Saturday, July 14, 2007

Well that was fast. Unless you were in a coma last week you will remember that most of Imus in the Morning 's big name advertisers (GM, AmEx, Sprint, etc.) had pulled their sponsorship of his show in protest over his "nappy headed ho" comment, which was directed at stand-out student athletes on the Rutgers women's basketball team. While these companies appeared to be taking the moral high road, AdRants reports that several sponsors amateur model ave stated that they would be willing to re-evaluate sponsorship of a future Imus program. As per usual, these companies, that were so quick to flee, were also so quick to caveat their exits with wishy washy statements about not ruling out future opportunities. We all KNOW that most advertisers scared away will eventually come back to a lucrative show (they did after the ImClone Martha Stewart incident, and the race controversy surrounding Survivor: Cook Island , etc. etc.), I just find it surprising that some spokespeople are dumb enough to be so blatant about a return that it becomes a story in itself. Exhibit A, GM spokesperson Ryndee Carney, who stated that GM's comments on re-evaluation should "indicate that we were open to revisiting at some point down the road," and further stated that, "We obviously don't condone his statements, but we have found value advertising on Imus in the past.

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Well that was fast. Unless you were in a coma last week you will remember that most of Imus in the Morning 's big name advertisers (GM, AmEx, Sprint, etc.) had pulled their sponsorship of his show in protest over his "nappy headed ho" comment, which was directed at stand-out student athletes on the Rutgers women's basketball team. While these companies appeared to be taking the moral high road, AdRants reports that several sponsors have stated that they would be willing to re-evaluate sponsorship of a future Imus program. 0 balance transfer credit cards s per usual, these companies, that were so quick to flee, were also so quick to caveat their exits with wishy washy statements about not ruling out future opportunities. We all KNOW that most advertisers scared away will eventually come back to a lucrative show (they did after the ImClone Martha Stewart incident, and the race controversy surrounding Survivor: Cook Island , etc. etc.), I just find it surprising that some spokespeople are dumb enough to be so blatant about a return that it becomes a story in itself. Exhibit A, GM spokesperson Ryndee Carney, who stated that GM's comments on re-evaluation should "indicate that we were open to revisiting at some point down the road," and further stated that, "We obviously don't condone his statements, but we have found value advertising on Imus in the past.

My colleague Professor Stone characterizes, in his recent post , the five Justices -- who are Roman Catholics -- who were in the majority in Gonzales v. Carhart as "Faith-Based Justices." The claim, as I understand it, is that by failing to invalidate the federal partial-birth-abortion ban -- which, in Professor Stone's view, is clearly invalid under the Constitution, correctly understood -- the Justices are best seen as imposing sectarian beliefs on those who do not share those beliefs. In my view, though -- as I have suggested elsewhere -- this charge misses the mark. As Professor Stone observes, the five Justices in the majority concluded (as did Congress) that there are sound moral reasons for prohibiting partial-birth abortions even though, as he states, the law in question "does not prohibit any abortions." Congress endorsed former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's view that abortions done via this method are just "too close to infanticide" and that this proximity / resemblance morally justifies a prohibition on the procedure, and the Court declined to hold that this view was inadequate browser hijacked o justify the law. Now, let's put aside the merits of the "Moynihan view." Professor Stone's claim is, I think, that to follow Sen. Moynihan in this regard is to "fail[] to respect the fundamental difference between religious belief and morality. To be sure," he says, "this can be an elusive distinction, but in a society that values the separation of church and state, it is fundamental.

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