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BadDog40 Donating Member (138 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:18 PM
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GEICO Pulls Its Ads from Glenn Beck Show
Great news -- yet another major company has acted in response to our campaign calling on Glenn Beck's advertisers to stop supporting his show. GEICO told us that they will no longer run ads during Beck's show.

This comes on the heels of news last week that four other advertisers -- Lawyers.com, Progressive Insurance, Procter & Gamble, and SC Johnson -- also distanced themselves from Beck. None of this would have been possible without the thousands of people -- more than 75,000, now -- who have taken action and signed our petition to Glenn Beck's advertisers. more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/geico-pulls-its-ads-from_b_256724.html
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:19 PM
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1. Hah this is great. I wonder if he'll end up losing his show soon. n/t
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quantass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:34 PM
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4. No chance....ratings are everything...Typically stations will just bide their time and as usual
people will forget and they continue onward.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 09:50 PM
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10. Ratings drive advertising, and ad revenue is everything
Without these major advertisers, Beck is in trouble. Now I'll go cry myself to sleep.....changed my mind. I'll laugh my butt off instead.
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JayMusgrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:20 PM
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2. First I have heard of this.... of course I don't follow Glenn Beck at all
Are there links you could provide here to help silence Glenn?
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:35 PM
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6. Color of Change website
www.colorofchange.org/beck
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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:54 AM
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17. Thanks for that link
What they're doing is great, and I signed onto the letter.
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:33 PM
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3. If good citizenship won't persuade his corporate masters, ad revenue being pulled will
Excellent news for us, bad news for the would-be poisoner of the Speaker of the House.

Hekate
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jesus_of_suburbia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:34 PM
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5. Excellent. K&R
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:36 PM
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7. It amazes me he has a show
at all.

Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" was cancelled after he made one comment that offended some people. Beck spends day after day whining about Nazi's and making racist remarks and he stays on.

And people say the media has a liberal bias.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:37 PM
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8. Good for GEICO. nt
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 09:31 PM
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9. GEICO is an ins. co., right? Why would it distance itself from Beck, when Beck is
pushing what ins. cos. want?

This is all so confusing sometimes.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:36 AM
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13. car insurance, not health insurance.
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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:49 AM
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15. That righteous little gecko
apparently can't be caught dead sponsoring lies/hate/racism. Good for him - a sporting mascot!
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 07:04 PM
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22. Ah, I see. I thought they sold all kinds of ins. Thx. nt
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 08:16 AM
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11. But cavemen are his core constituency...
Bummer.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 08:22 AM
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12. KICK AND RECOMMEND!!!
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:37 AM
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14. Hey Glen, you might want to look at the...SCOREBOARD!
:rofl:

You suck, Beck.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:51 AM
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16. More to Come I'm Sure : )
K & R
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 10:12 AM
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18. The Money Was Shuffled to Other Fox Shows
Edited on Wed Aug-12-09 10:18 AM by otohara
so now instead of seeing Geico during Beck's hour, you'll see those spots air in O'Really or Insanity's hour. You can bet the bank that Fox said, look...don't run on Beck, instead we'll give you extra spots, better times...etc...what ever it took to keep the Geico dollars on Fox.

They bought around Beck - but did not pull any ad revenues from Fox.

Result, no harm done to Fox.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908110026
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:36 AM
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19. Maybe I'll drop a little thank you note
in the envelope next time I pay my bill. I'm glad they took this action.
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TuxedoKat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 12:02 PM
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20. They need to go after those other hatemongers along with Beck,,,
Hannity, Savage and Limbaugh too. Those four are the worst.
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 12:03 PM
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21. yea!! Pull that guy off the air!!
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