As a first step towards following all the right-wing fantasies that dominate our discourse, I’m trying to keep track of what wingers are boycotting right now.
Whole Foods is in trouble because somebody suggested Muslims could buy food there during Ramadan if they wanted to.
ESPN is in trouble because they told one of their idiot “analysts” to tone down the public teahadism.
Anything else? There should be — maybe there already is — a site that keeps track of al this.
Derf
lol….that espn one is funny. As long as they have a partnership with nascar and exclusive rights (?) they will be just fine with the mouth breathers.
dmsilev
Did the wingnuts ever call off the boycott of Dunkin’ Donuts due to the ads showing some celebrity or another (Rachel Ray, if memory serves) wearing what was supposedly an Islamofascist head wrap?
Samara Morgan
Fearmongering is their only defense against Islam.
Their killer app of evangelizing and proselytizing doesnt seem to be working.
cmorenc
Surprise! Most pro golfers are by natural inclination Republicans, because the native habitat they originate from and live in is the country-club world of fancy golf courses, and they see themselves as individual entrepreneurs whose success is entirely dependent on earning it through pure competitive merit. I’m not surprised one bit that former pro golfer/now TV golf analyst Paul Azinger honestly thinks this way. OTOH I’m not any more happy about Azinger shoving his bullshit political opinions into my escapist sports entertainment than I would if e.g. for hypothetical example, Len Bias (black ex pro basketball player and now TV basketball analyst) sprinkled O-Bot political opinions throughout broadcast of a basketball game. Leave me alone about politics when I’m watching sports!
BD of MN
dunno if this counts, but I recently saw a couple of facebook posting bitching that the 10th anniversary 9/11 memorial was dissing the first responders by ONLY having enough room for the families of the actual deceased…
Baud
The right wing has been boycotting governing to protest the fact that there is a Kenyan socialist in the White House. Does that count?
Samara Morgan
@dmsilev: they are going to have to boycott Urban Outfitters too, because the keffiyah is very in this season….and after Libya it will be even more stylish.
Omnes Omnibus
@cmorenc: Len Bias?
Roger Moore
What we really need to do is to create some kind of controversy over innocuous behavior at every place in the whole country that sells food of any kind. Pretty soon the wingnuts will be boycotting commercial food of all kinds. They’ll all starve to death when their Glenn Beck emergency seeds turn out not to have had adequate quality control and won’t sprout.
Svensker
@BD of MN:
Yeah, I think that was a huge mistake by Bloomberg to do that. Very tone deaf.
MikeJ
@cmorenc: Dead people have strong political opinions?
arguingwithsignposts
@cmorenc: Len Bias is dead.
ETA: Big Baby DougJ – standard internet link etiquette is that if you have a link to a name, it will lead to the site of said entity. So “ESPN” should have a link to the ESPN web site, not Zandar. “is in trouble for” would be a way to link that. /link pedant
Mike
Gee whiz, just 2 years ago the brethren were all going out of their way to support Whole Foods because the galtian CEO came out as a climate change denier and said that Obamacare was socialism.
gbear
I wish we could convince them to boycott elections since the last one landed a Kenyan Muslim in the white house.
Waingro
Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose in 1986, so if he was announcing basketball games period, it would freak me out for somewhat different reasons.
drkrick
I think Len Bias is supposed to equal Len Elmore, who played at Maryland 10-15 years before Bias. I guess all Lens look alike.
Tom Q
@arguingwithsignposts: Thanks for confirming that for me. I was beginning to think my memories of the 80s had gone haywire.
MattF
There are just SO MANY threats out there, and you have to be aware of ALL of them. Wingerism is a full-time job.
drkrick
@Svensker: As we’ve learned every time a 9/11 survivor says something the wingnuts don’t like, the suffering of those who lost loved ones is nothing as compared to that of the real victims who suffered purely butthurt.
Nylund
According to this website, the Council of Conservative Citizens called for a boycott of a movie cuz one of the actors was black. But I won’t link directly to them because they seem to a white power hate group.
