Saturday, July 28, 2007

Support Your Local Business.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QL52780&show_article=1

Apparently the Moveon.org and DailyKos crowd is engaging in their own censorship of the media. Funny how they make friends with pornographers like Larry Flynt but want to shut down media outlets they don't like while promoting the fairness doctrine.

They are initiating a harassment campaign against businesses who advertise on Fox News. Just as a bully picks on those who cannot fight back, so are these groups. The story reports that instead of going after the major corporations first, these groups advise harassing local businesses.

"At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.
"It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said.
" As Mr. Gillman correctly surmised, local businesses don't have their own PR departments and legal departments staffed with lawyers and thus are easier targets.

However, the way you deal with rats is by putting the spotlight on them. If any businesses are harassed by these spoiled brats, I would like to know about it as I will put the spotlight on them in this blog. If they list the local businesses on their little websites and discuss what they are going to do, I'd like the link emailed to me as I will post it and expose them. Then, if a few people want to call or email the business to show some support, they can if they want to do so.

As my favorite writer is Voltaire, I don't think much of people on the left or right side of the spectrum who want to close down media outlets or censor news they don't like (although I am all for accountability of the media as any regular reader of this blog knows).

Email me at kingfish1935@gmail.com if there is any local news on this harassment campaign for me.

6 comments:

Tom Head said...

MoveOn.org, et. al. would be a little more productive if they focused on advertisers who pour money into overtly racist and misogynistic programming than advertisers who simply use the least favorite of their big four networks.

Note also how many matches you get if you surf MySpace for MoveOn.org, which is also owned by Fox. Kind of makes you wonder why they want to scare the hell out of Sam's Diner for doing something they're doing themselves.

Anonymous said...

You have to be kidding me.

Daily Kos didn't start this, Big Bill did when he started going after the corporate sponsors of Yearly Kos like JetBlue. Daily Kos is just responding, giving Fox a taste of its own medicine.

Kingfish said...

Homer, I completely agree with you, oddly enough. However, it is also MY right to put a spotlight on their tactics. That way, a sponsor who is harased can hear from both sides.

However, I have no respect whatsoever for the Daily Kos crowd when they put pressure on the Democratic Nominees to keep their debates off of Fox. It is cowardly of the Democrats to do so as well as ignorant. If you live by the base, you die by the base as Rove found out last fall. You have to have a broader appeal to Americans in order to win elections. Only so many elections will be decided on anger. If you take the KOS crowd argument and say that FOX is nothing but a network for Conservatives, which is demonstrabley false as around half of its viewers are Democrats, then its an opportunity for Democratic candidates to make their views known to swing voters as Bill Clinton did in 92.

However, the rabble rousers and myopics are too stupid and angry to realize this.

Tom Head said...

I could not disagree with Bill O'Reilly when he called DailyKos a hate site. It basically is. I agree with most of the ideology behind the site, but I find it hard to read for this very reason.

Much of the political blogosphere is hate-based. O'Reilly himself plays to people's hatred quite often.

Cheap of him to target JetBlue for sponsoring Kos, though.

Kingfish said...

That is the problem with too many people right now. They frequent their own like minded sites, get the illusion that they carry more influence than they do or that more people agree with them than in reality, then go even further in their comments.

Of course, I remember DU when Tillman was killed. Several posters made comments applauding his death, saying he was the tool of imperialist corporations and it was a good thing. They were deleted after Limbaugh read them on the air.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish

As long as you admit that DailyKos is responding to Big Bill, and that you are responding to DailyKos to protect Mississippi businesses that are being harassed by liberal bloggers, I'm all fine.

Big Bill was within his rights, DailyKos was within their rights, and you're within your rights.

What a great country.

But I question your statistics on Fox. I've seen numbers showing that watching Fox News is a better predictor of voting Republican that if the person self-identifies as Republican or conservative. Given such a reality, I understand Democrats not wasting their time.

When you're bored, check out DailyKos and the tag "Mississippi." There's almost no attention to our state, outside of some Hurricane Katrina related topics and Cotton Mouth cross posting. I doubt our local businesses will be harassed. DailyKos just doesn't appeal to the people of Mississippi, even our Democrats.



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