Company on Decision to Pull Ads from Beck: 'We Do Not Want to be Associated with Hateful Speech'

NewsBusters ^ | August 14, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

What constitutes "hateful speech?" It depends on the views of the individual, or in this case the advocacy group propagating the claim.

Earlier this week, Plymouth, Wisc.-based Sargento Food, Inc., along with several other companies, pulled their advertising from the Fox News Channel's "Glenn Beck" program at the behest of a campaign by Color of Change, an advocacy group.

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[The Toll]

I jut caled and spoje with them. They seemed pleased to lose my business.

[Graybeard58]

I would like Beck to publicly provide a list of companies that have removed their advertising for this or similar reasons.

Proctor & Gamble, S.C. Johnson, Progressive Insurance, Geico. Maybe others.

[two23]

Go to the Sargento website and click on “Contact Us”, and tell them you are not going to buy their products.
To call Beck a hate monger is an accusation against all the decent folks who watch his show.

[himno hero]

FOOLS!
They pull their advertising from the largest viewing audience?

They need to ask themselves more questions. Why do they advertise? By them pulling out, their competition can get in there....Its all about sales. You dont have sales, you cant have a profit. You cant exist.

[The Toll]

What the heck was that!!

“I just called and spoke with them” - I have no idea how I typed that so poorly.

[tcrlaf]

You just don’t understand...

“hateful Speech” is whatever the Democrats say it is...

[two23]

If you watch him every night, you know he has looked and sounded different all week. I though it was because he’s not able to attend the 9-12 project rally in DC.

[Graybeard58]

P&G products:

http://www.pg.com/common/product_sitemap.shtml

S.C. Johnson products:

http://www.scjohnson.com/products/

[Arizona Carolyn]

I haven't seen it posted here yet, but a whole bunch more dropped him this morning brings the total to 12, Newsmax and Human Events both report Van Johnson is orchestrating this out of the Whitehouse...

http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/10003489/conagra-roche-sanofi-and-radioshack-pull-ads-from-foxs-beck/

[sand lake bar]

Has P&G pulled its ads? Guess it’s time to dust off and gear up the old “Satanism” rumors!

[Watershed]

Who sponsors Olberman...I don’t want to watch him to find out.

[Vasilli22]

http://www.sargento.com/contact/

[onemiddleamerican]

Thanks for posting their phone number. I just spoke with a lady (with a new england accent), and she said that Sargento was not bullied by any left-wing group, but that it was a decision they made on their own.

I asked her what constitutes "hateful speech" in Sargento's opinion. No answer.

I told her that Beck is simply stating facts and ties between the Obama administration and self-described communists, anarchists, leftists and radicals; and I didn't equate fact-reporting with hate speech. I also told her that the pepper jack slices in my fridge were going in the trash and no other Sargento product would enter my home, unless and until Sargento apologizes for mischaracterizing Beck's commentary.

She thanked me for calling.

[bcsco]

Thanks for the link. Here's what I sent:

I understand Sargento Foods has cancelled advertising on the Glenn Beck Show, Fox News Channel, because of what some advocacy group claims to be "Hateful Speech". Your decision is an affront to all loyal customers who watch that show. I'm not a racist, not a hate monger, not a right-wing wacko. I'm a 66 year old retiree who wants our government to be returned to the people; not the socialists in the Democrat Party.

Since you are so moved by a fringe group that you would pull advertising, I see no reason why I shouldn't "pull" all future sales and place them with a company concerned about American freedom, not their own deceitful image.

I can assure you I have a large base of friends, relatives and acquaintances, and I will encourage everyone to follow my lead. Knowing their political proclivities as I do, I suspect there will be many who follow suit.

Your loss, my gain.

Disrespectfully,

bcsco

[Arizona Carolyn]

Keith Olbermann, the man who delighted in calling Bush every name imaginable, is crowing about this and saying it’s what you get when you say hateful things.....

[two23]

This applies to Geico, but may also apply to Sargento—basically just moving their adds to other FNC time slots.
http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/category/fnc/

[PGR88]

Fine by me - I never bought Sargento and there are plenty of other choices besides P&G.

[Arizona Carolyn]

The count is up to twelve. It is being orchestrated out of the WH.

[Islam=Murder]

Boycott ANY company that runs with the Communists.

Go ahead and identify yourselves, commie-friendly companies!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Luis Farrakhan and Van Johnson the Obama GREEN CZAR!