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Rush Limbaugh fights to hang onto his advertisers – by being tough. He refuses to let Sacramento-based retailer Sleep Train come back, and the story shows his strategy. The Sacramento Bee says “Limbaugh and Sleep Train chief executive Dale Carlsen have known each other since the 1980s, when Sleep Train was a small company” and Limbaugh was polishing his act at Sacramento’s news/talk KFBK (1530). So Rush must’ve hated last week’s statement from Sleep Train – “As a diverse company, Sleep Train does not condone such negative comments directed toward any person.” The company left itself wiggle room by saying...

Efforts to silence Rush Limbaugh are apparently having a significant impact on the talk radio business as a whole, including syndicated radio shows hosted by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. After provocative comments made about a female Georgetown law school student, Limbaugh's show has been targeted by liberal groups that have pressured more than two dozen advertisers to drop his program from their ad buys. Now, Rush's syndicator, Premiere Networks, is losing advertisers for other conservative programs it airs. According to an internal Premiere memorandum obtained by Radio-Info.com, the company says 98 advertisers no longer wanted to air...

Rush Limbaugh Spurns Plea By Ex-Advertiser To Be Accepted Back By Mark WhittingtonMarch 10, 2012 The imbroglio over Rush Limbaugh, his unfortunate remarks about a student activist, and his advertisers took a bizarre turn when one advertiser who publicly denounced Limbaugh last week and pulled its ads, begged to be taken back. The advertiser in question is Sleep Train, a mattress company. According to the Los Angeles Times, Limbaugh has turned down its request to be reinstated as a voiced advertiser, which involved the host himself endorsing the company. The reason was that Sleep Train's action had angered Limbaugh's many...

According to a series of advertisers' Twitter and Facebook statements, at least 20 different sponsors have now pulled their spots from Rush Limbaugh's radio show. In case you're new to the kerfuffle—welcome out of hibernation!—advertisers began dropping like flies after Limbaugh called a Georgetown law student and women's rights activist a "slut" and a "prostitute" for supporting healthcare coverage for contraception. Sleep Number and The Sleep Train, both mattress suppliers, were the first two advertisers to pull their ads Friday, and the numbers have grown tenfold since then. Media Matters has been regularly updating a list of advertisers that have...

It's time to fight back. To take on Sleep Mattress, Sleep Number, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Quicken Loans, Carbonite and, now that they've caved, Pro-Flowers. And anybody else who wants to play this disgraceful blacklisting game with their customers. To expose the hypocrisy and double standards. To make it crystal clear that that those who sell out our First Amendment rights to far left radicals are in fact going to be actively perceived as collaborating in a deliberate attack on their customers, real and potential. It's time to stand up for free speech. To draw a line in the sand. And...

Emboldened by Rush Limbaugh’s public apology over the weekend to a law school student whom he had called a “slut” and a “prostitute,” critics of the radio talk show host are intensifying their online campaign against his advertisers.

Three advertisers on Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show Friday announced that they are pulling their ads, and other companies are expressing concern over customer outrage in the wake of the conservative host’s controversial “slut” comments this week. “We don’t condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we are currently pulling our ads from Rush with Rush Limbaugh,” the company Sleep Train Mattress Centers announced on its Twitter account early Friday. The company began tweeting at some of its followers starting around midnight, telling multiple Twitter users, “Thank you for your concern. We are currently pulling all of our...

As you all are probably aware by now, the leftist publication known as Wonkette attacked Trig Palin on his birthday. They didn’t stop there… They attacked Governor Palin, Todd Palin, and other members of the family by the end of the day. The “editor” released what he called an “apology,” but anyone with half a brain knows that it wasn’t. We’ll have full coverage tomorrow but for now, the governor sent this message to all of the people who stood up on Twitter today, in defense of the special needs community and basic human decency:

This year, for the first time, advertisers will have spent more on Internet ads than on print newspaper ads, according to new estimates from eMarketer. The digital-marketing research firm says U.S. spending on online ads will hit $25.8 billion, surpassing the $22.8 billion spent on print ads in newspapers. The eclipse has been on the horizon for years as consumers have migrated en masse to the Internet, where there are many more options for news, and where newspaper publishers can't charge nearly as much for ads as they can in print. So even while the total audience for many newspapers...

