Wal-Mart, CVS, Best Buy join Glenn Beck boycott
posted at 9:48 pm on August 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
Mind you, this is a guy who beat Hannity — a show that airs in primetime — in both total viewers and the demo last Friday at 5 p.m. Every last one of these advertisers is simply biding their time, wondering how long they have to wait until nutroots wrath is appeased and they can start advertising on Beck’s show again. I give it six months. Less if Greta gets dumped and GB ends up moved to 10 p.m.
Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Previous companies who pulled their ads include ConAgra, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Men’s Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Roche, SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, and State Farm Insurance.
“We are heartened to see so many corporate citizens step up in support of our campaign against Glenn Beck,” said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. “Their action sends a clear a message to Glenn Beck: Broadcasters shouldn’t abuse the privilege they enjoy by spewing dangerous and racially charged hate language over the air. No matter their political affiliation, hate language doesn’t belong in our national dialogue.”
“Walmart [sic] today confirmed the retailer pulled ads from the Glenn Beck show on August 3rd,” said David Tovar, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart, in an email to ColorOfChange.org.
“While advertising on Fox is part of our communication plan, we had not requested time on Glenn Beck’s show specifically,” said Carolyn Castel, Vice President of Corporate Communications for CVS Caremark, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “We have instructed our advertising agency to inform Fox to ensure Glenn Beck’s program is not part of our advertising plan.”
Right. Doubtless, like so many other Glenn Beck advertisers, the ad revenue will simply be redirected to other Fox News programs. Some boycott. Let’s vote on it.
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Yeah, just look at Van Jones for example…
Paleeze.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:55 PM
If Obama was a racist, wouldn’t all of his cabinet be black?
Why is he encouraging abortion among black people and making it easier for them to kill their young?
A real black power racist would never do this.
I think some of you are forgetting that Obama is not black.
He is half white and half black.
MaximusConfessor on August 18, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Why don’t you pick up a copy of “Dreams of My Father”, or better yet, get the audio version so you can actually hear it in Obambi’s own words.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:57 PM
“Bicyea on August 18, 2009
I received the same canned response. Why do you say they are lying?
SKYFOX on August 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM”
More of the same responses. Media buys are much too carefully controlled for there to be errors across multiple companies regarding the same show/time slot. Media campaigns are now planned out to the demographic/timeslot/show to the “Nth” degree. The chances of this being true are infinitesimal. The only reasonable conclusion is that they are lying.
“Or maybe ‘advertizers’ don’t have the spine to stand up to the blistering campaign of customers who want censorship by proxy.”
I don’t understand why getting spammed with 145,000 template/form emails from people who are probably not even patrons would move these companies into a herd-like advertising pull from Glenn Beck’s time slots. Are they that sensitive to lefty pressure??? And why do they fail to consider the millions of folks who watch Glenn Beck who are *precisely* the demographic that patronizes their business?? They advertise there for a reason, so don’t they think by cutting support they’ll possibly alienate actual customers?? Oh well, makes my shopping choices easier in a down economy.
EasyEight on August 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites…” – Barack Obambi
Well, he was half white until about twelve or thirteen.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Oh please. If you stretch any farther you’ll snap! Beck was not being “subtle”–he was being a dumb bloviator as usual. ‘Obama hates whites but I’m not saying he hates whites.’
And who is “Jeremiah Jones”?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM
MaximusConfessor on August 18, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Listen, St. Olaf. He spent 20 years in a Black Liberation Theology church, a psuedo-Black Muslim denomination. Glenn is being attacked because he has dared to point out the truth about Van Jones, the Green Czr, who is a avowed Communist with a history of activism. By smearing Mormons, you are indulging in the same hateful rhetoric that got you banned the first time.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Jermiah Wright – Black supremecest, racist Preacher (who Obambi listened to for 20 years).
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM
No charge for the editing (this time)
Katfish on August 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM
No, better yet, why don’t you pick it up and show me those racism-revealing quotations. the onus is on you to substantiate the charge. If it’s so obvious it should be easy.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM
..and who Obama disavowed.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Already have and I already gave you some quotes, but I could give you many, many more.
