Glenn Beck is engaging in global warming denial....IT'S TIME WE GO ON THE OFFENSIVE!

[Harper_is_Bush]

Last night my local "CNN Headline News" station had Glenn Beck on...same show, three times. He had on Chris Horner and some other global warming denier spreading a bunch of garbage about global warming. They even called it a "myth".

It appears like Glenn Beck is planning a global warming denial tour. Check out the overlay to his homepage:
http://www.glennbeck.com/

This is no joke, and it's time to fight back with our dollars.

On his website there is an advertiser - Sleep Number by Select Comfort - that seems to be presenting/sponsoring Glenn's global warming tour "an inconvenient tour". Contact them with a polite boycott advisement unless they stop advertising with a man who seeks to mislead the world on global warming here:
http://www.selectcomfort.com/customercenter/contactus/contact_us.cfm

I'm in Canada, but the 1-888-411-2188 number worked for me. They tried to tell me I needed to call marketing/advertising and give me a long distance number, but in the end they agreed to take my message of displeasure over their sponsorship and pass it on for me.

REMEMBER THE BACKLASH GENERATED AGAINST THE MEDIA BEFORE THE 2004 ELECTION BY THOSE DEFENDING THE TRUTH? THEY BACKED DOWN, AND SOMETHING SIMILAR NEEDS TO HAPPEN AGAIN!

I can't find the transcript from last night, but here's one from an April 5th show, also w/ Chris Horner:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/05/gb.01.html
And the media matters page on it:
Beck, CEI's Horner denounced Gore's work as "science fiction," spread global warming misinformation
http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100016

Obviously Beck has decided to carry water for the Republicans on the issue of global warming, truth be damned.

Is there a full list of CNN advertisers someplace?

TIME TO STAND UP PEOPLE!!!

[ruiner4u]

1. feh... hes offensive enough..

but yeah, i agree with you...

k/r

[BOSSHOG]

2. I always turn to a pathetic drug addict and alcoholic

who could not possibly find gainful employment any other way then sucking industry cock and hiding behind a microphone for all my "facts" on global warming. I'd have much more respect for beck if he went back to his addictions, then to try to be somebody important.

[Harper_is_Bush]

3. The number I gave is not just the contact, it's also the "order by phone", so keep them talking....

Tying up the order line will get their attention

Contact Select Comfort

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AND REMEMBER WHAT I WROTE ABOVE:

I'm in Canada, but the 1-888-411-2188 number worked for me. They tried to tell me I needed to call marketing/advertising and give me a long distance number, but in the end they agreed to take my message of displeasure over their sponsorship and pass it on for me.

[HerbieHeadhunter]

4. Nobody watches his show....

he is firmly in the cable news ratings basement, so I wouldn't get too bent out of shape over it. He could claim gravity to be a myth and nobody would a) hear it, or b) care.

[Harper_is_Bush]

9. Do you have a link for your ratings claim?

I have heard that he gets a lot of viewers.

And in any event, even if his ratings are low, is that any reason to allow global warming denial to go unchallanged?

Are we giving up the ghost now?

Here we have a specific company supporting his "An Inconvenient Tour" spoof, with 9 tour dates (so far) throughout the USA. It's bad enough that EXXON gives millions to deniers, are we going to allow bed makers to jump on the bandwagon?
And if we do, does that not send a message to other companies that there's no risk in supporting global warming denial?

[MADem]

5. Oh, it get worse--he's gonna "debate" the withdrawal of troops from Iraq next.

We know where that's going.

Beck has been carrying water for the GOP for, well, forever. Why should this surprise you? THe guy is a rightwing, racist asswipe. Your brain cells die at a faster clip watching him.

A rabid dog WILL bark, snarl, drool and bite. It's just what they do.

Turn the tv off, or tune in to a better channel.

[meegbear]

6. Done and done

I sent an email and got this back:

Thank you for your e-mail to Media Relations. A Select Comfort representative
will contact you. If you would prefer to contact us directly, you can reach our
Media Relations team at: 763-551-7460.

Here's a number, FYI

[lpbk2713]

7. How many videos of icebergs falling into the ocean do these clowns need?

Goes to show how ridiculously dense they are.

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. I don't mean to be too picky here, but.....

by definition, an "Iceberg" is already in the ocean (or lake, as the case may be)

And....well...they have been calving from glaciers and ice shelves for as long as there has been glaciers and ice shelves and oceans.

BTW, Glenn Beck is televising what Limbaugh goes on about almost every day. Limbaugh is a HUGE (literally and figuratively) denier of Global Climate Change.

[lpbk2713]

16. I actually had icebergs in mind ....

... what I was thinking of was the pics I have seen of the sides of large icebergs sheering off and going into the sea.


And yes it is true regarding OxyRush. He is one of the highest paid employees on Big Oil's payroll. He is their #1 spokesman.

[DemGa]

8. Did CNN not listen to his filthy rants before they hired him?

His radio show was solidly disgusting. CNN should grow up and fire him.

[Buttercup McToots]

10. Who is that spokeswomen?

Linsey?
What's her email address...?

[rodeodance]

11. Sleep Number by Select Comfort --I believe Rush L. advertizes this also--he

used to anyway (have not listened in a long time)

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Select Comfort sponsors both Beck and Garrison Keillor?

That's strange.

[SoCalDem]

18. Not strange at all. They are not a "mattress for liberals" or "mattress of the right wingers"

They make a product and they hedge their bets to try and capture 100% of the eyes & ears..

This is why most "company" boycotts fail..

CNN is the ONE company who;s to blame here. They KNOW what a vile piece of shit Beck is.. They HIRED him anyway. They purposefully dismantled the whole concept of "HEADLINE" news and turned it into yet another schlocky "show" format with more infotainmE™ment programming.

They know it bugs the hell out us lefties, but they don't care because where else will we go? Fox? MSRNC?

[Harper_is_Bush]

20. This time they've hitched their wagon to something a bit different than just "right" or "left".

Global warming denial is akin to holocaust denial.

[RestoreGore]

14. Oh, I'm standing up alright

I will most DEFINITLEY be contacting them about this. And I recommended this post because we need to step up to the plate now against these shills. Thanks for the heads up.

[wtmusic]

15. Done. K&R. nt

[Uncle Joe]

17. Thanks for the thread Harper_is_Bush

Kicked and recommended

[Harper_is_Bush]

21. U r welcome. And thankyou. I just wish people were as hot over this as they were

over the John Kerry/swiftboat thing.

Global warming is bigger than any single election....we have to turn the page now on allowing these lies to go unchallanged.

It seems like any global warming liar is given a free pass. Honest people like Al Gore, David Suzuki, Sheryl Crow, et al get criticized a little bit and it's all over the news.

[Brundle_Fly]

19. he'll hide behind...

it's an opinion show.

no matter its on a "NEWS" channel

[Harper_is_Bush]

22. It's too bad people don't feel as strongly about global warming as they did about the swiftboate....

...those who lie to us about global warming threaten more than just a single election.

I look back on the action that ensued over the swiftboaters movie with pride. I helped with that, and it had an effect.

If that kind of backlash could be generated against someone openly spreading deceit over global warming in the mainstream like Beck is, the cause would be more noble and the prize greater