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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 114: "The Tolerance Dollar is a Good Dollar"

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Komen, JCPenney, and the Catholic Church are learning lessons about capitalism and how tolerance, equality, and social justice sells. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

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0:00.0

This is the podcast for February 10th, 2012.

0:03.2

It's not safe for work.

0:04.7

Recorded live from just outside, the Susan G. Coleman race for the exit.

0:08.7

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

0:20.2

Wow, what a week for Komen, huh?

0:22.3

It was a fast week.

0:23.4

It's been a very fast week.

0:25.1

And I want to thank everyone who wrote us about our episode last week, which was very personal, and we're grateful to you.

0:31.7

Thank you.

0:32.3

Yeah, Komen, I'm really wondering now, post-mortem, how long Komen can survive, because it's really damaged its brand, pretty major, big time.

0:47.8

Perhaps if we raise some money to save them, a telethon or a race of some kind, to raise money to save the Susan G.

0:54.3

A car wash.

0:55.7

Yeah.

0:56.5

Well, one of the things that's become clear to me about Komen in the past week is that it's a rich, mean, girl's sorority.

1:04.2

Yeah.

1:04.8

And it's the – and there is a class war going on that there's the women in the St. John's suits who do fundraisers in Dallas,

1:14.5

and then there's these on the ground planned parenthood activists, and there really isn't,

1:20.8

there's a gulf there, there's a really big gulf there.

1:24.1

And the corporatism, I mean, a lot of people have tried to complain about Comin in the past.

1:29.9

Yes.

1:30.2

And their corporatism and they're, you know, putting a pink ribbon on a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken was okay with them.

1:37.6

And ignoring real concerns about environmental carcinogens and bovine growth hormone and all kinds of, you know, putting pink ribbons on yogurt that had obvious bovine growth hormone carcinogens in them and activism against that. And, you know, Komen is about the money.

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