When Life Gives You Lemonade…
Chuck Murphy explains how a neighbor's grudge, some savvy marketing, and a gullible media combined to convince the world that Florida police had arrested a six-year-old girl for selling lemonade without a license.
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Moral Number 1: Don’t pick a fight with a PR consultant. Moral Number 2: Never, ever, take anything a PR consultant says at face value. Never. If she tells you her mother loves her, get corroborating evidence.
Obvious bs. Shutting down a lemonade stand? For that level of mustache-twirling evil, you’d have to look to the private sector.
Hollywood take notice. I can smell a comeback for Chevy Chase in this thing.