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Eric Boehlert: Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "racist" trap
Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is ...
For Immediate Release
docs.google.com — September 2, 2009 Contact: Brandon Hatler – DumpGlennBeck@gmail.com 11 New Companies Pledge Not to Run Additional Ads on Glenn Beck Program Capital One, Mercedes-Benz, Discover Among Latest To Distance Themselves from FNC Host OAKLAND, Calif.—Eleven ... (more) For Immediate Release
Anti-Beck Backlash Hits Nauseating Extreme with “Murder and Rape” Meme (UPDATED THRICE)
Anti-Beck Backlash Hits Nauseating Extreme with “Murder and Rape” Meme (UPDATED THRICE)
mediaite.com — The viral posters that compared Obama to the Joker and to Hitler feel tame compared to the latest nasty meme to hit the Internet: insinuations that Glenn Beck "raped and killed a young girl in 1990." Update #3, 4:30pm: "Glenn Beck murder" and ... (more) Anti-Beck Backlash Hits Nauseating Extreme with “Murder ...
Glenn Beck a Rapist... Attack Continues.
politicallore.com — So say hundreds of people online. The attack on Glenn Beck continues by the internet crowd calling for a boycott of Beck’s advertisers. Can we now boycott the internet for making false accusations? The accusation that “Glenn Beck raped and murdered a ... (more) Glenn Beck a Rapist... Attack Continues.
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Beck Unhinged With Racial, McCarthyesque Animosity Toward Obama Administration
News Hounds — ... Instead of taking his critics head on and defending his accusation that Barack Obama is a racist, or apologizing if he can’t, Glenn Beck spent nearly 19 minutes during the opening of his television show yesterday (9/1/09) attacking as racist communists various African Americans associated with Obama with the less-than-implicit suggestion that he must be one, too. The bulk of Beck’s vilifications were aimed at Van Jones, Obama’s ...

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