Thread: Campaign to get advertisers to pull ads from Glenn Becks Fox News show taking hold...

Originally Posted by Adolf Allerbush

www.foxnews.com
www.youtube.com
www.glennbeck.com

Good luck jerry

Wow.Thanks. Really informative.

At least I found this on youtube:

Originally Posted by Spats

So you believe in the "free speech zones" that Bush set up, putting liberal protestors in little fenced enclosures miles away from anything? If "free speech zones" exist, what does that make the rest of the country?

The First Amendment is very clear: "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED." There are no modifying clauses, such as "shall not be infringed unless it makes us uncomfortable."




I was referring to Triage's post, where he says that "our government is set up to defend itself against inflammatory speech such as this." No, it isn't. It's set up to PROTECT this sort of speech, and if you believe otherwise, GTFO my America.


If you think I'm a right-winger...[/i]

My bad, I agree with you on most of what you're saying and should've done a better job reading through all the posts to see that you were arguing against someone else saying the government has the right to force Beck off the air. I don't think the government should silence Beck, but as he is on the TV it's not as black and white. Whether they legitimately can is well beyond my knowledge (for example, the FCC fines people all the time for saying certain things which definitely is a form of censorship).

And I wasn't really referring to you in particular as a rightie--it was my lame attempt at humor. Sorry.

My car stereo hit ~120 DB's of Bass with a Dead Can Dance track, I don't remember which one....

Originally Posted by Spats

I absolutely agree with you. People are 100% within their rights to make those protests, and companies are 100% within their rights to pull their advertising if they so choose.

I was referring to Triage's post, where he says that "our government is set up to defend itself against inflammatory speech such as this." No, it isn't. It's set up to PROTECT this sort of speech, and if you believe otherwise, GTFO my America.


Let's be clear here about who's doing the silencing. No one has a duty to put Glenn Beck on TV, radio, or anywhere else. However, it seems like you (and Triage) are saying that the government has a legitimate reason to force Beck off the air...and that's wrong.

Hey D00d. I said Beck's speech was protected so what's the problem?

Demagogues with bat-shit-crazy conspiracy theories:

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Originally Posted by Spats

falsely attributing to me by inference (If you put any critical thought to the theories..."), and claiming you've won arguments you didn't even show up for -- I get testy, because that is what JERKS do. Arguing is fine, but I don't like jerks, and you're being a jerk. Fucking stop it.

Originally Posted by Spats

Once again, you're trying and failing to use the Bush Jr. smear technique of "When you have no answer to someone's argument, simply dodge the question, call them an idiot, and smirk like you just won the argument." This doesn't work in online forums, where anyone can go back and read what was actually said at their leisure. You owe me an apology for claiming I'm an idiot.

Show me where I called for censoring Glenn Beck or apologize.

Edited for awesomeness and brevity...

"Horses for courses, it's the market forces!!!"

Roger Waters

Where does one draw the line?

Free speech does not mean slander and defamation of character, does it?

Originally Posted by Jax

Where does one draw the line?

Free speech does not mean slander and defamation of character, does it?

Sure it does. Just like it guarantees that a person slandered or defamed can sue your ass for making the comments in question.

Ride - you must have a kick-ass system in your rig.

Funny how uptight people are getting about a some radio/tv guy who comes off as nothing more than a clown.

Get yer panties out of yer cracks.

A clown with tons and tons and tons of viewers:

Big-Beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-OReilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009

Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). I don’t watch or really even care about the cable news wars, but still…wow. Even though Beck airs before primetime when fewer people are watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for August 26, 2009

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,374,000 viewers
CNN – 711,000 viewers
MSNBC –506,000 viewers
CNBC – 217,000 viewers
HLN – 300,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,667,000viewers
CNN— 1,187,000 viewers
MSNBC –984,000 viewers
CNBC – 241,000 viewers
HLN – 606,000viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –395,000 viewers
CNN –204,000 viewers
MSNBC –161,000 viewers
CNBC – 72,000 viewers
HLN- 139,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 736,000 viewers
CNN – 321,000 viewers
MSNBC –318,000 viewers
CNBC – 113,000 viewers
HLN – 204,000 viewers

35-64 Total Day
FNC – 650,000 viewers
CNN – 329,000 viewers
MSNBC – 257,000 viewers
CNBC – 105,000 viewers
HLN – 176,000 viewers

