{"id":4883,"date":"2009-07-22T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2016-11-26T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T21:27:15","slug":"its-not-censorship-its-just-a-bad-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/its-not-censorship-its-just-a-bad-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Censorship, It&#8217;s Just A Bad Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative merchandise not available for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/news\/topstories\/stories\/wcnc-072109-mrn-freemarketwarrior.63b5bce2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Concord Mills mall<\/a> in North Carolina:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Impeach Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Al Qaeda\u2019s favorite days: 9\/11\/01 and 11\/04\/08.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work Harder. Obama needs the money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bumper stickers and posters sold at &#8220;Free Market Warrior&#8221; at Concord Mills are meant to be \u201cbiting,\u201d the kiosk\u2019s owner Loren Spivack said.<\/p>\n<p>At least one passer-by found them racist and bigoted, and took time to tell the mall in a letter and a letter to the editor of the Charlotte Observer.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your opinion, the fact is this: At the end of July, &#8220;Free Market Warrior&#8221; will not be allowed at Concord Mills Mall. The kiosk chain&#8217;s owner shared e-mail correspondence with Newschannel 36 that explains that the mall management has decided that the items sold are not &#8220;neutral&#8221; enough. The lease will be allowed to expire July 31, 2009 without an option to renew. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Che shirts are probably still on sale at several of the trendy shops along with campaign merchandise from the current administration.<\/p>\n<p>No word on whether the B. Dalton&#8217;s will have to remove <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i> and <i>The Road to Serfdom<\/i> because they&#8217;re not <i>neutral<\/i> enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative merchandise not available for sale at Concord Mills mall in North Carolina: &#8220;Impeach Obama.&#8221; &#8220;Al Qaeda\u2019s favorite days: 9\/11\/01 and 11\/04\/08.&#8221; &#8220;Work Harder. Obama needs the money.&#8221; The bumper stickers and posters sold at &#8220;Free Market Warrior&#8221; at Concord Mills are meant to be \u201cbiting,\u201d the kiosk\u2019s owner Loren Spivack said. At least one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15962,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/15962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}