Glenn Beck advertiser offers "survival seeds" as defense against "emerging totalitarianism"
March 08, 2010 6:17 pm ET by Oliver Willis
With all the companies that have pulled their advertising from Glenn Beck, it's understandable that many of those still advertising with him aren't exactly blue-chip enterprises. Regardless, you've got to give it to the folks at Survival Seed Bank - who advertised on Glenn Beck's March 8 broadcast - for meshing quite nicely with the host's apocalyptic visions of the future.
There's nothing wrong with a business that serves some kind of demand in the marketplace, but it goes without saying that fearmongering about economic collapse followed by food shortages and citing World Net Daily for "strong evidence" is big time black helicopter stuff.
No wonder they're advertising on Glenn Beck.
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I look at it like this. Last year, the wife and I planted a small garden. Some tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, beans, corn, and some herbs. I liked it because I knew where my veggies were coming from, and how they were grown, and they tasted better coming off of the vine.
Prices in the grocery stores have gone up mostly due to transportation costs, as in, fuel costs. Takes more money to ship something these days than it did say, 10 years ago when gas was under a dollar per gallon.
Why wouldn't some government agencies (probably someone like FEMA) stockpile canned food items? It's called, being prepared to help our fellow citizens in a time of need. It's not some wild conspiracy thing. It's like how we stockpile certain vaccines as well. We also stockpile oil, among other things.
There isn't a good conspiracy theory Beck won't try to use for his own wild eyed ideas.
I have seen some of the stores, back in the 80's, and I am sure they have been storing can goods, etc for years before that.
Kind of makes sense to be prepared for a natural disaster or something.
BTW What the heck is Beck doing stealing advertisers from WND????
Too bad the "survivalism" community is full of the kind of people seen in the ad here. Kinda ruins the fascination when you're seeing paranoia instead of genuine enthusiasm for self-sufficiency.
Most of them don't really know how to be self-sufficient either.
If there ever was an society breaking event and we had to be self-sufficient, the community to turn to is the historical re-enactors. We've been studying how to do things without modern conveniences all along - for fun.
Will Beck still be selling his seeds of ignorance?
Shame something so good-natured and pure has been corrupted in the name of a partisan gimmick.
So this commercial comes on, and after about 15 seconds I'm laughing pretty hard and look around and several others eating dinner are, too.
Here's a link.
Like the hot stink of fear about global warming with melting glaciers, rising oceans and panicked polar bears? Like the hot stink of fear with “weapons of mass destruction” and the impending threat of Saddam Hussein? Like the hot stink of fear in bailouts for companies “too big to fail” and a potential catastrophic economic meltdown if we don’t? Like the hot stink of fear of pig flu pandemic, swine flu, H1N1 or whatever we call it now? Like the hot stink of fear over health care death panels, reconciliation or the media inflated crisis du jour?
Pot calling the kettle black? The Inconvenient Truth of the media sowing the seeds of hypocrisy?