Arizona Iced Tea Forced to Show Its Papers (Rush Limbaugh, legal, boycott)
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Travis Nichols just got in touch with The Lede and confirmed that, yes, he was joking when he called Arizona Iced Tea “the drink of fascists” on Twitter on Tuesday. He added that he was traveling for work yesterday and had no idea, until checking his e-mail at the end of the day, that his comment — which was inspired, he said, by the Twitter-based comic musings of @conanobrien and @colsonwhitehead — was being taken seriously by critics of Arizona boycotts and the media...
It seemed to him, he said, that people writing on the Web sites of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh simply wanted evidence to support their theory that liberals are idiots and the idea that there was a misguided campaign to boycott Iced Tea was, as they used to say in the news business, too good to check.
I do understand that Travis Nichols was joking in his remark about Arizona Iced Tea but the bigger issue is that in this day and age with the ease at which any and every utterance is moved around the planet at the speed of light, it is irresponsible to make statements like that. Far too many people form their opinions based on what they read, with no thought to its validity. And unfortunately it is next to impossible to "unring the bell" once something is committed to print. It is rather like that child's game in which a secret is passed around and the details change with each retelling. Engage your brain Mr. Nichols before you engage your mouth (or typing fingers).
redrover, I agree. The examples in media aren't helping, but if nonsense is allowed to interfere with legit business, I think libel needs a comeback in the courts.
Idiots on local radio were talking about boycotting Peter Piper Pizza - because franchise fees go back to head office in Phoenix. Never mind that it would hurt locals who work at PPP.
Idiots on local radio were talking about boycotting Peter Piper Pizza - because franchise fees go back to head office in Phoenix. Never mind that it would hurt locals who work at PPP.
Yup. Freedom isn't free, and free speech that costs someone else because you decided to go off half cocked with BS isn't something that should be socially (or legally) acceptable.
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