StarKist Becomes 102nd Sponsor To Drop Glenn Beck
Last week, Glenn Beck lost his 100th (Honda) and 101st (Best Western) sponsors. Additionally, Mr. Beck came under a fire from a coalition of civil rights groups for his suggestion that Pres. Obama’s name, Barack, is un-American.
This morning, StarKist (tuna) became the 102nd sponsor to drop Glenn Beck.
StarKist’s statement (emphasis added):
Our television media purchases are dictated by our marketing plan and are chosen based on time of day, such as early morning (6:00 – 10:00 a.m.) or primetime (8:00 to 11:00 p.m.); channel (ABC, Lifetime, ESPN, etc.) and audience demographics.
We do not dictate what program is on when our commercial airs. But we do frequently evaluate our media purchases to ensure that the programs we choose match our brand’s target demographics and overall advertising plan. In doing so, we have chosen to not air our commercial during Glenn Beck’s program going forward given a number of alternatives that meet our advertising plan’s criteria.
Thanks again for your inquiry.
StarKist Consumer Affairs
consumeraffairs@starkist.com
When will media stop ignoring Glenn Beck’s continued sponsor loss? When will they start asking Fox News to account for Mr. Beck’s vitriolic, sexist and racially charged tirades?
A list of 102 sponsors that dropped Glenn Beck can be found here.
Many thanks to all those participating in this effort! Great work all. Let’s keep this momentum going…
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about 1 month ago
I hear that the DNC won’t even advertise on the Glenn Beck show. Poor Glenn. He is only getting his message out to 3 million people (give or take) each night. The few people who are trying to take out thier Obumbler frustrations on Glenn Beck need to get a job, or crawl out of grandma’s basement, or whatever hole you’re living in and get a life.
about 1 month ago
Dan, sounds like you’re projecting. You have the time to comment and whine about this? Perhaps you should move out of mommy’s basement and ask for your job back at McDonald’s.
about 1 month ago
@Dan… you’re comment is so incredibly dumb it’s no wonder you’re a fan of Glenn Beck. I often wondered how big of an idiot you need to be to take this “rodeo clown” seriously but your tired response answered that question. Obviously, Beck’s audience consists of imbeciles with zero critical thinking skills who couldn’t spot a logical fallacy if it bit them on the ass, and childishly want to blame all the ills and problems we have on “those who are not like us…” in some way. (Now where in history have we heard this happen before…?) Because you are obviously feeble-minded, the “Father Coughlins” of the world have great influence over your way of thinking, and the /masters/ of the new breed of Father Coughlins use you as their useful idiots.
about 1 month ago
Did anyone else hear Glen Beck talking about a person “with their orifices sewn shut” like a VERMONT TEDDY BEAR? And he went on to talk about a doctor bear holding severed feet? Then finally–someone being buried in a Vermont Teddy Bear t-shirt? It was grotesque. I think it was a way of riffing on Obama’s healthcare
proposals but I’m not sure. Is this the kind of promotion Mr. Beck’s
sponsors are paying for?
about 4 weeks ago
Fox News Daily Checklist
Fox and Friends
Read a stupid poem from a redneck moron
Insult the President and make some thinly veiled racial remarks
Stick up for whatever stupid thing Palin did yesterday
Cackle
Act stupid (for those who need to act)
Invite other Fox personalities to fill the time with anti-Obama rhetoric
Do a report that degrades blacks
Do a real American story like the one about the cop who quit his job to go make big bucks in Iraq as a mercenary and got his feet blown off, what a patriot!
