Eat at Chick-Fil-A Today and August 1

[Charles J. White]

The amount of free advertising that both conservatives and liberals are giving Chick Fil A is of the magnitude that very few businesses could actually afford to pay for...The owner of the company is clearly laughing all the way to the bank. I’m guessing his competitors are not very happy right now.

[Charles J. White]

I’m guessing that there will be at least 1 competitor to Chick Fil A who will express the opposite view point, in the hopes of capturing additional market share – could be a smart business move.

[J.B. Stone]

Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn urged homosexuals to “infiltrate” the privately owned company.

“Make the restaurants gay hangouts of the community,” she wrote. “Gays and lesbians could start applying for jobs at Chick-fil-A. Get in there. Become managers, take over the places.”

MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart urged protesters to bully the restaurant chain.

“Find out who is affiliated with Chick-fil-A in any way and put pressure on those folks,” he said.

Oh yes, this is the way for sure to win over the hearts and minds of people. These terrorists are insane and frankly dangerous.

It just demonstrates what Liberals REALLY mean by kindness, understanding, acceptance and tolerance................

[J.B. Stone]

The amount of free advertising that both conservatives and liberals are giving Chick Fil A is of the magnitude that very few businesses could actually afford to pay for...The owner of the company is clearly laughing all the way to the bank. I’m guessing his competitors are not very happy right now.

Thank you for your vapid and inconsequential statements of nonfact.

[Dogpatch]

I’m guessing that there will be at least 1 competitor to Chick Fil A who will express the opposite view point, in the hopes of capturing additional market share – could be a smart business move.

like this?

[Charles J. White]

If that is a legitimate picture in this age of Photoshop and internet magic, yes, that is the kind of thing I would have expected from a competitor looking to gain in market share, and perhaps get in on this never before seen free advertising blitz that Chick- Fil-A is receiving.

[Dogpatch]

The amount of free advertising that both conservatives and liberals are giving Chick Fil A is of the magnitude that very few businesses could actually afford to pay for...The owner of the company is clearly laughing all the way to the bank. I’m guessing his competitors are not very happy right now.

But then the suits moved in

[Brown envelope]

I had a fresh spinach salad with mushrooms, carrots, and red onion for dinner last night with a tall glass of water. It was delicious, why anyone believes that fried foods, high fat, with extra sodium is a family value is beyond me. If a fast food place or a number of them goes out of business for whatever reason, I don’t see that as problem. Individuals need to make the right choices in North America. Tonight after work, I’m going to play a game of soccer in fact to get some additional exercise.

Charles just can't help let his gLiberal/NDP slip show in threads like this one.

[Charles J. White]

The amount of free advertising that both conservatives and liberals are giving Chick Fil A is of the magnitude that very few businesses could actually afford to pay for...The owner of the company is clearly laughing all the way to the bank. I’m guessing his competitors are not very happy right now.

But then the suits moved in

If that is a legitimate picture in this age of Photoshop and internet magic it looks like others want in on this free advertising blitz that is most likely costed out at in the tens of millions of dollars because it helps gain market share. But the food there and the previous one you posted, KFC, are both shite.

[Dogpatch]

From Selwyn Duke

July 30, 2012

Grand Mufti Emanuel’s Chicago Values

by Selwyn Duke

When Rahm Emanuel ascended to the top of Chicago’s political heap last year, it was thought to have been the result of a citywide election that won him the mayorship. I had no idea he was appointed the city’s first Grand Mufti.

But thus it must be, as Emanuel has spoken definitively as to what shall henceforth be considered Chicago values.

This, of course, refers to the Chick-fil-A flap, in which Emanuel expressed support for a city alderman who was going to ban the restaurant from his ward over chain president Dan Cathy’s opposition to faux marriage.
That alderman, Proco Moreno, actually said, “Because of this man's [Cathy’s] ignorance, I will now be denying Chick-fil-A's permit to open a restaurant in the 1st Ward.” This prompted Grand Mufti Emanuel to affirm that the restaurant was unwelcome and decree, “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values.”

Yet who is Emanuel to issue a fatwa on what Chicago values are on faux marriage when approximately half of Chicagoans oppose the idea? Should these residents be expelled from the city or prohibited from making a living?

But if Emanuel speaks for a supernatural source, and I wouldn’t doubt it, it isn’t God. This is because hypocrisy is not a divine value.

It isn’t just that Emanuel worked for Bill Clinton and never made a peep when his boss signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law. That was a long time ago, some will say. It isn’t even just that he was a staunch supporter of Barack Obama, who also opposed faux marriage until his “evolution” this year. Grand Mufti Emanuel could have experienced sympathetic evolution, some will say. It’s that Emanuel has also been a supporter of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.

