http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/06/beck-advertisers/

Last week, Fox News host Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” with a “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” In response, ColorOfChange called on its members to tell Beck’s advertisers to drop his show over his race-baiting. ColorOfChange announced today that three advertisers have said that they are dropping Beck:

Three companies who run ads during Glenn Beck — NexisLexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance — today distanced themselves from Beck. LexisNexis has pulled its advertising from Beck and says it has no plans to advertise on the program in the future. Both Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance called the Beck advertising placements an error that they would correct.


The decision by the three companies comes as over 45,000 ColorofChange.org members call on advertisers to pull their ads from Glenn Beck after the controversial news host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” on “Fox & Friends” last week.

(HT: MediaMatters)
Advertisers dump Glenn Beck
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908060011

Three companies who run ads during Glenn Beck -- NexisLexis-owned Lawyers.com, Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance -- today distanced themselves from Beck. LexisNexis has pulled its advertising from Beck and says it has no plans to advertise on the program in the future. Both Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance called the Beck advertising placements an error that they would correct.

The decision by the three companies comes as over 45,000 ColorofChange.org members call on advertisers to pull their ads from Glenn Beck after the controversial news host called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" on "Fox & Friends" last week.

"Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention," said John Michaels, Senior Communications Manager at LexisNexis in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We have suspended further advertising during Mr. Beck's program."

This time it said something good. It's a rare and joyous day when this happens!

GM as a sponsor because they were taken over by the US Gov't.

driving and turned on the radio for the news at the hour and didn't turn the radio off until I was about to :puke: and realized Beck the Main Stream Republican was on the air.

http://www.pg.com/getintouch/syt.shtml

Here's my text:

Thank you for ceasing advertising on the Glen Beck show! He spouts a divisive view of America, a view unsuited to the image of P&G -- which I always thought portrays itself as embracing all American households.

Good for P&G!

Thanked them for being the anti-Satan this time around (in reference to their past lawsuit against Amway distributors for passing around the rumor that a P&G symbol was Satanic). LOL.

Thank you for ceasing advertising on the Glen Beck show! He spouts a divisive view of America, a view unsuited to the image of P&G -- which I always thought portrays itself as embracing all American households.

Whenever possible I will make it a point to purchase P&G products as long they remain off the Glenn Beck Show, or at least until Mr. Beck stops his racist act!


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Your comment was great, it just seems like it needed that one touch. Let P&G know you will buy their stuff when possible. If they think they have your patronage they may stay off this clowns show!

Mr. Murdoch will not keep a guy around who is costing him $$$ no matter what people think. If his show has no advertisers, he is outta here!

Yeah!

This worked even better than Bill-o's boycott of France!

:woohoo:

The advertisers decided not to advertise on his show anymore?

Could this be the beginning of the end of Beck's tenure at Faux News?

I wonder how long it'll be until Skeezix O'Reilly throws him under the bus?

K&R

This is what a greatest page thread on this subject should look like.

BRAVO for the great thread!

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6234389&mesg_id=6234389


But good news is worth repeating. :thumbsup:

to make sure he gets dropped by some more!

http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/?id=2088-953200

Told them I now associate their brand with support for a hate monger.

followed the link and joined the group then signed.

Thanks for the link, I started a cause on facebook about it.

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/330461/76868845?m=cc366e79

n/t

by the hand of the free market ;)

every six months. They go up. A lot.

is ALMOST as bad as Glen Beck - my God, I hit that mute button fast when she comes on.

K&R

:)

is a member of the Groundlings improvisational theater in LA.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183960/

but I find the character extremely annoying.

What I would like to do with her lips! lol

think of their advertising costs, especially with that firecracker girl 'flo'.

look up Peter Louis, he's almost as big a contributor to progressive causes as George Soros.

Been with them for years, and they have gone down each year. I'm very happy with them.

I really don't want to sound like a shill, but they were really nice when I had to file a claim after a hit and run.

their chairman is one of the top democratic donors and heavily supports the ACLU. I could be wrong, but I believe it compares very favorably with the other major insurance companies.

And just for arguments sake, my last 3 bills in a row have gone down, not up.

signed!

