Amazon.com Is For Republicans

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/22/4 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

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

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?

This is what happened: there was this list, see, a long and rather surprising list of major consumer corporations in America, and it detailed just how much money each company forked over to the respective political parties last year in political-action-committee (PAC) donations.

Stop yawning. It gets better.

And the list was a bit revelatory and interesting, as such lists are often wont to be, and the companies' fiscal behavior might even surprise you a little, might even take you aback and make you reconsider your consumerist options, especially the part about how Amazon.com gave 60 percent of their donations to the GOP and except maybe for the part about how 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.

[Delphinium]

Fox Cable Networks is blue?

[Docbarleypop]

cool, then i may buy from them, that was a big issue for me when i was stationed overseas, i am pleased that they addressed that issue.

[MeanWestTexan]

Happy to help, even if you are Navy (j/k).

[DoSomethingAboutIt]

well here is the other thing...Amazon went 58% for Dems. Barnes and Noble and B Dalton both went 98% Dem. Lesser of two evils probably. Unless you can find it here
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[jimthewiz]

Boycotts may be counter-productive.

See my post on a previous thread here!

[MileHi]

Ahh, OK. Then I will temper my ire. {:0)

[MileHi]

Thanks

[Teacher317]

That article is, honestly, VERY tame for (Mary) Morford. He's a regular writer (sort of), and everything he discusses is reduced to sexual innuendo, belittling those he disagrees with, and wild stretches of the imagination.

[Ciexyz]

ping

[presidio9]

What happens it Mike Morford stays in blue turf and shops only blue turf?

[Paulus Invictus]

What's a "gormet chef?" and where can I get one. Unlike Kerry, I'm tired of Wendys. Or maybe you meant a "gorgeous chef." If so, I prefer one of those.
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[dennisw]

The keywords here are brutal on Ms Moford

[sauropod]

Where's my crying towel?

[Republican Wildcat]

Kerry has been crossed with Lesko? Yikes.

[presidio9]

It would be interesting to note how much the Clinton Appointed Harold Raines had Fanniemae donate to the Democrats.

[presidio9]

Sure, they bothed gained prominence by encouraging the government to waste my money on frivilous causes.

[Republican Wildcat]

Actually Lesko has provided a public service. His book should be used to discover worthless programs and get rid of them. Of course, I'm not holding my breath waiting for someone to actually do that in Washington.

[presidio9]

That may actually happen.

BTW, I am seriously miffed that nobody got my Boise State referrence.

[bigjoesaddle]

Is it true that the more a coffee bean is roasted, an in your dark roast coffees, that they actually have LESS caffine