Hate Speech: So Easy A Caveman Could Do It-- More Glenn Beck Advertisers Pull Off His Show
By Howie Klein Thursday Aug 13, 2009 8:00am
That irresistible line about the caveman, by the way, came from a reddit commenter. He was probably feeling celebratory over the fact that GEICO pulled all its advertising from Glenn Beck's hateful Fox TV show. And GEICO isn't the only company to have decided that advertising on the show of a vicious hate monger inciting violence and racial hatred is a bad marketing idea. Men's Wearhouse and Sargento are the latest companies to ask Fox to stop running their ads on TV. And today-- Blue America did the same.
Blue America is running a second wave of ads on Arkansas TV explaining Blanche Lincoln's duplicitous role in the health care debate. After looking at the logs of the first wave and noticing that some of our ads in Little Rock and Pine Bluff ran on Beck's show, we instructed the cable networks to not run any more ads on his programs in the towns we are advertising in this week-- the towns where Lincoln is doing her health care forums. Here's the note the Blue America media buyer sent to the Arkansas cable networks:
Blue America PAC has instructed me to tell you to not place any of their advertising within the Glenn Beck program on Fox News Channel for their upcoming flight.
There is a national boycott of his advertisers ongoing. as Mr. Beck has been promoting racism and violence on his program. We do not want to appear to support his efforts in any way, shape or form.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Propps
As for Men's Wearhouse, DailyKos published a letter yesterday from Matt Stringer, the vp of marketing/creative services:
Thank you for contacting Men’s Wearhouse and bringing to our attention your concerns with the Glenn Beck program on Fox News. While we support free speech and do not make advertising decisions based on our own personal ideologies, after reviewing his recent incendiary comments we have decided to remove our advertising from his program. We hope that this decision will allow you to continue to patronize Men’s Wearhouse. I would encourage you to please share our decision with anyone else who may have expressed a similar concern.
And Media Matters published a similar note from Pat Lombardo from the Sargento Consumer Affairs Department:
We deeply appreciate your reaching out to us and sharing your comments and concerns about Sargento ads appearing during The Glenn Beck Show. We sat down with the marketing department to talk about it and I learned that we buy time periods not specific programs. But in any event, they've made the decision to exclude that program from our future ad rotation. Simply stated, Sargento ads won't be airing during that show. Again, thanks for contacting us.
As Color Of Change, the online civil rights group that initiated the boycott, points out, these defections come on the heels of pull outs by LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson.
So what's wrong with Travelocity? Why do they insist on still underwriting the hatred, bigotry and violence? As a reader pointed out on my travel blog this morning, "perhaps someone could clue Travelocity into the fact that racists aren't the biggest travelers..."
CNN has a similar type of problem with their own in house racist sociopath, Lou Dobbs and, according to MediaBistro.com the network is moving away from using Hate Talk Radio commentators on the air from now on, although they still refuse to fire Dobbs (who also hosts a hate talk radio show).
TVNewser has learned, and a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in his morning editorial meeting today, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. "Complex issues require world class reporting," Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is "all too predictable."
Yesterday I spent over 4 hours at a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Adam Schiff in Alhambra. The disruptive clowns who had come to prevent a discussion were shouting slogans straight from the Astro-Turf outfits' talking points and their world views were clearly formed by Hate Talk Radio and Fox "News." These people are hysterically opposed to immigrants' babies getting health care and opposed to the government making it illegal for Insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. What they chant instead is "Tort Reform" and what they mutter is divisive and racist epithets most Americans thought went out of style with Lester Maddox, George Wallace and the cavemen.
UPDATE: Bad News For Teabaggers-- You're Being Played
The teabaggers like to take their thumbs out of their asses and jump up and down in front of the TV cameras claiming how real and genuine their grassroots protests are. I talked to so many of them with long lists of legitimate grievances-- one woman was suing her insurance company and very angry man with strange eyes is suing the gold company Glenn Beck shills for on radio that he claims cheated him-- but their grievances had nothing to do with what they disdainfully call "ObamaCare." How did they get from there to here? It wasn't via Pluto. According to a former Insurance Industry executive, Wendell Potter of CIGNA, the insurance companies are indeed the unseen hand behind the curtain manipulating the righteous-- or self-righteous-- indignation of the angry crowds getting their matching orders from hate-mongers like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity ,etc.
"The industry is up to the same dirty tricks this year," Potter said at a Capitol news conference after meeting with House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), an avid supporter of the Democrats' plans for a healthcare overhaul.
