Lefty boycott succeeding in getting advertisers to drop Glenn Beck
posted at 8:00 pm on August 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
No wonder. It’s a full-court press: Media Matters, MSNBC, nutroots blogs, and, as seen below, both of Comedy Central’s wonder twins are all pushing it. (Stewart’s segment doesn’t have to do with the boycott, actually, but it’s amusing enough to merit the embed.) Abandon ship:
Among the advertisers to pull spots from the popular cable talk show are Geico, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway; Procter & Gamble; Sargento Cheese; and Progressive Insurance, according to the companies and Color of Change, one group that is organizing a campaign against the program.
Geico didn’t respond to a request for comment but sent Color of Change an email saying it had “instructed its ad-buying service to redistribute its inventory of rotational spots on [Fox] to their other network programs, exclusive of the Glenn Beck program.”.
Privately held Sargento told its media buyer not to put any of its ads in Beck’s show, said a spokeswoman…
“We place advertising on a variety of programming with the goal of reaching a broad range of insurance consumers who might be interested in our products,” said a spokeswoman for Progressive. “We also seek to avoid advertising on programming that our customers or potential customers may find extremely offensive.”…
For its part, Fox News said through a spokeswoman that while some advertisers have “removed their spots from Beck,” they have just shifted to “other programs on the network, so there has been no revenue lost.”
Erick Erickson’s trying to get a counter-boycott going because “If they are successful, they will move beyond Beck to others.” A noble impulse, but is that really true? My hunch is that companies have limited patience for this sort of thing; they’ll throw a bone to an angry constituency if it’s sufficiently large and focused on one show, but the more targets the boycotters add, the greater the headaches for corporate advertisers who are looking for airtime and sensitive about not alienating other constituencies by getting too political. Even here, the great lefty victory over Beck appears only to have resulted in ads being shifted to other Fox programs. If Media Matters et al. suddenly decide they want O’Reilly and Hannity boycotted too, how many companies will oblige them knowing that it means sacrificing the biggest viewing audience in cable news?
The most depressing thing about this isn’t the fear of lefties taking down conservative broadcasters, it’s the fact that Beck is catching hell while the demagogue di tutti demagogues, a man who eagerly compares Republicans to terrorists when he isn’t busy screaming about right-wing “hate speech,” rests easily in the thought that his own advertising is secure. Exit question: Just what would Olby have to say or do to warrant a rightroots boycott of Countdown’s advertisers? He can’t sink much lower. Someone set the bar, quick!
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Thanks for setting us straight, that was a close one.
thomasaur on August 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Is the definition of a “troll” someone who differs with your opinion? In that case then you sir are a “troll” from my perspective.
Decider on August 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Do as you wish, but for me I will shout and scream until this mess we are in has ended. As I said, get out of the way.
d1carter on August 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Remember when John McCain “ordered” his staff not to write speeches that would highlight Rev. Wright connection to The Messiah – or Bill Ayers’ connection? Good old John – so polite – no wonder he was the poster boy for the NYT – well The Messiah plays only one way – Chi-Town. And we’re stuck with him – but the bigger they are the harder they fall…..
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Glenn Beck was and will always be a racist and a bigot
liberal343 on August 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Unlike yourself, of course.
Decider on August 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM
It just chaps you that regular people can be intelligent. That they have chosen to stand up for themselves and voice their opinions. Rush Limbaugh saved AM Radio. Conservative talk has given a voice to people that did not have a source for Conservative Viewpoints except for occasional columns in Liberal Newspapers of limted influence. These gentlemen you denigrate are seen and heard throughout the world on Armed Forces Radio and satellite delivery. Do not come to Hot Air and try to be a condescending Elitist. You will not be well received.
kingsjester on August 15, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Do you suppose Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants will decry this suppression of opposing view points as un-American?
dlc2 on August 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Glenn Beck should be a tad more consistent in that speech. He goes on and on about how bad the health care is while on CNN and suddenly at Fox it’s another story?
I bet Bill O’Reilly pulled him aside for some counseling on this one – and told him you can’t have it both ways – especially if you are on tape – the enemy will use the tape against you every time.
