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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Neither did Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, or Frank Lloyd Wright.
Killer argument.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I’m boycotting the boycotters.
rcw on August 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Just received the following from Walmart:
My name is Mae. I am with the Walmart.com Customer Service Team. Thank you for allowing me to assist you today.
We continuously review our media plans. In keeping with our internal guidelines to avoid content that is highly polarizing, we have 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.
We thank you for taking the time to send us your comments. We value your input and be assured that we are currently looking into the points you raised.
We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.
Thank you for visiting Walmart.com. We appreciate the opportunity to serve you and look forward to your next visit.
If we may be of further assistance, please email us at help@walmart.com. We’re here to serve you 7 days a week!
Sincerely,
Mae
Customer Service at Walmart.com
Interestingly, they HAVE NOT removed their advertising in ALL news commentary shows on national cable networks, because just this morning I saw their advertisement on MSNBC!
oneconcernedcitizen on August 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM
There is an innate and there is a taught component to a love of learning.
I’ve lost track of how many students entered my high school chemistry classes and their first words were this is boring I don’t want to be here but I need the class to get into college. By the end of the year many changed their minds and went on to be Chemistry Majors in college.
You might argue that the love of learning was taught out of them earlier and I just reawakened it. If so, I would be hard pressed to disprove your supposition. I still think it can go both ways.
chemman on August 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM
These companies are like a herd and that’s their mentality…some other company will emerge and say, “Hey we want the conservative customers …..” That will scare the herd because they’ll feel they are being shafted….they’ll all come a runnin’
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM
This site has obviously rolled over for some Administration liberal internet watcher as it has been taken down.My post regarding the Glen Beck story contained only direct quotes about whites by Obama from his books “Dreams of My Father”, and “Audacity of Hope”. It wasn`t my subjective opinion, it was just facts from his books in his own words. This site is obviously under the influence of big brother
HAGGS99 on August 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM
can one of you Beck-defenders please explain to me what he meant when he referred to “white culture”? What is “white culture” anyway?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Hmmmm….this is interesting!
CEA_Agent on August 18, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Look at “black culture” and imagine everything backwards; emphasis on supporting oneself instead of on welfare, not wanting to reward having bastard children all over the place, glorification of law-abiding people who do constructive work for a living, and proper use of the English language.
Dark-Star on August 18, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Thanks for the link. I have just e-mailed them and I urge all of you to do the same.
jeanie on August 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM
+ 1,000
CEA_Agent on August 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM
I will repeat my same post tomorrow at 10:00AM of direct quotes about whites from Obama`s two books and let`s see if it is taken down again
HAGGS99 on August 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Why should they pull their advertising from MSNBC? Nobody is boycotting MSNBC’s sponsors, whereas liberals and conservatives are both boycotting FoxNews’ advertisers.
FloatingRock on August 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM
But not all black people live like that. It’s patently absurd and, dare I say, offensive to label welfare, illegitimacy, crime, joblessness, and “proper use of the English language” black characteristics.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 1:36 PM
While it may not make a difference I have called all of them and informed them they will no longer be receiving my money.
sargentj on August 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
I’m not saying they should pull their advertising from MSNBC. They said that in their letter to me which I quote again:
“We continuously review our media plans. In keeping with our internal guidelines to avoid content that is highly polarizing, we have 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. ”
They’re the ones saying that they instructed their agencies not to run Walmart advertising in news commentary shows on national cable networks. I’m just saying that they didn’t do what their letter to me indicates.
oneconcernedcitizen on August 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Fair point. Culture itself is a lot more important than the race of the people living in that culture. Would you be ok with the term ‘urban culture’ to describe people of any race fitting Dark Star’s description?
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM
“can one of you Beck-defenders please explain to me what he meant when he referred to “white culture”? What is “white culture” anyway?”
Dunno, post the entire quote *in context* and maybe I’ll be able give you a response.
