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So who's still advertising on Beck? November 12 edition...

November 12, 2009 6:14 pm ET by Media Matters staff

Eighty advertisers have reportedly dropped their ads from Glenn Beck's Fox News program since he called President Obama a "racist" who has a "deep-seated hatred of white people." Here are his November 12 sponsors, in the order they appeared:

  • Goldline International, Inc.
  • National Review
  • US Chamber of Congress (www.EmployersForAHealthyEconomy.org)
  • National Geographic Channel
  • LegalZoom
  • News Corp. (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Hydrolyze
  • LifeLock
  • Rosland Capital
  • Lifestyle Lift
  • ZeroWater
  • Consumer Debt Advocate
  • Wholesale Direct Metals, Inc.
  • Freije Treatment Systems (EasyWater Systems)
  • IRSTaxAgreements.com
  • TaxMasters
  • USfidelis

Tags: Fox News Channel, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck show

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    • Author by felix.estrada@gmail.com (November 12, 2009 6:40 pm ET)
         
      National Geographic Channel is 50% owned by Fox, according to wikipedia.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Channel
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      • Author by nooner (November 13, 2009 7:56 am ET)
           
        Do you suppose they only air "conservative" wildlife? I wonder if the animals lean left or right?
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    • Author by pointofview (November 12, 2009 7:02 pm ET)
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      Wow, good thing we live in a world with more than 80 products to buy. And after how many weeks here, Beck is still number 1? Keep up the good work and the boycott.
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      • Author by mustardman (November 12, 2009 7:16 pm ET)
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        Thanks! It seems to be working quite well actually but I won't bore you with the facts at the risk of interrupting your parnoid dillusions.
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      • Author by mustardman (November 12, 2009 7:18 pm ET)
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        Yea, who needs Toyota when you have Goldline which is just one notch above 'Bubba's pawn shop'.
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      • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 12, 2009 7:18 pm ET)
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        You keep missing the point. Not surprising. he has all the viewers he will ever have - he is at his peak - and he still only gets less than 1% of the US population and less than 3% of the registered voters. He is a fringe media phenomenon, and his show is a loss-leader for Fox. They only keep him on because he is a strong lead-in to their profitable shows.

        You can keep coming to these advertiser blogs, but the truth won't ever change. Glenn Beck is a hero to the fringe. He has no political clout and his audience is minor, at best.

        24 million people get their news and commentary from the big three broadcast networks (and probably 50 million get it from newspapers).

        Fringe. Far Right. Nutcases. Conspiracy cranks. How do you like the company?
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        • Author by oscar the grouch (November 12, 2009 8:19 pm ET)
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          And MMFA devotes a fair amount of bandwidth each day for a fringe(?) player. One has to wonder why.
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          • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 12, 2009 8:45 pm ET)
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            The mission of MMfA is to debunk the falsehoods propagated and promoted by the Right. If you to a little objective analysis, you will note that Limbaugh actually gets more play here than Fox, with a front page column covering his broadcast daily. They also regularly skewer Savage, Beitbart, WND, Dobbs, and countless other lying bads of foul wind.
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            • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 12, 2009 8:51 pm ET)
                 
              *do a liitle objective analysis...

              *bags of foul wind.

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            • Author by oscar the grouch (November 12, 2009 9:43 pm ET)
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              And they post a lot of opinion related pieces and self-congratulatory bits as a part of their "mission". All ok, but to devote as much bandwidth as they do on an almost daily basis on what you consider a "fringe" player leaves some doubt in my mind as to whether MMFA considers him (eddie haskell beck) a "fringe" player. Going to have to learn how to set my DVD to record a show and get my own opinion, I guess. He is on at 2 pm local time, and I'm still at work.
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              • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 12, 2009 9:51 pm ET)
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                Well, since the Right is pretty much all fringe, this is who they cover. Would you expect financial news on a sports page?
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          • Author by New Frontier (November 12, 2009 11:14 pm ET)
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            And MMFA devotes a fair amount of bandwidth each day for a fringe(?) player.

            Yeah, like Beck did with Van Jones.
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          • Author by nooner (November 13, 2009 7:53 am ET)
               
            If you live in New York or Calif, you may consider people with conservative values "fringe". I split my time between Calif, Florida, and Tennessee. Truth is, most of this country, hold conservative views on things like taxes, ethics, healthcare. Even a lot of Southern California (Hollywood crazies excluded) are starting to lean right. I think people are sick of the liberal left in a record "11 months". Big surprise coming in 2012. I think we will vote out most of the House and Senate up for re-election. Hope we can find some decent, common-sense non-politicians to replace them with. This country is going to hell in a handbasket.
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      • Author by New Frontier (November 12, 2009 11:13 pm ET)
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        Wow, good thing we live in a world with more than 80 products to buy.
        Good thing we live in a world where advertisers won't give money to a bigot who says the President is a white-hating racist--no matter what his ratings are.
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        • Author by John Paradox (November 13, 2009 3:41 am ET)
             
          Actually, considering the way normal (I know, we're talking Faux and Beck here...) sales work in Radio/TV, higher ratings means higher cost per thousand for the advertisers. I suspect that buying time on Beck would demonstrate an strange inversion of that situation.
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    • Author by donwelty (November 13, 2009 2:20 am ET)
         
      Media matters reminds me of another group called NIZKOR, whose mission is to come up with a substantial counter information to the lies spread by Holocaust deniers, a rather specialized group of promulgaters of misinformation, lies, distortions, and out and out illogic-- people who like many on Fox news believe that they're only doing the right thing. I'm sure that many of the Holocaust deniers find Fox news reporting fair and unbalanced. I'm also sure that many people who believe Fox news would also be inclined to believe the Holocaust deniers.
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