Unfortunately for Beck, it turns out that Fortune 500 companies don’t think calling the president a racist is particularly good for business.
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 this is certainly a positive development, what took them so long? Saying Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white culture" is disgusting (what is ‘white culture’ anyway?), but is it objectively worse than say, likening him to Hitler?
But this passage in the AP story is just stupid and lazy.
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.
The shows present a dilemma for advertisers, who usually like a "safe" environment for their messages. The Olbermanns, Hannitys, O’Reillys, Maddows and Becks of the TV world are more likely to say something that will anger a viewer, who might take it out on sponsors.
Shorter Rachel Maddow: the Republicans are lying about health care reform.
Shorter Glenn Beck: Obama’s a fascist Manchurian Hitler Nazi white hater.
Same thing!
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Almost instant Karma.
I agree that we must denounce all purveyors of hate.
oh dear oh dear oh dear
where’s my handkerchief?
They’re trying to destroy Beck!
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BT: I choked on that same sentence that you bolded. The Village just can’t call out bad behavior by the Republicans without presenting it alongside a false equivalent, as you point out so well.
Grrrr!
“we do not want to be associated with inflammatory speech used by either liberal or conservative talk show hosts.”
Could the Clorox Co. please cite some liberal inflammatory speech? And no, ‘Impeach Bush’ wasn’t inflammatory, just sensible. And getting more sensible everyday, if a bit too late in the day.
What the hell is “white culture,” anyway?
Clorox’s damn list is not even in alphabetical order, instead of starting with Beck, it starts with Olbermann. Including Olbermann and Maddow in their group of malefactors is “sheer nonsense” as Howard Dean might say.
Lawrence Welk.
You are kidding right?
If Clorox’s idea catches on and it begins the economic infeasibility of O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck that to me is the purpose. If that also means the end of Olberman and Maddow it’s still a win that the FOX megaphone of propaganda is silenced.
I think it must be mislaid along with my teeny tiny, tiny violin!
Morning BT.
Lazy? An AP article? Color me shocked!
FunnyWheelieDiva
Call me lowbrow, but I do love that picture.
From BT: “this passage in the AP story is just stupid and lazy”
It’s also centristy and bipartisany . . .
Why, it’s downright Broderian!
In addition to having a liberal bias, the truth is also inflammatory. *sigh*
well i sugggest you all switch to using bluing instead of chlorine bleach anyway .. it’s environmentally friendly and won’t kill all the organisms which normally are present to clean up ground water ..like chlorine bleach does ..
then we can all tell clorox inc to go to hell ..
imo .. it’s a hissy fit .. “oh ..we can’t advertise on our favorite right-wing hate-talk sites eh .. then we’ll undercut the damn lib’ruls as well ” ..
fluck ‘em .. it’s plain as day ..
EXACTLY!!
I am so tired of that. It’s their way trying to appear “fair and balanced” (LOL) but it’s also what’s led to this fallacy throughout the land that therefore the “middle” must be “fair” or right. Bullcrap. Two opposing sides aren’t necessarily “equally legitimate” arguments.
For example, murder is wrong. If someone tries to make the opposite argument, they’re just plain wrong, they’re not on the other side of an issue.
“I has it…
That’s why you can see this face at all!”
FWDiva
Just curious…has Beck started crying about this yet?
That’s why you can see this face at all!”
FWDiva
Boy, talk about an airtight argument against ass surgery.
dunno, he’s on vacation
BwaHAHA!
He’s back today.
He’s crying all the way to the bank.
Olbermann and Maddow use obviously inflammatory words in regards to conservatives… words like “lie”, “torture” and “steal”!!!!!!1111111!!!!!!
Is the difference between truth & lies fair & balanced?
Oh Joy
Just for the record, I think Clorox isn’t an evil entity. They are in Oakland, CA, so they’ve got to at least appear to reflect the culture of the area. IIRC, they do a lot of funding for charities locally (although they were outsourcing their philanthropic services).
Not to mention hipocracy
“Hypocrisy”, yes, they use that one a lot as well.
Howeever “hipocracy” is something like a PAC for us overweight types, I think ;)
That is very funny! ;-)
“white culture”
This phrase was, indeed, the proof of Beck’s bigotry. Everyone has his prejudices, but only a white supremacist conceives of something like “white culture”.
Dude, where are my advertisers?
A Republic would also argue that there is something like “white culture”, most likely meaning some fantasy of “southern culture”.
Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann will be pissed, I would think, to have their shows lumped together with the likes of Hannity and Beck!!
I suppose “white culture,” in the opinion of Mr. Beck, consists of embittered rage and guns. Lots an’ lots o’ guns.
Remember: when the Associated Press deliberately inserts a false equivalency that libels the Left, this is NOT a mistake on their part. This is deliberate. Indeed, the sentence ”Political pundits are more likely to say something that will anger a viewer, who might take it out on sponsors” would have been simpler and more straightforward than the more complicated construction that made it into the article.
No one will be corrected, much less fired, for inserting this editorial content into a news article, because this is the job that they were hired to do. The news is merely a propaganda vehicle of the corporate Right.
So remember, mainstream media does not represent a failure of journalism, it represents the success of corporatism and propaganda. Examples like these are not distressing indications of a failing journalistic profession, they are examples of successful careers in propaganda.
We have to stop pretending that these events are mistakes that need correcting – they are successes of a system than needs replacing.
Right.
Some time ago I spoke with a disinchanted College Republican at a college in PA. He told me that the CR group at his institution was focused on four themes, in order: (1) defeating the Obama agenda, (2) ‘majority culture,’ (3) pro-gun, and (4) pro-life. Free markets and capitalism wasn’t even on the list. It’s ALL about identity politics these days.
“White culture” this, “Majority culture” that… and not a word about Nekomimi culture. Obviously they are completely out of the loop…
Love it! Couldnt happen to a better guy!
I am curious what these people will be doin’/sayin’ 50 years from now, when “world culture” will be defined by the prevailing trends in Beijing, Mumbai, and Sao Paulo – by brown people. I mean, will they all be living with the last century’s technology in walled compounds, totally cut off from a world which has moved on around them? Or will they just be the new AQ, angrily lashing out at the new world order fighting assymetrically for a return to 19th century autarchy and 14th century feudalism?
Exactly.
I am hereby starting my own personal boycott of any advertiser I’m aware of on Fox… Feel free to join me, organize or not. Their lies and fraud permeate every program they broadcast, see also Chris Wallace’s interview of Tammy Duckworth over at C&L, so I’m not going to waste any of my time trying to sort ‘em out.
I doubt that Beck will mention his loss of advertisers, because to bring it up could lead to more curiousity on the part of other advertisers about all the fuss and lead to more losses.
If that’s true, he must be squirming a bit, and maybe other Fox inflamers as well as the network itself.
How soon before Beck gets shit-canned?
Its time to turn the fire onto limbaugh.
Thanks to colorofchange for making Beck cry!
“… will they all be living with the last century’s technology in walled compounds, totally cut off from a world which has moved on around them?”
Sounds like Sweet Thang’s Alabama relatives now.
White culture, as far as I can tell, is about murdering everyone else who isn’t white.
As for the advertisers, I ain’t gonna bitch too hard about it taking this long. You have to move heaven and earth to get a company to do anything, and them dropping him at all shows more moral backbone than I’d expected.