Posted on 12/11/2011 1:26:34 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A California state senator called on home improvement chain Lowe's to apologize for pulling advertising from a TV show featuring the lives of Muslim families.
Lowe's pulled advertising from Discovery Channel/TLC's "All-American Muslim" after the Florida Family Assn. complained about the show, which it called "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.”
State Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) wrote a letter Saturday to Lowe's Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Niblock in which he called the decision to pull advertising from the show "bigoted, shameful, and un-American" and "profoundly ignorant." He demanded that the company rescind its action and apologize or face boycotts and legislative action.
"Lowe’s religious discrimination is the equivalent of a company asserting that it is pulling advertising from the Christian Broadcast Network’s 700 Club because the program somehow 'riskily hides' the agenda of Christian radicalized groups such as Aryan Nation," Lieu wrote. "That assertion would, of course, be utter nonsense and religious bigotry."
Lowe's issued a statement in which it apologized for having "managed to make some people very unhappy" but did not say it would reinstate advertising on the show.
"Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and....
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Thank you Lowes.
Stand up for America and against our enemies......
No, it's not. The Obama regime made that quite clear when they brought suit against Boeing from expanding and opening a new plant in a right to work state, which wouldn't have effected a single union job in WA. It wasn't until Boeing paid off the union by giving in to their demands did the federal government drop their suit.
The Obama regime brought their Chicago style thug politics to DC.
Mark
...oh, and I completely agree with Lowe's decision to discontinue selling burkas and camel feed.
Dear Sen Ted (D-Torrance)
Drop Dead!
signed, Lowes
PS: Merry Christmas!
Has it been pulled early or just run it’s 13 episodes?
I would blow Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance’s letter up to a poster at least 4 feet by 6 feet and post them at the entrance to every Lowe's store in the nation.
Let Lowe's customers in Torrance, California, and across the nation see what kind of egomaniac Ted is. Then they could demonstrate, with their pocketbooks, wither or not Ted has a real clue as to how the rest of us think.
But then, that would require some real leadership at Lowe's corporate headquarters.
Ping; do you know this guy?
Maybe this Senator can get this woman to write a letter too...if she had her fingers, that is.
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