Advertisers dump Glenn Beck
August 06, 2009 11:33 am ET by Eric Boehlert
From ColorofChange.org news release:
Three companies who run ads during Glenn Beck -- NexisLexis-owned Lawyers.com, Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance -- today distanced themselves from Beck. LexisNexis has pulled its advertising from Beck and says it has no plans to advertise on the program in the future. Both Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance called the Beck advertising placements an error that they would correct.
The decision by the three companies comes as over 45,000 ColorofChange.org members call on advertisers to pull their ads from Glenn Beck after the controversial news host called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" on "Fox & Friends" last week.
"Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention," said John Michaels, Senior Communications Manager at LexisNexis in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We have suspended further advertising during Mr. Beck's program."
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After generations of injustice and hatred, there is a lot of hurt and anger that has been passed down. It is hard not to interpret these events through those old lenses.
Now Rev. Wright, that is entirely another matter. I do find his rhetoric hateful; however wrong those injustices were.
--Let Forgiveness Flow to reconciliation to restore us all to right relationships.
So you're offended on how Obama knew his mother? Or you're offended *for* his mother? What business is it of yours how Obama knew his mother. Unless you can prove him wrong (decades later), it's none of your business.
As for Beck "bringing attention to items not reported by the mainstream," he IS part of the mainstream despite his protestations to the contrary. Most of the items he reports are FALSE. I've been listening to Beck on the radio for several years. He's crazy.
That was the way it was in the pre civil rights era. Knowledge is power 'Notmyrealname' and you will not get it from watching Glenn Beck or FOX news... READ! Oh and just in case of rebuttal; Barack Obama wrote that book(Dreams of my Father) before he was elected to Congress just after his mother passed away. 1st published in 1995.
I don't see the difference. There was a difference made because, at the time, there was an explicit intolerance of blacks. That is intolerance, that is racism. Doesn't matter if everyone on the block felt that way, or everyone in the church. It is racism.
Never heard of GB till my husband saw him on CNN I believe & then popped up on Fox - I love his caring and love of America and truth, the silliness does not appeal to us. We are more concerned with the truth - the real truth and he seems to be one of many that is letting us know.
Wonder why anyone would listen to someone they thought was crazy for several years?
This morning Beck went on for about 10 minutes with apocalyptic warnings about the end times being near-- and then he directly segued into a commercial for some gold dealer.
This is happening all over the right wing talk shows-- this catering program content to the advertisers. It's a first.
It's all a show. There is no real news on that channel, it caters to the crazies.
I would put Beck, Olberman, O'Reilly, Limbaugh et al. in the same category as Marylin Manson, Ziggy Stardust, Howard Stern and ALice Cooper.
I am in no way saying that the TALENT is equal, but they are all characters who are ENTERTAINERS!!!
Glenn Beck is not now nor has he EVER been a serious journalist, he is a clown putting on a show!!
The REAL scary part in all this is that some people don't know any better.
(I was actually hoping for some "RIGHT ON!" by people like... RightOn! But unfortunately they all know me too well to fall for it! Oh well.)
Addendum to Sun Tzu art of war. When your enemy is in a deep hole give them more shovels.
ColorofChange aren't merely racists...they're ACORN!
(running wildly around the room crying and screaming) ACORN! ACORN!
He's on in six minutes...
Losing Advertisers? That won't make Roger Ailes Grin.
Keep on pushing your Hate.
What will be written in the end is your own Fate.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
What is the big deal if a few advertisers' cancel thier advertising? Don't they have rights also? Don't these WingNutz say if you don't like what I say, change the station? Well, we changed the station and called your advertisers, isn't this the America you preach? Sort of like a town hall fracas but the other side is doing it.
I am sure that Rush and SeannieTheSissy Boy will stand up for the rights of all Americans and say this is CHOICE at its finest.
On the Quinn post, I wrote that this morning, he suggested that if Congressmen don't hold TownHall meeting that people should go to that persons' house and stay until they get the answers they want. Not thier District Office but to thier home. This can only create a problem which he will then use on his hateful radio show. He'll use his pawns to further himself.
Hey Repubs, don't you remember that we are still out here. Because you squeal like baby pigs everyday doesn't mean everyone went away.
We are HERE...ask Glenn because his Advertisers are Going, Going, Gone.
Have you read our Constitution yet?
Pretty soon, it will just be gold buying ads, and other stuff that he does voiceovers for.
I love using thier own language on them when they lose. This is really a shot accross the bow for FOX because if they criticize the advertisers in any way, they risk having all the shows re-evaluated.
I feel daylight again, however fleeting. Maybe this starts a trend?
now we need to get this done to more of the crackpots.
have to check and see who this ColorOfChange.org is but sounds like they might have the in on the advertisers.
Bad comparison.
But thanks anyway for playing...
Roops is really a brilliant guy. Frighteningly amoral, but brilliant. If FNC's bottom line takes enough of a hit over these antics, he'll put the brakes on Doughboy.
Now if only O'Reilly could just hurry up and drink himself to death already...
Praying and begging for the destruction of the U.S. and untold numbers of innocent Americans doesn't strike ME as Patriotic. It doesn't strike ME as very "Christian" either.
So what does that REALLY make them?
Other than EVIL?
Over the many years I have seen this government change for the worst. Just now the public is waking up to the reality. Over the years the citizens were working to keep body and soul alive and neglected what the government was doing. The properganda the government put out we belived and now it is coming home to roost.
Keep the Faith. Glenn is telling the truth. He us not a hate person he is a person of truth.
Here's the link to the product line from Proctor and Gamble. In case you'd rather not support them anymore either.
http://www.pg.com/common/product_sitemap.shtml
I'm also switching my motorcycle insurance and encouraging the rest of my MC to do the same.
If Glenn thinks he is describing a tennable, middle-of-the-road position, then sponsors leaving means they are radical leftists who do not wish to support freedom of speech--at least that's one way that I would surmise GB to react.
This does not shock me at all. I watched Fox News a bit before the election (along with CNN and MSNBC) and while I felt some slant to the right, they seemed to try and balance a bit.
However, since the election it has been horrible. They seem to start EVERY newscast with "WHAT DID OBAMA SCREW UP TODAY, STAY TUNNED." There is no balanace at all. Beck is another example of how Fox, perhaps upset with the outcome of the election, has decided to become the "ANTI-OBAMA NETWORK".
I don't believe Obama has done everything every day right. However, I don't expect an American network to bash the president day in and out... BE BALANCED.
He has not done that. He promised to reach across the isle. He has not done that.
President Obama has brought change, alright. If anyone thought our country couldn't be divided more than under President Bush, think again. Today we are more divided than ever.
President Obama is supposed to be the president of ALL the people, not just liberals and progressives. On that mission he has failed completely. He acts like his progressive mission is what everyone wants. He is wrong.
Dear Mr. President,
Act like a President not a progressive idialogue.
Obama has met with republicans several times and been rebuffed several times by them. Within one week of his inauguration he invited republicans to meet with him. He has persistently attempted to include republicans on most issues without much success.