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Already, 20 companies have agreed to pull advertisements from Glenn Beck's television show, within weeks of the Fox host calling Obama "a racist" and saying the president "has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Now, Farmers Insurance can be added to that list, a Farmers spokesperson confirms to POLITICO.

Have rcvd chain letters to boycott specific advertisers on Beck....Cant find which are liget and actually bailed and have heard some of it BS....Where to go to verify which ones....

Clorox: "Decision not to advertise on political talk shows" Cites shows which "distort" facts to "blatantly partisan advantage"; Scope remains unclearClorox Inc. appears to be following in the footsteps of WalMart, by announcing it would be no longer "advertise on political talk shows". Clorox said they "do not want to be associated with inflammatory speech used by either liberal or conservative talk show hosts". The scope of this new policy remains unclear. WalMart itself told DefendGlenn.com on August 19th that it was removing "all advertising" from cable news talk, which we were led to understand meant EVENING shows, including MSNBC...

The mayor of Glenn Beck's hometown of Mt. Vernon, WA wants to give him the keys to the city. DailyKos jerks are assaulting the mayor with opposition. Let's balance it out by offering our support. The text.. "I'm from a beautiful small town in Washington. Mount Vernon was named Best small city in America in 1998. We host the Tulip Festival every year, where thousands descend on our picturesque valley to view the beautiful flowers (we sell more than all of Holland!) Heck, Jesus even attended my high school! (Thank you Jim Caviezel) But now... Now I just don't know...

First on TVNewser: Tipsters inside Fox News tell us Glenn Beck's vacation this week from his Fox News show was not planned. We hear Beck was told to take this week off to let some of the heat surrounding him die down. That heat began July 28 on "Fox & Friends" when Beck said he thought Pres. Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people," adding, "This guy is, I believe, a racist." In the days and weeks that followed an organization called ColorofChange.org mobilized an effort to get advertisers to pull their spots from Beck's show. Earlier this month,...

posted at 8:46 am on August 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey We’ve heard about the boycott of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News Channel... The boycott made big news when reports that major retailers Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and CVS had joined the effort. The Left celebrated, but did these three actually pull ads from Beck? I decided to check, and found that only one of the three agreed to stop advertising on Beck. First, I contacted Best Buy, whose corporate headquarters are in the Twin Cities. The website Defend Glenn Beck posted an e-mail from their spokesperson saying that...

I’m sure by now most of you have heard about the attempt to starve The Glenn Beck Program off the air by getting its advertisers to pull their ads from Fox News Channel in a boycott due to his comments regarding the President’s thoughts and actions towards white people in the last few weeks, specifically, calling the President a “deep-seated racist” and so on and so forth. My only question to these people: where were you in April when MSNBC and the like went on a teabagging escapade against Tea Partyers, calling them every name in the book, including “racist...

Color of Change's Phony "Boycott" Continues to UnravelP&G Denies Pulling Ads; WalMart Pulls Its Ads from ALL Talk Shows; Sargentos Too Following on the heels of yesterday's denial by Best Buy of claims by Color of Change that they pulled their ads from the Glenn Beck program, today 2 more major advertisers denied CoC's take on events. DefendGlenn.com contacted officials at WalMart in Bentonville, including David Tovar, the representative quoted in Color of change's well-hyped press release. They confirmed that WalMart, which was not even a sponsor of Glenn Beck's show on FoxNews Channel to begin with, has pulled its...

Framingham’s Bose Corp. could be the next target of the anti-Glenn Beck movement that’s trying to force firms to drop their ads on the far-right Fox News talk show. About 20 companies have already pulled ads from Beck’s 5 p.m. weekday time slot on Fox News, amid boycott threats from leftist groups angry that Beck accused President Obama of being a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

So, the number of corporate sponsors that have pulled their advertising dollars from The Glenn Beck Program grew to 20 on Tuesday. Walmart, Best Buy and Travelocity joined the list of companies that, depending on your point of view, should be classified as either responsible corporate citizens or easily bullied cowards. The statements of the corporations themselves tend to confirm the second option. But first the background: Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator whose television show airs at 5 p.m. daily Eastern Time on the Fox News Channel, where it attracts an enormous (for cable, at that hour) audience of...

