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How Chick-fil-A Created a Public Relations Nightmare
New Suite 101 article online posted today.
How Chick-fil-A Created a Public Relations Nightmare
“I think this is part of the wake-up call for companies to understand that social media makes these decisions very, very risky,” Reed said, “because it’s much easier now for these messages to get out to consumers and consumers to virtually organize.”
Individuals have free speech rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment, but they also must accept the responsibilities that come with those rights. When an individual freely take on a figurehead position, he or she essentially becomes the voice of the company and it creates a relationship between the President’s words and the company’s image. By speaking so loosely, Dan Carthy opened himself and Chick-fil-A up to the consequences, and the consequences appear to be socially, politically, and possibly for the company’s profits, significant.
If anything, Chick-fil-a has managed to make a polarizing issue out of the consumption of chicken sandwiches…
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What the Fuck is Going on with Prop 8?
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A year ago I wrote that SCOTUS would decide on whether or not they would hear California’s Proposition 8 by the end of the term in June 2012. That turned out be totally wrong, which doesn’t make any sense to me since they managed to squeeze in a whole ruling on Obamacare.
Via Prop 8 Trial Tracker:
Oral argument in the Ninth Circuit challenge to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was scheduled for September 10. The Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court for certiorari, to review the case, and the Court won’t decide whether to take the case until September 24 or later. Now the Ninth Circuit has canceled oral argument in the case pending the Supreme Court conference and subsequent decision to hear the case or not.
That’s for DOMA; no word on Prop 8 yet. I also don’t understand why CA same-sex marriages are on hold since it makes more sense for the Ninth Circuit’s ruling to be upheld in the meantime.
A troll on Facebook said yesterday that “gay marriage was so 2007.” Yanno, cause civil right are so passé.
MoJo: In Defense of Chick-Fil-A
Good points from Mother Jones:
Chick-fil-A should not be prevented from opening business because of the views of its leaders, or his donations to anti-gay causes. But gays and lesbians in Illinois and Massachusetts have the right to be free from discrimination in employment based on who they are. They also have a right to protest, boycott, and make Chick-fil-A’s customers aware that their purchases fund anti-gay activism. If Chick-fil-A discriminates in hiring or refuses to serve customers on the basis of sexual orientation, the local authorities can and should hold him accountable.
In defense of Boston’s Mayor, he didn’t ban them, he just urged them in his letter not to locate there.
But Rahm Emanuel…
ACLU Backs Chick–fil-A Against Rahm Emanuel’s Threatened Ban
Quick Comments on Romney’s Bain Problems + SEC Document Picture
A bunch of legal scholars and securities lawyers have been coming out and saying that Romney hasn’t technically committed a felony crime. Sure, having a title doesn’t mean you have a legal obligation to a certain level of managerial tasks. But…
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Voters don’t give a shit. They care that Romney was officially CEO and they care that he got $100,000 a year salary from this job position. If he wasn’t paying attention to what was going down in his own company, he’s still up for criticism for neglect.
There’s no way he can back away gracefully from this one.
Well, shit titties. Money quote: “This will certainly be one of his most famous opinions, but I would not call it one of his best. The opinion seems to me to be hopelessly conflicted and inconsistent.”
When many of us were covering the decision from the Supreme Court, one thing that was immediately noted was the the decision of Associate Justice Anton Scalia read like a majority opinion. The opinion not only referred to “the dissent” as if it were the majority opinion (though sometimes justices even in dissent can refer to other dissents). Reports are now indicating that Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court’s four conservative justices to strike down the Affordable Care Act. The report is a serious breach in the normally secretive court in its internal deliberations and contains considerable detail showing a hard effort by the Court’s swing justice Anthony Kennedy to convince Kennedy to return to the fold. The report is likely to increase the feeling of betrayal by those who felt that opinion harmed federalism by reaffirming the taxing power as an easy avenue to circumvent…
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Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling Jokes
Funny Or Die “Obama care.” -The Hulk giving an impassioned speech at an Obama fundraising dinner he hosted
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rob delaney @MittRomney probably mexican robots entered kagan & sotomayor’s vaginas & poisoned roberts’ mind w period gas? no more wimmen on court!
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Andy Levy “In the end it turns out it was a tax all along!” – M. Night Shyamalan, pitching his new movie, “Obamascare”
Indecision Mitt Romney’s speech doubles as the speech he’d deliver if we were attacked by aliens under his presidency.
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ピカお嬢様 #obamacare is worse than 9/11… at least that was planned by an american president
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People Who Say They’re Moving To Canada Because Of ObamaCare -Buzzfeed
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Sarah Palin writes a poem for the occasion.
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The Supreme Court sprinkler system, which freedom-peed all over reporters covering the ruling.
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Hey Girl Affordable Care Act Tumblr
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Will update with more as they keep coming in. Comment below if you have any!
Holy Shit Mandate – ACA Almost Entirely Upheld
OK, I was wrong. Chief Justice Roberts swung to the left and Kennedy did not. Amazing. I’ll have to scrutinize Roberts’s voting record more closely before passing him off as ideologically pure. Here’s the full ruling if you have a lot of free time. He actually upheld the mandate under the federal government’s Tax Power and not the Commerce Clause, while Ginsberg would have upheld it under both. Interesting, certainly a blow to conservatives.
Being uninsured myself, I have mixed opinions about the 2014 individual mandate, but what is known from models like Mass. is that it will reduce overall health care spending and create more competitive private insurance plans.
For a while this morning, Cable News was reporting that the mandate was struck down before they got “conflicting information.”
This is what happens when they don’t let in cameras.
What the Medicaid part of the ruling means according to SCOTUSblog:
The Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion is divided and complicated. The bottom line is that: (1) Congress acted constitutionally in offering states funds to expand coverage to millions of new individuals; (2) So states can agree to expand coverage in exchange for those new funds; (3) If the state accepts the expansion funds, it must obey by the new rules and expand coverage; (4) but a state can refuse to participate in the expansion without losing all of its Medicaid funds; instead the state will have the option of continue the its current, unexpanded plan as is.
Senator Harry Reid Now that this matter is settled, I hope we can work together to create jobs and secure this country’s economic future
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