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

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

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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.

[Salamander]

We’ve had people pimping their companies to us and we take great delight in telling them we why we’re saying NO.

[dajeeps]

Try AllState. They refused TARP.

[Minus_The_Bear]

some FR pings behind this could help...

http://supportglennbeck.com

[Salamander]

Their loss, not ours.

Somebody else will take up the slack.

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Van Jones, who admitted he was a Communist

Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots.

"I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

[Arizona Carolyn]

Newsbusters left out the ColorOfChange.org is Luis Farrakhan’s group.

[Kryptonite]

I'll sign that Petition.

Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) and Progressive - really nothing needs to be said more than that - their own names reveal everything.

Thanks be to God that my right-wing Dentist is the spittin’ image of Beck, and just as enjoyable to hear. Made the novocaine shot and three fillings very easy to take today.

[Arizona Carolyn]

P&G as well as Lexus Nexus...

[beaversmom]

I think they were just modern angry metrosexual Neanderthals—not gay :)

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[Arizona Carolyn]

O’Reilly is a huge Beck supporter (clearly if you watched BOR you would know that)... and if anyone goes to bat at Fox for Glenn it will be BOR.

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Good idea.

[Will88]

Minority groups have played the boycott game for years, and conservatives and many others have always acted as if boycotts were a dishonorable, anti-capitalist tactic that is beneath them.

Threatened boycotts have had some success, and this one might also. But if companies knew there were far larger groups out there who would boycott those who caved in to threatened boycotts, then companies would fast learn to ignore all threats of boycotts, which is what they should do, anyway.

Conservatives and silent majority types might need to organize and join the boycott business until companies decide to ignore everyone.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I missed that, when did he say it? BTW Progressive is owned by Peter Lewis who is a huge friend of Soros and they have banded together to push through this movement so it’s not a shock.

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Boy, are you right.

[Arizona Carolyn]

It’s Farrakhan’s group, who knows where they got the 600K number, probably set there on our tax $ and cranked out letter after letter with fake names to apply pressure, you know when you don’t work for a living there is a lot of time to cause mahem.

[dajeeps]

If anyone is looking for auto insurance in the Rochester, NY area, my Allstate agent is Sam Nash and he’s really great. I’ve only had one claim in the 20 or so years I’ve done business with them, which was last year, and had no problems whatsoever. They are fantastic.

http://www.allstateagencies.com/SamNash/Welcome/

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Signed !

What’s the money being requested for ?

[Arizona Carolyn]

As far as I know it is Geico, Proctor and Gamble, Lexus Nexus, and Progressive.