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Backlash Grows Against Boycotts of Glenn Beck and Whole Foods
Digital Journal ^ | 8/24/2009 | Johnny Simpson

Posted on 08/24/2009 1:49:28 AM PDT by TheMadKing

This past week, both FOX commentator Glenn Beck and Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey were being targeted by left-leaning organizations for boycotts. Now the boycotts themselves are being boycotted, a response that has cost GEICO Insurance and Sargento Foods a total of 12,500 customers.

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To: Paleo Conservative

i never shop at best buy.....not because of any boycott, but because they do not back their products... my friend went in and bought a laptop, took it out to his car, out of the box ( he is still in the parking lot ) and the damn thing did not work....he took it back into the store ( less than 10 minutes since purchase had passed ) and they refused to take it back or exchange it...they said they would send it out for repair, and that it would take 6 weeks...screw them


21 posted on 08/24/2009 4:29:39 AM PDT by joe fonebone (When you ask God for help, sometimes he sends the Marines.)
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To: TheMadKing

Say what you like about some of their hippie clientele, Whole Foods reliably has one of the best salad bars going.

Yummy, yummy stuff, no lies, no exaggerations.


22 posted on 08/24/2009 4:39:14 AM PDT by Yudan (Living comes much easier once we admit we're dying.)
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To: TheMadKing

This is outstanding. We could, conceivably, remove the boycott as an effective left wing tactic!


23 posted on 08/24/2009 4:50:44 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Paleo Conservative
I’ve been looking for an HD camcorder that I can take to tea party protests and political events to create material to upload on YouTube.

This is a picture, not an advertisement.

Advertisements are only provided upon request.

24 posted on 08/24/2009 4:52:38 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: TheMadKing

Government Employees’ Insurance COmpany.

Need I say more? (They since have expanded to insure anyone, since they became profitable, but that’s what GEICO actually stands for.)


25 posted on 08/24/2009 5:04:35 AM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: Paleo Conservative
I’ll be buying one from a mail order vendor rather than Best Buy.

You will probably get a better deal at Newegg anyway. Be sure to tell Best Buy they lost a sale.

26 posted on 08/24/2009 5:14:27 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: TheMadKing

Lesson to the free market: It’s not leftist idiots who support your bottom line.


27 posted on 08/24/2009 5:28:20 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: TheMadKing

What this shows, is we as a country have decided to take back America. No longer, will it just be the far left protesting. We are a much larger silent majority, and have woken from a giant slumber. Kind of what happened after Pearl Harbor. The Japanese after that attack raised a sleeping giant to a super power. The rest is history!!!!!


28 posted on 08/24/2009 5:37:17 AM PDT by wbones8765 ("Give me liberty or give me death")
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To: PreciousLiberty

I will not insure with GEICO. They are the most expensive insurance company. Several years ago when I bought my car, I shopped around for the best deal. GEICO quoted me a price double to another company that I took. Even though I am a senior citizen, and have had no traffic tickets for more then ten years


29 posted on 08/24/2009 5:37:23 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Maybe Obomma will start a Cash for Camcorders program?


30 posted on 08/24/2009 5:47:54 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (NO PISE EN MI)
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To: TheMadKing

DefendGlenn.com rocks. And the founder is a FReeper.


31 posted on 08/24/2009 5:51:40 AM PDT by montag813
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To: PreciousLiberty

Remember, no Sargento cheese.


32 posted on 08/24/2009 5:59:57 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: PreciousLiberty
I was never a GEICO customer...

Neither am I and I never, ever will be. My wife got t-boned in a parking lot about 5 years ago. It was the other person's fault and they had Geico insurance. Let me tell you those Geico folks were nasty right from the first phone call telling me what I would accept and what I wouldn't. Serious strong arm tactics. Clearly, they were trained in these tactics because I talked to several claims adjusters and every one of them acted the same. Fortunately for me my sister in law was a claims adjuster for Allstate and helped me handle it by telling me all the right buttons to push with these folks to get the maximum claim possible. The owner of the shop where I had the car repaired said Geico was, by far, the worst insurance company they deal with for getting paid, too.

33 posted on 08/24/2009 6:03:45 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: TheMadKing
Newsmax.com Backlash Against Boycott of Glenn Beck Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:32 PM By: David A. Patten 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. ......... excerpt
34 posted on 08/24/2009 6:31:29 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: TheMadKing

Yesterday I went to the Whole Foods in the East Valley of the metro Phoenix area. It was PACKED.


35 posted on 08/24/2009 6:59:51 AM PDT by mancini
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To: joe fonebone

If it was a charged item on a credit card, most require the store take it back for any reason.


36 posted on 08/24/2009 7:07:22 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
Remember, no Sargento cheese.

Not a problem. Their cheese is awful. We never buy it anyway.

I once sent in an e-mail to complain about the taste of their string cheese (yuck!) and they sent an e-mail back asking if I wanted some coupons for their string cheese. Duh!

37 posted on 08/24/2009 7:42:13 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: screaminsunshine

I’m listening to GB on the radio this morning and they just had a GEICO commercial.


38 posted on 08/24/2009 7:49:39 AM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: raybbr

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39 posted on 08/24/2009 8:50:29 AM PDT by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Bobalu

Those are kind of scary. I saw a video where the guys lays the camera down on the counter top next to the girl on the computer. At first I thought they were going to record her keystrokes to gain a password.


40 posted on 08/24/2009 11:22:55 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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