Trimmed And Burning

Silence Is Golden
In the months leading up to North Carolina’s vote this month to ban gay marriage, most of the state’s business leaders were conspicuously silent. While some executives spoke out against it as individuals, not one Fortune 500 company based in North Carolina, including Bank of America, Duke Energy, VF Corporation and Lowe’s, opposed it.


But one company did: Replacements Limited, which sells silver, china and glassware, and is based in Greensboro. Its founder and chairman, Bob Page, is gay. The company lobbied legislators, contributed money to causes supporting gay marriage, rented a billboard along the interstate near its headquarters, and sold T-shirts at its showroom. Its experience may explain why no other for-profit company followed its example. (NYT, 5/25/2012)


So by "conspicuously silent" the clear inference from the New York Times is that Bank of America et. al. should have taken a stand. Reading on, a reasonable person would conclude that the stand that the Times would have wanted these firms to take is to oppose North Carolina's ban on gay marriage. One brave company, we learn, took a stand and paid the price in lost sales.


It may be us, but it seems that the New York Times NEVER write the woebegone article about the company that takes a principled stand against some Liberal idea and then suffers economically when the gay mafia, abetted by the gay friendly media, boycott the firm.


Frankly, we would prefer that companies keep their political views to themselves. But there is absolutely no denying that it was gay issue supporters who perpetuated the tactic of boycotting firms that don't agree with them. When the tables get turned, they cry foul.


Back To The Future
Riffing on the re-election trail, President Obama often tells crowds that "We've got to move forward to the future we imagined in 2008." An imaginary future from the past—got it. (WSJ, 5/25/2012)


By which Obama is admitting his failures.....