Local group calls on Home Depot to boycott FOX News - Political Forum

superdude17* · #1 (**permalink**) 08-05-2007, 08:02 PM

Source: Ann Arbor News

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Seven local residents showed up at Home Depot in Pittsfield Township Tuesday to present a petition calling for the retailer to pull its advertising from the FOX News network.

Copies of the same 40,000 signatures - collected nationwide over the past three weeks by members of the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org - were also given to managers at five other Home Depots across the country. The Pittsfield Township store was the only one targeted in the Midwest.

The group is asking Home Depot, which describes itself as environmentally friendly and offers "Eco-options" to customers, to boycott FOX. They argue that the network has dismissed global warming as a myth.

But the petitions do not call for a boycott of Home Depot, and one of the protesters shopped at the store after she helped to hand over the signatures.

Jerry Shields, a Home Depot corporate spokesman, said Tuesday that the company does not plan to pull its ads from the network. He said Home Depot has pulled its advertising from objectionable programs in the past, but does not try to influence or control editorial content and opinion programs.

Sierra Club spokeswoman Odette Mucha said the group looked at FOX's major advertisers and picked Home Depot because of its efforts to tell customers the retailer cares about the environment.

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MoveOn's Action Forum contained, with the full knowledge and approval of MoveOn's moderators, material far worse than what was at Kos!

E-mail Bill O'Reilly and Fox News (oreilly "at" foxnews.com and yourcomments "at" foxnews.com) to make sure they know about MoveOn's sponsorship of anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and racist hate speech.

If Fox News uses this information to fight back against MoveOn.org, MoveOn will cease to exist as a viable political entity. It has been proven beyond any doubt that, contrary to MoveOn's claim that it didn't know about the hate speech until last August, it exercised editorial control in its favor! (E.g. criticisms of MoveOn and the hate speech were deleted by the moderators, and the hate speech was allowed to stand.)

Examples of hate speech from MoveOn.org's disgraced Action Forum

"Israel is guilty of war crimes in their cowardely attack on Lebanon and the whining, arrogant Jew wants Lebanon to demonstrate responsibility ! This is another example of how many Jews/Zioniosts in our Congress use the U.S. for their own greedy purposes. DUMP ISRAEL." 14 out of 17 voted to AGREE with this.

Note: MoveOn's Action Forum allowed people to vote agreement or disagreement with the statements. In this case, 14 out of 17 agreed with "whining, arrogant Jew."

"Our parents abused some of us, some were drunks, some were divorced and some had Jewish parents. We don’t have to hang on to our past."

"We can all see how AIPAC/Israel has taken control of America. Not to get nasty but jews have a long history of subverting governments for their own enrichment and glory to the detriment of whole societies. Many more than "6 million" have died by semetic aggression, 100's of millions even," (13 out of 16 voted to agree)

"Any one who saw the collapse of the two World Trade Center towers would have to be blind not to see that they were imploded from within due to controlled demolition..." (11 out of 15 agreed)

"Did Anyone Watch the AlteraVista tape Showing A Missle Hole Not An Airplane Shape into the Pentagon? And many other things from video and reporters as 9/11 was happening that it isn't what it looks like." 9 out of 11 agreed.

"Removing all Israeli obsessed Jews from congress would stop a lot of killing." 12 out of 14 agreed.

Nearly 3/4 of the entire Jewish population was exterminated. If you can’t tell us why, We are stuck with logic and commonsense. I’m saying Jews instead of Israelis because I read the Israeli newspapers, the “Israeli Lobby” papers and have seen the House vote 410-8 in support Israel while the UN typically votes 191-4 against Israel. Also the billions in aid and military equipment are conspicuous. The world court unanimously voted against Israel. By blaming Hitler you don’t have to face the truth. I will stop condemning Jews when they become acclimated with all people. Stop professing to know and start reading.

9 of 12 voted to AGREE that Jews did "something" to deserve the Holocaust.

"The Israelis see themselves as a new race and a new nation and are rather ashamed of their Jewish past." 7 out of 7 agreed.

