For Sale: Videos of Wal-Mart Execs In Drag

Wal-Mart is not happy.
Flagler Productions Inc., a production company hired by Wal-Mart in the 1970s to film company events, has begun selling the videos to, well, whoever wants them. The videos, of which there are thousands, contain everything from company executives dressing in drag to, let's say, less than pleasant rants on the merits of organized labor.

In a statement to ABC News, Wal-Mart responded to this banana-hammockery in a eerily calm manner with the following:
"Needless to say, we did not pay Flagler Productions to tape internal meetings with this aftermarket in mind. It's definitely an unusual business model on their end, and we can't imagine too many other clients will be eager to pay for this service."
Creepy.
We are not fooled by the soothing tone of this politically correct statement and fully expect every employee of Flagler Productions to be utterly destitute within the next 48 hours.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsFredApr 12th 2008 5:56PM
There's something really weird in every way about this.
It's really hard to believe that this Flagler outfit is for realor if so, that it would do this or that Wal-Mart's response is for real. What is this "Switched" by Engaget all about. Is this whole thing some sort of spoof or late April Fools story?
clyd kingApr 12th 2008 6:19PM
work for wal mart to bring a pay check home to your wife and kids to eat .then get fired becauce you are tred of haveing to work off the clock. i am to be called to court for the state of tn vs wal mart. so if you lol you must work for head office of wal mart
Albert J. ReineApr 12th 2008 6:22PM
Sam Walton would turn over in his grave; This will be a big seller in San Francisco and California; They have better looking Drag Queens in LA or SF; Is THIs A NEW MARKET FOR WALMART ? MAYBE ROOSIE SHOULD BE THE NEW CEO or Public Relations ? NICE FAMILY STORE Right ? They Pay Good ? They Treat Their Employees with respect and they have real good benfits ? RIGHT RIGHT What about the Chinese Dog Food, and allthe American jobs gone because of Wal Mart and their Business ? WHAT ABOUT HILLARY, SHE WAS ON THEIR CORPATE SIDE ? GREAT COMPANY AND GREAT BENFITS, THIs WILL Be ONE OF WAL MARTS GREETERS !
PINKFLOWERApr 12th 2008 6:37PM
THE ONLY THIS CREEPY IS THE COMPANY WHO IS TRYING TO SELL THESE INTERNAL VIDEOS.
Ray RenoApr 12th 2008 6:42PM
I thought that Sam Walton was the founder of Wal Mart. Who is Ed Walton?
Mary WoodApr 12th 2008 6:44PM
I just love it when a reporter, filled with righteous indignation, messes up on one of the most basic facts of a story. You have got to have been out of touch with the universe for the last 50 years or dumb as a box of rocks to get the name of the founder of Wal-Mart wrong. If that didn't ring a bell, where do you think they got the name for "Sams"?
Executives of major corporations have been performing in skits, many times in drag, at motovational meetings FOREVER! This is a non-story (except, of course, for the exposure of the ignorance of the reporter!)
kayeApr 12th 2008 7:29PM
The drag routines used by walmart management are treated as rewards for employees meeting goals-the management get cash bonuses-the hourly workers get the right to watch their bosses live out their dreams as drag queens.
the worst part of walmart management thinking is that king george w. uses the same techniques-
GillsgirlApr 12th 2008 7:31PM
It's absurd to try and make a connection between something some execs who don't even work for WalMart anymore or are dead and link it with current legal troubles. You don't even know who founded WalMart, get your facts and then come talk to me. Dumbass.
CaroleApr 12th 2008 7:36PM
I work for Wal-Mart. They have been good to me. My husband passed away 1/2/08 They gave me a month off with pay. Thanks for letting me speak my mind
BOApr 12th 2008 7:50PM
A THIRTY FIVE YEAR OLD TAPE GIVE ME A BREAK ID LIKE TO SEE HILLARY,BILLY AND OBANGER THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO
ColleenApr 12th 2008 10:36PM
We've all been caught with our panties down, but to have the one who pulled them down sell the [down] pictures of our upsetness/okay-so-what to the media/goonsquad is civil theft (of our peace and sort-of-quiet).
CiciOregon (Colleen)
tieras777Apr 12th 2008 8:10PM
UNCLE DICK THINKS THIS ACTION WAS DISGUSTING. YOU WOULDN'T FIND HIM DRESSED IN THIS MANNER IF UNCLE DICK SHOULD EVER WANT TO WEAR PANTIES, HE WOULD DO IT IN THE PRIVACY OF HIS OWN HOME WITH LYNN WATCHING.
THE MASKED MAN.
Jimmy R. CashApr 12th 2008 8:15PM
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE DUBYA BUSH AND GRAMPS MCCAIN (MCBUSH) THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO.
THE MASKED MAN.
DaleApr 13th 2008 6:10AM
John,
That's GREAT that you do that!! I wish more guys would. But the thing is, you should wear what you want to wear just because you want to wear it, not to try to pass. If you're doing it to try to pass, even badly, it's the same as trying to hide the fact that you're a guy in women's clothes.
There have been men's skirts made recently, too, but I've only ever seen one guy wear one on the street, another guy, who was going for a more punk/death metal "I'm a guy and I'm wearing this skirt to look threatening" look was wearing an ankle length black skirt with a matching black top and a long black pony tail. No problem at all with any of that, I was really glad to see him wear it, but if women can wear men's pants and be perfectly accepted, why can't guys wear womens skirts (etc.) and be accepted?
I used to work in an office at a bank a few years ago and couldn't help notice how women working there were allowed to wear fairly short skirts, and all they did was sit at machines all day, but my job was to run all over the entire floor dozens of times a day moving work from one fuction to the next and, since we can't open windows, I get VERY hot up there on the top floor, but guys aren't allowed to wear shorts! I took this up with one of my bosses, she agreed with me that it's not fair. I put it to her that, since there's nothing in the rules that says a guy can't wear a skirt, I should be allowed to. She agreed again and said that I SHOULD come to work in a skirt and see if anything happens and she said that if I get into trouble, I can say that she said it was okay. So, I came to work the next day in a fairly short skirt. At least half of the people on the floor (a few hundred worked there) loved the fact that I was there in a skirt! When other bosses came to me about it saying I couldn't wear a skirt there, they agreed with me about the logic of wearing one there, but said I couldn't wear it there. They were going to send me home to change into pants, but I brought a pair with me just in case. There were SO many people there that WANTED me to put the skirt back on!! For months afterwards people were still saying every so often that I should wear a skirt again. Quite a few were guys. I told them, I will if you will. But I never had any takers.
What I don't get is that a guy seems to live by how "big" his balls are, so he simply can't wear a skirt because he would "lose his balls", or maybe all of his testosterone would suddenly escape from his body, but it seems to me that it would take a lot MORE balls for a guy to wear a skirt!! If you're so worried about "losing your balls" over something like that, it just tells me that you're really insecure and your balls aren't as big as you like to think they are.
I've been wearing a skirt and pantyhose on stage for nearly 20 years now in my band and MOST of my fans DEMAND that I wear the skirt, now!! Women have actually come up to me and said they wish their legs looked as good as mine.
So, keep it going, John!!!! I know I will!!