All-American Stupid

Travel discount website Kayak.com is the latest advertiser to pull all ads from TLC's All-American Muslim (neatly dodging the OUTRAGE of having Muslims in America on TV at all without the caption "Gitmo Detainee" underneath the video) using the "logic" of A) blaming TLC for having a show about Muslims on TV in the first place and B) the show sucks anyway, so it was a financial decision.

When we decided to give our money to TLC for this program, we deemed the show a worthy topic. When we received angry emails regarding our decision to advertise, I looked into the show more thoroughly.

The first thing I discovered was that TLC was not upfront with us about the nature of this show. As I said, it’s a worthy topic, but any reasonable person would know that this topic is a particular lightning rod. We believe TLC went out of their way to pick a fight on this, and they didn’t let us know their intentions. That’s not a business practice that generally gets repeat business from us. I also believe that it did this subject a grave disservice. Sadly, TLC is now enjoying the attention from this controversy.

Bonus Verbatim Stupid from Kayak's marketing head, Robert Birge:

Lastly, I watched the first two episodes. Mostly, I just thought the show sucked.

And just like that, Kayak gets to have it both ways. It didn't pull ads because they buy Michelle Malkin's idiotic claim that Muslims should all be rounded up and put in camps, the show is just bad, so you can't possibly give us any crap for this, people!  We win!

So by dumping all of this on TLC for "picking a fight" by daring to show Muslims in America being American and not blowing things up, Birge and Kayak show the world their uncommon courage in freely admitting that the company is run by douchebag weasels with the intellectual honesty of Vogon Constructor Fleets.

What a great company.  And by "company" I mean "colossal aggregation of assholes".