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Never let up!
Posted on 06/13/2009 1:56:49 PM PDT by SolidWood
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is headquartered in Madison, NJ and is one of the largest research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare product companies in the world. It is also, by way of Centrum vitamins, one of David Letterman’s sponsors for The Late Show with David Letterman. Every Centrum vitamin you buy helps keep the lights on in the Ed Sullivan Theater, where on June 8th 2009 David Letterman treated statutory rape as a laughing matter when he “joked” that 14 year-old Willow Palin, the only Palin daughter who attended a baseball game that day, was “knocked up” by 33 year-old Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees during the game.
“Knocking up” a 14 year-old girl is statutory rape.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Centrum vitamins support the exploitation and brutalization of young women by buying ad space on David Letterman’s program and website.
WRITE TO WYETH AND LET THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE KNOW THAT YOU WILL NOT PURCHASE THEIR PRODUCTS SO LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO SUPPORT STATUTORY RAPE OF MINORS BY WAY OF THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW:
C-Suite Executives of Wyeth:
(1) Bernard Poussot – Chairman, President, CEO
(2) Timothy P. Cost – Senior VP, Corporate Affairs
(3) Gregory Norden – SVP and CFO
(4) Jeffrey E. Keisling – VP Corporate Information Services and CFO
Use this address:
Wyeth
PO Box 237155
New York, New York 10023
and also send letters to the above executives at this address:
Wyeth
5 Giralda Farms
Madison, New Jersey 07940
Also, FAX Wyeth letters at: FAX (973) 660-7111
Call Wyeth at Phone: (973) 660-5500
Email Wyeth at: pr@wyeth.com
If you want to GUARANTEE these executives will read your letter, FedEx it to them at the Giralda Farms address. FedEx-es are rushed directly up to the executive’s office.
Writing letters and mailing them through the USPS is the next best option: those letters will be processed by the mailroom and will ultimately reach the executives.
FAX-ing is also a great way to get your complaint to Wyeth. All of these options generate paper at the company that Wyeth must deal with.
Calling Wyeth comes after FAX-ing in terms of what will have an impact.
Emails are the weakest way of reaching Wyeth, but are stil a way to get your point across if you can’t do any of the above.
Be polite, professional, and keep asking Wyeth how it could support a program like Letterman’s where the statutory rape of 14 year-olds is treated as comedy material. Ask what Wyeth’s corporate policy is on statutory rape, and inquire whether the June 8th episode of David Letterman’s show is indicative of how Wyeth feels about women.
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Never let up!
The ACLU and Ruth Bader Ginsberg come to mind
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Holy Cow I love Hillbuzz!
Love the ‘tude. The fight has only begun.
Either that or they don't have the judgement to spot a woman hater.
Letterman was not making a joke.
His primary motive was to bring political and social harm to Palin and her family.
Why would you threaten to boycott them?
I think a nice email should get the point across. Wyeth did not know what Letterman was going to say, and I’m sure, in response to consumer’s voicing their complaints, they let CBS know.
I emailed Olive Garden, as a consumer who the day before the Letterman event, purchased a meal from Olive Garden. I expressed my concern, and let them know that I knew they were not responsible for Letterman’s actions.
I received a very nice email in return, indicating that they had heard from others and had themselves voiced their concern to CBS.
Polite, understanding complaints go a long way.
Contact them and boycott them for as long as they remain his sponsors.
Once they react positively end the boycott.
If they continue to sponsor despite the obviously unacceptable remarks... they deserve to be boycotted.
I will give them a chance to react.
First, I want to see what effect their pressure on CBS has.
Second, I am well aware that in many cases, they are not buying Letterman, but are buying a “schedule” according to demographics, and it may simply include Letterman.
Third, I have no idea what the contractual terms of their buy may be. IOW, it may not be so cut and dried that they can cancel or amend a schedule.
There are many variables in buying network time that have to be considered.
By the way, in addition to Olive Garden (and I happen to be not only a customer, but a supplier of services to Darden Restaurants, their corporate entity), as the owner of a Thunderbird and a Lincoln MKX I have sent Ford an email expressing my feelings over the comments.
I find it to be unhelpful to complain to those entities whose products I don’t use.
No, hitting them in the pocket book is what they hear and react to. At 62 I was, until Letterman did this, used their products, now I am not.
To companies I do not patronize, I write that I won’t patronize them in future, should nothing be done.
I also inform them that friends and family who may well patronize them, will be informed on the matter and told to boycott them.
Regarding “indirect” advertising on Letterman via CBS slot allocation. They still advertise for CBS, knowing that they can be placed on Letterman. That’s not different than directly advertising for him. They can inform CBS that they don’t want to be placed with his show or they can distance themselves from CBS altogether.
Here are some of David Letterman’s sponsors:
Aveeno https://www.aveeno.com/contact-us.jsp;jsessionid=ICzq9MKfCJMvYNQPalV7EWJ+CJY
Canon http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/AboutCanon/ciwofloc.html
Citibank https://online.citibank.com/US/JRS/portal/contactus.do
Downey (Owned by P&G) http://www.downy.com/en_US/contactus.jsp
Hellman’s https://secure.hellmanns.com/contact_us.aspx
Lexus (Owned by Toyota) http://www.lexus.com/contact/
Nissan Motors http://www.nissanusa.com/apps/contactus
Rogaine http://www.rogaine.com/men/contact-us
Ambien CR https://contactus.sanofi-aventis.us/default.aspx
Chase https://www.chase.com/ccp/index.jsp?pg_name=ccpmapp/shared/assets/page/contactus
Ford http://www.fordvehicles.com/help/contact/
Hotels.com http://www.hotels.com/faqs.do?reqType=getQuestions&cmsFaqId=
Listerene (Johnson & Johnson) https://www.listerine.com/contact-us.jsp;jsessionid=o9dUC7PE892Iut-YH7ibH32Z1Wk
Mazda http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/emailMazda.action
Old Navy (Owned by The Gap) http://oldnavy.gap.com/customerService/info.do?cid=3332&mlink=5151,1004621,3&clink=1004621
Samsung http://www.samsung.com/us/info/contactus.html
T-Mobile http://www.t-mobile.com/Contact.aspx
Also if you haven’t yet filed a complaint at the FCC:
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm
Channel and time: CBS at 11:30 p.m. Monday June 8th (rape joke), Tuesday 9th (prostitute joke)
CBS Feedback;
http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form
I will put this to good use.
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