Conner Clarke on Why Wal-Mart is Boycotting Glenn Beck.
"As you probably know, Fox host Glenn Beck has been losing lots of advertisers -- about 20 so far, including Wal-Mart, CVS and GEICO -- for calling Barack Obama a 'racist' with a 'deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.' I clicked around to see what people on the right were saying about the donnybrook, and found this page from RedState.org, which appears to be organizing a counter boycott, or is at least offering the sinister warning that 'there will be repercussions from our side if [these companies] are so willing to become pawns of the left.' I find all of this a bit funny"
Read the rest, I agree completely.
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I don't think Wal-Mart is in any danger of the rabid mouth-breathing red-state horde avoiding their stores. When I occasionally go to one, they're a big part of the customer base, and I see vastly fewer of them when I shop at places I like, within a few miles of a Wal-Mart that's teeming with them.
They hate taxpayer spending unless its the military.
They want the government out of our lives unless you're a woman seeing her doctor, gay, or both.
They hate labor unions, but also hate low-paid, undocumented immigrants.
They love Wal-Mart until it drives them out of business.
They love America but hate her government.
The American conservative movement is a complete paradox.
The American conservative movement is not based on facts, on thought, on reflection.
The american conservative movement is rooted in lies, in fear, and in manipulation of people too lazy or too dumb to stop and think for themselves.
To call it a paradox is way too kind.
The list of hypocrisies associated with the modern conservative and republican movements is endless.
Business is funny this way. Now the target of anger from the left is Whole Foods (with a large left-of-center customer base - granola eaters), whose CEO recently wrote in the WSJ about opposing healthcare reform and how decent affordable healthcare is not a basic human right. I suppose that healthcare reform may result in higher taxes on CEOs like him....boo freakin hoo.
Now Wal-mart wants government healthcare. I suppose they think it will help keep the unions out.
You can't make this stuff up.
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