A handful of advertisers, such as Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether. Network executives say they believe they could charge higher rates if the host were more widely acceptable to advertisers.

Yesterday, for the fifth day in a row, the UK broadcast of Glenn Beck’s TV show was forced to run without any advertisements. This is thanks to efforts by StopBeck.com to pressure companies advertising on Beck’s UK broadcast. While Beck’s UK broadcast has been forced to run without ads, his US broadcast has been reduced to running promos for other shows on Fox, ads from direct marketers (think exercise equipment and gold coins) and a handful of private companies headed by right-wingers.

Per Drudge...

Even the liberal media requires revenue to sustain their operations. Is it time to pressure their advertisers to obtain less biased coverage?

UK Supermarket Pulls Ad From Fox News Over Beck By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 5, 2009 LONDON (AP) -- Upscale British supermarket chain Waitrose says it is pulling its advertisements from Fox News in the U.K. after customers complained about the right-wing cable news channel's Glenn Beck program. The popular and controversial talk show host is already the target of a boycott campaign in the United States after he accused President Barack Obama of harboring ''a deep-seated hatred for white people.'' Dozens of U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., have pulled their ads from the program although most still continue...

The campaign by ColorOfChange.org to get companies to boycott Glenn Beck’s Fox News program has been going on for more than a month, and 62 companies have pledged their support and refused to advertise on the program. That is a victory on one level. Yet, despite a press release yesterday saying the contrary, Fox News continues to be unaffected financially by the boycott. The release was accompanied by a Huffington Post blog by the group’s founder, James Rucker. From the release: The advertising boycott of Glenn Beck has cost the controversial host over half of his estimated advertising revenue since...

The resignation Sunday of Van Jones, White House environmental jobs "czar," is as much a cable TV story as it is a Washington political one. Jones, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to a high level position as a special adviser on "green jobs" and the environment, has been exposed in recent weeks for using coarse and reckless language in public meetings and signing a petitition that suggested members of former President George W. Bush's administration might have known about the 9/11 attacks in advance and still allowed them to happen. The media entity that first brought much of...

Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, HSBC, Discover and seven other big firms are yanking their ads from Beck's show, boycott organizers said Wednesday. "We applaud those companies that have recently pulled their support from Beck," James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org, said Wednesday. "There are at least 57 companies who will not tolerate Beck's race-baiting comments." The African-American political group went after Beck for declaring on his July 28 show that Obama is a racist with a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." About 145,000 members signed a petition asking Beck's advertisers to stop supporting him. And big companies...

Fox News commentator Glenn Beck acted stupidly when he went on a TV talk show last month and called President Obama a racist. Oh, boy. I've gone and done it now. Using the now infamous Beck Standard for Racist Speech, with that statement I have just crossed the line and revealed my own deep-seated hatred for white people. Chalk it up to that wacky mixed-race blood that courses through my veins, and the president's. Fortunately, I have some local backup on this one, because the group that launched a nationwide movement to strip the network host of his advertisers -...

Speaking to Erin Burnett.

Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz and the brain trust at ThinkProgress probably won't like this, but CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer thinks the Glenn Beck boycott won't have an impact on NewsCorp's (NASDAQ:NWSA), the parent company of Fox News, bottom line. During the "Stop Trading" segment on "Street Signs" Aug. 24, Cramer explained that Unilever (NYSE:UN) was going all out with its advertising, by not avoiding shows that might offend someone's political sensibilities. Cramer said that strategy was paying off for Unilever, whose stock is up 10 percent since July. ...more (w/video)...

Advertising is a two-way street Who persuaded advertisers to pull their ads from the Glenn Beck program and where can I obtain a list of those advertisers? I will notify them that I can pull my purchasing just as easily as they pull their ads. I also have begun more shopping at Whole Foods because of the ACLU boycotting. I feel these companies need to realize it is a two-way street when they display their weaknesses because of activists.

