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In reply to the discussion: Do you think the Komen Foundation didn't expect or vastly underestimated the uproar/backlash? [View all]earthside
(6,960 posts)7. Self-inflicted disaster.
It is looking to me like this could become one of the worst self-inflicted public relations disasters of all time.
This organization may not even survive.
I saw the Brinks video ... it is just awful -- so defensive and yet arrogant.
And this latest news about SGK not giving any money to any research that uses stem cells, well, in one day they have turned themselves into merely a branch of the Religious Right - Tea Party.
But I also think that this is a preview of things to come. I think the one percent and their Repuglican flunkies are ready to wage near total war to completely take over local, state and national government.
This could be the ugliest, dirtiest elections since, well, since when?
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Do you think the Komen Foundation didn't expect or vastly underestimated the uproar/backlash? [View all]
Arugula Latte
Feb 2012
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Like many entities & individuals....they had no idea how quickly the Internet can mobilize
DisgustipatedinCA
Feb 2012
#8
And all the Net publicity is unearthing other negative stories about the organization
Arugula Latte
Feb 2012
#10
I read once that David Lynch (Blue Velvet, etc.) is seemingly "normal" and well-adjusted.
Arugula Latte
Feb 2012
#27
The far RW is stunningly tone deaf and completely lacking in self-awareness
Ruby the Liberal
Feb 2012
#16
It's called "living in the moment" -- and it's the cornerstone of the Rethug pyschosis.
rocktivity
Feb 2012
#21
That organization is done. I won't buy yogurt or anything else with a pink ribbon on it. nt
bluestate10
Feb 2012
#29