6 Brands Playing Footsie with Conservatives and Paying the Price

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http://www.alternet.org/6-brands-playing-footsie-conservatives-and-paying-price



1. Chic-Fil-A brand damage

Last month Chick-fil-A’s CEO made public statements insulting and condemning America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens and their right to marry. For obvious reasons this provoked a national, negative reaction. Conservatives tried to salvage the situation this week by putting on a big show of support with their "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," trying to make it appear as if it is good for a company to line itself up with far-right groups. These right wingers might be celebrating what seems to be a good day for a chicken sandwich chain, but common sense -- and the numbers -- clearly say something different.

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2. Komen for the Cure: The Gold Standard For Brand Damage

Right now it's Chick-fil-A in the news for damaging its brand by playing footsie with the far right. But Chick-fil-A is hardly the first company or organization to self-destruct this way. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure® foundation is the gold standard for right-wing-footsie brand destruction.

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3. TED vs the 99%

TED stands for “Technology, Entertainment, Design,” and the organization puts on conferences in the US and UK. TED is well-known for its “TED Talks,” videos of TED conference speakers discussing various interesting and important topics.
In May, wealthy venture capitalist Nick Hanaour gave a TED Talk on income inequality. TED decided the subject was too "political" to release to their video audience, and said “business managers and entrepreneurs would feel insulted.”

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4. TD Ameritrade

In May news reports came out that TD Ameritrade's founder Joe Ricketts was funding an anti-Obama Super PAC. This hurt the company's brand image, even though Rickets is no longer with Ameritrade.

[ChickFullofHate]

1. Exposing the Corporations and withholding of money

IS the ONLY thing that will potentially hurt them.

Anything else is a waste of time, well except for exposing the employees and others who benefit from the corporation.

[GloriaAllmouth]

2. How dare they.

Anyone who says she supports traditional family values or traditional marriage is full of hate -- a discriminator who should be charged with hate crimes.

No one should ever say anything negative about LBGT persons or their desiderata. Ever. Hate is not a family value.

Conservatives should be squashed and squelched. If not silenced, certainly outshouted.

[CanonRay]

3. Suggest you go over to FreeRepublic

Here's the website: www.freerepublic.com

Have a nice life!

[rurallib]

4. got to mark this to see how long it stands

[Iggo]

5. I like you!

[surrealAmerican]

6. Did you take a wrong turn somewhere?

Do you care to explain this like a rational human being?