Boycott Wal Mart

[JeffDubya]

Man I hate to say this, as a Wal Mart Supporter... but since they are now in the business of attempting to censor free and patriotic speech...

BOYCOTT WAL MART.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/18/glenn-beck-boycott-censorship-or-good-citizenship?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl6%7Clink3%7Chttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/18/glenn-beck-boycott-censorship-or-good-citizenship

[JeffDubya]

More...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Boycotts-can-work-both-ways_-Wal-Mart-8127290-53691807.html

[gemstatemom]

Jeff,
I was on http://DefendGlenn.com today and noticed this:

DefendGlenn.com contacted officials at WalMart in Bentonville, including David Tovar, the representative quoted in Color of change's well-hyped press release (http://colorofchange.org/beck/release-walmart.html). They confirmed that WalMart, which was not even a sponsor of Glenn Beck's show on FoxNews Channel to begin with, has pulled its ads from ALL CABLE NEWS TALK SHOWS as of August 3rd, as a direct response to this "controversy". Tovar stated their reason for pulling all ads from "commentary broadcasts" was to "avoid polarizing our customers". This includes CNN and MSNBC. ALL PULLED.


Apparently the news columns you linked to took their info directly from the press release by Color of Change (the liberal, leftist organization pressuring advertisers to drop Glenn Beck) without verifying the info. No big surprise there. Color of Change made a number of false claims (LIES!) about companies that supposedly are pulling ads. DefendGlenn.com is tracking down each listed company to verify the "Color of Change" claims. Thus far, Walmart and Best Buy have both proven to be falsely added to the list of companies to pull support. In other words, Color of Change was deliberately misrepresenting them.

Walmart was never even a sponsor of Glenn Beck in the first place. However, they made the decision to pull ads from all cable news talk shows beginning August 3.


Given the circumstances, I am not sure this call to boycott is just. In addition, DefendGlenn.com has not put them on their 'turncoat' list of firms needing to be boycotted and contacted by Beck supporters.

I'm thinking I cannot fault a company from removing any connection to cable news shows, especially given the rising level of rhetoric coming from the liberal left media who delight in bashing all the ordinary, average citizens who are speaking out against this administration. The MSM is attacking a major percentage of the Walmart customer base!


For me, I'm not planning to join in on this.

[Heather Christianson]

Thanks Paula for the info. I have been thinking about the list of companies and saying to myself " I have been watching Glenn daily and dont remember a lot of those companies even being on there?" so now if makes some sense.

[JeffDubya]

Very odd... because Color of Change continues to stand by the story.

If I was Wal-Mart, I would have sued them six ways from sunday if the story wasn't true.

Something stinks here, and I think it is called "Plausible Deniability."

Additionally... and this is a fact... the groups who are boycotting advertisers are hardcore leftist organizations who would never in a MILLION YEARS support wal-mart. In fact as a long-time wal mart advocate I can tell you that I have never seen a leftist group do anything but oppose wal-mart. They couch their opposition in the language of "sweat shop goods from china" but the truth is that they hate the anti-union stance of Wal-Mart.

So Wal-Mart plays it safe. They pull their advertising, completely. But what percentage of advertising did they do on liberal stations? How many consumers did they gain through those efforts?

Sorry folks, but what you are doing is buying a line of propaganda. It's a free country and you can shop where you like. But this claim of pulling all advertising is a ruse, plain and simple. If "controversy" was the litmus test, they would probably be off every station but the hallmark channel.

You gotta hand it to them, they have smart folks who work in the PR department for a reason, and you have bought their excuse hook, line and sinker. I'm not buying.

[JeffDubya]

Thanks Paula for the info. I have been thinking about the list of companies and saying to myself " I have been watching Glenn daily and dont remember a lot of those companies even being on there?" so now if makes some sense.

If those companies didn't advertise on the program or on Fox news, why would they make such an overt political statement that they would cease doing so?

Let's say you're right, and they weren't there in the first place. The very act of making the statement that they will not support the program is overt and political. It shows you a company's true colors, regardless of the current expenditures.

