Has Pollo Become Everything She Once Despised? | www.sfbaytimes.com
RuPaul's Drag Race contestant Pollo Del Mar reflects in an article on her coming to be involved in being an activist -- "something as simple as choosing a different beverage" -- through the lens of remembering a friend and writes, "I — like Charles C.C. Tsai, who was [threatened to be] sued for libel after founding a Facebook group exposing RockStar’s connection to Michael Savage - have made a personal decision to boycott this product. There is simply no way I can in good conscience financially support a company which even minimally profits Savage, a man who lost his MSNBC position for telling a gay caller to “get AIDS and die.” Though this connection may be disputed, an Oct. 15, 2006, article in the SF Chronicle also lists RockStar CFO (Savage’s wife Janet Weiner) as the Director of Savage Productions, producer of “The Savage Nation.” More and more damning evidence piles up against the RockStar line daily. And I cannot help but question the business practices of a company which, quite in contradiction of Savage’s on-air assertion that “diversity is perversity,” has openly provided its product for free at 18th & Castro in efforts to build a consumer base there."
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