In regards to CBS and David Letterman’s encouragement of the rape of 14-year-old girls, remember that ALL consumer products in this country have brand-managers they pay millions of dollars to, to keep their corporate images as pure, wholesome, and downy-soft as the ad copy focus-group tested to exhaustion for each bar of soap or pomegranate-infused shampoo.
Here in Chicago, our friend Robby worked in an ad firm for a few years, doing market research on brands, and spent countless hours monitoring the Internets (that series of pipes and tubes), for ANY negative chatter about a brand.
If the Hillary Democrats, Indepedents, and Palin supporters out there band together and target Letterman’s advertisers directly — and if we fill Google searches with repeated and constant linkage of “Letterman + rape of 14 year old + Dove soap”, for instance, the people who make Dove soap will, after soiling themselves and making copious use of Dove soap on their heinies in the washroom, rethink sponsorship of Letterman that now equates their soap with rape.
“Dove: silky soft. As advertised on David Letterman’s late night rape-of-minors-promoting pigfest”.
It is not through elected officials or CBS that we will hit back at Letterman hardest — it is by directly attacking the brands of all sponsors who advertise on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Trust us, the brand management of these products costs billions of dollars. Once a brand is tarnished, it’s worthless to a corporation. There is no way to ever salvage a shampoo, soap, or ketchup once it Googles as “that stuff David Letterman sells after joking about rape”.
Hit this pig where it will hurt him most, people: HIT THE BRANDS THAT SUPPORT HIM.
And then watch him fall from his perch and into a long overdue retirement.
June 10, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I know alot of people have been mentioning brands/companies that support this pig. Could we get a “master list” posted?
My day just got busy
June 10, 2009 at 1:08 pm
look at the last post.
And the Wed. thread.
June 10, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Thanks, Tammy
June 10, 2009 at 6:25 pm
That list should probably be reposted to this here thread. That way, if you search on Letterman + rape of 14 year old + Mars Candies it will also produce a hit.
Not that any of these would condone such behaviour, of course.
Best Western
Mars Candy
EBay
Lexus
Embassy Suites
But now you’re mentioned in the same breathe. And to coin a phrase the Internet never forgets.
June 10, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Please let us know what sponsers to call and send letters to.
June 10, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Here are some more (I’m working my way thru the previous postings):
TV.com
On The Border Restaurants
Best Western
Intel
CBSports.com
JohnFreida.com
DiTech
Lexus
Earn My Degree
True Credit by TransUnion
Lifelock
Bowflex
Mars Candy
Capitol One
LasikPlus
Embassy Suites
EBay
ancestry.com
I’m sure none of them condone Letterman’s remarks…right, guys?
June 10, 2009 at 6:38 pm
That seems to be the canonical list, BTW.
June 10, 2009 at 7:37 pm
See the “Not on Our Watch” thread, posts #67 and #68 for detailed contact info.
June 10, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Here’s a link (just to make things easier):
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/06/09/not-on-our-watch/
June 10, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I agree, we should let Letterman’s sponsors
know the pig they are sponsoring and stop
buying their products. “Boycott Letterman’s sponsor products”!!!
June 10, 2009 at 1:06 pm
WAsn’t Google in the news last year because they made a change that made “google-bombing” less effective. I could be thinking of something else.
In any case, it’s certainly worth the effort.
June 10, 2009 at 6:44 pm
No, no, they allowed whitehouse.gov to be google-bombed with “miserable failure” right up until Obama took office.
Then “miraculously” Google “fixed” the problem. You can gander at a NYTimes article on it.
June 10, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Thanks, I knew I’d heard something about it, but didn’t know the specifics.
June 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Here’s a link from Glenn Beck on what we are in for with Obamacare:
http://keithhennessey.com/2009/06/09/house-health-bill/
June 10, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Remember when all Procter & Gamble product sales fell dramatically? Just because of a folk lore story that the moon & stars graphics had demonic roots.
P & G worked overtime, spending tons of money on advertising to refute it.
So companies & huge corporations ARE aware of consumer trends.
June 10, 2009 at 2:11 pm
You also need to list World Vision International as a sponsor of Letterman’s comments. They are an advertiser on Best Western’s web site. I am sure World Vision does not want to be associated with the abuse of children considering they are supposedly about helping children.
June 10, 2009 at 2:49 pm
It dawned on me that we haven’t heard any outrage from the Yankees that one of their star players was part of the “joke.” Shouldn’t they be outraged that his name was used in a joke about statutory rape? Their silence is saying that they approve of the “joke.” I would think that since baseball is for families that they would not want to show support for a joke about that basically says that one of their players would sexual molest a child!
June 10, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Forgot the rest of my thoughts…
I think that we need to get them to force for an apology from Letterman, not just because of what it says about their player, but also because it was a sexist comment that is unacceptable!
June 10, 2009 at 3:19 pm
And what about flight attendants? He called flight attendants slutty!
June 10, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Since it wasn’t a direct smear of A-rod, he’s taking the wiser course of and this, too, shall pass.
He and the Yankee’s aren’t about to get into a pissing contest over it. On the other hand, CBSSports may find getting footage from YankeeNet – or is it MSGNet these days? a bit more…difficult than in the past.
June 10, 2009 at 6:21 pm
It must be working…searching for
Letterman + rape of 14 year old + Dove soap
in Google brings up as it’s #1 selection…Hillbuzz. This article, in fact.
With in 5 hours. Interestingly enough, there is an approximately 2,448 hits not Hillbuzz for those terms.