GEICO gecko sez no to Glenn Beck

The GEICO gecko has decided he no longer can tolerate the lunatic rants of neo con talk show loon Glenn Beck.

In response to a campaign by ColorOfChange.org calling for a boycott of advertisers to Glenn Beck’s program after the loony toon commentator referred to President Obama as “a racist” who harbors a “deep-seated hatred for white people”, GEICO has decided it no longer feels comfortable financing fearmongering paranoia and has pulled its ads from Glenn Beck’s Fox News program.

The press release from Color of Change had this to say:

“On Tuesday, August 4, GEICO instructed its ad buying service to redistribute its inventory of rotational spots on FOX-TV to their other network programs, exclusive of the Glenn Beck program,” said a spokesperson for GEICO Corporate Communications in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “As of August 4, GEICO no longer runs any paid advertising spots during Mr. Beck’s program.”

“We applaud GEICO and all of the other companies who have stepped forward to pull their ads from Glenn Beck,” said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. “Beck’s rhetoric is dangerous to the fabric of our democracy, and we are heartened that so many big companies feel the same way. We won’t stop here — we’re going to continue our fight to see that as many of Beck’s advertisers pull their support as possible.”

GEICO joins LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson in pulling away from the hate filled rhetoric of Glenn Beck.

We’ve wasted time protesting to CNN over Lou Dobb’s fearmongering about healthcare, immigration and such. The key has always been to hit them where it hurts, in the revenue stream to get the results needed.

Is this an attempt to deny these demagogues their First Amendment Freedom of Speech. There are two areas of thought on that.

One can ask whether spreading slanderous falsehoods, misinformation and slanderous accusations is what the founding fathers intended when they wrote this amendment. But that was back in more genteel and polite times

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