Posted on 09/01/2009 11:55:26 AM PDT by pissant
Some of the nation's blue-chip companies-many that rely on African-American consumers for a significant portion of their profits - advertised on right-winger Glenn Beck's incendiary program on Fox TV. They include: Procter & Gamble, Kraft Food, ConAgra (maker of Healthy Choice foods), Clorox, UPS, the U.S. Postal Service, Honda, General Electric, Travelocity, State Farm Insurance, Geico, Farmer's Insurance, Pfizer, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Office Depot, RadioShack, Sprint, CVS, Red Lobster, Nestle, Progressive Insurance and pharmaceutical companies Roche and Sanofi-Aventis (maker of Plavix).
Beck touched off a firestorm when he labeled President Obama "a racist" who has "deep-seated hatred for white people." ColorOfChange.org, an Internet-based Black grass roots advocacy group, quickly organized a petition drive urging advertisers to stop sponsoring his show.
One by one, more than 30 sponsors, some claiming there had been a "miscommunication" about their ever wanting to advertise on Beck's program, requested that their spots be aired elsewhere on the Fox network.
While this was a partial victory for ColorOfChange.org, it did not address the larger issue of Fox's overall hostility toward progressives and people of color. As Marketwatch.com noted, "For its part, Fox News said through a spokeswoman that while some advertisers have 'removed their spots from Beck,' they have just shifted to 'other programs on the network; so there has been no revenue lost."
Hear that? No revenue lost. When commercial sponsors or Fox experience lost revenue, that's when we'll get the change we've been waiting for. Meanwhile, Beck supporters have organized defendglenn.com to pressure advertisers to stay with the controversial host.
(Excerpt) Read more at louisianaweekly.com ...
I don’t know. I’ve always considered Glen Beck to be a middle-of-the-road moderate, myself.
All four of his readers are boycotting, but they’re not getting the results he expected.
Why would anyone want to advertise on Glen Beck, when they can go to MSNBC and pay twice as much to get an audience about 1/10th the size?
Me too.
Yup
Notice not a single word to refute Glen’s accusations.
Just venom and hate; attack the messenger, but ignore the message.
From Zero’s own writings and statements,
it can be easily shown that he is a
whitey hating bigot.
Now, bro, here, needs to come up with refutation,
else he’s just mad because the truth is being proclaimed.
In other words, boycotts don’t work.
You would think that Van Jones, the organizer of all this would be smart enough to know.
Or run ads on Rev. Al’s talkshow and reach 17 people, all unemployed.
Nice try, but advertisers are going to go where they can be seen by the most people. Advertisers aren’t into providing handouts, unlike 0’s gummint.
It’s self evident. Obama is black (at least partly) so he can’t possibly be a racist poverty pimping marxist like the mean conservatives say he is.
Quit asking dumb questions. That’s just to dam logical and it aint’ allowed.
The LA Weekly sure appears to be written & read by a pack of Racist.
“Some of the nation’s blue-chip companies-many that rely on African-American consumers for a significant portion of their profits....”
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So they don’t make a thin dime from European-Americans?
I mean the patriotic, conservative ones who agree with Glenn Beck’s truth telling, and actually give a shi# about the future of America.
Chances are some advertisers are getting a great deal of exposure for a very reasonable price.
yep - I checked - the honkies in my house don’t use any of those product manufacturers.
That chip on Obama's shoulder didn't appear overnight.
This is a fight that all Americans of all colors and parties, etc have against a Marxist overthrow of our government.
But the media clowns like this buttmunch are Obama’s fellow travelers.
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