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Powerful PR Firm Helps Campaign to Get Glenn Beck Off The Air
News Busters ^ | 8-13-09 | Noel Sheppard

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: agenda; bstreisand; colorofchange; commies; demdisinformation; fakedemsupport; fascists; glennbeck; greenjobczar; liberalfascism; obamascum; overlordobama; pinkos; removal; unions; vanjones
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To: Salamander
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_wednesday_august_12_124323.asp#more

check out the latest ratings, remember BOR is on twice a night (Beck is, too).

101 posted on 08/13/2009 10:27:13 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Frantzie

I hear that.


102 posted on 08/13/2009 10:31:53 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: pissant
Did you see the ratings yesterday? "almost" embarassing:

Beck 2,386,000

Blitzer 636,000

Matthews 536,000

Then you have BOR:

3,788,000 and 1,927,000

(Brown) 643,000 and Cooper 466,000

Olberman 1,136,000 and Maddow 540,000

103 posted on 08/13/2009 10:34:00 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

And?

Considering Beck is on when *most* conservatives are either at their jobs or coming home from them, he kicks ass.

Those same viewers don’t have the luxury of staying up til 2am, either.

Give him a prime time slot and then show me stats.


104 posted on 08/13/2009 10:35:44 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: shield

Ratings talk.
BS walks.


106 posted on 08/13/2009 10:36:48 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: Salamander

I didn’t post those stats as a put-down of Beck, but to show that if they keep this up (trying to destroy him) BOR has a huge audience to take the companies to task over... but remember, recently the same groups managed to get UPS to pull all their ads off of BOR’s program.


107 posted on 08/13/2009 10:41:58 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: STARWISE
NO .. we write GEICO and tell them that
if they remove themselves from Glenn’s
show, WE will cancel our business.


I just did the same.
108 posted on 08/13/2009 10:43:00 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: bushwon
Sargento and P&G definitely pulled their ads from Glenn Beck's show? Where are you hearing about this? I watch Beck's Fox show (most of it), but I haven't heard him talk about this.


109 posted on 08/13/2009 10:43:48 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Yet without UPS, O’reilly’s still on.

They’re too stupid to realize the boycotts only hurt *them*.


110 posted on 08/13/2009 10:44:43 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: Salamander

BOR’s ratings have been exploding — actually the entire lineup has been exploding, people are not stupid, they know CNN and MSNBC are full of it... he is now beating Katie Couric.


111 posted on 08/13/2009 10:48:46 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: GOP_Lady

Progressive Insurance is a big lib outfit...like Costco


112 posted on 08/13/2009 10:50:56 PM PDT by wardaddy (Aint it hard when you discover that He really wasnt where its at ....Bro.)
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To: G Larry
Boycott ‘em!

...and let them know!!!

113 posted on 08/13/2009 10:53:59 PM PDT by Bellflower (The end of this age is near but the beginning of the next glorious one is coming!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

“he is now beating Katie Couric.”

It’s late, I’m tired and my sense of humor runs towards the twisted but that actually made me LOL....:))


114 posted on 08/13/2009 10:54:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Wow, I was just about to look at Geico for some quotes! I am so thankful that I now know what insurance company to avoid!!!

....let them know!

115 posted on 08/13/2009 10:55:34 PM PDT by Bellflower (The end of this age is near but the beginning of the next glorious one is coming!)
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To: STARWISE
"Progressive ??? I’d be shocked. Their owner is a HUGE lib"

When I heard the Progressive actress say "Power to the people!" in their latest ad my thought was 'that outfit is probably run by a bunch of Marx-quoting libs'.

116 posted on 08/13/2009 10:56:21 PM PDT by phredo53 (Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often and for the same reason.)
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To: TADSLOS
God, I do love a great backfire when I see one ...

Amen to all that!


117 posted on 08/13/2009 10:57:22 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: eyedigress

Aye! :)


118 posted on 08/13/2009 11:04:28 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: April Lexington

If it was Van jones Glenn talked about today he is a guy who was arrested in the Rodney King riots
went to prison and claims he went in prison as an anarchist and came out a communist.


119 posted on 08/13/2009 11:05:13 PM PDT by Global2010 (Chic Conservative Catholic Thug)
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120 posted on 08/13/2009 11:21:00 PM PDT by potlatch ( There is no education in the third kick of a mule.)
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