« Hot, Hot DC-Area Print Journalists | Main | Feisty! » Questions23 Jul 2007 11:46 am Boycott Liberalism.com has a list of "products of the LEFT" that you should boycott. Samuel Jacobs at TNR responds: Heinz ketchup makes the list. Even, Jon Bon Jovi. There's Newsday, Newsweek, and the New Yorker but no The New Republic. I don't even know where to start with that one. Comments (25)
How about "sack Marty Peretz"? 
Is there another brand of ketchup? All I've ever seen is Heinz and the grocery stores brand.
Not commit to a strategy of neocon apology?
Be left of center, obviously.
NEWSWEEK with such leading liberal columnists as George Will, Fareed Zakaria, and Robert Samuelson makes the list, but TNR doesn't. That's pretty funny. Why does anybody pay any attention to TNR again?
maybe TNR should stop whining and enjoy their placement somewhere slightly to the Left of Human Events, Commentary, and Front Page. Four fine magazines, and by "fine" I mean perfectly respectable conservative rags. Marty's Minions just don't get it. You work for a racist xenophobe and chauvinist asshole, and his stench rubs off on ya'll. get the fuck over it.
"TNR, on your shelf to the right of Heinz ketchup" has kind of a ring to it.
Heinz katchup is probably the last safe processed food product that is not made in china. I'm sure its the only thing thats still made in pittsburgh besides Steelers.
After the war, the Allies discovered the British Black List - the list of several thousand prominent people in Britain who were to be rounded up after the German invasion. Noel Coward was on it, and commented "At least I should have been in good company."
Also note that the list of liberal-things-to-be-boycotted includes 'France' and 'Germany'.
ConAgra Foods manufactures Hunt's Ketchup, the biggest rival to Heinz. I haven't researched it to exhaustion, but a quick look suggests that the company's executives have been reliable Bush/Cheney donors
"Is there another brand of ketchup? All I've ever seen is Heinz and the grocery stores brand." What was that ghastly scream? Probably the marketing manager at Del Monte's tomato products division after reading that comment. http://www.delmonte.com/products/TomatoItem.asp?id=136
How about, "fire Marty Peretz and his poodle Jamie Kirchick?" Samuel Jacobs cannot be asking that question with a straight face.
I don't understand why everyone doesn't see how wildly successful this boycott has been. If any of you had been paying attention, you would have noticed that conservative Christians are, in fact, not donating all of their money to Emily's List, Planned Parenthood, and Greenpeace, just as he demands. It's clear that this man is a force to be reckoned with. I implore all of my fellow liberals to immediately begin boycotting the Heritage Foundation, Focus on the Family, and the John Birch Society. Oh wait...
I can imagine that at least some on TNR staff might be confused about who wears the pants at the journal given that Marty Peretz - former owner, hand-selector of the new, right-wing owner, and editor-in-chief is the public face of TNR and Franklin Foer has about the same weight as a dozen previous editors (essentially none). This, from a magazine that features Fred Thompson on the current cover, with a title of Who's Your Daddy: The Masculine Mystique of FT. Then, up gront, full page or two-page ads from Blue Cross, VISA, BP, and the Cable Industry. One could think they've just died and gone to conservative heaven. What does a magazine have to do to join the left-wing conspiracy these days? Change much of what you do and say? It is that easy.
I highly recommend the cartoon at top-right of the homepage. Bad on many levels, most notably that this so-called equation seems to be lacking an equal sign. Good stuff. http://boycottliberalism.com/images/Cartoon45.jpg
I get the scary feeling that most of you who criticize TNR non-stop, have never even opened one of the magazines up.
"Also note that the list of liberal-things-to-be-boycotted includes 'France' and 'Germany'." It also includes Aruba (due apparently to some sort of Natalee Holloway thing)
Why bother including TNR? It has a circulation of 60,000, which puts it in the same category as the Doylestown Intelligencer.
"I get the scary feeling that most of you who criticize TNR non-stop, have never even opened one of the magazines up."
Shitcanning Marty Peretz would be a good start!
I followed the links and found this one pretty funny: "Time Magazine - leaving President Bush off their list of the top 100 most influential people"
It’s time for the vast majority of the American public that opposes the Neo-con-fascists to apply real economic pressure and organize product boycotts and other disruptive economic activity against the sponsors of the MSM Propaganda machine. Wapo and Fox come to mind. The net roots organization around political contributions can also be turned into an effective vehicle for organizing economic pressure against select publications and their sponsors.
Ah, the stench of 'you're liberal because you're ignorant'. No offense, but that is totally off. I think the 60,000 of us who do read TNR regularly are mystified by it's treatment as a bastion of closet-righty traitors. You can go ahead and list the perfidies--sinking national healthcare, providing intellectual cover for the Bell Curve (which is half-BS), backing the war in Iraq, Lieberman for President, or anything else having anything bearing the imprint of MP's obsessions--and I agree with pretty much all of them. I also think that alternately belittling its tiny influence and investing it with an awesome power to sink the liberal policy agenda are totally inconsistent. Read Jeff Rosen's latest column on John Roberts or his profile of Anthony Kennedy. Read Ryan Lizza's profile of George Allen last year (which was much more influential than anything else written nationally about him), or Eve Fairbanks's attack on John Dingell's anti-environment streak, or the glowing profile of Barak Obama heralding him as the next JFK. Did anyone actually read Michelle Cottle's (who has written several critiques of southern macho culture) deconstruction of Fred Thompson? I think TNR covers the right much more convincingly than the Nation, which does a wonderful job catalouging conservative disasters but rarely does a good job explaining why conservatism persists. For all of Marty Peretz's deep and unforgivable faults (I really wish he would just go away), the perception of TNR has a cover for the right is completely out of sync with my experience reading the magazine. I also subcribe to the Nation, Mother Jones, NYRB, and the Prospect, so I feel like I have some perspective on this.
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