Morford: "Amazon.com Is For Republicans" (Buy Blue column...)

[villager]

Amazon.com Is For Republicans

Attention, liberal shoppers! Next year, screw those GOP-supportin' companies, and try buying blue

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, December 22, 2004


Do you care much that greasy ol' Pizza Hut gave tens of thousands in PAC money to the GOP last year? How about the fact that Taco Bell stopped pumping out their happily toxic semirancid meatlike substances just long enough to write a fat check to the conservative Right? Isn't that weirdly fascinating, in a depressing and indigestible sort of way?

Does it matter a whit that, say, Fruit of the Loom underwear gave nearly 100 percent of its corporate donations to tighty-whitey-wearing Republicans, nearly every one of whom I'm guessing wouldn't know appetizing undergarments from a flap of burlap and some string?

Do you think maybe it should? Matter, that is?

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And the site, called buyblue.org (along with its more detailed but less intuitively named counterpart, choosetheblue.com), spawned a mini movement and the mini movement spawned this very column and now you are right now encouraged to go see for yourself and discover the moderately shocking truths regarding which big shiny companies suck up to the happy sneering homophobic enviro-slappin' warmongering Repubs and which give thousands to the whiny limping kick-us-when-we're-down Demos.

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And maybe you recognize that if there's one thing that corporations absolutely goddamn never fail to respond to in a million years, it's the bottom line, consumer satisfaction, the almighty but increasingly limp dollar. You think?

Because I don't care how shriveled the souls of a given company's GOP-lovin' board of directors are, if they see profits dropping because all the shoppers in the huge and culturally potent blue cities -- the shoppers, in other words, who don't live in the red welfare states and hence who actually have a shred of disposable income and maybe a modicum of concern and integrity regarding who profits when they spend it -- if they notice that those shoppers are suddenly skipping nasty little Circuit City (98 percent to Repubs) and instead buy their compressed-plastic Japanese-made landfill-ready electronics at monstrous Price Club (98 percent to Dems), well, it sends them a message.

And the message is, in a calm and respectful nutshell, "Bite me."

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/12/22/notes122204.DTL&nl=fix

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. kick

[mattclearing]

2. Classic.

"Coors Brewing gave almost every penny of their donations to Republicans in a concerted effort to, presumably, stop them icky Colorado gays from getting married and keep women in their place, all while furthering the cause of skanky undrinkable pisswater beer made for red-blooded Americans who lack taste buds and hope."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I've boycotted Pizza Hut

ever since they did my step son dirty. He was an assisant manager who was sent from failing store to failing store because he knew how to boost morale and make the things profitable. He kept being promised a promotion to manager of one of these stores, but they kept giving the manager's job to someone else. The straw that broke the camel's back was when he was denied his birthday off-a day off he'd applied for six months in advance. The big boss told him that he had to train the - surprise- new manager for the store he'd just made turn a profit. He quit in disgust, and I don't blame him. I assume that other PH franchises operate in the same way. Now that I know they are a Red company, it just gives me another reason to stay away.

[GRLMGC]

9. That's so screwed up

I hope your stepson got a better job. No hard worker deserves to be treated that way.

[davidwhite0570]

4. How about PaPa johns or dominoes red or blue?

[progressivebydesign]

5. Dominos is ABSOLUTELY RED!!

They should be avoided at all costs.. they are totally RED, and major pro-life wackos. And. .their pizza is made with some really vile shit.

[kcass1954]

10. Not sure if Domino's still does this

But they used to give tons of money to the National Right-to-Life Foundation. I haven't eaten their crap in 20 years!

[progressivebydesign]

6. I will happily shop at a company that gives even 50/50..

But.. the ones that give 80 to 100% to republicans? NO.

[depakid]

7. Amazon's not too bad at 61%

but much better to support Powell's online (unionized and independent) http://www.powells.com/

or if you absolutely have to go to chain stores, then apparently Barnes & Noble at over 90% Dem is the place to go.

[villager]

8. right -- or maybe Booksense...

there are other ways to order books online!

http://www.booksense.com/

[Doctor_J]

11. I just did my part

I cancelled a $130 order at amazon and moved it to B&N

[WillyT]

12. This Will Definitely Send A Message If We Do This Correctly !!!

Question: How do we do this correctly?

:shrug:

Thank you for this. Am blasting around my lily pad as we post!

:kick:

[RetroLounge]

13. Barnes & Noble is 98% blue

I buy from them...

RL

[pantouflard]

14. www.powells.com

best bookstore anywhere.

[secedeeconomically]

16. Powells rules

[secedeeconomically]

15. Amazon sucks for more reasons than that

Not only is it next to impossible to find a phone number there to talk to a customer service person, but even when you email them a question, they wont reply back. I say fuck them. I get all my tech books from bookpool.com.

[DemoTex]

17. I blasted Morford's piece a couple of hours ago.

My address book loves my Morford blasts!