I don’t think you wanna go there.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Oh but I do.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Are you for real?
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM
whom
And it was more an expedient tossing under the bus.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM
I remember he tried to disavow Wright, but then said he couldn’t, then he started on a rant about his white grandmother or something…
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
I fixed it!!!!!!
NathanG on August 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
He must have been using some crazy mind control technique to get elected in a country with a white majority electorate. Being racist and all.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Which is what exactly? That Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture” or that Beck’s “not saying that [Obama] doesn’t like white people”?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Yeah, its called the mainstream media.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Still waiting for that cast-iron evidence of Obama’s racism…….
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
About the white people in the Obama cabinet: the president is crafty enough not to pick an all-black cabinet; that would have had all hackles up immediately. So the white members of the cabinet were selected with these things in mind: how Leftist they are, how laden they are with white guilt, how buyable they are, how America-hating they are and/or how stupid they are.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Obama is probably a racist having sat in Jeremiah’s church for 20 years and listening to that crap. Also supported by his wife’s ongoing commentary such as “in my adult life, I’ve never been proud to be an American”…. What more evidence do we need. He undoubtedly has no love for whitey.
And, by the way, Beck is an idiot. Get him off the air. He has no class and isn’t of the same caliber as ANY of the true conservative talkers. Go away Beck. You are a moron.
highninside on August 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Right…sorry, forgot and used my pet nickname for him (family joke).
Obama’s disavowal of Wright was pure politics and oh so obvious. You don’t sit and listen to hate speech for year after year if you don’t, on some level, agree with it.
When Obama accused the Cambridge police of behaving stupidly, he came to that conclusion based on the fact that they were policemen and that Gates was black. So he was engaging in stereotypes based on race. How is that not racist?
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Funny, the MSM thought control technique somehow slipped up and got Bush elected twice….
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Ah yes the tried and true conservative argument that everybody who voted for Obama is either brainwashed or retarded. Only you have seen the light. You and Glenn Beck are the only ones who have seen through the charade to his “racism”. Gimme a break.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Did your Tarot cards tell you that or did you read it in the back of John Birch comic?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Only when it became a political requirement to do so. Don’t play that game.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM
So when are top corporations going to stop paying hush/protection money to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for being known race baiters? Oh, I forgot, they aren’t white so it’s okay.
worlok on August 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Thank you.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Because deep down inside, he hates black people too.
Almost all black Americans have some white ancestry to a greater or lesser degree. It is irrelevant to what is being discussed. It is his attitude that’s important here when determining whether he is racist or not, not the observers’ attitudes.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM
…and I am not what you would call a Glenn Beck fan. The guy actually irritates me. That being said, give me a break. This is BS.
worlok on August 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Neither.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
baldi’s a Bircher? Who knew?
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
The thought control technique only works on people with low IQ’s (ignorant in other words).
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
;)
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
..and you are divining his attitude from what exactly? Tea leaves? Or the same non-existent quotations from his book that Redbone is apparently unable to deliver?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM
“No matter their political affiliation, hate language doesn’t belong in our national dialogue.”
Someone needs to let color of change know that Democrat Howard Dean is spreading rumors that republicans want to kill the bill and kill our president (see drudge) Dean should apologize to the GOP. I hope the Secret Service will investigate Howard Dean for his hate language!
TN Mom on August 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM
It apparently failed to work with you….
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM
The MSN thought control technique only works when they’re burying the truth…not when they’re manufacturing stories.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Baldi, I did not know you were a Bircher. Wow. Hey Trolls. Epic Fail.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM
You people really are two sandwiches short of a picnic.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Explain how he played on white guilt. By being black in your eyes perhaps?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Hey Fins, I already gave you some quotes and there’s a lot more where that came from. Why don’t you use your mouse and check it out for yourself.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Where is Fox News in all of this…………..?
