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The recent and, until now, successful advertiser boycott initiated against Glenn Beck by the radical group Color of Change, appears to be backfiring on the left wing group and its supporters. Grass roots support coming from diehard fans defending the patriotic radio/TV personality and constitutional watchdog seems to be growing in an exponential fashion.
An extemporaneous, nationwide movement is rapidly taking shape to support Beck. Facebook groups, Web sites, home-grown e-mail blasts, viral marketing and individual telephone call list campaigns have appeared in record numbers supporting Beck.
Johnny Simpson, of Digital Journal.com reports that the backlash against the boycott "has cost GEICO Insurance and Sargento Foods a total of 12,500 [Beck supporting] customers," showing enormous support for the growing media personality.
While his show aired on CNN, Beck began a rapid ascent to political satire and informational talk-show stardom, but when he made the switch to Fox News channel taking the 5 p.m. spot show ratings shot through the roof, registering spectacularly high viewer ratings.
With a voice that reaches nearly as many as Rush Limbaugh, Beck has increasingly become a target for progressive, liberal, socialist and green groups who disagree with the talk-show host’s opinions and the information he presents – information that most other talk-show hosts are afraid to touch.
Beck’s dissemination of critical information has cut deep into wrong doing, lies and inconsistencies in the Bush White House and continues today with his “pulling aside of the veil” that hides falsehoods and corruption in the Obama administration. In a world of Change, where union workers and community organization group members are used as rent-a-mobs to stop dissent and discourse, it’s no surprise that the White House has a vested interest in silencing Mr. Beck – enter Van Jones.
Jones was appointed Green Jobs czar by President Obama this past March and has direct ties to Color of Change. Van Jones, an admittedly proud communist, former president and founder of Color of Change is also coincidentally a close personal friend of President Barack Obama.
What does Fox News say? The cable broadcaster said in a statement that even though some advertisers have moved their spots from Beck’s time slot they have not been lost from the network as a whole so there has been no lost revenue.
While SC Johnson, an advertiser who was reported to have pulled their spots said in a press release, “SC Johnson has not pulled or cancelled advertising for the Glenn Beck show, as we never directed our advertising to this particular program. In general, our goal is to provide good, informative ads and we select those programs and/or networks that make the most sense given our consumer base.”
Hopefully, Beck’s employers will stick it out with him instead of cowering to the progressive boycott, only time will tell. But for now, we get to see one in a long line of examples of how actions produced by left-think quite often create a result contradictory to its intent.
Comments
Here is the message I left over at StopBeck:
This little boycott of yours is nothing but an attempt to muzzle a free American citizen simply because his opinions are hitting too close to home and damaging your Leftist cause.
So... when you're losing the debate, you instinctively pull out the rope and the gag.
Don't you see that you, the Left, are tyrants at heart and can never be trusted with power?
I bet that if you had the power to send in the jackboots and throw Beck in jail, you'd do it. You are nothing but a Robert Mugabie in your soul.
You and your whole Cause are nothing but little Hitlers. You're losing the argument, so you turn to brute force to shut down speech at all costs.
You are despicable.
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