Seattle PI: Beck Returns to Air, Does Not Address Advertiser Fallout over Obama Remarks

[Heidi]

Monday, August 24, 2009
Last updated 3:25 p.m. PT

Talk show host Glenn Beck returned to the air Monday, but did not address the advertiser boycott that began after he called President Barack Obama a racist.

Beck, who had been away on a planned vacation, didn't shy away from making other controversial statements upon his return, however. Launching a weeklong series called "The New Republic: America's Future," Beck opened the show by encouraging viewers to tell their friends to watch his show with a pen and paper because he was going to ask "reasonable questions for unreasonable times."

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Glenn Beck Program returned with 36 fewer advertisers, according to ColorofChange.org, the group leading the boycott against Beck's show. But some companies are going further than just pulling ads from Beck's show. Clorox, for example, said in a statement to Politico that the company doesn't want to be "associated with inflammatory speech used by either liberal or conservative talk show hosts."

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[zbdent]

1. Clorox should be aware that, should any "liberal" talk show host say something remotely

controversial about Republicans, they are immediately attacked and forced to apologize ...

"Conservative" talk show hosts saying anything really nasty about Obama gets more and more money from the Religious Right.