Posted on 05/31/2019 3:50:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Few companies appeal to more disparate corners of American society than the Walt Disney Co. , so count us among the bewildered to see Disney CEO Bob Iger march to the front lines of the culture wars.
Mr. Iger told Reuters this week that it would be “very difficult” for Disney to continue filming its movie and television content in Georgia if a new state abortion law takes effect. “I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully,” Mr. Iger said.
Georgia recently passed a bill banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of gestation. Such heartbeat bills are moving through several states, though the federal courts are likely to rule that they violate the Supreme Court’s abortion precedents. Perhaps the High Court will hear an appeal, though this week the Justices declined to hear a lower-court decision overturning an Indiana law that barred abortion based on gender, race or disability.
Mr. Iger is probably trying to please the bulk of his employees and Hollywood who lean left. Disney’s competitors at Netflix have condemned the Georgia law. But for Mr. Iger this looks like a business and political mistake of the kind he rarely makes. Disney of all companies should not want to be seen as an engine of the left’s cultural imperialism. The company’s new streaming service is pitched as “family friendly,” which presumably means customers in Macon as well as Manhattan.
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I’ve never understood the appeal of this company to the public.
Well bye
Leftist commies will NOT be satisfied until they have subsumed ALL of America into their diseased philosophy dreams and destroyed, jailed, or killed the last conservative.
Wake up, America. You have enemies.
Would a National Review, free market conservative support Iger’s decision?
Always a bit too syrupy for my tastes even as a kid. Some of Walt’s work was strikingly beautiful. I still preferred the wise cracking Warner looney tunes.
Georgia should ban all Disney films...
It’s put up or shut up time: Is Disney getting any tax incentives from GA? If so, explain THAT, Iger.
And a note to GA: Just get out of the bribery biz.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
He is holding a loaded and cocked pistol to his head, yelling, “Don’t laugh...you’re next!”
I guess you missed the announcement that the Little Mermaid is a transgendered lesbian...as well as the celebration of NAMBLA Day at Disney World.
Really? Bob Igor is dedicated to killing his future customers. What a stupid CEO.
Support his right to make the decision, perhaps.
So, he’s admitting Dizknee can’t function without child sacrifice!
Maybe Iger should forbid residents of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. from Disney entertainments.
Iger was born to a Jewish family in New York City.[5][6][7] He is the son of Mimi (née Tunick) and Arthur L. Iger (b. 1926).[8][9] His father was a World War II veteran who served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Greenvale Marketing Corporation, and was also a professor of advertising and public relations.[8] His mother worked at Boardman Junior High School in Oceanside, New York.[10][11] Arthur’s father Joe (i.e. Robert’s paternal grandfather) was cartoonist Jerry Iger’s brother.
Disney has been “woke” and in the tank for the LGBTQ mafia agenda before “woke” was a word. I’m not surprised.
Considering that Uncle Walt helped in the ferreting out of communists in Hollywood back in the 1950s (which forever earned him the disdain of the left), he would not be too impressed with this fellow and others running his company today, wouldn't he?
He should have shut up.
Very, very bad move.
For real.
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