UK supermarket pulls ads from Fox News after customers complain about Beck.
UK supermarket pulls ads from Fox News after customers complain about Beck.
Upscale British supermarket chain Waitrose has announced that it will no longer be advertising on Fox News in the U.K. because of Glenn Beck’s comments that President Obama hates white people. The decision came after Waitrose shoppers complained:
An angry Waitrose shopper who emailed the chain to express his distaste over its decision “to be associated with this particular form of rightwing cant” received an apology last week.
“We take the placement of our ads in individual programmes very seriously, ensuring the content of these programmes is deemed appropriate for a brand with our values,” said a customer services spokesman. “Since being notified of our presence within the Glenn Beck programme, we have withdrawn all Waitrose advertising from the Fox News channel with immediate effect and for all future TV advertising campaigns.”
A spokesman for the supermarket, which is part of the John Lewis Partnership, could not tell the Guardian how many complaints had been received over the matter. “We believe it was the right thing to do,” he said, adding: “We take the views of our customers seriously.”
Since Color of Change launched its campaign targeting Beck’s advertisers, 62 companies have pulled their support from his show.
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This is what I like to see. Not just pulling ads from Beck’s show, but pulling ads from the entire Fox network.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pmWow. So the Becky toxin has begun seeping into environments overeas now.
That’s some powerful bad wingnuttery.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pmspin this crazy legs!
October 5th, 2009 at 1:28 pmGlenn should have stopped before he threw himself off the cliff, he’ll be back stealing christmas decorations from one town to put up in the third rate, backwater town, he ends up in as a DJ on the AM dial, doing the midnight shift.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pmCrazy Eggs, you’re having a pretty bad day. Is there anything I can do to make it worse?
October 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pmSponsors pulling just out of Beck’s show wasn’t enough to catch Fox’s attention. However, this British company may have started a trend, hopefully.
Couple that with other right-wing pundits starting to go after Beck, and it may only be a matter of time before Beck becomes even too toxic for Ailes.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pmIf even one sponsor pulls thier advertisement money it means something. Kid yourself but don’t try to shit us.
drip drip drip of people showing you the door. You lose because it’s inevitable. You’re just not smart enough to know it.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pmOh-oh. Glenda’s going to throw a hissy-fit over this. Looks like Waitrose will be added to his list of favorite whipping-boys . . . GE, MSNBC, Obama, etc.
He might even have to slather on some VapoRub and have a crying fit over this one.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pmimagine being so weak and stupid as to be a fan of Beck
(of course, lazyeggs doesn’t have to imagine)
why so weak and stupid, lazyeggs?
October 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pmPoor Crazy Legs… tries to express his anger by voting down every progressive comment… too bad his votes down don’t even last as long as a child’s sand castle built too close to the tide line…
October 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pmI didn’t know they got him over there. I can’t imagine how it would make any sense to any of them.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pmGood, the kind of vile spew hatewinger propaganda from Beck has no place on the public airwaves.
But he still have a job doing CRAZY for the uneducated lemming morons on fox.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pmI actually think people need to go after Beck’s advertisers on the radio. The radio is still his bread and butter, and I haven’t heard of any group targeting those advertisers.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pmBlimey! Now the Brits are rejecting a Rupert owned Corporation? Bloody Hell!
October 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pmSomeone remind me again, does the water in the toilet spiral down clockwise, or counterclockwise.
Hold your breath Gleckky.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pmI didn’t know they got him over there. I can’t imagine how it would make any sense to any of them.
It doesn’t make any sense in this country. Why should it be any different for the British?
lol
October 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pmI didn’t realize FOX LIES had a presence across the pond either ElBruce. Would seem to be rather contrarion for them.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pmThey think they are too smart for us Ralph. They don’t realize just how transparent they are to anyone with a single brain cell.
I guess cl doesn’t have any friends or we would get more than just the one token vote down. When that happens, I chuckle.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:38 pmCL, Elroy called, and he wants his moniker back.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:39 pmOkay, everyone vote up #20. We’ll call today “Opposites Day”.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:40 pmPurpleState, sorry too late…
October 5th, 2009 at 1:41 pmBwa ha ha.
Now, it’s a damn shame that the “conservatives” in this country can’t emulate the Conservatives in Britain. You know, being able to effectively debate policy and even find ways to improve government…rather than scream and cry that the President hates white people and secretly wants to take money from rich white people and give it to poor black people for slavery reparations.
I still wouldnt vote Conservative in the UK…but they’re a reputable party, at least. Unlike our GOP…
October 5th, 2009 at 1:42 pmCrazy Legs @20
Ha Ha, you don’t have enough clout. The “angry liberal” did.
sucks to be you.