Stewart got him.
AprilOrit on August 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM
One of the earlier posters suggested boycotting advertisers that are on MSNBC. The only problem is that you would have to watch it to find out. That is a sacrifice most Americans would not make.
volsense on August 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
All this outrage and yet no sympathy for Savage
Ugly on August 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Un American?
How about just the same old plain old – playing whatever side of the srguement for ratings – based on the type of idealogues in the viewing audience of the network that hosts your show?
AprilOrit on August 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM
To hell with Progressive and Geico – I hate their stupid commercials, anyway. But I will be writing P&G, Sargento and Men’s Wearhouse. This is no different than what happened to the Free Market Warrior here at Concord Mills mall – a few leftist agitators complain, write some letters, and next thing you know they’ve won the fight. Well it’s time to stop letting them win. It’s time to turn their own playbook against them. It’s time to take that town hall energy and focus it like a laser at the enemies of this country before they take it all away.
Omally on August 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Yeah, Stewart can be funny sometimes. But is the take away message that the behavior of the nurses and doctors is going to improve with ObamaCare? Seems to me that what Beck was complaining about will be even worse when the lines begin to form. Maybe I am just too dumb to understand.
d1carter on August 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM
OK so no more Sargento cheese, that’s fine, I’ll be sure to avoid Geico and Progressive (interesting name there) but P&G is a tough one because they make so much stuff. I think they only have one competitor in the laundry detergent business but it’s hard to keep track of which brand belongs to which company.
Daemonocracy on August 15, 2009 at 5:52 PM
http://www.pg.com/common/product_sitemap.shtml
list of products from PG to avoid
thomasaur on August 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM
The take away message from the Stewart piece is that all of the Beckheads out there who insist they are getting “the real deal” from Glenn Beck because he “tells it like it is” are delusional sheeple. What Stewart (and anyone who thinks critically about the MSM) is pointing out is that talking heads like Beck don’t have free speech and don’t editorialize based on their own opinions. They are controlled by the constraints of their networks overall philosophy and by the corporations who buy ad time during their time slots. You can bet that Beck will have little to say if its revealed that a corporate sponsor of his show has significantly polluted a water supply or something else bad for the public good.
Ironically there’s no difference between Glenn Beck and the elites in Washington he rails against. Corporate interest pull the strings via campaign donations/advertising and the people who claim to “represent” us do nothing of the sort. Now you can say “class warfare!” all you want. But there really is no question over who has control over what Glenn Beck says, and it’s not Glenn Beck.
CrankyIndependent on August 15, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I do not know if boycotts work or not. I do know that I feel better when I do not purchase items from businesses that are ignorant and stupid to what is real and true: liberty.
I love this country and Beck helps to inform those that don’t know…or those that need to be reminded of what is precious.
CEA_Agent on August 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Damn! Old Spice on the list.
conservnut on August 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM
I never shopped at Whole Foods before – I did today. Nice place – I usually buy Sargento Cheese – I did not.
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM
We went to the store today, looking at products and selecting alternatives to what we usually get. Generic got the nod quite a bit.
conservnut on August 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I don’t know if I can make myself enter a Whole Foods. My wife said we need to start. Just seems so wrong. :-)
conservnut on August 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Thanks for the education. But, does that mean we are going to have better health care under ObamaCare? After all, Beck is just a rodeo clown.
d1carter on August 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM
It depends on what kind of bill passes, if anything at all. But if you’re interested in the outcomes of Obamacare why on earth do you watch Fox-CNN-MSNBC. Those networks have no interest in educating you about healthcare. How many stories have you seen that, without screaming, compare the cost per citizen Americans pay for healthcare vs. other industrialized nations. How many stories have you seen comparing life expectancy and other disease rates between Americans and other industrialized nations? How many times have you seen an interviewer ask a member of Congress:
1. Have you received any money from the healthcare industry
2. Which segment?
3. How does that effect your position on the bill?
By contrast how many times have you seen someone give one anectodal horror story about UK healthcare (but without an equally irrelevant anectodal horror story about American healthcare)? Exactly. I don’t hate Beck because he’s a radio clown, I hate him because he’s just the worst representative of a media that does not do its job of informing people.
