Lowe's pulls its advertising from "All American Muslim" after pressure from Christian extremists

you can call lowes looking for a bolt and nut and still you would be on hold for 7 minutes.
the employees at my local lowes are just no nothing drones who only want to take your money.

And the cashier who has 4 kids and is making minimum wage will not give one shit about your opinion.
No offence.
In fact all she will be pissed with is having to restock your crap.

Sometimes the good you do will go unnoticed by those it benefits or even those who complain about it ignorantly.

S/he can thank me later.

thanks - I see it as a win-win for the people and a lesson learned (hopefully) for Lowe's.

You appear to forget that all cost of operation get passed onto the consumer. Occupy along with union reps pulled this stunt at walmart, and other retailers.. This is what will cause Occupy to fail, no one gets "converted" by this type of action.

Imagine, if you will, having to lay down a deposit to get a cart to shop at you local merchant, that'll show that big box store fer sure

Foolish ideas lead to foolish policies.

I'm all for giving my bucks to a more "local" hardware store. Ace franchises are technically about as close as most of us can get to a real local hardware store nowadays. But one thing to remember is that they might also be sponsoring rabid right wing radio (say that 3 times fast!). Here in Jacksonville, I know at least one of the local Ace stores sponsors Rush Limbaugh on the local AM-hate machine.

Additionally, simply because Ace isn't on the list of advertisers pulling their ads, doesn't mean they would have bought ad space on "All American Muslim" in the first place.

Personally, if I have to go to a hardware store I probably WILL choose Ace, as you suggest, but only because it supports a local business (franchise at least) rather than a corpororate big box. Here in NE Florida, I seriously doubt most small businesses are all that progressive in thought. :(

Lone Hoot, you're probably right, but as I said on an earlier thread about this...Ace is small box and locally owned...and that's good enough for right now...I doubt we can find a perfect solution, so it may come down to the lesser evil...seems like we are faced with that a lot lately, but I am hopeful that will change...:)

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was trying to say - "lesser of two evils" indeed. I would love to see Keith or Cenk suggest something like this, but they'd probably get in legal trouble.

I know you were...and I agree that those guys might get in trouble, but I think KO is subtle enough to pull it off if he was motivated...now Cenk...I don't think the bulldozer response would get it...:)

Unless you're not muslim.

"Forced" to take a "Free-Thinking" course? lol

I looked -- 22,000 comments, running about 50/50 in favour and opposed.

And a lot of the comments in favour are pretty horrid, bigoted stuff.

So, I guess you won't be downloading any music from Def Jam Records? ☺

Care to name your company so we don't accidentally hire you?

I absolutely adore this woman.

Me too! She is so funny and I like how she gets to the point through her humor. :)

I see you are against a license plate that says One State Under God but all for a Muslim TV show. So you don't hate religion just Christians I guess.

You assume too much. I hate no one. Not even Muslims, I just want America to go back to the way it used to be. Plenty of jobs for every legal american. However your opinions were never very valid to begin with but they somehow seem to lessen. Now, not only am I positive that you know nothing of politics but you also have proven your lack of intellegence when you rant like this. How can you be for all religions and support the separation of church and state.

      "Pleny of jobs fore every legal american."

     
      "How can you be for all religions and support the separation of church and state."

This, ladies and gents, is internet trolling. (I seriously doubt "JangoFetish" is really this ignorant. Don't fall for it.)

I'm not saying I'm against or for that matter in support of a muslim T.V. show. I just won't be watching it. I don't even watch the Christian ones. You nailed nothing. All your points are invalid and pointless I have proven that. Onece again I am not a righty. You assume that just because you dont agree with me. Im just not as "left" as you.

Typical rebutal for someone who knows she is wrong.

I agree with buy local, problem is most everything is made in Mexico, China, or India.

Well I wonder how that happened....

Bill Clinton

Wrong answer. Protectionism isn't the answer. Intelligent shopping (when we had a choice) was.

Many Ace Hardwares are locally owned!

Correct and they are usually much more helpful... Hey is your net running very slow tonight or is that just on my end??? Man it takes forever to go from page to page... =(

I'm not noticing problems.

Must be on my end, maybe I will go to the laptop instead... =) I am very let down with Lowe's... =(

And they have free popcorn!

Correct!!! My girlfriend always gets a Kick out of that... =)

Ace doesn't carry enough of a variety of items for a contractor.

Lowe's has free coffee and donuts in the morning.

I buy at Home Depot as a last resort after they started promoting Gay causes. They lost many of us contractors because of it.

My local ACE Hardware generally beats both Home Depot and Lowes on prices. Lowes had a choice. Lowes chose to cater to hate-filled bigots. What more is there to say?

If the giant free ad for Rushcard bugs anyone, I can take it down! ☺

nope

just give me the 3 digit security code and we will be good to go!

Couldn't disagree more with your comment. Christians have had enough of the liberal left demonizing them for their faith in Christ. Lowe's business will excell now.

Jesus wouldn't run an ad.

So go to Sherwin Williams and pay twice the price for paint. Watch how many customers you loose by charging higher prices to cover your paint.

Shows how smart you are. I will spend about $20,000.00 this year at Sherwin Williams and I am already booked through February. My business is good and getting better. I will be hiring two more people after the first of the year.

I do not buy junk paint and would not buy the trash they sell at Lowe's or Home Depot. My customers are people with high standards and I treat them as such. I get very good prices at Sherwin Williams. Lowe's and Home Depot cannot match the quality of paint I use and the crap they sell costs more than I pay for good products at SW.

Before you tell me I do not know what I am talking about, I have over 19 years of painting experience. I have owned my own company for more than 15 years. I have been using SW most of those years.

"What does it profit a man to gain the world...?"