George Will has a good piece this week discussing the Left’s anti-WalMart crusade. He notes that a recent issue of The American Prospect has an ad denouncing WalMart for “‘lies, deception, immorality, corruption, and widespread labor, human rights and environmental abuses’ and for having brought ‘great hardship and despair to people and communities throughout the world.’”

Predictably, MoveOn is in the middle of this strange crusade to defend us from the WalMart hordes: One of the back pages of MoveOn’s famed website promotes an anti-WalMart documentary. In the words of its creators, the film “uncovers a retail giant’s assault on families and American values.”

In truth, more than 120 million Americans shop at WalMart every week, and for good reason: WalMart offers a range of goods at low prices. As a matter of fact, a poll conducted by the Pew Center for People and the Press revealed that “WalMart’s most faithful shoppers are found among those with annual incomes below $30,000.” Likewise, 33 percent of those with incomes above $50,000 are also frequent WalMart shoppers. Why wouldn’t a self-styled “progressive” organization like MoveOn support businesses that serve the Middle Class by keeping prices low—businesses like WalMart? (As I wrote earlier this week, it’s not the only example of inconsistency at MoveOn.)

Despite MoveOn’s efforts, 84 percent of Americans have shopped at WalMart in the past year; and 81 percent of Americans who live near a WalMart have positive views about the company. In other words, WalMart is an integral part of life for most Americans—whether MoveOn’s elitists-masquerading-as-populists like it or not.

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