Beck better hope you don’t try to save him.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:42 pmWouldn’t happen to have been an “angry liberal,” would it?
No, crzylgs….it proves that UK citizens have more scruples than Americans–they know when something poisons the civic discourse and therefore coarsens the public debate—-and are not willing to support stores that promote it.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pmGlenn beck is a usless hate filled racist dickhead.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pmI cant believe there are some people who think he cares about them or our country.
I actually think people need to go after Beck’s advertisers on the radio. The radio is still his bread and butter, and I haven’t heard of any group targeting those advertisers.
One demonic venue at a time…..better to get rid of his frightening visage first, then work on his whiny auditory assaults.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:46 pmIt’s bad enough that Repugs, advertisers, even Rock bands are dropping Beck at record speed, now the Brits have decided they can’t stand him either. Kind of sucks to be Glen right about now.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:47 pmThis is really bad because I suspect bin Gleck’s show was shown in the comedy hour slot. Right after Benny Hill reruns.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:48 pmElBruce says:
I didn’t know they got him over there. I can’t imagine how it would make any sense to any of them.
Glen Beck is to political discourse what Benny Hill is to comedy…
And who exactly is this crazy legs creature anyway? You’d think with all the unemployed republicans out there they could do better than this…
October 5th, 2009 at 1:48 pmLink to source, please.
Whattaya mean, “link to source”? It’s called common sense and intelligent observation. They don’t like Glenda’s whiny baby program, so they ask the company not to sponsor him or they’ll stop shopping there, period, end of story. Think, man! Oh, wait………..
October 5th, 2009 at 1:50 pmWow, even overseas, Beck is a toxic waste. Beck is a gift that keeps on giving. Stay classy, Glenn.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:51 pmPay no mind to Crazy Legs. He is just irritated because he keeps getting Preparation H in his eyes.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:51 pmYour move loser.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pm62 companies have withdrawn advertising from the show, but another question to ask is if the show has gained any NEW advertisers since the campaign began and, if so, how many, who and why are they advertising with all the negative publicity surrounding Beck. Another question to ask is who are the advertisers sticking with the show and what they’re marketing philosophy is.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pmBeck is just a symptom, Murdoch is the disease.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:54 pmCrazy Legs says:
Wouldn’t happen to have been an “angry liberal,” would it?
No, crzylgs
Link to source, please.
OK…
October 5th, 2009 at 1:56 pmhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hc9EI2vBtgM/R5JSu6z1itI/AAAAAAAAAF8/C592CRKwsQw/s400/george%2Bbush%2Bbaby.JPG
[sigh] If only companies over here would pull their ads on this clown. Alas, corporate America lost it’s ethics long ago in service to the almighty dollar.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pmglogrrl, that’s one of my favorite troll jujitsu moves — the one where they make a stupid statement of opinion or, in this case, unjustified rhetorical question, and then if they get any response they quickly demand a “link to source”.
The really funny thing is, they think it makes sense.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pmI love how trolls only point out how high his ratings are. Just because his ratings are high, doesn’t mean he is liked or respected. To have so many Advertisers, even Repug leaders to break with him, is very telling. The Repugs are worried about their Party. When Glen and Limbaugh were practically drooling over the fact we lost the Olympics, Americans were apalled. We are all AMERICANS. When Chicago lost, we ALL lost. And I don’t think the trolls or Beck understand that.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pmService sector grows in Sept., 1st time in year
spin this crazy legs crybaby.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pmThere is an old saying “any publicity is good publicity”. Beck will do a book deal and he’ll make a bundle after the loyal morons buy it…Only in America lol.
Heard a comment this morning from some moron saying that Beck was brilliant. Now that’s something you don’t hear every day, groan.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pmYeah Ralph, a normal human would know that since he is making the (implied) assertion, that it’s an “angry liberal” he would be the one responsible for providing a link to prove it, not the person who disputes the assertion. Now, if cl wants to prove that the complaitant is an angry liberal he’s free to do so, and then ask for evidence to the contrary, in a sane world of course.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pmCrazy Eggs is the only troll supporting Beck, go Crazy Eggs!
October 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pmCrazy Legs says:
Wouldn’t happen to have been an “angry liberal,” would it?
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What would it matter?
People complained… the chain dropped Beck like a dirty diaper.
Logical causality isn’t one of your strong suites, is it?
October 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pmCareful ick you seem to have caught that stammer your brethren think is so undesirable.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pmralph the wonder llama says:
The really funny thing is, they think it makes sense.