I just spoke with a personal assistant to Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel regarding the controversy surrounding Glenn Beck. The gentlemen said that the AP was mistaken in reporting that Sprint had pulled their ads from the Glenn Beck show. The marketing team at Sprint discussed this issue earlier this morning and sent out notice to the rest of Sprint corporate headquarters that no decision had been made regarding ads on Glenn Beck. The assistant couldn't tell me whether or not Sprint was considering pulling their ads or not. I explained to him that I am a premier Sprint...

NEW YORK – Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel on Monday after a vacation with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist. A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago.

A leftwing group’s effort to intimidate corporate advertisers on Fox News’ Glenn Beck show appears to be backfiring as it triggers a wave of support from grassroots fans rushing to defend the popular TV personality from the attacks. Even before the liberal boycott of Glenn Beck began this summer, the bestselling author and TV host had became a ratings superstar, with his 5 p.m. cable news program pulling mega prime time viewership numbers. Beck had also become a lightning rod for liberal groups who didn’t like his anti-Obama message and his staggeringly large audience. "I think it tells us a...

NEW YORK (AP) - Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel after a vacation on Monday with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist. A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago. While it's...

Network Edits Clips of a Black Man with Guns at an Obama Rally to Support Race Narrative In their statement yesterday explaining why they were removing their ads from ALL "political talk shows" on cable, Clorox said per their standards, they do not advertise on programs which "present facts inaccurately or distort them to blatantly partisan advantage". Well I commend the executives at Clorox and indeed all other advertisers revising their ad placement standards over the Glenn Beck brouhaha, to see what MSNBC did during their morning show on August 18th. continued...

Dear Ms. *******: Thank you very much for your communication about our decision regarding advertising on the Glenn Beck show. Our position is simple and was not driven by taking sides in any political debate. We support free speech of all kinds, and vigorous debate, especially around policy issues that affect millions of Americans. But we expect the speech and the debate to be informed, inclusive and respectful, in keeping with our company’s core values and commitment to diversity. In our view, Mr. Beck crossed the line. While advertising on the Fox network is part of our communication plan, we...

Already, 20 companies have agreed to pull advertisements from Glenn Beck's television show, within weeks of the Fox host calling Obama "a racist" and saying the president "has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Now, Farmers Insurance can be added to that list, a Farmers spokesperson confirms to POLITICO.

Yet another of the Astroturfing Activists' Claims Turn to Dust Under Scruitiny Hate to say it, but we told you so. Even though our community of Glenn Beck fans have contacted Best Buy to protest their well-hyped supposed boycott of Beck's #2-rated show at Fox News Channel, we demurred from adding ANY of these new advertisers to our "turncoat" list. Simply because we can't believe anything Color of Change prints. Whether it is their petitions, which always suspiciously seem to have "75,000 signatures" (#1) (#2), or whether it is company after company we actually SPEAK to who deny their claims...

Have rcvd chain letters to boycott specific advertisers on Beck....Cant find which are liget and actually bailed and have heard some of it BS....Where to go to verify which ones....

Clorox: "Decision not to advertise on political talk shows" Cites shows which "distort" facts to "blatantly partisan advantage"; Scope remains unclearClorox Inc. appears to be following in the footsteps of WalMart, by announcing it would be no longer "advertise on political talk shows". Clorox said they "do not want to be associated with inflammatory speech used by either liberal or conservative talk show hosts". The scope of this new policy remains unclear. WalMart itself told DefendGlenn.com on August 19th that it was removing "all advertising" from cable news talk, which we were led to understand meant EVENING shows, including MSNBC...

posted at 8:46 am on August 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey We’ve heard about the boycott of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News Channel... The boycott made big news when reports that major retailers Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and CVS had joined the effort. The Left celebrated, but did these three actually pull ads from Beck? I decided to check, and found that only one of the three agreed to stop advertising on Beck. First, I contacted Best Buy, whose corporate headquarters are in the Twin Cities. The website Defend Glenn Beck posted an e-mail from their spokesperson saying that...

