25 Companies That Will Never See One Red Cent of My Money

[Mr. Ected]

1. overstock.com
2. eharmony
3. Inverness Medical (stresstabs)
4. Onstar
5. Hotwire
6. Sleep Number Bed
7. Oreck Vacuum Cleaners
8. Auto Zone
9. Citracal
10. Blue Emu
11. Red Lobster
12. Avacor (hair loss treatment)
13. Lazerguide (golf instruction tool)
14. General Steel Metal Buildings
15. Life Quotes, Inc.
16. Select Comfort
17. Scottrade
18. The Swap Shop
19. Pfizer
20. Midas Resources
21. Lisa Hoffman Skincare
22. Lumber Liquidators
23. Mozy
24. Goldline
25. TempurPedic

These are but a few of the corporate sponsors of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin. Please help me add to this list. We may not be able to shut these blowhards' pieholes, but we certainly can collectively affect the bottom lines of the aforementioned advertisers.

Sleep with the devil and lose your soul. Vote with your dollars.

[JanMichael]

1. yep

noted. And bookmarked.

Thanks.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

2. Happy to say

I've never needed to patronize any of 'em, but thanks for the list!

[Submariner]

3. But won't you feel guilty taking food from their mouths?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. You may with Pfizer, due to some of the meds they make

and given that General Steel also promotes on liberal shows as well as a few of them... well I know that they are promoting product by buying in many markets.

Now in an ideal world they should not... but we live in a consumer society...

[dysfunctional press]

26. "Now in an ideal world they should not"

why not?

they have a politically neutral product that has appeal to certain consumers, regardless of their political views.
why "shouldn't" they be able to appeal to as large a market as possible?

[Itchinjim]

5. Sleep Number was a sponsor of Al Franken's on Air America

That was one of the reasons I bought one back in '05

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Select Comfort sponsored Garrison Keillor for several years.

Garrison and Prarie Home are certainly not right wing, but I understand where you're coming from.

[Mr. Ected]

8. Admittedly It Is Difficult When One Company Sponsors Both Sides

But the thought that a company achieves a benefit by aligning with Rush Limbaugh is enough to send me directly to its competition.

[Touchdown]

14. Select Comfort and Sleep Number is the same.

Select Comfort is the company name. Sleep Number Bed is the product.

Al Franken's number is 65... not stiff enough for me.;)

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Carbonite, Vermont Teddy Bear Co., General Motors come to mind, too.

[Mr. Ected]

10. I Still Refuse To Buy Snapple

It was Rush's glory drink of the 90's.

[Touchdown]

13. He also uses Apple Macs, which Al Gore sits on the BOD.

Rushbo's choices are not that nefarious.

You shouldn't drink Snapple because it has HFCS.:D

[KGodel]

19. But Apple doesn't advertise on his show

He subsidizes them, not vice versa.

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. I don't drink it cause it sucks

I love tea. Regular ordinary tea. No sugar. No flavor. And Snapple makes no such product.

[madokie]

9. The only one I am guilty of is lumber liquidaters

Its been a while for that too.

[dysfunctional press]

25. same here.

and i'll probably be using them again- hopefully by the end of the year.

[KGodel]

11. Have never, will never.

For those of us in SoCal, you might add Larry Miller's Sit'nSleep.

I complained to them back in the '90's about their ads on Limbaugh's show. Not that it made any difference.

[Uben]

12. I once ate at Red Lobster monthly.......

...but that changed a few years ago when I found out they were a Limbaugh sponsor. I wrote them a really nasty letter and never went back. I now buy my lobster at Sam's Club and cook it myself. It's much better than they can cook it, and much, much cheaper!
And, I also buy whole tenderloins at Sam's and cut my own steaks. We rarely eat out. Living rurally, it's too far to the restaurant and I hate paying for inferior food. I can eat much better at home, for less.

I have never patronized any of these other establishments, and now, never will! However, if Sam's Club goes on the list, I'm screwed!

[SoCalNative]

17. Sam's Club is just Wal*Mart with bigger portions

why would ANYBODY ever support Wal*Mart?

[MadMaddie]

39. And you can eat in your shorts or pajamas.....

[Fendius]

15. K&R

THIS is the way to get things done, great post..

[Touchdown]

16. If you got Red Lobster, you need to stop eating at these places too.

Olive Garden
Capital Grill
bahama Breeze
Longhorn Steakhouse
Seasons 52

Darden Restaurants is their parent company.

http://www.darden.com/

[Mike 03]

18. Beautiful list. As an investor, this gives me some great advice on which

companies to short.

TY.