Here is another website that’s probably more what you’re looking for. It lists all the things to boycotted, including a number of states and countries. It seems old thought. It has a list of “gay-friendly” companies that should be boycotted for promoting the “homosexual agenda” (including Disney, Proctor & Gamble, etc.), and a list of entertainers that should be boycotted for supporting Kerry in ’04. Also, any newspaper that doesn’t toe the conservative line seems to be on the list as well. Target and Walmart are also on the list.
grant
The National Weather Service is clearly a worthless organization sucking off the public teat.
namekarB
Must boycott the Rachel Ray cooking shows account in a commercial she wore a scarf that looked vaguely like something worn in the mid-east therefore she is on the terrorists side.
drkrick
@cmorenc: John Feinstein wrote years ago about how one a PGA pro that had occasional nice things to say about Clinton in the ’90’s and was shunned by a lot of his peers for it. Apparently there was also some sentiment in the ’90’s for the Ryder Cup team to turn down Clinton’s invitation for a visit to protest his “unconscionable” tax policies.
Is there anything more fragile than the feelings of an overpaid white guy?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@cmorenc: Len Bias died 25 fucking years ago. Big hooper there are ya?
JWL
There’s a show on a golf network where a pro works with celebrities on their game. I caught a few episodes with Ray Romano, and it was fairly interesting.
Then the show hooked up with Rush Limbaugh (I assume because Charles Manson remains ineligible for weekend furloughs). So long golf network.
Derf
@Nylund: lol…oh yea, a walmart boycott will fly like gangbusters with the knuckle dragging neanderthals…..lol…..and Disney…and Proctor & Gamble……lol….too funny.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Jim Nance is a fucking pig.
Roger Moore
@MattF:
Of course. The defining characteristic of wingnutism is fear. Anyone who wants to control the wingnuts needs to keep coming up with things to fear, or they may be the next fear object themselves.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Nylund: That’s not just a black actor, that’s Idris Elba, Stringer Bell of the Wire and Luther!
aisce
cmorenc clearly meant len elmore…
off topic, but wasn’t that mlk memorial supposed to get inaugurated this weekend? did that get postponed? what a goofy looking thing that turned out to be. when’s the last time something actually good looking was added to the national mall, the vietnam memorial?
Cliff
Muslims can buy food at Whole Foods during Ramadan? Those fucking bastards! Who do they think they are, exchanging food for money with people.
What the fuck kind of business is that?
Kane
ESPN analysts always seem to be getting into trouble for saying what they shouldn’t. I think it was last year on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday that one of them said, “Martin Luther Coon Jr.” He later apologized, explaining it as a slip. Imagine, of all the words in the English vocabulary, and the word “coon” is the word that slips out.
Sad Iron
Oh, you mean dumb-ass Paul Azinger–the cancer survivor who most likely opposes healthcare reform. Remember, as a golfer, he was part of the “working class.”
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@aisce: The Korean Memorial isn’t bad.
eta
plenty of jackasses didn’t like the Wall went it went up as well. That’s why the VVMF was forced to put the statue up as well.
MattF
@aisce:
It was postponed.
Mark S.
Do many people watch golf now that Tiger has fallen to 96th in the world? I know my interest in watching it plummeted.
And I want to say a golf guy who worked for CBS (David Fehrity or something) said a lot more insulting things about Obama than this guy did.
Tara the antisocial social worker
@Roger Moore:
I’ve been suggesting for a while that we just get Al Gore and Michelle Obama to team up on a campaign telling people not to superglue their mouths shut. They’ll be clogging up emergency rooms getting fed intravenously, but at least we’d get some blessed quiet.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I don’t know what cmorenc knows about hoops but he did say hypothetically. He could have used James Naismith. Big deal.
