Glenn Beck blasts boycott group's co-founder

[Emit]

Glenn Beck blasts boycott group's co-founder
The Fox News host uses his show to question the background of an Obama administration advisor whose former advocacy organization led a boycott against him.

By Matea Gold

August 25, 2009

Reporting from New York

Fox News host Glenn Beck used his popular show Monday to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor and co-founder of an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program.

Beck did not address the boycott spearheaded by Color of Change to protest the talk show host's remark last month that he believes President Obama is "a racist."

Instead, he spent a large share of his program suggesting that Jones, who co-founded Color of Change in 2005, is a radical. Jones now serves as a special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Beck said Jones was twice arrested for political protests and has described himself as a "rowdy black nationalist." The talk show host cast the piece as part of a weeklong examination of Obama's "czars," special advisors to the president who "don't answer to anybody." "Why is it that such a committed revolutionary has made it so high into the Obama administration as one of his chief advisors?" Beck asked.

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"Glenn Beck is trying to change the subject," said James Rucker, executive director of Color of Change, who noted that Jones has not been active with the group in almost two years. "The issue is his baseless fear mongering."

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-beck25-2009aug25,0,5784512.story

[blondeatlast]

1. If Beck thinks Color of Change has enough clout to make all those sponsors bolt, he's insane.

It's just that his idiot ranting sprouted legs on the internet.

But then, Beck's insane, too.

[HopeHoops]

2. Did da widdle boo-boo-Beck cryie-wyie again?

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[crim son]

3. Awww, that poor sack o' shit.

How he suffers.

[arcadian]

4. I haven't been following this story at all. Why is Glenn beck being boycotted?

I mean, I can think of a few reasons, but why specifically?

[Emit]

5. He called Obama a racist last month

It seems Glenn Beck, the conservative commentator and one of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation's rising stars, may be too right-wing even for Fox News. For after Beck called President Barack Obama a racist last month, 20 of Fox's biggest advertisers such as Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble have boycotted his daily show, keen to distance themselves from his controversial comments.

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But the baby-faced presenter seems to have gone too far on July 28, when he said Obama had revealed himself to hold a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" after the President said Cambridge, Massachusetts police "acted stupidly" in arresting professor Henry Louis Gates. Beck went on: "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying that he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."

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http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/52456,news,glenn-beck-suffers-consequences-of-calling-obama-racist-walmart-procter-advertisers-boycott

[arcadian]

6. Well, there you go.

I knew it something like that. But I try to block out all things Glenn Beck in the hopes that if you ignore him, he'll go away.