Waitrose dumps Fox News in protest over remarks about Barack Obama (1 Viewer)

[nooleen]

linking to the guardian twice in a matter of minutes, what have i become.
'rightwing attack dogs' is a nice touch though.

Waitrose, which prides itself more on its "quality food, honestly priced" than staring down rightwing attack dogs, has become the latest firm to pull its ads from Fox News after presenter Glenn Beck's remarks about the US president.

In July, Beck called Obama "a racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" after the president said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had "acted stupidly" in arresting the distinguished professor Henry Louis Gates as he entered his own home.

Beck's outburst prompted dozens of companies – among them Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Travelocity – to withdraw their adverts from his show for fear that their businesses might become tainted by association.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/04/waitrose-fox-news-barack-obama

 

[nooleen]

in comments:

Beck has certainly gone downhill since Odelay. I blame Scientology.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

ah glenn beck,never believed he could be as bad as everyone made out but then i spent one summer in florida and watched a lot of his shows (when in rome...) and yes,everyone is right,the man is an absolute sausage roll.a poisonous sausage roll at that.

 

[sweetoblivion]

Glenn Beck is a mentalist of the highest order.

 

[nooleen]

and, he looks like pork

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I know him and he's alright.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

and, he looks like pork

thats just the sort of racism he's trying to stamp out.whitey cant get a break with you liberal guardian-reading types.for shame nooly.

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/glenn-beck-loves-muse-muse-demands-retraction-cci

you can't pick yr fans.

 

[Vinnie]

Here's a bit about Beck and a former radio show partner named Bruce Kelly whom he fell out with and was in direct competition with for radio audience.

"The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween -- a recurring motif in Beck's life and career -- Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. "A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby."

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

fuck,thats bad.what a prick.

 

[damien]

he's my mate's da and he's sound