13 Additional Dropped Sponsors For Glenn Beck Brings Total To 116
In a press release today, James Rucker of Color of Change noted the StopBeck effort’s success in pulling so many sponsors from Glenn Beck in the U.K. that his show has run ad-less for the last six consecutive days.
Color of Change also announced additional sponsors that dropped Glenn Beck in the United States. Thirteen of these sponsors were not already on our list of 103 dropped sponsors. When added, they bring the total number of dropped sponsors for Glenn Beck to 116.
These 13 additional sponsors are:
- Allstate Insurance
- Anheuser-Busch
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals (maker of Flomax)
- Brother International Corporation
- Idaho Potato Commission
- Intersections Inc.
- Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School
- Marriott International
- Republic of Macedonia
- United Healthcare
- US Fidelis
- Volkswagen
- Western Union
Please note that these sponsors ran ads a while back, but it is only now being confirmed that they pulled their ads.
Big props to Color of Change for getting these sponsors to stop subsidizing Glenn Beck’s hate. And, special thanks to all those participating in the StopBeck effort. Your tweets and emails to sponsors are having a significant and noticeable effect. Keep it up!
Company statements from Color of Change’s press release…
Allstate:
“While we do purchase advertising on Fox News Channel, we did not intentionally purchase commercials in or around the show, ‘The Glen [sic] Beck Program,’ nor do we sponsor the program,” said Jennifer L. Egeland, director of integrated marketing communications for Allstate Insurance Company, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “You should not expect to see Allstate advertising during this program in the future.”
Anheuser-Busch:
“Our company has not agreed to advertise during the Glenn Beck show,” said Johnny Furr, vice president of community affairs for Anheuser-Busch, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “We purchase advertising on the Fox News Channel for time slots other than this show, and the ad you saw inadvertently ran during that program.”
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals:
“Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. does not intend to advertise during the Glen [sic] Beck Show and has communicated this to the FOX network,” said Susan Holz, Senior PR Specialist for the company, in an email to ColorOfChange.org.
Brother International Corporation:
“Moving forward, Brother won’t have it on there [Beck's show],” said Peggy Carlton, account executive for Brother International at MS&L Worldwide, in a voice mail message to ColorOfChange.org. “Moving forward there won’t be any specifically on Glenn Beck.”
Idaho Potato Commission:
“It has been our long-standing policy to not advertise on any controversial programs,” said Frank Muir, President & CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “We have informed FOX that the Idaho Potato Commission will no longer advertise on the Glen [sic] Beck Show.”
Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School:
“I first learned about this controversy [in November] and asked Fox to take his show out of our rotation,” said Steve Schwartz, executive vice president of consumer services for Intersections, Inc., in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “We no longer advertise on Glenn Beck’s show.” Angela Loiacono, manager of corporate communications at Career Education Corporation (CEC), parent company of Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School, confirmed that CEC had asked Fox News not to allow its ads to run during Glenn Beck’s program. “Our commercials…should be off-air in mid-February,” said Loiacono in an email to ColorOfChange.org.
Marriott International:
“We do not intend to have any additional ad placements during the program,” said Jeff Flaherty, spokesperson for Marriott International, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “I’d like to point out that diversity and inclusion are core values at Marriott and an essential component of our success.”
Republic of Macedonia:
“Although we only have a few more spots left to air on Fox, we have requested that the remaining spots not be aired during Glenn Beck’s program,” said Natali Rancevic, a spokesperson for the Republic of Macedonia, Agency of Foreign Investments, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “Fox has agreed to honor our request.”
United Healthcare:
“Back in August of this year United Healthcare instructed FOX News to not run any of our ads during the Glenn Beck show,” said Lynne High, director of media relations, in an email to ColorOfChange.org.
US Fidelis:
“We are no longer advertising on this show or station,” said Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, marketing coordinator for US Fidelis, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “Thank you for bringing this to our attention.”
