So who’s still advertising on Beck? His August 24 sponsors were ...
August 24, 2009 7:52 pm ET by Media Matters staff
Thirty-six companies have now reportedly said they will no longer run ads on Glenn Beck's Fox News show.
Media Matters for America has compiled a list of companies that did run ads on Glenn Beck this evening (August 24) in the order they appeared:
- DirecTV
- Binder & Binder
- EasyWater
- Liberty Medical
- Superior Gold Group
- Bank of America
- Rosland Capital
- Johnson Law Group
- Citrix (GoToMeeting)
- Carbonite
- Merit Financial
- Applebee's
- Discover Bank (Discover Card)
- Binder & Binder
- Pulaski & Middleman
- Bank of America
- Pulaski & Middleman
- Sandals Resort
- The Villages
- Smart Balance
- Rosland Capital
- Zero Technologies (ZeroWater)
Directv
Bank of America
Applebee's
Sandals
Smart Balance (Conagra?)
Discover
The rest don't seem to be as big although I'm not looking hard.
I shudder at the thought of a full hour of the alcoholic loon, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
MONDAY, AUG. 24, 2009
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,440,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,937,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,810,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,450,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,066,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,860,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,114,000
CNN KING 1,063,000
MSNBC MADDOW 885,000
CNN COOPER 827,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 640,000
Again, the numbers dont lie, and the boycott is a joke!!
Ratings are irrelevant. The companies who've decided not to advertise on the Beck show made a business decision. They'd like to sell their products to everyone, not just the twenty percenters. Their concern is that Beck is alienating the majority of their potential customers, the entire population of the US.
And if ratings are the yardstick we use to measure success.
KATIE COURIC CBS EVENING NEWS 6,500,000 VIEWERS!!!!!!!!
(Translated for those who don't speak birfer, since the above line was typed in caps it has to be true. And since eight exclamation points were added at the end, that's sufficient verification.)
END OF STORY!!!!!!!!
That's encouraging. Maybe things aren't so bad.
THIS ISN'T a FREE SPEECH ISSUE, PEOPLE! This is a business issue. Beck exercised his right to speak freely without government interference, I exercised my right to speak freely without government interference and the business exercised their right to speak freely without government interference in telling Glenn Beck that they didn't want their products associated with his lying, hateful mouth any longer.
BTW, you are aware that Beck's total audience represents only a very, very, very, very, very minute segment of the American population. I mean REALLY minute.
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."-Truth!
This is an accurate quote from the introduction to Dreams from My Father. The book chronicles Obama's experience as the son of an African father and an American mother.
"There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."-Truth!
This is a quote from Dreams from My Father. It it in a section in which Obama describes a job interview with a man in Chicago. Race had been a part of their discussion and the full quote is, "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white---he'd said himself that was a problem."
It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."-Truth!
This one is also from Dreams from My Father. It is from a section when Obama was a college student and wrestling with his identity including as an African-American. The quote describes his observation of what was required among his fellow students.
The first quote you posted up, about ingratiating himself to whites by telling them he had a white mother doesn't mean anything. It's called probably trying to survive as a small black child in a country that was excessively anti black and racist at the time he was being brought up. It is his experience as a black child. It says nothing about "hating white people" as Beck, and you, would have us believe.
The second quote, after you put the whole thing in there, disavows anything "anti white" as well, as he was talking about the guy he was interviewing, and what the interviewer said, not what Obama said, or thought. He was quoting the interviewer, again, not his own assumptions or thoughts.
And the last quote, again says nothing about being anti white, or racist for that matter. I'm sure he has wrestled with his identity for years, being the product of a mixed racial marriage, as almost all mixed race children have probably gone through over their lifetimes.
Nothing you posted shows any racism at all by Obama.
Second quote, what is wrong with a white man? He says that he has a problem with the white man!!!
IF this was the man whom you all said would bring us all together, he says during college he must show loyalty to the black race. So how does this man bring together those he does not want to associate, work for, or even be around? These are his words, not anyone elses.
Mags, you and your fellow liberals are trying to change this nation for the worse, you choose to follow a President that is bring in individuals into his close counsel that have stated in the past that both are communist and anti-capitalist. This President in just a few months has proven he cannot lead; yes we may have had a deficit when he started but under his control it has double almost tripled, which includes the unemployment. You can blame Bush all you want, but it is the moves this President has made that has created this mess, and the public now sees him for what he is, a bad leader.