"When you hear someone complaining about traveling down a 'slippery slope to socialism,' some insurance flack, like I used to be, wrote that," Potter added.
Potter said during his 20 years in the insurance business, the industry would funnel money to large public firms who would create front groups and find friendly voices in conservative media.
In particular, he cited front groups created to fight "Patients' Bill of Rights" legislation in the 1990s, as well as a campaign to discredit the Michael Moore film Sicko, which harshly criticized the industry.
Slaughter joined in the attack, saying "the notion that this is going to be something devilish comes from the people who would lose money on it."
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Cuz somebody did.
Colt Fireams? Goody's Powder? Gold Bond Jock Itch Relief?
No doubt about it: He'd be gone if he were costing Murdoch money.
He's still there.
Ergo, he's got 'willing' advertizers...
Btw: Did GEICO drop FOX, entire, or just ask not to be seen to be supporting Beck?
reduced rates, no doubt.
60 Plus
http://60plus.org/contact.asp
Claims non partisanship but throws out the old 'less govt' canard to lure unsuspecting seniors
AARP
Creepy 50+ org that spams people 50 and over with annoying junk mail. They do offer discounts, but their politics are sucky.
Accu Chek Aviva (Roche Diagnostics)
Big pharma.
ADT Security Services, Inc. (Tyco)
Tyco. Assholes and crims. And really I don't have stuff worth the install costs
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
Really? You think patients should have rights? The right to pay health ins premiums no doubt.
Forex.com US Headquarters:
Foreign exchange bullshit, like those base metal 911/WTC coins with a molecules thickness of silver overlay and a soupcon of gold.
Golden Corral
Southern restaurant chain. "More gravy on your IHateObama biscuits, boys? Would you care for more ObamaDeathPanel toast?" I'm just guessing here.
Healthy Choice (Conagra Foods)
Big GMO bullshit. They love the crazy. They ARE the crazy.
Wall Street Journal
Rupert pays Rupert.
Read more: http://foxnewsboycott.com/site-news/more-fox-...
... and it tends to cater to the older crowds with an early bird special in some places.
Considering the market in which it advertises, I'm not surprised.
I am off to Men's Warehouse to pick up a nice suit. I guarantee it.
n/t
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sw6-mHqJZVQ/R08rKVh...
is that mormon underwear ys? Prohibitive and sexy all at the same time!
and magical!
with racing stripes!
I hate their commercials so I wouldn't go but yeah, after this I'll pay them a visit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE
I will abstain from Volcano Tacos.
don't see the entire mangy network as the problem, rather than focus on the one annoying flea (Beck).
..might change their views on the network.
We can't let up, gotta bombard the sponsors DAILY with our disgust.
If there was no viewers for the show or a complete boycott of the Faux Channel?
(I can dream)
That watch FAUX "News" despite the fact that their advertisers don't care whether they like it or not, as long as they watch. To websites like Crooks and Liars I am extremely grateful that they watch. Those individuals who do so however, always seem to find it necessary to insult my intelligence by telling me what a huge favor they are doing for me when I ask them why they would watch. Every. Single. One. There was a guy who frequented Americablog who watched Glenn Beck religiously, under the excuse that he was going to bring him down. Of course you could read it in his comments, he may have loathed Beck but he was just another closet Beck voyeur who thought I was stupid enough to thank him for doing me such a great service.
I don't even watch the videos clips of Fox posted on websites. I know what I'll see why bother?
amanda@vollmerpr.com
I called Travelocity telling them I would not book with them anymore and I told State Farm I was switching insurance companies.
You should've kicked that gnome in his pointy little head.
Don't blame the gnome. He's a slave of the Evil Empire. Help me in liberating him and his enslaved brothers and sisters.
(BTW, I really do "collect" garden gnomes, even if that means "liberating" some of them from oppressive plantations where they are enslaved to perform garden work 24/7. Free the gnomes!)
.... and if so, gimme back my dam gnome!
might call your state farm agent back..
I got an email from my agent and the regional office both quoting the Media Matters State Farm position that they will make sure State Farm's ads do not appear again on Beck hate fest.
