Bill O’Reilly had Glenn Beck on his FNC program tonight for what could best be described as a tag team effort to discredit the Color of Change boycott of advertisers on Beck’s show. O’Reilly claimed that the boycott was being carried out by “left wing loons.” Beck blamed Van Jones, and the commies in the Obama administration.
Here is the video courtesy of Media Matters:
O’Reilly said, “You may remember that earlier this year a fanatical left pressure group called Think Progress tried to get sponsors to boycott The O’Reilly Factor. That effort failed dismally, now Glenn Beck is under fire from another crazy group founded by a guy who is working inside the Obama administration.”
Bill-O continued the spin job by later saying, “You’ve got far left loons are over the place in this country, and they want to hurt you and they want to hurt me, because they don’t really believe in freedom of speech, the far left loons. They want to hear what they want and if you oppose them, they hate you.”
Beck went on the attack against Van Jones. Beck admitted that he didn’t know if Jones was targeting him but said, “I have been telling the truth about this guy for some time. This guy is our new green jobs czar, and he is a self proclaimed communist revolutionary, named his four year old son after a Marxist guerilla out of Africa…believes that Mao Zedong was a great guy. He is now in the White House as a special advisor.”
Instead of being a radical group as Beck and O’Reilly charge, here is what Color of Change does according to their website, “ColorOfChange.org is comprised of Black folks from every economic class, as well as those of every color who seek to help our voices be heard. Our members are united behind a simple, powerful pledge: we will do all we can to make sure all Americans are represented, served, and protected—regardless of race or class.”
So Beck and O’Reilly considers a group that is out to politically organize minorities to be radical. Something tells me that if Color of Change was a bunch of white people backing Republicans, Beck and O’Reilly would be praising them. If I understand this correctly, Beck is having his free speech violated, even though he still has his show and is free to say whatever he wants because some advertisers left him.
Notice how Glenn and Bill conveniently ignore the fact that the boycott started when Beck called Obama a racist on Fox and Friends. Advisers aren’t leaving Beck because of communists in the White House. They are leaving Beck because race based politics scares the hell out of corporate America. Beck brought this all on himself.
This segment tonight was the beginning of the Fox News push back against the boycott. They are going to try to frame it as a bunch of radical lefties out to get Beck. Unlike the Think Progress boycott of O’Reilly which did have very little success, the Color of Change boycott has worked. FNC can try to spin this any way they want, but it has been a constant headache for Beck and the network.
Beck’s ratings have only gone up since this “boycott.” Fox News, according to their spokesman, has lost zero revenue dollars from this boycott. This is actually having the opposite impact.
A company shifting ads to other shows is only going to create an influx of companies looking to capitalize on Beck’s incredible ratings, AND increase revenue on other Fox shows. The bottom line will only go UP unless companies vacate Fox all together, which is not going to happen on any large scale.
Beck says some off the wall stuff, no doubt.
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Actually, at this point what I would do is show this clip to the corporate sponsors who dropped Beck and say that O’Reilly just called them loons for voicing that they didn’t want Beck tied to their brand name.
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” discredit color of change ? ”
Ok, Mr. Beck, Mr O……go grab a copy of ” past and/or current ” beck shows, specifically, ” Glenn Beck Calls Obama A Racist “.
There is no one or anything to ” discredit ” or to blame other than Beck himself. If having color of change involved makes any sponsor feel differently toward the boycott, per Beck’s ” conspiracy ” that members of the group may or may not be connected to the White House in one form or another…………and are making up or as Beck must be implying….Obama’s Hit men put words in Becks mouth and made him by force say disgraceful and distasteful things, on multiple shows, at different air times, etc, that there is NO TRUTH behind the groups ” good intentions “, I’ll be happy to post each advertisers email address, along with a template email message and we can bypass color of change’s involvement…………if Mr B and O are going to play victims here.
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[...] Killer Ted Stevens Up a Creek Without a Paddle Bill O’Reilly Chris Dodd Fight Fight Fight! Beck and O’Reilly Blame Left Wing Loons and Communists for Advertiser Boycott – politicususa.com 08/27/2009 Bill O’Reilly had Glenn Beck on his FNC program tonight for what [...]