BTW, you are aware that Bush brought into his close counsel a group of people who see people like you as the "great unwashed," the "sheeple," as it were. Rumsfeld, Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz, Cheney, et al, are neo-conservatives, not conservatives. There philosophy comes from the teachings of Leo Trotsky, a Marxist. In their world, there is a hierarchy wherein they, the leaders, are the elite. They are the intellectuals. They use religion and religious leaders as a means to control the "great unwashed masses," like you. Do a bit of research on the neo-conservative philosophy. That's the kind of rule our country was under for 8 years . . . oh, and many of the "contributors" on Fox are card-carrying members of the intellectual elitist group of neo-cons. William Kristol (his father Irving is known as the Godfather of American neo-conservatism), Charles Krauthammer, Frank Gaffney, David Frum . . . many more. Look it up.
I was not an Obama supporter and I'm not a liberal, but your reasoning for disliking Obama is based in lies fomented by Fox and right wing talk radio. Try researching the bs they are feeding you on reliable sources.
I notice that you didn't address the point of my post. You didn't complain about the real Marxists in power for 8 years, did you? As a conservative, I sure as heck did. You just blindly listened to the propaganda on Fox and talk radio believing that these people were actually conservatives just as you blindly listen to them now spout their nonsense that Obama is a socialist. He wasn't my choice . . . neither was McCain . . . but he's doing the best he can given the MESS he was left with by the previous administration. He just found out what everyone who has ever had to come in and clean up a George W. Bush mess (George Soros, for example) has learned.
My suggestion to you is to try turning off the lies. You obviously believe you are watching "news." You are not. None of the cable opinion networks are "news" networks. Try reading, it's a wonderful thing.
Marxist, that again was just a statement, just like the whole Neo Con statement. All of Bushes advisors were all confirmed by the Senate or Voted on by the public, what about Obama Czar's? How many have received a confirmation from the Senate?
I do not believe Bush was a Conservative, he was a Republican, not the same. Please Obama has put many new plans in place since he took over, and they are not working. What do you think about Obama making a deal with Big Pharma? Do you think that a Union should own part of GM? The houses mess was a Democrat Mess that was tried to be fix under Bush, but the Dems pushed back. He was weak, should have stood his ground. But under Bush we had low unemployment. Turn off Lies, what I do is read, read and read more. I do not watch MSNBC, or NBC, CBS, ABC, and only Fox in the morning, but other then that I read.
They have had issues with people that work for them turning in fraudulent voter registration cards, and ACORN officials flagged them, turned them into the voter registration authority (as required by LAW), and let them know that they thought some were obvious fakes, and that they needed to check them.
ACORN is a local community organizing group who help poor or low income people recognize that just because they're poor, they have the same rights as everyone else.
Wow, they're just a nefarious group for certain.
All of Bushe's advisors were indeed NOT vetted by the Senate. President Bush had over 20 Czars himself. Why do you have a problem with them now. Not to mention, there are plenty of people who work closely with the president who are not vetted by the Senate. People like the communications director, chief of staff, White House counsel, and just about all senior staff who work in the White House.
Some of the plans Obama has put into place are working. TARP (which Bush started and Obama finished) is working. The stimulus is starting to work.
I don't like Obama making a deal with big pharma.
What do you read? because your information stinks.
Boehner said his office has identified more than $31 million in direct funding to ACORN from the federal government since 1998. That number is likely substantially higher because ACORN also received money indirectly from federal block grants distributed by states and localities.
I look into the past of these folks, read both left and right writers, you can always find the truth out there, you have to get past the big corp out put, both left and right.
I will do just this, I will only read yours and others post, keep notes and come back in 6 months using yours and other quotes to prove you wrong. Plus be more fun.
Obama is a failed leader?
52% approval rating
A majority of Americans disagree with that assertion. Again, facts slip through your fingers.
What commies and anti capitalists does Obama surround himself with? Please, I dare you to actually name one. You can't do it. Why? You made that up.
You think Obama created the mess? Umm, no. He did not. We can blame Bush, because frankly, he is to blame. The deficit has not tripled, yet, under Obama. All of the money he is trying to spend has not actually been spent, not to mention some of the TARP funds are being paid back, and hence, won't hit the bottom line. Oh, also, another reason why the deficit shot up, because Obama entered the cost of the 2 wars onto the books, unlike Bush, you didn't hide it, but didn't count it agains the deficit.
