I really like Miller High Life. It’s a satisfying beer with a pure, crisp taste. Not watery, like Coors, or foamy, like Budweiser, but just right. When there is beer in my house, it’s usually Miller. There are six bottles in my fridge right now, and I can tell you, I shall not be pouring them down the drain. (Not directly, at any rate.) But I shall not be purchasing any more Miller until they atone.
Michelle Malkin has been thoroughly covering the heinous behavior of Miller: here and here and here.
The thing is, I don’t think Miller Brewing is really evil, and I don’t think they really meant to support criminal activity or racialist hate speech. They just did it because some “activists” were threatening a boycott, and their PR guys wanted to avoid negative publicity.
I say, if a little boycott can push Miller into evil, then a bigger boycott should nudge them back into good. I look at it as not so much a punitive boycott as a constructive one. And unlike my ongoing boycott of imports from Iran or Cuba or Sudan, this one will really affect me. But so be it.
There are bloggers making various graphics for the Miller boycott, but I felt like making my own, out of construction paper. Feel free to grab one, if you want.
 75 X 100 PIXELS |
 100 X 100 PIXELS SQUARE (Good for avatars and icons) |
 90 X 120 PIXELS |
 120 X 160 PIXELS |
 150 X 200 PIXELS |
 180 X 240 PIXELS |
 210 X 280 PIXELS |
Thanks for the graphics!
Please support and join the Miller Brewing boycott!
Thanks!
http://www.millerboycott.com/
“racialist hate speech”
…Booyakasha?
Miller Brewing Company has never supported illegal immigration and we have always supported the full enforcement of current U.S. laws.
Miller did not sponsor the Labor Day immigration march held in Chicago.
Going forward, Miller will closely review all requests for support from community and charitable organizations to ensure that we are not indirectly funding or associating our name with advocacy efforts on the immigration issue.
We plan to stick to the business of brewing, marketing and selling great beer.
Howdy, Miller Media. Thanks for commenting. I’m afraid I still need some clarity before I can call off the boycott. While you’re here, could you please answer:
The Chicago Tribune said of the Labor Day march:
Are you now saying that is untrue? Or are you saying you regret financing such activity, and will not repeat the mistake?
Above, you said you would
Indirectly? But I thought Miller was directly buying immigration advocacy advertising! Is that not true? Or are you now saying you retract your former advocacy?
In short, I can’t tell if you’re denying or repudiating Miller’s sponsorship and advocacy. If you’re repudiating it, please buy a few new full-page ads saying so, and I shall cancel my boycott.
I’m a bit concerned about the fraud that I think you’re perpetrating here. That sure looks like construction paper, but I don’t think it really is.
Do you still maintain that you made said image “out of construction paper,” or do you concede that while images of construction paper may have been used, it is not actually “made out of” it?
With obvious lies like that, Miller, how are we supposed to believe a word you say?
*chuckle*
Jer: I made the image from construction paper, on Sept. 2. There were witnesses. Every Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m., the Oklahoma City Museum of Art offers what they call Drop-in Art classes. I took my two elder daughters there, and while they were making their own crafts, I occupied myself with making my Miller boycott graphic, with construction paper, Elmer’s glue stick, scissors, and Crayola washable marker. I added the rectangular mortise and “Fight Crime Boycott Miller” slogan later, on the computer. I will concede that the actual JPEG images posted here are in fact made of what we artists call “pixels,” and contain no paper as such.
Doug: Hey, I happen to like Miller High Life. And don’t forget, Miller also makes Foster’s Lager, and Leinenkugel’s Honey Weiss, which are also quite good.
Sean:
Bah! says I. You’ve obviously never been exposed to Yuengling Lager, the only American beer worth drinking.
‘Course, seeing as it’s an East Coast beer, I can see why you would be content in your continued ignorance of the finest beer the Keystone State (hey, isn’t it a Commonwealth?) has to offer.
*grin*
I will not have my credentials challenged, Stewart. For over a year, I managed a pool hall in State College, PA. In this capacity, I served and consumed more Yuengling Lager than you’ve ever even seen. Porter, too. I met Dick Yuengling and toured his brewery in Pottsville. You are correct that it is the finest beer in the Commonwealth, with Rolling Rock a distant second.
You, on the other hand, have obviously never quaffed Fat Tire, brewed in Colorado, the finest beer in the West.
What in the world were you doing in State College PA? I thought your illustrious career took you through Chicago.
Were you seeking a Penn student spouse?
That’s enough construction paper for me. Your lovely soft shadows, nice upper-edge lighting and too-perfectly-uneven-seeming circle made me think you faked it. I trust you though, no witnesses shall need to be consulted.
It is very nice. How did you capture the image of it?
“Fight Boycott Crime Miller” ???
Gordon: Indeed there was a young lady involved in my migration at the time. Further affiant saith naught.
Jer: I scanned it on my Umax Astra 3400. Since the rectangular mortise was in fact “faked” in, so were those lovely shadows on it. Maybe I made those too soft for verisimilitude.
I relent! I had no idea your life experiences brought you to the Nittany Mountains.
I may have to find some Fat Tire and see if it truly is as good as you say…
Hold to your guns, Doug. Yuengling was a nice discovery when I moved to PA and as far as I’m concerned, the best Chinese beer I’ve encountered.
Miller? ‘Sokay.
Great logo….you should combine it with the press release…I’ve cut and pasted below the latest information on the boycott from my blog. You’ll be pleased to know, that the Boycott is now talked about in over 3,000 blogs, and growing.
Miller Brewing gave $30,000 to groups that support amnesty for illegal aliens.
Miller Brewing is a major contributor to La Raza (trans. The Race) which supports amnesty and benefits for illegal aliens.
www.millerboycott.com