THE PROCTER & GAMBLE HOAX

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE HOAX

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August 17, 1999 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - For more than 20 years, a hoax has been perpetrated upon the Procter and Gamble Company, and it has been frequently revitalized via the Internet. I have received dozens of e-mails from well-meaning people warning me that the head of Procter & Gamble appeared on the Phil Donahue Show to announce that he is a Satanist and that P&G tithes its income to the Church of Satan. This man is alleged to have stated that even if church people wanted to protest, there "are not enough Christians in the United States to make a difference." Recipients are urged to send copies of the message to all their friends, and thus by the marvel of electronic mail the message is multiplied across the world like wildfire.

FRIENDS, THIS IS A COMPLETE AND UNMITIGATED HOAX. The story is unreasonable upon its very face. There is no single owner of Procter and Gamble who can do with the profits whatever he might please to do. It is a publicly owned corporation, and the company’s officers are answerable to the shareholders for every dollar they spend. No corporation executive would be foolish enough to make the statements alleged to have been made by the "head of" Procter & Gamble. As far back as 1982 and as recently as 1995, Phil Donahue has publicly denied that the president of Procter & Gamble has ever appeared on his show.