Posted on 08/15/2009 8:16:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
Glenn Beck, controversial Fox News personality, is losing advertising dollars for his program airing on the Fox News Channel. Corporate sponsors have been distancing themselves from Beck, fearing backlash for being associated with Beck's crazed and dangerous rantings and ravings. Recently Beck called President Obama a racist, just one of many utterances which has outraged his critics and worried his supporters.
Beck is known for his on air hysterics, his crying and manic gesticulations have become infamous. What is unclear is whether Beck is seriously mentally ill, or merely pandering in some gross and obnoxious fashion to the lowest, most base segment of American society. Perhaps it is both.
Regardless, GEICO is the latest corporate sponsor refusing to be associated with Beck. GEICO joins Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargento and SC Johnson in boycotting the Glenn Beck Show.
This display of corporate responsibility is admirable. Yet there are still some corporate hold-outs. General Electric, Farmers Insurance, Office Depot, Nestlé (Gerber), Red Lobster, Travelocity, the U.S. Postal Service, Walmart and Wyeth, are all targets for the on-going boycott being sponsored by ColorofChange.org,
Glenn Beck appeals to the worst in America. Media personalities like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Rush Limbaugh exploit racism and race-based fear to increase their ratings, and encourage racial discord. It is time for good people to stand up to these racists and bigots. One way to do this is to support the boycott at ColorofChange.org.
A way to counteract this boycott, is to begin one of our own! I've already contacted the ones who've canceled and told them we're canceling their products!
Remember send a real letter, include the label with bar code of a competitor........show them the money is walking away.
One man’s “crazed and dangerous rantings and ravings” are another man’s “truth”...
Glenn is a bit over the top, sometimes. But, on the main, he’s on the mark.
Let the boycotting companies know that you will no longer be purchasing their products. Their knee jerk reaction to the ‘ColorofChange’ folks is reason enough to give them the boot.
It’s time to take back the country.
I’m not really a Glenn Beck fan myself but I doubt that very much in this story is true. By the way, Progressive Insurance is the money-making arm of the Lewis family, notorious red diaper babies and the original Marxist bankrollers of the Institute for Policy Studies, the think tank that launched a thousand Marxist fronts in America, including Comrade Obamsky.
Beck is too popular to not get sponsors. If some drop out, others will fill in.
It’s amazing how Bush and Palin can be excoriated with unbridled hate and vitriol. Yet any criticism of The Chicago Thug gets the left’s panties all wet.
There are likely hundreds of other companies dying to have a slot on Glenn Beck’s show, and have been waiting for those first in line to leave.
The Portland Progressive Examiner???? You don’t get more liberal than the garbage in this story. Beck by any standard is a Patriot and if some don’t see it that way and take their money elsewhere, so be it. I don’t have to buy their stuff and so be that. Make no mistake, Glen Beck has them in his sights and I want to know what he finds out. He has exposed ACORN and this person who lives in the White House for what they are, come on Glen, fire away!!!!!
Look where the info is coming from “the portland progressive examiner” nothing here lets move on!
The response I received from Sargento said that Beck had suggested that someone be poisoned. Has anyone else received such a reply?
Your’re Right. Boycott the Left!!!!!!!!! But there might be two keys: 1) publicity 2) state your reasons for boycott.
Maybe we could have a section of FR devoted to boycotts of the Left? Whooooooeeeeee. THAT would be huge. Include movies starring Leftists, music from Leftists. We outnumber them, they just have the (old) media. We don’t stand a chance unless we have numbers to show and an effect to be felt. In short, as long as we don’t organize- in some way- they will win. Can’t let that happen.
If this ragsheet has more than one subscriber I’d be amazed.
“exploit racism and race-based fear”
I knew by the end of the article I would read something like this...
Typical.
“Progressive Insurance is the money-making arm of the Lewis family”
Oh HO! Is this true? This wouldn’t be any relation to Monica Lewinsky, would it?!!! Monica’s Mom goes by the name Lewis!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hah! or Bah, depending ...
