So why is Goya being targeted for a boycott?
Because CEO Robert Unanue has expressed his support for President Trump.
The two are, at their cores, businessmen. Trump uses the White House as his new corporate base of operations. Daughter Ivanka is a "senior advisor" along with husband Jared Kushner, but they'd have the same jobs if pops was still working out of either New York or Palm Beach. When Donald John Archie Bunker Trump began his presidential run five years ago, he said some disparaging things about Hispanics. An endorsement from Unanue is anything but a sign of change, not when their common bond, of course, is money, and lots of it.
Donald Trump ragged on Hispanics to get the attention of the disenfranchised voter base, the closet bigots and racists. Unanue posing with him for a photo op at the White House might send a different message to that same base, we don't know. Fellow blogger Chuck Miller castigated Ivanka for posing with a can of Goya black beans on one of her social media accounts, as if she was doing a commercial. Like so:
All that amounts to a mea culpa from Team Trump for the hateful remarks of 2015-16. Not everyone, I assure you, is buying.
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Tyra Banks has traded the catwalk for the ballroom.
The model-actress (ex-America's Next Top Model, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) is taking over as MC of Dancing With The Stars when it returns for a new season. Original MC Tom Bergeron (ex-Hollywood Squares, America's Funniest Home Videos) and Fox sports reporter Erin Andrews were told their contracts would not be renewed earlier this week.
Bergeron, who's been a TV fixture since the early days of the FX network (Breakfast Time), will finally get some quality time at home while Andrews stays busy with Fox and FS1.
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Reading of the passing of actress Naya Rivera, 33, earlier this week reminds us that wrestler-turned-stuntman Shad Gaspard met the same fate earlier this year, saving his child at the expense of his own life. Rivera (ex-Glee) made sure her 4 year old son was safe. Her body was found Tuesday, and, like Gaspard, the cause of death was accidental drowning. Our condolences to the family.
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We've talked about how President Trump has virtually demanded that schools reopen as scheduled, despite recent resurges in coronavirus, willing to trade innocent lives to ensure re-election. Republican-controlled states such as Texas and Florida are paying a heavy price for reopening their state economy too soon and too quickly. Here in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo had the right idea with a gradual multi-phase program to reopen. As reported yesterday, California Governor Gavin Newsom had said that schools in Los Angeles & San Diego would continue with virtual learning, with students & teachers at home instead of in the classroom, which won't sit well with Trump, but it happens to be the right call. That's the part Trump doesn't want to understand. He's more concerned about the country's---and his---bottom line, and how he can make himself look good in the process.
Well, in that last case, there's no way he can.
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Fox Shmooze host Tucker Carlson announced Monday he was taking a vacation after the backlash over some remarks made online by head writer Derek Neff. This was after Carlson saw sponsors abandon him over some racist remarks made on the air. Neff was accused of racist remarks online.
Fox News' slogan used to be "fair & balanced". In order to appease Trump, that slogan is gone, but of late, the network has fallen into disfavor with America's Oldest Baby, thanks to second generation reporter Chris Wallace going after education secretary Betsy DeVos on Sunday, as an example of how Wallace will go after Trump's sycophants to get to the bottom of a story. Just like his father, the late Mike Wallace (60 Minutes, Biography).
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Update, 3:22 p.m. (ET): Now it's come out that a school district in Missouri is insisting that parents of student-athletes sign a COVID-19 death waiver that would prevent the parents from suing the school, absolving the district of any and all liability if the students get the virus while on campus. In Texas, teachers are being asked to invest in extra life insurance and fill out living wills. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains:
What Missouri's Hazlewood district is doing is wrong. Period. Their Board of Education doesn't want the responsibility of dealing with lawsuits (gee, that sounds familiar). The living wills in Texas I can sort of understand, but there needs to be a middle ground where the school boards there have to accept a certain amount of responsibility. They're kinda obligated to do that, y'know? Other districts across the country, likely in the areas most affected by the virus, are taking this tack because they'd rather kowtow to President Trump than protect their staffs & students. Pathetic.
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