Wal-Mart In Court Fight Over 'Wal-ocaust' T-Shirts

WKMG-TV NEWS ^ | 3-8-2006

[WV Mountain Mama]

You mean Walmart doesn't have potential employees strip naked and run around to prove they are healthy enough to work and earn their keep?

[L98Fiero]

"Of course, who is Wal-Mart to complain, after their book-burning ads?"

Uhh, I'm pretty sure that Arizona/So.Cal marketing guy was canned by Wal-Mart, like almost immediately after that LOCAL incident for which Wal-Mart immediately apologized. You can blame Wal-Mart for that all you want but the only action they had in the matter was firing the guy who did it and apologizing for his actions.

Don't let me mess up your Wal-Mart bash, though.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thanks for the links.

Someone sure was asleep at the wheel, when that ad was approved.

[steve-b]

I don't think Wal-Mart has a leg to stand on. Whatever one thinks of the shirts' message, they look to be well within the bounds of legally-protected parody and satire.

[Alouette]

Don't give them ideas.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.
That, my Dear, is a myth.

Although I like the ball and chain myth better.;)

[cripplecreek]

At least it wasn't a photo of Sam Walton with a bomb on his head. The way some people behave about the place you'd think it was some kind of religious experience shopping there.

[Cagey]

You mean Walmart doesn't have potential employees strip naked and run around to prove they are healthy enough to work and earn their keep?

Almost!

[WV Mountain Mama]

Walmart is the largest private employer in our state (nothing to brag about, just a fact). I don't understand why people love to hate them so much.

[FreedomCalls]

"Wal-Mart will probably lose. Trademark infringement only if peole would reasonably confuse the two...man is entitled to his stupid, leftist driven satire."

Yes, but central to trademark law is you have to show that you are actively defending your mark or you will lose control over it. See "Aspirin", "Kleenex", and "Xerox" for examples of how and how not to do this.

[WV Mountain Mama]

I don't think it is a myth, I clearly remember seeing footage of that during an Auschwitz commeration in the past year or so. I will have to check my Dachau book to see if there is anything in there about it. I don't know what the ball and chain thing is?

[ApplegateRanch]

Phony "outrage", Islamonazi style, to shut up the opposition. ADL, if they knew the meaning of the word, should be ashamed.

However, Wal-Mart and the ad agency should have known that only lefties can toss around the Nazi comparison with impunity.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I couldn't agree more.

Looks like some of the people that like to bash WAL-MART should read the history of Sam Walton and his accomplishment in live.

Here is something that might be surprising to some here.

Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Sam Walton

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/SamWalton.htm

[cripplecreek]

Sam was a good man.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

That picture cracks me up.

We actually had that picture posted on our bulletin board in the lunch room.Our Store manager hung it there.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I meant this in reference to WAL-MART employees.

In the Holocaust it happened.:)

Ball and chain was a comment by one of the Anti-WAL-MART FReepers a while back.

He/she was meaning that all WAL-MART employees are Slaves.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Yup ,he sure was.

[Mike Darancette]

I see that ad as Wal-Mart saying "Never Again". Nothing is even remotely Anti-Semetic I would think that most Jews would be against Nazi style book burning.

OTOH: This ad would be perfectly acceptable if sponsored by Move-On and talking about teaching evolution.

[timm22]

I actually agree with the book-burning ad too. I think it makes a very valid point. Still, the decision to use Nazi imagery was not the most sensible choice, and definitely should have been changed to something less emotionally charged.

[WV Mountain Mama]

OK! Sorry! :)