Farrakhan’s anti-Jewish and anti-white bigotry are well documented, but that gets a pass from the loony left. But what of that which Emanuel has obviously declared intolerable bigotry: defense of virtue and marriage? On this count, if Dan Cathy is a heretic, Farrakhan is an apostate.

Just consider the Nation of Islam leader’s statements. Writes The Washington Times:

Last May, Mr. Farrakhan told a group of followers that the increasing public acceptance of homosexuality is evidence of the work of the devil. “The Koran says, Satan has made evil fair-seeming to them,” he said. He stood firmly against same-sex marriage, saying that “Sin is sin according to the standard of God.” He chastised Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders for compromising on the issue, even saying that Muslims who condone homosexuality are enemies of Islam. He said that the Newsweek cover declaring President Obama the “first gay president” was a mockery, and said he should be called, “the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid.”

In 2009 Mr. Farrakhan said that homosexuality is “a learned behavior” and has its origins in predators sensing that children are vulnerable and “then some man will take advantage of that tenderness and engage a child in homosexual behavior.”

In contrast, Cathy’s comments were quite tepid. Yet not only does Emanuel have nothing to say about the Nation’s Chicago restaurant, Salaam, he also welcomed Nation of Islam patrols of city streets. And the kicker?

He did that on the exact same day he condemned Chick-fil-A.

Of course, though, in a sense Grand Mufti Emanuel is right. Chick-fil-A isn’t known for gang violence that kills people, votes by dead people, or graft and corruption. It is known for closing on Sundays in honor of the Lord’s Day, providing quality products and treating customers well. It also suspended its famous ad campaign, featuring cows holding a sign stating “EAT MOR CHICKIN,” during the Mad Cow Disease scare because it didn’t want to be guilty of taking advantage of the crisis. So perhaps Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values. But they can only be an improvement.

The good news here is that the backlash, even from liberal journalists, has been against Grand Mufti Emanuel and his mullahs, who’ve been criticized for engaging in viewpoint discrimination. So the final score?

Chicken chain, 1

Chicken-head, 0

[Dogpatch]

The amount of free advertising that both conservatives and liberals are giving Chick Fil A is of the magnitude that very few businesses could actually afford to pay for...The owner of the company is clearly laughing all the way to the bank. I’m guessing his competitors are not very happy right now.

But then the suits moved in

If that is a legitimate picture in this age of Photoshop and internet magic it looks like others want in on this free advertising blitz that is most likely costed out at in the tens of millions of dollars because it helps gain market share. But the food there and the previous one you posted, KFC, are both shite.

it is legitimate but the owner was forced to take it down - use the link provided for full story

Food critique is not the purpose of the story

[backhoe]

http://minx.cc/?post=331617

Media Blacked Out Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day

Okay, in the post below, I was going to claim the media blacked it out, but I didn't know if that was true; for one thing, I don't watch the media, so I had no idea. For another, I saw a stray mention in a comment or on Twitter that it was being covered on some local broadcast. So I thought maybe they were covering it.

Nope.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mainstream-media-blacks-out-chick-fil-story_649234.html
The major papers embargoed the actual news.

[Y]ou wouldn't know anything about the national phenomenon by reading the front pages of most of the country's leading newspapers. There's no mention of Chick-fil-A on the front pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and the Boston Globe. The front pages of USA Today, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle have small headlines about the restaurant, while Chick-fil-A's hometown paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, fits in a story below the fold under the heading, "Chick-fil-A Controversy." And the front pages of major news websites are quiet in their coverage as well.

Inside some of those papers, the coverage is still relatively scant. The L.A. Times has a news story, while the New York Times has an op-ed from the gay dean at the Georgia Tech business school encouraging Americans to let Chick-fil-A "fly free." The Washington Post ran a photograph, but no story.

It's a phenomenon we now know well, and yet it is still worth pointing out how astonishing this all is. Simply because we have become inured to a perfectly bizarre situation does not mean we should not make frequent note of how truly bizarre this situation is.

The situation is this: The last place -- not the first place, not the second, not the sixth -- you'd want to go to find coverage of news is an American newspaper or an American news broadcast.

They're not in the business of news any longer. The analogue that strikes me is, if you pardon this weird neologism (and pardon it because what I'm trying to describe is itself weird), news fashion.

See, I wouldn't expect a boutique fashion store to be catholic in the clothing it displays and sells. I'd expect it to be highly selective, skewing to the proprietor's own sense of style, his own insistence on what Good Taste consists of. I'd expect that in that fashion shop, what isn't available is as large a statement of principle than what is available.

And that is perfectly understandable for a tony, boutique, specific-taste fashion shop.

