Redstate lashes out at "Obama Brownshirts," calls for boycott of companies dropping Beck's show
August 14, 2009 1:30 pm ET by Media Matters staff
Apparently panicked over ColorOfChange.org's increasingly successful efforts to hold Glenn Beck and Fox News accountable for Beck's race-baiting, right-wing websites have gone into full attack mode. At Redstate, for example, Erick Erickson defends Beck's assertion that President Obama is a "racist," claiming that "it's not a stretch to say it." Erickson goes on to call for a boycott of companies that have pulled out of Beck's show and who, according to Erickson, are "kowtowing to Barack Obama's worshippers, brownshirts, goons, and thugs." He writes:
We need to strike back and boycott these groups for ditching Beck. If they are going to fold so easily in the face of Obama brownshirts, we must push back. If not, who'll be next?
Here's the list of the groups that have boycotted Glenn Beck. Let them know you disagree. Let them know you will boycott them for kowtowing to Barack Obama's worshippers, brownshirts, goons, and thugs.
SC Johnson:
Fisk Johnson Chairman & CEO
Phone: (262)260-2000Petrell Ozbay
Senior Global Public Affairs Manager
Phone: (262) 260-2114
pmozbay@scj.comProgressive Insurance:
Glenn Renwick, President & CEO- (440)461-5000Linda Harris, Advertising & Sponsorships
Linda_J._Harris@progressive.comGeico:
Tony Nicely
Chairman, President & CEO, Insurance Operations
E-mail: tnicely@geico.com
(301) 986-2462Chris Tasher, GEICO Media Relations
301-986-3271
ctasher@geico.com
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The Fox hate generator needs advertising to run. They can't solely be powered by hot air and methane gas from their BS.
Randy
Color of Change and their supporters are protected by free speech to write and boycott Becky's sponsors, and Becky can continue to be an activist for the Klan. America is awesome.
The conservtaives are right about one thing: Market Forces will always prevail.
(Too bad they don't know gott damned thing about the free market.)
(OT, but my plumber (Louie, not Joe) once put the same sentiment a different way: Water Always Wins.) ;)
How would one go about getting the corporations to continue advertising on Beck's show?
Would those siding with Beck come up with the proof that there are FEMA camps? Would they tell the companies that Beck is right, the president is a racist?
The only way for anyone to defend Beck to the sponsors is to show them that they are as brain addled as he is.
Beck's minions don't understand how effective boycotts work. These sponsors are trying to sell their products to all Americans. Beck might have high ratings but not high enough to keep sponsors when he alienates 80 percent of the potential customers.
You would think most corporations would only sponsor shows that actually debate issues or focus on informing the public without being associated on one single pundit celebrity. Why is an hour of Beck worth associating with as opposed to something more balanced and less about a personality whose opinions by definition are always flawless to their viewers and listeners?
Also. 80%? really? you seriously think that 80% of the population cares what Glenn Beck says one way or another? Get real.
And we'll counterstrike by patronizing these groups for ditching Beck.
Then the market shall decide. Fair enough?
LMAO
HA HA HA HE HE HE HE
Oh whew- excuse me for laughing but these people crack me up!
"I am going to boycott you for not supporting Glenn Beck's hate speech and jokes about poisoning Nancy Pelosi! How dare you cave in to President Obama's brownshirts, goons, and thugs "
Oh yeah that will work!
These folks are looney tune for sure
The rightwing extremists do a very good job of turning out their people - so we need to do our best to drown them out with our own voices.
Why would any enterprise listen to someone who has already announced he or she will no longer do business with it?
The beauty of the ColorOfChange position is that its members can explain they would like to continue as customers - if the advertising is removed.
There is a world of difference between those two positions!
Excepting that Keith actually uses facts to support his opinions.
with the crucial exception that people actually find Beck to be entertaining.
In much the same way some people laugh at bathroom humor, race-baiting jokes, and generally clownish behavior - you know, like Looney Toons.
That sums up countdown pretty well. In addition to his futile attempts at humor, he calls every obama critic a racist.
That may or may not be true, but it doesn't matter much because so few people watch that half-wit.
Dog fighting is entertaining to some people, as well... But Beck resides at a so-called news network. <cough, cough...gag> You would think being accurately informative would trump BEING entertaining at a news network. Apparently not a FOX.
If the sponsors are satisfied with reaching only the twenty percenters like you, fine, let them advertise to only you.
If on the other hand they want to reach the majority of Americans they'll move their advertising to a less offensive program.
That's how free marketing and advertising work.
Advertisers want to reach those with the most disposable income and I seriously doubt that the bedwetters who hang on Beck's every utterance are the big spenders that Proctor & Gamble are targeting with their ads.
Most of all, despite how many eyes are watching the show, advertisers run from controversy. No matter how popular a show, if a large enough segment of the population finds it offensive, the sponsors will go elsewhere.
WK, I refuse to believe that Glenda's fans make up any more than a single digit percentage of Americans.I also doubt this wingnut Boycott will have any effect, assuming that Depends and Reynolds Wrap aren't sponsors.
