Activist Posts Anti-Wal-Mart Ad Online (compares to corrupt Rethugs)

[warrens]

A leading critic of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched an Internet ad campaign Wednesday that uses publicity around recent Republican legal troubles to allege the world's largest retailer is morally corrupt in how it treats its 1.3 million U.S. employees.

The ad escalates an increasingly bitter battle between Wal-Mart and critics led by labor and other activist groups. The organizations accuse Wal-Mart of underpaying workers, denying them affordable health insurance and damaging communities, while the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer maintains that its low prices are good for consumers and the economy.


Wake Up Wal-Mart, founded this year by the United Food and Commercial Workers, put a 30-second television-style ad on its Web site http://www.wakeupwalmart.com comparing Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott with Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.

The ad includes brief shots of headlines about the indictments of Libby and DeLay and the investigation into stock sales by Frist.

SNIP

Wal-Mart then starts moaning about the politics of personal destruction. Hilarious.

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