fullspinzoo

All the more reason to buy a "My Pillow". Nice to see a guy who sticks to his guns for what he believes in. https://www.teaparty.org/company-breaks-narrative-refusing-pull-ads-ingrahams-show-298631/ I met Mike in an elevator a few years back when he had his style of pillow in a particular casino hotel room in my hometown.

woodguru

See right there is an example of Boycott and how it works. You say hey that's a reason to buy a my pillow. Chances are if you buy one you were going to anyway, you aren't going to buy a product because the owner sticks to his guns so to speak. But on the other hand if that company is against something fundamental to your beliefs it can easily be the reason you do not, will not buy it. A list of products you see that violate any premise you don't like is looked at once but the name or logo sticks in your head when you are shopping. Your support of my pillow will trigger virtually nobody to go buy one, but the fact that it's pointed out that they refuse to pull advertising will make a lot of people not buy.

MSM could trash the companies that still advertise by simply putting up a board of those household name logos and names, but they don't, they have a board of the companies that have pulled advertising.

Meanwhile the right seems to feel a sense of outrage at the concept of Boycotting products, unless it's to be the first one to call for boycotts of products that offend their sense of beliefs. I saw an article about a boycott Laura Ingram vociferously called for a few years back, it was pretty ironic.

fullspinzoo

I won't buy one because I personally don't like the product. I've stayed in this casino/hotel where he has two booths and pillows in every room. Didn't like them. The real argument is whether a filthy mouthed snot nosed high school kid should be allowed to ruin a woman's career, who apologized no less. You have undoubtedly chosen a side because you don't like FOX news. And that's the only reason. Pretty narrow-minded of you, don't you think?

pafret Loc: Northeast

On what voodoo do you base such insights in Zoo's brain? Are you Ziggy Freud 's reincarnation or just a disciple of the "Great Carnac"?

Amazing, Fullspinzoo starts off his post with "All the more reason to buy a "My Pillow", which is his opinion and essentially states his approval of the company's stance, by indicating his intended patronage. Your immediate counter is to tell him that he doesn't understand his own intention and that he would probably have bought the item anyway. Thus you denigrate his motive and refute his assertion that he would support those who support free speech.

Then you vilify the rest of us by indicating that we would only boycott companies we don't agree with, which in many cases is the most common reason for a boycott. Your reasoning becomes convoluted at this point because you assert for every person, who boycotts because an advertiser left, there are a similar or larger numbers who would do so because they stayed. Horse puckies! You need to look at the audience of Ingraham's shows; they are conservatives and constitutionalists and they are keenly aware of the first amendment guarantee of free speech. There is no board reminding people that advertiser X has ads on any particular show and who lends any credence to this when you are at the point of purchase? But most will remember that they are thumbs down on an advertiser and avoid their products.

As an example of the confusion caused by boycott calls, BMW which pulled its FOX News ads when O'Reilly was charged with sexual misconduct and hasn't advertised ever on Ingraham's show, was also targeted for boycott and called to task for making vehicles for Adolph in WWII. So which gang is responsible for this, pro-Ingrahams or anti-Hoggs?

Boycotts are seldom sustainable and are intended as a spanking to demonstrate to the manufacturer that he should stick to his last and peddle his products without political or social commentary. They are also retributive in that an attempt was made to silence a particularly effective spokeswoman for conservatism and to cause a loss of profit, for the rats fleeing what they think is a sinking ship, is the only way to get even. So in the short run people will be very conscious of the brands that have injured them in any manner. I for one will never, ever, have an auto insured by Progressive because of its owner's politics.

In the long run, we are looking at an ever shrinking number of corporations which peddle products under multiple brand names. It is part of the mergers and buyouts that produce mega corporations and the individual is seldom aware that the products he buys are part of the same conglomerate as the products he won't buy.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

People boycott stuff all the time without even realizing they're doing it.

I'm glad the my pillow guy told whoever was leaning on him to take a hike.