Wal-Mart has apologized for its ad comparing those who resist the company's expansion to Nazi book-burners. This whole mini-scandal operated on several levels of hypocrisy. How dare Wal-Mart bring up Nazi censorship when the stores refuse to stock books that do not fit the company's right-wing agenda?
Since Wal-Mart makes a practice of crushing smaller stores, customers in many parts of the country cannot easily go elsewhere to purchase such "banned" books as Jon Stewart's "America." (The company cited a non-political pretext for its censorship of that work.)
Wal-Mart also makes a practice of stocking goods from China.
Dig it: The retail giant doesn't mind enriching the world's most powerful communist country. But they won't let you read Jon Stewart, because he's too far to the left.
For decades, the far-right railed against Armand Hammer because he did business with the Soviet Union. Why don't the righties ever lodge such complaints against Wal-Mart? What, exactly, is the difference?
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