skippy the bush kangaroo: sign the "boycott discovery networks" petition

Saturday, March 27, 2010

sign the "boycott discovery networks" petition

here's a petition to boycott discovery networks until they remove sarah palin as host of "sarah palin's alaska."

we signed the petition ourselves, tho we must point out a couple of problems w/the specific purpose of it mentioned therein.

firstly, it would be rather hard to take sarah palin out of "sarah palin's alaska." it would make much more sense to ask discovery channel to not buy & show the program in the first place.

but more to the point, the petition offers ms. palin's attitudes towards wildlife as the reasons to boycott discovery networks.

this is indeed a reason some could deign as legitimate, but not the reason we'd boycott.

instead, as we wrote on the signature box on the petition, we take issue w/ms. palin's use of cross-hairs on pictures of elected officials and incindiary violent metaphors ("reload!") on her facebook page and in her speeches.

it's time repubbblicans learned there are consequences to actions. if ms. palin advocates violent revolution (and make no mistake; shooting elected officials is violent and revolutionary), she must take responsibility for the effects of her speech.

and for us, that means hassling the tv channels that want to do business w/her.

posted by skippy at 7:37 PM |