Let’s not be so hard on Lowe’s. After all, cross-burners need to buy their lumber somewhere.
I saw so much worse before Lowe’s “took control” or their facebook page. It’s jaw dropping how not just anti-Muslim but just flat out racist it got.
“Exercising your Right to advertise or not is a God Given Right.” Okay, that made me laugh. Must be in the Book of Don (Draper), part of the Apocrypha, no doubt.
Yeah… I actually think they were being smart by deleting all the posts. Whatever flak they’re getting for this decision is nothing compared to what they’d get from leaving dozens of posts about blowing away Muslims up.
Upon consideration, I can’t really get too het up about this. Nobody thought Glen Beck’s advertisers were stifling his right to free (idiotic) speech when they pulled ads.
Obviously, this show and Beck’s are hardly similar, but the principle is the same.
Yeah, I told them that I thought it was a class act to add censorship to cowardice. I’m sure my post was deleted also, but haven’t been back to check.
What confuses me is, didn’t Lowe’s *buy *ad space on this show in the first place? Their ads didn’t just generate spontaneously, did they? What did they think “All American Muslim” *was? *
Yes they will. A little anyway. I’m buying a bunch of stuff right now and I purposely went to Home Depot yesterday instead of Lowes. I’ve always preferred Lowes, but no more. I won’t shop there until they reverse this decision.
I know my little bit of money won’t make much difference, but it’s a start.
Cable advertising doesn’t really work that way. You pay for the channel and time slot, rather than the specific show, except in a few limited cases. Pretty much every show on TLC draws a >1.0 rating, so nobody really cares which shows their ads run against.
What people mean when they say they’re “pulling their ad” is that they’re specifically requesting that their ads not run at the same time as Show X. So TLC’s programming people will just run their other ads more during this show, and Lowe’s ads more during others.
Ah, thanks–ignorance fought!
Well, I’m not completely sure that cable ads get assigned at random. On our Hoarders snark site one of our pastimes is to count the number of cleaning product ads which appear during the show. Sometimes it’s half of the ads.
My pleasure. I actually discovered this when advertisers started “pulling” ads from WWE programming because of the Parents’ Television Council.
I meant <1.0 rating, incidentally.
On a side note (and I just posted this on Lowe’s page), as a Florida resident and member of a family, I want to apologize for the Florida Family Association. The part I didn’t post is that they can suck my balls.
My understanding of the situation is they thought it was a sewing show called American Muslin.
Not surprised. I see stories from the USA all the time of someone or other being fired or sentenced to “sensitivity training” or some other similar totalitarian re-education program, and all for the most spurious of reasons after complaints from some special interest group or whining individual – even anonymous complaints even. It appears that you have created a culture where someone complaining over something is always right, and the institution/company/etc. must always cave in.
I went to the website and used the “Contact Us” link to find the form where I could send them an email – which took some doing. I wrote a very polite but firm note explaining how disappointed I was in their decision, and how I could not in good conscience continue to shop there unless they changed their minds. When I submitted the form I got the message:
"We are having a problem with our Application.
Thank you for visiting Lowes.com. Our site is currently down due to technical issues but will return soon.
We apologize for any inconvenience."
That sounds like an AWESOME site! Can you PM me a link? I know we aren’t supposed to advertise other boards on here.
It’ll be more than offset by all the people who posted comments in the FB link above that they will make it a point to shop at Lowe’s this CHRISTmas thanks to their support for All-American Americans.
Do you also keep track of the blatant product placements during the cleanup scenes? I guess that’s done to catch the DVR crowd. I also remember seeing an extreme number of ads for Home Depot during the season of the little people show (on TLC) that featured a home renovation.
The principle is, but the motivation isn’t. One is about a pundit giving his views and people disagreeing; the other is about prejudice against a large group of people.
Sure, but the point is that pressuring sponsors is either a legitimate tactic or it isn’t.