Yet another of the Astroturfing Activists' Claims Turn to Dust Under Scruitiny Hate to say it, but we told you so. Even though our community of Glenn Beck fans have contacted Best Buy to protest their well-hyped supposed boycott of Beck's #2-rated show at Fox News Channel, we demurred from adding ANY of these new advertisers to our "turncoat" list. Simply because we can't believe anything Color of Change prints. Whether it is their petitions, which always suspiciously seem to have "75,000 signatures" (#1) (#2), or whether it is company after company we actually SPEAK to who deny their claims...

Yet another of the Astroturfing Activists' Claims Turn to Dust Under Scruitiny Hate to say it, but we told you so. Even though our community of Glenn Beck fans have contacted Best Buy to protest their well-hyped supposed boycott of Beck's #2-rated show at Fox News Channel, we demurred from adding ANY of these new advertisers to our "turncoat" list. Simply because we can't believe anything Color of Change prints. Whether it is their petitions, which always suspiciously seem to have "75,000 signatures" (#1) (#2), or whether it is company after company we actually SPEAK to who deny their claims...

Sargento: The Worst Company in the World? Insulting responses to left-wing boycott fuel Beck fans' contempt (and a rush to buy Kraft and Cabot) ... Yes, Sargento really did call a 1 second "cafe" parody with a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi provocational piece of "rhetoric" that could result in the "death of someone". In fact, we called Pat Lombardo over at Sargento, and she ramped up the hysteria even further. Ms. Lombardo said "We saw the show where he said the Speaker of the House should be poisoned-I saw it with my own eyes- and we felt we couldn't...

In what is shaping up to be one of the more effective boycott campaigns in years, advertisers are abandoning the "Glenn Beck" show on Fox News following the host's incendiary comments that President Barack Obama is a "racist" and has a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Among the advertisers to pull spots from the popular cable talk show are Geico, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/comstock/13*!brk.a (BRK .A 99,275, +275.00, +0.28%) /quotes/comstock/13*!brk.b (BRK .B 3,235, +5.20, +0.16%) ; Procter & Gamble /quotes/comstock/13*!pg/quotes/nls/pg (PG 52.49, +0.28, +0.54%) ; Sargento Cheese; and Progressive Insurance /quotes/comstock/13*!pgr/quotes/nls/pgr (PGR 16.01, -0.08, -0.50%) , according...

Our goal is to hit advertisers hard with response from Beck fans with real purchasing power, unlike the instigators of this phony Astroturf boycott," said founder of DefendGlenn.com. "At some point they will realize they've been punked by a bunch of paid activists, college students and slacker bloggers in their parents' basements who don't purchase their products anyway," said the founder, who asked that his name be withheld.

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...

I plan to do a lot more shopping at Whole Foods in the coming weeks. Mostly in response to the moronic boycott of the store now gaining momentum on the left. Let me see if I have the logic correct here: Whole Foods is consistently ranked among the most employee-friendly places to work in the service industry. In fact, Whole Foods treats employees a hell of a lot better than most liberal activist groups do. The company has strict environmental and humane animal treatment standards about how its food is grown and raised. The company buys local. The store near...

Pro-Obamacare protesters have organised a boycott of Whole Foods Markets, after its chief executive John Mackey criticised health care reform plans. Mackey put his name to an article entitled, The Whole Foods alternative to Obamcare, which opened with a quotation from Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” It went on to say that “even in countries like Canada and the UK, there is no intrinsic right to health care. Rather citizens of those countries are told by government bureaucrats what health care treatments they are eligible to receive and when...

