Updated: Even more advertisers pull support for Glenn Beck
An online campaign against Fox News editorialist Glenn Beck is working.
Web site ColorofChange.org, reacting to a long line of racial comments about President Barack Obama, has managed thus far to knock loose from Beck’s fold Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive, S.C. Johnson, GEICO, Men’s Wearhouse and, just Wednesday morning, Sargento.
“We applaud GEICO and all of the other companies who have stepped forward to pull their ads from Glenn Beck,” said James Rucker, executive director of Color of Change, in a Tuesday media advisoryrelease. “Beck’s rhetoric is dangerous to the fabric of our democracy, and we are heartened that so many big companies feel the same way. We won’t stop here — we’re going to continue our fight to see that as many of Beck’s advertisers pull their support as possible.”
And video clips like this may have something to do with it …
Watchdog group Media Matters, which has emphatically joined in the crusade to knock Beck from cable television, notes that many of the advertisers who refused in 2006 to support progressive-tilted Air America radio are still backing Beck.
According to the group, those companies are: General Electric, Farmers Insurance, Office Depot, Nestlé (Gerber), Red Lobster, State Farm, Travelocity, the U.S. Postal Service, Walmart and Wyeth.
Media Matters includes “>a long list of controversial, provocative (some would say shocking) segments on Beck’s television program that, for the sake of brevity, is excerpted below:
Beck talks about “put[ting] poison” in Speaker Pelosi’s wine. On his Fox News show, Beck gave a glass of wine to a person wearing a Pelosi mask, encouraged her to drink it, and then said: “By the way, I put poison in your — no, I — I look forward to all the policy discussions that we’re supposed to have.” [Glenn Beck, 8/6/09]
Beck: Obama is a “racist” and “has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture.” Beck said: “This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy — over and over and over again — who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture — I don’t know what it is. But you can’t sit in a pew with Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and not hear some of that stuff and not have it wash over.” He later added, “I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people. I’m saying he has a problem. He has a — this guy is, I believe, a racist. Look at the way — look at the things he has been surrounded by.” [Fox News' Fox & Friends, 7/28/09]
Beck: “Everything that is getting pushed through Congress, including this health care bill” is “driven by President Obama’s thinking on … reparations” and his desire to “settle old racial scores.” According to Beck, “Everything that is getting pushed through Congress, including this health care bill, are transforming America. And they are all driven by President Obama’s thinking on one idea: reparations.” Beck later added that Obama’s “goal is creating a new America, a new model, a model that will settle old racial scores through new social justice.” [Glenn Beck, 7/23/09]
ColorofChange.org has created a simple form for media activists: just enter your name and off an objection goes, directly to Beck’s remaining advertisers.
Whether the campaign will be successful remains to be seen. And while the conservative Fox News channel still appears resolute in keeping Beck, at this point there’s bound to be some discussion of how to stem the tide of advertisers pulling their support.
- By Stephen C. Webster | Raw Story
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Toya Baker
16 Aug 09 at 3:44 pm
I blame the Clinton Administration for the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae fiasco. I for the Middle class going under.
Toya Baker
16 Aug 09 at 3:45 pm
I mean and the middle class for their money issues, being taxed to death.
Moon54
16 Aug 09 at 5:29 pm
According to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Obama seems to have a hatred towards black people as well. Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to “cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts out” and he accused him of “talking down to black folks” Of course this is when Jackson thought his mic was off. Where was ColorOfChange.org when that statement was made? Beck speaks his mind about Obama. I wish more of the media would take that stance.
gerald
16 Aug 09 at 6:27 pm
Beck is AWESOME!!! Keep it up!!!
Chris Hoover
16 Aug 09 at 7:25 pm
“First Amendment – Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, Freedom of Religion, and of assembly; right to petition,
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#Amendments
How about they agencies recognize the bill of rights and stop worrying about someone who has a different view then the president. Continue your good work Glenn Beck. I support you.
Sharon
16 Aug 09 at 8:49 pm
I guess we’ll be pulling our support from his “former” sponsors!
Chris Geisert
17 Aug 09 at 3:36 am
I can’t believe Glenn Becks comments are allowed on a news program. I think he really went to far poisoning the speaker of the house. Should he be thrown in jail for poisoning the speaker or suggesting it. Calling someone a racist is stupid, but poisoning and fermenting hate is really a bad thing. He should get his own “entertainment show”. I don’t think he should be on a news show, it discredits Fox News.
MG
17 Aug 09 at 9:40 am
get off your high horses people, Beck is right, you are trying to hurt him because hes right, not because hes a racist like obama.
carol canepa
17 Aug 09 at 11:04 am
beck has every right to say whatever he wants. the last time i looked this country still had freedom of speech.why is it that it was always alright to bash every white president, bush in particular. now there is a black/white president who can not be critizied by anyone or they are called a racist. just because the media has a love affair with obama,does not mean we all love him. he wouldn’t be president if not for the white vote.so cut the racist crap.every company that has pulled out of beck’s show because some black group told them to do it will be boycotted by myself and everyone i know.beck is 100% correct this country is going down the tubes our constitution is in jepordy and this proves it. anyone who wants the truth watch fox news,because you won’t hear it from the media.
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17 Aug 09 at 1:42 pm
We didn’t need Glenn Beck to tell us that Obama was a racist. Obama had already shown us that it was a fact. His books, his church, his comments. Beck just confirmed it.
jeffrey roberts
17 Aug 09 at 5:32 pm
It is unconscionable that the U.S. Postal Service, a federal agency, would continue to buy advertisement time with a show wherein the host has deliberately and inexplicitly espoused disparaging, if not incendiary, remarks about the leader of the free world — respective of color. Further, as a result of your report, I am now in the process of transferring my various and sundry of insurance coverage from State Farm to GEICO (and I will certainly take care to circulate my concerns to many of my friends on the “e-vine” who live in the state of Florida where State Farm is having significant difficulties with viability following the flurry of hurricanes over the past years.). Nestle & Red Lobster, both of whom have in the past seemed to be above the fray of controversy and politics of late, are disappointing in there continued support of a program that, more so, directly, denigrates the ethnocentrisms of people-of-color — Hispanic, African-Americans, Asians; all of whom have brand loyalty. It is, too, with those companies that I will circulate via the “e-vine” admonishing and requests to withdraw patronage of their services and products.