I don't know how they manage it. Are these people that stupid? That gullible? That delusional? That paranoid? I think it's all of those with an unhealthy dose of racism mixed in this time. I used to rant against those people during Bush's first presidential run. I would come armed with facts and incontravertable evidence that Bush couldn't care less about them and that they would suffer under Bush policies and when I had destroyed all of their arguments, they would fall back on "I just hate Gore", though they couldn't give me a rational reason why they did so. Hate radio has to be a huge part of the equation though. Better mind control than anything the CIA managed when they were experimenting with halleucinagens
Yes.
Appropriate Beck Sponsors
Pampers, Gerbers, Johnson & Johnson
They could use images of Beck crying right in the ads.
Don't forget Geritol...
How apprapos for him. Maybe FAUX will give him a show when he leaves the Senate.
I'm nominating you for diaper duty, Margaret!
Viagra Airport - for Closet Repugs.
Chef Tarheel Rhode's - Roadkill in a can.
Alfred E. Neuman nationwide trucking schools.
Extenz - Boner pills.
Joultergeist - the Ann Coulter electric blow up doll with the exploding suitcase guaranteed to make sure you have a quick, painless rapture to Jaysusland.
Sean Insannity's new Book - My Boy Lollipop - How to grow a uni-brow and use it to impress anthropolgists that Neanderthals rule Earth.
Limbaugh's Stanky Cheese - moldy cheese spores incubated right in Rush Limbaugh's ass crack! MMM mmm Goood!
I read that the company's removing their sponsorship from Beck are only switching to another time slot on fox. Fox is not that upset about it because he is still getting attention and they are still getting sponsorship from these companies in other areas.
It's nice to see these advertisers pulling the plug on Beck's "Hate Speech-a-Thon." However, my understanding is that they're shifting the spots to different time slots on the Fox Diatribe Channel. Ergo, the overall bottom line is not being affected. What should happen how is to get them to bail out on O'Reilly, Hannity, and others. (Same shit sandwich, but with different bread.)
I said that Fox and CNN were propaganda channels, especially Fox. They are not news channels for the most part.
12-15 MILLION daily audience...
About a third of the the number who voted for McStain/Bailin'Palin ticket.
That's a BEEG buncha shit-for-brains people...
And Faux ain't gonna go broke with those numbers anytime soon...
Not unless we can shame all corporations to shun them, just like the wingers were able to do to Air America. It's going to take a sustained effort to push them back into the fringe where they belong and they aren't going to go quietly.
Sorry, Margaret.
There is NO WAY Faux News EVER loses that audience, unless they all succumb to Dumfux Disease...
I didn't say they were going to lose their audience! I never mentioned their audience! I said we have to shame their advertisers. And implying that I'm "delusional" while you deliberately misrepresent my comments? NOT very nice. I've never been so rude to you.
Travelocity is done with Beck's show.
Activism works, cynicism alone does nothing.
oh...wait..you're right. };)>
Exactly, margaret.
No whining about FAUX's audience. Without advertising...there is no network. The eyeballs don't pay the freight, the advertisers do.
It's time to crank up the pain.
You may be right, woody. But the goal is not to shut down FOX, it's to marginalize them and their viewers.
Maybe the goal should be getting FOX to tell the truth.
Haven't you all learned anything???
Fox sells those eyes to CorpoRat Murka. Fox will cease having advertizers ONLY when they stop having viewers.
Which is when, do you think?
Y'all are simpler than children, sometimes...
though I respect what you are highlighting in regards to the continuation of Fox revenue, I am more hopefull that a resounding "bitch slap" message is being sent to that small cranium of Beck that says "Tone down the incitement and rhetoric". If the dominoing boycott changes his "shoot from the hip" vitrol on at least one episode and he has one looney viewer who changes their mind about harming another human being with violence, than I am a winner for the time I took.
...has decided that Beck is a batshit insane hatemonger. May he turn into a black hole and suck down the rest of that propaganda machine.
Later Glenn, I hope the door leaves your ass red when it smacks you.
So how is the right responding? Are they screaming "lefty abuses"?
I always wondered why CNN let Beck get away with some of the crazy crap he said when he was on that network. Ever since he moved to Fox I've realized that CNN were actually keeping him on a relatively short leash.
I mean what difference does it make that they've paid for Blanche? It's never mattered to them how they make their money or at least it hasn't since Sam Walton died and left it to his greedy, spoiled rotten spawn. It's just business, right Senator Lincoln (D?- Wal-Mart)
And get this. Whole Foods CEO is a total asshat. While I am no fan of the rotten mess being served us from WA DC, this guy is a nutbag
The Whole Foods board of directors should have muzzled before he was taken out for a walk; His piece, filled with lies about Canada and the UK and granting medical care easily to all in need and his convoluted plan both bite:
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Write those bastards too. His plan is unconscionable.
• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.
Yeah, that's the ticket - let the insurance companies deny any claim any time based on their own best interests! Laughable.
Govt bureaucrats will decide what medical care you receive. Also
• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
Here's a thought. Strike docs who get sued too much. There's obviously a problem with them.
The upshot of my reading this article is I will never step foot in a whole foods again.
Oh wait, that didn't really come out right.
Eat strained foods!
about microwaving cantaloupes!
And to think I was bemoaning the fact that there is no Whole Foods Market in my neighborhood. No more. Keep them out!
This Mackey fellow sounds like he believes profits come before people's health.
• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
How do I know his soybeans aren't the cheap poisonous Roundup Ready kind? Maybe he likes tort reform so he can sneak some GMO's into his stores while customers pay more for for false advertising.
Just wondering.
• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.
And maybe repeal laws regarding what "organic food" means?
Just asking.
deregulate more, that will fix it. I'm glad he's not my boss so I can say he's a dumbass without him firing me.
I'd call him a dumbass WHILE I was quitting. I've done that a couple of times. :P
that you knew that you could get another job because of your qualifications. Not so much anymore.
you weren't a slave to your current job due to health insurance coverage. Ahhhh, now I see why Mackay's all in favor of maintaining the current insurance system.
his/her new hires that I'd have to piss in a jar, even when passing the test is/was not a problem. That eliminates a good 80% or so of utter assholes.
I never had an easy time hanging on to a job in the good times (gee I wonder why). I consider myself lucky right now to be disabled. From a monetary standpoint only.
Dear Roger - We did not specifically place our ad on the show. We basically buy ads in bulk and then they are placed somewhat randomly. However, we have now specifically asked that our ads do not appear during this show. Thank you for your concern,
Sincerely,
Amanda
You can stop e-mailing them.
so it's still status quo with them, I guess. Liking the Nazi talk. Liking the "Obama is a racist" stuff.
I will guarandamntee you this is getting Murdoch's attention.
Did you see how much they lost last quarter?
That's how you get his attention. Kick him in the money bag.
or as I like to call it...
the Ol' Scrote Sack!
Glenn Beck is just the flying monkey. Rupert Murdoch is the wicked witch that hired the monkey and gave him a gun.
The only logical solution is to boycott everything marketed by Rupert Murdoch. That's Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, etc.
America needs to eradicate that smelly old right wing bastard.
Now now...let's be fair. He's not smelly.
....Aqua Velva and Ben Gay.
n/t
He's got "Old Man Smell."
Me too.
where a guy got up in Briscoe's grill with the 'old man smell' thing and Briscoe was pissed...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xSMtJQbhDbY/SP472id...
http://bluebook.state.or.us/images/facts/scen...
That's my bet. Plus old cigars. Murdoch _looks_ smelly.
All of those Faux news-o-tainment-poganda pundips are batshit crazy hatemongers.
They're just giving the loot to the left hand of FauxNoise instead of the right hand of FauxNoize...
Big Deal. Haven't these advertisers at Faux looked at what these boopoid bampots are doing?!? It's the freakin' voice of unreason and it appears that it matches the sound of the voices in some peoples' heads.
Y'know, I do believe that FauxNews is the leading cause of bullet-holes in dead Unitarians.
I'll buy the suit (my spousal unit says I need one)when they drop ALL adverts on FAUX)
They really should take a look at the fascism they are sponsoring over at FOX Theatre, and then drop FOX all together, obviously.
You know, I vividly remember during the Regan/Bush I years, frequently being told I should move to another country, because I was a leftie and I hated America. I hear similar cries coming out again.
I have a response to that.
These right wingers who don't want to pay taxes, don't want any government at all, and just want to be able to carry their guns with impunity? They need to move to Somalia.
There's no government or taxes there, and plenty of guns.
There should be a strong message here, TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY, look with these Racist, Nazi, White Trailer Trash, Hate Mongers this would be a temporary reprieve, wait long enough and people forget (this group of morons anything past 10 Seconds is a life time), the pain MUST go deep so deep that these advertisers CAN NOT hide behind the we bundle and DO NOT know were the Ads go, I say BS. this is Socialist Corporate America these SOCIALIST know were every dollar goes. Keep the pressure on so they pull their Ads from the Racist,Hate Monger dobbs the Illiterate< O'Lielly the uninformed and Brain Dead. the list goes on DO NOT STOP.
