This morning:
Psst, Bill? JetBlue ain’t going nowhere
by kos
Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 05:43:12 AM PDTUp early thanks to a 4.2-scale earthquake centered in Oakland (shook things up quite a bit), and back to work after my vacation, it’s kind of fun to mark my return with a Nelson-style “Ha ha” directed at Bill O’Reilly and his flunky Michelle Malkin, who yesterday celebrated the withdrawal of JetBlue from the ranks of the YearlyKos sponsors.
In short, that dynamic duo triumphantly claimed that O’Reilly — the most powerful man in the universe in his own mind — forced airline carrier JetBlue to pull its sponsorship of the YearlyKos conference.
But go to the YearlyKos convention website, and you’ll note the JetBlue logo is still there, on the home page. And I’ve confirmed that yes, indeed, JetBlue isn’t going anywhere. They don’t plan on caving to pressure from the neanderthals at Fox News.
This afternoon:
JetBlue caved
by kos
Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 10:16:03 AM PDTOkay, so JetBlue, after deciding to resist Bill O’Reilly’s pressure last night, just decided to back down. Let them know what you think about that.
corporatecommunications@jetblue.com
As for my part, I’m cancelling my JetBlue American Express card and will be looking at alternative options for my future travel. Too bad. Unfortunately, JetBlue just told me (and the rest of us) that they accept O’Reilly’s bullshit smears.
Whoopsie.
Update: Welcome again, Instapundit readers.
Even more shocking was his comparison of the Daily Kos to Nazis and the KKK.
I just flat out giggle with glee over that one. Talk about havin’ egg on his face….more like the whole damned chicken!!!
Just so I get this straight.
JetBlue contributed 10 tickets, worth maybe $5k at the outside, and allowed it’s logo to be used by Kos for his meeting.
Under pressure from it’s customers, it pulled it’s logo, and left the tickets. As a result, the Kos folks are calling for permanant boycot of the airline.
So they’re going to fly airlines that DIDN’T contribute to their cause, in order to punish an airline that DID contribute to their cause. Because, you know, JetBlue just wasn’t pure ENOUGH for them.
Not exactly the way to encourage companies to be sponsors in the future.
Actually, a chicken is two inches taller than kos.
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