Framingham’s Bose Corp. could be the next target of the anti-Glenn Beck movement that’s trying to force firms to drop their ads on the far-right Fox News talk show. About 20 companies have already pulled ads from Beck’s 5 p.m. weekday time slot on Fox News, amid boycott threats from leftist groups angry that Beck accused President Obama of being a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

In what is shaping up to be one of the more effective boycott campaigns in years, advertisers are abandoning the "Glenn Beck" show on Fox News following the host's incendiary comments that President Barack Obama is a "racist" and has a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Among the advertisers to pull spots from the popular cable talk show are Geico, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/comstock/13*!brk.a (BRK .A 99,275, +275.00, +0.28%) /quotes/comstock/13*!brk.b (BRK .B 3,235, +5.20, +0.16%) ; Procter & Gamble /quotes/comstock/13*!pg/quotes/nls/pg (PG 52.49, +0.28, +0.54%) ; Sargento Cheese; and Progressive Insurance /quotes/comstock/13*!pgr/quotes/nls/pgr (PGR 16.01, -0.08, -0.50%) , according...

We will not allow these thugs to silence our right to free speech. It is fine for the President to accuse an entire police department of profiling, acting stupidly and racism, but Glenn Beck can not respond without being punished? Is this Nazi Germany? I think that is exactly where we are headed

Linked to FR post regarding P & G product line (Corporate Wall-of-Shame). Here is one of my letters... TO: Men's Warehouse From the reports I have seen, Men’s Warehouse has either 1). Independently determined that there is an inflammatory nature to the comments posed on ‘The Glenn Beck Show’ that just happens to coincide in time with a threatened boycott by an organization called “Colors of Change”, or 2). That in order to avoid controversy, Men’s Warehouse will cave to any organization that threatens to Boycott? I want to remind you that Men’s Warehouse didn't seem to have a problem...

Is a left-wing attempt to scare off advertisers from Fox News host Glenn Beck’s highly rated cable news show being orchestrated with some high level help from the Obama White House? Perhaps. Newsmax has learned that the co-founder of the African-American political organization Color of Change, which is calling for Beck's ouster, is civil rights attorney Van Jones. In March, President Obama appointed Jones to serve as his so-called "green-jobs czar," responsible for stimulating job growth in the environmental sector. Jones and Beck have had their run-ins before. Beck has described Jones as "a black nationalist who is also an...

S.C. Johnson Denies They Pulled Ads from BeckDespite Wild Claims from Boycotters, Few Companies Confirm They've Cancelled Ads Several in our community have received the following email from SC Johnson... Patricia, Thank you for sharing your concerns as there is some potentially misleading information on the web about this topic. SC Johnson has not pulled or cancelled advertising for the Glenn Beck show, as we never directed our advertising to this particular program. In general, our goal is to provide good, informative ads and we select those programs and/or networks that make the most sense given our consumer base. Regards,...

Glenn Beck has lost advertisers on his TV show after calling President Obama "a racist" in the context of the Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy. The pressure on advertisers has become a politically charged debate about the right to free speech, censorship and what constitutes hate speech. Conservatives are questioning if the campaign against Beck is connected to the White House staff. The corporate sponsors are responding to the African-American online political coalition ColorOfChange.org, which launched a campaign two weeks ago, urging companies to stop advertising on "The Glenn Beck Program." Color of Change, in a press release Thursday, said...

Left-wing pressure groups Color of Change and Media Matters are claiming responsibility for getting Geico Insurance, Progressive Insurance, Procter & Gamble, and Lawyers.com to pull ads from Glenn Beck’s Fox News program. The campaign against Beck picked up steam when the Fox News personality commented that President Obama was “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people”.

P&G, Progressive Pull Ads From Glenn Beck's Fox Show After "Obama Is Racist" Remarks By Jim Edwards | August 7th, 2009 @ 8:57 am 3 Comments Share Email My BNET Twitter del.icio.us Google StumbleUpon Newsvine Facebook LinkedIn Digg My Yahoo Technorati Reddit Print Recomend 1 Fox is proving uniquely sensitive to advertising boycott campaigns this summer. Three major advertisers — LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance – all abandoned Glenn Beck’s Fox News Channel show after he called President Obama a racist (video below). The move comes after Fox axed host Steven Cohen from Fox Soccer Channel because...