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Grow up.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM
I’m not going to reproduce all of the blogging and commenting that I’ve done over the last year. Do your own homework. Or don’t. If you don’t want to, be so kind as to refrain from commenting to me unless you Grow some Civility. Thanks in advance.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM
A bunch of scared white people ginning up evidence to support their deep-seated mistrust of a black man. An age-old American story.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Click on his link. The picture says it all.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Hey, you’re the one making the charges. If ya can’t substantiate ‘em, fair enough…
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Yeah that’s exactly it. :::facepalm:::
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
What does it say?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:21 PM
:::Yawn:::
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Actually, I don’t trust him because he’s a socialist narcassist, not because of the color of his skin.
And who’s to say we’re all white?
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Wow.
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Too much LSD.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
So let me get this straight. Any black man running for office plays on white guilt? Well by that dumbass logic Jesse Jackson should have been president long ago.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Hmmmmm….maybe we’re not all white! Never thought of that. :)
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Didn’t you get the memo, blacks can’t be racists.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Ooh, scary rock music.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
LOL. I’m keepin’ my mouth shut, doll.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM
You’re the one who made this assertion, not me. I’m just laughing at you.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Seconded. Wow. Pretty much sums up his position aye?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
You’re as white as they come, Redbone. I can smell it a mile off.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
That’s not scary, and it probably doesn’t rock.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
His who?
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Agreed. Unbelievable.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
If Obama was a racist, wouldn’t all of his cabinet be black?
Why is he encouraging abortion among black people and making it easier for them to kill their young?
A real black power racist would never do this.
I think some of you are forgetting that Obama is not black.
He is half white and half black.
MaximusConfessor on August 18, 2009 at 3:56 PM
A wolf in sheep’s clothing works until he gets undressed. Or do I need to draw a picture for you?
wtng2fish on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Now that’s not racist in the slightest./
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Actually it does.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Sorry you misunderstood. I was wowing over what you said.
Do your research….
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Nope.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Well I’m cringing at the fact that people like you still exist. You made yourself pretty clear that by just the fact that he was running, he was playing on white guilt. So maybe all black politicians should just quit now huh?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
AND I was misunderstood as well….
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Sure, it does.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
No, hon. It’s your assumption. And who’s ‘he?’
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Dope.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Sorry about that. I guess you agree with old baldi there.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Sorry, she.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
OMG, the hole just gets deeper and deeper…standing back and watching the digging…
d1carter on August 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
It is amazing that these Trolls assume your race because of your Conservatism. Like baldi says, they need to do their homework.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Ut’s not teh conservatism that gaves it away. It’s the fear of anything not white.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
I never assumed anybody’s race here bub.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM
LOLOLOL
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM
You already have.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM
I’ll try that again. S-L-O-W-L-Y. It’s not the conservatism that gibves it away (although let’s face it, black conservatives are about as common as three-legged frogs), it’s the fear of all-things black.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
“I don’t look like the other presidents on dollar bills”
“My grandmother is a typical white woman”
“That’s not the preacher I knew”
TN Mom on August 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Where? When? Show me.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
meanwhile, Beck’s still an idiot….
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
We all tremble everytime we watch one of Zo’s videos.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
You have missed it by a mile, Skippy.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM
OOOOOO the scary black folks are coming to get me.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Grow Fins = Getalife?
Things that make you go hmmm…
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Nope. That was your assumption as how I think that he’s playing on white guilt. I simply laughed at your assumption.
Again, you’re assuming you know what I’m thinking, using your own stereotypes to come to a conclusion.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Each quote you gave me:
1. Well he doesn’t look like the other presidents. True statement.
2. That was poorly worded.
3. Prove him wrong. Were you there at his church?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
This is getting good. Heh.
Funny how the lefty trolls never learn the First Rule of Holes…
Spiny Norman on August 18, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Please explain what you mean by “people like me.”
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Nah. Don’t think so. But it’s funny how all this ‘evidence’ of Obama’s racism can’t be supported by a single piece of factual evidence demonstrating said attitude.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:34 PM
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