The GW Lynch Mob Marches On!

Again, there is continuing backlash against whoever questions global warming being manmade. Now, leftist groups such as MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future, the blog DailyKos and Sierra Club are pushing for a boycotting FoxNews' advertisers. The news corporation's crime: occasionally questioning global warming. (See Fox's article on its website: "Liberal Activists Step Up Campaign Against FOX News.")

First, the GW lynch mob has pressured democratic presidential candidates to not appear on any Fox debates. Now, it is pressuring Home Depot to quit advertising on FoxNews, finding it hypocritical of Home Depot to advertise earth-friendly products on a network that doesn't fall for the GW hysteria hook, plumb line, and sinker.

Now, these groups are asking their supporters to monitor FoxNews advertisers, with at least 5,000 people in the U.S. are now compiling logs, concentrating on local businesses more than national ones. Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos, says that once a database has been gathered, a phone-calling campaign will be organized. Says Gilliam: "It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company."

Some of the videos produced by Gilliam's company compile statements made by Fox anchors and guests that the activists consider misleading, such as those that question global warming.

According to Home Depot's spokesman Jerry Shields, Home Depot has not had an unusual number of calls and the home improvement chain will not change its advertising strategy. Says Shields: "We're not in the business of censoring media," Shields said. "We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available." (Methinks I shall shop Home Depot this weekend! I am having my deck refinished this weekend ... I need a couple of hundred dollars in supplies.)

The anti-Fox groups became especially enraged at Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who has recently criticized some far-left bloggers for their hate-filled attacks, even nasty attacks on Hillary Clinton. On July 16, O'Reilly said the DailyKos.com Web site is "hate of the worst order," and sent a reporter to question JetBlue Airways Corp. CEO Dave Barger about the airline's sponsorship of a gathering run by DailyKos. O'Reilly said he would never ride on JetBlue again. (As if imprisoning passengers for hours on end recently would encourage me to ride!) JetBlue has since asked that its name be removed from the DailyKos.com Web site.

MoveOn.org is campaigning against Fox because it says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view, said Adam Green, the organization's spokesman. "We're not trying to silence anybody," Green said. "(Conservative radio talk show host) Rush Limbaugh has a right to be on the air — he admits his point of view. Fox doesn't."

My plan: patronize the advertisers on Fox!!!! ... and I'm a-startin' with Home Depot!