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about 3 years ago
Lets all do our part & keep up the good work!
about 2 years ago
PISS OFF! I make a ton of money and wont buy from these companies. Two can play that game brotha! I have a wakeboard boat that needs insurance.. Oh well, so much for Geico etc. I was going to switch to Allstate, buuut, I dont think so. Democrats who boycott America are piss poor sad. Move to Canada, oh, thats right, these companies wont work there either, because its all government money. You people are pathetic.
about 2 years ago
I like Glenn Beck. I already know most of what he is exposing on his show because I am also a true journalist. I investigate facts and fact check Beck often. I will never understand why you ignorant morons attack the man for simply telling the truth. It's just giving him more audience and no one believes liberals. They are a dying breed thanks to people like Savage and Beck who tell the truth. It's YOU people who assume (lie) that everything is about race, sex, ____-Phobia, etc..it's why you people are idiots. Hence- IDIOTS4OBAMA COM (YoU are wasting your time. You will make a fine scumbag trial lawyer democrat someday.) I will work my ass off until the day I die to make sure all of you liberal progressive left wing vermin are exposes as the racist, nasty, sick indiviuals you truly are. I will make sure to boycott all of these loser companies that caved into your fake racism claims. You people are human scum.
about 2 years ago
Try boycotting Obama he is the one taxing you to death, hes the one spending you and your grandchildrens money,he's the one stopping oil in America (job's) he is the one selling you down the river to the Saudi's it is a sin to say you are a Christian when you are lying because he like his Father are Muslims Beck is just looking out for your (America's) interest
about 2 years ago
My take on this is, “If you're a business and you want to sell to the public, you should stay out of all this “liberal, socialist BS”!” Does the First Amendment to the Constitution not apply to anyone but the liberals? Do you know the difference between the liberals and the rest of the people? The liberals believe that anyone that disagrees with them should be silenced. Everyone else believes that we all have right to free speech!
about 2 years ago
hmmmm….never seen Anheuser busch or Marriott or others have ads on that show and I have watched since he started with Fox in January 2009……more lies?
about 2 years ago
I really appreciate you listing all of the companies, as now I know which companies to no longer patronize. Making the excuse of calling Glenn Beck of causing trouble is ignorant. If you do not believe in what he says why don't you follow his challenge and look it up yourself? Once you find veritable proof that what he says is false, then I will be all ears.
about 2 years ago
You people are communists.
about 2 years ago
Glenn Beck is a racist and the worst kind. The people that follow his rhetoric should be ashamed to call themselves American. Advertisers know this is un American and will hurt their businesses and it should. He and Palin fall under the same heinous guise as members of neo Nazi and the notorious KKK. The only difference is they are without the sheets! They can spew their rhetoric all they want because the constitution gives them that right. We don't have to buy it though.
about 2 years ago
To Jamesnov13: You have claimed that Obama is taxing me to death. Well, actually I received a refund that was bigger than I was expecting due to the “Making Work Pay” tax credit; and if I had children or had been going to school, there would have been other nice incentives. And I have Obama to THANK for that, I'm not going to complain that – I'd have to be a MORON to do that. Did you know that when the teabaggers were rallying on April 15, the middle class received the lowest federal taxes they've seen in decades? Well they did. Do you know what the biggest complaint is about Obama and taxes? He's objected to the Republicans' eagerness to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country – the richest 1%. You see, he takes issue with $680 billion handed over to our country's wealthiest while the Republicans reject every single proposal to avoid deep cuts in public services and help to the middle class and small businesses. I know you can't hear me, Jamesnov13, but while I've been writing this, I am playing the world's smallest violin for you. If you don't want mail delivered, or roads, or schools, or libraries, or firefighters, or a life, then perhaps you should move to Alaska and join Pallin's husband and get involved in the secessionist movement he is a member of. If enough secessionists get together with the Palin family, they just break off from this country and you can take all the John Birch Society and David Koch-sucking Libertarians and right-wing hacks with you. Just don't ask us for any help when things go awry, we are too busy still, cleaning up enough messes dumped on us by the last Republican administration as it is.
about 2 years ago
Thanks for the list. I don’t watch Beck but I don’t like BULLIES who try to silence people who disagree with their point of view. Writing the companies’ CEO will be a fun thing to pass the time in a constructive way.
about 2 years ago
Any company that boycotts Beck will be boycotted by me
What do you progressives have against free speech?
about 2 years ago
Oh, this is a riot! “Whine! I’ma gonna boycot [sic] ebberbody on this here list!”
Let me know how that works out for you. When you won’t buy booze, drugs, or services from these advertisers. You might last a couple of months, tops.
Honeys, this is what Free Market is all about! Just as you have the right to “vote with your wallets”, so do the rest of us who SIGNED THE FLIPPING PETITIONS!!!!! This is what AMERICA is about, not the wealthiest 2% (greedy weasel ratballs that they are) running this country into the effing GROUND!
