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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 02:30 PM
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Tell corporate America to stop sponsoring hate
From Americablog:

I wrote late last night about CNN host Glenn Beck's latest flirtation with intolerance. Now I'd like you to contact his sponsors.

After having suggested that Muslim-Americans are working with the terrorists, that the word "faggot" isn't really much of a slur, that women should be referred to by their weight, that he "hates" the families of the victims of September 11, that Hurricane Katrina victims are "scumbags," and oh so much more, Beck is now opining on the "whiteness" of Barack Obama.

You see, according to CNN's host, Senator Obama is so "colorless... he might as well be white."

Now, it's one thing to suggest that Obama is an African-American candidate who white Americans find comfortable, and I think that's true. But considering the source - a guy who has shown his intolerance to Muslim-Americans, gays, and women - these new comments about black people being white are troubling. Glenn Beck is not a guy who has devoted his life, or TV show, to trying to understand the nuances in multi-cultural America in a non-threatening, tolerant way.

Please go to Chris Achorn's blog, read Beck's comments for yourself, then use the information he provides to contact Beck's advertisers. And don't settle for the BS that Best Buy is claiming (and I'm sure others will as well), that they never "chose" to have their ads run on his show. Fine, then direct your ad buyer to tell CNN to never run your ads on his show again. It's quite simple, really.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/02/action-alert-tell-corporate-america-to.html

Addresses to advertisers and other comments at the above link
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 02:40 PM
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1. Thanks for the link!
That asshole beck must be stopped. And if it takes an all out boycott of his sponsors, then so be it.
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