Stop throwing money at their insane clown posse.

cuz the clowns at Fox are waaaaayyyyy overpaid. :+

Like, oh, I dunno, his mom and grandma?

Beckkk FAIL.

:thumbsup:

n/t

Kick this thread

who knows exactly what he's doing, and is totally okay with it.

He is however, a very dangerous media presence, and someone who needs to be removed from media period.

He's poison, and one of the worst people alive.

I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

I could be wrong.

He does look weird. He used to be on the local Hate Radio Station.

and you can expect more lunacy from the asshole meanwhile ...

bases.

That's huge. Now he is pleading with his viewers not to be violent. I think advertisers would be skeerd of that shit.

so that her show will be made to look like the culprit instead, or some other evil strategy like that to try and defuse these actions...

K&R!!!

Lovely news! YAY!

:toast:

Now let's go get THIS POS:




Great tee-shirts, buttons and such at
Laugh City!


President Evil Online
has risen from the grave!

I believe I bought one of these a while back...



Need to update this to be indict instead of impeach, but this made a fun t-shirt in the same vein too... Perhaps one of Cheney would be more fitting now too, since he still seems to have some control over Mount Doom now...

...though I do have a cafepress site that, til very recently, sold a whole bunch of
similar designs that were very outrageous and in-your-face...
Unfortunately, I made about 22 bucks from running the goddamn thing for nearly 6 years;
my current cafepress site has mostly non-political items on it... I don't even know
if that was the problem, but I'm trying something new now...

I WAS the first to do the Iraqi Horror Picture Show parody, and I KNOW that's been
sold on cafepress by others (just the lettering)... I have proof that I wrote it first,
but I have NO money, so I guess I never will have any, at the current rate I'm going...

Thanks for the attention, though... I am surprised by it, frankly; you'd think a lil'
attention and support might freely be given to one's allies in the struggle for civil and
human rights here in America... but with most of the jerks on this site lately,
apparently my seeking such is a BAD THING, and certainly a bridge too far for 'em...

Sorry... I'm just seriously getting very very sick of being totally ignored here, when
I am demonstrably one of the gutsiest critics of fascists you could find anywhere in the last decade!...
and I wasn't afraid to do that stuff when the Butch Gang was actually squatting in the Oval Office.

But I loves YOU, anyways! YOU are cool!
:loveya:




Great tee-shirts, buttons and such at
Laugh City!


President Evil Online
has risen from the grave!

K&R.

FANTASTIC news.

hubby and i both signed the petition and i posted it on my facebook page.

Of course, they are a little sensitive since there were all those "owned by a Satanic cult" rumors about them back in the day.

My fiance works for P&G. They are a great employer for the Cincinnati/Northern KY area.

boycotts don't work? I've been told that by DUers.

Boycotts worked in the past, and I've seen no explanation as to why they supposedly don't work now.

I say, boycott all of Beck's Corporate enablers.

PUMP UP DA VOLUME

:applause:

in order to further the ambitions of the country's economic elite.

That makes him a Brown Shirt.

hate mongers.

:bounce:

haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

just saw it on the glennnn bekk show!!

since they advertise on his CNN show. I tracked one day - and know I need to do more to add to The Lou List, but he annoys me even as I'm fast forwarding!

Lou's list (to start w/helpful contact info):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6205632&mesg_id=6205632

Positive reinforcement for a job well done!

just a MAIN STREAM REPUBLICAN!

45,000 people calling in led to pressure on a right wing fanatic. I have sometimes gotten so caught up in the learned helplessness that you forget that sometimes people actually listen. I just sent a personal message to the advertisers.

:woohoo:

my insurance to progressive and run out and buy some Proctor and gamble products. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he must have been ass raped by a rabid kangaroo.

How can Glenn spew hate to the fullest with a Blow Horn on a street corner.

the fight continues......'we don't stop until it's all over'

Those who are currently sponsoring becks program should be embarrassed and ashamed. I hope the fuc**** go bankrupt.

Mention all of Fox not just Beck. Everything they produce is hate.

They are GR...EA...T!

Kudos to P&G and Lexis Nexis too! Awesome, awesome news!

I sure hope this doesn't send daBeck back to the bottle. And I fervently hope that it does send him far far far off the airwaves. That will be good cause to celebrate.

