Commemorative Throw Blanket Sold on ShopNBC

A columnist for a Canadian newspaper (who happens to admire George W. Bush and live in Tulsa, OKlahoma) cites ShopNBC’s selling of a Commemorative Barack Obama “Believe” Throw Blanket as an example of tiresome and unhealthy hero worship.  He cites other, more forceful examples, such as CBS’s modifying its famous eye logo to look like the logo of the Obama campaign, but his diatribe poses an interesting question for the DRTV networks.  Did they go too far with all the commemorative plates and other products, not to mention the live remote from an inaugural ball.  Oprah Winfrey suffered a self-inflicted wound (well, nick) when she — as she put it — stepped out of her pew to endorse Obama in 2007.  Did the shopping networks alienate a significant number of their loyal GOP customers by so eagerly embracing political events as a selling opportunity? The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) Feb. 25, 2009