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Amazon.com Is For Republicans
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/22/4 | Mark Morford

Posted on 12/22/2004 8:05:50 AM PST by SmithL

Attention, liberal shoppers! Next year, screw those GOP-supportin' companies, and try buying blue

Do you care much that greasy ol' Pizza Hut gave tens of thousands in PAC money to the GOP last year? How about the fact that Taco Bell stopped pumping out their happily toxic semirancid meatlike substances just long enough to write a fat check to the conservative Right? Isn't that weirdly fascinating, in a depressing and indigestible sort of way?

Does it matter a whit that, say, Fruit of the Loom underwear gave nearly 100 percent of its corporate donations to tighty-whitey-wearing Republicans, nearly every one of whom I'm guessing wouldn't know appetizing undergarments from a flap of burlap and some string?

Do you think maybe it should? Matter, that is?

This is what happened: there was this list, see, a long and rather surprising list of major consumer corporations in America, and it detailed just how much money each company forked over to the respective political parties last year in political-action-committee (PAC) donations.

Stop yawning. It gets better.

And the list was a bit revelatory and interesting, as such lists are often wont to be, and the companies' fiscal behavior might even surprise you a little, might even take you aback and make you reconsider your consumerist options, especially the part about how Amazon.com gave 60 percent of their donations to the GOP and except maybe for the part about how Coors Brewing gave almost every penny of their donations to Republicans in a concerted effort to, presumably, stop them icky Colorado gays from getting married and keep women in their place, all while furthering the cause of skanky undrinkable pisswater beer made for red-blooded Americans who lack taste buds and hope.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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To: SmithL

Fox Cable Networks is blue?


61 posted on 12/22/2004 10:25:09 AM PST by Delphinium
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To: MeanWestTexan

cool, then i may buy from them, that was a big issue for me when i was stationed overseas, i am pleased that they addressed that issue.


62 posted on 12/22/2004 10:25:27 AM PST by Docbarleypop (Navy Doc)
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To: Docbarleypop

Happy to help, even if you are Navy (j/k).


63 posted on 12/22/2004 10:32:35 AM PST by MeanWestTexan
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To: MileHi
well here is the other thing...Amazon went 58% for Dems. Barnes and Noble and B Dalton both went 98% Dem. Lesser of two evils probably. Unless you can find it here
Laissez Faire Books
64 posted on 12/22/2004 10:57:13 AM PST by DoSomethingAboutIt
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To: SmithL
Boycotts may be counter-productive.

See my post on a previous thread here!

65 posted on 12/22/2004 11:19:41 AM PST by jimthewiz (An armed society is a polite society)
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To: Travis McGee

Ahh, OK. Then I will temper my ire. {:0)


66 posted on 12/22/2004 12:31:05 PM PST by MileHi
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To: DoSomethingAboutIt

Thanks


67 posted on 12/22/2004 12:31:53 PM PST by MileHi
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To: L98Fiero

That article is, honestly, VERY tame for (Mary) Morford. He's a regular writer (sort of), and everything he discusses is reduced to sexual innuendo, belittling those he disagrees with, and wild stretches of the imagination.


68 posted on 12/22/2004 12:39:03 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: SmithL

ping


69 posted on 12/22/2004 12:40:56 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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To: shadowman99

What happens it Mike Morford stays in blue turf and shops only blue turf?

70 posted on 12/22/2004 12:43:33 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: MeanWestTexan

What's a "gormet chef?" and where can I get one. Unlike Kerry, I'm tired of Wendys. Or maybe you meant a "gorgeous chef." If so, I prefer one of those.
(spelling police checking in here)


71 posted on 12/22/2004 12:51:13 PM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: SmithL

The keywords here are brutal on Ms Moford


72 posted on 12/22/2004 12:57:55 PM PST by dennisw (Help put the "Ch" back in Chanukah)
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To: SmithL

Where's my crying towel?


74 posted on 12/22/2004 1:16:25 PM PST by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: presidio9

Kerry has been crossed with Lesko? Yikes.


75 posted on 12/22/2004 1:24:29 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: vic heller

It would be interesting to note how much the Clinton Appointed Harold Raines had Fanniemae donate to the Democrats.


76 posted on 12/22/2004 1:47:44 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Sure, they bothed gained prominence by encouraging the government to waste my money on frivilous causes.


77 posted on 12/22/2004 1:51:26 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

Actually Lesko has provided a public service. His book should be used to discover worthless programs and get rid of them. Of course, I'm not holding my breath waiting for someone to actually do that in Washington.


78 posted on 12/22/2004 1:54:29 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
That may actually happen.

BTW, I am seriously miffed that nobody got my Boise State referrence.

79 posted on 12/22/2004 2:03:10 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Betis70

Is it true that the more a coffee bean is roasted, an in your dark roast coffees, that they actually have LESS caffine


80 posted on 12/22/2004 2:05:42 PM PST by bigjoesaddle
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