The economy is starting to show good signs of recovery, housing is getting better, the recession is ending, banks are paying back their loans, the car manufacturers had a great month due to cash for clunkers, and lots of people went back to work. All due to Obama. Yeah, he's failing real bad.
Yes, unemployment went up under him and continued to grow, but if you understood just a little bit of economics, you'd know that almost all economists agreed that during a recession, unemployment continues to grow, even through the recovery periods. Also, wasn't it Bush who said shortly before the election that everything was fine and dandy with our economy? He did, and he was dead dead wrong.
1. Van Jones - Has lead groups that promote Communism.
2. Carol M. Browner - Has admitted to being in a Socialist International group.
Gave you a second, would you like more?
Second Lie - There is no sign of the Econmoy of recovery, they dept is worse and the unemployement is still climbing, came from Obama Office today. Auto dealers are saying it was a nice shot in the arm, but is not going to help long term. FYI, The government has paid out 36% of the money due to the dealers, and if not paid soon, some will file bankruptacy.
Third Lie - No, no most Economist do not agree. Lets look at one of Obama's trusted Buffett, he now does not agree with Obama and his moves.
In just 8 months his approval has gone for a High of 70, to a wopping 50%, at this rate he will be lower then Bush was after 8 years in just one.
As for the economy . . . kind of hard to blame Obama for something that started 2 years before he was inaugurated, don't you think? We were hours away from total economic collapse when the bank bailouts were made BY BUSH in September 2008. Kind of hard to clean up that kind of mess in 7 months [Obama has only been president for 7 months and 5 days.]
Turn off Fox . . . they're lying to you and LAUGHING at your stupidity for believing them. It's about MONEY, not truth and certainly not patriotism.
Equating one company failure to banks that hold sway over our monetary system is not an equal equivalence at all.
That says it all.
"I do not think"
Finally something upon with I can agree.
BTW, let's stop giving Obama a pass because he wasn't president over the past 2 years. Let's not forget he was in the senate and voted for all the reckless spending passed by the Bush administration. Obama is NOT blameless in the current economic mess. Try spinning it a different way.
Rep. Paul Kanjorski interview on CSpan transcript:
âOn Thursday Sept 15, 2008 at roughly 11 AM The Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two.
Money was being removed electronically.
The treasury tried to help with $150 Billion.
But could not stem the tide.
It was an electronic run on the banks
The treasury intervened but had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon. Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and collapsed and within 24 hours the world economy.â
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r8AKDp_0ek
Guess they didn't play this on Fox.
Let's see, Van Jones was involved with a group that promoted a socialist utopia, and he was formerly of the thought of anti-capitalism, but, he has since changed his mind, and his mindset:
"Having started his career as a staunch critic of capitalism, by the late 1990s Jones's views were evolving. Today, he has emerged as one of the foremost champions of green business, entrepreneurship and market-based solutions. In his book The Green Collar Economy, Jones wrote:
[W]e are entering an era during which our very survival will demand invention and innovation on a scale never before seen in the history of human civilization. Only the business community has the requisite skills, experience, and capital to meet that need. On that score, neither government nor the nonprofit and voluntary sectors can compete, not even remotely.
So in the end, our success and survival as a species are largely and directly tied to the new eco-entrepreneurs â and the success and survival of their enterprises. Since almost all of the needed eco-technologies are likely to come from the private sector, civic leaders and voters should do all that can be done to help green business leaders succeed. That means, in large part, electing leaders who will pass bills to aid them. We cannot realistically proceed without a strong alliance between the best of the business world â and everyone else."
Van Jones
Carol Browner has never been in a socialist international group, whatever that is.
There is signs of economic recovery, as in, the stock market being higher than it's been since November of last year. Second, banks that borrowed federal money are now paying it back, and are also making high profits again (billions per quarter for some of them). Also, people are going back to work. Debt is indeed worse, the 10 year projection is not looking good, but that is a projection and not the current status, and it could change.
Of course cash for clunkers is not going to help long term, but as you said, it was a good shot in the arm, and I personally know people who are now back working again, after not having worked for over 6 months, all because of Cash for Clunkers, and they will remain working for the forseeable future, due to lack of inventory, and the need to now replenish said vehicles that were sold off. The government will pay out the money, don't worry about that.
I did not lie about economists. Buffet didn't agree with all of Obama's moves, economically, but what I said was that most economists now agree that we're coming out of the recession. Again, your reading comprehension, is not so good. Also, Krugman didn't agree with Obama on the stimulus, he said it should have been BIGGER.
