Residents protest Home Depot's advertising on Fox

Ventura County Star ^ | August 1, 2007 | Whitney Diaz

[pabianice]

As soon as I read this I took out a Home Depot credit card. Up yours, rabble!

[pgkdan]

Is the number of people who are aggressively, obstreperously wrong about everything actually growing, or does it just seem that way?

I think it just seems that way because they're better organized than we are and they're willing to pull stupid stunts like this while we're all busy at work.

[dellbabe68]

Let me see... what can I go buy at Home Depot?

[rightinthemiddle]

Can you post the address?

I own an ad agency, watch Fox News and spend several thousand dollars a year at Home Depot (25K this year on a remodel).

I’d be glad to send them a note supporting their ad placement on Fox News.

[Long Island Pete]

[poindexters brother]

Not only does it seem that are there is a growing number of wrong-headed people around, but it also seems that there are a lot of people with too much free time on their hands.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Lowe’s and WalMart have no corporate affiliation with each other.

[gunservative]

What constitutes a “group”? Two or three people?

[tennteacher]

I, too, will shop at Home Depot.

This is not about the environment; it’s about illegal immigration. Transparent.

If Home Depot caves, I’ll opt for Lowe’s.

[longtermmemmory]

But they don’t protest Lowes?

But they don’t object to Home Depot having illegal alien hire centers?

these protestors suffer upward cranial rectal insertion syndrome.

[Deltaforceeoo7]

Very good idea to start a petition for Home Depot to keep advertising on Fox News. Sadly, I don’t know how to start a petition, but if somebody out there will start one, I’ll certainly sign it and forward to many people to sign.

[RSmithOpt]

No way...she's too busy wiping the hand prints off her fridge with them thar Handiwipes.

She only grazes in the organically human waste fertilized pastures.

[tennteacher]

Hey,
Don’t blame all of public school educators. Most of us try hard, but there’s too much against us. Absenteeism, demanding parents, dumbed-down curricula, laziness, ad nauseum. After 37 years, I gave up.
Call me retired.

[theDentist]

If it were nearby, I’d have to go just to stand, point and laugh all day.

[andy58-in-nh]

I don’t blame teachers so much as school administrators, federal regulators and the NEA for creating the “dumbed-down curricula” to which you referred, and parents for not taking a more active interest in their children’s education. That said, there are still an awful lot of Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers in my daughter’s school parking lot....

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Make sure you take your children and as many neighborhood children as you can; explain to them why you find it humorous.

Have a serious discussion about “critical thought” with the little tykes.

[Morgan in Denver]

Sure. The address I used for Home Depot is:

customercare@homedepot.com

I received one of their automatic replies first and that was followed later with a personal email thanking me.

[Morgan in Denver]

I have seen the reports on illegal aliens hanging out at Home Depot too, but that is not going on at the Home Depot close to where I live so I cannot confirm it.

I also believe this is not a Home Depot problem alone. Local laws and law enforcement have an interest in this too. No business would confront this problem without support from both the community and authorities. The bottom line is the only interest any business has is doing whatever necessary to show profits. That’s what businesses do. For that reason they bend over backwards to be a good neighbor and not offend anyone they don’t have to. In this case, they will be criticized no matter what they do.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

...Lowe’s, which is affiliated with Wal-Mart,...

I did not know that!

[reagan_fanatic]

I’m not sure, but I’d be willing to bet that those pants she’s wearing were meant for someone about a foot and a half shorter.