As usual with these idiots, more cameras than protesters.
Posted on 08/01/2007 7:57:06 AM PDT by Signalman
A group of local residents gathered outside a Camarillo home improvement store Tuesday, armed with a petition protesting The Home Depot's advertising on TV's Fox News Channel.
The group rallied at noon on the public sidewalk in front of the store. Several people carried signs with messages such as "Home Depot cares about the environment. Fox News lies about it."
"Home Depot has a very strong corporate statement about the environment and trying to improve the environment. Yet, they send millions of advertising dollars to a news station that says pretty much the opposite thing," said Bruce Little, 58, a Camarillo resident who helped organize the event.
It was one of five protests held across the nation Tuesday and arranged by the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org.
Similar events also took place in Sacramento, Atlanta, Spokane, Wash., and Ann Arbor, Mich., organizers said.
They said their petition has 40,000 names, most of them gathered electronically over the Internet. About 6,400 names are from California, they said.
The petition was launched in July along with a YouTube video that says Fox News denies global warming.
Little said the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org noticed that The Home Depot was a top advertiser on Fox News.
Fox News did not respond to phone calls to its New York office Tuesday.
Sarah J. Molinari, communications manager for The Home Depot, said the company is dedicated to making a positive environmental impact, but where or what it advertises is all about the customer.
Advertisements, she added, have nothing to do with what is said on Fox News.
"It's not our position to judge Fox's position," Molinari said.
"We don't try to influence or control the content on those shows."
(Excerpt) Read more at venturacountystar.com ...
Is the number of people who are aggressively, obstreperously wrong about everything actually growing, or does it just seem that way?
YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO THINK WHAT WE WANT YOU TO THINK~!!
wonderful liberals..
I sent one to Home Depot too and got a nice response back from them thanking me for my support.
They looooove those petitions. I guess it’s a substitute for actual work.
I blame all this crap on the sixties.
This is what is referred to as the “Protest Community.” If its not one thing, its another...
You should tell the newspaper that the paper manufacturing is one of the most polluting industries in the world. You will make it your dying effort to stamp out one of the largest defowlers of air and wasters of water. Green-up your own act mr newspaperman.
Another Home Depot shopper here. We ought to start a counter-petition and send it to HD.
We will not be fascists and silence all but one opinion no mater how much the liberal fascists demand it.
Does FOX actually have a position? I hear libs on there all the time yapping that the planet has a fever and that it's all man's fault. I also hear the other side. I am not under the impression that FOX management has proclaimed one side correct. But judging from their campaign contributions, it's hard to understand what these moonbats are complaining about.
Also ironic is the threat to shop at Lowe’s, which is affiliated with Wal-Mart, that evil bogeyman of efficiency the liberals hate so much.
YAWN
“I blame all this crap on the sixties”
Yea, it’s the sixties generation trying to do their thing one more time before their time is up. Now they are being joined by their offspring and their offspring’s offspring.
It’s a cycle, I’m afraid.
As usual with these idiots, more cameras than protesters.
Let them boycott Home Depot. That way I’ll have more room to shop for my stuff without all those smelly environazis in the stores........
If viewer demographics were good for Home Depot at MSNBC or The Sex Toy Channel, they'd advertise there, but they aren't, so they don't.
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