So they're still running ads on the station that runs his show? Isn't that just rearranging the furniture?
at the very least it will be a scheduling nightmare making sure these advertisers never appear during a Glenn Beck episode.
The upthread poster was right -- advertising is often bought and scheduled by time slot, rather than programming.
from the crazy glenn beck show. The big problem is that FOX is going to continue to have beck and others as long as these companies advertise on other shows.
What they need to do is pull their advertising completely. That might give FOX something to think about.
These Faux Noise racist pigs should be fired but, Murdoch, the King of racists purposely only hires ignorant, uneducated, hate filled racists.
willing to wear short skirts.
I wonder when murdoch is gonna put page 3 girls behind the anchor's desk?
....and I was expecting a youtube of blonds in short skirts.
Sooooo dissapointing.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
Lou Dobbs on Howard Dean
Dobbs is sick.
Freedom of speech should always be respected. If I do not allow other to say things they fervently believe in, then who will allow me to do so. That being said, there is a difference between peacefully, logically arguing your point and spewing a constant stream of crap at the top of your lungs. Freedom of speech should be supplemented with the freedom to listen, so to say.
But what if these things that they fervently believe in are batshit crazy, and inciting violence?
Twak him in the ear! (That is holding you middle fingure behind your thumb, lining up with the top of his ear and lettin one go, TwaK!)
For shame Glen Beck, for shame.
Thwak!
It sounds faster and more painful with the "h" in it.
Try it, and you'll see what I mean.
for twat
How amazing is it that the very people who claim to be the most Pro-American and Pro-Freedom are against choice?
Do these people (the ones not directly employed by the health insurance industry)even realize that they are pawns of giant corporations that will not hesitate to immediately gut them like a fish if they smell a penny of profit?
Unless you need Travelocity to book your trip to the nearest WalMart, I don' t think they are getting much out of this show.
Why yes, I am a NYC liberal elite...and damn proud!
From the item:
I heard a comedian say once about a school banning "The Merchant of Venice" for fear of anti-semitism, "Racists didn't get that way by too much exposure to Shakespeare...."
Shakespeare"
Nope...but they sure as hell hate them some Montagues!
The thing that makes me laugh about most bigots is their ignorance; they're so stupid that they don't know they're stupid.
TMOV is a case in point: some think it's an anti-jewish play, when in fact, it's quite the opposite. A jewish man is eking out a little legal revenge by collecting a "pound of flesh", while the debtor's friends asked the jew to be "merciful; if the situation were reversed, the friends would be holding down a jewish man while the collector would start cutting.
It was set at a time when few jews in christian Europe had any legal protection. They weren't "money grubbing jews", they were people set on acquiring wealth because it was one of the few means of self-protection they had.
It's easy to boycott Travelocity, and it feels really Good!
It feels like fighting back against bigotry. like putting out hate.
From the Onion archives:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33158
I spent $1600.00 on suits and some shirts. Not only should we chastise the businesses who fund hate speech, we should reward those who do the right thing. I'm sending a note to them praising their decision along with a copy of my reciept to let them know the payback works both ways.
Why would Blue America pull their Lincoln ads from Beck's show? Aren't they trying to reach the people who watch Beck?
That doesn't make any sense to me.
I mean the capitalist economy. That would be a great opportunity for the socialists with Mr. Obama in the lead to form a proper socialist republic in the U.S.S.A. I figure it'll happen about 2012. Is that the plan?
talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is "all too predictable."
It's because they're not really reporters or commentators or pundits - they're just DJs who don't play any records. It's no coincidence that Limba the Hutt himself used to be Pittsburg bossjock "Jeff Christie" in his younger days.
Why do they always use the porn actor name Jeff as their fake job names, from fake pundits/DJs to fake WH reporters.
Its an 80s thing I suppose.
Good afternoon – Thank you for contacting us to express your concerns. Travelocity did not specifically place our ad on the show. We basically buy ads in bulk and then they are placed somewhat randomly. However, as of last Monday we specifically asked that our ads do not appear during this show.
Sincerely,
The Travelocity Team
Good afternoon –
Thank you for contacting us to express your concerns. Travelocity did not specifically place our ad on the show. We basically buy ads in bulk and then they are placed somewhat randomly. However, as of last Monday we specifically asked that our ads do not appear during this show.
Sincerely,
The Travelocity Team
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