Powerful PR Firm Helps Campaign to Get Glenn Beck Off The Air

News Busters ^ | 8-13-09 | Noel Sheppard

[STARWISE]

As NewsBuster Matthew Vadum reported Wednesday, a race-baiting group named Color Of Change -- co-founded by President Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones -- has launched a campaign to get companies to stop advertising on Glenn Beck's television program.

Recent press releases from COC concerning Beck have listed as the contact "Brandon Hatler -- Sunshine, Sachs & Associates."

As Variety reported in May 2007, SSA is a powerful New York-based public relations firm with quite an impressive list of clients:

Current clients include Ben Affleck, Jon Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Fallon, the Farrelly brothers, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, John Mayer, Bette Midler, Michael Moore, Tyler Perry, Barbra Streisand and Michelle Wie.

On Monday, COC published the following press release concerning Beck listing Hatler as contact: Story Continues Below Ad ↓

"We applaud GEICO and all of the other companies who have stepped forward to pull their ads from Glenn Beck," said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. "Beck's rhetoric is dangerous to the fabric of our democracy, and we are heartened that so many big companies feel the same way. We won't stop here -- we're going to continue our fight to see that as many of Beck's advertisers pull their support as possible."

Two weeks ago, ColorOfChange.org called on its 600,000-plus members to sign a petition urging companies who advertise on Glenn Beck to cut off their advertising support of his work. More than 75,000 members responded to the call by signing a petition directed at advertisers.

As RBO uncovered last week, SSA also represents Van Jones's Green for All, "a national organization working to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty."

When you add it all up, a current member of the Obama administration is co-founder of a group trying to get a conservative talker off the air, and is being assisted by a powerful New York PR firm.

And America's so-called journalists couldn't care less.

[Frantzie]

O’Reilly and Ann Coulter, Hewitt, Ingraham, Medved, Boortz (wow he is boring like Ingraham) all took the gloves off against birthers. They could have just said they have no comment or disagree. I am finished with all of them.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Frantzie you need to grow up if you don’t know why they are all trying to tamp it down, Obama WANTS it to take the heat off him...

[dajeeps]

I’ve got more info on Lexus Nexus. It’s a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. which owns Pollutech Horizions, a sustainablility company. They are probably tightly connected with Van Jones, considering he’s the “Green Jobs” czar.

Take this into account if you choose to contact them.

[tdscpa]

Can you think of anything I could do to get GEICO and Progressive to withdraw their ads from every program I watch? I am so sick of their constant commercials.

[Squantos]

Starve the beast folks......vote with your dollars. Socialism is a virus that feeds off your money. Do everything you can to keep your coin spent aiding only conservative companies an organizations.

Barter. Vs buy if possible as money is this criminal administrations life blood. Shut THEM down an show support for Glen Beck by subscriping to his podcasts an sending messages of support via fox an his web sites etc an as Meek has suggested ....send trash like geico packing if your insurance is with them

Do it today !!

[Squantos]

We counter their efforts with action versus signing a petition. Call the companies PR departments an tell em little things like we just spent thousands of dollars on products for soldiers care packages an now will make sure NO procter an gamble products are used due PG’sr support of socialst values. Etc etc.....

Starve the beast !

[SUSSA]

Let GEICO know you will buy your insurance elsewhere if they continue to support this radical group that wants conservatives off the air.

http://www.geico.com/about/contactus/email/

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Isn’t dangerous green Marxist lunatic Van Jones part of that Apollo group that Glenn has been talking about?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Special dangerous green Marxist lunatic Van Jones PING to the Global Warming PING list!

[Fresh Wind]

Lest anyone forget, GEICO stands for:

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I heard Glenn Beck state that Progressive Insurance has pulled out of his show.

Maybe Flo can go have carnal relations with the Geico gecko, for all I care.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’ve read that GEICO stands for “Government Employees Insurance Company.” Or maybe that’s what it used to mean. Is that an urban legend?

[SkyPilot]

For those of you who need to know, Beck's premier "crime" in all of this was that he called Obama a racist on July 29th, 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHs6saDzsc

If you want to see the fear the Left has over this issue, see all the related YouTube videos. They all have an intro by liberals or some liberal hate group to "frame" or "set up" the spin of what Beck said, then they all pile on with 4 or 5 liberals to tell everybody how evil Beck is.

It is all very simple, really. The Gates-gate affair exposed Obama for who he really is.

This cannot be allowed to happen!

If John Q. Public really wakes up to this fact, Obama's political future is dead, and the left will have a lot of recompense of their past sins of stirring up racial hatred, and the terrible racists in their own party.

Obama's wife is a racist. Obama's allies are dangerous and evil racists as well.

"You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, 24 Feb 2009

The Left, the MSM, and these racial spoils groups cannot afford for this to get traction.

[maggief]

http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/history/

GEICO History: An American Success Story

GEICO is built on ingenuity, perseverance, innovation, resilience and hard, honest work. From its humble beginnings in the midst of the Great Depression to its current place as one of the most successful companies in the nation, GEICO represents a quintessential American success story. Take a moment to review GEICO’s milestones, or read the whole story and learn about the colorful people and events behind GEICO.
GEICO Milestones

1936 - GEICO is established by Leo and Lillian Goodwin.

1948 - Investment banker Lorimer Davidson joins the company and expands its pool of investors.

1951 - Columbia University business student Warren Buffet makes his first purchase of GEICO stock.

1958 - Leo Goodwin retires and is succeeded by Lorimer Davidson.

1959 - GEICO opens its new headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD.

1964 - GEICO passes the 1 million policyholder mark.

1965-1966 - GEICO insurance premiums reach $150 million; Net earnings double to $13 million.

1980 - GEICO introduces 24-hour, 365-telephone customer service.

1993 - New chairman Olza “Tony” Nicely implements a new strategy to expand the customer base; increased focus on advertising results in higher national visibility.

1996 - Warren Buffett purchases outstanding GEICO stock, making GEICO a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.

2000 - The beloved Gecko makes his debut in a wildly popular GEICO ad campaign.

2002 - GEICO passes the 5 million policyholder mark.

2004 - The GEICO Caveman enters the scene with the “So easy a Caveman could do it” ad campaign.

2007 - GEICO passes the 8 million policyholder mark.

2009 - GEICO passes the 9 million policyholder mark and opens for business in Massachusetts making GEICO coverage and services available in all 50 states.

Today - GEICO’s assets have reached $24.4 billion, and the company looks forward to even more growth, founded on quality coverage and outstanding GEICO customer service.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/27-9

Published on Monday, October 27, 2008 by The San Francisco Chronicle
Activist (Van Jones) says Green Needs To Touch Blue Collar

by Kelly Zito

...

Here is an excerpt of an interview with The Chronicle:

Q: In your book ... you make the argument that the two most important problems facing the U.S. are radical social inequality and rampant environmental destruction. Can you explain why in your view the solution to this is a caulk gun?

A: We do have these two big problems. But really we have one solution - a green economy ... that really honors the earth but is strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty through creating what we call green collar jobs. It’s not just the Ph.D.s but the Ph. Dos ... getting people skilled up so they know how to make solar panels and wind turbines. You’re giving people not just a paycheck but a purpose.

Q: You also call out the idea of the eco-elite and the concern over eco-apartheid.

A: If the green economy just winds up being this niche economy, where people can afford to pay a green premium for that extra environmental oomph on their products, it’s going to be too small to actually do very much. And 80 percent of the people who are left out wind up undoing the environmental good of that 20 percent. The next stage in green economics is to figure out how we make the green economy not just a place for affluent people but a place for ordinary people to earn money and for low income people to save money.

Q: In the book, you go into the idea of environmental racism - or what you call “throwaway” communities.

A: There’s this environmental justice movement that talks not just about our sister and brother species but our sisters and brothers who are disproportionately targeted by toxic waste in places like Bayview-Hunters Point, places like Richmond, where the big refinery is. There’s a lot of asthma, a lot of cancer clusters, a lot of negative health impacts. ... It’s low income people, people of color. Now we’re saying we want equal protection from the worst pollution, but we also want ... equal opportunity, equal access to the best (of the green economy).

Q: Given the divided nature of the political landscape, how could a new president or new Congress make the kind of sweeping changes you talk about?

A: I do feel there are some dangers right now because people are just confused. You look at ads on television and you can’t tell whether it’s the Sierra Club or Chevron. Now, the next step is to clarify. When we say a green job, do we want a job at a nuclear power plant where you come out glowing green? Or are we talking about real renewable solutions like solar, wind, geothermal, water conservation? My hope is that there will be a governing majority ... that is bipartisan, built around a new center of gravity that says, we want the U.S. to be the world leader, but not in war and pollution and incarceration rates.

Q: You mention specific solutions discussed by both Sens. Obama and Clinton during the primary race, particularly removing tax breaks for oil companies?

A: Fundamentally we have to stop paying polluters and making the polluters pay. Right now we subsidize pollution. We give a lot of money to big oil, big coal, folks who are adding to the problems of global warming. At the same time it’s free to dump carbon into the air, by the ton... But it’s going cost the whole the planet. That’s called a market failure. We want the polluters to pay because if you put a price on carbon, you send a market signal that the carbon age is over, the oil and coal age is over. It’s now the solar age. We cannot drill and burn our way out of our energy problems. We can invent and invest our way out.

Q: With the economy in such terrible shape right now, how can green be a priority?

A: We just found $700 billion to bail out the bankers. Nobody said that was too expensive. We have the biggest, strongest economy in history of the world. Even on the way down we’re bigger than anybody else. It’s not question of money, it’s a question of priorities. We have a Saudi Arabia of wind in the Plains states, a Saudi Arabia of solar in the Sun Belt. If you build a clean energy grid ... now your energy costs have plunged near zero. ... The U.S. economy will be stronger in ways we can’t even imagine.

[AlexW]

I sent my complaint.
Before leaving the USA in 2005, I had had my car insurance with GEICO since 1965!!

[Fresh Wind]

This is not urban legend. Selling only to government employees is how they got their start. At some point they officially became GEICO and started going for the general market.

Their business model is to entice new business with low teaser rates, but even those teaser rates aren’t than low anyway. The last time I checked, GEICO was about the same as what I was already paying.

They probably could offer lower rates if they would just cut back on their advertising budget.

I hope I never see or hear another GEICO commercial.

[Marty62]

Got my vote. Forget Geico!

[clyde260]

Done:

I have been a GEICO customer for over 20 years, and have just learned that you are pulling your advertising from the Glen Beck show in an attempt to limit free speech in this great country.

To counter that action I will cancel my policy with you. Simple. And I promise you that I will do everything in my power to spread the word and encourage others to do the same. WE THE PEOPLE have the power over you corporate bullies and the politicians. Just watch and learn.

I will then find out which insurance company advertises with the Glen Beck show and purchase a car insurance policy from them.

Long live FreeRepublic.com !

[reformedliberal]

I watched Beck yesterday and UPS is one of his advertisers, still.

[GOPJ]

It seems the only enemy Obama and liberal elites can see is the American people...

Ham handed, heavy fisted thugs - raised on ACORN's bitter milk.