Viacom says “no” to Dems but “yes” to boobs… [View All]

[KansDem]

This is in reference to http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x387469#387832

My post is no. 15

Later in the day, I received this email from my wife…

“KansDem” - Look at LBN in DU for the post about VIACOM and the political billboard that they refused to put up. I decided to call the local VIACOM office to see if they are the ones responsible for the "boob billboards" that we saw. They are. The woman I spoke to was very defensive. I kept asking her who was responsible for the decision to put up this ad, but NOT the one mentioned in DU. She said that they have certain criteria, which I also repeatedly asked for. She never gave me the criteria, but I finally found out that she, as well as others, were responsible for the decision for the boob ads. She started to give me the number for the corporate office that is responsible for the decision on the one mentioned in DU. She said that that one is in litigation, and the lawyers wouldn't be able to talk to me anyway, so then she wouldn't give me the corporate number. (As if I can't get it elsewhere.) She also wouldn't give me her name. She asked where I found out about the one mentioned on DU, and I told her on the internet. I told her that I thought that the ad that VIACOM would not put up told the truth. She said that that was my opinion. She kept trying to compare this to what I see on tv or read in the newspaper. I explained that not only do I not watch tv nor read the newspaper, and that this is but one of many examples as to why I do not, but that it is not the same thing and why. She stated that it was my decision to not watch tv and read the paper. I agreed; stating, however, that it was also NOT my decision to see the ad on my way to work, but that I saw it none-the-less. I asked her how we were supposed to explain this to <our daughter> if she should see it, and that, as a woman, did it not offend her. She said that it did not offend her, and she compared it to her taking her daughter to Oceans of Fun in the summer where the same thing is "shoved down her daughter's face!" I disagreed, stating that her daughter was seeing women swimming, naturally, in bathing suits, not women's breasts on a billboard for all to see while driving down the highway on their way to work. She asked if I had not seen billboards advertising strip clubs around town. I explained that I hadn't, but perhaps it is because I don't frequent those parts of town. She also said that mine was the first complaint that she had had, and that she certainly was not going to take the ads down because I had complained. The conversation ended when she asked where I had seen the ad, and after I told her the location, she said that it is not their ad. Apparently there are two other companies in town that also put up billboards, and the one I saw was put up by one of them. I expained that you had seen one on your way to work and that it also offended you, and that perhaps that one might be theirs, but she suggested that I call one of the other companies, which I plan to do after lunch.

Thought that you might like to post this on DU, since they know you there. <??? Don't know what she meant by this!>

<a coworker> just gave me an article that says that the radio station hasn't received any calls of complaint about their billboards. Not only do I not believe that, but I will give them one. She saw it on the Channel 9 internet site. Perhaps you might want to find out which company put up the billboard you saw, and call them, as well as the 99.7 radio station. The names of the other two companies are Lamar and Waitte (maybe only 1` "t".)

So Dems are out but boobs are in. It's the GOP way!