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Well jetBlue sent a letter to Fox saying they plan on taking down their name as one of sponsors of this convention...Now if this isn't an admission of guilt I don't know what is.... Funny how they said they didn't sponsor the event yet they are clearly listed as a "sponsor."
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Originally Posted by T-Bird76
Sometimes people will list a company as an "official" sponsor, while the company has no idea about it.
It happened to me as well, here is a perfect example.
http://thehobbyquest.com/partners.htm
Hobbyquest has my company listed as a partner, which we are not, they used to have us listed as a Sponsor, luckily I found out & had them change it.
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Thank you for contacting JetBlue with your comment. We have been surprised and disappointed that the donation of JetBlue travel (10 tickets total) to a bloggers convention has been misinterpreted as support and/or agreement with a politically centered website we have absolutely no connection with.
As a company we take no stand on any political issues save those directly related to air
transportation issues.
From my personal perspective the issue is quite straightforward. Our marketing team made a decision to donate 10 airline tickets to an annual convention of bloggers.
JetBlue was one of 23 groups to donate items and thus ’sponsor’ the YearlyKos convention. JetBlue will have no presence at the conference or any other involvement with the YearlyKos event. We have NO INVOLVEMENT with DailyKos or anything said or represented on that website.
Our workforce of roughly 11,000 consists of a huge variety of backgrounds and belief systems. I was personally completely unaware of the existence of DailyKos prior to news connecting the YearlyKos convention and thus our airline ticket donation to DailyKos. I personally have never condoned and abhor anything hateful towards anyone and am fully confident that JetBlue’s crewmembers share this view.
We certainly hope that the sweeping generalizations connecting JetBlue to a political stand will be recognized as exaggeration and with no basis in fact.
Dave Barger
CEO, JetBlue Airways
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Originally Posted by Midnight Mike
jetBlue should have performed it due diligence when they decided to support this convention of hate, its that simply. Regardless of what Barger states jetBlue provided passage free of charge to people who may very well support the ideas of these groups. Why would they want to get involved with these people? They made a big mistake with this one. I think Fox did a fair job of reporting it.