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It seems that race will always be a political issue!

The advertisers don't buy time on a particular program. The buy a bloc of prime time from Fox and pay a rate determined by audience size and demographics. Fox has great discretion where they place the ads.

Boycott Beck? Move a non-targeted company to Beck and move the target to another show. The boycotters have to pressure a new target every day. Fail.

You wrote yesterday: "The boycott stems from a remark Beck made calling Barack Obama a racist..."

Obama sat through 20 years' worth of the Rev. Wright's blatantly racist sermons. In my mind, that absolutely implies that Obama is a racist. And here's a black Phd who agrees.

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When all else fails, pull the race card!

Calling Obama a racist might be labeled 'just another distraction' in the New Hegemony; but that doesn't mean it isn't a valid assessment.

I think you might be missing the point -do the advertisers want to be associated with a man who calls Obama a racist and claims that Obama has a problem with the white race; it has nothing to do with forcing Faux sNooze to do anything - what it has to do with is what do the advertisers want to have identified with their products.

Of course advertisers will fill as long as they do not having their products associated with Beck's speech; I am sure that will not be a problem.

This is a project at spockosbrain and I say more power to him. I boycott places myself; I have no expectation that what I do will affect them but I do not buy their products and I tell the people around me what my problem is and let them make their own decisions.

During my month long stay in the USA and Canada I had the misfortune to be exposed to the CNN news. The tragedy of CNN is that they had 24 hour focus on Michael Jackson. It was a great evening when one of the men sitting in the lounge with myself and some other women in an hotel in Conneticut had more than enough and demanded a change of station. We were all content when it was changed to Fox. We did not have to listen to what was on the TV.

On a more serious side though, was the CNN coverage of the ousting of Zelaya in the Honduras. It was not a coup, like the one in Iran. What was extremely disturbing about the coverage was the partisan behaviour of the reporter who was in the Honduras. If ever there was a reason to boycott a station then the advertisers should be boycotting CNN over that reportage, and especially the manner in which the reporter played a role in faux photography.

The majority in the Honduras do not want Zelaya to return. What he did was against their Constitution. No American should be supporting Zelaya and the POTUS should keep his beak out of the situation.

What was also disappointing is the way that CNN and Reuters and others misrepresented the real coup in Iran, and also their failure to report on what has been happening to the ordinary people who were imprisoned and tortured by the illegitimate regime.

After seeing some of these idiots viz Maddow and a few others on the TV I am glad that I am not exposed to them here in Australia. I just hope that they get pulled off the air and the sooner the better. They are the most annoying individuals with their bias and their stupid opinions.

@maggie - Wow - so Australia suffers from unabashed wingnuttery too! You are saying that attempting to change the constitution via constitutionally mandated techniques is unconstitutional but circumventing the the constitution with a military coup is constitutional? I do not know where in to start - er, I will just go with Barney "What planet are you from?"

grumpy old man: Oh puh-leeeze. Posting that link has nothing whatsoever to do with validating my opinion.

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@kitty - nor does your link to "black phd"