Posted on 08/11/2009 11:42:42 AM PDT by HiramQuick
P&G, Progressive Pull Ads From Glenn Beck's Fox Show After "Obama Is Racist" Remarks By Jim Edwards | August 7th, 2009 @ 8:57 am
3 Comments Share Email My BNET Twitter del.icio.us Google StumbleUpon Newsvine Facebook LinkedIn Digg My Yahoo Technorati Reddit Print Recomend 1 Fox is proving uniquely sensitive to advertising boycott campaigns this summer. Three major advertisers — LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance – all abandoned Glenn Beck’s Fox News Channel show after he called President Obama a racist (video below).
The move comes after Fox axed host Steven Cohen from Fox Soccer Channel because Cohen repeatedly — and incorrectly — blamed Liverpool F.C. supporters for the death of 96 fans in a stadium crush, at one point singing, “Murderers, murderers.” At least four advertisers, including Heineken, withdrew support from Cohen’s shows.
On FNC, Beck said he believed the president has:
… a deep-seeded hatred for white people … I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.
Don’t weep for Fox, though. P&G et al didn’t go very far:
A Fox News spokesperson told TVNewser that the advertisers simply moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network, “so there has been no revenue lost.”
The remaining Beck advertisers are subject to an ongoing boycott campaign by Color of Change. Here’s the protest form that will be delivered to advertisers who continue to buy time on Beck.
Related: Fox Axes Host in Ad Boycott Over Soccer Stadium Deaths Tags:
Jim Edwards, a former managing editor of Adweek, has covered drug marketing at Brandweek for four years, and is a former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's business and journalism schools.
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We should deluge them with the names of liberals hosts who have accused people of being racist, and ask them to boycott those too
Take a look at who started and runs Progressive Insurance. One of the biggest liberal backers in the country. I’m sure the DNC called their pal to have him pull the ads. He probably didn’t even know the ads were running on Beck, but a few phone calls later to his marketing department changes that.
Whatever.
Now two companies that want to advertise on one of the highest-rated shows on cable can take their place.
HA HA! Dey know where de money is!
I think it is great Progressive is gone. I hate their goofy commercials anyway. As for P & G, I will not buy their products.
My letter to Progressive will state that they are an Insurance Company not an arbitrator of political comment and that they should stick to insurance if they want to keep their customers.
Besides which the comment made was accuarte and honest.
Democrats.com (and possibly Obama/The White House) is behind this boycott:
Obama pressures companies to withdraw advertising from FOXnews: Boycott these wimps!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2313013/posts
According to Democrats.com, Obama has pressured these companies into pulling their ads from FOXnews.
Let’s boycott these wimps and let them see that losing the mainstream dollar hurts more than losing the radical left dollar:
Campbell Soup
Chrysler
General Motors
Kellogg
Kraft Foods
Lawyers.com
Nestle
Pfizer
Proctor & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers?ad=d0
BTW: Do any of them buy Olbermann time? That would be a good test. He name calls every day.
Beck is right. Notice the outrage of the left when a normal person says something that is true, and the lack of outrage whenever a leftist says something mean, racist or hateful.
If they still don’t have power, it’s because of corruption that leads to the Democrat party and the White House itself. They are being deliberately kept down by those who claim to represent them.
I recall Barbara Boxer’s comments earlier this year where she told a black CEO to sit down and shut up over some global climate initiate (that would affect business) because the NAACP had already signed on to support it.
He told her that this matter was not within the scope of the NAACP’s stated mission and that it was racist of her to tell him to be quiet on the matter just because that group had issued a statement and he’s a black man.
Re: “I don’t use Progressive anyway. As for P & G, no more P & G products for me. Boycotting everything of theirs as from today. Their competitors products are just as good, and their competitors haven’t given in to left wing 0bamabot loons”
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Who cares about Progressive? Any name with “Progressive” in the title is bad news so far as I’m concerned. As for P&G, must look up their products — won’t buy/use any if by chance I have been a customer. Will write ‘em and tell ‘em why...............
Good one.
It's worth noting that one of the "lost" sponsors, Proctor and Gamble, which historically made the bulk of its money selling household products to traditional families, has more recently become a radically pro-gay organization that has itself been boycotted by various pro-family organizations.
AFA: Proctor & Gamble is top gay/lesbian sponsor on network Television
P&G promotes explicit open-mouth homosexual kissing [on its soap opera]
Procter & Gamble Produced a Magazine Ad Showing Two Gay Men in Bed
See post 17.
Alex, I’ll take 3 companies that I will never do business with for $200
Alex, I’ll take 3 companies that I will never do business with for $200
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