Ron
While I think what Azinger said was stupid, it wasn’t like he included it in a broadcast or an analysis. He tweeted it. It happens to apparently violate ESPN’s policy for employees, but it is honestly pretty silly to bitch about the tweet itself or ESPN’s reaction. They didn’t fire him or anything like that so I’m not sure what the mouth breathers are whining about.
cmorenc
@Omnes Omnibus:
OOPS! I meant Len Elmore. Both he and Bias were superstars at U. Maryland at different times, but beyond that – HUGE difference between the two men and the respective life-path Elmore took and that Bias was perhaps on-track for before his cocaine O.D. not long after he was the top draft pick of the Boston Celtics.
nancydarling
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): The Jefferson Memorial is my favorite from an aesthetic point of view. FDR is my over all fave because it tells the story of his presidency. I like how the GI’s walking across the grass in the Korean War memorial appear like ghosts when reflected in the shiny granite behind them—that was my brother’s war. I was very disappointed in the WWII, but the old guys who were there for the dedication seemed happy with it and that’s good enough for me.
Viet Nam’s is just a heart breaker. I feel like I should read every name, but since I can’t, I just see what jumps out at me from each panel. Lot’s of Hispanic names and lots of Joe Jim and Billy Rays and such indicating a lot of southern boys.
lamh32
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Ummm Idris Elba…!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Old Dan and Little Ann: he don’t know jack
Big Baby DougJ
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@nancydarling: I was honored to read a couple of hundred names, including one of my best friends from high school, at the 20th Anniversary of the Wall. It took three days to read them all. We were at a fund raiser for the Women’s Memorial later that night and a bunch of us took cabs back there about 3 in the morning. One of the nurses sort of froze up because she didn’t “know” any of the people on the Wall because she was so busy trying to save them. I took her down and showed her Andy’s name and told her about who he was. I think it helped her.
Hill Dweller
@Mark S.: If I recall correctly, Feherty made a joke about killing former Speaker Pelosi.
The more annoying aspect of their silly criticisms is the level of ignorance from which they’re borne. I guarantee Azinger nor Feherty know a f’n thing about fiscal policy.
The Dangerman
@Tara the antisocial social worker:
If I was Whole Foods, I would have made sure to have my employees wish all of my customers a Happy Ramadan…
…then again, WF is a Texas company and has to live deep in the heart of Red.
Jewish Steel
@Big Baby DougJ: A man, a plan, a canal, Big Baby DougJ!
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I like the Korean Memorial too.
lamh32
@Big Baby DougJ:
Ahhh Elba, i.e. Idris! Wooo!
@Nylund:
They were boycotting “Thor” Idris (hot damn) Elba played a “Norse” God, forget about the fact that in the comic the “Gods” were neither Gods nor Norse, they were an alien race. So in theory, they could have come to say ancient Africa and have been Egyptian pharoahs instead of Norse Gods. whatever the case, the movie was based on a COMIC BOOK, not some ancient Norse text!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Jewish Steel: I did a tour there during what is called “The DMZ War” so it is a special place for me.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
The DMZ War
lamh32
ok, does anyone else love “The Addams Family” movies? I love ’em. One of the few movies based on tv, that did very well with the choices for actors, IMHO. Raul Julia was a perfect Gomez, Anjelica Huston was a great Morticia, and of course everybody love Christina Ricci’s “Wednesday”.
Has there been another movie that cast actor so perfectly?
dmsilev
@Tara the antisocial social worker:
You’re a better person than I am. I’ve been advocating that the Obamas appear in a series of PSAs about the danger of sticking forks in live power outlets and then licking the forks.
Roger Moore
@nancydarling:
Yeah. The really poignant thing about it is all of the little memorials, where people leave things for the dead. ISTR that the Park Service collects them all and keeps anything that will last.
Mark S.
@Nylund:
Dear fucking god
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Roger Moore: Offerings at the Wall
Roger Moore
@Big Baby DougJ:
No sir, a war is on.
Shawn in ShowMe
@lamh32:
How will those folks survive two hours of Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury on the big screen?
