Posted on 08/14/2009 2:39:05 PM PDT by xmission
My Message to Geico, and their answer.
I learned yesterday afternoon that Geico had succumbed to lefty pressure, and pulled their advertising from Glenn Beck's show. I decided to email them and tell them that I would be pulling my insurance from their show if they did this.
My Message to Geico:
>General Category: Other > Specific Category: Other > State: NH > > Comments: I read that Geico has pulled their advertising from the Glenn > Beck show due to pressure from a radical leftist group. > > We currently use Geico for all of our car and recreational vehicle > insurance. If this is true, I will be moving all of my insurance to > another company. > > I will also be telling all of my friends, and forwarding this message by > email to everyone that I know. > > I think you should quickly reconsider.
Dear XXXX:
Thank you for contacting GEICO.
Thank you, first of all for your business and also for your interest in this matter.
This week we took action to move our marketing messages from the Glenn Beck show and you are wondering why.
Well you deserve an answer.
If the inflammatory nature of the comments on a program overshadows our message and causes GEICO to be drawn into a national debate, we are likely to reconsider where we place our marketing messages, which is what we did.
GEICO delivers very important messages through its major marketing campaigns: were saving customers dollars, were easy to do business with, were looking out for our policyholders. Thats what we hope the public hears and sees and focuses on.
As a company, we do not take positions on controversial issues.
As an advertiser, while a national debate on issues can be healthy and appropriate, we dont see ourselves in the role of taking part in those debates.
Our business is auto insurance. We want to bring people value and we attempt to reach large audiences with that message.
It is of little benefit to us if a program gets so much attention that our message is drowned out.
GEICO Corporate Communications
They don't take positions on controversial issues?
They took a position by withdrawing. I encourage you to withdraw also.
Post of the day! Great one!
Or MSNBC!
As well as being a Friend of Obama, Buffett is a huge pro-abort. I try hard not to do business with him.
He also owns Fruit of the Loom and See's Candies.
Do they advertise on MSNBC? On Olbermann? Madcow? TingleBall?
Buffet told us Obama’s economic sense was good.
What an asshat.
Their name is a giveaway. Might as well call themselves Commie Coverage.
I stopped going to his cousin’s concerts a long time ago.
Fine. Let them pull the ads. No ads mean less customers.
USAA doesn’t need advertising.
(What you hear) Buffett: "Obama's economic sense is good"
(What it means) Buffett: "Obama's economic sense is good ... for my bottom line"
My father was in the military and used GEICO. When I married a man in the military, I wanted to add my husband to my GEICO policy, they didn’t want to cover his sports car. Fortunately for us, he had USAA and I moved over to his policy. Been with them for 21 years now and not only have they been great when we needed them, they also have very reasonable rates.
After all of you cancel your insurance, who does Geico have left. hahahahahaha
In other words, we don't believe you FNC Beck troglodytes can discern between a political commentary formatted program and a tv commercial.
Ditto
Progressive Insurance is another lefty owned company.
no they don’t...but they have been advertising on the radio for their banking..hope they don’t open up auto insurance to everyone...
No insurance company is worse then gieco.
ROTFLMAO!!
Just left them, going to USAA.
The See’s Candies part is hard, but I have won the battle.
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