:bounce:

he does talk out of both sides of his mouth as of late.

big mouth.

:applause::bounce::applause::bounce::applause::bounce::applause:

support this decision.

:) :-) :D O8) :party: :toast: :bounce: :thumbsup: :hi: :dem: :kick: :fistbump: :headbang: :yourock: :woohoo: :applause: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

ColorofChange.org donating money tomorrow, K&R!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/6/762769/-Glenn-Becks-advertisers-are-backing-awayhelp-us-increase-the-pressure

(snip)
Since we released our statement announcing the news this morning, another company, S.C. Johnson (Pledge, Ziplock, Off!) told us that it was a mistake for their ads to be running on Beck's show, and that they'd make sure it wouldn't happen again in the future. (UPDATE: Our contact at S.C. Johnson wanted us to clarify that they have had no knowledge of their ad running on the Glenn Beck show (they wanted to verify this for themselves), and if it did happen, it was not something they requested.)

This is great progress, and it shows how effective it can be when thousands of people tell advertisers not to support this kind of hateful rhetoric. Now we need to step up the pressure on Beck's other advertisers. While Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance were quick to respond, many others have avoided answering us, or refused to budge. We're currently in conversations with advertisers, and the more people they see joining this campaign, the more reason they'll have to listen.

If you haven't done so already, please sign our petition to Beck's advertisers, and ask your friends and family to do the same. Moving forward, we'll keep you informed about effective ways you can pressure the advertisers to withdraw their support from Beck's show.

I was just stunned by that question....but not at all surprised when he moved to Faux.

He was a quite candid in the aftermath, though: "Quite possibly the poorest-worded question of all time. That might come from my lack of intelligence."

Accurate, too.

:bounce:

And it looks like one more company will be dropping him. Johnson, who make Pledge say they were unaware their products were backing his show.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/glenn-becks-advertisers-a_b_253281.html

Since we released our statement announcing the news this morning, another company, S.C. Johnson (Pledge, Ziplock, Off!) told us that it was a mistake for their ads to be running on Beck's show, and that they'd make sure it wouldn't happen again in the future. (UPDATE: Our contact at S.C. Johnson wanted us to clarify that they have had no knowledge of their ad running on the Glenn Beck show (they wanted to verify this for themselves), and if it did happen, it was not something they requested.)

I really like what Progressive Ins. had to say: 'No Glenn Beck'

Progressive Insurance said any ads running during Glenn Beck were a mistake by Fox News Channel -- a mistake they have asked the network to fix immediately.

"Our (advertising) order specifies no Glenn Beck," said Linda J. Harris, Media Director at Progressive Insurance in an email to ColorOfChange.org.

Awesome!

To be dropped by three (four?) sponsors in rapid succession?

That's GOT to hurt!

I don't make a habit of watching him, so I don't know that much of his peculiarities,
but I can't imagine he could let this go without saying SOMETHING,
and I just KNOW it's gonna be something good.

Maybe good for a couple more sponsors, even... :evilgrin:

And say it is the work of far left wing terrorists trying to attack his show because he is the only one who speaks THE TRUTH the to the American people. blah blah blah.
Then I'm sure he'll have a tantrum and instruct his flock to help engage in counter-terrorism and write their support for his show to his remaining advertisers.

:thumbsup:

I'll pick up some Tide detergent to wash my clothes, a can of Pringles to feed my face, a roll of Bounty to clean up my mess.

I think I also pick up a roll of Charmin to ...

Okay, lets not go there

off the top floor of the nearest building that is higher than ten stories. Too harsh? Too much like the Republicans? Well, what else do you do with a rabid dog?

Thank you for dropping your sponsorship of the Glenn Beck Program. He promotes a divisive view of American society that is not in keeping with P&G's image as a socially responsible company that makes products for all Americans. Hats off to you and keep up the good work!

- Submitted at http://www.pg.com/getintouch/syt.shtml

Why would anyone want to continue associating with this guy?

they WERE advertising on his show before and we KNEW he was a RITE WING LOON before.

hire him, listen to him, book him for anything outside a rubber room full of leather straps; or most importantly *believe him* is all that and a fool to boot

:thumbsup: