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Edited on Tue Nov-15-05 12:39 PM by LeftHander
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My initial e-mail...
Your companies advertise on Bill O'Rielly's television program. One that I do not watch because he is repugnant.
His recent comments about wishing buildings in San Francisco to be blown up by terrorists was so far out of line I hope you will pull advertising from his program.
This type of behavior is unacceptable in modern society.
How a business can support this mouth piece of the extreme right wing I'll never know. I for one will not do ANY business with any of your companies until you no longer advertise on Bill O'Rielly's program.
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Marketing <marketing@tempurpedic.com> wrote:
Thank you for contacting us about our radio advertisements! Tempur-Pedic(r) is an advertiser of the O'Reilly Factor featuring Bill O'Reilly, but we do not in any way endorse the beliefs aired on the show. Tempur-Pedic(r) advertises on various radio and television programs to communicate to the public about our products and the benefits they provide.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance. We appreciate your interest in Tempur-Pedic(r) products!
JoLinda Rowe Marketing Administrator
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My repy:
That is a most unacceptable response.
By advertising on Bill O'Rielly's show you are directly supporting the distribution of his message of hate and intolerance by providing funding to in the form of advertising revenue.
Because of the nature of our commercially supported media networks the advertisiers are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the programs they buy advertising from.
You choose to purchase time during Bill O'Rielly's program thus you support his program and those that find this form of commentary enlightening. You condone his behavior.
I choose to not support hate speech and I choose to not support those companies that support hate as well.
It is clear you have chosen to deny responsibility and take an immoral stance. I then choose to NOT CONSIDER purcahsing ANY of your products and will inform many people who find Bill,O'Rielly repugnent and caustic to not purchase your products. Seems you can afford to alienate potential customers by supporting tripe like Bill O'Rielly.
Your potential customers see this...
Tempurpedic advertises with Bill O'Rielly.
Tempurpedic supports the hate speech of Bill O'Rielly.
----------------------------------------------------------- Equifax pulled out a while ago....
As of October, 2005, Equifax was no longer a sponsor of Bill O'Reilly' show, The Radio Factor.
Sincerely,
David Rubinger Vice President, Communications
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