Transcript: Wal-Mart Targeted in Hyperbolic Ads

MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
04-02-2007
Wal-Mart Targeted in Hyperbolic Ads

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 20:00-21:00 PM


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MELISSA BLOCK, host:

An anti-Wal-Mart group is changing its strategy. Rather than attack America's largest retailer for low wages or minimal health insurance, the union group now says Wal-Mart is bad for U.S. national security.

As NPR's Adam Davidson explains, the anti-Wal-Mart activists are hoping this shift will them create a broader coalition that includes conservative Republicans.

ADAM DAVIDSON: If you've seen the ad, you'll probably remember it. It's pretty shocking.

(Soundbite of television ad)

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