they advertise, you decide
Aug. 9th, 2009 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogOne of the vilest aspects of this summer aside from the weather has been the concerted effort of FAUX News to promote hysterical misinformation about healthcare reform as well as racist smear and innuendo about (a) immigrants and (b) our President: you know, the guy who got the majority of the country's votes despite the best efforts of Rupert Murdoch's corrupt, profoundly anti-democratic empire.
You'd have thought FAUX might have paused for a little introspection on the hatemongering front after their "contribution to public debate" led, directly or indirectly, to the murder of Dr George Tiller. And who's to tell (because no one seems much bothered about keeping figures) how many immigrants have died at the hands of knucklehead vigilantes geed up in their bigotry by the millionaire bunch at FAUX?
And then there's the promotion and justification of institutionalized torture, including such delightful techniques as waterboarding and anal rape.
It's a singularly infantile characteristic to refuse to accept the responsibility for one's actions. The combined age of the FAUX crowd must be about 4.
Democrats.com has been organizing a petition aimed at FAUX's advertisers: you can find it here. That URL has the additional usefulness of providing a list of FAUX's principal current advertisers. It looks like this:
You'd have thought FAUX might have paused for a little introspection on the hatemongering front after their "contribution to public debate" led, directly or indirectly, to the murder of Dr George Tiller. And who's to tell (because no one seems much bothered about keeping figures) how many immigrants have died at the hands of knucklehead vigilantes geed up in their bigotry by the millionaire bunch at FAUX?
And then there's the promotion and justification of institutionalized torture, including such delightful techniques as waterboarding and anal rape.
It's a singularly infantile characteristic to refuse to accept the responsibility for one's actions. The combined age of the FAUX crowd must be about 4.
Democrats.com has been organizing a petition aimed at FAUX's advertisers: you can find it here. That URL has the additional usefulness of providing a list of FAUX's principal current advertisers. It looks like this:
60Plus.org
AARP Insurance
Accu Chek Aviva
ADT Security
Ally Bank (allybank.com)
Apple
Avodart
Brita Filter
Broadbive Security
Conservatives for Patients Rights
Ditech (ditech.com)
Forex.com
Golden Corral
Healthy Choice
HSBC Life Insurance
Mens Warehouse
Mercedes-Benz
Metastock
Nexium
Pepboys
Radio Shack
Rapid Wash
Red Lobster
Sargento Cheese
Super8 motels (super8.com)
Superior Gold Group
United Healthcare Insurance
United States Postal Service
Wallstreet Journal
Weitz&Luxemburg
There's also a list of those advertisers who've decided to dump FAUX, presumably on the grounds of conscience although perhaps because the petition is having some effectiveness:
Campbell Soup
Chrysler
General Motors
Kellogg
Kraft Foods
Lawyers.com
Nestle
Pfizer
Proctor & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
Walmart
Chrysler
General Motors
Kellogg
Kraft Foods
Lawyers.com
Nestle
Pfizer
Proctor & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
Walmart
As the old saying goes, you've got to know you're a heap of shit if Nestle, Pfizer and even Walmart are ahead of you in responsiveness to proper public concern about socially divisive hatemongering, incitement to violence and the like.
