Video: Michelle clashes with O’Reilly over Rosie

We can complain to the sponsors of The View. We can threaten ABC (and Disney) with complaints to the FCC. We can mount a boycott of ABC, as well.

There are a lot of things we can do besides complain about her here on Hot Air.

This is not the first time that Rosie has gotten a lot of people angry at her, in case you didn’t know.

I remember when Rosie went ballistic with Tom Selleck about guns. You remember when she said that gun owners should be in prison? When gun owners complained to KMART (she was one of their corporate spokespersons), KMART essentially agreed with Rosie and shortly thereafter, began to stop selling firearms and ammunition.

Gun owners began a spontaneous boycott of KMART, Rosie’s TV show, and all her advertisers. BTW, the NRA was caught completely off guard by it. They didn’t have a clue about it and were stuck playing catch up.

Several things happened as a result.

One, KMART had 3 bad quarters in a row that led to major losses that ultimately lead to a corporate reorganization. The losses were directly attributed to gun owners who simply took their business to Wal-Mart (who still carried guns and ammunition and make that fact public). And two, Rosie’s show was cancelled.

Now, I don’t have the megaphone that Fox/O’Reilly has, or even that Michelle has. But if enough people directly complain to ABC/Disney, if enough people start boycotting The View’s sponsors and the show itself, if enough people get vocally angry at Rosie’s nonsense, then ABC’s management will get rid of her.

How to start this?

Have every conservative blogger publish the phone number of ABC’s corporate offices, preferably their CEO’s extention. You can find this information via the FCC filings, BTW. Contact every advertiser of The View and complain. Tell them (and ABC) how OFFENDED YOU ARE at Rosie’s hate America/hate Bush campaign and “truther” nonsense. Tell them that you are angry at her continued raving. Tell them that either they muzzle her or get rid of her. Put them in the position where they can watch their income from advertising or their products being boycotted, instead.

Start an online petition. Start a fund to collect donations to run advertising in EVERY ONE of ABC’s major media markets.

Remember, their bottom line depends on their entertaining us or in their selling product to us via advertising. Make enough noise, prove to them that a significant number of people hate what Rosie is doing, and watch Barbara regretfully announce Rosie’s resignation.

Remember, ABC pulled the plug of Bill Maher’s show when he glorified the WTC attackers after only two weeks of complaints. Remember, as well, that Farenheit/911 was shown on less than half the screens possible due to a threatened boycott campaign led by patriots.

And finally, remember the Gathering of Eagles was such a huge success because of the concentrated effort to organize a counter protest.

My 2 cents, again.

georgej on April 3, 2007 at 6:01 AM