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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Morons.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I wonder how Greta is taking all of this………?
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM
hah ha ha. You really don’t need us to answer that, do you?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM
This should be fun.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM
If you said ‘people like you’ to a black person of the proper political orientation you’d automatically be a racist.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Actually, Grow Fins, I think we do.
Please. Continue to make an ass of yourself. I’m quite enjoying this.
Spiny Norman on August 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Hey, thom. Methinks the Trolls have dug a very deep hole for themselves.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Well I’m talking to an anonymous person online. I never made any assumption as to what baldilocks looks like other than saying he instead of she.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Kinda like you and Obama’s thought processes.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Weather is to nasty to work on the ranch and this is quite fun.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Baldi, wait, wait! My popcorn’s not done yet.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Wasn’t it you who accused us of being a bunch of white people afraid of blacks? Or was that Fins? I could check but I’m having too much fun watching you two self destruct.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I used to take pride in driving 25 miles to shop at Walmart in a neighboring red neck town (our marxist civic leaders won’t allow Walmart in our hate filled-anti-hate town).
Now where can I shop?
Voodoo on August 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM
What did I say that was moronic? Since you assume that you are smarter than I am, I’d be interested in learning it.
As a matter of fact I would greatly appreciate it if either or both of you explained the phrase “people like me.” I see “people like me” all around in my southern California city. But Mr. (Ms.?) Silver says that he/she didn’t know that we still existed.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Listen….is that the sound of cold water on the heads of trolls?
d1carter on August 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM
hahah FIFY.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM
No, you’re wrong.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Poor ignorant Trolls. I can’t stop laughing.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM
First of all, wasn’t me. Second, self destruct? What the F are you talking about? Stop expecting what you want to happen, because it ain’t gonna happen.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM
The trolls really should be commenting on this new thread:
White right-wing nut who created Obama Joker image neither white nor right-wing
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM
I heard rev wright’s own words, and checked out his website. I’ve never eaten sh*t, but I know it taste bad…
TN Mom on August 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Sorry to burst your bubble sweetie, but it already has.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:43 PM
The Mrs. just asked me what I was giggling about.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Melting…melting…
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 4:44 PM
I pretty much said that its a shame that racist people like you still exist. Oh and its Mr. Silver.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:44 PM
You probably looked down.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Wasn’t it you who accused us of being a bunch of white people afraid of blacks? Or was that Fins?
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
It’s not like it’s hard to do homework…
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I pretty much said that its a shame that racist people like you still exist. Oh and its Mr. Silver.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Oh, Lord…I can’t breathe….Bwahahahahahahaha.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM
See what I mean. When you resort to name calling and disparaging comments about body parts? Self destruct.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I hope the companies listed above will demand and end to the Congressional BLACK Caucus.
Congress should be ashamed for having any caucus based entirely on race.
TN Mom on August 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM
You’re a leftist. You’re supposed to know that it’s impossible for black people to be racist.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Glenn should do a segment with himself shopping at CVS to show he more of a man than the Lefty whinners……….
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Hey your the one talking about giggling. I was just giving the logical explanation.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Not all black men are big D!cks nor do all black men HAVE big D!cks.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Oh there are plenty of black racists. Our president just isn’t one of them.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Stop bogarting the Milkduds, and keep it down over there. I don’t want to miss this!
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Whoa, whoa! Where did that come from? And how would you know? lolololol
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM
I didn’t say anything racist. You assumed that you knew my reasoning for thinking that Barack Obama played on white guilt to get elected. You conjured that knowledge in your own head and have continually claimed that this was my reasoning. It isn’t.
You claimed that I implied that black people shouldn’t run for political office. I did no such thing. You made it up.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Oh, that was priceless. Say it again, say it again!
Forgive me. I’m just a typical white person, you know…like Obama’s grandmamma.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Not wrong. You were the genius who made flat out assertions about what Obama thinks about white people, based purely on your own fantasies of what you imagine to be his thought processes. All based on zero evidence. And meanwhile, babbling Glenn is still an idiot….
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Pass the popcorn, please!
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Indeed you are.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I don’t know if he’s a racist, but he’s sure spent a lot of time around racists and views a lot of things through the prism of race. On this we could agree, yes?