CrankyIndependent on August 15, 2009 at 6:37 PM
can we send donations to fox to keep his program running inspite of liberal pressure to deny sponsoship?
whig33 on August 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM
So then why are the libs trying to get his program removed from Fox?
d1carter on August 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM
BTW, I don’t get my information from the MSM or from commenters on blogs. I do my own research and decision making but I do appreciate your opinions. Thanks.
d1carter on August 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Do enlighten us O cranky one.
thomasaur on August 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Give Whole Foods a try. Nice non-union store. Great deli and bakery. The store-made pizzas are incredible. Plus, you get to watch the lefties spend what little they have on natural sponge tampons and cruelty free lobsters.
oceansidecon on August 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Perhaps I am incorrect in assuming this, but I somehow doubt that you have watched much of Beck’s show or listened to his radio program. A few weeks ago on the radio show he talked about not having control over who advertises on the Fox program. But pointed out that he does have control over who advertises on his radio show and gave specific examples of advertisers he has dropped due to a range of reasons from their political leanings to not believing in their products.
conservnut on August 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I’m sure ☭☭comrade olbermann☭☭ is more your sort a guy..
right4life on August 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I trust Beck over the socialist commie bastards that are trying to silence him.
thomasaur on August 15, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Beck is a straight shooter. He is like the neighbor you trust as you two lean over the backyard fence talking about how dry the month has been and then you ask him to keep an eye on your house because you’re going to the mountains for a couple of weeks – you hand him the key to the front door. You do this because you trust him. Glenn Beck is like that. The Messiah wouldn’t get the key to my dumpster – he is just plain evil……………..
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM
………..wait I was wrong, I might have the ONE empty out my septic………….
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM
I’m sure with as big of a viewing audience Beck has there will be plenty of sponsers willing to take the spots that these companies have given up…
When the left goes to such extremes it just shows how scared they are of the truth!!!
Go Beck!!!!!
phadedjaded on August 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Glenn is the kind of guy that before you started watching him on Fox, you wonder how you got through the day………he has had a big impact on people………..
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Beats me, I’m not part of that boycott. I would suspect however that it’s because Beck said that the President has a deep seated hatred for white people and some folks took offense. I’d take offense if there was anything surprising about Glenn Beck saying something so idiotic.
Olbermann’s a sexist hack.
Beck’s particular brand of demagoguery doesn’t appeal to me, but that makes me respect his radio show somewhat. His TV show, however, is a production of Newscorp and in my mind totally illegit.
CrankyIndependent on August 15, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I don’t understand why you have this deep seated dislike for one of the only organizations out there in the media that offers more than only the left’s side of the argument.
No offense but frankly, it makes me suspect your motives.
conservnut on August 15, 2009 at 7:15 PM
His TV show is produced by his own production company, Mercury Entertainment Group, and broadcast by Newscorp on FNC.
thomasaur on August 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM
I hope Fox is smart enough to back Glenn 100% on this mess…
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM
So it surprises me that Progressive advertises on Fox at all, given CEO Peter Lewis’ funding of the ’527 groups,’ along with Soros, the Sandlers, and the rest of the Democracy Alliance.
Of course, bowing to a lib boycott threat in this case is a little like cutting off your own nose to spite your face, if Fox News ratings are any indication. I’m pretty sure someone else would love the publicity if these knuckleheads bow out.
Right on August 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Cranky – That name seems so apropo!
silvernana on August 15, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Drinking my last Diet Pepsi tonight and purchased Cheer rather than my old standard, Tide laundry soap. A very small thing, but it’s my contribution to help Glenn Beck’s cause.
yoda on August 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Yes, they’re “trying to silence him” in much the same way that conservatives (or “the base” to be more specific) are trying to silence unions by boycotting SEIU.
Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Have I missed the video tape of guys in Glenn Beck t-shirts stomping Americans?
thomasaur on August 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM
I’m sorry, but the video you’re reffering to does not show anyone getting stomped on, beaten, kicked or anything else.
Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Beck really does shoot his mouth off. It’s unfortunate and unnecessary but he is in the ratings business.
Sad to say, Comedy Central – which I typically find unamusing – has him bang to rights here.
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Hahaha, He’s getting to them!! I love me some Beck!
DanaSmiles on August 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Has this place turned into Daily Kos over night? It’s a Troll Invasion.
kingsjester on August 15, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Beck is not half as outrageous or obnoxious as Keith Olbermann and no one boycotts him, but then no one really cares about him either.
Beck once said that he was part radio clown, and I think he does tend to bring a certain over the top quality to this shows, but he is not a racist or a bigot or a nazi or anything of the kind.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 8:51 PM
^^^^^^ Troll
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Yep, about time to declare open season and go troll hunting!
conservnut on August 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Spenol:
Oh please, the SEIU was actually named in the indictment against a Blago, they have a long ugly history of buying favors and politicians. That is not the same thing as Beck doing a show that no one even has to watch if they do not want to.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 8:54 PM
CrankyIndependent:
Beck is not some overnight phenom or something, he has a history of doing this stuff. Radio, books, TV, he is his own man to say otherwise is absurd.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Far from it, Skippy. By the way, in the real world, Conservative Fox News is creaming MSNBC and CNN because people want to watch their presentation of the news. If preople wantedto listen to Lberals “Air America” would be a success instead of having approxiamately 10 listeners.
kingsjester on August 15, 2009 at 8:57 PM
CrankyIndependent:
So Fox news has an agenda, but CNN does not? How incredibly naive you are.
Silly me, I actually looked at the bill itself for starters, which is more than Barack Obama has done. In fact that is the only bill we can see, because the other bills are in the Senate stuck in various committees and Obama has never bothered to produce a plan of his own that we can look at.
He just makes vague, contradictory promises designed to appease people such as yourself rather than actually inform anyone.
Meanwhile the Democrats seem to think that the US taxpayers are just some bottomless pit from which they can draw limitless sources of revenue for one silly plan after another.
BTW, if you care to read the bill, here it is.
Here is a nice little outline that lays out some of the more offensive parts of an offensive bill.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Counseling… Now, that’s an interesting active verb…
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Terrye,
Where’s the proof that Gladney was beaten, kicked and stomped on?
Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 9:05 PM
If Fox has such high ratings……….blow out ratings really………why don’t the other networks turn back from being so far left and come back right?
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Calm down, dear.
I am a fan of Fox News. This boycott business is silly but so is Beck – he’s after ratings and will say almost anything to get them. That is fine – he is an entertainer first and foremost.
That’s not trolling that’s just economic reality.
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Spenol:
I saw the video. I know that is not proof to you of course, but it seemed like pretty good evidence to me. I just love hearing all these liberals make excuses for union thugs acting like thugs. What a bunch of hypocrites they are.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Anders:
I don’t think Beck is just about ratings, I think he really means what he says. I don’t agree with everything he says, but then again, I do not agree with the left constantly making fools of themselves either and saying the man said things he did not say. They are such a bunch of hysterical ninnies.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Cinday Blackburn on August 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Cinday – The majority of television newsrooms are Liberal. The executives, reporters, and even the crews are graduates of Colleges where liberals run the Fine Arts Courses. When I got my degreee in Radio, Tv, and Film in 1980, it was beginning to turn in that direction. Therefore, to move anywhere in their chosen profession, they adopt the Liberal Outlook to be upwardly mobile. I was the News Director of my University’s Radio Station and have 30 years in Corporate Communications. Just so you’ll know.
kingsjester on August 15, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Cinday:
Because something like 83% of the journalists in this country are registered Democrats and as such are partisan. The folks at a lot of those networks are just shilling for their side.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Glenn Beck is awesome
GW_SS-Delta on August 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM
It’s great you’re trying to read the bill, but the outline you linked to is nearly 100% false. Even the title, “Giving Gov’t Direct Access to Your Checking Account” is patently false and simply meant to scare people who are too lazy to look it up. (I’ll give you a hint, page 59 doesn’t give the gov’t access to your healthcare, it states that insurance companies can pay claims electronically through an established standard. It’s part of Electronic Medical Records movement to modernize our system.) It’s perfectly fine to be against the bill, but providing lies as your reasoning hurts your case.
jonknee on August 15, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I don’t doubt he means what he says when he says it but he does occasionally say some very stupid things in amongst his more serious points. Oscillating from saying that US healthcare is terrible to saying it is the best in the world is just one example of his unchecked hyperbole.