35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,205,000 viewers
CNN – 516,000 viewers
MSNBC –488,000 viewers
CNBC –124,000 viewers
HLN –298,000 viewers

Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 989,000 viewers (390,000) (652,000)
American Morning- 460,000 viewers (210,000) (309,000)
Morning Joe-465,000 viewers (201,000) (285,000)
Squawk Box- 157,000 viewers (55,000) (86,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 228,000 viewers (181,000) (212,000)

5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck– 3,040,000 viewers (888,000) (1,385,000)
Situation Room—688,000 viewers (141,000) (271,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—536,000 viewers (139,000) (217,000)
Fast Money—215,000 viewers (55,000) (80,000)
Prime News–267,000 viewers (97,000) (109,000)

6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,067,000 viewers (463,000) (881,000)
Situation Room—739,000 viewers (155,000) (317,000)
Ed Show—541,000 viewers (211,000) (262,000)
Mad Money—186,000 viewers (73,000) (114,000)
Prime News — 259,000 viewers (94,000) (139,000)

7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox Report w/Shep Smith–1,590,000 viewers (454,000) (729,000)
Teddy: In His Own Words—1,104,000 viewers (293,000) (547,000)
Hardball w Chris Matthews—778,000 viewers (265,000) (380,000)
Kudlow Report —a scratch w/112,000 viewers (a scratch w/42,000) (54,000)
Issues– 403,000 viewers (124,000) (217,000)

8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 3,303,000 viewers (876,000) (1,468,000)
Teddy: In His Own Words- 1,104,000 viewers (293,000) (547,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann– 1,091,000 viewers (320,000) (504,000)
Secrets of the Knight – 181,000 viewers (68,000) (95,000)
Nancy Grace – 757,000 viewers (239,000) (315,000)

9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,592,000 viewers (752,000) (1,158,000)
Larry King Live—1,182,000 viewers (299,000) (473,000)
Hardball w Chris Matthews—1123,000 viewers (381,000) (583,000)
American Greed – 242,000 viewers (108,000) (124,000)
Issues- 567,000 viewers (191,000) (311,000)

10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren—2,104,000 viewers (577,000) (985,000)
Anderson Cooper 360—1,137,000 viewers (332,000) (470,000)
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann— 737,000 viewers (253,000) (378,000)
American Greed — 301,000 viewers (163,000) (153,000)
Nancy Grace –518,000 viewers (194,000) (278,000)

11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,651,000 viewers (514,000) (822,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —615,000 viewers (228,000) (299,000)
Headliners and Legends—658,000 viewers (235,000) (359,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/101,000 viewers (66,000) (53,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 377,000 viewers (212,000) (249,000)

This whole boycott thing is really working...... for Glen Beck. But don't worry miT - you remember what happened to the guy in Network!

Originally Posted by Jer

A clown with tons and tons and tons of viewers:



This whole boycott thing is really working...... for Glen Beck. But don't worry miT - you remember what happened to the guy in Network!

Kim Jong-Il kills it in N. Korea too.

.I was interested in his background on the people President Obama is surrounding himself with.

The background on the 32 Czars? SACARY SHIT from where I sit.

People should pay attention, the best and brightest are not influencing the direction of our country.

However Glen Beck seemed stressed and defensive to me. It was kind of painful to watch. The negative attention he is getting seems to be having an effect on him.

Originally Posted by Jer

Ride - you must have a kick-ass system in your rig.

Yeah, at the time, I owned the bike shop, and a customer owned a high end-competition install place, we did a bunch of trades for cost. I think that rig had one 12" soundstream pro (3" of throw) in a MASSIVE box, along with two 10" in another box, powered by three amps. (we had the whole thing plugged into 110v for stability)
It was a one day only install, but it was BOMBIN'.

The background on the 32 Czars? SACARY SHIT from where I sit.

People should pay attention, the best and brightest are not influencing the direction of our country.

Word. I totally agree. I guess that outs me as a "racist" though.

Obama, the Teflon Imperialist.

This thread needs some more fuel... LOLZ yer spelling it wrong!