"Isn't it time to tell the American people the truth, i.e. that Jews control all the media." 8 out of 8 agreed.

"Mr Goody-two-shoes, I hope you didn’t volunteer for Vietnam, otherwise you are just a mercenary like the others." 11 out of 13 agreed.

"Thanks Harry, for telling it like it is. Rice and Powell ARE "house slaves". And the "Republicans ARE like the Jews who worked for Hitler". And Shrub IS "a tyrant and a terrorist". Harry, we need people like you in Congress. " 12 out of 15 agreed with this racist remark.

"And the Supreme Court is packed with Opus Dei Catholics who support a monarchy, placed in the White House their own man they put there by stopping authentic vote count or having a open hearing about vote fraud." 13 out of 14 voted to agree with this.

"But until the priests are hounded down and arrested like the baby rapers they are, the neverending cycle will continue. You want to throw a monkey wrench in both political parties? Call for the arrest and immediate incarceration of the Catholic Pedophiles of America." 8 out of 9 agreed.

"The vicitm class will expand until you too can be jailed for ridiculously minor offenses while the Catholics are raping your children. " 94 percent agreed.

"Copies of the same 40,000 signatures - collected nationwide over the past three weeks by members of the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org."

What, that's all they could collect, nationwide, over a three week period? Pretty weak. That may be the entire active membership MoveOn & Sierra Club. The MoveOn folks signed two and three times, of course.

Meanwhile, Fox News has more viewers than that just for the commercials!

Either way, Here here!The worst thing that can happen is for these unpatriotic idiots to succeed. The only practical solution is to counter boycott these neo-fascists.

Let them call for the boycott and let them do it loudly. Please please put anybody who favors the boycott on TV. Then let us all counter boycott by giving business to the object of the boycott. Take it one step further, buy more even (if you can afford it) substantially more form these businesses even if they are not your vendor of first choice.

There are major principles at stake here. If Moveon, the DU and Daily Kooks succeed, they will do a lot of damage that is not what this country prides itself on.

Tokenconservative · #2 (**permalink**) 08-06-2007, 07:35 PM

What's always funniest about this for me, is that whenever conservatives engage in a grassroots (as opposed to something being paid for by MoveOn or other communist front orgs) effort to boycott something like the lates Moore movie or some filthy-mouthed shock jock, the libs shriek "censorship!!! CENSHORSHIP!!!!"

But when THEY are being paid to organize a boycott in the attempt to silence Bill O'Reilly, that's in the spirty of the civil rights boycotts in the South in the 50s and 60s and should be honored as such!

Sheesh.

Tokie

Aegis · #3 (**permalink**) 08-06-2007, 08:34 PM

The mark of true desperation is the lengths the moon bat lefty DemoRats will go to in their deranged quest to try and silence Republicans.

Bradgriff · #4 (**permalink**) 08-06-2007, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Aegis

The mark of true desperation is the lengths the moon bat lefty DemoRats will go to in their deranged quest to try and silence Republicans.

"Desperation" implies some sort of last ditch effort when you're on the verge of loosing something big. What are the dems going to loose that causes them to need to silence Bill Oreilly/Republicans.....I don't get it....last I heard Dems lead the polls in terms of Hillary Vs. Gulianni. But the way the war is going Repubs won't win, unless of course you watch the only network who says otherwise, the only fair and balanced state run news network in the world.....Fox News!

superdude17* · #5 (**permalink**) 08-07-2007, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Bradgriff

"Desperation" implies some sort of last ditch effort when you're on the verge of loosing something big. What are the dems going to loose that causes them to need to silence Bill Oreilly/Republicans.....I don't get it....last I heard Dems lead the polls in terms of Hillary Vs. Gulianni. But the way the war is going Repubs won't win, unless of course you watch the only network who says otherwise, the only fair and balanced state run news network in the world.....Fox News!

Hillary is very sketchy. I would see a lot of independents swinging to Giuliani if Hillary is the Dem's nominee and Giuliani is the Republican. No offense to Hillary, but a lot of people still are not ready to have a woman as president yet.