Eight more companies -- including Wal-Mart -- reportedly pull Glenn Beck ads
August 17, 2009 5:14 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From an August 17 ColorofChange.org press release:
Eight more Glenn Beck advertisers, including Wal-Mart – the world’s largest retailer – have confirmed to ColorOfChange.org that they pulled their ads from the controversial Fox News Channel broadcaster’s eponymous show. Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck.
Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Previous companies who pulled their ads include ConAgra, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Men’s Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Roche, SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, and State Farm Insurance.
“We are heartened to see so many corporate citizens step up in support of our campaign against Glenn Beck,” said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. “Their action sends a clear a message to Glenn Beck: Broadcasters shouldn’t abuse the privilege they enjoy by spewing dangerous and racially charged hate language over the air. No matter their political affiliation, hate language doesn’t belong in our national dialogue.”
Previously:
GMAC Financial Services has "ceased advertising on the Glenn Beck program"
ConAgra, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, RadioShack reportedly halting their Beck ads
Men's Wearhouse reportedly pulls ads from Glenn Beck
Sargento "won't be airing" ads during Glenn Beck
GEICO just saved a bunch of money by not advertising on Fox’s Glenn Beck
I'm going to miss his daily tirades, they remind me of a Satanic Sect.
Glen may suffer from a limited type of Dementia.
If he was on trial he would be tried in Abstentia.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
A) He's not going anywhere!
B) Who cares!
C) Who cares!
These advertisers are still spending the same amount of money on Faux Noise. Just moving the times the ads run. It does send a strong message to the bean counters and at the end of the day Faux is a business.
Beck is not the problem, Faux is. Even if you got rid of Beck they would just find someone else and of course you still have Hannity and all the other meatheads who are just as bad IMHO.
These advertisers are just moving their money and ads around---they're not touching Rupert's bottom line. Money is the only thing that counts to Rupert and as long as he's making money from Fox they'll still peddle the same load of lies they always have.
This is a moral victory, but it's not a crushing one. Not by a long shot. The fact that these advertisers are more selective in the kind of hate they'll support on Fox doesn't make them any less culpable.
First of all, most stations that run these shows (Ole BlunderRush, Sheer "Hot Air" InSannity, et. al.) do not pay for them. The syndicator provides the show, with national commercials, for free.
There are holes in each show for the local station to insert local commercials (and make money). InSannity brags about being on 525 stations. I'm estimating between 25 and 50 of those pay for the show - somewhere between 475 and 500 run the show for free.
This formula requires national advertisers to work. If they pull from Beck, that hurts the bottom line.
Chances are these national advertisers sign a contract to advertise on Faux Noise. Faux Noise then distributes the ads to the shows. The advertisers can't cancel those contracts - so they pull their ads from Beck and they are re-distributed to other shows. If the advertisers simply cancel, they lose their money.
But what happens when those contracts are up? This is going to make these huge national advertisers think long and hard about signing up again. If they do, Faux Noise will probably have to offer steep discounts to intice them to continue.
Either way: Bad news for Faux Noise. And their executive management is not enjoying this process. In this economy this is not what those folks want to deal with!
Any chance you read his book?
This will not be played out for the reality it is by the rest of corporate right-wing media... Somehow, these clowns will find a way to blame Carter or Clinton, or Pelosi or maybe Thom Hartmann or Rachel Maddow?? Anyone but Glen himself...
I see Beck being portrayed as a victim of liberal abuse or some such bullpoop!
...but then: When have they ever needed PROOF or EVIDENCE?
But that'll never happen, because being on the B or C-list of radio hatemongering is apparently quite enriching.
A lot? I don't see the term that much, and I've been around a lot longer than you have. I suppose you have reams of examples?
Yet there is more HATRED in these comments than on any "right-wing" radio show.
Okay, let's play that game, if you really want to. You pull up an example of what you think is "hatred" in these comments, and I'll pull up a fairly standard statement by Beck or Limbaugh or Savage or Dobbs that graces these pages, and we'll see which is actually more venomous. There isn't a chance in the world you could win that debate.
And do you deny that there are right-wing radio shows? Why the quotation marks?
Grow up and stop whining.
