American Greetings subsidiary trashes Democrats
National greeting card company carrying 'Love Democratic style' card with Pelosi, others in bondage . . .
This Valentine's Day, one of the nation's largest greeting card companies is circulating a satirical online greeting card that depicts "Love Democratic Style" as "throwing family values out the window" and depicts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dressed as a dominatrix and Sen. Hillary Clinton as a maid. A similar "Love Republican Style" card could not be located at the company's website.
The short eCard from the company plays a jingle for about 30 seconds with a variety of colorful images of Democratic political leaders in compromising situations:
--The eCard first depicts an image of Senator Hillary Clinton dressed in maid garb.
--It then proceeds to show former Governor Howard Dean and Senator John Kerry both wearing dog collars.
--Several Democratic 'newbies' are then shown.
--A photograph of Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid follows with his face beneath a high heel, and the declaration that family values have been thrown "out the window".
--An image of bondage gear is then shown, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi then depicted in a dominatrix outfit while the associated jingle declares that "Love is free with Pelosi".
--The greeting card ends by wishing a "Happy VD".
RAW STORY, the source for this story, is awaiting comment from Democratic offices and American Greetings Interactive, the company that owns Blue Mountain. AGInteractive is owned by American Greetings, which says on its website that it is "one of the world's largest manufacturers of social expression products."
The eCard can be accessed at Blue Mountain's website.
Here is contact information for American Greetings:
Contact American Greetings
American Greetings CorporationOne American Road Cleveland, Ohio 44144-2398
216/252-7300 Fax: 216/252-6778
Corporate contacts
Consumer Relations (Customer Service):
American Greetings 800/777-4891
AmericanGreetings.com / AG Interactive 800/305-6766
Labels: corporatism, slander
posted by John Good @ 7:14 PM
15 Comments:
I just left the following feedback on the Blue Mountain site.
"I am sorry, but I will be letting all my friends (and readers of my blog) know that I cannot support Blue Mountain. While I have no problem with you making fun of the Democratic party - as you are doing with your new VD card - the simple fact that you do not offer one making light of Republicans at the same time leads me to believe that either your management or creative staff are prejudiced against the left.
Too bad, I used to enjoy your service."
Thank you, Robert!
Robert - Can't wait for the reply from Blue Mountain. I agree that it's ok as long as there is a greeting for both Dems and Repubs.
We should make our own card for the Republicans. I don't want to think about Chaney in dominatrix gear though.
Yeah...only equal time will be fair. But if Blue Mountain is a subsidiary of American Greetings...perhaps we need to boycott AM. I use AM and I figure I'll drop them...tards.
Oh, for pete's sake! If you folks didn't think that was just simply funny, you are taking things far too seriously, IMO. And as Der Parson says, make up your own for the other side if you're that bent about the lack... geez.
BTW, hi-de-ho, Pontio! How's things?
I'll be phoning them at lunch time.
This is not just horribly biased and one-sided - it is misogynist in the extreme - to insinuate that women in high office are analagous to sexual deviants is repulsive in the extreme.
I believe a nice little "Heads up" to the feminist crowd is QUITE in order here...
Thanks, John.
I posted this up on my blog and guess who has been visiting?
Host Name petal.amgreetings.com
IP Address 207.58.192.123
Country United States
Region Ohio
City Cleveland
ISP Tns American Greetings
Returning Visits 0
Visit Length 2 hours 46 mins 38 secs
Oh definitely - American Greeting products are banned from this house.
Imagine a corporation in today's America being fair.
Imagining here.....
Nope. Doesn't jive.
AS of 8 PM tonite, the card has been pulled! WOOHOO! Thanks for adding your voices!
Jasbo - Where in THE hell did you come from???
Aaaah... the things one finds while "googling"... ;)
It just shows what an individual doing a little blogging can accomplish!
John, I thought you and your readers might be interested in the response I got back from Blue Mountain.
Hello,
Thank you for contacting BlueMountain.com Customer Service.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. Political satire is popular with our subscribers. However, we understand that this particular e-card was offensive to you and others. Therefore, we have removed it from the site. We apologize to you, and to the others
we offended. We always appreciate consumer feedback, and will take your comments into consideration when developing political satire in the future.
Thank you,
Joshua M
Your Customer Support Representative
BlueMountain.com
Robert - Thank you for the follow up!
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