Jenny
Golf, sponsored by Wonderbread!
Roger Moore
@lamh32:
The Harry Potter franchise has done a damn fine job of casting. I’m trying to think of a single major character who they got wrong and drawing a blank. Very impressive given the size of the cast.
Roger Moore
@Shawn in ShowMe:
If they have any sense, they’ll avoid it like the plague. That’s what I plan on doing, and I like Samuel Jackson.
Shawn in ShowMe
I adore the Addams Family movies. Mumushka!!!!
I also give credit to whoever the casting director was for the Brady Bunch movies. The trick is finding leads with the acting chops to pull it off. With so many celebrities today masquerading as actors, it’s a lot harder to pull off.
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I don’t want to go to the evil link, but would love to know what movie it is because I would see anything with Idris Elba.
JPL
OT..The President is using code words… good government and thanks scientists. I tuned in late so I don’t know whether or not he thanked god.
JenJen
I saw this “story” on Michelle Malkin’s site the other day. She renamed ESPN “Elite Sports Progressives’ Network.” That’s hilarious to me; I don’t see Michelle Malkin as much of a sports fan or ESPN junkie, do you? She also bitched about Adam Schefter’s tweets when the NFL lockout coincided with a possible looming federal shutdown, wondering aloud why ESPN didn’t crack down on those tweets.
Of course, all Schefter did was call attention to the fact that 800 NFL players might be temporarily out of work compared to 800,000 federal workers and our troops. I guess that counts as “elite progressive” in Malkin’s world.
At any rate, I can’t stand it when sports announcers slide in their little political zingers, but let’s be honest, most of those guys are big time conservatives. Al Michaels used to do that shit during MNF all the time and I still hate him for it.
JPL
OT..The President is using code words… good government and thanks scientists. I tuned in late so I don’t know whether or not he thanked god.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: Thor
Omnes Omnibus
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Take an athpirin; it’ll help.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Roger Moore:
Other than skin color, Samuel Jackson seems to be an inspired casting decision. Ball-busting, dominating personality? Check. Never at a loss for words? Check. Love him some guns? Believable as a child of Hell’s Kitchen? Check.
PurpleGirl
@aisce: Yes, the ceremony was postponed to September or October (i.e., date to be set later).
lamh32
@WaterGirl: “THOR”
PurpleGirl
@Ron: He got called out for it and was scolded. Not supposed to scold RW jerks apparently. It showed ESPN’s liberal bias.
Chris
@nancydarling:
For my two cents, Vietnam is the best of the war memorials, and FDR the best of the presidential ones.
Vietnam because, like you said, it’s a heartbreaker. And it’s the one that captures perfectly what war’s about, in the end; a megaton of people dying, each one of them important, irreplaceable and worthy of being remembered. As a wall of names, the VN Memorial basically gives every single fallen soldier his own mini-memorial. No other one does that.
FDR, because it’s the only one that feels human-sized. Jefferson and Lincoln’s memorials look like Greek temples and make the people in them feel like gods to be worshipped, to say nothing of the towering Washington one. I get that those presidents deserve a ton of respect, but I still prefer the FDR one’s (by comparison) modesty. And it feels appropriate given his legacy to the country.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@PurpleGirl: bias or elmore?
PurpleGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): LOL.
JenJen
@aisce: I agree with others about the Vietnam Memorial. It’s the most beautiful to me, but It actually makes me so upset and uncomfortable that despite going to DC at least once a year, I haven’t visited it in ages. I’m going to correct that next trip.
I love the FDR Memorial. It’s tricky to get to, but I also love the walk around the Tidal Basin and I always get a kick out of the George Mason Memorial where he’s relaxing and kind of looking over at Jefferson. I think the MLK Memorial is in this area too? I’m not a big fan of the photographs I’ve seen, but I might change my mind once I see it in person.
Jenny
@JPL:
If Obama only held a national prayer session, none of this would have happened.
lamh32
@JenJen:
From all the firsthand accounts I read, the photographs DO NOT do the monument justice at all. I suspect though that like alot of the memorials, time will heal all wounds.
