Thank you to JoeTheVoter for the following response from McDonald’s, regarding restaurants required to air Fox News Channel on their in-store TVs.

Hello Paul:

Thank you for taking the time to contact McDonald’s. We truly appreciate customer feedback and welcome this opportunity to share some information with you.

As you may not know, approximately 85 percent of McDonald’s restaurants are owned and operated by independent business people. As independent owners, McDonald’s franchise owners have the authority to make certain operating decisions as they relate to their McDonald’s restaurant operations. As such, the decision regarding content shown on televisions in restaurants, is a local restaurant decision and is not mandated by McDonald’s.

Again, thank you for contacting McDonald’s. We hope to have the opportunity to serve you again soon under the Golden Arches.

Malcolm
McDonald’s Customer Response Center

This does not excuse the fact that McDonald’s is not taking a stand against hate and race baiting by allowing these restaurants to air only FNC propaganda, regardless of customer wishes.

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Is Rupert Murdoch simply unaware of what happens in his own company, or is he lying through his teeth? Or, both? Here’s a brief conversation where he, apparently, shows how completely out-of-touch he is with the loss of revenue Glenn Beck has caused (or how out-of-touch the viewers are who believe his reasoning).

SPOCKO: I know that you don’t break out revenue numbers for Fox News beyond the top line, but with 81 advertisers leaving the Glenn Beck show following the Color of Change action, the show now seems limited to in house ads and gold ads. Do you have a time frame for how long Fox will subsidize the show until it to starts to generate revenue in line with its ratings?

That’s pretty straight forward – without sponsors, the money to support the show has to come from somewhere. Right? Not according to the factually-challenged CEO of News Corp.

MURDOCH: It’s not subsidizing the show at all. And it’s giving a terrific kick off to the whole evening schedule. It has plenty of advertising, and those advertisers you talk about, I don’t think there is anything like that number, but if there were they are on other shows.

Thankfully, some media outlets picked up on this and Keith Olbermann even used Murdoch’s response in his Worst Persons segment. Unfortunately, it doesn’t change anything – Fox News and the News Corp. CEO will continue to simply deny facts and their followers will continue to eat up the BS.

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Why boycott McDonalds, beside the simple fact that their food is largely regarded as being unhealthy? McDonalds restaurants, in some areas including Missouri and Kansas (UPDATE: similar report from Florida), have agreed to place large TVs in their restaurants with the proviso that they broadcast Fox News and only Fox News. One manager explained that it’s corporate policy. A Regional Director for McDonald’s stated that TVs were being placed in all McDonald’s in a five state region. Danya Proud, spokesperson for McDonald’s USA, denied that it is corporate policy, but that it may be a regional or franchise policy.

While the aforementioned sources are from 2008, and FoxNation.com has bashed McDonalds for their “black” web site last year, similar complaints still come in via email. One person reported nice 50″ plasma TVs in at least five McDonald’s franchises, with different owners. The writer was told that they “have to keep it on” and that FNC is the only channel listed in the menu, or in a channel search.

One solution: TV-B-Gone

McDonald’s Contact Information:

McDonald’s Corporation
2111 McDonald’s Dr
Oak Brook, IL 60523

• Contact via McDonalds.com
• McDonald’s on Twitter
• McDonald’s on Facebook

Update: Additional Twitter accounts

• @Dana_McD
• @George_McD
• @Jenn_McD
• @McCafeYourDay
• @Molly_McDs
• @Kim_McD
• @Nick_McD
• @Salena_McD
• @Ashlee_McD
• @Danya_McD

Update: Even more Twitter accounts

• @JC_McD
• @Erin_McD
• @Becca_McD
• @Lizzie_McD

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Since Glenn Beck began attacking churches that promote “social justice,” calling it “code language for Marxism,” Christians have been urged to boycott Glenn Beck. Last week Beck went so far as to call on Christians to leave their churches if they hear any preaching about social or economic justice, citing affiliations with Nazism and Communism.

Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church Pastor Ronald Garner put up the following sign in response to Beck’s statements.

GARNER: Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church is a very progressive church. We’re open and affirming in our denomination, which means we accept into the full life of our church gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. We are a peace church, and so I just felt that it was a sign that should be in front of our building to say that Mr. Beck’s comments about the social justice being a perversion of the gospel was a total distortion of anybody that’s even given a cursory reading to the words of Jesus. [...]

