In the United Kingdom at least.
If you’re not aware, Glenn Beck’s show airs in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, we have been targeting his sponsors in the United States as well as in the U.K. (with the assistance from the StopBeck – UK Effort).
During the last week and a half, Glenn Beck lost his 100th, 101st and 102nd sponsors. A full list of all 102 sponsors that dropped Mr. Beck (or Fox News as a whole) can be found here. Please note that this total includes sponsors that have dropped him both United States and/or in the United Kingdom.
It seems like our efforts are having an effect…
Glenn Beck’s show in the United Kingdom has not run any commercials during the past three days (Tues-Thurs). Glenn Beck’s show in the UK used to run commercials. The shows that come on before and after Glenn Beck still run commercials. But, for the past three days, Mr. Beck hasn’t had any sponsors in the U.K. During the commercial break, instead of running ads, they cut away to Sky News updates or the weather. Perhaps they’re having trouble finding sponsors willing to subsidize Glenn Beck’s misinformation, vitriol, sexism and race-baiting?
Kudos to all of those that had a part in convincing all of Glenn Beck's former sponsors in the United Kingdom that his kind of racist, red-baiting, Republican propaganda is not welcome in a sane society.
I know that similar efforts have been somewhat successful here in the United States. Beck's advertisers are down to made-for-TV products and G. Gordon Liddy hawking overpriced gold.
But that means we should just keep on pushing. Make it incredibly unprofitable for Fox News to keep the Beckman on the air.
And at the end of the day, it may not make all that much of a difference. Glenn Beck's show still runs in the United Kingdom...without any commercial sponsorship. It might just be that important for the powers that be to export Beck's brand of hatred to an audience, regardless of the cost.
But we'll make it that much harder!