Let’s get rid of those conservative T-shirt ads

I’ve sent this e-mail to Michelle Malkin:

As a regular reader of your site, I protest the conservative T-shirt ads.

They are offensive, and wholly inappropriate to a conservative website. Furthermore, their message is tone-deaf and stupid, the combination of undergraduate semi-sultry sexiness with being anti-Communist and pro-gun rights. Is that why people should be anti-Communist or conservative? To get laid? Is this really a message conservatives should be associating themselves with?

You’ve said you are not a “South Park” conservative. These T-shirt ads, while of course not in the perverted realm of South Park, are nevertheless highly inappropriate and you would do well to discontinue them.

I sent a similar e-mail to David Horowitz months ago, but the T-shirt ads at FrontPage Magazine have continued. Since I use the Ad Aware free software to prevent photos and graphics that I don’t like from displaying in my browser, I had forgotten that the ads were still running at FrontPage. But when I viewed my article on race relations at FrontPage last week from a friend’s computer, the T-shirt ad was on the same page as my article. (Also, to avoid misunderstanding, I’m not opposing the T-shirts themselves, but the ads for the T-shirts.)

The conservative movement has to clean up its act. No more Ann Coulter talking dolls. No more “Commies aren’t cool” T-shirts worn by twenty-year-old babes with come-hither looks. No more disgusting Viagra ads on conservative talk radio shows. No more South Park conservatism.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 06, 2005 12:07 PM | Send