I feel it was an unwarranted attack on Christians, and I felt like something needed to be said.

Rev. Jim Wallis, an evangelical leader in Washington. D.C., called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck. Wallis stated, “What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show… His show should now be in the same category as Howard Stern.”

Mr. Beck, in vilifying churches that promote “social justice,” managed to insult just about every mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, African American, Hispanic and Asian congregation in the country – not to mention plenty of evangelical ones.

Even Mormon scholars in Mr. Beck’s own church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in interviews that Mr. Beck seems ignorant of just how central social justice teaching is to Mormonism.

Garner stated that, so far, he has only received positive responses to the sign above.

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According to the Washington Post, more than 200 companies have pulled their ads from Glenn Beck’s show(s), including Apple who, apparently, has pulled all ads from FNC!

More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of Beck’s program, making it difficult for Fox to sell ads. The time has instead been sold to smaller firms offering such products as Kaopectate, Carbonite, 1-800-PetMeds and Goldline International. A handful of advertisers, such as Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether. Network executives say they believe they could charge higher rates if the host were more widely acceptable to advertisers.

There is a legitimate fear for Fox News staffers that Beck is becoming the face of the network. One Fox “journalist” stated that Beck “uses distorted or inflammatory rhetoric that undermines their credibility.”

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To all the challenged individuals who refuse to read and continually ask how the boycott is going  – here’s a question for you… Do you like apples?

Glenn Beck has lost 116 sponsors and his show in the UK has been without a single sponsor for SIX days!

How d’you like them apples??

The U.K. broadcast of Glenn Beck’s eponymous television program was forced to air free of paid advertisements on four consecutive days last week. This according to StopBeck.com, an extension of the anti-Beck campaign created by ColorOfChange.org. StopBeck.com confirmed that, with the latest group of defections from Beck’s overseas broadcast, Fox News Channel was forced to fill commercial breaks with news headlines and local weather updates from its U.K.-based sister network, Sky News, instead of paid advertisements.

The news comes on the heels of a new group of U.S. companies who have asked Fox News Channel to stop their ads from running or pledged not to run ads on the show going forward. The latest U.S. defections — Allstate Insurance, Anheuser-Busch, Best Western International, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals (maker of Flomax), Brother International Corporation, Hear Music, Idaho Potato Commission, Intersections Inc., Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School, Marriott International, Nestlé USA, Republic of Macedonia, Starkist Co., United Healthcare, USFidelis, Volkswagen and Western Union — coupled with the international movement to bring the total number of companies distancing themselves from Beck to over one hundred.

“We’re incredibly thrilled that StopBeck.com has taken our campaign and successfully executed it internationally,” said James Rucker, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org. “This is a huge blow against Glenn Beck. As we continue our fight against those that support Beck domestically, we will use this victory as further proof that more and more companies are taking a stand against his racial demagoguery.”

“People now on both sides of the Atlantic are using Twitter and other social media to let companies know that by advertising on Beck’s program, they are subsidizing hate,” said Angelo S. Carusone, lead organizer of StopBeck.com.  “Fox News’ willingness to use filler from Sky News, rather than address Beck’s fear mongering, raises real questions about the network’s priorities.”

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Thirteen more sponsors have been added to the list of those who have pulled their ads from Glenn Beck‘s show! Here are the most recent:

• Allstate Insurance
• Anheuser-Busch
• Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals (maker of Flomax)
• Brother International Corporation
• Idaho Potato Commission
• Intersections Inc.
• Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School
• Marriott International
• Republic of Macedonia
• United Healthcare
• US Fidelis
• Volkswagen
• Western Union

View the full list here

Thanks to StopBeck.com

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A recent update by @stopbeck (StopBeck.com) shows that the current count of sponsors that have pulled their ads from Glenn Beck’s show has reached 96! The latest is ING DIRECT.

“ING Direct UK has confirmed they do not sponsor or endorse the Glenn Beck show. Additionally, no ING Direct advertisements are being screened during or either side of this show and there are no plans to do so in the future.”

Other companies that decided to drop Beck in the past couple months include British Airways, Jack Daniels, KRAFT (UK), Tesco, Reckitt Benckiser (UK), Premier Inn (UK) and more! Some of the former sponsors, such as Waitrose and Metropolitan Talent Management, have pulled their ads from Fox News Channel entirely, while Jack Daniels has decided to stop advertising on any political shows.