EasyEight on August 18, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Of course not, being called Oreos or Uncle Toms gets pretty tiring, I’d bet.
Sorry, but that one, at least can be squarely linked to blacks as the originators and perpetuatiors, the latter also including some useful idiot whites.
Dark-Star on August 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM
The RV’s are leaving the parking lot.
virginiabelle on August 18, 2009 at 1:46 PM
From Progressive:
Thank you for reaching out to us.
Some media reports have created the incorrect impression that Progressive pulled advertising in response to specific comments made on a show, but that is not the case. We did not buy advertising time on the The Glenn Beck Program, so when we learned that our ad had aired during the show, we corrected the error. I hope this clarifies the situation.
Sincerely,
Jamie F.
Progressive Internet Representative
Let me be the first to say, “LIER, LIER PANTS ON FIRE”!!!
Bicyea on August 18, 2009 at 1:47 PM
http://www.newamerica.net/blog/files/Health%20Letter%20Final%206%2030%202009%20President.pdf
mizflame98 on August 18, 2009 at 1:49 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
Hopefully, conservatives know not to support Progressive anyways.
JohnJ on August 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Don’t know if this has been posted yet, however, a website has been created to spearhead those who want to support Glen and respond in kind to the advertisers going along with this blatant attempt to censor the airwaves. If the OBOT DRONES succeed with this it will expand to other conservatives in the media. Like the health care fiasco to assert more control over people this must also be a line in the sand stand. This could set a very dangerous precedent if we don’t stop this New Age McCarthyism!
http://www.defendglenn.com/
wtng2fish on August 18, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Yeah, I’m pretty much done with Wal-Mart.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM
http://www.newamerica.net/blog/files/Health%20Letter%20Final%206%2030%202009%20President.pdf
mizflame98 on August 18, 2009
Damn! I really liked shopping at Wal Mart. Somehow I don’t think Sam Walton would have snuggled up to Ogabe, but who knows?
SKYFOX on August 18, 2009 at 2:01 PM
I doubt he would have, or pulled nonsense like having ‘wageless workers’ (slaves) in Mexican stores. Wal-Mart really went off in a different direction after he passed away.
Dark-Star on August 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM
that’s better (as in more accurate). Culture is about place, not skin color. It’s also about education, and class, and income, and lots of other factors. which is why Beck’s jaw-droppingly dumb comment deserves a little push-back.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM
You call a mass attempt to shut his show down entirely ‘a little push-back’???
Dark-Star on August 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Black culture is no worse than the ‘culture’ of the redneck. Nascar, trailers and meth is a disgrace to my race.
simplesimon on August 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Beck’s an idiot.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM
keep posting the boycotters….so I can make sure I boycott them. Where were these companies when Bush was in office being hated on? Olbermann and Maddow are STILL hate bashing Bush/Cheney!!!!…..WHEN will these companies (along with the entertainment industry) realize they need to stay out of politics…whether it’s for the left or right?
KJW on August 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Who’s trying to “shut down” his show. Maybe advertizers don’t want their hard-earned brand-repuattion associated with a moron who makes the patently false accusation that the POTUS hates “white people” and “the white culture.” And in a free country, that’s their right, is it not?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Then maybe you should give up the meth.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Nothing wrong with racing or trailers. Although I must confess I watch car races for the epic crashes. 8]
Dark-Star on August 18, 2009 at 2:13 PM
I don’t care where they advertise. I am upset that they are following orders of those trying to shut down free speech by kow-towing to far-left radicals. They have also spent money supporting this socialized medicine fiasco.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Thousands of rabid libtards.
Or maybe ‘advertizers’ don’t have the spine to stand up to the blistering campaign of customers who want censorship by proxy. Although since we’re in a recession I can’t blame them too much for trying to hold on to every consumer dollar they can get.
And you do have a point – this is a free country (supposedly) and the free-market can cut both ways. Conservative talk-show hosts are sometimes as vulnerable to threats of financial ruin as peddlers of smut and the Jim Crow bus-lines of yesteryear.
