Posted on 08/13/2009 9:09:57 PM PDT by 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.
Tell them. You have to tell Geico why they won’t get your business.
Let’s start a petition to KEEP GLENN BECK RIGHT WHERE HE IS!!! They don’t have to watch him but we prefer to!
Besides, Geico & Progressive Insurance are COMMUNISTS pieces of crap anyway and BIG RAT DONORS!
It’s their lose not Glenn Becks. If I had any business with them I would pull it immediately but since I don’t do business with COMMIES I don’t do business with Geico or Progressive Ins.
GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffet - no friend of conservatives - is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
bttt
The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
It used to insure only government employees including the Military.
Yes he is ... I’m rather fearful for him
with this raw info today, as well.
No. You are wrong.
Wiki:
“The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway . . . “
I’m all for boycotting those who pull ads from Beck’s program, but let’s get the facts straight. GEICO has nothing to do with GE.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA and NYSE: BRKB) is a conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. Berkshire Hathaway’s core business is insurance, including property and casualty insurance, reinsurance and specialty nonstandard insurance. The Company averaged an annual growth in book value of 20.3% to its shareholders for the last 44 years, while employing large amounts of capital, and minimal debt.[1]
Warren Buffett is the company’s chairman and CEO. Buffett has used the “float” provided by Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations (a policyholder’s money which it holds temporarily until claims are paid out) to finance his investments. In the early part of his career at Berkshire, he focused on long-term investments in publicly quoted stocks, but more recently he has turned to buying whole companies. Berkshire now owns a diverse range of businesses including candy production, retail, home furnishings, encyclopedias, vacuum cleaners, jewelry sales; newspaper publishing; manufacture and distribution of uniforms; manufacture, import and distribution of footwear; as well as several regional electric and gas utilities.
Same here, but they're off my list now.
GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffet - no friend of conservatives - is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Boycott GEICO and especially Progressive Insurance Company!
What Is ColorOfChange.org?
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.
We were heart-broken and outraged by the catastrophe that followed Hurricane Katrina. And we were devastated to realize that no African-American organization or coalition had the capacity to respond on the necessary scale.
Hurricane Katrina made it clear that our lack of a political voice has life-and-death consequences. With no one to speak for them, hundreds of thousands of people—largely Black, poor, and elderly—were left behind to die.
James Rucker serves as executive director of ColorOfChange.org. Prior, James served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action and was instrumental in developing and executing on fundraising, technology, and campaign strategies.
Dani McClain joined the ColorOfChange campaign staff in the winter of 2008. Dani is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and before ColorOfChange worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covering education.
Former Staff
Van Jones (Co-founder, inactive)
While Van hasn’t been active in the work of ColorOfChange in recent years, we are proud of where his work las led him. After helping ColorOfChange get started in 2005, Van moved on to other pursuits. In 2007, he founded and served as the executive director of Green For All, an organization dedicated to creating opportunities for low-income communities connected to the greater effort of addressing climate change. Van now serves as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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I thought we were all supposed to be color blind. I guess that’s just the rules for white people.
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emand governors put people above politics
A group of Republican governors is refusing to accept federal stimulus funds that are intended to expand and extend unemployment benefits. Most of these governors are in states where Black unemployment is more than two times that of Whites, and all of them are doing it score political points.
http://colorofchange.org/campaigns.html
“Now “Color of Change” has bullied at least five of Beck’s big advertisers — SC Johnson, Progressive Insurance, Geico, Procter & Gamble and Nexus Lexis — to pull their ads from Beck’s national cable program. Jones, the founder of “Color of Change,” was named Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality — a key administrative post — this past March.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33134
Cavemen are bad marketing for straight guys.
Those 2 are a bit gay.
Progressive was founded by a Communist and is run by his son, a big pal of Soros -- and a huge contributor to Far Left causes. Its name means just what it says.
O’Reilly is a RINO POS.
prisoner6
They may have threatened and he may have repeated it but sure as anything, there she was pimping her stupid empty boxes tonight.
Soon as the commercial came on, I groaned to hubby “Oh God! I thought they got lost!”
Right now Hannity is rerunning and the lizard freak is yapping in my ear.
3,000,000+ viewers and *growing*?
Those companies want lots of money-spending eyes glued to the tube.
They’re not stupid.
Beck reruns at 2AM.
I’ll keep an ear to the TV and see if she shows up again.
[they may run different ads for late night...I’ve never bothered to pay attention, really]
I thought of something else to fight back with. WalMart does a lot of business with Berkshire Hathaway, SC Johnson and P&G. I think I’ll write to them about this situation also.
ping!
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