My son dumped Progressive after I showed him what Peter Lewis was all about. Furthermore, a little actual comparison shopping showed him that Progressive was not the "good deal" he had thought it was.
This Portland Progressive Examiner sure looks like it enjoys putting the old sigmoidoscope up Glenn Beck's microphone... maybe they could clean it off and use it on Olbermann and Matthews. On second thought, don't clean it off.
Mr. niteowl77
Apparently Progressive’s employees aren’t to fond of the company either. After reading a few of these, I began to wonder about the owners. Sounds like the Obama administration running an insurance corporation...
http://www.jobvent.com/companyBrowse.php?CompanyID=232
The overall company rating on that site is -8336
Is this also known as a "mob"?
They haven’t bothered to respond to me yet...grrr
Time to call the State Farm Agent and make a stink.
This is the first I've heard that State Farm has gone along with this. Is this true? I've had insurance with them for 35 years, I'd hate to have to change to another company.
Beautiful letter. Give them a chance to live up to their rhetoric before allowing them to hang themselves with their own biased ideology.
This is only a beginning for these thugs. The real goal is the silencing of all dissent.
I’ve had State Farm Insurance for 15 years, but this is a good reason to switch.
Ronald Reagan never knuckled under to communists...wish I could say the same for Sargento’s...
Where was these people’s outrage over the disgusting and vile things that were spoken on air about George Bush in the last eight years?
Right. Crickets....
There’s a campaign afoot on the left to silence all criticism of the Obamafuhrer and his National Socialist Congressturds.
Independents and moderate Dems are seeing this, and are as shocked as we on the right are.
The truth is, the leftist campaign to silence the opposition is unsustainable, despite their having complete control of Washington and the press. Our voices cannot be silenced, but with brute force, of which they don’t have the power to muster.
The anger being expressed in Town Hall meetings across the country is only the tip of the iceberg. Opposition to the radical leftist remaking of America runs deeper than they know, and will be reflected in the upcoming mid-term congressional elections.
Tide
Bounty paper towels
Crest
Oral-B
Iams
Eukanuba
Gillette razors
Charmin toilet paper
Febreze air fresheners
Old Spice
Ivory soap
Olay
Zest soap
Head and Shoulders
Pantene
Herbal Essence
Mr. Clean
Swiffer
Pepto-Bismol
Secret deoderant
Pampers
Luvs
Duracell batteries
Pringles
Cover Girl
Max Factor
I was wondering where I was going to spend my last bit of disposable income for lunch today. I think this has just settled the issue for me.
Red Lobster.....ummmmmm!
Gentlemen,
It has come to my attention that you have pulled your advertisements from Fox during the Glenn Beck Show.
It’s your money (at least until the new, improved tax increases kick in) and you may do with it whatever you wish.
I am, however, curious as to your reasons for doing so. Among the possibilities are the philosophical (read that “liberal/statist”) orientation of the majority of your management/ownership, the fear that Beck’s controversial – and after 30+ years of study of history – and CORRECT positions will offend existing or potential customers and, of course, simple FEAR that the corrupt Chicago mob now infesting Washington will engage in economic or other reprisals against those who oppose them (as they now have against Beck). That is, after all, “The Chicago Way.”
And THIS extended family unit will do what IT wishes with its money. As of now, that will include NOT purchasing ANY product or service your firm produces or provides.
I’m sharing this information with everyone with whom I have contact on the net and off until Obama and his minions declare the First Amendment null and void, making such communications criminal offenses.
If Obama’s continued destruction of the economy doesn’t cause you further distress, perhaps a good old-fashioned boycott will.
You’re probably not the least bit interested but here’s a little 7 minute video to give you something to think about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqw7kXG0kxU
Links to the three now involved:
http://www.sargento.com/contact/
http://www.scjohnson.com/contact/
http://www.geico.com/about/contactus/email/
Sounds like the Obama administration running an insurance corporation...
http://www.jobvent.com/companyBrowse.php?CompanyID=232
Figures that commies would run a corporate “sweatshop” environment—the usual “workers paradise” nonsense applies whether it’s 1917 or 2009 or all points in between or after.
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