As Sponsors Flee, The Glenn Beck Show Gets More And More Awesomely Bonkers

First Posted: 08-28-09 12:20 PM | Updated: 08-28-09 01:20 PM

I don't have any idea if the ongoing flight of sponsors from the Glenn Beck Show is having any effect on its bottom line, but it sure isn't tempering its content! Yesterday's Glenn Beck show was MAGICAL. I really hope you watched it, and I really hope you watched it in the same way I did: yelling across the room repeatedly at an intern, "What's he saying now? That stuff sounds BONKERS! Is it burning your retinae to look at it? Do you need a hug?" Here's what you missed:

HILARIOUS ILLITERACY

Glenn Beck took to his whiteboard to demonstrate how various words revealed a disturbing hidden secret about the Obama administration. It sort of went something like this: Gimme an "Obama!" Gimme a "left!" Gimme the word, "international!" Gimme some "graft!" Here's the reference to "ACORN" that I am contractually obligated to mention once a show! Gimme a "revolutionaries!" Followed by "hidden agendas!" And now, give me a "Y," because surely, the world is staring at Glenn Beck and asking themselves, "Why? Dear God in Heaven, why?" What do you get when you take the first letters of those words and spin them through your Little Orphan Annie decoder rings? "OLIGARHY!" This is NOT A WORD, in any language on the planet Earth.

The Washington Independent\\\'s Dave Weigel captured this moment for you, praise his name:



DIRE WARNINGS

OMGZ! Have you heard that Obama is fashioning himself a private Army, made up of Americorps volunteers? It's true! And who hasn't gazed upon the average gaggle of Americorps volunteers, fresh and clueless from college, and thought to themselves: "From this raw material, I could surely fashion a brutal cadre of fearsome shock troops that will finally bring Western civilization to its knees!" The mere prospect of such a thing happening led Beck to compare President Obama to Saddam Hussein, underscoring the way Hussein attempted to tyrannically "adopt" all of Kuwait's highways.



First, Americorps came for the seniors, and I SAID NOTHING, because it turns out Americorps was just bringing them food, listening to them tell stories about their childhoods, and promising to visit them and stuff.

BECK GETS EMO

Nothing really beats Glenn Beck when he goes on a full-tilt victimization binge. Here's how he ended his show, or so our intern tells me:

BECK: I'm tired of being a sheep. I'm tired of being a victim. I'm tired of being pushed around. You know what? The gloves come off.

I have no idea who is pushing Glenn Beck around! He gets his very own television show and radio show and book deals and he gets to say whatever in the world he feels like saying and people give him millions and millions of dollars for it. He can have, if he wants, his very own pony at his gigantic and secluded manse to ride on whenever he wants and can hire someone to bake him delicious funnel cakes any time he likes! These are the hard won perks of being a celebrity, earned from having a dedicated fan base.

Nevertheless, today, the gloves come off! A preview: the hands underneath those gloves will be free of callouses and as soft as an infant's tush!

The "discussion", if it can be called that, in this second YouTube above is S C A R E Y ! ! ! They are saying Obama is creating (AmeriCorps) shock troops loyal to him instead of the country, "just like Hitler and Saddam". SRSLY, watch it!!!

GLEN BECK IS A FAT FUCKING RETARD WHO NEEDS A FRONTAL LOBOTOMY! THE SAME GOES FOR YOU IF YOU AGREE WITH HIM!

Kick ass.

Yet another lame ass alias posting in ALL CAPS!!!.

RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE COOL LAME ALIASES USE WORDS LIKE LIBRODOUCHE AND TALKS ABOUT AIDS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIBRODOUCHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Originally Posted by MTT

.I was interested in his background on the people President Obama is surrounding himself with.

The background on the 32 Czars? SACARY SHIT from where I sit.

People should pay attention, the best and brightest are not influencing the direction of our country.

However Glen Beck seemed stressed and defensive to me. It was kind of painful to watch. The negative attention he is getting seems to be having an effect on him.

From what little I have seen of Beck, he seems to always appear that way. You know, kind of like a crack addict who is an hour late on his next hit.

Originally Posted by Jer

Wow.Thanks. Really informative.

