Posted by
gepaza on Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:59:53 AM
Have you seen this video of Fox's Meghan Kelly interviewing a Bank of America flack?
This was concerning the actions of a BoA branch manager in Gaffney,
South Carolina, who removed American flags that were being placed, by a
family friend, along the route of the funeral procession for Lance
Corporal Christopher Fowlkes, a United States Marine who was killed in
Afghanistan. As I understand it, the reasons the manager gave were:
it was against bank policy and, some of their customers might be
offended by the flags.
I deeply admire Meghan Kelly.
In fact, I think she is the best in the news part of the business. She
asks tough questions and routinely pushes for answers literally until
the time allotted for an interview runs out. Her style is decidedly
different from the tendencies of many other Fox news personalities to
pander to the interviewee after a good question or two. I just wish
she had drilled into this even further in nailing this BoA scum's hide
to the wall.
The idiot that Bank of America sent out
to do damage control very carefully kept to his talking points, even in
the face of the fact that his points were, at best, poorly conceived,
and at worst, reflective of a corporate policy of anti-Americanism.
But, maybe they just want to go along with Obama's view of where we
should go as a nation. After all, he does have America's interest at
heart, right? And, there will have to be banks, right? Well, why not
BoA? They won't even need to change their name (except maybe to change
the "c" to a "k").
I have a seething anger about this,
because it was much more than dis-respecting the flag. One expects all
leftists to do that. But, one would hope that some of them would have
the decency to respect the dead, especially one who gave his precious
life to protect the freedoms that allow them to be successful in their
crass, greedy, stupid and insensitive politically correct behavior.
This was not the funeral of just another old white person trying to
help Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd's belief that whites should step aside
and allow blacks to move into power. This was in honor of a United
States Marine who died in the service of his country! Who died to
protect the right of BoA's idiot managers and smooth talking spokesmen
to commit such despicable acts! BoA is no better than the
Associated Press creeps who, in the interest of either greed or
propaganda, showed utter contempt for our military and their families
just a couple of weeks ago in showing the death of Lance Corporal
Joshua "Bernie" Bernard, in total disregard for the family's wishes.
Anything for money and political gain, huh, AP?
See if
this litany of his vacuous BoA bromides, in response to Meghan's
pointed questioning, makes you feel better about the unspeakable insult
to Lance Corporal Fowlkes and his family and friends: "gonna respect
the family's privacy"; it shouldn't have happened; this doesn't
represent any policy of the BoA; reiterated to our branch managers our
policy; we encourage branches to fly the flag; not acceptable and
people know that; should use better judgment, and a few more, just as
empty of real meaning or understanding. Man, you sure convinced me!
Obviously!
Obviously! Obviously! This guy may have set a record for the use of
that shallow catchall word which in reality, just points out that, if
it were so obvious, this mind-numblingly stupid incident would not have
occurred in the first place. Have you got that, BoA?
Also,
I'm sorry to have to tell you that it is not so obvious that you care
about anything other than damage control. What is obvious is that BoA
has failed to educate its spokesmen in the most important maxim of
public relations: that the most important thing is sincerity - once
you learn to fake that, you've got it made! This guy failed, not only
through his over-use of callow attempts at deflection, but also in the
fact that, in his remarks, he never acknowledged that this was a
direct insult to our Marine, but just kept insisting that there is no
BoA corporate policy to dis-respect the flag.
No
corporate policy against the flag? Indeed! How about a corporate policy
requiring allegiance to the flag as a condition of employment, with
special emphasis on total support FOR THOSE WHO DEFEND OUR FLAG?
I
am deeply ashamed to admit that my house mortgage and car note are held
by this bunch of blowhard anti-American opportunists! I am considering
paying them both off immediately or re-financing through some other
institution, and I vow to never deal with this bunch again!
How about you joining me?
This is re-posted from my blog not exceeding the limit