Ten more companies pull ads from Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News Channel, including DirecTV, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. This brings the total up to 46 companies, including one associated with the network.
Adding to an increasing list of companies distancing themselves from Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck, ten new companies whose ads were recently seen during Beck’s program—Applebee’s, Bank of America, Bell & Howell, DirecTv, General Mills, Kraft, Regions Financial Corporation, SAM (Store and Move), Travelers Insurance and Vonage—have pledged to take steps to ensure that their ads don’t run on Beck’s show. Forty-six companies have now committed not to support Beck’s show since ColorOfChange.org launched its campaign three weeks ago after the Fox News Channel host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on cluster Fox & Friends.
Aug. 14: Countdown's Keith Olbermann talks about the dozen advertisers to pull their ads from Glenn Beck's show after he called President Barack Obama a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people." Glen Beck also spoke recounting his own brush with the healthcare system in this country during his CNN days saying the "The President of GE goes to the same hospital and if they don't care about the President of GE why would they care about a working schlub like him?"
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