Dark-Star on August 18, 2009 at 2:16 PM
All this does is make Glenn more popular………..he’s got the street creds now………
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM
And it is Beck’s right to make the assertion.
Johan Klaus on August 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM
His name is Allahpundit.
klickink.wordpress.com on August 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Hasn’t most of the problems in the US been compounded and made worse by pointy headed Ivy leaguers?
Bevan on August 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM
I’m boycotting you.
Daggett on August 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Wait, you mean Allahpundit would block quotes from the Bamsters own books? Say it ain’t so. Sheesh (…head shaking.)
LoneStarGal on August 18, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Have I told you I love you, lately?
Daggett on August 18, 2009 at 2:25 PM
DUMP SARGENTO CHEESE ALONG WITH TEA THIS SEPTEMBER 12.
jay12 on August 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM
How is it not racist/prejudiced to refer to “typical white people,” unless Obama misspoke? I believe that we all have our own prejudices, and that includes Obama. I also believe that, while I’m a fan on Beck’s, I disagree with his statement that Obama is a racist. It’s over the top and his mouth often moves before he thinks.
NathanG on August 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM
@oneconcernedcitizen
Thanks for the link, just wrote them ;)
Jason58 on August 18, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Oh no you didn’t!
Daggett on August 18, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Daggett on August 18, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Whaddaya mean? It’s Grow Fins. Of course he did.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Meth, yes. What’s so bad about nascar and trailers?
And why does everything have to be about race with you? You’re a disgrace to my race.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 2:38 PM
I am waiting for Sarah to mention this mess in her next posting………blast the Commies…………I mean Dems…
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Response from Best Buy, I emailed the PR person quoted in the Color of Change press release:
“Thank you for your message. I would like to provide the facts of this situation. Best Buy has never advertised on or around the Glenn Beck show, and we have no plans to do so. We do advertise during an early morning time slot on FOX, but not near the afternoon or evening. I know there is some misinformation floating around. I thought it would be helpful for you to understand that we have not changed our advertising strategy.
I appreciate your concerns. I am hopeful that this will help you better understand the situation, and potentially restore your willingness to shop in our stores. We would welcome the opportunity to serve you.
Thank you, Lisa”
Lisa has her work cut out for her today if the Color of Change spin has Best Buy caught up in the blogo-twitter-verse.
EasyEight on August 18, 2009 at 2:41 PM
It’s true…I stopped watching him a couple months back but now I’ll be sure to not miss an episode. Did you catch yesterday’s show? His audience was comprised of small business owners. Very informative and powerful.
RepubChica on August 18, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Thanks for Walmart’s address. We could use some for the others.
elfman on August 18, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Repost for afternoon crowd; take action: DefendGlenn.com
RepubChica on August 18, 2009 at 2:49 PM
laura, it’s hardly a “far-left radical” position to see that accusing Obama of “hating white people” is just stupid and bad for business.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM
*blushes* You too, sweet cheeks.
Laura in Maryland on August 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM
I just can’t figure out how these companies fold under pressure from the Dems – I mean it is counterproductive really – besides, The Messiah is a racist! Look 97% of blacks vote Obama – Duh! If that isn’t the damn most racist thing you’ve ever heard of what is…………..?
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM
No one denies his right to make stupid comments. So what, exactly, are you defending? His claim that Obama hates ‘white people” and “the white culture”? And what “lies’ about Beck have been spread by his detractors?
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM
lol I hope they keep leaving. Wonder how much higher ups are going to put up with this situation. Get this idiot off the air.
Norvell on August 18, 2009 at 2:56 PM
KO is still pushing the claim that Beck believes in FEMA Camps, despite Beck investing and debunking them on his show.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Investigating.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 2:57 PM
This guy’s just a parody, obviously. No one is that stupid, and no plant is that obvious.