I will be contacting the above companies that were principled enough to distance themselves from this right wing clown show.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
More people get their news from NPR than any other source on radio or television.
If we accept the dubious claim that the media has a liberal bias, that would mean that more people watch and read liberal news than the obviously conservative/wingnut version of the news presented on Fox.
Ratings aren't everything.
"Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" --Apocryphal Ford's Theater manager.
Where is "fair"-liberal with that wonderful Paris Business website again? Everytime we talk about boycotts, "fair"-liberal should be required to post and defend that hilarious website again. Come on, "Fair" - do it for me...
This isn't a free speech issue. The First Amendment deals ONLY with the prohibition of Government control of speech. I exercised my right to my opinion and told the companies that I thought that Beck was dangerous. I did not threaten to boycott the companies products, just asked if they really wanted their products associated with this man's nasty mouth.
That's ridiculous. O'Reilly should take no blame whatsoever for the guy's murder. Many pro-lifers think the guy "killed babies." Whether you think they qualified as "people" or not, many I'm sure were darn close, with their hearts beating, their fingers and toes forming, and their heads and brains taking shape. That they weren't viable is little solace for some people, who don't think "viability" determines whether the living creature was a baby, and that his/her termination was a "killing." O'Reilly was perfectly entitled to offer his opinion on the fellow. Abortion is an issue about which very strong opinions are voiced on both sides.
With Beck, all I'm saying is that this little exercise of free speech will come to nothing. He'll find no shortage of advertisers and easily will replace each one that dumps him
The difference in the opinions on the pro-choice position is that they don't result in people killing cops, security guards, doctors or other contributing members of society.
If killing is wrong, it is wrong. No death penalty. No abortion in cases of rape or incest. No war. And no assassination of abortion providers. Any position that falls short of that is hypocrisy.
"Judgement is mine sayeth the Lord."
It is wrong to defend Dr. Tiller's killer and it was wrong to feed his twisted psychology.
And it's dishonest to attribute the murder of that man to o'reilly. O'Reilly never advocated that anybody do harm to Dr. Tiller. Labeling Dr. Killer a "baby killer" was no way to further the debate, but it wasn't incitement by any stretch. I'm sure Scott Roeder considered Tiller a "baby killer" without O'Reilly having to say it. Injecting Oreilly into the fray was simply a self-serving cheap shot by his competitors -- namely, the cast of sychophants on msnbc.
The difference in the opinions on the pro-choice position is that they don't result in people killing cops, security guards, doctors or other contributing members of society.
Your point is as inane as saying that the difference in the opinions on the pro-life position is that they don't result in people killing babies. 99% of pro-lifers don't go around killing people.
Although I oppose the death penalty, I see obvious distinctions between putting to death individuals convicted of heinous crimes and putting to death entirely innocent babies. In my view, your analogies are inapposite.
It doesn't matter who you advocate or incite violence against. It' wrong in any and every case.
I'd like to know how many of the people objecting were actually consumers of their products. I'll be very few.
I've never purchased any item that Proctor & Gamble has ever produced and I've never eaten cheese made by any company, especially Sargento. And being a filthy communist, I've never had any use for the cleaning products sold by the SC Johnson Company.
You guys are too sharp for me that's for sure.
Blecch is an opportunist and a bag of wind. The advertisers that have pulled out of his hour of trash have made a sound business decision.
Here's the Beck segment by itself...might load faster.
But it won't matter to Glenda's fans that this shows him to be completely fullashyte. He's telling the monkeys what they want to hear now, and he's entertaining.
And you are right - it won't make a bit of difference to the sheep.
Has nothing to do with the alleged "liberal thought police". It has to do with having their companies associated with a sociopath.
He's not so marketable now is he? Advertisers are pulling their ads. If he were SOOOO marketable, they wouldn't do this. Again, someone defending Beck ignoring the facts of the matter. Imagine that?
He is nowhere near Olberman, and I don't even like Olberman that much, or at all for that matter. Tell me when Olberman talked about poisoning the Speaker of the House. Tell me when Olberman called people he disagreed with Nazis and so on. Tell me the last time someone shot someone citing Olberman as a source for their information.
They're not even close to being equivalent.
And something that you should know, you emailed business people. It is not the same as posting at Freeperville and Redstate. These people are biased toward their own Corporation. And when you use simpleton words like "thought-police", I'll bet that they immediately call for a Board meeting to discuss your letter. You just showed them what kind of people listen to Beck.
If Beck is marketable then he will just get other advertisers. What is the big deal. These companies chose to not advertise on his program. Plain and simple.
Oh...that's right. We already are.
That's about 3K they will be losing from us, per year. You see, we can play this game too.
That's the ticket!
I bet that mean old gecko lizard is crying real tears at the loss of your $3,000!
Well maybe they are right>>>>>>> as seeing most of these company's are still using fox to advertise on.
smiles just saying
That's what advertising is all about. not so much atracting an audience but reaching a specific audience.
I doubt they're being 100 % honest with you.