View the full list of Glenn Beck’s Lost Sponsors

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The November, 2009 Fox News Boycott of the Month marks the fourth month-long concentrated effort to affect Fox News‘ bottom line. This month, the focus will be on the following advertisers seen on Glenn Beck‘s show.

FreeEnterpriseAmerica.com
http://www.facebook.com/…
http://twitter.com/freeenterprise
http://www.linkedin.com/…
http://www.freeenterpriseamerica.com/…

Goldline International, Inc.
1601 Cloverfield Boulevard
100 South Tower
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 1-877-376-2646
Fax: 1-310-319-0265
info@goldline.com
http://www.goldline.com/…

Hydrolyze
Hydroxatone, LLC
302A West 12th St, #276
New York, NY 10014
US & Canada Toll Free: (800) 515-1070
UK Toll Free: 0800-032-6278
All Other Countries: (201) 876-2570
Fax: (201) 876-2501
http://www.hydroleyes.com/…

LifeLock
60 E Rio Salado Pkwy, Ste 400
Tempe, AZ 85281
480-682-5100
Mike Prusinski
VP of Corporate Communications
mike@lifelock.com
marketing@lifelock.com
http://www.lifelock.com/…

Rosland Capital
800-679-6482

Full Sponsor List

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In addition to Waitrose, the UK supermarket chain that pulled all ads from Fox News, more companies including Equifax, Subaru, Toyota/Lexus have pulled their ads from Glenn Beck‘s show. Here’s the full list of the most recent companies to take a stand against Beck.

• AmMed Direct
• Citrix Online
• Concord Music Group
• Diageo
• Eggland’s Best
• Equifax
• Eulactol USA (producer of Flexitol)
• GetARoom.com
• Hoffman La Roche (maker of BONIVA)
• Metropolitan Talent Management
• ooVoo
• Overture Films
• Scarguard
• Schiff Nutrition (maker of Tiger’s Milk and Fi-Bar)
• Seoul Metropolitan Government
• Subaru
• Toyota-Lexus
• Waitrose
• Woodland Power Products, Inc.

Here are some of the individual responses:

Subaru: “We will not be airing on that show [Glenn Beck] any longer.”

Toyota/Lexus: “Lexus ads are not appearing on the Glenn Beck show,”  “We have no plans to buy Beck.”

AmMed Direct: “Please rest assured that we do not endorse Beck’s views and are having our advertising agency request that Fox no longer air our advertisements during his shows.”

Citrix Online: “We are currently shifting our presence on the Fox Television network to a time slot that will not include the Glenn Beck television program,”  “I have received confirmation that Fox has been instructed to begin this transition immediately and I am advised it will be fully implemented by October 9th.”

[Citrix Online pulled its advertisements from rotation on Glenn Beck's radio show in early September, but was recently contacted regarding ads that were recently seen on Beck's television show.]

Concord Music Group: “We did not specifically purchase time on Glen Beck [sic], rather the Fox News Channel as a whole,”  “But, of course, if we consider this ‘news cluster’ purchase again in the future, we will only do so if we can be guaranteed to NOT be in that program.”

Eggland’s Best: “Pending further review, Eggland’s Best has suspended TV advertising on the Glenn Beck show.”

Equifax: “Equifax advertisements that appeared during the Glenn Beck Show were not specifically slated to air alongside the show and were purchased as part of a larger, rotational media buy on Fox Network,”  “We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that our ads will no longer appear during this programming.”

Eulactol USA (Flexitol): “You will not see Flexitol commercials on the Glenn Beck show. Period.”

GetARoom.com: “We asked to no longer run our commercial on the Glenn Beck show,”  “We were running on rotation and so did not know where the show would air.”

Metropolitan Talent Management: “We are appalled at what’s going on,”  “Metropolitan Talent Management is 100% dedicated to not buy advertising on any part of Fox News.”

ooVoo: “We learned of this yesterday and have taken action to discontinue ads on that program,”  “We gave the order to stop yesterday.”

Overture Films: “We’re no longer going to book any of his air time,”  “I’m really glad to be informed of what you guys are doing.”

Scarguard Labs, LLC: “We never, ever planned on advertising on that particular show,”  “We have taken the necessary steps to ensure we don’t run ads there again.”