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Shhhhhhhh… ralphie… not so loud… Crazy Legs is standing right behind you… stuffing Cheetos up his nostrils…
October 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pmGuys, I admire the zeal with which you’re all smacking down Crazy Legs, but I wish that when you put his troll parts in the blender, you’d make sure the cap was on tight before hitting “chop”.
I’m getting tired of cleaning up troll guts from the counter and the wall.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pmI think I may have to develop a complex. Every time I get the chance to come out and play with the trolls, they disappear. I realize there are many others who also like to do this, and do it very well, it is frustrating. I guess I need to come to the party sooner.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pmThe democrats are “deeply divided.” ;)
Maybeso but at least we do it with multiple people.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pmThat’s the “10 billion flies” argument, as in “Eat Sh*t! After all, 10 billion flies can’t be wrong!”
October 5th, 2009 at 2:08 pmThose aren’t Democrats it’s your butt crack. Perhaps if you removed your head from that location you could think clearly.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pmHoodathunk says:
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I think I may have to develop a complex. Every time I get the chance to come out and play with the trolls, they disappear. I realize there are many others who also like to do this, and do it very well, it is frustrating. I guess I need to come to the party sooner.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:11 pmTell me about, dealing with the trolls here makes my day go by quicker. Though maybe we should have a thought for Ralph and clean up our own messes, he shouldn’t be the only one cleaning up troll bits.
Bobwurst and Hoodathunk both cite Benny Hill and the exact same moment. It can’t be coincidence. Beck must be Benny Hill.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:11 pmQuazzy Pegs is waiting on Becky Boy to throw some cash his way.
Good luck with that.
BB is all about conning people into watching his teevee program, listening to him rant on the radio, and buying his POS books with cartoon-like illustrations.
BB is all about the money.
He knows that he can make money by appealing to QP and all of the other Quazzy Pegs.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
@48 texasrick, I could only imagine what kind of person would say beck is brilliant. Did you here that comment on fox noise by any chance?
October 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pmWOW>>>> hopefully that Salvage will not be to mad at becky getting the UK attention and all.
As we know how much weiner boy is liked there in the uK
October 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pmDid someone hear a very small, very tinny “nyah nyah nyah” before I stepped on a bug just then?
October 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pmVan Jones lost his job and Beck still has his.
Lost? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pmBeck must be Benny Hill.
Hardly, Shayne. Benny is funny.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:16 pmWell I sure Beck smells funny, big blubbering jacka$$ that he is.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:20 pmTwo, count them, two Spinn Wrecks in one day.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pmBecks a lump alright. Whether he takes uppers is questionable.
…but since he hasnt denied it yet
October 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pmBeck seems to be implicated in many suspicious activities he hasn’t denied yet.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pmThe dems arent deeply divided, Crummy Lags, its that they have never been lemminists.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:32 pmYes, why I heard, from people I know, sources, that Beck has also not denied using vicks around his eyes
October 5th, 2009 at 2:35 pmSTORM says:
Van Jones lost his job and Beck still has his.
Uh…yeah. His current job. I mean, Beck was fired before…
October 5th, 2009 at 2:36 pmThe Brits have a long tradition of civilized and proper behavior. As well as a dry and quirky sense of humor. Some say they are the kind of folk who have a hard time saying sh*t when they have a mouthful.
It seems they are spitting bin Gleck out. Now that is an accomplishment.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:38 pmI wonder how many g-forces a rodeo clown takes in one of those bovine bound barrels and how that relates to Cryenn Fecks punch drunken dialectic.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:40 pmYeh, I likes watching Fawlty Towers, MiPo, and that Bucket [Bouqet]crazy lady.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pmLooks like the trolls are going into tag team mode. Next we will have sock puppet mutual admiration society.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pmXisithrus says:
Yeh, I likes watching Fawlty Towers, MiPo, and that Bucket [Bouqet]crazy lady.
Don’t forget Blackadder and The Brittas Empire
October 5th, 2009 at 2:50 pmIt’s also time to start the boycott of advertisers at the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Rupture Murderdick needs to go down and fast! He is a traitor to this nation!!!!!!!!
October 5th, 2009 at 2:53 pmSo what’s going on with that investigation into Beck’s rape and murder of that poor girl back in the 90s?
October 5th, 2009 at 2:55 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
84,
from factcheck:
At the top it says, “Notice: This website is 100% parody.”
It’s intended as a joke.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:59 pmBrooks Jackson
Director, FactCheck.org
320 National Press Building
Washington DC 20045
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I hope crazyeggs gets help for his antisocial disorder.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:00 pmUnfortunately, that disorder is pretty much incurable.
