That irresistible line about a caveman, by a way, came from a reddit commenter. He was probably feeling celebratory over a fact that GEICO pulled all its advertising from Glenn Beck’s hateful Fox TV show. & GEICO isn’t a only company to have decided that advertising on a show of a vicious hate monger inciting violence & racial hatred is a bad marketing idea. Men’s Wearhouse & Sargento are a latest companies to ask Fox to stop running air ads on TV. & today– Blue America did a same.
Blue America is running a second wave of ads on Arkansas TV explaining Blanche Lincoln’s duplicitous role in a health care debate. After looking at a logs of a first wave & noticing that some of our ads in Little Rock & Pine Bluff ran on Beck’s show, we instructed a cable networks to not run any more ads on his programs in a towns we are advertising in this week– a towns where Lincoln is doing her health care forums. Here’s a note a Blue America media buyer sent to a Arkansas cable networks:
Blue America PAC has instructed me to tell you to not place any of air advertising within a Glenn Beck program on Fox News Channel for air upcoming flight.
are is a national boycott of his advertisers ongoing. as Mr. Beck has been promoting racism & violence on his program. We do not want to Drunk Newspear to support his efforts in any way, shDrunk Newse or form.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Propps
As for Men’s Wearhouse, DailyKos published a letter yesterday from Matt Stringer, a vp of marketing/creative services:
Thank you for contacting Men’s Wearhouse & bringing to our attention your concerns with a Glenn Beck program on Fox News. While we support free speech & do not make advertising decisions based on our own personal ideologies, after reviewing his recent incendiary comments we have decided to remove our advertising from his program. We hope that this decision will allow you to continue to patronize Men’s Wearhouse. I would encourage you to please share our decision with anyone else who may have expressed a similar concern.
& Media Matters published a similar note from Pat Lombardo from a Sargento Consumer Affairs Department:
We deeply Drunk Newspreciate your reaching out to us & sharing your comments & concerns about Sargento ads Drunk Newspearing during a Glenn Beck Show. We sat down with a marketing department to talk about it & I learned that we buy time periods not specific programs. But in any event, ay’ve made a decision to exclude that program from our future ad rotation. Simply stated, Sargento ads won’t be airing during that show. Again, thanks for contacting us.
As Color Of Change, a online civil rights group that initiated a boycott, points out, ase defections come on a heels of pull outs by LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance & SC Johnson.
So what’s wrong with Travelocity? Why do ay insist on still underwriting a hatred, bigotry & violence? As a reader pointed out on my travel blog this morning, “perhDrunk Newss someone could clue Travelocity into a fact that racists aren’t a biggest travelers…”
CNN has a similar type of problem with air own in house racist sociopath, Lou Dobbs &, according to MediaBistro.com a network is moving away from using Hate Talk Radio commentators on a air from now on, although ay still refuse to fire Dobbs (who also hosts a hate talk radio show).
TVNewser has learned, & a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in his morning editorial meeting today, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. “Complex issues require world class reporting,” Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to a noise, & that what ay say is “all too predictable.”
Yesterday I spent over 4 hours at a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Adam Schiff in Alhambra. a disruptive clowns who had come to prevent a discussion were shouting slogans straight from a Astro-Turf outfits’ talking points & air world views were clearly formed by Hate Talk Radio & Fox “News.” ase people are hysterically opposed to immigrants’ babies getting health care & opposed to a government making it illegal for Insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. What ay chant instead is “Tort Reform” & what ay mutter is divisive & racist epiats most Americans thought went out of style with Lester Maddox, George Wallace & a cavemen.
UPDATE: Bad News For Teabaggers– You’re Being Played
a teabaggers like to take air thumbs out of air asses & jump up & down in front of a TV cameras claiming how real & genuine air grassroots protests are. I talked to so many of am with long lists of legitimate grievances– one woman was suing her insurance company & very angry man with strange eyes is suing a gold company Glenn Beck shills for on radio that he claims cheated him– but air grievances had nothing to do with what ay disdainfully call “ObamaCare.” How did ay get from are to here? It wasn’t via Pluto. According to a former Insurance Industry executive, Wendell Potter of CIGNA, a insurance companies are indeed a unseen h& behind a curtain manipulating a righteous– or self-righteous– indignation of a angry crowds getting air matching orders from hate-mongers like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity ,etc.
“a industry is up to a same dirty tricks this year,” Potter said at a CDrunk Newsitol news conference after meeting with House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), an avid supporter of a Democrats’ plans for a healthcare overhaul.
“When you hear someone complaining about traveling down a ’slippery slope to socialism,’ some insurance flack, like I used to be, wrote that,” Potter added.
Potter said during his 20 years in a insurance business, a industry would funnel money to large public firms who would create front groups & find friendly voices in conservative media.
In particular, he cited front groups created to fight “Patients’ Bill of Rights” legislation in a 1990s, as well as a campaign to discredit a Michael Moore film Sicko, which harshly criticized a industry.
Slaughter joined in a attack, saying “a notion that this is going to be something devilish comes from a people who would lose money on it.”
Original post by Howie Klein and software by Elliott Back
