The Boycott of Miller Brewing is apparently causing headaches for their marketing executives. So they are doing what many criminals do when caught: deny wrongdoing. (thanks to a reader for pointing out this link):

Miller Brewing Co. on Friday denied providing financial help for a planned march in Chicago supporting illegal immigrants, but a newspaper report of the firm’s involvement in a controversial political issue could create marketing headaches for the Milwaukee brewer.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Miller had paid more than $30,000 for “a planning convention, materials and newspaper ads” connected to this weekend’s “Immigrant Workers Justice Walk.”

Not so, Miller spokesman Peter J. Marino said.

“The money supported a recent convention on immigration issues in Chicago, which provided attendees with information on how to become legally naturalized citizens of the U.S.,” he said.

I think that folks like Marino have spent too much time in a corporate world where prevarication is all too common. Promoting mass immigration over the wishes of the American public doesn’t seem to strike him as problematic. Well, the simple fact is that I really doubt Miller will ever win the brand loyalty of Mexicans-who can purchase several fine brands of Mexican beer that to many folks taste better than anything Miller makes. I think that Miller will in time truly regret ever having alienated a substantial block of their traditional customer base this way.

Happy Labor Day in post-America. What was once a celebration of American workers and their achievement of a middle class life under democratic capitalism is now more like a wake. Almost no blue-collar workers remain in the middle class as a result of the double-barreled attack of outsourcing and illegal immigration, and college-educated workers are losing ground as well.

Other than Lou Dobbs Tonight, there is little mainstream reporting about the shrinking middle class and the state of American workers, both blue and white collar. Labor Day is the one occasion per year in which editorial writers pretend to be interested in the well being of workers. The rest of the time, the tightwad scribblers opine in favor of open borders to maintain their supply of slavery-lite housekeepers and gardeners.

This morning’s call-in on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal was painful to hear. The topic was whether US workers had anything to celebrate, and the result was a dreary recounting of average families being crushed by the gradual loss of real income.

A black mom called and told the smirky administration cheerleader, Deputy Secretary of Labor Steven Law, that she raised her son to be a hard worker and good citizen. The young man is a college graduate, but every job he gets pays less than the last, as employment in his field disappears overseas.

A military veteran and former IT worker ripped the administration for its globalism, particularly the H-1b program for displacing American employees.

The good news is that the citizenry knows what’s going on and aren’t buying the administration’s economic happy talk. The bad news is that Washington feels it doesn’t have to pretend to represent the people any longer, a fact we in the pro-sovereignty movement know all too well.

Another mockery of the American worker’s day is how the illegals feel empowered to demand better wages and conditions even though it is their presence that has largely caused those losses in the first place. Funny how a principle as simple as supply and demand can be banished from the public sphere by repeating the lie “jobs Americans won’t do” relentlessly, like a magic spell.

Congress is coming back into session, unfortunately. And the Republican Establishment is mustering its forces to try and get the Pence Bill passed. This is the camouflaged version of the Senate’s Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration measure, which was originally designed to enable Helen Kreible to avoid paying high wages on her Colorado horse ranch. The hope is to create enough confusion to give the White House enforcers enough cover to wheel and deal with weaker or more venal would- be Pences in the House.

Promptly rallying to the cause is columnist Robert Novak, with a shallow piece of Pence puffery The GOP leadership failure – Monday, September 4 2006 TownHall.com. Little more than an effort to panic and flatter the House into capitulating, this posting is nevertheless revealing for two reasons. Novak asserts

Republicans are being lured into a nativist posture that is political fool’s gold.
George W. Bush, John McCain and Mike Pence dread a Republican descent into nativism.

“Nativism” of course is the term of abuse used by the Republican ruling class for any policy of consciously considering the interests of what is in fact the ethnic base of the party and the nation. Self interest of this type is permissible for Hispanics and others, but not for white Americans. Why does this upset the leadership so much?

The other interesting fact is the discovery by a reader signing himself “Tanabear” that the TownHall site would not let him refer to Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback program, telling him the word wetback was “inappropriate”. (No one had problems posting “nativist”.)

TownHall.com subtitles itself “Where your opinion counts”. If politically correct, that is.

Invade the World, Invite the World – and no free speech. A great platform for the Fall elections.

Along with a recent VDARE.COM reader, Michelle Malkin recently blogged on a Chicago Tribune story about Miller Brewing’s support of illegal immigration:

This time, as demonstrators march from Chinatown to House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R-Ill.) Batavia office this weekend, they will have Miller Brewing Co., as a sponsor. The brewer has paid more than $30,000 for a planning convention, materials and newspaper ads publicizing the event.

The support of a major corporation for a controversial political cause shows how fierce the competition has become to woo the growing market of Latino consumers.

What I think makes this one especially interesting is that Miller has a some substantial brands(i.e. Red Dog and Milwaukee’s Best Ice) that are specifically marketed largely to African Americans. As the Pew Report, Beyond Red and Blue, showed, the largely African American “Disadvantaged Democrats” are among the groups most concerned with immigration.

Jesse Jackson is already starting to waver a bit on the issue of illegal immigration. Also, the Jesse Jackson family have already successfully squeezed substantial money out of a major competing company:

In 1982, Jackson launched a “this Bud’s a dud” boycott of Anheuser-Busch because it had only three Black-owned distributors nationwide. After languishing for over a decade, the boycott movement received a boost when Budweiser’s River North distributorship was accused of denying promotions to several of its African American employees. Jackson came to the aid of the employees in 1997 shortly after the first EEOC suit was filed. Shortly thereafter, Anheuser Busch contributed $10,000 to Jackson’s Citizenship Education Fund, contributed over $500,000 to the Rainbow PUSH coalition, and established a $10 million fund to help non-whites buy distributorships. In 1998, the River North distributorship was purchased by two of Jackson’s sons Yusef and Jonathan Jackson. They refuse to publicly disclose how much they paid for the distributor, but the business was worth an estimated $25 to $30 million. Shortly after the sale, Jackson dropped his prior support of the Anheuser Busch boycott campaign.

I think that the Jackson family really ought to be be able to get at least another $40 or 50 Million out of Miller Brewing–if they don’t they are simply selling out way too cheaply. Now, it would mean that they’d have to get serious about a major problem facing the African American community. Now, I personally am willing to throw $50 Million of Millers’s ill-gotten money in the Jacksons’ direction if that is the price of at least temporary support of some prominent black activists for actually serving the interests of working blacks. Jesse Jackson Jr. has shown that he can learn on the issue of H-1b/L-1 expansion. Perhaps raw economic and political self-interest can help take him the rest of the way.

Miller is an especially interesting object of a boycott because the products they sell aren’t really necessities-or even especially healthy to use.