Six new advertisers reportedly join Beck boycott, brings total to 62
September 09, 2009 5:54 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From a September 9 ColorofChange.org press release:
ColorOfChange.org today confirmed that six new companies whose ads aired recently during Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck program have pledged to not to run ads on the show going forward. The additions -- Aegon, Ashley Furniture, Humana, Luxottica Retail (retail parent of LensCrafters and Pearle Vision), United States Postal Service and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare -- bring the number of companies boycotting Glenn Beck to 62. ColorofChange.org launched its campaign against Beck last month after the Fox News Channel host called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" during an appearance on Fox & Friends.
Hey Glenn, Be sure to go on Bill O'Reilly tonight and make that Senate Approved Sunstein Pay.
Nevermind that your show is almost Commercial Free.
Watching you make a Complete Fool of yourself is still Must See TV.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
I'm just asking.
Let's try to be reasonable shall we? The Independents had Nader running for pity's sake! Where else were they going to go? The Democrats had a lot of help. Please do not marginalize Independents.
Some of us are only interested in facts. We can wade through the hyperbole just fine thank you.
Fox had to buy its way into the cable market, at the beginning paying cable companies to put their channel one. Murdoch invest billions (with a b) and many many years before the channel became profitable.
Also, we are not afraid of Beck at all. We are simply putting our free market principles to work.
So, BIOYA, jent
Your mistake. He is on the most watched cable news channel. He doesn't hold a candle to regular network TV. All the regular broadcast TVchannels beat him easily.
He scares all of us because he lies so much and people believe him.
22% are Americans who hate liberals, blacks, and think the South should have won the Civil war. They are super religious and will pray for the President's demise. They are the birthers, deathers, tea baggers that can be whipped into a frenzy whenever Glenn wants to show angry American citizens. Age range from 59 - 89
12% are students using Glenn's show and hate speeches as Thesis projects for their Master's Degree in Aberrant behavior. Age range from 22 -32
32% are people who watch because they either lost their remote and are too lazy to get up and change the channel or people who think that Glenn Beck is a comedy show like The Daily Show. Age range 1 - 99
34% are journalists, civil rights organizations, and media watchdog groups like MMFA that keep track of all the vile things he says. Age range 24 - 65
That is the unoffical breakdown of Glenn's audience.
That being said. I have a question. What now? I had this fear when I heard about the Beck Boycott... I mean after the elation... I thought this could escalate and even further polarize the country. I worried about progressive grocery stores, and cell phone providers, and conservative verisons of the same... I know that's extreme. But I have to confess to freaking out when I heard of the conservative boycott of the advertisers that left Beck... So what now? Are we back to square one, waiting for a meltdown>?... Shouldn't the focus, the pressure, have been on the conservative media and conservative public figures to denounce Beck?... Any thoughts?
Typical republican strawman. They do it so often it becomes automatic and you don't even realize it! IRONY said.... "as long as there are (some) hopelessly stupid people and opportunist there will be some version of FOX.". Where did he say that anyone who agrees with BECK is automatically stupid? Not even close.
Murdoch's Massage Parlor and Newstand on Ryecrist Avenue.
What does Olbermman have to do with this thread?
Lord knows the facts aren't doin' 'em any favors.
Just what have Olbermann and/or Jones said that was racist and/or untrue?
There ya go, sport.
Jones has said many things that are untrue and you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Do you really believe the white man is putting poison in black communities? Do you really believe the white man is spraying poison on the backs of immigrant workers?
Regarding Olbermann I can't think of anything off the top of my head where he said something untrue. Then again I'm not too concerned about that.
Quick challenge: Name one thing that Beck has said that proves he is a racist or hatemongerer. It can't be any of these quotes where he's saying things in jest either. Show me a quote in context that proves that Glenn Beck is a racist.
Then name six (6) of his worst...
2. "The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities."
Well, I guess I can only provide two racist quotes where he specifically brings up skin color. The other quotes I found sum up his belief that present day white people should pay for the sins of past slavery.
Let me also be clear that these two quotes alone don't make Van Jones a racist by my definition. I believe to be a racist you must think that one person can be better than another person based on the color of their skin. These quotes don't fit that definition.
1. http://www.breitbart.tv/van-jones-only-suburbal-white-kids-shoot-up-schools/
2. http://www.breitbart.tv/green-jobs-czar-says-white-polluters-steered-poison-into-minority-communities/
There's your source. Need anything else?
Jones and Beck both play to their audience. Racism is not the issue so why do the people on this post insist on beating that dead horse?
Protesting is free speech. Make a note of it.