[Mike 03]

20. Also, who the fuck would ever use Blue Emu, a superstitious cure for pain that is from

oil squeezed out of the body of actual birds. Disgusting as hell...

It's no different than eating turtle peckers to get "male vitality" or some other crap like that.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

24. I've never even heard of it until now.

http://www.blue-emu.com/

I'm a BENGAY kinda girl. It smells good and it burns. :P

[DCKit]

36. You know it's for muscles, right?

Kidding.

[Sebastian Doyle]

41. Tiger Balm is better anyway

And as far as I know, it's not actually made from tigers.

[mwooldri]

21. More effective way:

Just don't listen to these guys and tell your friends not to.

I don't know anyone lately who is filling out Arbitron diaries or got one of those meters they have now... but radio stations can only command advertising dollars based on the size of their audience. If no-one's listening to these blowhards then the radio stations cannot command the advertising dollars and will soon look to find a more popular program that *is* garnering audience.

Oreck and Select Comfort/Sleep Number advertise on liberal radio too, they appear not to care about the politics of the show they're advertising on.

The company I work for though won't be advertising on political radio any time soon anyway. Sorry because of policy I can't name that company.

[ngant17]

22. definitely avoid Rock Star energy drinks

which are the family business of radio fascist Michael Savage(Michael Alan Weiner), who was recently declared persona non grata in the UK. Rock Star is marketed by his son, the CEO, but Michael formulated the drink, drawing on his education as an "ethnobotanist". His wife Janet is the CFO which handles the finances of the energy drink.

Pure poison indeed!

[backscatter712]

33. Rockstar: Hate in a can!

Every time you buy one, you put money in the pocket of Michael "Savage" Weiner.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

23. But for $4.99 valve stem caps at Autozone, I'm good. (n/t)

[Fumesucker]

27. GM got really nasty with me when I emailed and asked them

If they were going to be playing "Barack the Magic Negro" in their showrooms..

First they said that they didn't endorse the views of Limbaugh and then when I said that wasn't my question and asked them to actually answer they went to the trouble of doing a search on my email addy and came back at me with some personal information that I didn't disclose in my email.

I will *never* *ever* buy a GM product again.

[SheilaT]

29. I bought a tempurpedic mattress

last summer and it has totally cured a back problem I've had for thirty-five years. The past five years I would wake up every single morning in extreme pain. No longer. It's as if I never hurt my back in the first place.

I guess I'm glad I didn't see this list a year ago.

[LAGC]

37. Thats funny.

I just bought a Tempurpedic generic work-alike mattress a couple months ago that's supposed to be exactly the same as the "real deal" and have been waking up with lower-back aches recently (in the last couple weeks or so) but NOT when I sleep on a regular bed. You mileage may vary, I guess.

[Common Sense Party]

30. You're not going to buy a big metal shed from General Steel?

Me either.

In fact, I don't use any of those 25 businesses products or services.

I was already boycotting them and didn't even know it.

That'll teach 'em.

[michreject]

31. I use On Star

Only game in town and I'm not giving it up.

[readmoreoften]

32. What about Coke and Chiquita Banana? They assassinate union organizers in Latin America.

You'd have to give up Odwalla (Coke) and Minute Maid (Coke) and a bunch of other stuff, though.

Almost ALL clothing is made in sweat shops (even some with Made in the USA on the label.)

Taco Bell and BK used to, and Chipotle STILL buys tomatoes from the Immolakee work camp (in the US) where laborers--mostly immigrants and some abducted homeless persons--must pick over a ton of tomatoes to earn $50. The camp is surrounded by barbed wire and workers are indebted to the "company store" and unable to leave. For example, the "company" provides them the use of a filthy single wide trailer for $1200 a month.

Boycotting corporations is a dizzying endeavor. On top of everything, they all invest heavily in one another. This is why I try to buy union made, but beyond that, I always keep in mind that the only way to teach corporations is the mass strike. Our power is in our abilities, in our labor, not in our consumption.

[Mr. Ected]

35. There Are Many Ways To Achieve One's Goals

Boycotting specific corporations for their alignment with an enemy of the people seems to be equally effective.

Dizzying? Yes. Do-able? Absolutely.

[greenbriar]

34. only one makes me sad Red Lobster

I LOVE Shrimp Scampi

[MadMaddie]

38. Cool I don't use any of them now and I never will!

Thanks for the list!

[mmonk]

40. Sleep number bed also has advertised on progressive radio shows.

[Xithras]

42. If you're boycotting Red Lobster, put Olive Garden on your list too

Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, and a couple of other chains are all owned by the same management group, Darden Restaraunts. If you want to boycott them, make sure you're boycotting the entire company, and not just one wing of it.