Americas Newsroom
Make thinly veiled anti-Obama reports based on other Fox News shows
Do as many reports as possible that ridicule Democrats
Make racial comments
Do an stupid animal story so that people will think that the Fox agenda isn’t just to hamper the administration
Neil Cavuto
Ask rhetorical questions that ridicule the administration
Invite has beens and experts on to agree with anti-Obama rhetoric
Invite a neo-Democrat and don’t cut him off unless he disagrees with you
Find a way to blame 30 years of poor economic policy on twelve months of Obama policy
Make thinly veiled racial comments
Glenn Beck
Contradict yourself
Pretend to like O’Reilly
Stick up for Palin and explain away her daily gaffes
Find a link between Ghengis Kahn, Mao, Hitler, and Stalin to link to democrats and Obama
Make one light anti-Republican comment to pretend that you’re impartial
When you lose your script idea do theatrics to hide your anguish
Incite violence
Pretend to have religion
Interview some thieving conniving loser like Rove, Gingrich, or Luntz
Make thinly veiled racial remarks
Apply the daily scare the dumbfuck tactic for your retarded audience
Bill O’Reilly
Pretend you’re not a pompous elitist that manipulates rednecks for ratings
Pretend you like anyone including yourself
In your talking points say something in support of Obama so as to demonstrate that you’re “no-spin” like “Obama could be a good president if he wasn’t a negro asshole”
Yell down anyone you disagree with
Suck Beck’s ass
Don’t get caught “off mike”, saying that you really think your viewers are white trash
Pretend to be religious
Do some ass kissing séances with some of the Fox News blond bimbo clones
Pretend to be on the same intellectual level as Dennis Miller
Sean Hannity
Repeat your four talking points
Tell people that you’re not a Republican shill
Say some good things about Reagan who was a bad actor puppet president 15 years ago
Have some of the paid Fox moron commentators like Krauthammer agree with you
Talk about the military like you’re a patriot or like you had the balls to serve your country
Kiss Palin’s and Gingrich’s ass
Make excuses for the daily remarks of the right wing morons
Try to make the brain dead that watch you believe that the tea party movement isn’t the kkk
Make believe you believe in God
Prove to the world that you’re an asshole by denying climate change and pollution
Play country music to appease your HeeHaw watching audience
Try to speak intelligently
Introduce Greta Van Rictus and pretend to have a sense of humour
Invite right wing radical douchebags like O’Keefe to prove that birds of a feather….
Have a séance called great American panel with your idea of Americans (douchebags)
Greta Van Susteren
Don’t smile to wide you’ll rip your cheeks
Ask inane questions
Invite the same paid commentators to pretend that you have an un-rehearsed discussion
Try not to bore people to death
Whine and pretend you don’t understand
Shill for the Republicans on capitol hill
Pretend to be moderate, as the script suggests
Do not turn your head violently you’ll rip your neck open
Keep your teeth clenched
Invite at least one fat piece of shit like Rove nightly
Sheppard Smith
Stutter
Misread
Do a couple of non agenda stories
Report on an animal story
Make sure to say Fox “journalists”, maybe someone will believe you
Try not to show how you wished you were on a real news show
Loser Liars and Has been List for Potential Guests
Fatfuck Rove who counselled Bush to screw America
Dick my daughter’s a lesbo Cheney who started a war for his own profit
Oliver contra scandal North
Fat boy Frank never been laid Luntz strategist to the mentally challenged
Charles brain dead Krauthammer
Michelle thai whore lookalike Malkin venom spewing lesbian bitch
Ann wouldn’t fuck that slut with your dick Coulter openly racist ratings whore
Rudy dumbfuck Giuliani delusional philanderer and inarticulate fear monger
Mike let the killers free Huckabee and the little Rednecks
Fox and Friends Poem
In days of yore like on a holy quest
Reporters reported and did their best
Fox and Friends of their own free wills
Read their script as good Republican shills
Greta Van Rictus is it info or intox
Not always sure but we know of Botox
Inane and whining her stupidity will astound
Her intellectual level it’s “pants on the ground”
Good old Glenn Beck he’s a patriot we’re told
Shills for Limbaugh and Palin and even for gold
Arguing with idiots he titled his best seller
Then plagiarized a real author
To write a Christmas sweater
Beck uses real history and real events
Then twists reality for the hatred he vents
Believe in God do you Mr Beck
If so you know your destination and it isn’t called heck
Preying on retards is not very nice
Shitting on your country is even less
We all know that whores come with a price
But giving advice when your own life’s a mess
Please shut the fuck up you sorry fat man
You know not the meaning of American
