I own and operate a publication, and I accept ads from all kinds of companies, many of which do plenty of scummy things. So I have no reason to be holier-than-thou about the ads that Kos runs on his site.
However, in light of the fact that we currently have an ad on the front page from a virulently racist Muslim-basher like Glenn Beck, and in light of the fact that, in the run-up to the recent election, we had a front page ad from Chevron, a company whose greed has resulted not only in the despoiling and polluting of our planet but in the deaths of tens of thousands of people (and let's not forget that the ad was against Prop 87, a California initiative that I would guess was supported by most people on this site), I have a question: What kinds of ads should Daily Kos not accept?
I know that this question has been raised before. And it seems that...
...a common response is something along the lines of, "Well, it's Kos's site, and he should be able to accept any kind of advertising he wants. After all, he's taking money from these nasty people, and none of us right-thinking progressives is going to be convinced by a silly ad. So who cares?"
Fair enough. But if it's OK to accept an ad from Glenn Beck, a man who has no qualms about slandering Muslims on a daily basis, is it OK to accept ads from neo-Nazis (the biggest difference between them and Beck being that they hate Jews and blacks more and he hates Muslims more)? What about advertising from NAMBLA? I mean, sure they're pretty disgusting, but I think it's fair to say that they haven't caused as much harm to the world as has Chevron.
So are there any kinds of ads that Daily Kos shouldn't accept?