Monday, August 24, 2009

Beck Boycott Still Strong Despite Host's Hiatus

If anyone thought the boycott against Glenn Beck was going to die down after the Fox "news" channel took him off the air for just a week, they are mistaken big time.
Reports the Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel after a vacation on Monday with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.
A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago.

Hate speech has no place in our airwaves, and what Beck and others on the right, especially on Fox, have been peddling is hate speech. It has nothing to do with encouraging free debate on issues critical to society.

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