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Advertisers Continue to abandon Glenn Beck after Pundit had called President Obama a 'Racist'
New York Daily News ^ | 9/3/09 | Corky Siemaszko

Posted on 09/05/2009 9:11:46 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta

Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, HSBC, Discover and seven other big firms are yanking their ads from Beck's show, boycott organizers said Wednesday.

"We applaud those companies that have recently pulled their support from Beck," James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org, said Wednesday.

"There are at least 57 companies who will not tolerate Beck's race-baiting comments."

The African-American political group went after Beck for declaring on his July 28 show that Obama is a racist with a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

About 145,000 members signed a petition asking Beck's advertisers to stop supporting him. And big companies like retailing giant Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, GMAC Financial Services, Best Buy, CVS and Travelocity complied.

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To: Jeff Chandler

http://www.glennbeckclips.com/

For the advertisers who jump, think again the ground swell is great and you will find yourself in the rear of the line WE WILL REMEMBER YOU! BOYCOTTS HURT!


101 posted on 09/05/2009 12:31:10 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (The clowns need a correction! the pond scum is surfacing)
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To: AmericanSphinx71
Beck will gone the end of the year. In todays America the Bill of Rights no longer exists. Free speech is dead. The constitution is obsolite.

If Beck is gone Capitalism is gone as well.

102 posted on 09/05/2009 12:44:43 PM PDT by TYVets (Let’s Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
but recently he’s morphed into something that’s more of a liability than an asset.br>
LOL
103 posted on 09/05/2009 12:49:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: texas_mrs

“She has never fired a gun in her life.”

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You need to take that girl out to the range! She sounds like the young person who will understand the true meaning of gun control. ;)


104 posted on 09/05/2009 12:56:40 PM PDT by hotshu (Keep the Faith, that will be the only thing 0bama doesn't try to steal from us.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"We can only advance our political goals by drawing new people into sharing them, and that’s what Beck is no longer doing"

I see so now that MORE people are watching him your assertion is that less people are following him...

Sorta like the global warming movement where colder temperatures mean Global Warming is getting worse...

105 posted on 09/05/2009 1:28:50 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

For a while there O’Reilly was coming down hard on Acorn, whatever happened with that expose?


106 posted on 09/05/2009 3:42:35 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: SmokingJoe

That was my point, the more Van Jones tries to shut down Beck, the deeper Beck digs into Van Jones’ recent past. It’s a no win situation for Van Jones.


107 posted on 09/05/2009 5:03:03 PM PDT by Eva (union motto - Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.)
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To: whatisthetruth

Hasn’t Acorn been attending the town hall meetings, along with the bus loads of union people?


108 posted on 09/05/2009 5:35:18 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

The last report I saw was they had traced the money being funneled thru to some run-down shack in New Orleans and then I kinda lost track.


109 posted on 09/05/2009 5:50:58 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: texas_mrs
She has never fired a gun in her life.

Out of curiosity why not?

110 posted on 09/05/2009 8:29:46 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: cripplecreek

What are you talking about? Or better yet, what did he say that wasn’t true?


111 posted on 09/05/2009 8:32:47 PM PDT by sport
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

I find it absolutely absurd that a group (Color Of Change) that was created on the premise that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” is upset that someone called the current President a racist. Pot meet kettle. Why doesn’t the media ever challenge people over obvious hypocrisy.

Their website still sells “Kanye was Right” Tshirts and it was all over their website from 2005 and appears to be the premise behind their entire organization at the time. “Kanye was Right::Colorofchange.org, Bush doesn’t care. But we do” http://web.archive.org/web/20051102031642/http://colorofchange.org/


112 posted on 09/05/2009 8:43:17 PM PDT by Ed_From_Ohio
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Did Beck steal your girlfriend in grammar school?


113 posted on 09/05/2009 8:43:23 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: Eaker

She doesnt really have any interest in them. Other than to keep visitors away while Beck is on, I suppose.


114 posted on 09/05/2009 9:51:25 PM PDT by texas_mrs (Abort 0bamaCare)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

btt


115 posted on 09/06/2009 8:15:33 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Cacique

back at ya...


116 posted on 09/06/2009 9:09:12 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: FrankR

Companies boycothttp://producten.hema.nl/ting beck:


117 posted on 09/06/2009 9:41:41 AM PDT by coloradomomba (BO stinks!)
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To: coloradomomba

phooey! Just google, “companies boycotting Beck”


118 posted on 09/06/2009 9:44:31 AM PDT by coloradomomba (BO stinks!)
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To: Mad Dawgg

The issue is WHO is watching. If it’s only people who already agree with his political positiions, then it doesn’t matter how many of them are watching — it still does nothing to advance the cause. Better to have 100 fence-sitters watching than a million already-converted.


119 posted on 09/06/2009 4:11:46 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker (Vote for a short Freepathon! Donate now if you possibly can!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"The issue is WHO is watching. If it’s only people who already agree with his political positiions, then it doesn’t matter how many of them are watching — it still does nothing to advance the cause. Better to have 100 fence-sitters watching than a million already-converted."

And thus logic dictates that if his audience is growing (which it is) your concerns are refuted.

Case Closed.

120 posted on 09/06/2009 6:46:06 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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