Blue Mountain Greeting Cards: Boycott them!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/National_greeting_card_company_associates_Love_0214.html

National greeting card company carrying 'Love Democratic style' card with Pelosi, others in bondage

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This Valentine's Day, one of the nation's largest greeting card companies is circulating a satirical online greeting card that depicts "Love Democratic Style" as "throw family values out the window" and depicts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dressed as a dominatrix and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as a maid. RAW STORY could not locate a similar "Love Republican Style" card at the company's website.

Shots from Blue Mountain's greeting card are shown below. The short eCard from the company plays a jingle for about 30 seconds with a variety of colorful images of Democratic political leaders in compromising situations.

A photograph of Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid follows with his face beneath a high heel, and the declaration that family values have been thrown "out the window":



RAW STORY was awaiting comment from Democratic offices and American Greetings Interactive, the company that owns Blue Mountain, at press time. AGInteractive is owned by American Greetings, which says on its website that it is "one of the world's largest manufacturers of social expression products."

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[Horse with no Name]

1. Will do. Pity. They were one of my favorites.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

3. Me, too. Not anymore.

[ocd liberal]

2. That figures!

The person who originally turned me on to Blue Mountain is a raving GOP freak.

[mntleo2]

4. Try Angel Eyes 2

...its free there are hundreds of them and they are non-partisan from what I can see, but I confess I do not know her politics. Her name is Francine and she won one of the first Webbys too so she's been online for a long time, she was is one of the first e card sites.

http://www.angeleyes2.com

Hope this helps

Cat In Seattle

[LibDemAlways]

5. That is unbelievably stupid on their part.

They just lost a lot of businss.

Use this link to e-mail them. They need to hear from many, many DUers.

http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/emailus.pd#one

[LibDemAlways]

6. self-delete

[NYCGirl]

7. THE ARTICLE IS MISLEADING! It is a user-made card, NOT a Blue Mountain card.

It's a "user-made" card. That's sort of like the "Bush/Hitler" ads from MoveOn.Org's contest being touted by the GOP as an official ad.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3113681#3113731

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x212833

[LibDemAlways]

10. I took another look at the site and it appears that

the card is a "member card" meaning that you have to be a dues paying member of the site in order to send it - as opposed to a free card which anybody can send - member or not.

[NYCGirl]

12. It is a member designed card. NT

[Maraya1969]

24. Damn and I just sent them a nasty letter! There is a lesson here.

Don't run your mouth off when you aren't sure of what your are saying Maraya! :spank:

[City Lights]

26. User-made, member's only - I see no difference.

When you go to their site, the card is there. It's outrageous and should be pulled.

[brentspeak]

First of all, this was a MEMBER-DESIGNED CARD

http://www1.bluemountain.com/category.pd?adisplay=1&path=35290

Raw Story basically had nothing else to report, so they decided to create a story.

Second of all, it needs to be pointed out that Blue Mountain was founded by two very liberal people, Susan Polis Schutz and her husband, Stephen. They don't run the company anymore, but knee-jerk denunctiations of Blue Mountain Cards will invariably tarnish the Schutz' sterling reputation.

[lonestarnot]

9. Well maybe they should think about removing that crap then.

[snowbear]

17. That was my thought too... Member or not, it was wrong! I've already sent my e-mail !!

And edit! (I hit enter, then noticed the contact info was already on here)

I sent my e-mail to Blue Mountain with a CC to their parent company, American Greetings.

SonsObeeeetches..

[City Lights]

28. I don't care who designed it. It's still offered on their site. eom

[rodeodance]

8. Contact/email address here:

http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/emailus.pd

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

11. Originally saw the story on Huffington Post.

It is misleading then, as one would automatically assume the card was created by Blue Mountain.

[LibDemAlways]

15. I think there is some confusion here as to what a "member"

card is. My understanding is that you have to be a dues paying member of the site in order to send a member card. I don't think it has anything to do with card design. If it does, I can't find any explanation of it on the "Help" part of the site. I clicked on the "Democratic" card and received a message that I had to be a member of the site in order to send it. Only a few "free" cards can be sent by anybody.

