Kudos SC Johnson, Geico, Proctor Gamble and Progressive For Standing Up to Beck

Slim Fast dumped Whoopie Goldberg years ago, too, for some hateful and nasty comments she made about Dubya. I remember writing an email asking for her to be fired. But I was rather surprised that they did it and now I'm sorry that I sent that email because I believe in free speech and I think it hinders that.

LOL Piasa why would you feel bad, the people spoke and Slim Fast listened. I don't remember that inncident but, I think that sponsors should understand that there are things their spokespersons do that turns off consumers.

TGB what happened to the Simpsons?

Pias, I believe in free speech, but we all have to held accountable for our actions. When G Gorden Liddy told people to shot ATF officers in the face because their body armer will stop most bullets, people should have stepped up, but didn't. When Glenn Beck called on people to go out and disrupt these town hall meetings, and they have done that, and even used hate symbols to prove their point, they need to be stopped. When your words cause situtations where people could be hurt, or threatened, then something needs to be done. Beck has made no attempt to talk to his listeners about what he asked them to do, and no one knows if he followers have been the ones that have made headlines, but he should have done something.

The Christian Collation attacked the Simpsons, and Married with Children because they felt it was hurting the American family. They protested the network along with it's sponsers, they ended up getting FOX to do other things to make up for their outrage (donated to their organization, and may have said that FOX News came from this situation), but after FOX made this agreement, they magicly went away (and people complain about what Jessie Jackson has done, but they forgot all about the Christian Collation).

"What a bunch of pusssies this country has become. Grow a spine America."

Amen!

This is because he went on some show and said that Obama doesn't like white people. In fact he said that Obama is racist!

Saying that Obama hates white is plain nuts, where's the proof? I mean come on people how in the hell does Beck know Obama's thoughts? Is he psychic? Does he have some direct line to "god"?

I guess we will agree to disagree.

Honey, I didn't say that I agreed with Beck. I'm just telling everyone what started the advertisers to pull their money from his show.

And I didn't see the show or his comments in their entirety. I saw some of it on the Colbert Report and on some other lib program. They made Beck out to be a dork, of course.

They didn't have to make out Beck to be a dork because he IS a dork...lol!
Annie

This whole thing pisses me off because now I have to find another insurance company. Ugh!

LOL Annie, you summed it up best.

I didn't even know that Matthews was still on television. But, ya know if their viewers start complaining to companies that the sponsors should pull their ads. I wouldn't buy products that had commercials shown on a show run by the KKK or any other well known hate group, so why in the hell would I buy products from a company that sponsors a show that makes baseless claims and promotes a divid on this country? I might as well buy from China.

I think the blacks of this nation have suffered enough at the hands of white people. And, if one is calling blacks the N word and making general assumptions such as all blacks are on welfare and lazy than yeah they should make those claims. And, honestly do you really believe that those black leaders do not have the right to believe that whites are keeping the "black man down"? How many black presidents in our 200 plus years of government have we had? How many black supreme court justices have we had since the start of the court?

Thurgood Marshall in 1967, nominated by Lydon Johnson (D)

Clarance Thomas in 1991, nominated by George H. W. Bush (R)

Piasa out of 110 supreme court justices we have had 2 blacks. Great job America keep up the great work promoting the black man. We all should take a nice pat on the back. 106 of those 110 have been white men.

"I think the blacks of this nation have suffered enough at the hands of white people."

Which ones? Certainly not the young ones. Most have never felt the legal discrimination of their parents. Racism, yes, and possibly police profiling - but on paper we're all equal (until you try to get into college, then special considerations are made based on your minority status).


"And, if one is calling blacks the N word and making general assumptions such as all blacks are on welfare and lazy than yeah they should make those claims."

If they don't like the N word, they should discourage it's use in general. The last I checked, the only socially acceptable way to use that word is if you're black. I, myself, can't even think the word, because it's just too wrong. Being lazy and on welfare is a stereotype. Stereotypes in general should be discouraged, not just among people of other races, but within a single race as well.


"And, honestly do you really believe that those black leaders do not have the right to believe that whites are keeping the "black man down"? How many black presidents in our 200 plus years of government have we had? How many black supreme court justices have we had since the start of the court?"

Have they been held back from trying? Obama wasn't the first non-white man to run for office. He was just the first to win. Not being selected for a prestigious position doesn't mean the population of the country is racist. Legally they have as much of a shot as any white person.

