Boycott Chuck Norris?
EmailA new website launched by a former communications staffer for erstwhile presidential candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., calls for a boycott of all shows and products affiliated with martial arts thespian Chuck Norris because of his endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
The website Boycott Chuck Norris suggests that voters boycott the Total Gym and other "products that Chuck Norris endorses or those who advertise on the television show in which he starred, Walker, Texas Ranger" because of "Chuck Norris’s strong support for a candidate who does not believe in evolution and who has called for the isolation of AIDS patients."
Huckabee, an evangelical minister, says he believes in the Biblical story of creation. In 1994 he called for AIDS patients to be isolated.
Darrel Ng, a former traveling press secretary for Thompson – whose campaign was undoubtedly hurt by the Huckaboom — started the new website.
"While Chuck Norris has the freedom to associate with whatever out-of-the-mainstream views he would like, I am calling on those who don’t agree with him to vote with their dollars and boycott these products," Ng said in a statement. "Undoubtedly, these companies know about Chuck Norris’s views and if they choose to continue their association with him, I, and I hope others who don’t agree with his views, will shop elsewhere."
Products on Ng’s verboten list include KFC, Geico, Payless Shoe Source and Tylenol.
"I just thought of the idea earlier this week," Ng tells ABC News. "Being from California, I think I’m exposed to more of the celebrity-political nexus than most. Republicans have always railed against that — see Sean Penn and Ben Affleck in 2004. This follows the same line of thinking."
He says he’s "not getting paid by anybody to do this. Just a side project I’m doing with my extra time."
Ng was also Chief Deputy Press Secretary for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., but he says neither of his former bosses "know about it or endorse" his new side project.
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Some people are just crazy! This is one of them.
Posted by: Greg | January 25, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
Wow! The Fred Thompson people are real angry at Huckabee. Probably because Huckabee is where they thought Thompson should be. This is crazy! You are not hurting Chuck Norris, you are just hurting businesses in the United States.
Posted by: anne | January 25, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Thanks for the reminder of things to put on my shopping list!
Posted by: DelLeslie | January 25, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
And I thought the Democrats were nuts. Thompson would have been my choice if Huckabee wasn’t in the race, but if Thompson supporters are this nuts, I’m kinda glad I never joined them.
Posted by: Chris | January 25, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
I do believe I’ll have to buy a new pair of shoes this weekend – from Payless. And there’s a really great KFC not far from here. I’m getting hungry already.
Posted by: Lynne | January 25, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
So, he worked for Arnold (an actor) and Thompson (another actor), but now he’s rallying against the “celebrity-political nexus” like all good little Republicans should?
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Posted by: Lono | January 25, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
With people like this working for him, it is no wonder Fred didn’t ever get going.
Posted by: billy10 | January 25, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
Please don’t associate this one former press secretary with all the FredHeads. I am a FredHead and I find his comments ridiculous. This is one man’s views and it bothers me that he was associated with Fred. I don’t believe in evolution either, so am I going to be boycotted as well.
Chuck Norris is an American citizen and he has the right to support whomever he chooses. I am not going to stop watching “Walker” reruns just because he supports a candidate that I wouldn’t vote for if he was the only person running.
My opinion of Huckabee has nothing to do with him taking Fred’s votes, it has to do with the fact he does not have the same conservative principles, values and beliefs that I do; and the fact that the man can never answer a question directly.
Posted by: Charma | January 25, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
Yes,
Evolution is something to “believe in” like the earth revolving around the sun is something to “believe in”
The church has fought science for many centuries, and it ALWAYS loses. Always.
And it will lose this one too.
Posted by: za | January 25, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
Out a work that sucks!!! Hear Ron Paul is hiring.
Posted by: colleen paoni | January 25, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
It’s really funny, in a frightening way, how Repubs become so anti-capitalist when they disagree with someone. They’ve been calling for so many boycotts these past seven years that it’s no wonder our economy is tanking.
Posted by: OxyCon | January 26, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am
Sorry Charma but I can’t take anyone seriously who chooses to “not believe in evolution”
. This is not a theory but a given. There is just too much knowledge out there for any thinking human to believe in the stories from people just barely out of the Stone Age, over what we now know. As with too many so called religious people…check your brains at the door and pick up your crayons before stepping into the church…sigh
Posted by: mike | January 26, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am
So…if I have conscientiously not used products endorsed by Chuck Norris heretofore, nor bother to see his dreck films and TV shows, does that count?
Posted by: RayBlahBlah | January 26, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
Well, so much for freedom of speech, religion, assembly.
There’s little about Norris or Huckabee with which I agree. But I do believe that we should not apply to others standards we don’t want applied to ourselves.
Why not just not elect ‘em?
Posted by: Jack Harkins | January 26, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
LBJ said to Bill Moyers after signing the 1965 Civil rights bill. ” we just gave the south to the republicans for the next two generations”
I say after this evangelical president
The republicans will be called the
party of “Moses.” ” 40 more years in the
desert for being the complainers they are/
Posted by: Seer | January 26, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
Okay, so who is Chuck Norris? Wasn’t he in Rimcop or something?
Posted by: Nate | January 27, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am
So a digruntled former campaign staffer for Fred (“I’d rather nap than campaign.”) Thompson is calling for a boycott of Chuck Norris and anything associated with him? Besides the negligible economic impact this boycott will have–an estimated total effect of about 59 cents–what, exactly, is the point of boycotting a fading movie and TV personality? Vengeance, perhaps?
Posted by: chuck | January 28, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm