Big time politics here, so look away if you’re not interested in reading my opinion of these issues…

The other day Sean Hannity, right wing apologist and another of the too many right wing machine over at Fox “News”, had controversial Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on his show.

For those who don’t know, Roy Moore is controversial for a number of things, from going against Supreme Court rulings to  -this is the latest controversy- having sex with teenage women/girls as young as 14 years of age when he was in his (gulp) thirties.

He’s being accused by women who are willing to put their name to the accusations of engaging in pedophilia.

So of course, when Mr. Moore shows up on Sean Hannity’s show, the questions are softballs and the purpose of the episode is to give Mr. Moore a platform to prove he’s a good guy and the accusations aren’t true.

He didn’t quite do that…  From vox.com, Jen Kirby writes about that interview, and the one startling thing he had to say when asked if he dated teenagers at that time:

Roy Moore on whether he dated teenage girls: “Not generally, no”.

Way to issue a strong denial there, Mr. Moore!

As a result of that interview, and the way it was performed by Mr. Hannity, people started flooded some of his sponsors with letters/tweets/etc. asking them how they can continue to sponsor a show where its host seeks to show someone like Mr. Moore in a positive light.

Among the companies that were contacted was Keurig, coffee machine makers.  In a tweet regarding whether they would continue to support Mr. Hannity’s show after that interview, Keurig stated:

Thank you for your concern and for bringing this to our attention. We worked with our media partner and FOX news to stop our ad from airing during the Sean Hannity Show.

As with any action, there is a reaction, and one of the big reactions from fans of Hannity’s show is to slam Keurig and, idiotically, decide to destroy their Keurig coffee making machines.  Tom McKay over at gizmodo.com writes about this:

Angry Sean Hannity fans are smashing Keurigs on Twitter because 2017 is dumb as heck

But you know what?  Dumb as it is to decide to protest Keurig (and liberals, I suppose) by destroying your Keurig machine is just another iteration of dumb protesting.

Way, way back in 1976 and when Blue Oyster Cult first released their song “Don’t Fear The Reaper” (you know, the cowbell song!)…

…there was a great deal of controversy amongst the very religious/right wingers out there about it.

Why?

Because the song’s lyrics refer to death in many incarnations and states “don’t fear the reaper” when referring to, among others, “Romeo and Juliet.”  To many, the implication was clear: The song promoted death and suicide and, therefore, it was a sinful song. (Didn’t help that Blue Oyster Cult cultivated a dark image)

So controversial amongst the religious/right wingers was the song and album in which it came on that one day this group has a big BOC bonfire, wherein people brought the vinyl albums and burned them.

To which one of the members of BOC (I forget which) was quoted as saying something along the lines of: “I don’t care what they do to our albums… as long as they buy them first!”

I suspect Keurig is feeling the same.