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2004-05-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2004-05-01 12:33:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks, badnov for listing the two main advertisers. Does anyone know who advertised in the DC area? I'd like to send them a note of my disgust.

Dodge is pretty stupid. Lots of people "buy American" even though their cars are often inferior to foreign cars. They do so because they believe it's the right thing to do.

Not anymore. I don't think the type of people who "buy American" would want to fund this type of anti-American drivel by purchasing Dodge's cars.

Posted by B 2004-05-01 8:19:31 AM|| 2004-05-01 8:19:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2
B, Dodge is no longer American. Neither is Chrysler. They were assimilated by Daimler-Benz.

The profits all go back to Germany now and the American employees take their marching orders from their German handlers!

-AR

Posted by Analog Roam 2004-05-01 9:30:52 AM|| 2004-05-01 9:30:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I failed to add John Deere advertised on the show, as well as being one of the last.

So, there were three national advertisers in Okla, but only one, John Deere could have been considered a true nationwide ad. Dodge routinely advertises locally but with a local tail, and SBC is the local phone monopoly.

Posted by badanov 2004-05-01 9:36:40 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/weblog] 2004-05-01 9:36:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 well that certainly explains why they were willing to fund the show.

Posted by B 2004-05-01 9:37:11 AM|| 2004-05-01 9:37:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps this could explain John Deere's willingness to fund Anti-American broadcasts: From their chairman's 2003 message:

http://www.deere.com/en_US/investinfo/media/pdf/reports/2004/2003chairmansmessage.pdf

"Our focus continues winning new agricultural customers in Europe. Also supporting improved global sales was the shipment of 100 John Deere cotton pickers to Turkmenistan as well as new manufacturing relationships with Russia and Turkey."

Posted by B 2004-05-01 9:56:06 AM|| 2004-05-01 9:56:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I pasted the html for links around my URL. I don't understand why it never works. Look..it even highlited and underlined it, but it messed up the screen anyway. I don't get it.

Posted by B 2004-05-01 10:15:07 AM|| 2004-05-01 10:15:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Fred? URL cleanup aisle 3

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-01 10:31:03 AM|| 2004-05-01 10:31:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Heh; I actually thought the closing statement was okay ...

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-05-01 12:16:53 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-05-01 12:16:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Howdy Doody's sponsor, SBC, unfortunately, has a quasi-monopoly in about 13 states regarding local phone service. Except where competing companies like Sprint and Verizon beat them to the punch for the local monopoly .

States are : CA, NV, TX, OK, AR, MO, KS, IL, WI, MI, IN, OH, CT

I personally am in an SBC state but in a Verizon enclave. People who have SBC local might want to consider using a non SBC cell for their home service. Remind them of Howdy's attempt to duplicate the Life magazine rib on Vietnam 35 years ago.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-01 1:29:00 PM|| 2004-05-01 1:29:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 B, regarding html links. Normally an html link is
[a href="http://www.deere.com"]link[/a]
Note the double quotes. On rantburg you use a single quote.
[a href='http://www.deer.com']link[/a]
Also in both cases square brackets have to be angle brackets. So if I got it right your link should be: here

Posted by ruprecht 2004-05-01 2:16:13 PM|| 2004-05-01 2:16:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 thanks ruprecht..I thought that is what I did! I've always cut and pasted from the example below, because it never works when I use the box, but as you can see, cut and paste doesn't work for me either.

Maybe it has to do with that "link" between the sets of brackets.

I'm afraid to try it. I'll try rantburg.
linkname

Posted by B 2004-05-01 2:34:28 PM|| 2004-05-01 2:34:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 HEY!! It worked..Thanks!!

Posted by B 2004-05-01 2:35:02 PM|| 2004-05-01 2:35:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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