Sign of the Dollar on August 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM
What part of what Beck’s statement is false? If it is a lie, then I would agree with you. But I don’t consider people who tell the truth to be idots.
mizflame98 on August 18, 2009 at 2:59 PM
I emailed Walmart and CVS, specifically saying that I was boycotting them for removing their advertising from Beck’s Show. The pinhead Walmart rep emailed me back saying that “Glenn Beck is not our spokesman.” WTF? I re-explained it to him. We’ll see what I get back.
baldilocks on August 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM
I’m surprised Jesse J. isn’t blowing steam on this yet……
Cinday Blackburn on August 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I received the same response. I then emailed them and asked for the list of other shows they’re boycotting.
So far, CRICKETS!
Oink on August 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Got an idiotic reply to my email from WalMart
Must be too much to ask that they actually address the MSNBC allegations and instead reply with their default “Glenn Beck’s an idiot” email.
What a joke.
gatorboy on August 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I thought one was supposed to be ostracized for being a racist, not for accusing others of it. If the latter’s now true, there’s many a Democrat and nary a block on MSNBC that doesn’t deserve scorn.
Blacklake on August 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I think he is cooked.
rlwo2008 on August 18, 2009 at 3:13 PM
So what are the excuses of Michelle & Barack Obama?
Monica on August 18, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Maybe he still wants to cut Obama’s nuts off so he’s sitting this one out.
Monica on August 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Keep dreaming, or hitting the crack pipe…whichever makes you feel better.
RepubChica on August 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I also will boycott the group of companies who have… well, pissed me off.
foxone on August 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM
There are entire university divisions dedicated to Black, Hispanic, Women’s, Homosexual and Bohemian “cultures”… I don’t see too many people freaking out over these.
mankai on August 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Okay, I’m willing to go as far as Obama himself went:
When he accused the Cambridge police of “behaving stupidly,” knowing nothing more about the circumstances than that the the professor is black, Obama was behaving like a kneejerk racist. That’s not to say he IS a racist, just that he was acting like one. Each of us can draw his or her own conclusions from his behavior.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM
You confuse intelligence with education. As a former college professor, I can assure you there are many educated, but stupid and/or bigoted people. Beck is neither.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 3:21 PM
What part of what Beck’s statement is false? If it is a lie, then I would agree with you. But I don’t consider people who tell the truth to be idots.
mizflame98 on August 18, 2009 at 2:59 PM
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:21 PM
All I can say is wowwwwww. How can anybody say that with a straight face? Anybody can be a racist. Chinese-Americans can be racists. Black Americans can be racist. Whites can be racist. It’s not exclusive. I remember a woman of Eastern Asian descent at the Kroger I worked at saying that the Indian-American man who works there (one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet) should go back to where he came from, just because she didn’t get her way. How is that not racist?
NathanG on August 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM
It’s one thing to have a private opinion or hypothesis that Obama is a “racist” who ‘hates the white man”…it’s a whole different ballgame to go on national tv proclaiming it as fact.
All Glenn Beck is doing is fomenting racism and hatred.
He has exposed himself as a moron and a racist.
This may be because of the inherent racism involved in the mormon cult that Glenn Beck is involved with. They have a long and bloody history of racism in their theology.
(BTW this is also why Mitt Romney is unelectable.. regardless of whether Romney is or is not racist he will be unable to fight this charge.)
MaximusConfessor on August 18, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Last night I was watching the replay of Beck’s show so that I could try to support his current advertisers. The first one was some sort of “Shark Mop”. I don’t do much mopping at home, so that one is out. The second one was a penis enlargement commercial from extenze. I don’t need that product either. The third commercial was freecreditreport.com which is basically as scam (strike 3). The fourth one was a commercial for registering inventions. I’m not an inventor (Strike 4). I gave up.
Thunderdome on August 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Um, he didn’t say it was a ‘fact’. He said he BELIEVED he could be.
