Glenn Beck is a Loudmouth Gasbag

Glenn, dude, stop hyper-ventilating. Please. It doesn't do anyone any good. I could start blogging about how I hate person X or Group Y and my ratings would skyrocket, too!

My reputation, however, is more important to me than my ratings.

As Glenn Beck returns to the air Monday, following a long-planned
vacation, the Fox News star still has to deal with an advertiser boycott
that’s grown by about a dozen companies since
last week, according to the Associated Press. The AP’s David Bauder, citing
African-American online activist organization ColorOfChange.org, reports today that
33 companies “directed that their commercials not air on Beck’s show.”
The
ColorOfChange boycott began shortly after Beck
called Obama “a racist” on Fox & Friends, adding that the president
“has
a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” Beck makes
controversial and provocative remarks on his own Fox show, too, such as
recently
joking about poisoning Nancy
Pelosi. So it’s not surprising that advertisers might be concerned about
being associated with Beck’s show—that’s despite that fact that it’s been a
rating smash at 5 p.m.

Beck boycott continues; will advertisers drop commentary shows? - Michael Calderone - POLITICO.com