Date: April 19, 2013

AOL / HuffPo Attack Businesses Not Friendly To Obamacare

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Huffington Post / AOL Resort To Personal Intimidation On Corporations That Need To Reduce Employee Hours To Cut Costs Under Obama's Healthcare Mess

Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, and Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, are using the classic ISP to bring a hammer down on American businesses that want to cut back employee hours to avoid the additional unexpected expenses of Obamacare, a medical system cloaked in the Marxism of social justice.

In a posting yesterday by HuffPo with the headline, "Regal Entertainment Group's Obamacare Policy Leads To Facebook Backlash," the Huffington Post, Representing AOL's News content, delightfully wrote the following while attacking a pay increase for Regal Entertainment's successful female CEO:

"Some customers simply expressed frustration with the company's decision and vowed never to visit the movie theater again. Others highlighted the billions in profits the company enjoyed last year, as well as CEO Amy Miles' 31 percent pay bump.

"I will never view a film at a Regal facility again," Facebook user Chris Binnett wrote Wednesday afternoon. "Greed and selfishness make me sick."

The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Huffington Post.

Binnett is just one of hundreds of customers boycotting the movie theater chain after the company wrote in a memo, obtained by Fox News, that workers' hours would be cut as a direct result of the new health care law. Workers who do not average 30 hours per week, like many Regal workers now under its new policy, are not legally entitled to health benefits from their employer.

Regal is not the first large U.S. employer to face public backlash after attempting to skirt Obamacare. Darden Restaurants, the parent company to Red Lobster, also faced scorn as a result of tests to use of more part-time workers to limit healthcare costs. The company ultimately backed away from the idea." . . . Read More

But then AOL / Huffington Post crosses the line, going out of its way to ask the readers to contact AOL by e-mail . . . BUT ONLY if the reader planned to actively boycott Regal Theatres. It wrote at the end of the story, (along with a buried apology for a previous story where AOL had associated Applebee's with the Darden chain):

"Do you plan on boycotting Regal because of its Obamacare policy? Email us at business-tips@huffingtonpost.com and tell us more." (See actual post below.)

Source: HuffPo / AOL

AOL / Huffington Post had also gone after the Darden Restaurant chain in December of 2012 for trying to avoid the huge costs of Obamacare that ripped at profits that kept the doors open.

Source: HuffPo / AOL

Notice that in the above headline HuffPo / AOL attacks the restaurant's chain's loss, claiming it was due to Americans being angry at Darden's "attempt to skirt Obamacare." There was no reference in the headline to how poor the healthcare bill was written in the first place, deals made in backrooms until the final vote would result in a new phrase to described House members who said they wouldn't vote for the bill until Obama pulled abortion out.

The new phrase? "You've Been Stupaked!"

Yet much of the copy in the HuffPo / AOL article didn't match the Huffington Post headline that claimed Darden got buried by Obama supporters boycotting the chain:

"After new ad campaigns touting the quality of its food failed to spark sales, the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster is retooling its strategy to attract diners with more promotional deals.

The shift comes after Darden Restaurants Inc. earlier this fall moved to update the image of its flagship chains and appeal to younger diners in their 20s and 30s, who increasingly prize fresh, high-quality ingredients. The problem is that many of those same diners also want cheaper prices and convenience, reflecting the rise of chains such as Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and Panera Bread Co., which offer food that's a step up from traditional fast-food for slightly higher prices.

In addition to those shifting tastes, Darden and other casual dining chains such as Applebee's are dealing with customers who are being more careful about where and how often they eat out in the weak economy." . . . Read More (underlines added.)

Of course HuffPo / AOL, in attacking the Darden Restaurant chain and Regal Theaters for wanting to push away from the expensive and untested Obamacare, forgot to mention one little detail. Back in 2011 Arianna Huffington accepted $315,000,000 from AOL's Tim Armstrong, details found in the following story from Bloomberg News. That would make Arianna one of Obama's one percenters that's destroying social justice. But whose counting, since the only people Obama hangs around with these days is the one percenters.

 

"AOL Waits For A Huffington Post Payoff" - By Edmund Lee, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 28, 2013

From this March 2013 article on the Huffington Post / AOL merger, it looks like the attack news is more on the shoulders of CEO's Armstrong rather than Arianna Huffington, who seems to be giving up responsibility for the far-left content posted daily by HuffPo / AOL.

"When Armstrong paid $315 million for HuffPo in early 2011, he sought to reposition AOL away from its declining dial-up Internet access and search businesses in favor of ad-supported original content sites. His other gamble: making Huffington, the left-leaning doyenne of cable talk shows, the face of the new company, with a four-year contract and control of all of AOL’s editorial content, including Patch, TechCrunch, and more than a dozen other sites."

"By last year, however, Huffington’s responsibilities had been scaled back to just HuffPo, and in the last few months, Armstrong has begun to surround her with his allies on the business side. Jimmy Maymann became HuffPo CEO—at Huffington’s request, he says—and Armstrong made AOL board member Susan Lyne CEO of AOL’s Brand Group, which includes HuffPo, though Huffington still reports to Armstrong."

"HuffPo’s monthly unique viewers have soared to 45 million in the past two years, rising by an average 22 percent per month in the second half of 2012, according to data from market researcher ComScore (SCOR). The site’s benefited greatly from links on the AOL.com home page, still a traffic fire hose thanks to longtime and former dial-up users, [like old timers who were stunned at the move to the left], who check the portal. AOL’s overall traffic has seen little net growth, hovering around 110 million monthly uniques since as early as February 2010, the ComScore data show." (underline added.)

"Corporate sponsors have bought into HuffPo, and its founder is one big reason. “Arianna certainly fits the bill for someone who is a thought leader,” says Craig Bierley, head of global advertising for Cadillac (GM), a principal backer of HuffPo’s online video network, HuffPost Live. “She aligns with the audience we want. Affluent, educated, informed, she has all that.” Other sponsors include Hyatt Hotels (H), HBO, and the Economist, upscale advertisers who consider HuffPo a like-minded venue, says Michael Winter, a managing director at PhD, a media-buying agency within Omnicom Group." . . . Read Entire Article

However the above comment in the article attributed to Global Advertising reads, "She, [Arianna], aligns with the audience we want; Affluent, educated, informed," seems to be a bunch of bull.

Here's why.

In an e-mail I released last year, which included an attack by Huffington Post / AOL against African-American Lt. Col. Allen West and his wife, I collected all the stories Huffington Post / AOL ran that day vs. the news that was being reported in other headlines.

Review the titles shown below and tell me if the Huffington Post readers are treated as if they're (cough) "affluent, educated, [and] informed." You can click here to later read the entire e-mail I sent out titled, "AOL / HuffPo Attacks U.S. Representative Allen West . . . for Loving His Wife."

All HuffPo / AOL News Stories That Ran On The Afternoon Of October 2, 2012

Here Are The Big-Boy Stories On The Same Day HuffPo / AOL . . . Left Out

So Much For AOL Visitors Becoming "Educated And Informed."

Now that you've hopefully become more educated on the progressive agendas of HuffPo and AOL's CEO, Tim Armstrong, why not e-mail the Huffington Post. The online news source wants to know if you're going to boycott Regal Theaters for not obeying Obama's healthcare train wreck.

Maybe the reason is those businesses don't want to be "Stupaked!"

business-tips@huffingtonpost.com

Source: YouTube

Click here to read an overview of what I have coined, The AOL Content Children

(Note: If you're an AOL member, you can easily stop the in-your-face offending rotating news from the Huffington Post. Simply click the "X" on the news window and send it to the background.)

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