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16 Sep 2009 11:03

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Politics: Jimmy Carter: Calling Obama-haters racist, playing with fire

  • This, my friends, is going to create a major storm of controversy. You have a former president calling most of Obama’s opponents racist. By the middle of next week, he’s going to be dismantled, just like ACORN. source

29 Aug 2009 12:14

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Politics: That tally of advertisers boycotting Glenn Beck keeps growing

  • 46 are listed as boycotting Beck’s show, Color of Change says source

18 Aug 2009 10:59

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Politics: Glenn Beck’s political ramblings: Not even Wal-Mart likes them

  • Wal-Mart, CVS, Best Buy and many more aren’t advertising with Beck. The Fox News host has a pretty serious issues with advertisers at the moment, weeks after calling Barack Obama a “racist” on his show, causing ColorOfChange.org to start a campaign against him. The list of advertisers is shrinking fast. No word on what the Sham-Wow guy plans to do yet. source

12 Aug 2009 23:41

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Biz, Politics: The campaign to kill Glenn Beck’s advertisers is kinda working

  • Former advertisers
    1. State Farm
    2. Lawyers.com
    3. Procter & Gamble
    4. Progressive
    5. S.C. Johnson
    6. GEICO
    7. Men’s Wearhouse
    8. Sargento
    Beck’s advertiser list has been cut significantly after an orchestrated campaign to attack the Fox News talk-show yakker for comments like those in the video above. And it’s had an effect. Thanks to left-leaning organizations like Media Matters taking Beck to task for racist and/or below-the-belt attacks on Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, these advertisers are now out. source

24 Jun 2009 21:39

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U.S.: Racist net dude Hal Turner arrested for threats to Chicago judges

  • Turner’s threats Turner, a white supremacist, radio host and blogger who’s claimed to be so far to the right that he makes Rush Limbaugh look liberal, said this in response to a recent court decision banning handguns in Chicago: “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed.”
  • Going too far He also posted their vital information on his site, along with a picture of the courthouse mentioning where barriers were put up to prevent truck bombs. WTF man? The court in question is sensitive to threats, after District Court Judge Joan Lefkow’s mom and husband were killed in 2005. source

21 May 2009 23:05

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U.S.: In Hawaiian Gardens, Calif., the police just rounded up the whole gang!

  • 147 racist-leaning gang members were charged in Calif. source