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My Message to Geico, and their answer. (Glenn Beck Advertising)
http://iwilldefendtheconstitution.com/node/1054 ^

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: we’re saving customers’ dollars, we’re easy to do business with, we’re looking out for our policyholders. That’s 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 don’t 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.


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KEYWORDS: beck; geico; glennbeck; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Joe 6-pack
HA!

Good one Hoss!

61 posted on 08/14/2009 3:16:00 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

HEY!!! I’m watching Beck and a GEIKO commercial was just on!!!
Good on everyone for writing! Thank you all :-)


62 posted on 08/14/2009 3:16:21 PM PDT by adanaC (Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.)
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To: MountainWoman

No, that was a PM to a GEICO customer to motivate him to get off his dead a$$ and change.


63 posted on 08/14/2009 3:16:40 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Mount Athos
"Just make sure you don’t switch to progressive insurance, they are even worse "

I agree but there is just something about the Progressive chick that I really like.


64 posted on 08/14/2009 3:17:21 PM PDT by PeteePie (Antique firearms - still deadly after all these years)
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To: xmission
Geico is owned by Warren Buffet a known lefty and obama supporter.

He probably advertised with them for the sole purpose of ending the ads once the faux outrage was drummed up.

Let him and his nappy lizard go advertise on MSNBC during Olbermannns show, I'm sure Olbermanns mom the shows only viewer will find them funny.

65 posted on 08/14/2009 3:18:15 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: xmission

Posted the original thread story on this at work this AM. Folks with lizards for insurance agents were asking others for recommendations regardless if it cost more or not. I heard a few working the issue on phones.

Lizards R us IS playing politics and losing money by kicking dirt on a good show.....

Hope they lose lots of money on this.


66 posted on 08/14/2009 3:18:45 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: xmission
www.defendglenn.com


67 posted on 08/14/2009 3:18:45 PM PDT by montag813
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To: norton
"Are Geckos considered vermin?"

Not at all. They eat insects. My cousin was stationed in Southeast Asia, and households there tried to attract geckos to keep down the insect population.

68 posted on 08/14/2009 3:18:51 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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To: MountainWoman
As a proud member of USAA since 1968 I would like to inform you that USAA until recently only insured Military Officers, then they included NCO's and all dependents of both....

They are not GEICO which used to cover Government Employees and recently cover all vermain. Who gives a shitte what they do...and yes USAA don't advertise. As a matter of fact they just announced here in Texas they will decrease rates almost 6 percent unless you live on the coast.

69 posted on 08/14/2009 3:19:33 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: PeteePie
"Just make sure you don’t switch to progressive insurance, they are even worse " I agree but there is just something about the Progressive chick that I really like.

You like the "crazy" :)
70 posted on 08/14/2009 3:20:09 PM PDT by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
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To: lqcincinnatus
USAA is an amazing company you will be VERY happy with them, and will probably save a ton of money too.
71 posted on 08/14/2009 3:21:15 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: adanaC

Great news!


72 posted on 08/14/2009 3:21:57 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: xmission
The way I read the reply is, the radical Muslims, the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children), ILLEGAL alien "rights" activists, and sundry anti-America groups have sway but Americans of moderate to conservative opinion don't.

I have no connections to Geico except that their radio ads are getting a little tiresome.

BTW I do not have TV and Beck's radio show is not carried locally. He used to be on the air here (10 years ago?) and I liked the show.

73 posted on 08/14/2009 3:21:57 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: piytar
Just switched house and car over to State Farm this spring. Saved $714 dollars per year on insurance from the previous company. Agent called last night for a 6 month update. Impressed me, never had an agent follow-up unless it was time to renew.
74 posted on 08/14/2009 3:24:49 PM PDT by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: Lexington Green

My son had an accident with a hit and run.

Geico did not cover him for he did not get the (required) license number of the car.

Now the poor kid is filing bankruptcy due to the accident..!

(Above is 100% true. LVD)


75 posted on 08/14/2009 3:24:55 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Leisler
Warren Buffet’s first flirtation with GEICO took place in 1943 as a fledgling investment consultant.

All sources I have seen tell me that Warren was born in 1930. This would have been quite an achievement for a thirteen year old.....being an investment consultant.

76 posted on 08/14/2009 3:27:15 PM PDT by Diego1618
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

You need XM!


77 posted on 08/14/2009 3:33:49 PM PDT by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
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To: xmission
Assume the position GEICO. Urkel ass kissers. Total pansies. The market is going to be absolutely ruthless with GEICO. More dopey clowns.
78 posted on 08/14/2009 3:36:35 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: Las Vegas Dave
My son had an accident with a hit and run. Geico did not cover him for he did not get the (required) license number of the car.

Can I be honest?

Geico has an army of people who's only job it is to to discredit those making claims in an effort to limit their liability at all costs regardless of reason or facts. At one time I had to deal with some of these folks, and I have never met so many controlling, strange, depressed and obnoxious females in all my life. So bad some of the males were vocally telling others, to watch out for them! lol.. The males were not much better.

When they hire new hires, they survey new hires about their commercials, and these people got angry at new hires that didn't say they loved their commercials. Really weird stuff.

79 posted on 08/14/2009 3:43:31 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: PeteePie
I agree but there is just something about the Progressive chick that I really like.

I'll bet she's a "screamer".

Whaddaya think?

80 posted on 08/14/2009 3:48:45 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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