The casual observer will notice that the vast majority of the immaturity and whining on these boards comes from the defenders of Beck, et. al. Your own statements are, I believe, perfect examples.
However, they are still giving their advertising dollars to Fox.
Until Fox cleans up their act, and gets rid of other hate-mongering liars like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, and Fox News is made to tell the truth, this is unacceptable.
(P.S. Wal-Mart is still on my ***t list, it's going to take more than just this one good deed)
Again, baby steps, but they are getting better I think.
Wow, delusional world that you live in there. I'd call them, dare I say, responsible (at least on this front).
Redneck southerners boycotting Walmart.......yea right! LOL!
You want this to be about me. I'm flattered and all but you really should concentrate why you can't see the obvious.
And something like 12% of North Carolinians aren't sure that Hawaii is a state.
It's your party. Deal with it. Don't whine about "generalizations".
The reality is that a poll conducted by Research 2000 sponsored by Daily KOS found that 47% of southerners believe Obama was born in the United States, 23% say no, and 30% are unsure.
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/27-30. All adults. MoE 2%
Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?
Yes 77
No 11
Not sure 12
And here are the partisan and regional breakdowns, which show that the false belief that Obama was not born in this country is most commonly held by Republicans and residents of the South:
Yes No Not sure
Dem 93 4 3
Rep 42 28 30
Ind 83 8 9
Northeast 93 4 3
South 47 23 30
Midwest 90 6 4
West 87 7 6
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/31/760087/-Birthers-are-mostly-Republican-and-Southern
So here it seems you are simply guilty of propogating false information in a way very similiar to Glenn Beck, Sean Hannnity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and many others. Does your hypocrisy have any limits?
Secondly, your assertion about North Carlonians indicates a level of ignorance.
According to Public Policy Polling:
"The 8% of North Carolinians who don't think Hawaii is a state or don't know whether it is seems to be getting the most attention in our poll this week. Here's how they break down demographically:
-54% are Republicans, 38% are Democrats, and 9% are independents
-55% are conservatives, 34% are moderates, and 11% are liberals
-39% live in rural areas, 35% in small towns, 15% are suburbanites, and 11% live in urban areas
-41% are over 65, 29% between 46 and 65, 19% between 30 and 45, and 11% under 30.
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-doesnt-think-hawaii-is-state.html
So here again, we see that you are either woefully ignorant or willfully dishonest.
I certianly don't care either way, but for you to indicate that it is a fact that 50+% of southerners dont' think Obama was born in the u.s. and something like 12% of North Carolinians are't sure that Hawaii is a state is not only wrong, but even if it was true, it lends no credibility to mustardman's hasty generalization. For you to try to defend ignorance with more ignorance is appalling.
As for the second point they were wrong, 8%, not 12% of North Carolinans are seriously under-educated about the country they inhabit and have never watched Hawaii 5-0. However there is no evidence that the error is malicious rather than poor recall, and I fail to see how providing the demographic breakdown of the 8% adds to your argument of woeful ignorance or willful dishonesty. All it does is show that the educational shortfall is worst in rural areas and small towns, I feel the party trends is probably white noise caused by geographical voting patterns.
They have the advantage of having owners with deep pockets and a political agenda to push.
Billions lost
Unfortuately, so many of the people that voted for this socialist, are too young to remember what freedom is. They would just as well, sit back, and let the government take care of them, rather than make something of themselves.
Not to be speaking out against our president, but of all the items he campained with, and all the things GWB was supposed to be guilty of, Barry more that makes up for any of GWBs' faults and quadruples the problems we have now.
What we need are jobs, all the rest will take care of itself. Unfortunately, the job market can't support all of the new taxes that will have to be put on business if this silly healthcare issue is adopted.
To get the jobs back, we have to give up letting the politicians wag the dog. Private citizens made this country great many years ago, and as politicians gained more power, the country has lost it's greatness.
Who's our president?
Who's Barry?
What media is telling it like it is and being shut down?
Who is saying he's not speaking out against the Prez, but is?
What is silly about the healthcare reform and why?
What problems has this Barry fellow that you refer to quadrupled?
Nothing is silly about health care reform in general. What's silly is the democrat's health care reform bill. I don't even know where to begin with how ridiculous that is.
"What problems has this Barry fellow that you refer to quadrupled?"