This thread’s kind of off topic.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I went to high school at a predominantly black school for two years and was on the football team wrestling team and baseball team, and unlike you I am aware of my surroundings.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Careful of your clothes…I added extra butter.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Eh-hem. The grownups have returned ;) Yes Badger, I absolute agree with you.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Based evidence that I have already found and posted at my blog over the past year-and-a-half. Don’t worry. I don’t expect you to check it out. But thank you for acknowledging my genius. :)
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Are you saying that all typical white people are racists? Kind of a broad brush don’t you think?
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Okay, growapair. Define the term and provide evidence.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM
You don’t read much do you. Baldi has explained herself time and again here. She’s even done so at her own site.
Don’t you realize you’ve opened yourself up for a joke about your mother?
Esthier on August 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM
The Trolls began an assumptive thread that has dug them a very deep hole that they are unaware of. We’re simply waiting for the pie in the face.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Have you been peeping thomasaur? I’m just kidding. Of course us brothers have the same measurements as everybody else (except for yours truly of course).
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM
maybe I can afford a spot on his show now, I wonder what the rate is?
aceinstall on August 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM
You better not talk about my mama! lol
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Be back in like 15 min. just so you think I’m not running.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 4:57 PM
If nothing else this thread should be a good illustration for you two on the frustrations of trying to have an intelligent conversation when people are constantly throwing out the race card.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I’ve always loved those, especially the fat ones. “When she sits around the house, she really sits around the house.”
Esthier on August 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Maybe he went to watch Beck…or get new talking points from Soros.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Okey dokey.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Heh.
Thanks for the snack!
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 5:02 PM
UPDATE: Received yet another response from Walmart where they’re now simply saying they’ve pulled advertising from Glenn Beck because it’s polarizing or whatever. For the second time I asked them to tell me what OTHER shows they’ve pulled advertising from.
Sorry for the incorrect grammar.
Oink on August 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Maybe he went to check out you website. 8 O
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Beautiful self-destruction in he-ah!
daesleeper on August 18, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Well O’bama did win 70 percent of the vote of high school dropouts, according to MSNBC.
No other Presidential candidate had ever done that before; closest was Algore in 2000 with 59%.
Hello, Dummy!
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 5:13 PM
I have two State Farm agents, and I do a lot of business with them, have for dozens (over 30 years), they have both heard, and assured they sent my info onto the powers that be.
I will hear from a regional mucky muck in the next couple of days.
They know their days are numbered…the agents are very upset.
I have been informed that many many agents have complained about State Farm giving in.
I am not the only ones who have complained…and I don’t even listen to Beck, I have never even heard his show. I turn him off whenever I see him, he is a fool…but he has his right.
right2bright on August 18, 2009 at 5:15 PM
back
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Let me help…at 3 PM today, Best Buy denied it’s pulled ads from Beck’s show.
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 5:17 PM
How many people actually care about boycotts either way?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Just a reminder of where we left off.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM
No, they were sold a bill of goods, and now the it is time to pay the piper.
He is been found to have lied about most everything, and the things not lied about, he has been vague.
He is “winging” it, and it is slowly catching up to him. He has duties, and he is out campaigning, and that is beginning to show…imagine giving Brazil billions for oil exploration, and none to us…and Brazil sells to China…amazing.
He is a naive, inexperienced, radical, racist…and every week his numbers go down…
right2bright on August 18, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Lets just clarify. Do you think that Obama got elected because white people felt guilty?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Yet he got elected. I’m astonished at how little you think of the American electorate.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Until it was mysteriously disappeared about a year ago, O’bama’s wiki entry noted that the private prep school he attended in Hawai’i, Punahou, condoned a practice common to all Hawaiian schools back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, namely “Kill Haole Day”.
On this day, white students had the getalife beaten out of them for the crime of being white. As a student in Kailua during the 1960s, I witnesses this first-hand.
Why would wiki suddenly delete such information?
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM
I emailed Walmart today with the template someone posted on here. Their response as follows:
My Name,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office regarding a recent episode of the Glenn Beck Show and Wal-Mart’s advertising relationship with the show specifically and Fox News in general. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. continuously reviews media plans. In keeping with our internal guidelines to avoid content that is highly polarizing, we’ve instructed our agencies, as of August 3rd, not to run Walmart advertising in news commentary shows on national cable networks. This would include the Glenn Beck Show.
Regards,
Chris
Global Ethics Office
——————————————————————————–
From: [My Name@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:24 AM
To: Ethics
Subject: Glenn Beck
To Whom it May Concern,
Is it true Wal-mart has pulled advertising from the Glenn Beck show on the Fox network in protest of comments Mr. Beck made asserting President Obama has racist views?
