Posted 11:08 AM by Gene

The PC pressure group GLAAD is boasting of "statements" made by companies that aren't sponsoring Michael Savage on the Mess. Most of them are suitably non-committal, just simple declarations that a company won't advertise on the show. The problem is, when big companies do something like this, they look as though they're caving. Every big consumer-products company should have an bold and clear policy saying it will not advertise on ANY program of an explicitly political nature (with the only exception a show like Meet the Press, and then only for corporate ads), and that such policy will be enforced without fear or favor. What makes me mad is not any "caving" (the P&G and Altria MOtive ads were -- we'll take their word for it -- accidental, and one was a local cable spot) but that these companies will sponsor anything and everything else that's offensive, that companies will withdraw ads only after PC protests or horrible news stories, and that P&G financed Hezbollah TV. I'm writing my own e-mail today and will post it for the edification of those who may not care, as well as any form responses I may get (haha!).