Let's see. The economic problems, the deficit, apologizing to dictators, etc.
This country has always been only as great as the opportunity offered to the least of it's citizens, not the opportunity for its corporations to profit above all other considerations.
You know nothing about what this country is all about, or the people who've made it what is is.
Others, when faced with the prospect of working, and earning their way through school, usually do darn well for themselves, because they depended upon themselves for their future. Do me a favor and read "Atlas Shrugged" sometime, or you can just sit back and watch real life in America simulate it under the current administration.
You have just made me realize that just when I thought it was impossible for someone else to suddenly appear here at the MMfA forum to be as idiotic, moronic, ignorant of facts and reality, and incapable of making much sense since RightOn (among a few others) that they took the cake...
But your post proved... that I was wrong to think it was impossible!
aT THIS POINT IN HISTORY AMERICA NEEDS UNIVERSAL HEALTH OR BAN THE IMPORTATION OF ALL FORIEGN PRODUCTS!
One at a time, team. One at a time. And look...he's getting nervous!! --->
Yeah, poor guy. Right. I hope he gets blacklisted myself.
Each and everyday, he makes himself a bigger glutenous maximus.
Good riddance.
Sad, but true. I wish it was different...
Remember, Bill Hicks called the US "The United States of Advertising".
Sad, but true...
James Rucker:
James Rucker serves as executive director of ColorOfChange.org. Prior, James served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action and was instrumental in developing and executing on fundraising, technology, and campaign strategies. Prior to joining MoveOn, James worked in various roles in the software industry in the San Francisco and has provided coaching and technology consulting for other start-up ventures.
Rucker is not an advisor to Obama. And hence, no government pressure on advertisers.
When will these corporations stop violating Glenn Beck's free speech by not paying him to air their advertisements? Its worse than the gulags!!! Will it never end?????????
It doesn't surprise me that you don't understand the meaning of the word "censorship". It also doesn't surprise me that your side also doesn't know the definition of freedom, socialism, communism, or "general welfare".
If you had stayed awake in Civics class those many years ago, you wouldn't be so ignorant today.
Okay, but when the ultimate goal is to SILENCE a person's free expression of ideas and opinions, that's censorship - No matter the means, the end is the same.
You, goodfella, haven't even the FOGGIEST idea what you're talking about! LOL
If you don't like it, don't listen, or better yet, don't buy the advertisers products. THAT'S a boycott. Harassing the advertisers with the ultimate goal of SILENCING or stopping the media from broadcasting opinions with which you don't agree - sorry, that's censorship.
Last I heard, Beck still had a radio and a TV show. It's called the free market jerky. The advertisers paying Beck money don't like what he's saying, and so they pull their advertising dollars from his show. It's called making a business decision, and not wanting to be affiliated with a hateful, violence invoking jack-a**.
Now, if the govt made a law going against everything Beck was saying, THAT would be censorship, and oppression of freedom of speech. Nobody is doing that, and nobody is saying Beck can't say what he's saying, but advertisers are more than free to take their money and business elsewhere.
You guys have no idea what censorship really means do you? Freedom is alive and well. Again, nobody has been put in jail or censored, it's all in your head.
The advertisers will be back, and so will the economy improve, when Obama loses his job.
No government interference, so the First Amendment isn't at issue.
AS I've asked before...Why do you want to deprive me of my right to be entertained by these people? What has he done that has offended you to the point that you just can't go on? Give me the WORST CASE -
This is a right?
But somehow healthcare coverage for all isn't.
I posted the list of sponsors of Glenn Beck's monday show (Aug 17) on my DailyKos diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/18/765452/-The-Glenn-Beck-Sponsor-list-for-Aug-17,-2009-2PM-show-(Directv-westcoast-feed)
First off, this article is absolute crap. These sponsors (for the most part) are NOT leaving because of what Beck said, but because they do not advertise on political talk shows. Big difference. Only Geico from what I've read ON THIS SITE indicated they will not advertise on Beck.
And guess what...Geico just lost 10+ million potential consumers.
Color of Change is a race baiting, hateful liberal site. If this country is to remain great, it must remain true to its principles. And people like DanD need to learn how to have honest, intellectual debate without resorting to the Saul Alinsky method.