The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
    amike's picture

    Dear TPM : Is every penny of advertising revenue absolutely necessary?

    I'm so very tired of seeing ads from the ultra right on TPM.  I don't want to see endless repeats of the ad featuring Nancy Pelosi looking like a Harridan, with the tag Should Nancy Pelosi Destroy the Secret Ballot?  Ditto unattractive pictures of Barack Obama with the same tag, only the name changed.  I'm absolutely fed up with ads for fake polls with a nastily photoshopped picture of the President wearing a surgical cap asking whether or not I support the President's health care program.  The former is supported by the national right to work committee, as right wing as they come, except for the latter, which is sponsored by Newsmax--collecting e-mail addresses from the unwary, and sponsored by the Washington Times and featuring such bigots as Ann Coulter.

    Do you really, really need this money?  I'd be happy to pay the equivalent not to see these ads. I don't want to be a captive audience for an attempt to spread an ideology which goes against every political belief I hold dear.  Somehow, other advertisement supported blogs seem to avoid  this kind of political pornography.  Why can't you?