So who’s still advertising on Beck? His August 26 advertisers were ...
August 26, 2009 7:37 pm ET by Matt Gertz
Thirty-seven 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 26) in the order they appeared:
- Rosland Capital
- Ashley Furniture
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- National Republican Trust PAC -- GOPTrust.com
- Goldline International Inc.
- The Wall Street Journal
- Citrix (GoToMeeting)
- Liberty Medical
- Johnson Law Group
- TeaPartyExpress.org -- Our Country Deserves Better PAC
- Merit Financial
- Fox Movie Channel
- Zero Technologies
- HughesNet
- IRSTaxAgreements.com
- Lear Capital
I guess WSJ has nothing to lose in a boycot, eh?
Apparently, G. Gordon doesn't find that funny. But I liked it.
Agreed - US Dept. H&HS does sound like a PSA. Must gall Beck no end!
I really thought that blackboard chalk talk was going to bring the advertisers running back...
Ratings are meaningless on their own. The only value they have is in attracting advertisers and setting a price for air time--the bigger the audience with the right audience demographics, the more you can charge to air ads.
And yet even with Becky's ratings "through the roof" (you do understand that its cable, right?), companies are taking a pass on Becky's show. Why would they do that? Oh, right...because the boycott worked.
BTW, I'm not boycotting anyone. I simply asked if the advertisers wanted their products identified with this lunatic. At least 36 have stated that they do not. Their right.
Regardless, Beck is an inane sideshow freak, kind of a magnet for your typical backwoods ignoramus bigot demographic. It's a demo that doesn't represent anywhere near a significant percentage of the general population but has sufficient numbers that, when condensed by the ignorant antics of a chemically dependent and mentally unbalanced ringmaster, impacts viewer numbers and ratings to the point where other imbeciles can use them to claim victory over common sense and sanity.
You should grateful to live in a country that allows your stupidity to be expressed without fear of oppression...
How you like them apples???
When Glenn Beck puts out examples or scientifically tested conclusions that definitively show that "Obama has a deep seated hatred of white people" is a clear truth, I'll re-assess my future activity and inform you. Regardless of whether that day ever comes, I'll be grateful to be able to express the "stupidity" that makes me presently conclude that Beck is baselessly smearing and misinforming, but I'll be disappointed that he has the national exposure to do so.
It is a matter of interpretation, but that doesn't mean it can't be determined. If someone was screaming "Bush is a traitor and murderer and must be removed from office by any means necessary", would that be asking someone to kill him? Not explicitly, but the underlying message would be pretty clear.
And nobody has a "right" to say what they like absent of consequences. The fictional person I referenced above could have a show with millions upon millions of loyal viewers. If that was the case, would conservatives just say "whatever"? Not bloody likely. If something is offensive, then some minority of people who find that appropriate for rabidly partisan reasons can't be considered a justification for keeping that idiot on the air. You could also have a committed racist on the air, and they would probably get a few million viewers too. But sponsors wouldn't touch that show with a ten-foot pole, because they wouldn't want to be associated with that.
Inciting your audience to commit an imminent violent act is not protected speech. Government can stop it.
Lesser standard- even if Govt did not stop it, when someone is injured, the speaker can be held civilly liable for damages.
You can try to miss the advertisers dumping Becky, but it's a disingenuous argument. It's a failure on your part to see reality. Look, I don't like Beck's show. Most Americans know he's over the top with his circus like antics and advertisers are dropping him like a fart in the wind. It's a fact.
Prove it.
And for how long? Beck is desperate because the boycott HAS hurt him. He's working overtime at the moment, at his alarmist best, to get people's attention. But what happens when new viewers watch a week of his shows and see for themselves what a lunatic this guy really is? And crazier he gets the less inclined will his sponsers be to come back. IMO, at the frantic pace Beck is presently trying to scare everyone I honestly think he may need a long "vacation" very soon.
Bottom line, which ever way you cut it, is that Glenn Beck is an unstable loon...and people may tune in just to see him have a nervous breakdown on the air.
You do know that we vote every day with dollars, don't you?
Of course you do.
And on the day your dollars go to Pay TV (cable or dish), FUX News gets its take from you.
Whether or not you watched Murdoch's mental sicko's, or watched any channel, or even if your cable box was OFF all month and you were gone on vacation.
When you fund the bundle every channel with a number gets a grab. Totals out somewhere north of a hundred million dollars every month ... every channel ... somewhat approximate round numbers. Whether or not it sold any ads at all.
Beck is utilizing hate speech and is inciting violence. That's not covered by "free speech." I have a right to exercise my disgust with his abuse of "free speech." His advertisers have the right to exercise their own.
The government has made no law abriding the ability of Beck to spew forth stupid things on a daily basis, nor would I ever expect them to do such a thing.
Nobody is entitled to a TV show. There is no right for that.
Also, we, by writing to his advertisers, are saying do you want your products associated with a man who says, "insert crazy talk here."?
You apparently have no idea what freedom of speech really is.
Also, in Audacity of Hope, I know what you are talking about, and it's been debunked about a dozen times. I'm sure you're talking about the alleged passages that Obama himself wrote that PROVES he hates white people, except that said passages don't prove that at all.
Everyone has a right to free speech in this country. And even if Beck is taken off of the air, he won't be silenced, he'll just lose his millions of viewers, he's still more than free to say, and do what he wants.
Truth is, most Beckheads know on some level that what Glenn said was indefensible so they fall back on asserting that it's his right to say it. Of course his little pity party would make sense if it were the government and not a bunch of justifiably disgusted consumers putting the screws to this self-proclaimed Rosa Parks of the far right.
The terrifying part, of course, is that people listen to him. And his voice is oddly hypnotic. It's very unsettling. Ratings will go back down in a week, after people like me tune in and say, "Yup, just as crazy as he was before. Switching my tv / radio to something that doesn't sound like you need kool aid and purple sheets to listen to."