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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (13526)	7/31/2001 1:51:16 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 59480

For the heck of I did a search on Birch. Found this on a gay group using it to whack the Coors family FWIW. Coors campaign rejected by GLBT media By Randy Dotinga, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network SUMMARY: A gay-friendly advertising campaign by the Coors Brewing Co. may be a bust, the victim of publishers who remember the brewer's right-wing past. A gay-friendly advertising campaign by the Coors Brewing Co. may be a bust, the victim of publishers who remember the brewer's right-wing past. Several leading gay newspapers in the United States have rejected Coors ads that show homosexual couples carrying six-packs of Coors Light to a picnic, reports The Observer, a British newspaper. . . . But his family is anything but gay-friendly. According to the newspaper, Coors family members have funded conservative and anti-gay groups such as Free Congress, the Heritage Foundation and the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Members of the family have been prominent conservatives and even supported the far-right John Birch Society three decades ago. A Coors spokesman told The Observer that donations to right wing organizations had been made by family members on their own. dailynews.yahoo.com Three decades ago. Never forget - the left NEVER forgets.