Television commercials are too loud, as most viewers know, and members of Congress want broadcasters to turn down the volume. A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to "preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany." That idea is hard to resist, but it might be difficult to mandate. "Many different entities are responsible for producing and distributing the content consumers see and hear," U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said Thursday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee.

Developments and Updates regarding Letterman Advertisers: First a recommendation for further info:Conservatives4Palin updates on Letterman row - Has the contact information for writing and calling CBS staff Hillbuzz on how to target sponsors (a bit very wordy at the beginning, essentially makes the point to target three big advertisers with an „image interest“) Hillbuzz updates on Letterman advertisersFR thread with CBS advertisers contact info File an online complaint with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) with the point of obscenity... First reactions from sponsors: Some 'minor' sponsors are distancing themselves from Letterman and claim not to be his (direct) sponsors. Ancestry.com...

I know we have had several calls for boycotts of papers and of MSM stations, and those calls have extended to boycotting of advertisers. I am wondering if we had a place to post those advertisers we are targeting in an organized way, as well as a place to post an alternative to the product/company being advertised, it might have more impact on the advertisers and be easier for us remain in an active boycott of a product. I don't post many vanities, this may be my second on in 3 years. Sorry if it's annoying.

This thread is in response to a suggested boycott of CNN sponsors. List attached.

BACKGROUND: Oprah Winfrey has publicly stated that she will not have GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin on her TV show until after the elections (in spite of having Democratic candidate Barrack Obama - the candidate Oprah is supporting - on her show several times). Consequently, several Republican Women's groups have recommended boycotting Oprah's show. However, a much greater impact is obtained by boycotting Oprah's advertisers. Suppliers of consumer goods and services tend to live on razor-thin margins - The loss of just a few percent of their customer base can be disastrous for them. Furthermore, if one of their advertising...

The liberal media is trying to present a case that fewer than 1000 readers have actually canceled their USWeekly subscriptions - despite original stories that as many as 10,000 canceled. USWeekly certainly has NOT responded in public, and NO MSM writer has done anything other repeat the original story as we received it on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday after Sarah was nominated for VP. Regardless of subscriptions, Walgreens, McDonald's, and JCPenney have been quick to respond to my emails complaining about the abhorrent, misleading and disgusting treatment USWeekly gave Sarah Palin as their cover story and inside copy last week....

On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb set by James McNamara, an operative of the Iron Workers union, then embroiled in a ferocious dispute with the Los Angeles Times, blew up the Times building, killing 21 pressmen. McNamara was arrested the following April, convicted and later sentenced to life in prison. He died in San Quentin in 1941. The question for today is: Would a similar sentence be appropriate for Sam Zell? Zell, for those of you fortunate enough not to follow news of the newspaper business, is the Chicago real estate magnate who last year purchased the Tribune Co., which...

A SECOND NETWORK IS RETURNING money to advertisers in the face of hefty ratings declines this season. The CW was forced to put the process in motion as ratings sputtered deep into the fall, preventing the network from making good on unfulfilled guarantees going back to last season. A Bank of America analyst, Jonathan Jacoby, issued a report Friday detailing that "our sources indicate that CW is also offering cash back." MediaPost has learned the CW actually returned cash before NBC took the unusual step. By one measure, the CW's ratings are down this season 24% in the target adult...

LOS ANGELES (August 8, 2007) – The Parents Television Council™ released its ranking of the “Top Ten Best and Worst Advertisers” on television. This annual report ranks advertisers according to how frequently they sponsor wholesome, family-oriented television shows or those containing sexually graphic, violent or profane material on broadcast television. “Television sponsors contribute to the television culture, either in a positive or negative way, by what programs they choose to support with their advertising dollars. We applaud those on our best list because they are contributing to the well-being of millions of families by choosing to be responsible sponsors. It’s...