Obama is at 52% approval rating, with some showing him at 59% and some showing him at 49%, and hence the average of 52%. You're nuts if you think he's going to drop to 26% in his first year like Bush was at the end of his two terms.
Snopes
The information is here as well, it even gives more details, and he said these things, and they do what they can to change the context as well, but he said the quotes.
I said that the viewership for ALL of the cable opinion networks is minute when looked at in perspective.
Unlike you, apparently, I watch entertainment programs such as Olbermann, O'Reilly, "Bones," "Top Chef," etc., based upon whether they hold my interest. I don't pay much attention to their ratings. If I'm looking for news, I either watch a news program or I read news stories. I don't look for news on entertainment programs.
Except that, you know, as well as I do, it's not a free speech issue. As a couple of others have pointed out to you, the government made no law abridging what Beck can and cannot say. The companies who pulled their advertising did so because they disagree with what Beck rails on about on his program on the TV (another form of free speech and free market capitalism that you folks from the right seem to LOVE, until it goes against you). And we, the so called "whiney liberals" also exercised our free speech in writing to these companies who pulled their ads to tell them what Mr. Beck is saying on their dime.
Some didn't like it, they pulled their ads from his show.
Where did America go? I would say, indeed, it did NOT stand idle as Beck spouted his crazy notions and ideas and opinions, and called him, and his advertisers out on that. Of course we're not idle, we're constantly battling stupidity such as Beck and trying to make people accountable for the lies and misinformation that they spew.
Next.
Sure, Rupert would make more money (he still thinks he can take it with him), but you gotta believe buying time on Becky's show these days is a bargain.
And it would slowly drive Becky and his audience insane--they wouldn't know what to make of a show that gets its main support from the government it hates. Their brains would explode and since it's my tax money too... I'd pay to see that.
In case you haven't noticed, the federal government via the FCC already controls, and has for years, the airwaves of radio and TV.
What government takeover are you talking about? I'm pretty sure that 99.9999999998% of business in the US is still either publicly, or privately held.
The old USSR wasn't even a socialist country. You fail in that comparison.
What is the Obama administration doing that makes you think they're socialists? Let me help you with the answer. Nothing. They are doing nothing to turn this country socialist. And anyway, socialism is just some scary word that someone used on you once, and you believed them.
Maybe you should look around, and see what's actually happening out there, but I doubt that you will. You guys are all pretty crazy, and reactionary. I'm thinking, you're a Ron Paul supporter.
The majority of Bush's administration was made up of neo-conservatives fka neo-liberals. Neo-conservatism has its roots in the teachings of Leo Trotsky, a Marxist aka a socialist. So, the Bush Administration was run by a bunch of Trotskyite Marxists.Just a little lesson in history.
Will have to check out the ones that "dropped" Beck, and see if it was a simple business decision, or if they caved to pressure from the left....
Meanwhile, I'm off to Applebee's. Will make a point of telling the manager that I'm there because they support Glenn Beck's shows :P
So, essentially what you're saying is this.
You like crappy food (Applebees), and you agree with Beck that our democratically elected President is a Nazi/Socialist/Communist/Marxist/Racist and is singularly destroying our country.
http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/07/27/daily22.html
Also, if you have DirecTV, they run ads that don't run on other cable systems.
Funny how republicans love "free speech," to shout down people at town halls to keep a conversation from even happening, but hate "free speech" when it is used by Americans to express their views about controversial public figures.
Beck stated his piece, I stated mine and the advertisers stated theirs. No government intervention . . . free speech reigned.
You might want to give the First Amendment a read before you start invoking its provisions.
Many of us have been watching the missinformation and lies spewed by coorporate media with also most no penalty exacted for this behavior, for years. Yes there's some anger. Yes there's some insults, some quite clever, nuanced, and intelligent.
Name the moderates being painted with the broad brush. We got some well spoken conservatives here. We got full blown wingnuts. Most of us can tell the difference. can you?
Doesn't the right claim that it's law firms like this who are responsible for destroying my 'merica?
You'd think they wouldn't want to take part in the dismantling of the very fabric of our democracy.
Can we now blame Fox for all of the financial pain of big pharma and for the increases in the costs of prescriptions?
All the advertisers have done is repositioned any buy to another program within fox. You can't get that kind of delivery anywhere else. The advertisers have made a political statement by pulling Beck but they are still strong on Fox. No, Beck isnt going anywhere, he is still number three in cable and growing. Sorry folks. Business is business.