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That won’t help, Beck already put the progressives in with the ‘loons’ on his little chart, and this is a ‘progressive’ website. Heck, a GOP group could mail it and he’d somehow connect them with communists. Everyone is connected to some kind of criminal, all you got to do is make enough stretches here and there.
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[...] Beck and O’Reilly Blame Left Wing Loons and Communists for Advertiser Boycott | Politicususa.com http://www.politicususa.com/en/O-Reilly-Beck – view page – cached Bill O’Reilly had Glenn Beck on his FNC program tonight for what could best be described as a tag team effort to discredit the Color of Change boycott of advertisers on Beck’s show. O’Reilly claimed that the boycott was being carried out by “left wing loons.” Beck blamed Van Jones, and — From the page [...]
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by their logic, anyone who does not have a multi billion dollar media platform off of which to spew their crazy is having their first amendment rights violated right? But really, back to reality, these guys have every right to say whatever insanity they can dream up so long as they aren’t yelling theater! in a crowded fire
That does not imply the right to have a well funded communication network syndicate it across the planet. There are ‘left wing loons all over the country’ if you look at the 08 electoral results, and its quite sad that the gop’r playbook has yet to change at all, once again, push the ’southern strategy’ and dust off the script for Red Scare v3.0, really? Communists? I thought the new boogeyman was Terrorists, which worked out nicely for them, since as a threat they pale in comparison to an ‘actual’ global superpower that Russia once was, yet somehow justify even more military spending than the Russian threat did, odd ain’t it that moderately funded technologically backward guerrillas inspire more defense spending than a nation that had an actual warmachine?
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are you saying its okay for obama to have surrounded himself with loons and commies? argue you can, but a background is a background.. it must really iritate you loons that the majority of america watches oreilly and beck.. you can’t stand the fact you are a minority.. fox news had more viewers than the rest combined. america votes with their remotes….. there are so few of you that watch or listen to cnn,msnbc, or air america.. no -one watches or listens to them. just the fact jack…….as fAR AS THE PRESS RELEASE ABOUT BECK LOSING SPONSERS-BUNCH OF CRAP,, MOST NEVER EVER HAD A COMMERCIAL ON THE SHOW SO HOW COULD THEY HAVE DROPPED THEM. STUPID LOONS..
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A company has the right to offer to spend money with whomever they wish to push their product, that’s called the free market. Funny, if these folks see sponsoring or advertising with a show may damage their profit making potential and leave they are now censors. There’s that free market argument out the window. What is really the kick here, Bill O called for boycotts of numerous news papers that printed op-eds he didn’t like. (Op-Eds)= editors opinions. My personal favorite his boycott of the Houston Chronicle. The editor gave an op-ed Bill said he was referred to, that was unflattering to the Bush Admin. He called for a boycott of a paper he doesn’t even read. But somehow that is his right, not yours Mr. and Mrs. America.
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Majority of Americans is quite off the mark. A majority of republicans watch Fox News. Most liberals are busy in gainful pursuits that are beneficial to their fellows and therefore do not spend hours in front of the TV watching someone validate their pov. O’Reilly’s frequent calls for boycotts of any media that does not hold a right wing opinion makes Mr. O a hypocrite. What I find singularly bizarre is that Beck and Mr. O and The Fat Mean radio guy often make hypocritical leaps seemingly forgetting all their vitriol has been digitally recorded for posterity. Mr. O once proclaimed that speaking out against the Iraq war was an act of treason. Now he whines because the republican guard is out of office in America. Beck blasted the healthcare companies when he was injured, but now is the flag bearer for the healthcare business. Go figure.
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I am a firm believer in free speech, but I am also a staunch supporter of the truth. This is the problem with Fuchs Noose. The entertainers lie to their audience, the viewers buy into these lies, the entertainers laugh at them behind their backs and make large deposits into their bank accounts. Fuchs Noose fuchs it’s viewers over and saddles them with a noose of lies and ignorance, making them an international laughingstock. I will not accept that Murdoch and his cabal of entertainers don’t know the facts. They do. They’ve made FN a network of censorship and propaganda and have reaped huge profits doing it. If their viewers think FN cares about them, they are in for a rude awakening.
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My understanding is that all this additional press has made Beck even more popular. His ratings are soaring right now, he has not reason to start acting sane, he’s making a killing.
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