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PTBC’s PUSH-BACK
Campaign One
“The last capitalist will be hanged by a rope he himself sold.”
—the Communist icon, Karl Marx:
• INTRO
• Part II - Arm Yourself With Knowledge
—Addresses of CBC advertisers
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(INTRO) PTBC Push-Back Campaign begins today
(Original 02/26/09 J-Log blog entry here, with comments)
The state-owned CBC advertises—at our own expense—on all media: TV, internet, newspapers—in order to steer Canadians to their news programs, their “entertainment” shows, their political opinion columnists and news reports on their website, and to their radio stations and to Sirius Satellite Radio Canada (which they own nearly half of—why? Who knows?!), and so on. And, by logical extension, they do this to steer folks away from private citizen-owned media. On purpose! Thus, the government is competing against its own citizens. At our expense. Think about that awhile.
Yet this is how the CBC’s own advertising rules read, under the heading “Unacceptable Products And Services”: Along with tobacco products and “occult services”, they indicate that they won’t accept advertisers which offer “...services considered competitive with CBC services”. That, they write, is “unacceptable on CBC facilities ...”.
Plainly, that is left-wing extremist, fascist, Orwellian, crap. The CBC, so long as it despicably exists, should be forced by law to advertise nothing but competing services —for free. But of course state-owned media shouldn’t even exist in free countries.
Capitalist-oriented companies should advertise on media that doesn’t rely on a socialist model for its very existence. But I can’t and don’t want to force them to do what I know is right. They’re free to be total idiots and support socialism-reliant media like the CBC.
Moreover, our government has proven to be nothing short of a cheerleader squad for the socialism-reliant state-owned CBC, which by extension propagates and perpetuates this anti-capitalist and undemocratic idiocy.
So what are we to do as regular Canadian citizens—the erstwhile and annoyingly silent Canadian majority who have made it a “Canadian Value” to sit here, bend over, and take it—short of launching one of those riotous, sloganeering mass protests, festooned with protest signs that the liberal-left so love to engage in to get their way on every single issue? I mean especially considering that those only work for left-wing issues since by and large, the media doesn’t even cover traditional, conservative, or sane Canadian issues like ours, which is half the point of those protest rallies.
For a start, we could shun, in every way we can, any companies who advertise on the CBC’s various properties—mainly TV and their web site.
And so I’m going to try to help that happen.
We shouldn’t support businesses who don’t support—in fact help others work against—us. I’m going to name the names of advertisers on the CBC web site, and keep that list here, in the public’s eye.
Stay tuned for Part Two and more action plans, which include running a newspaper ad I’ve already mentioned before (see blow). In the meantime, note the advertisers who advertise on the CBC.ca web site. When I post my list, compare notes to ensure I haven’t left any companies off.
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PTBC Push-Back—Part two: Arm yourself. With capitalist knowledge.
(Original J-Log entry is here, with comments)
As I wrote before, I think we should make note of companies who advertise on the state-owned CBC—its web site and TV stations. And then make consumer choices based partially on that very important information. It’s what makes the well-armed dynamic trio of freedom, democracy, and free market capitalism so great. We get to vote with every dollar we choose to spend, with every purchase we choose to make. Victory through superior firepower, as we say.
The companies who advertise on the overtly left-wing, socialism-reliant, state-owned CBC are arguably supporting it, purposely or not, and whether they know it or not. Voting for it, if you will. They’re collectively supporting it financially, to the tune of about $600 MILLION per year—money which could be spent, again by choice, advertising at other, private citizen-owned businesses and web sites (perhaps right-wing, capitalist ones!), thus spurring more private sector, free-market, capitalist economic activity; or at least not supporting the CBC. These companies are also arguably choosing, purposely or not, and whether they know it or not, to provide what some people might see as their tacit sponsorship, brand endorsement, and attaching their very “goodwill” to the state-owned, socialism-reliant, left-wing CBC brand, and providing their moral support for this left-wing, socialism-reliant, state-owned media. And so politics and values come into this too.
I think it’s a pretty horrendous display of anti-capitalist behavior on the part of those you’d expect would actually do everything they could to promote just the opposite brand of economic and social values (although I can understand abortion mills, tattoo parlors, and Tourismo Cuba advertising on the CBC). If they want to go on pretending that the CBC isn’t political, isn’t clearly left wing, and that the CBC isn’t making left wing social, economic, political, and values statements all day long, then fine. If they endorse the government working against its own citizens, then fine. We’ll make our choices with that information in mind.
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It’s obviously the right of every company to advertise where they choose. Everybody is free to be idiotic, free to support socialism, and free to offend those of us against whom socialism and its media and cultural and economic tentacles like a socialism-reliant, anti-conservative, state-owned media work, at our own taxpayer expense.
Similarly, it’s our right as citizens to point all of this out and push back as we see fit.
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So here is a list of recent advertisers on CBC.ca, the state-owned socialism-reliant web site paid for largely with our tax dollars with the support of these companies. The list will also be posted along the side of this web site.
One more note. As you can see, it’s getting increasingly and frustratingly difficult, in this country, to make consumer choices as we see best, when, for example, both WestJet and Air Canada both support the CBC through advertising. I say a plague on both your houses. Fly an American airline. (Just don’t take the state-owned Via Rail!). .jpg "image"){kind=small}
Also: It’s particularly galling to see (as we do) other government departments, like the RCMP and the Canadian Forces, spending their (our) advertising budgets for recruitment, at the CBC—which is another division of the government, but which competes against citizen-owned enterprises for advertising dollars (among other things). They already get in excess of one BILLION dollars per year in taxpayer cash, so this is actually an additional source of taxpayer cash that is being funneled into the CBC from one taxpayer-supported hand to another. It’s like another slight of hand trick being played on you by your government. (And can you think of a worse place to advertise the Armed Forces or the RCMP? And can you think of a better place? Hello!)
Here are some of the CBC advertisers:
• AIG (insur)
• Air Canada
• AOL Travel
• Best Western
• Canada Protection Plan
• Canada Revenue Agency (!)
• Canadian Tire Fin Serv
• Chip Home Income Plan
• CIBC
• Cold FX
• Desjardins (insurance)
• Directbuy, Inc
• General Motors
• Grey Power (insurance)
• H&R Block
• Hilton Hotels
• iContact email marketing
• Infinity (cars)
• Koodoo mobile
• Lens Crafters
• Monster.ca
• Neutrogena
• Nutrisystem
• Quicktax
• RBC (Royal bank)
• Rogers Cable
• Shaw Cable
• Texas Travel
• The Co-operators (ins)
• Tim Hortons
• Travelodge
• Vonage
• WeightWatchers
• Westjet
• Working.com
• Zip.ca
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GOOD READ:
Good opinion column by the brilliant Jonah Goldberg, author if the New York Times best seller, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change:
