In a perverse twist of reality, Glenn Beck now seeks to claim victim status from the progressive response to his false and malicious “reporting.” On his radio show on Tuesday, Beck compared Fox News to the Jews persecuted in the Holocaust. It almost seems like Beck hijacked our earlier post about the Democrats’ response to [...]
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October 14, 2009
19 More Advertisers Drop Beck
From Jack and Jill Politics, October 6th.
Great news today in our campaign against Glenn Beck. We’re announcing that nineteen more of Beck’s advertisers have stopped supporting his show. That number includes two British companies who just announced that they’ve pulled their ads from the UK broadcast of Beck’s show after hearing from customers.
Two companies–Waitrose [...]
September 22, 2009
Media conservatives denounce Glenn Beck’s “hatred
(re-posted from Media Matters)
On September 22, conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough announced an “honor roll” for conservatives who are willing to denounce Glenn Beck’s “hatred,” making specific reference to Beck’s statement that President Obama is “a racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people.” Several media conservatives in addition to Scarborough have denounced Beck’s rhetoric [...]
September 14, 2009
Glenn Beck Has Lost over 50% of His Ad Dollars
Cross-posted from the Huffington Post
by James Rucker
Our campaign to hold Glenn Beck accountable for his race-baiting and fear-mongering has been a great success, with 62 advertisers making it clear that they don’t want their brands linked to Beck’s vile rhetoric. Up until now, however, there’s been a question of what the real consequences are for [...]
September 10, 2009
Glenn McCarthy Beck Video
As Media Matters has noted, Fox News personalities have been leading the charge to attack Jones, Holdren, Sunstein, and other Obama administration officials and nominees they have described as “czars” — often by unearthing and criticizing statements the officials had made in the past rather than critiquing their [...]
September 9, 2009
Funding Beck’s Witch Hunt
While Glenn Beck was the most vocal and visible attack dog working to bring down Van Jones, this has been part of a right-wing effort to destroy the Obama Administration by painting them as communist radicals. From Kevin Gradia on the Huffington Post:
You probably won’t be surprised when I tell you that Glenn Beck wasn’t [...]
September 9, 2009
Who still advertises on Beck?
After receiving this tweet from GoToMeeting on Sunday, claiming they were no longer advertising on Beck. Media Matters did a follow up and found that indeed, their ad had appeared last night, since they track which ads appear every evening. Interestingly, GoToMeeting still claims their ad have been removed. Their most recent response:
@FoxNewsBoycott We have [...]
September 7, 2009
“We Blew It.” No Kidding.
In the week before Van Jones’ departure from the White House, the White House was ominously silent in its support for Jones. Additionally, most of the major environmental organizations, who had supported Jones’ work and appointment to the White House seemed dumbstruck on to how to respond to attacks, so didn’t. It was only this [...]
September 6, 2009
Beyond Beck: Left refuses to bend over
Emily Gertz at Change.org writes:
It was about how some Republican legislators took advantage of Beck’s well-distributed crazy to hassle and distract the Obama administration — enough to ultimately set back energy, economic, and climate policy reforms.
And it’s about the administration’s outsized sensitivity and suprise at this sort of clamor from a small (if vocal) portion [...]
September 6, 2009
GoToMeeting.com drops Beck
In a tweeted response from GoToMeeting.com, they have stopped advertising on Glenn Beck.
@mogmaar We have removed our advertising from the Glenn Beck program, and we will re-evaluate at a future date. ^GD
This in response to my earlier tweet:
GoToMeeting.com likes Glenn ‘McCarthy’ Beck: He gets crazier, their ads on his show get more views. Great business [...]
