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.
The strange allure of the Progressive insurance girl...
"http://www.austin360.com/tv/content/tv/stories/2008/10/1020progressive.html"
I just emailed GEICO and reminded them that part of their customer base was 1)conservative and 2)military (a majority of which is conservative and that since they chose their side of the issue I would be canceling my policy that we have had since 1994.
I stated my disgust of the company caving in to the leftists that are trying to take our right to choose our health care future and that it didn’t escape my attention that they advertise on MSNBC’s Olbeman or Rachel Maddow’s shows.
I also told them that I will make it a personal mission to make sure that I tell anyone I can, that GEICO is willing to bend over for the left but the paying customer be damned.
Thanks very much.
I’d like to see this turn into a real S***_Storm for them.
Such a stupid move, even a Caveman wouldn’t do it.
Pray for America
manic facial expressions and makeup?
Here’s the short version of their response:
“We couldn’t keep our advertising on Glenn Beck and annoy our liberal customers, so we pulled it to annoy our conservative customers. And, NO, we do not take positions on controversial issues....”
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What is really pissing me off is that those who started and participate in this campaign, probably aren't customers anyway. They were handed a list or got one off of DU or some other sewer site, and started their campaign from their mother's basement.
BTW, I had some bodywork done on my car recently. The owner of the shop has two lists on the wall of his office: the best insurance comapnies to deal with and the worst insurance companies to deal with.
Guess who was number 1 on the worst list - GEICO. And I hate that insipid lizard.
I like da crazaaah!
I think I’ll give them a call tomorrow.
Geico: Hello, thank you for calling Geico, what can I help you with.
Me: I saw your commercial on Glenn Beck’s show and would like to get a quote for all my insurance needs.....
You neglected to mention that Buffet (advisor to BO) was the white knight for GE last year, buying bonds from them and propping them up when they were on the verge of collapse.
GE, of course, is the owner of NBC/CNBC/MSNBC, and employs a swath of media personalities to demonize the right and glorify the left.
GE is also the largest wind turbine generator producer in the country, AND expects to profit from “cap and trade” as one of, and possibly the only, secondary market trader of C&T credits. (see http://thecommonconservative.com/?p=446)
One big, happy family.
Ditto Ditto.
Geckos are considered very friendly creatures in Hawaii. They eat cockroaches (And if you've ever seen the cockroaches in Hawaii you understand completely.)
Which list was State Farm on?
But in Geico's the company's case, in reality they are the cockroach that eats Geckos and friendly unsuspecting people.
“I do not have TV and Beck’s radio show is not carried locally.”
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Listen live on your computer:
http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?showid=212
Scroll down and click on one of the little boxes with a speaker in it.
else he gets the bottom of a boot on his head. Once knew a guy who ate one raw...
puke...
Safco is a better and lower rate company, if you are interested.
I got the same reply from geico
Progressive is a real code word for Communist.
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