Posted by
zyphlus on Saturday, September 09, 2006 9:53:38 AM
ABC Playing with Fire
Although I’m a Midwest Catholic not a Southern Baptist, I honored the Southern Baptist boycott of Disney-ABC-Eisner. This was not an easy matter. I have two children 3 ½ and almost 2. I can’t count the times I had to remind family, friends and relatives not to purchase any Disney related products for our family. Still we had to ship or hand back more than two handfuls of gifts to family, friends, coworkers and bosses with a polite explanation of how Disney’s anti-Christian bias forced us to make a stand. I gave up watching my favorite sport, hockey. In particular, watching Detroit Red Wing playoff hockey on ABC and ESPN. My wife was often forced to go that extra mile sometimes purchasing an inferior product be it at Wal-mart or Target in order to avoid Disney products. We even cheered when the Winnie-the-Pooh estate filed suit to separate from Disney. Hoping that if the estate won I could share one of my favorite childhood stories with my children too. Unfortunately, the suit failed to wrestle Pooh, Roo, Tiger, Eeyore, and Piglet from Disney.
With the parting of Michael Eisner, the very hour in fact, I called my wife and said I think it’s time to end the Boycott of Disney. It must have been the same week that I heard the Southern Baptist were ending their boycott of Disney. It seems we were both rationally acting in concert. I had purchased a Winnie-the-Pooh DVD and my little ones entered ‘honey’ and ‘bounce’ into their vocabulary that week.
But this week I am growing very anxious. If ABC decides to significantly edit or block “The Path to 9/11” I fell I must re-instigate my previous boycott of Disney. I’m from the financial world and know that the previous boycott was not totally ineffective. Disney ‘DIS’ never again made it above the 42 dollar range in 9 years and to this day trades at a 30% discount to that $42 range. I feel they significantly hurt their bottom line with their previous anti-Christian bias. I understand that as a Christian White Conservative Male who votes Republican that Disney hates me. I’m fine with that as long as they don’t say so or act like it.
I would ask ABC to think before they cave into the Liberals. With all the other crap I still have to put up with from ABC, John Stossel being the notable exception, I don’t think that for just once having Liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans bashed at the same time is too much to ask. And from my reading of “The Path to 9/11” Democrats may be justly getting whacked a little harder but I have no doubt that it is justified. In addition, I think if ABC chooses to run the original cut they may well fine a growing support in the Conservative movement for their product lines. In the near future I’ll have to decide where to take a $2,000-3,000 kid theme park vacation and Disney would do well to remember that the left’s Boycotts are small in nature and largely ineffectual. I don’t think there are many vegan anti-corporate anti-multinational peaceniks with kids who aren’t already boycotting Disney for the oppression of the small world people left. Disney needs to understand it’s future depends on kids and people who have kids. Their target market according to census data is increasing Christian Conservative Republicans families and they would do well to remember it.