That's what I'm hear for Jerry

Of course a defender of Beck's lies would lie just the same;

Radical ‘Birther’ Kreep Launches DefendGlenn.Com



After Fox News star Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people,” a drive by Color Of Change has convinced 46 companies to cancel their advertisements on his show. In response, Beck and FoxNews have launched increasingly vicious attacks on White House official Van Jones, who co-founded Color Of Change in 2005 following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Now radical right-winger Gary Kreep, head of the United States Justice Foundation, is leaping to Beck’s assistance. He has established DefendGlenn.com, not to justify Beck’s indefensible hate speech, but to spread smears about Color Of Change and Van Jones. On the website, Kreep instructs Glenn Beck fans to tell advertisers that Van Jones “went to prison for inciting the 1992 Rodney King riots in L.A.”:

Tell them CoC’s founder went to prison for inciting the 1992 L.A. Riots, and accused President Bush of giving troops orders to shoot black people after Hurricane Katrina.

In reality, Van Jones was a legal observer in San Francisco, not Los Angeles, during a non-violent rally that took place after, not before the riots. Jones and hundreds of others were seized in a mass arrest. He was released within a few hours, all charges were dropped, and “the City of San Francisco ultimately compensated him financially for his unjust arrest.”

Jones also has never “accused President Bush of giving troops orders to shoot black people after Hurricane Katrina,” as the DefendGlenn site claims. Kreep’s inflammatory lie has no factual basis whatsoever.

Kreep’s unhinged attacks come as no surprise, however. He is one of the leaders of the “birther” movement, claiming that President Obama is not a citizen of the United States.

Thought I'd keep the total/list on topic of Glenn's advertiser pull-outs current. Also, this list of those companies who ARE advertising on Glenn Beck's show was interesting;

List of Advertisers Who Have Dropped Glenn Beck Balloons to 46
Submitted by jmeasley on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 23:13.

Ten more companies have joined the Color of Change boycott against Glenn Beck’s Fox News program. The additions to the list include Applebee’s, DirecTV, Travelers Insurance, Kraft, and Vonage. This now brings the total number of advertisers who have dropped Beck to 46 since he called President Obama a racist.

James Rucker, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org, said, “All 46 companies that have distanced themselves from Glenn Beck should be applauded for their stance. We are still reaching out to companies whose ads we see during Beck’s nightly program,” Rucker continued. “Based on the fact that many of the recent ads on Beck’s program are for gold coins and News Corp properties, it looks like Fox News Channel is struggling to place advertisements on Beck’s show.”

A quick look at the recent advertisers on Beck’s show illustrates Mr. Rucker’s point. According to Media Matters, here is the list of advertisers on Beck’s show for August 27, National Republican Trust PAC -- GOPTrust.com, EasyWater ,Rosland Capital, 1-800-PetMeds, Bank of America, Wall Street Journal, Lear Capital, Liberty Medical, Our Country Deserves Better PAC -- TeaPartyExpress.org, Pulaski & Middleman, Merit Financial, The Dannon Company, Inc. (Activia), Goldline International Inc., Sandals, Ad Council, Fox Fantasy Football, Binder & Binder.

Beck and FNC have gone from garnering ad revenue from the Fortune 500 to advertising that involves tea baggers and fantasy football. Judging by the above list and the push back that the network is allowing Beck and O’Reilly to do, this boycott is starting to hurt. The network still has no clue how to combat this.

What FNC and Glenn Beck should have done is very simple. They should have apologized. It didn’t even have to be a full apology. Beck could have claimed that his words have been misinterpreted. If he would have done this, advertisers would not have gotten nervous, and the boycott would not have been effective.

Beck started this whole thing with his idiotic statement about Obama being a racist, and he had the power to end it, but instead he chose to stand by his statements, and now he and Fox News are paying the price. The network tried to ignore the boycott. They tried to send Beck on vacation, but nothing has worked. With their advertisers fleeing, Beck and FNC are left with nothing but clueless bluster.

Originally Posted by mocwvmit

Of course a defender of Beck's lies would lie just the same;

That is pretty stupid. Defend him from what? His ratings going through the roof?

Boycott anything that is associated with FOX or Glen Beck. He gets paid to scare dim witted right-wingers into believing that Obama is really secretly planning to kill grandma, cover illegals, put conservatives in concentration camps, take away your guns, perform forced abortions, etc,...
I find it particularly troubling that FOX has gone to the crazies. They aren't even trying to hide the fact that are now a 24 hour anti-Obama network that is merely a puppet of the GOP and their disinformation campaign.
Scaring idiots into action is what they are doing. It's just a matter of time. You watch!

Originally Posted by DropCliffsNotBombs

Scaring idiots into action is what they are doing. It's just a matter of time. You watch!

It worked for Al Gore.