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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2012 36 Comments
One of our closest friends in Rhode Island, someone we adore, someone not prone to hyperbole, a Northeast Republican, bless her heart, someone who never texts me … Not the type of person who, if she blogged, would make excessive use of exclamation points … Just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 89 Comments
Carbonite famously dropped Rush Limbaugh on a Saturday Night at the height of the Sandra Fluke controversy.  Carbonite became the poster child for the Rush boycott movement organized by Media Matters, which coordinated the effort with so-called independent groups. At the time I examined Carbonite’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2012 67 Comments
After Sarah and Todd Palin attended a rally for Ted Cruz in Texas yesterday, they stopped by a Chick-fil-A. Palin posted photos on her Facebook page and also sent out tweets about the visit (h/t Charles). Stopped by Chick-fil-A in The Woodlands to support a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2012 61 Comments
First it was the Mayor of Boston who announced his intention to block business permits for Chick-fil-A not because there is any evidence that it discriminates in employment or services, but because its founder and his son (now the President) support keeping the definition of marriage as one man –...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2012 50 Comments
Via Think Progress: … you may be unwittingly helping finance right-wing attack ads. That’s because many of the country’s most common brands are run by rich conservatives who are using their personal wealth to bankroll outside spending groups that are running attack ads smearing progressives…....

Posted by Anne Segal on July 14, 2012 36 Comments
We’ve become accustomed to leftist agenda-ists using campaigns of intimidation and bullying to push their way into the public school system, museums, our churches and synagogues, and of course into the old guard media. Are consumer packaged goods the final frontier? By now you’ve probably...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2012 48 Comments
Mike Huckabee was going to be the hammer used by anti-Rush Limbaugh forces both competitive and political to unseat Limbaugh once and for all. During the height of the anti-Rush fever, I highlighted how Cumulus Media sought to leverage the anti-Limbaugh boycotts by holding Huckabee out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2012 18 Comments
The tawdry inner-workings of “StopRush” are being exposed day by day, after an “infiltrator” released recordings and other evidence via The Trenches website. Among the revelations are alleged use of fake Twitter accounts, employment of an investigator allegedly linked to Brett Kimberlin, and a variety of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2012 36 Comments
I noted the other day the odd attack by various StopRush activists on one of their own, #StopRush turns on itself, devolves into name calling, accusations. Now the details are coming out, and it turns out that StopRush was infiltrated by a Blue Dog type Democrat who didn’t like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 22 Comments
There are times it’s good just to be a spectator. I’m not going to try to sort this out, I’ll just note that the “Stop Rush” movement has turned on one of its most prized Twitter activists, or that activist has turned on it, depending...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 26 Comments
Today Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will hold a “Beer and Brat Summit,” fulfilling his recall-election-night promise to proactively repair the state, reeling after months of partisanship and rancor. “We’ve got some fantastic, authentic Wisconsin products that we will be sharing with legislators of both political...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 25, 2012 19 Comments
The free market, where it is still free, has a way of keeping companies in line that stray too far from their consumers’ core values. That was the counter-argument (not original) I always made when, during business school at Cornell, some of our professors would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2012 25 Comments
Don’t say I haven’t been warning you. While the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh has been only marginally effective, Color of Change has had more success getting major companies to drop their participation in the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) by falsely tying ALEC’s support of “stand...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2012 54 Comments
At 8:31 p.m. Eastern tonight we received the 100,000th comment, by Oregon Mike, who hasn’t been a frequent commenter here but has been commenting since July 2011. 100,000 isn’t a lot for many blogs, where the use of third-party software like Disqus encourages free-for-alls.  I probably could...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2012 56 Comments
I posted some links over the weekend to the saga of Aaron Worthing (Walker) and someone named Brett Kimberlin.  I had never heard of Kimberlin before, or if I had it only was in connection with Walker’s continuing legal difficulties.  Apparently there is a long...
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