But this same mentality is bizarre when applied to the business of informing the public of the events of the day. The news media seem to be employing the fashionista's sense of style and taste -- the fashionista's overwrought, half-kidding concealing of her eyes and exclamation of "I do not see that!" when confronted with a dress not to her liking -- to the news.

The fashionista is right to "edit" the reality of her fashion shop to accord with her specific, idiosyncratic sense of the aesthetic. In doing so, she creates not only a brand identity for herself, but puts forth a manifesto, and aspiration, a declaration that "This is what the world should look like."

But a newsman? Is a newsman equally right to edit the reality of the daily record of the world's events so that it, too confirms with their sense of style, their aspiration as to what the world should look like?

I know the people lining up for Chick-fil-A on Wednesday were not the quite the clientele (I'm pronouncing that in as French a manner as I can) the media considers worthy. And yet, unless my eyes deceive, they do in fact exist and furthermore act in the tangible, real world we inhabit.

Fashion editing is expected in a fashion shop, but is reality editing acceptable in a newspaper? What is the purpose? To create, like the fashionista did, a small, heavily stylized and artificial world where a select clientele may visit, by invitation only? So that they may glimpse your manifesto of What Makes The World Pretty?

Addendum: Virginia Postrel has the pet idea that in a world with many consumer alternatives, most acceptable in terms of functionality, aesthetics will become the key differentiation, and consumers will gravitate towards products expressing their own concept of The Good.

And that's fine for consumer products. Smart phones, cars, shoes, computers, trash cans (you know there are high-end fashion-model trash cans right? what a world), and so forth.

But the news?

Is the news now an aesthetically-sculpted consumer product as well?

Forgot a Link: Hat-tip to Twitchy, with more.http://twitchy.com/2012/08/03/media-swoons-over-pitiful-chick-fil-a-kiss-in-sweeps-appreciation-day-success-under-lapdog-rug/

Posted by: Ace at 03:21 PM

1 They're going FULL BORE on covering the "anti-hate' protests, tho-

Posted by: DAve

12 It's just like the way they blacked out the big Tea Party protests.....they didn't show the huge crowds accross the country.

Posted by: wheatie

33 Check out page 10 of today's NYT, allegedly the "paper of record." There's a helpful story for the reading clientele of the Times, cheerfully explaining the whole Chick-fil-A mess is rooted in those nutty Southerners, trying to defend a restaurant that's part of that whole goober way of life in the South.

And as part of this helpful article, the Times' reports that this whole defense of Chick-fil-A is part and parcel of that whole racist history of restaurants in the South, including the Woolworth lunch counter protests, the charges of racism against Denny's and Cracker Barrel, and so on.

See? According to the Times, Woolworth lunch counter + Denny's + Cracker Barrel = Chick-fil-A and racism!

Boy, they sure are sharp over there at the Times.

Posted by: GuyfromNH

[Charles J. White]

I had a fresh spinach salad with mushrooms, carrots, and red onion for dinner last night with a tall glass of water. It was delicious, why anyone believes that fried foods, high fat, with extra sodium is a family value is beyond me. If a fast food place or a number of them goes out of business for whatever reason, I don’t see that as problem. Individuals need to make the right choices in North America. Tonight after work, I’m going to play a game of soccer in fact to get some additional exercise.

Charles just can't help let his gLiberal/NDP slip show in threads like this one.

Taking individual responsibility for what I eat, so that I’m healthy, and getting exercise on a bicycle or by playing a game of soccer is “gLiberal/NDP”? What kind of fuked up conservative movement do we have where people think they should be able to shed any kind of individual responsibility and instead expect the state to look after them?

Anyways, cheers, I have some exercise to go do!

[WestViking]

I had a fresh spinach salad with mushrooms, carrots, and red onion for dinner last night with a tall glass of water. It was delicious, why anyone believes that fried foods, high fat, with extra sodium is a family value is beyond me. If a fast food place or a number of them goes out of business for whatever reason, I don’t see that as problem. Individuals need to make the right choices in North America. Tonight after work, I’m going to play a game of soccer in fact to get some additional exercise.

Gharles just can't help let his gLiberal/NDP slip show in threads like this one.

Taking individual responsibility for what I eat, so that I’m healthy, and getting exercise on a bicycle or by playing a game of soccer is “gLiberal/NDP”? What kind of fuked up conservative movement do we have where people think they should be able to shed any kind of individual responsibility and instead expect the state to look after them? Anyways, cheers, I have some exercise to go do!

Since the thread topic is homosexual marriage, homosexual values and homosexual bullying, I fail to see the relevance of your diet.

[Edward Kennedy]

msm media whores = liars and cowards, kool aid dispensers and morons