As Sponsors Flee, Tea Partiers Petitioning In Support Of Glenn Beck
It hasn't been an easy week for Glenn Beck. Since calling President Barack Obama a racist, his Fox program has lost a number of major sponsors including GMAC, Roche, RadioShack, Men's Wearhouse, State Farm Sargento, Procter & Gamble, and Progressive Insurance. But he does retain a strong constituency of far right wing supporters.
The so-called 9/12 coalition is urging tea baggers and other protesters to sign a petition in support of the controversial TV host.
You can see the petition here here. Among other things, signatories warn Beck's former advertisers that they reserve the right "to stop purchasing your product or using your services as a form of economic protest."
A message distributed today to the 9/12 coalition's private email list, and obtained by TPM, says, "Let Fox News and those that Advertise on TV know that you support the Glenn Beck program.... This petition/letter will be sent directly to Fox News and shared with the advertisers on his program, past and present."
And it seems to be working. In the last half hour, over one hundred people have joined the campaign, which went live today. At publication time--and don't read any significance into this--666 people had signed on. The letters and form emails will be delivered to Fox News directly.
Josh
Matt
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Not to mention WALMART among the casualties
Leave Glenn Beck ALONE
Lest he turn on the waterworks
August 18, 2009 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is called free market capitaism with people voting on Glenn Beck with their pocketbooks.
Oh heck, that's right, Rupert Murdoch doesn't care if his media entities make money.
As long as the brainwashing continues.
Maybe a loss of brainwashing effect plus a loss of revenue is the ticket.
August 18, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/212162
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August 18, 2009 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just had to comment on this:
Obama's troops are whiny!?! Have you seen the waterworks from the opposition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ebo4UhloU
These are the people that must carry around assault weapons just in case someone confronts them with a new idea. I don't think a more spineless, perpetually afraid group of people exist.
Btw, if some gun toter offers up the excuse for carrying guns at political events that they are just exercising their legal rights, ask them if they routinely exercise their right to have an abortion. That's legal too.
August 18, 2009 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let this be a warning to all of Beck's potential future advertisers: If you decide to support Beck with your advertising dollars, then change your mind later on, you will feel the wrath of his minions.
Great move there, minions. Stupid shits.
August 18, 2009 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I too thought it was a great move considering that their "reserving the right" to boycott may not come off quite as advertised. I suspect that the numbers of Beckshit crazies are likely to be so small that the advertisers may well discover that these folks are so inconsequential that they are easily ignorable. Indeed, for advertisers it will be reassuring.
Bedsides, FAUX isn't losing the revenue. Ads are just being shifted to other "shows."
August 18, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there anything more useless in convincing anyone of anything than a petition?
Here's an idea, tea-baggers: Put your money where your mouth is. Why don't YOU pay to sponsor Beck and his blather?
August 18, 2009 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Reserve the right" as opposed to "waive the right"???
August 18, 2009 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing coaxes a sponsor back like the threat of a boycott.
Yes, loonies, go to the ditches for Glenn Beck.
August 18, 2009 1:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does anyone really think that these folks will stop shopping at Wal-Mart?
Me neither. Petition FAIL.
August 18, 2009 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
At publication time--and don't read any significance into this--666 people had signed on.
What, WHAT?!? Sign of the Hypocalypse, I tells ya..store water...store franks n beans (yes you want these in the enclosed spaces of yer post-hypocalyptic shelters)...but fer crissake, not Glenn Beck!
[Note: this post may disappear during Rapture.]
August 18, 2009 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
In other words, these shitheads aren't willing to actually pay for Glenn Beck's programming themselves, they want SOMEONE ELSE to pay for it.
Jeebus. Talk about plumbing the depths of stupidity.
August 18, 2009 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. I'm going to start boycotting the products of any company who doesn't advertise during shows I watch. I will restrict my purchasing to products advertised during my favorite show. WTH? Since when are companies somehow *obligated* to advertise during any specific program?
Of course, these are the same people who feel that retail employees are obligated to wish them a Merry Christmas, so I suppose it's not that much of a stretch.
August 18, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
OH MY GOD THE RIGHT WINGERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A BOYCOTT EVERYBODY GO APESHIT!!!
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hello?? rabid centrists?? come out come out wherever you are...
August 18, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks to you guys for the laughs. I needed a good belly laugh today! TPM has by far the most intelligent posters I read. (And I read far too many!)
August 18, 2009 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beck has not this taken lightly as supposedly he has been spending much of his off camera time alone crying in dark, musty stairwells. Check out his new ridiculous sponsors... http://unreasonablysafe.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/becksnewsponsors/
August 18, 2009 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink