Posted on 06/30/2012 3:39:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
A 2011 Gallup poll found that 40% of Americans consider themselves conservative and only 21% consider themselves liberal. So why does the advertising community — a.k.a Madison Avenue — and their clients continue to hire outspoken liberals for their advertising campaigns?
I recently lost two very big advertising campaigns (add those to the many others) because I am a conservative. The advertisers actually stated this. Ironically, the more I speak out about the non-partisan values of our United States Constitution and the necessities of a free-market system to keep businesses thriving, the more ad campaigns (whose goal it is to promote their businesses) I lose.
While I was waiting outside an office the other day, I picked up a magazine. On the back was an outspoken liberal actress in an ad for a cosmetic cream. It happened to be the same company that was contemplating hiring me until it discovered I was a conservative. I sighed. As I continued to flip through the magazine I saw another liberal activist actress who was recently spotted leading chants at Occupy Wall Street events. She was in an ad for a wholesome drink. Are Occupy Wall Street events wholesome (defecation, urination, public acts of sex, rape, drugs, violence)?
As I returned home and turned on the television, it was more of the same. I was barraged with liberal thought and actions in the sitcoms, dramas, and reality shows. I received no reprieve during commercial breaks. I saw hair flipping around in a hair color ad by an actress who recently held a fundraiser for Obama in her home and did a pro-Obama PSA. Would an actress who was pro-Bush or is pro-Romney get this same opportunity?
Before I could blink, the next commercial flashed more outspoken liberal actors. Liberals are the ones who rant against Wall Street, big business, and banks. Yet liberals are the ones doing ads for — you guessed it — Wall Street, big business, and banks — those money-making entities that liberals say are so evil.
Question: Would any of these liberal actors be doing the cosmetic, hair, credit card, and drink ads for free? You can bet not. They have big-time agents negotiating big-time deals that pay them millions. To quote Peter Roff, the businesses are being persuaded by liberal advertising companies “to feed the hand that bites them.”
Where is the reason in all this?
In a country where more Americans identify themselves as conservative than liberal, Americans are being peddled goods by outspoken liberals. Businesses are being influenced by Madison Avenue to hire celebrity spokespersons with outspoken liberal political beliefs to sell their products. Why are they not hiring conservative celebrity spokepersons who actually rally for free enterprise, which benefits the buyer?
This is just another avenue for liberal bias and a progressive attempt to influence the buyer politically, even with blatant hypocrisy. It’s an underground movement whose motives the liberal advertising companies are hoping will not be noticed.
There is nothing wrong with liberals being hired to do commercials, but there is something wrong with conservatives not being hired because they are conservatives.
Why is this important? It is important because of the influence apathy gives Madison Avenue. It is important because of the sheer magnitude of power indifference gives the media over our minds. Americans are letting their thought processes and instincts be manipulated by their lack of action. It’s time to vet the nanny who is raising our children and influencing our own minds: the culture (i.e., the press, media, sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, music, and advertising).
I’ve heard it said that conservatives will buy products peddled by liberals (because they have no other choice) but liberals won’t buy products peddled by conservatives. If this is true, then it is time for conservatives and independents to wake up and smell the ads. If we want change, then it’s all in the pocketbook.
We are all Americans. I don’t mind seeing liberals in ads, as long as there is no hypocrisy in their actions. However, the playing field should be leveled. Conservative Americans should not be shunned and conservatives should be duly represented.
The time has come for advertising companies and their clients to spread the politics around and for the American buyer to demand it.
Tell us the names of those products, Janine, & I’ll happily write a protest letter to the Corporate Office.
I work in the advertising business. Most ad people are liberal.
they are promoting ideology first... product second
the sooner you understand this, the sooner you can adjust your pitch
similarly, anyone that is in a position to hire, either employees or contractors, if you identify them as liberal/progressive... DO NOT HIRE THEM. if they are already in your company, do everything you can to trip them up and ostracize them to the smallest dying branch of the organization
this is how we must fight the liberals... with the same tactics they employ against us
This kind of stupid cost the CEO at JC Penney’s his job.
Everyone would be liberal - if they thought they could get away with it forever.
Nobody WANTS to be conservative if they didn’t have to be. It’s just no fun.
So if you want to sell fun and happy, it has to be presented as liberal.
And there’s no cost to watching them on TV.
She might consider dropping the blond look. She’s much more attractive with her natural dark hair, imo.
Nobody WANTS to be conservative if they didn’t have to be. It’s just no fun.
In my experience liberals, including family members, are the most angry, depressed and hateful people I know.
Conservatives tend to be self reliant and satisfied.
THEY win because we aren’t always aware of who is saying what about whom.
If we had the “facts” we would have a fighting chance...
If we had a “heads up” we would have a fighting chance...
The problem is that our party doesn’t do CYA as well as they should.
The problem is that we don’t have large private entities (ie George Soros) to fund such programs.
and there are lots of other reasons - because (WE) pay attention more to reality and not to dogma.
In my experience liberals, including family members, are the most angry, depressed and hateful people I know.
Conservatives tend to be self reliant and satisfied.
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Right on, Right on, Right on! You hit the nail right on the head. (underline and repeat - Right on, Right on, Right on!)
Now we have to hit the “Left”, Right on the Head!
There's more to it. Their philosophies, beliefs and values are false and self destructive.
Someone posted pictures of the homosexuals at a White House event waiving their middle fingers at a picture of Ronald Reagan. The looked completely sour and angry. They were at some event with their President, partying with the elite and disrespecting a man they hated yet who was far greater than they could fathom. Still, they were not happy.
They are so filled with self loathing and insecurities that they feel compelled to control others. Think about the attitudes behind “Gun Control.”
I once read something that went “You cannot enrich the poor by impoverishing the wealthy. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” etc... Unfortunately, this is their game plan for us.
Liberals are not happy. Whether they realize it or not, liberals wallow in their misery and are desperate to drag the rest of us down into it with them.
You sir (or madam) are a wise as well as a knowledgeable person and a benefit not only to FR but to mankind and the “American Way”.
Thanks for the glowing assessment. You’re too kind.
Yep. It’s that simple.
That's how it starts out, because as a child, a person is afraid they can't stand on their own. Adolescence is SUPPOSED to be about learning the first levels of self-reliance, and the deeper rewards it brings over the easy dependency gratifications of childhood.
That's what 1 Corinthians 13:11 means when it says: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
These days, of course, adolescence is the time when the full force of the public schools ties teenagers down and forcibly shoves the baby bottle back into their mouths and duct tapes it to their faces, precisely when they are trying to spit it out and grow up.
This process is what public education, social workers and the like call "socialization."
It's end result is what is called a "liberal."
Question: Would any of these liberal actors be doing the cosmetic, hair, credit card, and drink ads for free? You can bet not. They have big-time agents negotiating big-time deals that pay them millions. To quote Peter Roff, the businesses are being persuaded by liberal advertising companies “to feed the hand that bites them.”
Where is the reason in all this?
Janine, the reason in all this is that the executives and boards of directors that are being labeled "conservative", are not actually conservative at all.
Commies like money too. In fact, they need money to further their agenda. And they reward their fellow travelers with slices of the pie.
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