[Behind Liberal Lines]

"I can confirm that we have instructed our media buyer not to buy any advertising that would appear during the Glenn Beck Show. We market our products to people regardless of their political affiliations, yet we do not want to be associated with hateful speech used by either liberal or conservative television hosts."

And I can confirm I will never buy another Sargento product again. I am writing to Barbara Gannon and I urge other Freepers to do so too

[Tzimisce]

I always love it when special interest groups use their rights to free speech and expression to demand it be taken from others.

[SUSSA]

Talk to the manager of your local supermarket. Ask him to remove Sargento products from their shelves because Sargento has supported a racist group’s attack on free speech. Supermarket shelf space is the life blood of retail food sales and there are many products begging for every inch of space. Get them pulled from a few stores and it will get their attention.

[BeckB]

This is the response I got from the company when I emailed them that I would not purchasing any of their products.

” — We appreciate you sharing your comments and
concerns about Sargento ads appearing during “The Glenn Beck Show.”
It’s true that after listening to some of his recent shows we decided to
stop buying ads during that program, but Sargento still advertises on
other Fox News shows.

Sargento sells our products to people regardless of their political
affiliations. Yet we do not want to be associated with hateful speech
used by either liberal or conservative television hosts. We’ll share
your comments with our marketing department.

Pat Lombardo
Sargento Consumer Affairs Department “

[BenLurkin]

Soooo the truth is “hateful”.

Hmmmm.....

[AFPhys]

I hope that Glenn (who I listen to about once a week) releases the names of ALL the companies that choose to pull their ads due to this pressure campaign.

I will write each of them a letter informing them of my decision to boycott their products as a result of their bowing to the Obama administration’s pressure.

[NavVet]

So, it is hateful to point out someone’s racisim.

I’ll bet Bull Conner would have loved to have these Kool Aid Drinkers around.

[PA Engineer]

I just sent a lengthy email to Radio Shack. Will post their response if I receive one. I am and have been a heavy purchaser of their products both for business and personal use. Hello Digi-Key and Newark. I will put up with the delay over the local purchase convenience.

[tobyhill]

Interesting that these same companies had no problem advertising with Olberpuke and Tingle Leg Matthews when they were spewing their anti-Bush sentiments.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Yeah, Boycott, don’t buy from the sponsors, lets get all their employees on the unemployment line, we’ll show’em. Who cares who works for them, let them all suffer. After all, “all” their employees are radical left wingers. White collar jobs like Insurance companies, heck, no Conservatives there, screw ‘em. SARC/

[blam]

I just sent Sargento an email announcing the termination of me buying their products.

[Nowhere Man]

Last time I looked, Radio Shack stood with Glenn. I’m glad, I just bought a new shortwave radio, a Grundig G6 Aviator, the Buzz Aldrin edition. ON another place, I was in a battle with a lib and I told her that, boy did I get her goat and I’m proud of it. It is time we used Saul Alinsky tactics against them, sometimes we have to get down and fight dirty in order to defeat them.

[Nowhere Man]

Oops, just checked the site, Radio Shack did succumb to the liberals. B-( Damn, I always liked them although I do wish they would get closer to their electronics hobby roots. I'll write them a nice but firm letter and see what I get.

Why are these companies and CEO's afraid of Barack Obama? I'm not, I'm just a working class Pittsburgh Hunky. If they are afraid, I'm willing to let them hire me along with many of us, I'd go down to the White House for them and tell that duck brained President the truths of life and where he needs to get off. I'll look him straight in the eye.

[betty boop]

And I can confirm I will never buy another Sargento product again.

I'll join you in that, Behind Liberal Lines. Nor any SE Johnson product either.

Glenn Beck does not engage in hate speech. That President Obama is a racist seems a most reasonable inference, based on who his friends are and who he hangs out with. To tell the truth is not engaging in hate speech.