6 Brands Playing Footsie with Conservatives and Paying the Price

[proud2BlibKansan]

August 3, 2012 |
Chick-fil-A might have gotten a nice, one-day sales boost with "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," but tying a national brand to aging white bigots is not a winning strategy – and the numbers prove it. Executives. directors and managers of American corporations take note: If your company is playing footsie with right-wing ideologues it can harm your company and your career. People are seriously fed up with companies that support and fund these right wingers, and brand-equity tracking surveys prove it. Here are 6 examples of companies and organizations that have flushed their brands down the right-wing toilet.

1. Chick-fil-A Brand Damage

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2. Komen for the Cure: The Gold Standard For Brand Damage

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3. TED vs the 99%

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4. TD Ameritrade

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5. Rush Limbaugh and Snapple

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6. McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Intuit, Mars, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, AT&T, GM, Walgreens and Other Companies That Support Or Supported ALEC

more . . . http://www.alternet.org/6-brands-playing-footsie-conservatives-and-paying-price?page=0%2C0&paging=off

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. I have to cut TED a little slack.

They're a nonprofit that decided against distributing one TEDtalk because they thought it was too hot for them.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. TED has censored many pieces while claiming to be a 'free clearinghouse of ideas'

The ticket to attend the 'free clearinghouse' costs $6,000. The pieces they censor are about income inequality. The tickets are $6,000. See the connection?
And they did not say 'too hot for us' they leveled untoward criticisms in order to justify their actions and that was the actual wrong among wrongs. They did not own their own actions.

[NYC_SKP]

2. k/r n/t