Beck Boycott
Updated 3/2/10
Color of Change.org has been promoting a highly successful campaign to
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convince advertisers to boycott the Glenn Beck program on the Fox News Channel.
A very important activist who keeps up-to-date information and ongoing pressure on continuing sponsors is the gent who runs www.stopbeck.com
Beck is an outrage, an assault on reason and the American way of life. He uses his bully pulpit on Fox “News” to demonize “progressives” by lumping us in with communists, terrorists, criminals, deadbeats, and other “undesirables”. (If this tactic reminds you of Josef Goebbels, I can understand why). He promotes hysterical conspiracy theories about the Obama Administration that are 100% devoid of salient facts. (In other words, he just makes it up). What corporation wants to be associated with a crackpot schmuck who can’t control his mouth?
For a list of current sponsors that have pulled out of the show, check this StopBeck and this other excellent page, Another War of Jenkins Ear. Last update at the time of this posting was on 2/1, and 114 sponsors have dropped Glenn Beck. The page also lists the remaining sponsors, with contact information you can use to let them know your DISAPPROVAL OF THEIR SUPPORT OF GLENN BECK.
UPDATE 2/1/2010
The list of sponsors is now up to 114! Beck’s program in the UK has run with no sponsors for the last 2 weeks! Way to go, keep making those calls and signing those petitions!
This is very handy for those of us who think crap like THIS doesn’t belong on TV:
Or if you think stuff like THIS doesn’t belong on the radio…
Or if you think spewing insane crap like THIS doesn’t pass muster for public discourse:
I found you from a comment on Story of Stuff blog. I would be happy to boycott any company or product that supports Beck. I don’t watch him, (what I hear occasionally is enough to make my stomach turn) so I have no idea where to begin with the boycotting.
Incidentally, the depiction of Beck as a Joker figure is so accurate!
Dee
23 Sep 09 at 1:32 pm
So your life sucks so much you need to attack a nut like Beck. He’s right though, but he’s a nut. You too appear to be a nut, just a left nut. Here, feel better left nut
John
26 Sep 09 at 1:43 pm
Actually, John, my life is fine, in fact it’s better than fine.
However, I fear for your sanity if you believe that Glenn Beck is “right” about anything. In fact, he’s not. He doesn’t actually work with facts very often, and when he does have a factoid or two in one of his syllogisms, the logic is busted.
Since you can’t defend anything Glenn Beck is “right” about, I can’t show you where you’re wrong, but trust me, you are. And your pathetic attempts at personal attack posts will no longer be tolerated, although you are welcome to post here if you have something to say other than “um, you suck”. When you do that, see, it lowers the level of discussion to Glenn Beck’s level.
Carry on.
admin
26 Sep 09 at 2:24 pm
I’d appreciate you naming the advertisers, and doing so on many blogs and comments sites. I think getting the word out about who the advertisers are, through existing news forums, will help make a boycot more effective.
It’s fascinating that anyone in America would be ignorant enough to watch this guy. The country really needs to get busy with improving educational and critical thinking programs in the schools.
But I guess if peoples’ parents are related, they hardly stand a chance…
cate
4 Oct 09 at 10:21 am
Thanks, cate.
There is a link here to the website “Another War in Jenkin’s Ear, a site that has done a great job of listing all the boycott participants and non-participants. Contact information for the non-participants is on the page. Thanks to @stopbeck for the effort.
For those interested in a more general boycott of Fox News, you may be interested in paying a visit to foxnewsboycott.com.
Cheers!
admin
4 Oct 09 at 11:55 am
So, let me get understand you correctly…
Glenn Beck is a threat to the nation, but your support of a boycott against Beck, effectively attacking free speech is not?
And, it is proper for you to degrade and insult someone whom you disagree with, making personal insults that would make a civil person cringe… and yet you yourself threaten to block a reader who does the same to you, only in less than 50 words, and with far less venom than your typical fare?
Is your own inability to look at yourself critically, and recognize the hypocrisy, perhaps part of your issue with the terms “Fair” and “Balanced”?
You don’t gain legitimacy by mirroring the very traits you find detestable in others.
Just a thought.
Craig Maxim
7 Jan 10 at 12:54 am
When you write bullshit to me, I will block you.
When you write legitimate complaints like this, I’ll post them.
I disagree with your right to fuck up my website with complete and utter bullshit. Yes, it is proper for me to degrade and insult people who write stuff like “Oh, you’re looking for groupies” or “You’ve made a cottage industry out of Glenn Beck”. You IDIOT.
My legitimacy comes from facts. Facts that I post, facts that I write. That’s the only place it comes from, for ANYONE. Opinions can be legitimate when they are supported by facts. What you posted to me was not fact based, it was a lame attempt to insult my website.
admin
7 Jan 10 at 10:01 am
Glenn Beck is a modern day DAVID DUKE
max
6 Mar 10 at 5:16 pm
get the word out people
max
6 Mar 10 at 5:16 pm