It's Not 'One Million' -- It's One Meddling Mom - Re: Bigot Mom who lobbied Hallmark
By Jeremy Hooper, Guest Contributor |
December 15, 2019
#OneMillionMoms is REALLY Just This ONE Mad, Mean One –Monica Cole.
For years the main joke about the American Family Association's bombastically overstated One Million Moms (OMM) has involved its name itself. For obvious reasons. When an organization gives itself a grandiose name like that, the comedy is built-in.
But after a weekend where we watched a popular American brand, The Hallmark Channel, temporarily duped into believing that the organization's constant bark was really an effective bite, it is time to move past the jokes and state the obvious about this organization: it is basically One Meddling Mom with an agenda, and no company should be giving her the credence she so desperately craves.
Her name is Monica Cole. In the decade that I have been aware of One Million Moms, she is quite literally the only staff member I have ever heard anyone name. She is the one and only person who appears on their petitions, as well as the one and only person who speaks for them to the media. She is the mom. Her. Solo. One person, supposedly representing one million.
One Meddling Mom has issued so many calls and condemnations over the years, it's become easy to tune them out. As GLAAD has arduously detailed, OMM has gone after everything from recent blockbuster Toy Story 4 for including a seconds-long clip of a supposed lesbian couple that quite literally no one but them noticed, to Chips Ahoy for a Twitter ad featuring a Rupaul's Drag Race star. Basically if a company hires, recognizes, features, or in any way supports an LGBTQ person, One Meddling Mom will issue a petition, claim to have millions of supporters behind her, and then start cranking the AFA machine in hopes of getting some sort of press for her campaign-of-the-week. OMM even uses a conservative PR firm, Hamilton Strategies, to help spread this message to a wider public.
More: https://www.glaad.org/blog/its-not-one-million-its-one-meddling-mom
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Just a hunch. 
But I *might* make an exception. Lol, usually if I email a company it's because they've spent too much on my gerrymandered congressman, or gone too far with designed obsolescence in a product, etc.
So, is a minor miracle they heard from me at all. Did the same for Dick's sporting goods, so it happens, ya know.
Like Michele Bachmann for instance:
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"I don't know for a fact that Monica Cole of One Million Moms has actual human skeletons in her closet, I just know that it's true!".
