Accuracy in Media

Leadpages, the website host, asked 2nd Vote to shut down their website on Thanksgiving Day because the company perceived the #AnywhereButTarget boycott promoted hate and discrimination. The website is back up, but it is the company’s right to enforce their own rules: The server company, Leadpages, ordered 2nd Vote to take down the page promoting […]

After Target suffered when its transgender bathrooms policy blew up in its face, a watchdog group called 2ndVote is calling for a new boycott of the corporation: Lance Wray, Executive Director of 2ndVote issued the following statement: “This Christmas shopping season we’re asking conservatives to send a clear and direct message to Target, a company […]

From the American Family Association (AFA) Journal: The Target campaign began on April 21, and the company’s second quarter report was the first to reveal whether or not the boycott by 1.4 million consumers was having an impact. Analyzing the report, AFR’s Dan Celia, president of Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, said same-store sales dropped 1.1% […]

Episode 23. In this episode we discuss the Florida and Arizona primary results, Trump’s Trip to Mexico, Ed Feulner joins Trump transition, Hillary’s lack of press conferences frustrates liberal media, Target to spend $20 million for transgender bathrooms, Colin Kaepernick and more.

Target Corp. (TGT) stock has plunged approximately 12% less than a month after the organization declared that its transgender customers and employees could utilize “…the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” Over 1.2 million people have signed the American Family Association’s “Boycott Target Pledge,” in a massive display of consumer […]

Shout out to the Daily Signal for the find of Target’s stock price fall since the bathroom decision: Target common stock dropped from opening price of $83.50 per share April 19 to a closing price of $79.99 per share May 3—a 4.2 percent decline over the past two weeks. Its closing price of $83.98 on April 19 was the highest since […]

Don and Brian talk about the GOP primary and the momentum of frontrunner Donald Trump, how an actor claims there was voter fraud in Wisconsin’s primary, and the Target boycott petition that has reached over 690,000 signatures as of the date of the podcast.

They may want to double down on the title of their piece, which is “‘Bathroom’ Protests will likely leave Target Unscathed, Experts Say,” especially when the company’s stocks went down and cost the company some $1.5 billion on Friday: “If you look historically at corporations attacked or boycotted, there’s no empirical or market evidence that […]

The boycott petition, started by the American Family Association, now has over 1 million signatures (it had 690,000 as of this past Tuesday). This has also led to Target’s stock falling and costing some $1.5 billion as far as their stocks’ worth. You can sign the boycott here.

Target’s PC culture decision to allow transgender people to access whichever bathroom they would like at Target store has backfired: Amid the turmoil, the company’s stock edged down from $83.98 per share on April 19 to roughly $81.33 in April 28. That’s a loss of $2.65 per share, which chops the company’s stock market value […]