[snowbear]

19. Welp.. with all the negative PR they're going to get...

...Maybe the next time they won't let their idiot members create crap that is so degrading to the leader of the United States Senate, as well as any other sitting senator or congressman.

Damn them!

[LibDemAlways]

21. I don't think a member created that card. That is a

Blue Mountain creation - like all of their e-cards. Nowhere on their site does it say members can create and post whatever e-cards they like. Membership only entitles them to send cards listed in the "members only," as opposed to free, section.

If I'm mistaken, please point me toward the information on the Blue Mountain site that says members can freely create and post their own e-cards for other members to send.

[snowbear]

23. Maybe Brentspeak will come back and answer your question?

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He seemed pretty adamant that it was a "member created" card.. which to me.. .. still doesn't explain why they'd allow it.

[City Lights]

29. Thanks, rodeodance.

I just sent them a howler.

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. Too repulsive and disgusting for words. And they are the one

one greeting card website that I have bookmarked. Shall we start a DU letter of protest to be sent to them en masse?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. I just canceled my membership and let them know exactly why. Disgusting.

Maybe people should start flooding them with articles of all of the Repub sex scandals. I'm going to start tomorrow.

[Kadie]

16. I like Care2.com

http://www.care2.com/

I haven't used Blue Mountain in a long time. Thanks for the info.

[femrap]

18. How could a commercial enterprise be so

stupid as to not have the same type of cards displaying repugnants.... unbelieveably stupid.

They just cut their revenues and profits in half. Dumb f*cks. Take that to the bank.

[mmonk]

27. Commercial enterprises and churches have become militant

rightwing for the most part.

[MonkeyFunk]

20. I don't use them anyway

but if I did, I wouldn't stop over this. It's a user-made card. Don't like it? Make one of your own and put it up there!

This is why we can't have anything approaching rational political discussion in this country anymore. If one side is offended, it's out with the knives! And believe me, people go LOOKING for offense.

Let's have MORE political discussion, political humor, political debate, not less.

Why would any company want to contribute to such discussion when people respond like this?

[NYCGirl]

22. It's one of the drawbacks of being popular or powerful. Remember during the

Clinton/Gore administration? Remember those postcards with Clinton and Gore's heads photoshopped on the bodies of half-naked muscular guys in S&M getup embracing each other? I got those more than once from Democratic friends. And when we take over the White House in 2008, we'll see a lot more of that kind of thing again.

[Doondoo]

25. K&R

[kdpeters]

30. Am I the only one that LOVED Dominatrix Pelosi? That was TOO campy!!

I realize it was supposed to be insulting, but if you don't find it insulting, is it an insult? I want a life size cut out. Black vinyl knee-high stilleto boots totally rock. She is from San Francisco after all - home of Folsom Street Fair and Exotic Erotic Ball. She's taking charge around here and she's my representative. :)

[dogday]

31. Let's put it this way

Nancy Pelosi is second in line to the President of the United States... She is the first woman to become Speaker of the House... She has broken down the barriers that have been put up by men for centuries. I respect her and because I do, I think those images are totally offensive....

[kdpeters]

32. If it weren't for the lame captions, I'd have thought they were for a novelty store on Castro St.

But point taken. I know some people find camp and drag offensive. Tell you the truth, there's a lot of stuff in those novelty stores on Castro Street that are quite tasteless. I'm just partial to the leather and latex styles. I've got a pair of vinyl pants myself. A lot of people find that offensive too. Even a lot of people in the gay community. I didn't find it offensive, but that's the kind of clothes I like to wear.

[Laurab]

33. I've seen a lot of anti-shrub cards and never felt the need to complain

In fact, I like them. This is a user-made, member only card, on a 100% blue company's website. Would we feel the same way if it was anti-bush? I just think this is wrong - I don't like the card, wouldn't use the card, but it's someone's idiotic attempt at being funny, and in fact, is part of free speech.

Is free speech a one way street? I'd love to see a * administration card like this one, and sure wouldn't complain about it....