Wal-Mart, PepsiCo Unapologetic About Bankrolling Sharpton After Rush Limbaugh/NFL Flap

NLPC ^ | October 19, 2009 | Peter Flaherty

[jazusamo]

Emailers protesting Wal-Mart support for Al Sharpton’s group, the National Action Network, are getting the following response:

Walmart supports the National Action Network (NAN) as part of an ongoing effort to partner with national organizations that support issues and initiatives of importance to our customers, and the communities we serve.

Our support for NAN is focused on addressing health and wellness issues and other issues important to our customers and associates. Our company will continue to support organizations that can further our mission to help people live better.

Emails to PepsiCo are getting this reply:

As a global consumer products company that serves all people, we support many not-for-profit organizations with a variety of missions. The leaders of these organizations may at times have points of view that do not necessarily represent those of PepsiCo. I want to assure you that this Company does not endorse those individual viewpoints, political or otherwise.

Meanwhile, Sharpton is threatening to sue Rush Limbaugh, claiming that he had nothing to do with the Crown Heights riots or the Freddie’s Fashion Mart massacre, referenced by Limbaugh in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that appeared over the weekend.

For the truth about these incidents, as well as the Tawana Brawley hoax, see NLPC’s Special Report released earlier this year titled Mainstreaming Demagoguery: Al Sharpton’s Rise to Respectability. http://www.nlpc.org/sites/default/files/SharptonSpecialReport.pdf ">Click here to download 50-page pdf version.

[jazusamo]

Colgate-Palmolive Denies Supporting Sharpton Group in Wake of Rush Limbaugh/NFL Controversy

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 14:45

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Emailers protesting Colgate-Palmolive’s support for Al Sharpton’s group,  the National Action Network (NAN), are getting a response that reads, in part:

We did not participate in the 2009 NAN Conference in New York City.

That’s interesting, because the conference program identifies Colgate-Palmolive as a “sponsor.” Even more interesting, a Colgate-Palmolive ad in a separate program from the same event states, in part:

Colgate-Palmolive is honored to be named Corporation of the Year by the National Action Network…

Emailers do get an admission from the company that it supported NAN last year:

In April, 2008, Colgate was among almost 40 corporate sponsors of a multi-day conference in Memphis organized by the NAN commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrating his continuing legacy.

It would be pretty hard for Colgate-Palmolive to deny its 2008 sponsorship. I had a confrontation with CEO Ian Cook at the company’s annual meeting where I prodded him to disclose that the company had made a $50,000 contribution to NAN, after he first refused.

Because of Colgate-Palmolive’s contradictory public representations about its support for Sharpton and NAN, it is time for the company to set the record straight. In the meantime, we encourage consumers to continue to contact Colgate-Palmolive.

[jazusamo]

Contact list for Sharpton's corporate sponsors

[jazusamo]

Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you haven’t done so!

[Freddd]

I got a response to my letter to Walmart....it said although they had supported NAN a year ago, they no longer do...???

[4rcane]

sharpton group = mafia? The big corporations buy protection by giving money to sharpton

[Tucker39]

The world is more and more overrun with political whores. Our only hope for getting things straightened out is the return of Christ and the setting up of His Millenial Kingdom in Jerusalem.

Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron;

No monkey business then, baby!

[jazusamo]

Sounds good. I’ve not received a reply as yet from them.

[Tucker39]

Sharpton and Theee Reeevruuuund Jaaaacksooonnnn. They are both shakedown artists.

[MrB]

They’re afraid on them.

The accusation of being RAY SISSSSS

is a big stick that has been cultivated for decades.

Once we make the accusation a target for mockery, this kind of thing will not happen.

[eleni121]

Most mega corporations will sell their “souls” to the devil if the bottom line looks good. And they have.

All they want is a peaceful, pacifist, bland, country/world to do business in...no matter who’s in charge.

[clintonh8r]

I got responses from Ford and Johnson & Johnson...both just PR pablum....

[1raider1]

Walmart is trying real hard to open a store on the south side of Chicago.

[the invisib1e hand]

white trash is as white trash does.

[popdonnelly]

“Our support for NAN is focused on addressing health and wellness issues”

All you have to do is look at Sharpton to see how well that plays out.

[MrB]

Walmart is trying real hard to open a store on the south side of Chicago.

WHY? Not enough "shrinkage" in their other stores from shoplifting and employee theft?

[hgro]

The same old intimidation of big corporations. Jesse Jackson raised it to an art form in milking the suckers of their dollars.

[jazusamo]

Jackson wrote the book and Sharpton studied it well.

[bornred]

Walmart supports the National Action Network (NAN) as part of an ongoing effort to partner with national organizations that support issues and initiatives of importance to our customers, and the communities we serve.

With such a diverse customer base, sometimes it's hard to please everyone.

[eleni121]

And that is the point. Like it or not - corporations are Amoral.

The problem arises when governments do the bidding of corporations. When govts make the world safe for business...instead of “democracy and freedom”.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I guess the Free Trader crowd is no longer in love with Wal Mart. No more smiley faces

First they push universal health care....now they happily support the racist Al Sharpton

Those cheap prices from COMMUNIST Chinese goods should have been a indicator of Wal Mart politics long before the Globalist crowd started its fetish over Wal Mart.

You blindly support Free Trade with COMMUNIST China...you become Communist. Anita Dunn was not the first Mao Lover