At least 90 sponsors have already fled Glenn Beck.  If you need a reminder for why this might be happening, you need only look to Glenn Beck’s recent bigoted attack against India.  Media Matters offers this summary (emphasis added):

Thus, within the span of a few minutes, Beck implied that there are no quality medical schools in India; implied that medical care in India is a shoddy imitation of real health care; implied that the entire nation is an undeveloped backwater without even so much as indoor plumbing; and compared the Ganges River, a holy body of water for one of the world’s oldest and largest religions, to a disease.

What does this say about Beck’s respect for the millions of Indian-Americans living in the United States, let alone the Indian people? What does it say about his respect for the faith traditions of others?

For those sponsors that remain, this is the kind of bigotry that they are subsidizing and freely associating their brands with.

Explaining why American healthcare costs so much, Glenn Beck offered his thoughts:

The best I can figure is all that money goes to high-tech hospitals and doctors who studied at Harvard rather than Gajra Raja medical school. Oh sure, yeah, you know, it’s weird. You can buy a Gucci bag on any New York street corner for like four bucks. No different than the 3,000 dollar real thing. They’re identical!

Never mind that Gajra Raja was de-recognized by the Medical College of India. This fact would only get in the way of Glenn Beck’s insult to an entire country’s medical system by reducing it down to a school that it already de-recognized.  Ironically, Glenn Beck cites his “research” as he carried on his bigoted attack, saying:

And also, in our research that it took us, oh about 40 seconds, we figured out that some of that money here in America winds up in the pocket of a skilled doctor that helps off-set the 20 years of schooling that he endured and the loans he took out. And – you’re not going to believe this one, Karlyn – some of that money seems to go to the 1 million SEIU workers in the healthcare industry that make slightly more here than in India. Because, you know, they have an American lifestyle, maybe a couple of cars, great union benefits, and homes with something that we in America like to call flush toilets.

When sponsors hide behind the ‘we don’t like to get involved in politics’ line, I remind them that this isn’t about politics – it’s about decency.  There is absolutely nothing political in Glenn Beck’s suggestion that India is uncivilized.  Nor was there anything political in Glenn Beck’s parting shot at the Hindu religion, where he said (emphasis added):

I don’t want a discounted doctor. I don’t want discounted wages. I don’t want any of this stuff. If I wanted to live in India, I’d live in India. I want not the Indian lifestyle, I want the American lifestyle. I’m sure, no offense to India, I’m sure it’s beautiful and everything. I’ve heard especially this time of year, especially by the - you know that one big river they have there that sounds like a disease? Come on, it does. I mean, if somebody said, ‘I’m sorry, you have a really bad case of Ganges,’ you’d want Cipro.“

I wonder how Glenn Beck would feel about a Mormon holy site (his religion) being compared to a disease.  I imagine he wouldn’t appreciate it, but that certainly doesn’t stop Beck from denigrating other faiths.

Video of Glenn Beck’s bigoted attack: