Seems to me that in days gone by, the Unions would call for a boycott of certain companies who either broke unions or crossed their picket lines. Now, I’m well aware that a blacklist is illegal (or is it if a group simpley states the truth….I don’t think that’s even trademark disparagement), however, if, along the sides of all the blogs there were suddenly to appear a list of people who pulled stunts like Jet Blue did, or who were publically outed as using slave labor, and it were simply based on news articles, well, I’d certainly check that before I flew or bought anything.
IMPEACH NOW

To cover all the bases, the guy retired from Home Depot about 6 years ago, and while he was a contributor to the campaign of Bush I, he supported Kerry last time around.

Good, I was surprised to get the response I got from JB and it was evident that they had not really read my complaint. They seem to believe the O’Reily crap.

To Dave Barger– I am afraid you are being misled about the intent of the YearlyKos meeting. I read DK and occasionally comment. These are good, fairminded people who want the best for America. Those who vilify the Daily Kos site, and its participants, appear to have an agenda that maybe 70% of US citizens find repugnant. I am very sorry to hear that you have caved in to the likes of Bill O’Reilly. Look at him objectively. Do you want him teaching your kids 7th grade civics? In the long run, his folk have little to offer you. The administration will change in ‘08 and you will have to adapt. It’s the American way. You have an excellent airline, despite a nasty fumble which you handled pretty well, and I would not hesitate to book a flight with you. But you have to realize just who your customers are. Even corporate employees sometimes fail to share the views of their brass, who would never fly JetBlue anyway because they have their own jets and you have no first class. Think about it

Anyway, it finally died in 1982 and we had a bulldozer push it it out of the way of our new house. Lucky us, we got $35 from the junkyard.

Fox news has an aggressive mission against public education of the dangers of pollution and global warming. Jet Blue provides Fox news and their many similar biased outlets a platform on Direct TV to spew their slant to your customers while (stuck) on board. I canceled my Jet Blue American Express account because there was so much unbalanced programming of Fox news extreme right political propaganda on Direct TV during my long RT flight with delays from JFK/SAN. I am sorry to hear you have such a non-committal stance in support of Yearly Kos. I would far prefer to watch Yearly Kos during my flight than Fox and Bill O’Reily.

Thank you.
xx

Re: email received Monday,07/16/07 Speak Up

Dear Mr. xx,

Thank you for contacting JetBlue with your comment. We have been surprised and disappointed that the
donation of JetBlue travel (10 tickets total) to a bloggers convention has been misinterpreted as
support and/or agreement with a politically centered website we have absolutely no connection with.
As a company we take no stand on any political issues save those directly related to air
transportation issues.

From my personal perspective the issue is quite straightforward. Our marketing team made a decision
to donate 10 airline tickets to an annual convention of bloggers. JetBlue was one of 23 groups to
donate items and thus ’sponsor’ the YearlyKos convention. JetBlue will have no presence at the
conference or any other involvement with the YearlyKos event. We have NO INVOLVEMENT with DailyKos
or anything said or represented on that website.

Our workforce of roughly 11,000 consists of a huge variety of backgrounds and belief systems. I was
personally completely unaware of the existence of DailyKos prior to news connecting the YearlyKos
convention and thus our airline ticket donation to DailyKos. I personally have never condoned and
abhor anything hateful towards anyone and am fully confident that JetBlue’s crewmembers share this
view.

We certainly hope that the sweeping generalizations connecting JetBlue to a political stand will be
recognized as exaggeration and with no basis in fact.

Dave Barger
CEO, JetBlue Airways