You really want to know who's keeping the "black community" down in America? A lot of it is caused by other black people. I've met a number of black people who acted like normal productive human beings, and I think it's a shame that their race has a stereotype of ignorant, gang-bangers (or people with an undeserved sense of entitlement). However, the reality of the situation is, they get that stereotype because of black men and women who go around speaking like and acting like fools.

I'm not saying racism doesn't exist among white people. It does, and I hate seeing it. However, as long as there are people emphasizing the stereotypes of their race, those with bigoted tendencies aren't going to give them any respect. If you constantly emphasize your difference, people are going to see you as different.

"The last I checked, the only socially acceptable way to use that word is if you're black."Ok well here in urbanville where I live it isn't ni**er it is ni**a big difference. I know a lot of black people yes some gang bangers some productive members of society (as you put it) and if I walk up to them and say hey ni**er I'll probably be knocked out. If I walk up and say hey ni**a, they normally say what's up. Huge difference but, I am well aware that people like to hear what they want to hear.

Mylot police said I couldn't spell the actual word that was acceptable so I hope you get the picture. I can say I'm pissed but I can't say ni**a, imagine that. LOL

Considering the supreme court only has 9 positions, and considering only one maybe two of those positions become open every 10 years or so, and considering the sheer number of different minorities we have in the country, it would be virtualy and litteraly impossible to fill them all based on a quota, it would take well over a century even if we started 2 years ago.

I am sure that there have to sponsors that have consumers of largely conservative base, like churches and whatnot. Sponsors pulled ads from Letterman when he insulted your goddess. I watched Keith during the primaries, I liked how he was donating all of that money to the Special Olympics but after the election was over he quit doing it and I haven't watched it since. I stated in a different response that I didn't even know that Chris was still on but, I never much cared to much for him, I didn't find him funny and I don't think that he really played the liberal part.

"Sponsors pulled ads from Letterman when he insulted your goddess"

Since when is Sarah Palin's teenage daughter "my goddess"? The only time I've even mentioned the girl is to say that attacking her is inappropriate, but I guess that warrants petty insults since we should all embrace and cheer for sexual jokes made about teenagers if their mother is a conservative politician.

"Since when is Sarah Palin's teenage daughter "my goddess"?"

Opps sorry, I meant Palin not her daughter.

"The only time I've even mentioned the girl is to say that attacking her is inappropriate, but I guess that warrants petty insults since we should all embrace and cheer for sexual jokes made about teenagers if their mother is a conservative politician. "

No, my point was that conservatives wanted Letterman fired and sponsors pulled their ads yet when Beck spews and divids the country we should "embrace and cheer" that? Or should we (the people that are upset by his show) call the sponsors and complain? You can't have it both ways.

Well Palin doesn't fit because the ads were pulled after her daughter was attacked. I haven't heard Beck spewing any hatred and I have yet to see anyone prove such here. My complaint with him is that is show is just way too much doom and gloom. That's why I can't sit through it.

I don't know what you mean by "you can't have it both ways". I've never objected to sponsors pulling their ads from either Beck or Letterman. It's their money and their right to do with it as they please (unless Obama takes it away to punish them for being profitable).

I'm sorry Taskr I used "you" as a generalization and I shouldn't have done that. What I should have said was, conservatives that complained about Letterman can't have it both ways. I picked a bad choice of words.

I can't stomach anything that he has to say. I was flipping through the channels and catch his show once, that's about all it took. You know everyone keeps saying stuff about Chris and Keith, now, I haven't really watched Chris much but I never seen Keith yell at guests on his show. I have never seen him throw a guest off of his show and threaten the guest with security if the guest didn't leave then. Between liberal and conservative talk shows they are truly different animals.

"I heard a clip of him screaming and carrying on on his radio show at a woman who'd called in and the guy has some real issues."

Ha, I saw that. Creepy stuff. I wonder what he was on when he did that.

"I haven't really watched Chris much but I never seen Keith yell at guests on his show."

I haven't seen Kieth yell either, but for Chris, I think yelling is all he's capable of. I honestly don't think I've ever seen him not yelling. If you really want to see him make an a$$ of himself just watch him interview that guy from New Hampshire who was wearing a gun while standing outside Obama's town hall.

I can't stomach enough of Olbermann to see how he treats his guests, but I did see him allow Jeanine Garafalo to spew all sorts of ridiculous hate filled garbage on his show without challenging her in the slightest.