<p>Glenn Beck fans are fighting back against a campaign led by a black activist organization prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program.</p> <p>Now a husband and wife team of Beck fans has launched a website – DefendGlenn.com – that lists the contact information for advertisers for Beck's and other Fox News programs and provides users with information and suggestions to contact those companies to urge their continued sponsorship. The site also asks users to contact Beck's current patrons to thank them for their loyalty to the Fox News star's program.</p>

We will not allow these thugs to silence our right to free speech. It is fine for the President to accuse an entire police department of profiling, acting stupidly and racism, but Glenn Beck can not respond without being punished? Is this Nazi Germany? I think that is exactly where we are headed

Ten Top Reasons I'm Happy About The Glenn Beck Boycott A group called Color of Change is putting pressure on advertisers to stop running ads on the Glenn Beck show on Fox News because Glenn Beck said mean things about Barack Obama. Apparently several advertisers, including Geico, Sargento Cheese, and others, have succumbed to the fear. Needless to say, the enlightened visionaries of the left-wing blogosphere are jumping for joy at the boycott. Much like the boycott of Mormon-owned businesses in the aftermath of Prop. 8 in California, the boycott aims to silence -- not just criticize -- opposing political...

Glenn Beck, controversial Fox News personality, is losing advertising dollars for his program airing on the Fox News Channel. Corporate sponsors have been distancing themselves from Beck, fearing backlash for being associated with Beck's crazed and dangerous rantings and ravings. Recently Beck called President Obama a racist, just one of many utterances which has outraged his critics and worried his supporters. Beck is known for his on air hysterics, his crying and manic gesticulations have become infamous. What is unclear is whether Beck is seriously mentally ill, or merely pandering in some gross and obnoxious fashion to the lowest, most...

<p>President Obama's "green jobs czar" is co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program. Now Colors of Change, an activist organization seeking to "strengthen Black America's political voice" has led a furious campaign against Beck culminating in major companies such as Geico and Lawyers.com pulling their spots from the Fox News star's daily show. The group also says it has garnered about 75,000 signatories for an online petition against Beck to be sent to advertisers.</p>

Several national advertisers, including some Wisconsin companies, have pulled their commercials from the broadcast of the Glenn Beck Program on the Fox News Channel after Beck called President Barack Obama a "racist" who has a "deep-seated hatred for white people.... Several advertisers then removed their commercials from the show, including .... Racine-based S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. [and] Plymouth, Wis.-based Sargento Foods Inc., a privately held company, pulled its ads from Beck's show. Barbara Gannon, spokeswoman for Sargento, told BizTimes today, "I can confirm that we have instructed our media buyer not to buy any advertising that would appear during...

S.C. Johnson Denies They Pulled Ads from BeckDespite Wild Claims from Boycotters, Few Companies Confirm They've Cancelled Ads Several in our community have received the following email from SC Johnson... Patricia, Thank you for sharing your concerns as there is some potentially misleading information on the web about this topic. SC Johnson has not pulled or cancelled advertising for the Glenn Beck show, as we never directed our advertising to this particular program. In general, our goal is to provide good, informative ads and we select those programs and/or networks that make the most sense given our consumer base. Regards,...

A racially charged activist group called “Color of Change” founded by Van Jones, a special advisor to the Obama Administration, is trying to silence popular radio and Fox News personality Glenn Beck by calling for a boycott of Beck’s TV advertisers. On July 28th, Beck made a comment on the Fox & Friends morning show about Obama’s reaction to the arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. During the discussion of “Professor-Gate,” Beck connected the President’s past association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright to Obama’s comment that Cambridge police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, acted stupidly. Though Beck acknowledged most

Ok, folks, this has got to stop...New Website online: DefendGlenn.com Send this to all your friends. Contains all the advertisers for Glenn's FoxNews channel show (adding them all the time), so you can contact them and counter the left-wing nuts who are spending all day (what else do they have to do in their Mom's basement?) threatening to boycott their products (as if they can even afford most of them on their welfare checks). DailyKos, the racist Socialist "Color of Change" and apparently SEIU and ACORN low-lifes are contacting these advertisers. Lowdown: Here are the advertisers who have given notice...

According to Democrats.com, Obama has pressured these companies into pulling their ads from FOXnews. Let's boycott these wimps and let them see that losing the mainstream dollar hurts more than losing the radical left dollar: Campbell Soup Chrysler General Motors Kellogg Kraft Foods Lawyers.com Nestle Pfizer Proctor & Gamble Progressive Insurance

BRIDGETON - A national immigrant rights leader on Saturday urged undocumented workers in South Jersey to boycott the 2010 national census. Rev. Miguel Rivera, head of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC), made his case to roughly 45 to 50 attendees at a meeting of local migrant workers and sympathizers held at the Salvation Army facility on West Commerce Street. The meeting was hosted by the Farmworkers Support Committee (CATA, or Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas). The stated goal was to unite immigrant organizations and supporters behind a plan pushing Congress to pass legislation...

