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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:00 PM
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AP: List of Fox advertisers no longer airing commercials on Beck reaches 33
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AP: List of Fox advertisers no longer airing commercials on Beck reaches 33

August 23, 2009 3:20 pm ET by Media Matters staff


From an August 23 Associated Press article:

Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel after a vacation on Monday with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.

A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago.

While it's unclear what effect, if any, this will ultimately have on Fox and Beck, it is already making advertisers skittish about hawking their wares within the most opinionated cable TV shows.

The Clorox Co., a former Beck advertiser, now says that "we do not want to be associated with inflammatory speech used by either liberal or conservative talk show hosts." The maker of bleach and household cleaners said in a statement that is has decided not to advertise on political talk shows.

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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:03 PM
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1. So what's left?
Shamwow?
Popiel's Pocket Fisherman?
Time/Life's collection of Pat Boone's greatest hits?
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:05 PM
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3. Don't forget the K-tel Record Selector! nt
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:08 PM
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4. What, you forgot the Slap Chop?
:shrug:

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bulloney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 05:54 PM
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12. You're gonna love my nuts.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:28 PM
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6. Maybe Xe will buy air time. nt
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:31 PM
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7. Whole Foods? I'm sure Beck's audience is filled with their shoppers.
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jkshaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 05:32 PM
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9. Doubt it, Pirate
As I understand it, Whole Foods customers have been overwhelmingly composed of Progressives and Liberals.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:34 PM
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14. I know. I was joking. That is why the CEO was such an idiot to write an OPED slamming HCR.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:03 PM
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2. Political talk shows - that covers all of FOX.
So I expect there won't be ANY Clorox commercials on the FOX Opinion Channel.

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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:26 PM
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5. shows how little demand there is for these right wing morons
and how much money is behind them by political interests to look as if they were popular.

I always thought the GOP was like a rich fancy peacock, spreading its feathers to appear larger than it is.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:32 PM
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8. the penis enlargers
are all Beck has left. No doubt they will hang on.
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onestepforward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 05:36 PM
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10. Great news!
It will be interesting to see what will happen this next week with his show!
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jesus_of_suburbia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 05:38 PM
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11. Good job to everyone who called in the advertisers! nt
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 05:56 PM
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13. While they're at it, why don't they stop advertising on clusterfox news?
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