Lord, protect Glenn and his family and all those who fight for truth. Seems like the targets don't like the flak.
Lord, protect Glenn and his family and all those who fight for truth. Seems like the targets don't like the flak.
Newsbusters left out the ColorOfChange.org is Luis Farrakhan’s group.
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.
Calling Dave Horowitz.
Although evil, this campaign is little more than a distraction. Glenn Beck’s program gets high ratings and I’m willing to wager his ratings will increase thanks to the thuggery.
"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."- - - - -
Fight fire with fire! How many of us have Geico for our
insurance/financial services? Not me, but if I did?:Bye-bye, Geico!
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Pingin' my General Interest AND Texas Lists cuz I thought you'd wanna know! ...
Ping! Ping! Ping!
Beck will kick their asses
Isn’t dangerous green Marxist lunatic Van Jones part of that Apollo group that Glenn has been talking about?
Special dangerous green Marxist lunatic Van Jones PING to the Global Warming PING list!
Lest anyone forget, GEICO stands for:
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY
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.
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.
Ham handed, heavy fisted thugs - raised on ACORN's bitter milk.
That's going to come back to bite them some day.
Why do I keep feeling like I'm living in a Left Behind novel?
Sargento pulled their ads from the Glenn Beck show. Let them know what you think.
Dear Sargento,
I am a big fan of your products, but since you are submitting to political pressure and boycotting the Glenn Beck show, I am boycotting you.
Regards
GOD BLESS GLENN BECK, THOSE THAT SURROUND HIM, AND A FREE AMERICA
I never watch television. I never even seen Fox news.
Best thing anyone can do is throw the television in the rubbish.
Color of change is another one of George $oreA$$’s hate America funded groups which work 24/7 to destroy what is right about America. They and Moveon are vile creations of the the $oreA$$ serial killers of America.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-hptb5&p=ColorOfChange%20%2b%20Soros&type=
I went to a website (can’t remember which one, but a liberal site) that was calling for a protest and listed the advertisers to boycott. I used that list to personally send an email to each one of them and thank them for sponsoring Glenn Becks show, and because of it, I would take care to use their products as they were sponsoring a show that I liked and I appreciated that. I also reminded them of the ratings that Glenn has verses the other liberal channels calling for the boycott and if the 7 people who still watched those channels actually did boycott and their sales went down, to let me know and I would step up my purchases and urge others to do the same. I got nothing but good responses back from several of them. I urge you all to do the same.....
bump