1 - This is not silencing. This is the free market speaking loud and clear.
2 - Setting aside Van Jones, what racist comments has Keith Olbermann ever made? That's just a bizarre, senseless comment.
I'm not aware of any off the top of my head. Then again I can't name anything racist that Beck has said either. I was more referring to hate speech. If Glenn Beck is a hatemongerer for some of the things he says than Olbermann is just as bad.
Don't be like a lot of Cons who have nothing to back up what they say, and just parrot what they've heard on the latest el Fathead episode.
Be a man, have a brain.
I could honestly care less about Olbermann. That's one of the fundamental differences between a liberal and a conservative. I hear Olbermann say something outrageous that I don't agree with and I laugh it off and forget about it. If Beck says something outrageous that you (not you personally) don't agree with it's time to label him a racist and try to get him off the air.
Which is y'all fixating on every single thing a liberal says like it's proof of some communist fascist reverse racist plot to destroy the constitution with the enactment of a single liberal policy, reich?
Keith Olbermann can work as hard as he wants at inciting left-wing loons and chances are very slim that any of them will take a shot at a Doctor, or a security guard, or a cop (let alone an elected official).
When Beck spews his rhetoric about fascism, socialism, detention camps and couples that with talk about a president he believes is racist and pursuing an agenda of reparations for slavery, he is holding a match to a keg of gunpowder.
Then, after the explosion, he will say "It wasn't my gunpowder, and i was only holding a match to it."
As for outrageous KO quotes I'll give you a few:
"And since Fixed News has since now migrated completely over to serving propaganda to tin foil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racists it is not a news organization making this show the highest rated cable news program, period." - If it's racist to call somebody racist then KO is a racist and a liar here as he isn't anywhere close to the highest rated cable news program.
"Thanks for invoking that image again. You, Beck, are one of the cowards, safely on the ground, telling the nut job on the plane it is time to, quote, ‘Rise up.' You remember March 19, right? You probably don't." - Another personal attack against Beck since he can't argue against him in the arena of ideals.
Now you post some "outrageous" Beck quotes. Everytime I ask for anything that proves Beck is a hatemonger or racist nobody seems to come through.
Pure fact. Not outrageous. The outrageous part is that anyone falls for FNC's claim to be a new organization. It's not. It is agenda-driven infotainment garbage for small minds.
Frankly, I've never understood the visceral insult that Beck's remarks on Obama and racism must be for blacks.
For me absolutely going beyond beyond the pale comment was Beck's skit where he pretended to have put poison in a glass of wine that he gave to Pelosi. That is totally wacked out time. He should have been fired on the spot for that.
Even without these two examples, I'd still want to silence Beck. As others have written, Beck's views, way of reasoning and take no prisoners approach does no service to debate and attempt at rationally making policy decisions by anyone. He's proving that being a nut case is good for ratings and making the less crazy nuts such as Limbaugh head Beck's way.
So yeah, I want to silence Beck for his views.
Jefferson, when you look beyond a simple high school sketch of the man, was pretty complex and full of human failings. In fact, I doubt the right would embrace a man like Jefferson today. And I doubt, were Jefferson alive now, he'd have anything to do with the right.
I believe Thomas Jefferson would be a conservative if alive today. I cannot find a single quote that would place Jefferson on the left side of the aisle. Everything I read about him would have him somewhere on the right.
Now, should he be able to say anything he wants, including flat-out lies and egregious distortions of the truth on a mainstream media channel that many people trust to provide honest coverage of current events? Hell no.
When did libel become an acceptable format for news agencies to garner ratings?
Do you have a problem with churches "boycotting" Disney or Pepsi because they dont like that fact that they acknowledge that gays exist and buy their products? I will bet you don't.
Please site an example of Olbermann making a racist statement.
Beck lies way more than anyone in the media (except maybe Savage). He is a nutcase and he turns others into loonies like himself.
G.Beck is still employed: Fox News is the culprit. G.Beck is a willing wacky-tacky, in the Fox News network.
It be it,
Ronin Kannushi.
And yes, we would be humbled, as any self-respecting person would when conversing with a psychopath for hire.
I often wondered if stupid people knew they were stupid--now I have so many putting that question to rest.
Obviously, by looking in every mirror you pass...
If not, well I'm sure you'd still make a lovely parrot.
These advertisers haven't left FOX, their ad contracts won't allow that. They've just told FOX not to run their ads on that show.
The key moments for FOX and beck will be when these ad contracts come up for renewal. Will FOX manage to keep these 62+ advertisers in their fold, or will they lose them to another outlet? That's when beck will find his ass turned to the fire.