Just a note to anyone who might subscribe to the services of Verizon Wireless: this is what your monthly bill is subsidizing.

Verizon is one of the sponsors for a Labour Day weekend rally by Friends of America, a pro-coal, anti-environmentalist organization. Two of the main “entertainers” will be Sean Hannity and Ted Nugent. A group called Credo Action contacted Verizon to ask why they would be supporting such a reactionary event:

“Before we launched our campaign, Credo Action reached out to Verizon Wireless to confirm its sponsorship of the pro-coal “Friends of America” rally. Becky Bond, our political director, sent a cordial follow-up to Verizon Wireless a heads-up that our campaign had launched. Verizon replied as follows:”

“This is how our response is going over with the activists. Becky once lived in a tree for a while. At least now I know where the e-mails are coming from.” James Gerace, VP of Corporate Communications at Verizon Wireless.

Verizon had previously co-sponsored an event put on by Massey Energy, the biggest violator of the Clean Air Act in history.

So Verizon is now sponsoring an event of climate-change deniers and corporate hacks, giving over the emcee microphone to the Prince of Sleaze Journalism, Sean Hannity, and a talentless douchebag with serious manhood issues, Ted Nugent, whose eloquence once gave us this statement of superb post-Proustian prose:

“Obama, he’s a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. … Hey, Hillary - you might want to ride one of these (machine guns) into the sunset, you worthless bitch!”

Ah, the lyric quality, the almost Haiku-like economy of words. I’m sure it sounded even better in the original German. He then retired to the bathroom to masturbate with the latest copy of Guns and Ammo.

If any of you use Verizon Wireless, I suggest that now is the time to exercise your option. If you support such actions and the withering contempt for those who have the temerity to disagree with their corporate stance on the environment and apparent love of diseminators of lies and hate, then, by all means, keep your service. If, on the other hand, you have a healthy regard for the air you breath and rate your integrity above that of Inannity and his ilk, I would ask you to cancel their service, find another provider and inform them of your reason for dropping them like a poison toad.