Schiff Nutrition: “We have requested that they [Fox News] no longer run Schiff advertisements on that show,”  “We were not aware Schiff would be slotted on the Glenn Beck show.”

City of Seoul: “The Seoul government has no plan to extend, resume, or add its commercial on the program,” “In other word [sic], there will not be Seoul commercial in the Glenn Beck program any more.”

Woodland Power Products, Inc.: “Our advertising is no longer running on that program.”

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The U.K.  supermarket chain, Waitrose, has decided to pull all of their advertising from Fox News. Fox News is carried by Sky in Britain.

“We take the placement of our ads in individual programmes very seriously, ensuring the content of these programmes is deemed appropriate for a brand with our values,” a Waitrose customer services spokesman said.

“We have withdrawn all Waitrose advertising from the Fox News channel with immediate effect and for all future TV advertising campaigns.”

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Visitor submitted response from Eggland’s Best:

From: Alice Taylor <ataylor@eggland.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM

Pending further review, Eggland’s Best has suspended TV advertising on the Glen Beck Show.

Alice Taylor
Consumer Services Specialist
Eggland’s Best, Inc.
1400 S. Trooper Road, Suite 201
Jeffersonville, PA  19403
Phone: 610-265-6500
Toll Free:  800-922-3447*
Fax: 610-265-8380
ataylor@eggland.com
www.eggland.com

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Visitor submitted response from Wholesale Direct Metals, Inc., an advertiser on Glenn Beck‘s show:

With all due respect… the product I sell is notoriously partisan and biased. Very few demographics buy physical gold as an investment of as an asset of last resort.  Those that have, have made a lot of money the last 8 years and sleep better at night.  If it wasn’t for FOX I wouldn’t have your business to lose anyway because you wouldn’t even know about my company.  I probably have nothing to worry about anyway because you either have no interest in owning real gold or no $$$ to buy any.  I seriously doubt you are a gold owner/investor.  Do you own any gold?  Or is your money in CDs at the bank earning nothing and just going backward slowly while the federal reserve prints more worthless dollar bills any robs you while you’re not looking?  LOL.

If you owned a business that sold comedy material would you advertise on the Comedy Channel?  If your business sold kids toys would you advertise on Nickelodeon?  Selling real physical gold and advertising on Fox is called good marketing because there is a larger concentration of people who want to buy gold to hedge dollar debasement watching that channel than any other.  Regardless of my own or my companies political views… it’s just a smart way to reach people who genuinely want access to the product I sell… period.  I own a business and I employ good people.. with kids!  You want to purposely do a bad job of marketing my business because you have a personal issue with an entertainer… really?  So these people’s kids will eat less or maybe I have to fire employees because it’s slow??  Get lost man!  You, not Glenn Beck, seem to have forgotten what America stands for.

Get smart and get some Gold.. or go push your BS agenda on someone stupid enough to care about it.  If all the companies in America were all more efficient and successful THAT’s what will build a better America.  Not you fear mongering small business that are trying to keep people employed.  And BTW… EVERY client that has ever bought gold from me has a portfolio that has risen in value… can the stock brokers and bankers of America say that??

Get smart… Get some Gold.

Warm Regards,
Damon M. Geller

Wholesale Direct Metals, Inc.
15200 Sunset Blvd. Suite 202
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
tel: (866) 925-6626  x1002
fax: (310) 454-2194
www.wholesaledirectmetals.com

“Paper is poverty… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
- Thomas Jefferson

Wholesale Direct Metals, Inc. is a Glenn Beck sponsor. Please feel free to contact them and tell them how you feel about their response.

Wholesale Direct Metals, Inc.
15200 Sunset Blvd. Suite 202
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
tel: (866) 925-6626
fax: (310) 454-2194
info@wholesaledirectmetals.com
https://twitter.com/wdmgold
http://www.wholesaledirectmetals.net/contact-us.php

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You can now find some show-specific lists of sponsors for The O’Reilly Factor, Fox & Friends and the Glenn Beck Show at the pages below.

• Bill O’Reilly Sponsors
• Fox & Friends Sponsors
• Glenn Beck Sponsors

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Want to see what losing 62 advertisers did to Glenn Beck‘s bottom line? Check out this graph from Gawker showing his FNC ad revenue drop more than 50%!

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