Help put this racist hate-monger "patriot" out of business:
From their email:
Beck attacked ColorOfChange's co-founder, Van Jones, for weeks, exaggerating and distorting Van's record on 16 shows as well as devoting an entire segment to discrediting him.
Beck presented his attacks on Van as honest journalistic inquiry, while dishonestly failing to mention that Van co-founded the group leading a successful advertiser boycott against him. Last week, Van resigned from his job as the White House Special Adviser on Green Jobs rather than force the administration to deal with Beck's politically-motivated attacks.3
Also last week, another Obama official, Yosi Sergant, was demoted from his post at the National Endowment for the Arts after being attacked viciously by Beck.4 And Beck has made it clear he's got other targets.5
Our campaign is working. Respectable companies don't want to be associated with Beck or support his show with their dollars. It's resulting in a major loss of funding for his show, and at the same time making it clear that Beck's race-baiting and fear-mongering are far outside the mainstream.
The longer Beck stays isolated, the more of a problem he'll be for Fox, and the less he'll be able to spread his lies and distortions. If we can keep the pressure on, Fox will have to make a choice: 1) drop Beck because it doesn't make business sense to keep him; or 2) communicate to the world that they're so intent on providing a platform for race-baiting and fear-mongering that they don't care if they lose money (a serious problem for a public company like News Corporation, the owner of Fox).
More than ever, it's time to keep the pressure on. You can help by joining us in thanking the advertisers that have stopped supporting Glenn Beck, and calling on those whose ads are still running on his show to follow suit:
colorofchange.org/beck/ [colorofchange.org/beck/] hold/?id=2072-1078608
Thanks and Peace,
-- James, Gabriel, William, Dani and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
September 16th, 2009
References
1. "Beck caps off week of race-baiting by calling Obama a 'racist,'" Media Matters for America, 7-30-2009
mediamatters.org [mediamatters.org] research/200907300019
2. Propreitary study conducted by leading media monitoring organization using industry-standard data.
(for press inquiries, contact beckstudy@colorofchange.org.)
3. "White House Official Resigns After G.O.P. Criticism," New York Times, 9-06-09
nytimes.com/2009/ [nytimes.com/2009/] 09/07/us/politics/07vanjones.
4. "Beck Strikes Again; Yosi Sergant Reassigned at NEA," Washington Post, 9-10-2009
tinyurl.com/oa5oyn [tinyurl.com/oa5oyn]
5. @glennbeck on Twitter, 9-03-09
twitter.com/glennbeck/ [twitter.com/glennbeck/] status/3749169499
