Brace yourself if you’re a fan of a particular news show host with obvious emotional problems who can’t tell truth from fiction, nor remember what he said one minute ago (as in, “Obama has a deep-seated hatred of white people,” followed 75 seconds later by “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people”). That’s right, we’re talking about Glenn Beck, who has just lost GMAC Financial Services as an advertiser.
GMAC becomes the 11th advertiser to pull its commercials from the Glenn Beck show; like others who’ve pulled out of the show, GMAC will re-distribute those ad dollars to other FoxNews shows. GMAC joins 10 other advertisers who’ve cut their ties to Glenn Beck, including Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargento, Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, ConAgra, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and Radio Shack.
Two quick notes here: Most of the revenue for cable/satellite channels is derived from the subscribers, while advertising revenue, although substantial, isn’t those channels’ No. 1 source of dollars, so none of this is the major blow to Beck some progressive bloggers seem to think it is. Also, this writer fears that if Beck were to be canceled by Fox (which is doubtful), he would no doubt become even more paranoid, if that’s possible, and God knows where that could lead — maybe to an even more unhinged Beck with a Webcast in which he finally comes out of the nutcase closet and wears his tinfoil hat with pride?
This article appears in Aug 11-18, 2009.
FYI Frank, Walmart pulled ads from Beck’s show as well. Betcha didn’t see that coming!
Frank,Frank it’s getting old. Did Glenn tell you to post that crap or was it Ron Paul, You really need new stuff. I hear Glenn’s held up in a motel room in NJ crying, Police say he will not come out until his “912 malitia” promise to not to hate him for being as strong as they(Thats you Frank) have been..
I just hope he brought a fifth of whiskey and some pills with him…
Also Frank, all ratings mean is there are a lot of dumb people in the country.
I like Beck when he exposes the economic frauds like the income tax and the Federal Reserve.
I dont like the white male victom crap he wants to portray so much. Such a turn off. We already have a black Jesse Jackson, dont need a white one.