Posted on 06/11/2010 11:41:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Anybody else find all of those Progressive Insurance commercials annoying?
Anyway, the owner of Progressive Insurance is a big lib.
Conservatives Urged to Avoid Progressive Insurance CNSNews.com ^ | 12/13/2005 | Unknown
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:45:04 AM by oxcart
(CNSNews.com) - A conservative advocacy group is urging its supporters to cancel their policies with Progressive Insurance, after Peter Lewis, the company's chairman, reportedly gave $8.5 million to the American Civil Liberties Union. The multi-million dollar donation will help the ACLU advance its liberal agenda, including its "war on Christmas," the American Family Association warned. In an email message, AFA Founder and Chairman Don Wildmon urged his supporters to "sign a letter to Chairman Lewis, letting him know" that his donation to the ACLU is prompting conservatives to cancel their insurance policies. The AFA recently announced that it was ending its boycott of Target stores, after the retailer promised to use the word "Christmas" in its advertising and in-store promotions.
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Now That’s Progressive: Insurance Exec Honored For Movement Support
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By Isaiah J. Poole
June 9, 2010 - 12:04am ET
Most people know Progressive Insurance from its quirky commercials, starring a character named Flo who staffs the checkout counter at an supermarket that sells insurance in neatly labeled boxes. But the leaders of the nation’s leading progressive activist organizations know Progressive Insurance’s chairman of the board, Peter B. Lewis, for another kind of insurance: vital financial support for the kind of activism that enables the movement to fight the right in Washington and beyond.
It was that support that earned Lewis the Campaign for America’s Future Lifetime Leadership Award at the organization’s Gala Dinner Tuesday night. Lewis joined two other honorees at the dinner: James Rucker of Color of Change, winner of the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award, and Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland, winner of the Progressive Champion Award.
Anthony Romero, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, called Lewis “someone who invests in social justice,” and those investments have supported the creation of the Center for American Progress, Media Matters for America and the Democracy Alliance, which supports the work of Campaign for America’s Future.
In accepting the award, Lewis said that the progressive movement had made significant progress since 2004, when he created the organization called Americans Coming Together with George Soros in an effort to defeat President Bush. “But we haven’t done nearly enough,” he said, reflecting both the political and social policy challenges ahead and his own perpetual dissatisfaction with the status quo.
“I am obsessed by doing things well and never being satisfied by how well you’re doing them,” he said.
Lewis also touched on the oil catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, saying that he wanted the event to prompt radical change away from the use of fossil fuels. “I hope that the oil spill is the disaster that is catalytic, that lets us know that we’ve got to do something and do it soon,” he said. And he put in a plug for one of his pet causes, ending what he called “the irrational prohibition of the use of marijuana.”
Earlier, Rucker was introduced by green energy activist and, for a short time, Obama administration official Van Jones. “Sometimes you need somebody who’s a little bit weird,” Jones said of Rucker, someone to “come into a movement and shake it up.”
Rucker founded Color of Change after working with MoveOn.org and gained national prominence for his work as an advocate for New Orleans residents in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and for the freedom of the Jena 6, young black youths who received discriminatory treatment in connection with the beating of a white student. Color of Change also worked to police voting rights issues in the 2008 election.
The success of Color of Change is based on the belief that the real power of the progressive movement is in the grassroots, Rucker said, and that is from where the movement’s direction should come. As a movement, he added, “we will fail if we wait for politicians and advocacy organizations to set the agenda and invite the grassroots to come along,” he said.
Edwards accepted her award on crutches, having suffered from a knee injury. Referring to her ideological foes on the right in Congress, Edwards said, “you’ve really got to kick them hard and sometimes you get it in the knee.”
Recalling her own struggle as a low-income single mother, Edwards encouraged the activists at the dinner to support leaders who come from humble backgrounds and share the struggles of working-class families.
“The American people want to know we are on their side,” she said.
She ended her short remarks by saying, “Now I’m going to walk very slowly so I don’t injure this other knee because I need both knees to fight this fight.” The audience gave her sustained applause as master of ceremonies Lizz Winstead, commentator and former comedy writer for The Daily Show, helped her limp off the stage.
I love the gecko,too.That guy's accent is great...but then I've always been a fan of British accents.
14.6 Bil?
wow.
Flo is worth her weight in gold to this Moonbats company.
Progressive Insurance commercials annoying?
Have you forgotten about the Hildabeast?m
AGREE; have hated them from day 1 (especially their new ‘gay ad’)!
“AGREE; have hated them from day 1 (especially their new ‘gay ad’)!”
PROGRESSIVE GAY COMMERCIAL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2k7IVNtNY
There’s something hot about Flo, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it’s the juicy red lips, or those beautiful eyes of hers.
The commercials suck and I wouldn’t but insurance from Progressive if they held a gun to my head, but she’s still pretty hot...
Laz, when did you change your screen name?
That Pepperidge Farm guy always gave me the creeps. I always thought that he had a few bodies buried back at the farm.
Flo reminds me of several bi-polar women. Every commercial portrays men as emasculated with the exceptions of the two biker commercials.
Esurance is worse with cartoon supergirl character showing men they are stupid.
Geico was funny with the cavemen but the gecko is contrived.
Allstate feeling my pain, and telling me that it’s good that the new economy is bringing my family closer is particularly galling.
State Farm’s new commercials are mindless with college-aged guys wishing for women to serve them.
Folks, you pick insurance companies based on their A.M. ratings, record of following the laws, and fulfilling their contractual agreements, not expensive silly commercials. If you’re insuring your home, auto, health, and life based on cartoon characters and a gay man wanting his watch back from his pillow biting partner, you get what you pay for.
Its an extortion racket, they convince you for the need that everything in life has to be insured.
I am the opposite, I live my life with nearly zero insurance.
And I feel more alive than ever.
And yes I think progressive has gone way too far beyond a simple ad, insurance for gays, for truckers, for bikers, for dog owners for ear wax collectors.
I may hate her again later. The concept is getting already tired.
The commercial I really couldn't stand is the "free credit report" band guys. They are exceptionally annoying.
Maybe it's the combination slacker+smartass. Maybe it's that the songs are lame or that the lead guy comes across as smug.
Once the commercials started to parody themselves self-referentially, though, it did take some of the pain out.
As with Flo, if they can laugh at themselves, you may end up laughing with them, rather than at them.
Fun fact: the head free credit report guy is actually French-Canadian, and somebody else dubs in the English singing voice.
same here. Wont but the product, but the spots arent so bad.
If the writer dont like it, then dont watch it.
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