on rear view mirros). We are in America. I highly doubt flying a North Korean flag would go over well either. Or Chinese. Or British. Unless it's in style, of course. (See: Mini Cooper)

I just can't take the "We want to be Americans because we love America!" claim serious when I see Mexican flags plastered all over their plastic chromed out Ford Expeditions. Oh, sorry, went a little stereotypical there, huh? My bad, ese.

it was in one of those books that the church decided (for you) that you didn't need to see

Joe, most of the "christians" that I know loved the ad because "God got some airtime."

I found the whole thing patronizing and pandering to a very specific demographic.

Ransom, that tends to be the nature of advertising - to target a specific audience, get their attention, and imply empathy. Probably the wrong ad to target university professors in Manhattan!