Calling Obama a racist was at best misguided and at worst simply dumb. Shades of Kanye West’s “George Bush hates black people”.
He’s an attention whore of the first order. And that is fine – good luck to him.
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 9:25 PM
He reminds me of Michael Savage. There’s some solid logic in there but there’s also so much narcissism – a desire to stir it up, if you like.
He gets off on being seemingly outrageous.
Like I say, an attention whore.
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Is jonknee…totally out of hand…?
I’d, like to accept the “easy way”…huh….!
Jonknee” is totally out of hand, one sorry ”sfsee” …!
You say, Terrye…!
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 9:29 PM
“He reminds me of Michael Savage…”
What ever happened to that sorry pretentious “supposedly educated” arsehole on WLS in Chicago…?
Huh…?
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Anders:
I have never heard Beck make any of the kind of ridiculous comments about homosexuals that Savage makes. They are very different men. Have you even listened to Beck? Like I said, I think he is over the top sometimes, but there is nothing malicious in the man.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM
That’s right on. I started listening to him when he started in Tampa (it went national after a year or two and after a couple more years got really big) and while he was less political/insane then he was still all about attention by saying crazy stuff. Had a week long bit about how he was going to kill a puppy unless he got a raise. It went all the way to him playing a recording of a puppy yelping and many people ended up calling 911. Sort of the Howard Stern of politics. He can be entertaining, but I preferred the old Glenn–conspiracy theories are painful to listen to.
jonknee on August 15, 2009 at 9:43 PM
jnknee:
No, it is not false. You just do not want to admit what a piece of crap that bill is.
The thing is that if Obama wanted to insure people, he could have taken 100 billion dollars of the stimulus money and done just that. He had the money available, but it is not about insuring people, it is about government taking over health care.
And you can say this is false all you want, but if Obama had done a better job of explaining himself and offering a rational plan that people actually understand it would not be necessary for people to try and decipher a thousand page House bill.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:45 PM
And btw, jonknee, I included a link to the bill itself in that post so people can just ignore the outline from the blogger and go straight to the source.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:46 PM
And Anders, George Bush did not spend 20 years in a racist church, Bush never did or said anything that would justify calling him a racist.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Geezer:
Thanks, I am something of a geezer myself and in my old age I find I do not suffer fools well.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:48 PM
The bill can be a steaming pile and false claims about it are still false. Saying that the government will force access to your checking account and citing a passage that is about a standard for insurance companies and medical providers to settle electronically is quite simply false. It’s a lie.
I applaud you for linking to the bill, I have it on my desktop and have since the day it came out. My issue was with linking to a “summary” that was nearly a complete fabrication.
jonknee on August 15, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM
“OK…”
H&K’s…
That’s Heckler and Koch’s…!
Attitude…!
Olde soldier sends…!
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Send mail soldier…
jgocht@countryspeed,com
I stand…
I fight…
I am…
Your worst dream…!
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Granted, but I dislike off-hand accusations of racism. They are the province of leftists, largely.
The Rev. Wright association is more easily explained by political expediency, for a man on the make, than by racism. Of course that isn’t all that sensational.
To impute racism is to suggest he believes in something above and beyond re-election.
He does not.
Anders on August 15, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Sorry, but I’ve posted this before.
He simply is way out of control, and not all that bright.No objection from me if he gets drummed out.
Next up? KO OR RACHEL
AnninCA on August 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Nothing malicious in the man? Did you know that Beck said, on air, that he hates the 9/11 victims families? Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf33g9ep4YU
Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I always find it humorous when individuals who sorta heard a couple Glenn Beck radio shows, or only started paying attention to Glenn beck when he started his Fox tenure suddenly have an omniscient handle on him.
selias on August 15, 2009 at 10:14 PM
How can you say that having watched The Daily Show clip?