Republican members of Congress should consider a boycott of the biased MSM reporters. Obama uses preselected questions and reporters. Conservative can use PRESELECTED REPORTERS. Let's see how the MSM responds after a week or so of the "silent treatment". YOUR THOUGHTS?

Activists fear calls to boycott the census Monday, July 20, 2009 3:08 AM By Bill Bush THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohio advocates for low-income residents and the homeless want to make sure that those groups get properly counted in next year's census. "With all the cuts we've had in Ohio, this has become more important," said Cathy Johnston, advocacy director for the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. Those groups are hoping that people don't follow the advice of a conservative congresswoman and some immigrant-rights activists: Both are urging people to shun the national head count. Hundreds of billions of...

Wal-Mart has just changed the game with respect to environmental issues. Now it doesn't matter whether Congress' new cap-and-trade law meets all its promises, nor whether the G-8 leaders dithered rather than acted on environmental issues. Wal-Mart's unilateral decision to put its purchasing and communication power behind going green also shows that a single company using its unique clout can accelerate public action to reduce greenhouse gases and reverse climate change. By rolling out an environmental labelling program disclosing to consumers the environmental costs of making products sold at Wal-Mart, the $401 billion retail behemoth has transformed green standards from...

Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.22 BST The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime. Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as half in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran. There are signs that the boycott is spreading: consumers are shunning SMS...

HR 2998 American Clean Energy and Security Act. The Congressional record minutes of yesterday can be accessed at Thomas.gov. The Corporations and Associations that are backing this legislation can be found on pages H7685 & H7686. Listing below:

Beneath the attention of major media coverage, the boycott of Israeli products has arrived in America. Its first (reported target) over this past weekend was the couscous at Trader Joe's. The Atlantic's (Jeffrey Goldberg comments:) "My recommendation: Head to Trader Joe's and buy anything made or grown in Israel. I hear the Israeli couscous goes well with grilled scapegoat, by the way." Rabbi Isaac Jeret of Congregation Ner Tamid in Los Angeles elaborates in an email to friends: As many of you know, one of the most difficult challenges for the State of Israel during its recent war in Gaza...

I received this message from a colleague alerting me to the fact that Trader Joe's, a well-known market for imported foods and wines, is now under pressure to stop selling products made in Israel (like Israeli cous cous, for example). This effort is being launched by South Bay Mobilization, a leftist, activist anti-Israel bunch in San Jose, California. In addition to its letter to Trader Joe's asking them not to sell Israeli products, this bunch is asking its members to actually go into local Trader Joe's stores on June 20, which if you did not know, is "World Refugee Day"...

ABCNEWS will air a special version of World News, hosted by Charlie Gibson from the White House on June 24, 2009. The special show will cover the President as he explains his health care reform. The Republicans will not be allowed to oppose these views during this hour. ABC alone will hold complete editorial control of this show. RNC Chief of Staff, Ken McKay, wrote a letter to the head of ABC News. The full letter and a portion of the response was posted on The Drudge Report today. "Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our...

A diverse coalition of concerned citizens, whose website is www.FireDavidLetterman.com, today announced a Fire David Letterman Rally on Tuesday, June 16, from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm on the sidewalks outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697 Broadway in New York City. CBS films the Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Tuesday’s show, hosted by Letterman, will be taped at 5:30 pm, and will feature guest Michelle Pfeiffer. Anna Barone, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign, and later for Democrats for McCain, called on CBS CEO Les Moonves to fire David Letterman for his...

Developments and Updates regarding Letterman Advertisers: First a recommendation for further info:Conservatives4Palin updates on Letterman row - Has the contact information for writing and calling CBS staff Hillbuzz on how to target sponsors (a bit very wordy at the beginning, essentially makes the point to target three big advertisers with an „image interest“) Hillbuzz updates on Letterman advertisersFR thread with CBS advertisers contact info File an online complaint with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) with the point of obscenity... First reactions from sponsors: Some 'minor' sponsors are distancing themselves from Letterman and claim not to be his (direct) sponsors. Ancestry.com...