If so, has Wal-mart also pulled advertising from MSNBC for supporting Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo’s claims that American conservatives protesting the Stimulus Bill and the Healthcare legislation are racists?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAHMDpk7Ik&feature=PlayList&p=A97FE0B3BC3F84A8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
Please clarify the position Wal-mart is taking – is Wal-mart boycotting racist statements by news hosts on television, or racists statements by Conservatives only? As an American citizen dedicated to free market capitalism, it is very important to me where my dollars go and what agendas they may support. If Wal-mart is taking a political stance, I would like that stance absolutely clarified so I can decide whether or not to continue my consumer relationship with your corporation.
Sincerely Curious,
My Name
pa.chick on August 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM
LOL, notice how Terry cleverly avoids my other post about O’bama setting a new record for winning the votes of stupid people?
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Yes. I do believe that a large percentage of white people who voted for the individual name Barack Obama did so because he has African ancestry and some of these same white people feel guilty for the racist sins of the past. They felet that having a black president would absolve this country of that allegedly-existing guilt.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 5:26 PM
individual name=individual called
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Update-in the Best Buy story, they sent “DefendGlenn.com” an e-mail stating that they never pulled any ads from Beck’s show-because they were never an advertiser on his show in the first place.
Why would Color of Lies claim they were a sponsor?
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Hey man, stupid people get to vote too, lol. I can counter by saying that he also won majorities of the black vote, hispanic vote, jewish vote, catholic vote, asian vote, young vote, etc. He won majorities in pretty much every demo, so why not dummies too?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Baldi! So glad to see you here again! I missed you.
Mary in LA on August 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Okay I am confused, nothing new there. But I DVRed Beck all last week and I never saw any of those advertisers. Many of the commercials were local businesses. Do cable companies or networks decide which commercials to show based on the broadcast locale? If so, this whole thing may be somewhat of a put-on. I do know that the idiots at Kos and Color of Change or whatever are still claiming Proctor and Gamble withdrew ads when the email they posted from P & G said they never ran ads on Beck in the first place.
Now you can go back to feeding the trolls.
Deanna on August 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I say that group of people that felt guilty was about the same that didn’t vote for him because of his ancestry. I believe that they were both small groups.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Ooh, can I play, too? “Terry’s mama is so fat, she has her own Zip code.” ;-)
Mary in LA on August 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Do you have any evidence to back up this belief? Or is it just an opinion. Because my opinion opines the opposite.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM
That’s fair. But neither my assertion nor yours makes either one of us racist and I’m still trying to figure out how you concluded that I was racist.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Isn’t this what most on the Left said when Bush got elected?
Esthier on August 18, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Apologies in advance to any Plump-Americans/Persons of Size who might take offense. After 25 years in a desk job, I am a wee bit Scrawny-Challenged myself. ;-)
Mary in LA on August 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
I almost forgot that Obama also won a majority of the college graduates. Ding ding ding.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
But NO previous candidate for President had ever gotten that much of the stupid vote. I would think you would be ashamed of that stat. I would if it were my candidate.
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Well I apologize if I took something the wrong way. I just don’t think you would call it an election by white guilt if Obama was conservative. Nobody says that Michael Steele getting elected RNC chair is a case of white guilty.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Terry, there is a surprising overlap between college graduates and stupid people. Or are you next going to claim that because George W. Bush graduated from Yale, he was smart?
Mary in LA on August 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM
That’s what happens when you pack the college campuses with Marxist professors.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I have premises that I have gathered since the beginning of last year.
It is a conclusion based on what I’ve observed and read in the time period specified.
Exactly (and saying that your opinion is different than mine is merely stating the obvious)! See how easy it was to say that? No name-calling, no assumptions. I’m impressed. Really.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM
According to bloomberg he won the college grads 55-43. Obama just wins every demo.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM
So, high school dropouts and college grads are stupid people? So who are the geniuses? College drop outs?
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Funny you should say that: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are both college dropouts.
Mary in LA on August 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM
He did very well with dead and multiple voters, too.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM
No, but I will say that the average Yale grad is smarter than the average person.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I knew somebody would say that. Some people drop out of college for family, medical, personal, or entrepreneurial reasons. The vast majority drop out because they just can’t hack it.
Terry Silver on August 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM
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