Dear Sirs: (Add the company of your choice APPROPRIATE DATE )
It has often occurred to me that many people in the media who have been given a platform will say the most outrageous things just to stir things up and get attention (and therefore exposure), even though many of these things are demonstrably false, or slanderous, or just plain mean and hurtful: O'Reilly screaming at the son of a 9-11 victim "that I'm [O'Reilly] going to punch you out..." Lou Dobbs saying that the "Birthers" opinions "certainly ...are...views... that can't be discounted." Saying that "These questions will not go away." And his CEO admitting : "This... story is dead." Ann Coulter saying that she is being abused by the mothers of the dead in Iraq because the mothers have a "hidden" agenda. Then there's Glenn Beck, saying that Obama is a racist and a fascist and that he hates white people (and then 30 seconds later saying that the President doesn't hate white people. But, (he) Beck is a true patriot, and Democrats are fascists or communists or EVIL. Beck just opens his mouth to see what comes out. Free speech, yes, but maybe with consequences. It is my opinion that Beck is screaming "FIRE" in a crowded theater.
I have always wondered, who is paying these people? Why, it's YOU, Mr.Advertiser.
So the other night when I happen to catch Beck making one of his ridiculously inciteful (not to be confused with insightful) pronouncements; I thought that I'd make a list of his sponsors so that I wouldn't make the mistake of ever patronizing any of their products. I recorded every advertiser during his program (I didn't have to watch and listen to the crap; isn't Tevo grand?). You Mr. Advertiser are on that list of sponsors. Are you proud of your position among the liars?
I am sharing these observations and the information I have recorded with as many people as I can; as often as I can. I will never spend a penny on any of the goods or services supplied by these businesses. And I will encourage everyone I meet to do the same. I will vote with my wallet.
Sincerely, (REDACTED; feel free to copy any part, print and send to your "favorite" sponsor. A hand written name after "Sirs:" and a note added after "Sincerely," adds weight to any communication. P.S. I signed my letters, you should too.) The following are some of the sponsors of the Glen Beck program:
Jos. A. Bank, P.O. Box 1000, Hampstead, MD 21074-4000.
Charles Binder, Binder & Binder® National Headquarters, 33-00 Northern Blvd., Suite 7A, Long Island City, New York 11101, Telephone: 800.742.9696, Fax: 718.512.2424
Carbonite, 334 Boylston St - 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02116, 617-587-1100, Toll Free: 877-665-4466
Direct TV, (this was almost impossible to get: (1 800 531 5000) I get the feeling that they don't want to hear from you unless you're going to give them money.
Goldline International, 1601 Cloverfield Boulevard, 100 South Tower, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Lear Capital, Inc., 1990 S. Bundy Dr., Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90025 Phone: (800) 576-9355
Phone: (310) 571-0190 Fax: (310) 571-0194
Lend America, 520 Broadhollow Rd, Melville, NY 11747
Liberty Medical, Medco, Inc., (I could only find a web site e-mail address media@medco.com)
Merit Financial, 1300 4th Street, Suite 303, Santa Monica, CA 90401, Phone 310.394.7577
Metastock, Equis International, 90 South 400 West, Suite 620, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
New Max Magazine, P.O. Box 20989, West Palm Beach, Florida, 33416
Pearle Vision Luxottica Retail, 4000 Luxottica Place, Mason, OH 45040 1-800-732-7531
Sears Holdings Corp., Edward Lampert
Regions, 1-800-734-4667
Roseland Capital, 429 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 450, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Target, Corporate Info. # 1.800.440.0680
Wall St. Journal, 200 Burnett Road, Chicopee, MA 01020
Zero Technologies, LLC., 4510 Adams Circle, Unit G, Bensalem PA 19020
Friday, October 15, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Dear Tina; PLEASE!
Dear Tina,
As I look over your life from a distance, I am alarmed at the accumulating detritus. Here you are, the mother of a toddler just getting out of diapers and another child who just turned six in April, and your world is littered with dozens of empty Marlboro Light packs. That’s bad enough, but are those stronger Pal Malls driving you to use that Albuterol Sulfate Inhalant? Or does one of the kids have asthma?
You shop at Food Lion and buy far too much sugary processed stuff. Often, the king-sized enriched plain sandwich bread and some small yogurts are the closest thing to real food that you have in the house. You buy Kicks, Twix, Drumsticks ice-cream bars, Shake ‘n Bake, Toast Scrambles, X-Treme Jell-O, and instant mashed potatoes. Instant? Come on! You never finished filling out the ManPower application, so with no job, don’t you have the time to mash a few real spuds? They’re cheaper, too. And then there are the high sugar, high caffeine soft drinks: Classic Coke, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper (by the way, large plastic bottles are less expensive than the cans). And the Burger King take-out meals aren’t any better. Do you really need that much ketchup? All that junk food might explain your Gas-X habit. How much longer do you think that you can wear size six satin bikini panties? A few Nutri-grain bars aren’t exactly going to balance your diet. By now you realize that I also know what kind of shampoo, conditioner, bath soap, toothpaste, and feminine hygene protection you use; though I haven’t drawn any conclusions from that information (except that apparently, at least you're not pregnant again).
Apparently, your problem with the authorities last March resulted in a judgment of guilty of Breach of Peace and a fine of $160.00. You had to pay up or risk the loss of your driver’s license. Did you pay in time? With money so tight I can’t figure out why you didn’t bother to challenge the Medicaid cut-off date for your older child. How are you going to pay all those doctor’s bills?
