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2016-12-06 Home Front: Politix

Mark Steyn Backs #DumpKelloggs: Kellogg's ‘Real Target' Is Trump and His Supporters, Not Breitbart

[Breitbart] Author and radio host Mark Steyn offers support to Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott in his latest column, noting the danger posed to free speech and culture when corporations increasingly politicize every issue by siding with the left in order to silence or de-legitimize the left’s political opponents, which Steyn writes is the real aim of Kellogg’s actions.

Steyn at first takes aim at the Associated Press’ characterization of Breitbart in the wire service’s article about the Kellogg’s boycott, in which the AP writes: "Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content."

From Mark Steyn:

AP doesn’t actually produce any evidence of "racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content", which would require considerable journalistic effort on its part. Instead, it states blandly that the site has been "condemned" as such. "Condemned" used to be a term with legal meaning: A judge tells a convicted man that he is "condemned to hang". But in this case Breitbart hasn’t been convicted of anything, merely labeled by its political opponents. Just like Reuters could "condemn" Associated Press for "featuring pedophile content". If labeling is all it now takes.

And in fact the real target here is not Breitbart so much as the incoming President of the United States, who has appointed Breitbart honcho Steve Bannon as a senior counselor. The losing side in the election wants to "de-normalize" Trump and his administration, by in effect de-legitimizing his voters and their electoral victory.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-06 05:41|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

A blinding flash of the obvious, but the new president and his administration will have an extremely heavy lift. The 'blowback' from Kelloggs is just the tip of the iceberg.

Heavy profit margins are found in cheap Chinese labor. Visit any box store, Target, Walmart, or Home Depot and discovery is only a single shopping aisle away. The 'Made in China' trend is going to be very difficult to turn around, especially when they continue to buy our debt.

Faceless Institutional investors (who make up the vast majority of the Stock Market), don't give a rat's arse about the 'Forgotten Man' or the concept of 'Made in America.' Similarly, Delta Airlines could care less where the cheap oil comes from, as long as they can continue to reap huge annual profits and pay exorbitant union salaries. (DAL stock has nearly quadrupled over the past four years)

Yes, Trump's lift will be a very heavy one indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-06 06:12|| 2016-12-06 06:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Faceless Institutional investors (who make up the vast majority of the Stock Market), don't give a rat's arse about the 'Forgotten Man' or the concept of 'Made in America.'

And they're not even thinking of those forgotten Americans as they leap from or just burn in the glass towers that housed their offices. However, for a brief moment their colleagues in other buildings, suddenly remember who they're going to call upon to protect their little Brooks Brothers covered posteriors.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-06 08:13|| 2016-12-06 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder if the CEO ran this career-making idea past Marketing. Has anyone at Kelloggs recently walked the cereal aisle of any grocery store and seen the other options available? Maybe, to avoid "triggering," they don't recognize competition.

I sent them a nice "eat cornflakes and die" letter last week.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a real winner also. SJW to the core. Interestingly enough, no mention of BLM support at Wiki. Go figure.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-12-06 08:34|| 2016-12-06 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The Kellogg Foundation is the thinking equivalent of highly processed food.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-12-06 08:51|| 2016-12-06 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I declare bacon & scrambled eggs revolution!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-06 09:04|| 2016-12-06 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Good. I'll have my kids making quiche within a year. Daughter already makes her own scrambled eggs, and is steadily exploring outside the basic recipe. Anyone out there interested in some cheesy scrambled eggs with (beginner level) diced green pepper and Cholula?

Talk about taking the chicken to the bunk - Americans turn back on NFL and ESPN, dumping the sugar bombs from my kids breakfast, well that is some Michelle Obama award behavior there chuck.

This will be interesting. In an era where people purposefully do not talk about how to make a tuna salad, my kids will be able to go from lure to dessert on their own. Uncultured? Daughter read Tolkien in third grade; I know it isn't the latest app and all. We'll figure that one out after a musical instrument is decided upon.

Maybe g(r)rom's comment got me on a rant, but they really are going to make a generation of bad-asses, if only in comparison to their crop. I don't need their TV entertainment, don't need their education, don't need their advice. They have taught me that I can teach myself how to teach.

"Hey s-for brains racist, buy my quarter pound of processed sugar to feed your kids."

(golf clap)

That is some top notch business modeling right there.

As the snark went, Stupid Kellogg's, cereal is for kids.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-12-06 11:15|| 2016-12-06 11:15|| Front Page Top

Perhaps if they're ground, lightly toasted, coated with sugar, and marketed correctly as breakfast food........

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-06 11:20|| 2016-12-06 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Requires a bit of preparation but, boy, is it worth it!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-06 11:55|| 2016-12-06 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 That is inspirational.

Cleaning out the fridge the other week, had a cheese ball left over from Thanksgiving - summer sausage & jalapeno. Cooked up some high-quality sausage patties, Texas toast through the toaster, had a sausage & cheese sandwiches.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-12-06 13:23|| 2016-12-06 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 1/2 c. generic rolled oats mixed with 1 c. water of your choice. Microwave in huge bowl for 4 min. Add milk if you like &/or flavorings. Eat out of the bowl you cooked it in. Haven't had packaged cold cereal for years.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-12-06 15:34|| 2016-12-06 15:34|| Front Page Top

#11 The 'Made in China' trend is going to be very difficult to turn around, especially when they continue to buy our debt.

I don't know how much of our debt China still holds, nor Japan either. A few years back I read that both countries had significantly cut back on their holdings of US Treasuries because the interest rate was so low and the risk of default had increased significantly.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-06 19:11|| 2016-12-06 19:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Its an interesting phenomena I have never seen adequately explained. Why companies pander to obviously minority views, invariably on the left, and piss off many of their customers.

In part it's the media that inflates the significance of these minority views, and ignores any blowback, such that the companies can convince themselves that what they do is good for business.

Which is why it took an alternative media heavyweight - Breibart - to throw this issue into focus.

I've been boycotting various companies and products for years, mostly because of their stand on social and political issues. Unfortunately, I never eat cereal.

Perhaps time to reread MauMauing the Flackcatchers.

Posted by phil_b 2016-12-06 19:16|| 2016-12-06 19:16|| Front Page Top

#13 The 'Made in China' trend is going to be very difficult to turn around, especially when they continue to buy our debt.

Tariffs will and always have moved business operations to the tariff imposing country, at the expense of consumers in that country. US tariffs and China imports will have the added benefit of financially destabilizing China, which has very high levels of dubious debt.

As for US debt, there is only one limit to how much sovereign (federal government) debt they can issue and it really doesn't matter if anyone buys it, because the government can buy it off itself, ie QE.

The limit is eventually your currency collapses. The USA is a very long way from that point.

Posted by phil_b 2016-12-06 19:28|| 2016-12-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

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