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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 30 Comments
Rush Limbaugh launched a Facebook Page called Rush Babes for America, intended to show that more women support him than support the National Organization for Women. And sure enough, Rush Babes already has more followers than the NOW page, and NOW is griping. The impetus...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 43 Comments
I have warned you about the total war, in which petitions and boycotts and other pressure tactics are used to silence conservative voices. There is no better example than a case reported in the NY Post via National Review (h/t Jonah Goldberg) about a blogger at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2012 33 Comments
The folks behind the “Stop Rush” web page which Limbaugh has highlighted in his tweets (and which I mentioned in some of my posts) have opened a new website, StopRush.net. The website tracks advertisers, is supposed to show how efficient and effective the anti-Rush movement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 22 Comments
Today’s is the 64th anniversary of Israel’s founding. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Israel survived the War of Independence, and then some.  Now it is engaged in an existential struggle with the Islamists of every persuasion and location, and their anti-Israel allies in NGO’s, “peace” groups, academia,...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on April 20, 2012 5 Comments
This blog has often highlighted the pervasive anti-Israel sentiments present in the higher education system of this country. Last month, Cornell Professor of Physics, Yuval Grossman, wrote a guest post here regarding a pro-Palestinian Cornell student group attempting to orchestrate a boycott against a Technion-Cornell...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 5 Comments
The merger of the absurd and the surreal, or something like that. Tweet of the Day: For an ongoing display of both the absurd and the surreal, sometimes merged sometimes not, visit #StopRush. Related updates:  Angie’s List apparently still is holding out against the boycott,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 12 Comments
I check in every now and then with the efforts of the Limbaugh boycott movement at the Twitter hashtag #stoprush. I noticed over the past few days a lot of chatter and anger directed at @AngiesList, as well as at new local advertisers on the Limbaugh...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 52 Comments
There has been a pressure campaign against corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) led by Color of Change and some of the same groups targeting conservative talk radio: Here’s how it works.  An issue which is neutral, such as voter i.d. laws, is portrayed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 27 Comments
The “anti-pinkwashing” campaign continues in all its irony. Israel is to be “featured” at the annual Equality Forum on May 3-6 in Philadelphia, based on Israel’s record on gay issues.  Israel, of course, is the only nation in the Middle East where homosexuality is not punished, much less punished...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 21 Comments
There has been a lot of attention paid to Arby’s announcement that it no longer would advertise on the Limbaugh show. It was particularly interesting because Arby’s did not advertise to begin with, so it purely was a political statement, and was the subject of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2012 43 Comments
On March 11, Nicky Larson wrote a column for The Independent (Ireland) hitting on virulent anti-Israel sentiment in Ireland: I used to hate Israel. I used to think the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian terrorists. Now I see why...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2012 30 Comments
Not taking responsibility (h/t reader Tony): More about Arby’s here. If you are on Twitter, you can reach Arby’s at @arbys, or at its Facebook page, or at its Contact page. There’s probably not much we can do to prevent cowardly companies from giving into boycott...
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