Yutsano
@lamh32: The Wall really does have to be seen to be experienced. There was also some latent racism in the opposition since the designer was of Chinese descent. It really is amazingly respectful. There’s a similar memorial in downtown Seattle that I think is inspired by it.
Chris
@Yutsano:
Oh man, I did NOT know that. Bet that went over real well with the whole “nuke the gooks” crowd. If there’d been the Internet and the right wing noise machine back then, probably would’ve made for a big rehearsal of the “Ground Zero Mosque” “controversy.”
kd bart
Professional Golf is a sport that is completely dependent on corporate sponsorship. The tour doesn’t exist without the backing and funding of tournaments by corporations. But that’s not all. The real money to be made in professional golf is not on the tour but in the world of corporate sponsorship and appearance fees. Even at the peak of his dominance, only a small portion of Tiger Wood’s yearly earnings came from winnings on the PGA Tour. He made way more via being a corporate spokesperson for the likes of Nike, Buick, American Express and for appearing to play at numerous corporate events around the world. These guys will be on the side of whatever the corporations want because they depend on them for so much. And this continues long after they’re done being competitive. Arnold Palmer, in his 80s, still makes millions off of endorsements.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Chris: Maya Ying Lin was the designer. “The Long Gray Line” about the West Point class of 66 has a great deal of information on the fight to build the Wall. BJ favorite Jim Webb was a major opponent calling it “the black gash of shame”.
Fax Paladin
@Kane: Actually I can see that one possibly being innocent, though still unfortunate — as a sort of spoonerism combining “King” and “Junior.” It happens when you’re saying one thing while your mind’s already on the next bit.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Nice look at Maya Lin from Stanford. The civil rights memorial in Montgomery, AL that she designed is wonderful as well.
keestadoll
A typical dipshit skimming of the posted issues results in the following question being posted in Beckannitybaugh twitter feed: Why does Whole Foods hate Christmas?
cckids
@Roger Moore: I may take some crap for this, but I was not a fan of Richard Harris as Dumbledore–I thought he missed the fun/manic side of the character. I’ve always believed the perfect Dumbledore would have been Peter O’Toole.
Corner Stone
@Shawn in ShowMe: I’ll watch just about any damn thing Samuel Jackson signs onto.
Love that fucking guy.
Corner Stone
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Personally, I can’t stand that fucking guy.
cckids
@Chris: A documentary about Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, tells about the design/building of the Wall, along with her work on the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama. Great doc, and it does get into the fight over the design (because of her ancestry & because it was “modern” instead of a statue of a guy). Good watch, though you have to get the disc, you can’t stream it.
sb
I could care less if Al Michaels is a conservative; he calls a good game. I could care less if ESPN is filled with conservatives; I like the highlights. I could care less if the teams I cheer for are filled to the brim with wingnuts as long as they win and entertain.
In short, if a political idiot could make a jump shot, I want that political idiot on my team. If he is foolish enough to let his politics get in the way of the game, get his ass out of there.
In short, politics and sports don’t mix. Long may that be so.
EDIT: Don’t anyone suggest I was okay with Rush Limbaugh’s hire at ESPN. Not after I organized petitions and letter writing campaigns to get his ass fired and gloated over the VP of ESPN after his inevitable firing (I remember telling him to his face he deserved all the grief in the world for hiring the racist sonovabitch in the first place). When Al Michaels starts espousing on the air that Donovan McNabb was protected by the media because of his race, he can get his ass fired, too.
James E. Powell
@lamh32:
The Godfather
Roger Moore
@Shawn in ShowMe:
I’m not worried about the casting decision, I’m worried about the decision to make too many comic book movies too quickly. Marvel seems to be intent on killing the golden goose before it stops laying eggs. They’re going further and further down their list of properties and doing it faster and faster, and I’m not convinced they’re going to have the behind the screen talent to make it work. They’re pushing the Nick Fury thing really hard, and that make me worried they know it’s going to suck but they’re trying to make it profitable by overmarketing it.
