Green Groups Want Home Depot to Pull Ads From Fox - Political Forum

superdude17* · 08-01-2007, 05:25 PM

Source: CNSNews

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Green Groups Want Home Depot to Pull Ads From Fox
By Katherine Poythress
CNSNews.com Correspondent
August 01, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - The Sierra Club delivered a petition bearing 40,000 signatures to Home Depot on Tuesday, urging the nation's largest home improvement retailer to pull its advertising from Fox News Channel (FNC) because of the network's reporting on climate change.

The liberal environmental group claimed that FNC "routinely and consistently distorts the facts on global warming."

A videoclip by the liberal Brave New Films, posted online, features a montage of guests on the channel expressing skepticism about some of the claims made about the causes and implications of climate change.

Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope said the campaign was not an attack on Home Depot but an attempt to capitalize on the company's size and on public sympathy for the environmental cause.

"We believe that by advertising on Fox, Home Depot is associating itself with a set of messengers who are inaccurate, irresponsible, and simply engage in factual distortions at a level which a responsible company like Home Depot should not want," he said.

On its Web site, the retailer says: "Home Depot is dedicated to reducing negative environmental impacts every day." It also carries a line of environmentally friendly products called Eco Options.

John Harte, a professor of natural resources at the University of California-Berkeley, said: "What we hear from Fox is that there's no relationship of global warming to the science, or that the nature of its impacts may or may not be harmful to us. This is not consistent with established science."

Harte said that solutions to global warming are at hand, and that they are economically beneficial to society, although not necessarily for individual businesses.

The president and founder of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred Smith, called the Sierra Club's strategy regarding Home Depot one of "seduction."

He said it was a common strategy that businesses frequently fall for -- and lose money when they do.

"Businessmen are falling shamelessly into the trap," Smith said.

If the Sierra Club succeeds in persuading Home Depot to withdraw its advertising from the approximately nine million FNC viewers, it would have the effect of limiting consumer options, he said.

But Home Depot appears to be savvy about the trap and has no intention of falling into it.

Ron Jarvis, vice president for environmental innovation at the retailer, spoke with the New York Times on July 30. "It's not our place to judge Fox News's position or any other media outlet's position on global warming," Jarvis said. "Nor will we try to influence that position with our advertising dollars."

"We're not in the business of censoring media," Home Depot spokesman Jerry Shields told Forbes magazine. "We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available."

Patrick J. Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, expressed surprise at the anti-FNC campaign, saying that a year and a half ago, the Fox network aired what he considered one of the most alarmist documentaries ever shown on the global warming issue.

Michaels challenged the Sierra Club to get experts onto the network to demolish the global warming skepticism if the group believes that the arguments being aired are wrong and can easily be shot down.

"What do they want, blood?" Michaels asked of the groups involved in the campaign. "It sounds like censorship to me. The worst thing that could be said about [Fox] is that these guys are showing both sides of the issue; these groups are trying to 'greenball' the experts that Fox is having on."

The irony of the situation is that in Nov. 2005, the Sierra Club went on record as praising Fox News for its documentary that blamed mankind for catastrophic climate change.

"What do the Sierra Club, Communist China and now Fox News have in common? They all recognize the threat of global warming and are discussing solutions to the problem," Dan Becker, then-director of the Sierra Club's Global Warming and Energy Program, wrote in a Nov. 2005 article on HuffingtonPost.com.

And now, a year and a half later, the Sierra Club is attempting to persuade companies to boycott Fox for being one-sided and inaccurate in its climate change reporting.

Pope said the campaign does not stop with Home Depot.

"This is the beginning of a long-term campaign," he said. "As corporate America becomes more and more aware of the fact that global warming denial is no longer morally acceptable ... over time, corporate America will be less and less interested in advertising on Fox."

Representatives at FNC were unavailable for comment by press time.

I wonder how many real people are represented by those 40,000 signatures, and of those real people, how many shop at The Home Depot now.

Aegis · 08-01-2007, 05:27 PM

I call it extortion and it sounds as if Home Depot has told them to piss off.

Pablo Jones · 08-03-2007, 12:31 PM

The liberal environmental group claimed that FNC "routinely and consistently distorts the facts on global warming."

now that right there is for sure FUNNY, I don't care who you are!!!!!

As if none of the quote - "science" - unquote in support of man-made global warming isn't distorted??????? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

Let's see............every scientist I have herd speak on the subject agrees that our Earth experienced an Ice Age.........as well they all agree that there was a "melt down" and I know for sure there was a melt down because we are all here and I've been to Florida and Corpus Christi and seen the sun baked beaches and the warm Gulf waters and experienced 121 degree heat in Arizona. Yup, the melt down occured..............

DRAT !!!! doya think those wolly mamoths were driving SUV'S? Nah, they just had a bit of gas........................

...................sigh........................... ......

Global Warming caused by man............."FOLLOW THE MONEY, YA GOTTA FOLLOW THE MONEY"..................

RepublicanHater · 08-03-2007, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by superdude17*

Source: CNSNews

I wonder how many real people are represented by those 40,000 signatures, and of those real people, how many shop at The Home Depot now.

All of them. I know, because i go to the site and i'm a member and i signed it.

RepublicanHater · 08-03-2007, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Pablo Jones

The liberal environmental group claimed that FNC "routinely and consistently distorts the facts on global warming."

now that right there is for sure FUNNY, I don't care who you are!!!!!

As if none of the quote - "science" - unquote in support of man-made global warming isn't distorted??????? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

Let's see............every scientist I have herd speak on the subject agrees that our Earth experienced an Ice Age.........as well they all agree that there was a "melt down" and I know for sure there was a melt down because we are all here and I've been to Florida and Corpus Christi and seen the sun baked beaches and the warm Gulf waters and experienced 121 degree heat in Arizona. Yup, the melt down occured..............

DRAT !!!! doya think those wolly mamoths were driving SUV'S? Nah, they just had a bit of gas........................

...................sigh........................... ......

Global Warming caused by man............."FOLLOW THE MONEY, YA GOTTA FOLLOW THE MONEY"..................

Your theory can ber totally be debunked, and the right way not through lies like you guys are trying to debunk our theory by. Here is a link to a good video, there's another link of it in the thread " why are conservatives so set on denying global warming"

http://foxattacks.bravenewfilms.org/...warming?play=1