"I can't stomach enough of Olbermann to see how he treats his guests, but I did see him allow Jeanine Garafalo to spew all sorts of ridiculous hate filled garbage on his show without challenging her in the slightest. "

Just like Beck, Hannity and Bill O as long they AGREE with what the guest is saying. If they don't the person's mic is cut and the person is thrown off the show. Why on Earth would you ask someone to your show and not allow them to speak? Even though I do not agree with the fact that Rachael Maddow has Pat B. on her show she lets him "talk" his non-sense and she asks him questions and whatnot but, doesn't yell or throw him off her show.

It's going to hurt those companies more than it hurts Fox or Glenn Beck. A lot of people are boycotting the companies that boycott Beck. Strangely enough, there are a lot of Americans who still believe in free speech, even if they don't agree with you. Who would have thought we still had some citizens who knew that the Constitution is law, not bully tactics?

OMG! You've got to read some of the names and comments on the wall of support! There's even one from Barack Obama himself!! Hilarious!

Here's some of them.

Larry Craig, Boise, ID
tap, tap, tap...hey Glenn is that you?

George W Bush, Retardville,
Is our children learnin'? Can we put food on our families? A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Barack Obama, Washington, DC
Why are my followers taking time to write on this wall? Come on! Organize in my name! You have townhalls to attend! Geez, I'm even bussing you and paying you 14 bucks and hour and all you want to do is write on this wall?

Yeah, I just saw a John McCain one. LOL

No more GEICO for me.Has anyone checked the political contributions of these companies? I know Beck's rating are very high. Did any of these companies get a visit from the SEIU,Acorn or Rahm Emmanuel?? We need to check these things out but I guess if they were threatened we will probably never know. In cases you LIBS don't understand,we can boycott these companies. What goes around,comes around!!

According to the colorofchange.org site co-founder Van Jones now serves as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Mmm .... pretty curious I'd say.

I looked him up on Wikipedia and found that "In 1993, Jones earned his J.D. and moved to San Francisco. In San Francisco, he formed a socialist collective with other young activists called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which read the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin."

"Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots.

"I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

Just another one of Obama's buddies. Are there any surprises left?

" I know Beck's rating are very high."

He was beat out by some of the worst shows on television. American Dad? Geeze if that show can beat him I'm sure that anything can.

"In cases you LIBS don't understand,we can boycott these companies. What goes around,comes around"

Oh you're so scary. To bad you lump everyone together, it shows your ignorance of assumptions. It would be like me saying "all you hateful, stupid, warmongering Republicans with your scare tactics" Not very correct is it? You should really think about your comments before you make them.

"He was beat out by some of the worst shows on television. American Dad? Geeze if that show can beat him I'm sure that anything can."

That is a pretty aweful show, but then you need to consider the networks. American dad is played on public television while Glenn Beck is on cable news. I doubt ANYONE who watches a show like American Dad would be watching ANY cable news shows.

I actually know a few people that watch American Dad and they watch Political News Talk Shows, why? I dunno I guess they like that stupid humor.

You make a good point Taskr but, ok lets compare the numbers to shows on cable.

Reruns of NCIS on USA network had 4.9 million views
Shows on UNI had more viewers than Beck
WWE Raw, I asked my kids, that's "pro" wrestling had more views
In Plain Sight had more viewers

My spanish is not that advanced to tell you the name of the show on UNI sorry.

Beck had 3,074,000 viewers as of March of this year. He was just under O'Reilly who is in the number one most watched slot.

Then there's Olberman with 1,223,000 viewers. He's number seven in the list I saw. Maddow is in the dead last slot with not even a million viewers.

He's libertarian.

He screams at his guests, is that acceptable adult behavior? I don't yell or scream at people that come to my house that have a different opinion than I do. If that is acceptable behavior for conservatives, I'm glad I'm a liberal.

You're right we do have free speech and everyone that has watched the show and been insulted by his comments have every right to call the sponsors and complain to them about funding the trash he spews. Just like all the rightys called CBS over Letterman. Or are Republican's memories really that short that they don't remember a few months ago being outraged by Letterman's comments???

Have you actually watched a whole episode of his show or just some snippets from a lefty web site, ZSun?

I tried piasa I couldn't stand it, I had to shut it off. I decided that pulling my eyeballs out was much more enjoyable for me than watching his show. A conservative asked me to listen to a few shows; fatmouth Rush, Hannity and that Savage man. That was the hardest task and I couldn't complete it. I failed. I'll admit it, I can't stand conservative talk but, if it makes you feel any better, I really don't like watching/listening to liberal either.

I'm really surprised that you're a conservative.

Why's that surprising?