James E. Powell
When I want to know what the golf world thinks about political matters, my go to guy is Fuzzy Zoeller.
sb
@kd bart: All true but I don’t know if the golfers are conservatives because they want to protect corporate interests. That’s the Koch brothers and others. I think the golfers are conservative because they were virtually raised in country clubs, come from largely conservative regions of the country and as a group reflect most Repugs: white, male and rich.
Sports in general is very conservative. Doesn’t make the games any less fun to watch.
sb
@James E. Powell: You might go for Fuzzy but really, for unmatched political insight, David Feherty is your man!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/david-feherty-cbs-golf-an_n_200514.html
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
I know there was some racism in the criticism, but I think the bigger complaint was with the purpose of the design. It’s clearly a memorial to the soldiers who fought and died in the war, not a monument glorifying the war itself. Given the controversy over the war, the war mongers correctly saw it as an indictment of the war and their part in it. Is it any wonder they hated it?
James E. Powell
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
It was during the arguments about Maya Lin’s design that I first heard the name Ross Perot. As I recall, he hated it.
James E. Powell
@Roger Moore:
And therefore, a treasonous betrayal of Our Brave Troops. Not to mention the war monger politicians, military contractors, and Pentagon brass who promoted and carried on that debacle, then spent the rest of their lives insisting it was a good idea. The shittiest part of all this is that they have, in my view, convinced most Americans that, as Reagan said, it was a noble cause. Had it not been for Jane Fonda, John Kerry, the Beatles, and all the bleeding hearts and artists, we would have won, dammit!
Yutsano
@James E. Powell:
There are folks out there who still believe that is true. That’s the really sad part of it.
El Cid
They went off about the pro-terrorists at Campbells Soup because Campbells Soups of Canada offer halal approved soups.
They came for non-halal ingredients in our soups, and I said nothing…
Mustang Bobby
Roger Ebert notes via Tweet that Rick Perry has pledged to appoint an attorney general that will adhere to the “original” Constitution.
Presumably the one we have now is a cheap knock-off made in a sweatshop in the Northern Marianas.
Roger Moore
@Mustang Bobby:
I think he means the one without the criminal coddling Bill of Rights or the Freedom Hating 13th and subsequent Amendments.
Svensker
@drkrick:
Wut?
SiubhanDuinne
@Mustang Bobby:
LOL, internets are yours!
drkrick
@Svensker: Probably should have been in response to this:
I get very tired of people who think they and their opinions about 9/11 should preempt those of the people who actually lost somebody. The memorial is for those who died.
b-psycho
I find it amusing that the types that used to scream so much about “political correctness run amok” are now the most blatant purveyors of it, and on a scale the types they bitched about never would’ve thought possible.
honus
@drkrick: Len Elmore also went to Harvard Law. With him and Rhodes scholar and former democratic congressman Tom McMillen, that 1974 Maryland team was probably the most intelligent frontcourt in college basketball history. They were ranked #1 or #2 in the country most of the year but didn’t get to play in the NCAA tournament because they lost the ACC Tournament to NC State, who beat UCLA for the NCAA title.
honus
@Corner Stone: Like him or not, you have to give him credit for helping spare Virginia from Oliver North as senator, and ridding it of George Allen.
jenniebee
Wait, I thought the Wingnuts were still trying to prop up Whole Foods after the librul commie hippie elite suburbanites got pissed off at some of the owner’s libertarian pronouncements and stopped shopping there.
Is that not happening any more? I’m getting confused about what political statement I’m making by which big-box chain stores I shop at and which ones I don’t.
Paul in KY
@Roger Moore: I’ve never particularily liked the guy who replaced Richard Harris. Might just be because I though Harris did such a good job as Dumbledore.
Paul in KY
@sb: They are conservative, because they are all rich (dudes on the tour).