In business ethics, the typical way one makes a judgment about the morality of a business action or practice is to consider the facts surrounding it in the light of four major ethical perspectives. These four ethical theories have been the ones considered most plausible in over two millennia of moral philosophy. The first perspective is the natural rights view, or what I will call the (A) rights perspective. This view judges an action or practice by asking whether it flows from the rights of those doing it, and more importantly, if it violates the rights of others. The second...

According to Autoblog, some "far right-wingers" are planning a boycott of GM. Conspicuously absent from the piece is any mention of a "far left-wing" president nationalizing a private company and giving it to political cronies like the "far left-wing" UAW.

THIS IS AN UPDATE TO YESTERDAY'S ARTICLE. The citizen revolt against the nationalization of business is beginning to express itself in support for a boycott of General Motors and Chrysler. A new Rasmussen Poll shows rising support, and several national columnists and pundits, as well as citizens, are calling for such a boycott.

Vanity - Need help with Microsoft / MSNBC boycott We're used to bias from news agencies, but MSNBC has gone several steps past just biased. They have become distributors of propaganda. A mouthpiece for the hard left and Democrats. This has caused their ratings to drop through the floor, but GE (NBC's parent company) doesn't seem to care. They seem to love the idea of losing money to promote a political agenda. A boycott would have little effect on them. There is one other player involved here though: Microsoft. The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft. The own 18% of...

Americans should boycott the new GM, Government Motors (aka: Obama Motors), until the government is completely out of the automobile industry. They have no business attempting to run a private company, even in the short term. They can't even manage their own failed enterprises, and I see no constitutional authority for the federal government to own car companies, whatsoever.

You gotta watch this video from France. Some group called Europalestine.com organized a "boycott" to protest the Israeli's. Boycott's usually mean your not going to buy the product anymore right? Not for these French. Instead it means to steal what you can while screaming about the "criminal" Israeli's.... [video at site] A reader to Powerline notes it is even more disgusting then first glance: This video is even more grotesque than you think. It was shot in a suburb of Paris called Aulnay-sous-Bois. The next-door town to Aulnay is called Drancy, about 1 mile away. Drancy was used by the...

<p>Organizers of this week's National Day of Prayer still don't know whether the White House will participate.</p> <p>The event's evangelical character earned it a White House welcome during President George W. Bush's eight years in office. But Brian Toon, vice chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, says to date, there's been no mention of a White House observance being held this year.</p>

Another bishop has declined to attend another graduation ceremony at another Catholic university because of plans to bestow an honorary degree on another pro-choice politician. This time it's New Orleans Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes who says he will not attend next month's graduation at Xavier University of Louisiana, which plans to award an honorary degree to Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist, Louisiana native, Roman Catholic and abortion rights supporter. Hughes is joining in protest a dozen other Roman Catholic bishops who plan to boycott next month's graduation at the University of Notre Dame, which plans to give an honorary degree...

HA reader David L found himself a little stunned — and a little disgusted — by his latest JC Penney advertising insert. It seems that the venerable retailer has decided to plunge in with both feet into the Cult of Personality. Here’s the full page from the insert:

Over five months after the election, a three-judge panel has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. The judges issued their final ruling late Monday, stating "Franken received the highest number of lawfully cast ballots in the Nov. 4, 2008 general election." They also have determined that Franken is entitled to receive the certificate of election. Last week, Republican Norm Coleman suffered a blow after a few hundred previously rejected absentee ballots were opened and counted at the tail end of Coleman's lawsuit contesting his loss in a statewide recount. They broke almost 2-to-1 for...

The supermarket chain Tesco shouldn't be blamed for introducing a special U.K. helpline for complaints about it stocking Israeli products, a leading member of Britain's Zionist lobby told Haaretz. In yet another series of articles about this controversial topic, British media reported last week that pro-Israel groups attacked Tesco for the decision to set up the helpline, which coincided with government talks on labeling Israeli products. "Blaming Tesco is ridiculous and unfair," said Jonathan Hoffman, co-vice chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. He explained the chain store had set up the helpline in anticipation of a...