[JeffDubya]

I'm thinking I cannot fault a company from removing any connection to cable news shows, especially given the rising level of rhetoric coming from the liberal left media who delight in bashing all the ordinary, average citizens who are speaking out against this administration. The MSM is attacking a major percentage of the Walmart customer base!

So... the MSM attacks YOU, Paula. Every day, all of your core beliefs. You are a nazi, radical, thug. That's what they say.

Wal-Mart is a company you and millions of other people like you and I have supported.

Their reaction to the rhetoric of the left is to abandon you and the sources from which you receive your news.

You can't fault them?

They just abandoned you.

And you can't claim they didn't, because conservatives weren't attacking them. So while they might try to camouflage their actions as bipartisan or non-partisan, I think the truth is somewhere closer to "let's dump conservatives and create a smokescreen to make us look better in the process."

[JeffDubya]

It is also interesting to note that defendglenn.com was somewhat forgiving of the Wal-Mart decision yesterday. However, today Procter & Gamble echoes that decision, and they are much more critical of P&G then they were of Wal-Mart.

If you read between the lines, I think the writers at defendglenn.com think they are being played. Wal-Mart and P&G have come up with a defensible game plan that is hard to attack or criticise because it seems reasonable. And plus when it comes down to it, we all love shopping at Wal-Mart!

Know what you believe in and TAKE A STAND. Even when it separates us from convenience and things we enjoy.

However, think about it from this perspective... say anything controversial and suddenly all advertisers pull support? Pretty soon all we have is vanilla coverage and no cutting commentary on the issues we care about. ANYTHING we say as opponents of the left is considered "radical." But pull the advertisers, ruin the economic viability of that outlet, and the eventual reality is... we have effectively lost our voice.

[JeffDubya]

While taking a look at this issue again tonight to respond, I ran across this comment on a liberal blog. Paula, Heather, I think the author was talking about you...

"Freepers have vowed to boycott any company joining the Glenn Beck pull-out. Somehow, I don't see them abandoning Wal-Mart. Heh."

I dunno what "Freepers" means, unless it's some kind of bastardization of "Three Percenters" (http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=141500) (closest I could come to with my feeble brain) but it woud seem that they, like Wal-Mart, think that we white trashers are going to give wally world a pass just because we really love shopping there.

[JeffDubya]

The addition of Walmart to the list is particularly amusing and/or pathetic. The leftwing busybodies taking part in the Glenn Beck boycott are exactly the same types who typically avoid shopping at Walmart, and even lead campaigns to keep the stores out of their neighborhoods. So in this particular instance, the notion of a "boycott" is a joke. Walmart shoppers are much more likely to be Glenn Beck fans. Period.

http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Walmart-CVS-Best-Buy-join-Glenn-Beck-boycott

[The Grand Pooh-Bah]

I for one will not join a boycott just because they choose not to advertise on a show I don't even watch. Maybe they will save the money and lower prices at the store.

[FireOfLiberty]

I will be completely open about this. I use Walmart for toiletries, cat food, batteries and a few other things like that. The money I save allows me to afford to do business with local companies like Tri-State and downtown Moscow. Once upon a time I shopped at Walmart quite a bit (since 1986 in Houston Texas) but then I began to see the very rapid growth of goods imported from China (Late '90s).

China is a slave state. Its people are repressed, they murder infants, kidnap women and abort their babies, their manufacturing plants are forced labor camps and they terrorize Human Beings for their religious beliefs. The imbalance of trade between us has cost us many jobs and much treasure.

I boycott Walmart because many of the things that they sell are made by Slave Labor - That is all the reason I need. If I could afford to do so I would not spend a single cent at Walmart.

Regardless of the other reasons and Glen Beck, I encourage you all to reduce your use of Walmart as much as possible.

[69800]

Every dime you spend in Walmart leaves the state and kills local economy. I buy from TriState and Spence only. I also look to find products made close to home. Just like putting your money in Bank of America or Chase... It goes straight to New York. There is a reason for buy local
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