Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:39PM
TWP in Coulter, Coulter, Verizon, double standard, hypocrisy, hypocrisy
TWP in Coulter, Coulter, Verizon, double standard, hypocrisy, hypocrisy
Back in 2007 upstanding companies (barf) such as Verizon, Sallie Mae and Georgia-based NetBank were taking their marching orders from "mainstream" political Web site the Daily Kos, as they retracted in horror upon discovering that some of their ads had appeared on an "extreme political Web site," AnnCoulter.com. May it never be!
Could there be a more hypocritical stance for a company to take?
A spokesperson for NetBank said Coulter's page "is not the kind of site we want to be on." To know that, he/she/trans would have to have read it, and you know that didn't happen. Since NetBank was the 1st bank to fail, it's good to know that their ads don't appear ANYwhere these days, including AnnCoulter.com.
"Per our policy, the networked Web site ad purchases are supposed to be stripped of certain kinds of Web sites," said a Verizon spokesperson. "This one could be considered an extreme political Web site, should be off the list, and now it is off the list." Good for you, Verizon! It would be a shame to have your alleged "deceptive and misleading" ads that got you sued by the state of New Jersey run on a Web site so extreme as Ann Coulter's.
Could there be a more hypocritical stance for a company to take?
A spokesperson for NetBank said Coulter's page "is not the kind of site we want to be on." To know that, he/she/trans would have to have read it, and you know that didn't happen. Since NetBank was the 1st bank to fail, it's good to know that their ads don't appear ANYwhere these days, including AnnCoulter.com.
"Per our policy, the networked Web site ad purchases are supposed to be stripped of certain kinds of Web sites," said a Verizon spokesperson. "This one could be considered an extreme political Web site, should be off the list, and now it is off the list." Good for you, Verizon! It would be a shame to have your alleged "deceptive and misleading" ads that got you sued by the state of New Jersey run on a Web site so extreme as Ann Coulter's.
Update on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 1:54AM by TWP
When I first wrote this I missed that the source article for this was posted on CNN in 2007. A friend shared the story with me just yesterday and I thought it was a current news item and jumped on the story and posted this. Then I rewrote it once I realized it was pre-Socialism. Now it makes sense why NetBank was out there spouting off. In 2007 they actually thought they had some swagga. Perhaps they didn't give enough to Obama, and now they're history.
Regardless, it's still funny to me.
Regardless, it's still funny to me.
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