Just wait until the Rebaggers take the financial power and put it all into one of their own, with NO OVERSIGHT. Let me know how you like it when only HEALTHY, YOUNG, WHITE MEN can do anything anymore, while the REST OF US are ENSLAVED! Oh, and by the way, the Rebaggers sure as shooting won’t let you have YOUR GUNS when they get done destroying the Constitution.
about 2 years ago
the fact that you think Obama is “fighting to create jobs” shows you have no clue. For two years the democrats held the presidency and congress, they could have created jobs in their sleep if they wanted the republicians had no way to stop them. it is very easy to do; cut taxes, cut spending, cut regulation. the fact that they did not shows anyone with a brain that creating jobs is not their objective. you also miss the point about childrens future, the point is the spending by your marxist democrat buddies will lead to extremely high tax rates our children will have to pay.
about 2 years ago
What’s more effective: Deprivation of ad money, or obviously fake comments on a website?
Because I’m really not stupid enough to believe any of the pro-Beck comments are legitimate.
about 2 years ago
Perhaps the problem with Mr. Beck is that he says things which are true and just leaves out other things. As an example, he will tell two frivolous things that Obama did and neglect to mention what he is doing the other part of his day. That is truth but not the whole truth.
I find him offensive and would rather listen to a person who sees the good and bad on both sides.
They are out there.
about 2 years ago
Please publish a full list of those sponsors who decline to honor America’s commitment to the value of free speech. It will be a pleasure to withdraw my custom from them.
about 2 years ago
You are so right emptynst, I have alot of his shows on DVR and I believe I will go back and see just who does support him, and who left, might have to start a list of my own, I have no problem with changing where I shop…..Saw another list and Wal-Mart was on the list to stop running ads also.
about 2 years ago
It is not the federal governments job to create jobs, nor is it the governments job to provide healthcare, housing, rearing of your children, etc… Silly Democrat read the Constitution.
about 2 years ago
spoken like a true liberal, do you even know the definition of racist? Just curious.
about 2 years ago
No…no…you are stupid enough
about 2 years ago
Think maybe you should read the Constitution and understand it before commenting on its contents. Shallow…er…I mean singleminded.
A fellow Texan
about 2 years ago
We are so ashamed of Fox for putting their tail between their legs, and letting the liberal news media win…Who do we have now?….I can’t spell their names, but you have more dem.’s on Fox than you do repub….everyone we have talked to, ask this question who do we have now? It is so scarey now to know we will never hear the truth ..we have to never buy their products again… the places that are boycotting G. B.eck are bullies, and they can’t take the truth….TENNESSE
about 2 years ago
HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED UP THE FACTS THAT HE GIVES YOU EACH EVENING…IF YOU CAN PROVE HE IS WRONG ON ANYTHING HE HAS SAID THEN I WILL UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU COWARDS ARE DOING…SHAME ON YOU FOX……TENNESSE
about 2 years ago
What a bunch! Wow, the feds could have countered anything Glenn gleaned and did not, would not; in fact, everything he has said has come about. So…this is no longer “contraversial”. It is the game plan and either you are for this country or you are not. Business needs to “buck up” because they will lose in the end w/o capitalism. They may be the loudest, but they are NOT the majority…they being the Soros groups, etc.
about 2 years ago
Poor Ms. Susie. Nazis? KKK? you really are ignorant. To fight for our Constitution is not to be a racist, Nazi nor a KKK person. On the other hand, to be a Socialist/Communist or just plain “useful idiot” is not American nor does it comply w/the law of our land, the CONSTITUTION. A little studying would be helpful to you rather than simple parroting.
about 2 years ago
You are quite right. The wealthiest 2% who do not have to go into the great healthcare system nor do they have to be in anything else they deem appropriate for the masses but not themselves. Business and the government are working together regardless of the rhetoric you hear. We, the consumers and taxed are caught in the middle. Tried recently to get accountability from a company? With the advent of govenrment pushed computer answering, off-shore Customer Service people are incapable of getting satisfaction. Oh! the escalating rudeness can be attributed to this. By the way, what is the % of those in Government (fed, state, county, city) who receive protection (guns), pensions for life, healthcare greater then the payers (taxpayer), etc. Stop listening about how bad big business is and recognize that it is the joint relationship (lobbying) that is permitted by the same people who decry big business.
Our tax code would be quite different if it were not for the gov. workers ability to by “entertained” by lobbyists in order to get loopholes that the general taxpayer cannot get. We could actually have a pure, non-invasive tax code such as “fair tax”. Everything one buys is taxed but there is no other tax. Everyone pays. All careers; legal or otherwise are taxed. What I own or you own, etc. is nobodys’ business.
about 2 years ago
I couldn’t have said this better myself. Great response!
about 2 years ago
He doesn’t care about loosing sponsors, it’s called the Free Market, you wouldn’t understand?