And who am I to give advice? I’m just the guy who picked your garbage out of the bushes on my property. The bags were torn open and the junk was strewn around so I had to pick it all up piece by piece. That’s how I came across your name and address on the court papers and all that personal information about you. I could have turned you in to the county sheriff. But I have come to realize that the last thing you need right now is another court case, another fine, and more public humiliation. That obviously wouldn’t be a good thing for your little ones. Instead, all I ask, Tina, is that you get a better grip on your life and your garbage.
As I look over your life from a distance, I am alarmed at the accumulating detritus. Here you are, the mother of a toddler just getting out of diapers and another child who just turned six in April, and your world is littered with dozens of empty Marlboro Light packs. That’s bad enough, but are those stronger Pal Malls driving you to use that Albuterol Sulfate Inhalant? Or does one of the kids have asthma?
You shop at Food Lion and buy far too much sugary processed stuff. Often, the king-sized enriched plain sandwich bread and some small yogurts are the closest thing to real food that you have in the house. You buy Kicks, Twix, Drumsticks ice-cream bars, Shake ‘n Bake, Toast Scrambles, X-Treme Jell-O, and instant mashed potatoes. Instant? Come on! You never finished filling out the ManPower application, so with no job, don’t you have the time to mash a few real spuds? They’re cheaper, too. And then there are the high sugar, high caffeine soft drinks: Classic Coke, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper (by the way, large plastic bottles are less expensive than the cans). And the Burger King take-out meals aren’t any better. Do you really need that much ketchup? All that junk food might explain your Gas-X habit. How much longer do you think that you can wear size six satin bikini panties? A few Nutri-grain bars aren’t exactly going to balance your diet. By now you realize that I also know what kind of shampoo, conditioner, bath soap, toothpaste, and feminine hygene protection you use; though I haven’t drawn any conclusions from that information (except that apparently, at least you're not pregnant again).
Apparently, your problem with the authorities last March resulted in a judgment of guilty of Breach of Peace and a fine of $160.00. You had to pay up or risk the loss of your driver’s license. Did you pay in time? With money so tight I can’t figure out why you didn’t bother to challenge the Medicaid cut-off date for your older child. How are you going to pay all those doctor’s bills?
And who am I to give advice? I’m just the guy who picked your garbage out of the bushes on my property. The bags were torn open and the junk was strewn around so I had to pick it all up piece by piece. That’s how I came across your name and address on the court papers and all that personal information about you. I could have turned you in to the county sheriff. But I have come to realize that the last thing you need right now is another court case, another fine, and more public humiliation. That obviously wouldn’t be a good thing for your little ones. Instead, all I ask, Tina, is that you get a better grip on your life and your garbage.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
A new strategy for coping.
I have decided to embrace late onset Asperger's Syndrome. This will be my excuse for not politely suffering the blathering of the morons among us. I hesitate to use the word moron, since it has a precise clinical definition; that of a certain level of mental retardation. The problem is that "willfully ignorant and uncritically thinking people" just isn't pejorative enough for me. It's too polite. Late onset Asperger's is characterized by: inappropriate meticulousness, grumpiness (caused by the morons among us), normal to superior linguistic and cognitive development (having a vocabulary greater than 1000 words [AKA; atypical use of language]) rational and logical thinking, and general brilliance of mind and focus on the issues at hand (as opposed to being confused by irrelavancies and non sequitors). Tautological arguments and circular reasoning (not to mention unsupportable a priori assumptions are not allowed by the Aspergerer.
That's me. I don't know where everybody else is. One look at planet earth and it becomes obvious that the afore mentioned traits are not at all common.
There are several other "late onsets" that will become useful to me as I age. Immaturity, extreme bluntness in conversation, and pretended refusal to understand the words of others, but I'm sure that there will be many others as well. It will become a trend:
There are likely to be hundreds, if not thousands of "late onset" syndromes appearing in the population in the near future. Years ago, psychologists subjected rats to over crowding. The experiments showed that extreme crowding resulted in a suite of abnormal behaviors, most of which might be simply characterized as "The rats all went ratshit nuts".
Planet earth is being subjected to an experiment by Homo sapiens (I prefer Homo fecundus) as the population continues to rise without consideration of any issue other than Let's all have babies! The immensely irrational belief that there can't be too many humans on Earth proves that rational thinking is in short supply indeed. (In reality it is the alternative: There can't be too many humans on Earth). I love these phrases that can mean the opposite of each other even though the words are identical. But one can't be too careful with one's use of language. And one can't be too careful with one's use of language either.
That's me. I don't know where everybody else is. One look at planet earth and it becomes obvious that the afore mentioned traits are not at all common.
There are several other "late onsets" that will become useful to me as I age. Immaturity, extreme bluntness in conversation, and pretended refusal to understand the words of others, but I'm sure that there will be many others as well. It will become a trend:
There are likely to be hundreds, if not thousands of "late onset" syndromes appearing in the population in the near future. Years ago, psychologists subjected rats to over crowding. The experiments showed that extreme crowding resulted in a suite of abnormal behaviors, most of which might be simply characterized as "The rats all went ratshit nuts".
Planet earth is being subjected to an experiment by Homo sapiens (I prefer Homo fecundus) as the population continues to rise without consideration of any issue other than Let's all have babies! The immensely irrational belief that there can't be too many humans on Earth proves that rational thinking is in short supply indeed. (In reality it is the alternative: There can't be too many humans on Earth). I love these phrases that can mean the opposite of each other even though the words are identical. But one can't be too careful with one's use of language. And one can't be too careful with one's use of language either.
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