And in no way is Beck racist because he called a spade a spade so don’t even try to play that card.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Frankly, the advertisers that left won’t make much of a difference. There are plenty of companies more than willing and able to advertise on Beck’s show at the going rates. I figure the ad dept. at Fox News will fill up the openings almost immediately and the advertisers who abandoned the program after pressure from ultra-liberal groups will suffer from doing so. There is precedent.
Carl on August 18, 2009 at 3:35 PM
He’s not a moron and he’s not a racist. Perhaps he was wrong to talk about this in public…some people obviously are very bothered by it. But why would you accuse him of racism? If we followed your logic, then every lib who has called town hall protesters racist is also, then, racist. Call somebody a racist, and you are then, by definition, a racist. Eventually the word will no longer have any meaning at all.
And you want us to believe all Mormons are racist? For someone who purports to object to hate speech, you’re pretty quick to engage in it.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Well, simplesimon, it sure as hell isn’t rednecks, nascar fans, or trailer trash that have driven this country to the brink of ruin. The upper class cultural sophisticates, the brainiacs of our financial, academic, and political institutions have nothing at all on us white-trash when it comes to being disgraceful to your race, and to our nation.
Gang-of-One on August 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Obama is a racist and he “acted stupidly” on national primetime television accidentally admitting to it.
American minds are not like dogs who you can kick then make up to with a fresh meat bone later.
We are all well fed already and will not so easily forget
LeeSeneca on August 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Not only that, but perhaps the brew-haha that the lefties are making over this may shine some light on the fact that Obambi and his wife (and many friends and associates of) are indeed racists, or don’t particularly like white people.
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:42 PM
A responsible person wouldn’t go on national tv making unsubstantiated claims that obama is a racist who hates the white man.
Glenn Beck is an irresponsible hate mongering shock jockey. All he is doing is fanning the flames of racism and hatred.
He should be ashamed of himself.
Ok glenn, if Obama is “a racist with a deep seated hatred of the white man” why are all of his appointees and handlers white men? If you’re going to make ridiculous statements like this that do nothing but encourage racism in our society at least back them up with facts.
MaximusConfessor on August 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM
“There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost. “ – Michelle Obama
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:45 PM
The part about Obama hating white people? I guess all those white people in his cabinet are, um, evidence that he’s deviously trying to give the impression he doesn’t hate white people when really he does? And as for Beck, let’s parse his rhetorical brilliance shall we?
Beck says in one breath that Obama “has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture.” In the VERY NEXT BREATH, he then says, “I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people.” Which is it, O Genius Glenn?
Like I said, he’s an idiot.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Unsubstantiated?
How many examples do you need?
RedbonePro on August 18, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Because they all suffer from the obligatory white guilt complex?
After all, doesn’t the left dismiss all black conservatives as Uncle Toms?
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Brilliant! I knew that was coming, and you didn’t disappoint. He packs his cabinet full of guilty whites which proves that Obama is actually a white-hating racist. Wow. It’s like arguing with a paper bag.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Obama has proven himself to be a racist. Glenn Beck pointed it out. That is why the Left is using ColorOfChange (racists) to conduct this campaign.
jay12 on August 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Brutha gotta have some slaves don’t he?
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Just giving you lefties a taste of your own rhetoric.
Disturb the Universe on August 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM
no he hasn’t. There’s no “proof” of anything of the sort. But if Genius Glenn says so (even though he’s “not saying that he doesn’t like white people”), then Obama must, in fact, be racist.
You’ve really jumped the shark supporting this clown.
Grow Fins on August 18, 2009 at 3:55 PM
It is possible to distinguish the individual from his or her ethnic group. Having a negative perspective on a particular culture would not necessarily prevent one from having positive associations with individual members of that culture. I think that’s the distinction Beck was trying to make. It’s a subtle point.
This is why Obama could work effectively with whites, and even count some of them among his friends, while all the while listening to Jeremiah Jones ranting in the pulpit for all those years.
Dee2008 on August 18, 2009 at 3:55 PM
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