So drugs won’t help poor crazyeggs.
tony and lido
I hope crabby eggs manages to get away before all its crabby spawn devour crabby proper
October 5th, 2009 at 3:03 pmthis probably has been posted…
Glenn Beck EXPOSED – Crying On Cue Using Vicks under His Eyes.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pmthis probably has been posted
Debunked months ago,,,,
And in your world this means anything?
October 5th, 2009 at 3:21 pmDon’t assume Beck will go since many of the other advertisers did not pull all their ads from Fox. Murdoch is trying to ride this out because Beck’s ratings are getting larger. As long as the ratings are going up and there are willing advertisers, Beck will stay on the air. If the advertisers starting pulling all ads off Fox News, then Murdoch would have to get rid of Beck. Don’t forget that just because the advertisers pull ads off Fox News, does not mean they won’t advertise on the Fox Network.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:23 pmDebunked months ago,,,,
Where?
Beck isn’t seen applying Vicks to his face in order to cry in that video?
Or did you mean you’d fallen out of your bunk, again?
October 5th, 2009 at 3:23 pmDammit, I told your mother to put the railings on that thing! She swore you were big enough now… sigh.
sscncturn64 says:
Did you here that comment on fox noise by any chance
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Actually I heard this at the gym this morning. It’s important to note that I live in central Texas where Limpball and Hannity are considered gods.
When it comes to politics, many around here are a little nuts.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pmNow we just need a few American companies to show enough integrity to pull their ads from FAUX altogether.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pmHey Glenn! The populace of Mt Vernon, WA called. They said to tell you to never, ever, come back again.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pmOh, yeah and to STFUAD.
So you mean this video has nothing to do with Beck’s tv program? It doesn’t “show how he does it”?
Don’t you just love it when trolls pwn themselves?
October 5th, 2009 at 3:38 pmSo you mean this video has nothing to do with Beck’s tv program? It doesn’t “show how he does it”?
Explain how this ‘debunks’ the claim that its a video of Glenn applying Vicks in order to cry… it seems that’s exactly what this says… and what it looks like…
October 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Interesting… the same troll who leaves a three-paragraph supposed “debunking” of a video, without somehow including even a single link to back up his claim, is also the same troll who left this comment earlier in the thread:
You can’t make this this shit up.
Of course,. to be fair to the troll, almost two hours had passed between its demand for a “link to source” and posting a claim of fact completely devoid of any link. So it’s possible that the troll forgot it once demanded that a progressive live up to a standard it wasn’t willing to meet itself.
But the more likely answer is bald hypocrisy.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pmWhy can’t you back it up? Just show us some proof.
It’s just something that we feel… isn’t that enough to question someone? It is for Beck…
“I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.’ ” Beck added: “I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”
October 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pmOur old friend STORMfront doesn’t seem to understand the nature of a “rumor” does he?
October 5th, 2009 at 3:51 pm“to be associated with this particular form of rightwing cant”
That’s not how we spell it on our side of the pond, and it’s considered bad form old chap.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pmThat whole Vick’s thing was taken out of context. Becky uses Vick’s instead of KY to keep the soft tissues from tearing.
Also explains why Crazy Leg’s breath smells like mentholatum.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:57 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Still, our friend STORMfront displays remarkable ignorance of the nature of a “rumor”.
Either that, or he ignores the fact that no one, to my knowledge, has claimed outright that Glenn Beck raped a murdered a girl in 1990. The most that anyone has said is that this rumor is out there, and it refuses to die (unlike that poor girl who may or may not have been murdered at the hands of Glenn Beck) and this indicates that there may be some truth to the rumor.
In either case, Beck has refused to deny the allegations.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pmI have a rumor I picked up on another site. Storm is a transvestite. He dresses up as a sheep.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:59 pmStormcunt,
If the rumor isn’t true then why hasn’t beck just come out and denyed it? That is the level of evidence you people use when it comes to rumors about President Obama’s country of origin, right? Come to think of it, while you’re at it, either produced bush’s discharge papers or admit he’s a deserter.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:09 pmTry something that is a little less outlandish and it may bit.
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October 5th, 2009 at 5:16 pmI’ll go one more outlandish… The president isn’t a citizen… Oh and thanks for calling for bit. I dig bit.
Since Color of Change launched its campaign targeting Beck’s advertisers, 62 companies have pulled their support from his show.
He is still on the boob tube.
October 5th, 2009 at 6:45 pmNo duke, Beck is boob.
October 5th, 2009 at 6:48 pmCrazyMORON
Beck will eventually put himself under. Already only the stupidest people on the planet like YOU take him seriously
October 5th, 2009 at 8:46 pmIt is worth remembering that Glenn Beck is not blocking the passage of a good health care bill. bacak germe estetigi
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October 11th, 2009 at 4:27 pm