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Group Boycotts FOX News Program
August 12th, 2009 Renowned Barack basher Glenn Beck is facing a boycott after telling his FOX News audience that President Obama hates White people. “This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for White people … This guy is, I believe, a racist,” Beck said in an appearance on the “Fox & Friends” morning show on July 28. He was commenting on Obama’s reaction to the arrest of Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates by White Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley 12 days earlier. Following the quip, more than 75,000 members of the public advocacy group Color of Change signed a petition demanding that advertisers yank their support from FOX’s “The Glenn Beck Show.” <span style="font-weight: bold">It appears that the boycott already is beginning to work. BlackAmericaWeb.com reports that so far three of the nightly show’s reported 200 companies have pulled their ads – NexisLexis-owned Lawyers.com, Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance. </span>“We have no problems with freedom of speech,” James Rucker, executive director of 600,000-member Color of Change, told the Web site. “We do have problems with outright lies that play to the fears of many. What we are saying to them is that you serve a large population of people who find the message of Glenn Beck to be racially divisive. Do you want your brand associated with this type of message?”
August 12th, 2009 Renowned Barack basher Glenn Beck is facing a boycott after telling his FOX News audience that President Obama hates White people. “This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for White people … This guy is, I believe, a racist,” Beck said in an appearance on the “Fox & Friends” morning show on July 28. He was commenting on Obama’s reaction to the arrest of Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates by White Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley 12 days earlier. Following the quip, more than 75,000 members of the public advocacy group Color of Change signed a petition demanding that advertisers yank their support from FOX’s “The Glenn Beck Show.” <span style="font-weight: bold">It appears that the boycott already is beginning to work. BlackAmericaWeb.com reports that so far three of the nightly show’s reported 200 companies have pulled their ads – NexisLexis-owned Lawyers.com, Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance. </span>“We have no problems with freedom of speech,” James Rucker, executive director of 600,000-member Color of Change, told the Web site. “We do have problems with outright lies that play to the fears of many. What we are saying to them is that you serve a large population of people who find the message of Glenn Beck to be racially divisive. Do you want your brand associated with this type of message?”
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