YYZ on August 15, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Well, he’s no different from left pundits.
All are out of control.
AnninCA on August 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I’ve listened to him since 2000, met him several times and have his autograph on a roll of duct tape. That said, I think he’s gone off his rocker and I’m not upset that he’s losing advertisers.
jonknee on August 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Spenol on August 15, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Would mind my dear lady explaining your post to me…
Jimbo sends…
jgocht@countryseed.com
Geezer on August 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM
I received a response from SC Johnson today. Here it is in its entirety.
Sammy316 on August 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Was it ‘illegit’ when his show was on CNN Headline News?
fossten on August 15, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Did you watch the Stewart clip?
CrankyIndependent on August 15, 2009 at 11:36 PM
The station that puts that cow Nancy Grace on television? As the kids say these days, hell to the no. Even when he was pandering to the CNN-Headline News audience instead of Fox he was still a useless blowhard who (as his own words indicate) will say whatever he can to keep people saying and typing the name Glenn Beck. That is all he wants. It’s kind of horrifying that this man is part of a debate about American healthcare.
CrankyIndependent on August 15, 2009 at 11:39 PM
LIAR
bill30097 on August 16, 2009 at 12:47 AM
CNN has the “teabagger” blade Ann Derson Cooper and Rick “channeling Himmler’s techniques on behalf of lefties” Scum Sanchez while the only real scum on Fox is Jerry Rivers aka Geraldum Rivera
bill30097 on August 16, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Yes, I can see where some immature libtard with a 6th grade would like him
bill30097 on August 16, 2009 at 12:51 AM
So what? This is not inconsistent with nominating the racist Sotamayor. A lot of people don’t seem to like Beck’s style, yet he’s not a liar. I hope Murdoch says “bite me” and keeps Beck on. Any network that carries Rivera and Huckster can keep Beck.
The real freak-show is the left-wing corporatists doing the bidding of the One.
Feedie on August 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM
You’re way over the line, pal. First off, TAO expressed her dislike of gun’s comment. It was the HA staff who chose to delete it. This is the same gun who was slinging homosexual epithets just a couple nights before. Then, he praised the assassination of JFK.
TAO called a spade a spade, and to suggest otherwise is blatantly dishonest. TAO had no power over what was done to gun. The HA staff makes those decisions. If you have an issue, bring it up with them.
MadisonConservative on August 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Snitch? Tattletale? Beg your pardon?
Good grief, you people are like children. There are certain kinds of over-the-line comments we don’t need at HA, and guntotinglibertarian, on multiple occasions, ran the gauntlet of them. Get over yourselves. This is a private website, and nobody has the right of free speech on private property except the owners.
MadisonConservative on August 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM
I will be shopping for new insurance over the next few days. They have made me so mad. They say they do not take a postition on issues, but by retracting their ads they are taking the side of the left.
TXMomof3 on August 16, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Screw a boycott on Olbermann; he need the barrel of a .45 stuck down his throat!
Cr4sh Dummy on August 16, 2009 at 2:27 AM
Well I know you are not Ed, AP nor MM, so are you Charles Johnson? An employee of Geico, Procter & Gamble; Sargento Cheese or Progressive Insurance? Are you Nancy Pelosi? Are you Michelle Obama?
HalJordan on August 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM
Charles Johnson, douche though he is, is the owner of his website, and nobody has any right to free speech on his website other than him. All those companies, foolish though they are, are private companies free to choose whom they purchase advertising from.
Good god, have some of you even watched Ed’s speech? Are you familiar with property rights? Your comparisons are feeble and embarrassing. All of us, including myself, have the privilege to post here, and if the HA staff doesn’t like it, they can revoke those privileges because they own the site. Not you, or me. People on the internet really need to get straight in their heads that private websites are private property, just like anything else. The “nazi” references are as ridiculous as Pelosi’s.
MadisonConservative on August 16, 2009 at 2:37 AM
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