Speak not in the name of the honest and free
Americans don’t sell out their country even for a fee
The advertisers are fleeing your diatribe is too crass
You are as your sickness, a real bleeding ass
Hannity’s America now what could that be
A country where only racists have the right to live free
Giuliani and O’Keefe and Sean do make three
Ignorance loves company and so it shall be
Nightly you repeat the same litany
Open racism hate and bigotry
Your morals and ideas of our great country
Will be your undoing just wait and see
So thank no more war vets with false piety
Cuz you didn’t have the balls to serve the army
Just shut the fuck up and leave quietly
America doesn’t want your crap Hannity
O’Reilly you phony mick, you ooze self loathing
Pretzel logic and bias are all that you know
Whilst at Harvard you must have been loafing
Who gave you a degree with an IQ so low
Why defecate on your own country you pompous ass
Will you do anything for gain like the proverbial whore
Make fun of Jon Stewart and his smokers of grass
But when Americans wake up your show’ll be no more
Nightly you praise your self and crow about ratings
But it’s just selling snake oil and constant race baiting
You’re proud of your reach you Fox ratings slut
I’d like to have five minutes to kick your butt
Get your buddy Glenn and go on a long trip
And before you leave I’ll give you a tip
Just shut up and listen and don’t throw a fit
We just don’t need you guys your both full of shit
O rich Saudi prince please leave us alone
We have suffered enough and do not condone
A right wing propaganda channel run by an Aussie
With rhetoric and hate speech like that of a Nazi
Call Ailes and tell him he’s fired
Fox’s diatribe has all Americans tired
We have enough problems without your assistance
And bigots and scum will always meet resistance
Buy a football team or something equally sundry
And shut down Fox and stop ruining our country
about 4 weeks ago
ha ha! Obumbler!!! That was so funny (and original) that I could barely finish reading Dan’s post. Fortunately I had already read the part where Dan seemed to be suggesting that because Beck has 3 million viewers that confers some sort of legitimacy on him. Perhaps Dan is too young to remember, but Gilligan’s Island drew far more than 3 million viewers, so that must mean Gilligan was an even more savvy and credible political pundit (granted, it wasn’t a political show, but there were references to government from time to time). Alas, I was so shaking with laughter about the Obumbler crack that I failed to follow Dan’s logic that anyone who criticizes Beck is in fact taking out their “Obumbler frustrations” on poor little Glenn and further that we are all jobless and live in grandma’s basement. (Both my grandmas are dead, by the way, so living in her basement is not even an option for me. And lucky, too, or else I’d have do dig out from more than six feet under to get out to go to work every morning.) Apparently Dan didn’t actually read the article since it clearly states it is Beck’s vitriolic and racially charged rhetoric (for instance, slyly inciting violence and assassination) that is objectionable. Another indicator that he was merely spouting off in classic knee-jerk fashion (duh, they criticize Glenn, they bad people) rather than composing a thoughtful, reasoned response is that people at StarKist and Honda and a hundred others companies who make advertising decisions and write letters to cancel their sponsorship by definition have jobs, thereby exposing Dan’s “get a job” comment for the “Oh, yeah?!”-quality argument that it is.
about 3 weeks ago
Star-Kist, a big share holder is Nancy Pelosi’s husband, duh I wonder why they canceled Beck. If you watched Beck you would agree instead of being a kool-aid drinker
about 3 weeks ago
Maybe if you “stopped” watching Beck your brain would heal and you’d realize that most of what Beck says or aludes too is no more credible than the e-mail you got about $10 million needing your help to get out of Congo. Try learning how to read Snopes.com of Factcheck.org
about 3 weeks ago
Another mentally deficient with limited thought capability! Only an idiot would think that ONE shareholder could get Glenn the moron tanked for sponsership. You idiots can not think your way out of a paper bag. Even if it was called Pelosi’s tuna instead of Star Kist, what about the 101 others Beck has lost?? Think about that dumb ass! LOL!
about 3 weeks ago
I emailed Starkist to thank them for this decision. I’m going to do the same with a lot of the other sponsors. I think it would help a lot if a lot of people did that. That way, the companies would hear from people who agree with their decision and not just the angry Fox News fans.
about 3 weeks ago
The web has tweets saying Starkist, Best Western were never sponsors. I beg to disagree as I viewed the ads myself, emailed the companies and they responded to my email. Please set the tweeters straight.