The Stoop: Rants and Rave - Fox News Advertiser Pull Back

This is a story that broke the other day and I haven't had a chance to really comment on it until now. I can summarize this story up with one phrase "...ABOUT DAMN TIME". Apologize for the cursing, but it is about time that someone stood up to the political version of TMZ masked as a news channel.

If you are unaware of the situation, on a July 28th broadcast of Glenn Beck's show, Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist. Then on the next day he tried to provide a justifiable answer to support his allegation on his radio broadcast. This is not the first time Fox News has been at the center of racially charged propaganda, just watch Bill O'Reilly's show at any given time when he speaks about non-Caucasian races. Well the Glenn Beck comment was the straw that broke the camels back for many advertisers.

Through yesterday, roughly 33 advertisers pulled their sponsorship from Glenn Beck's show along with a few major advertisers pulling all ads off the network completely. You have to applaud this move, not because it was a slanderous comment against our Commander in Chief, but on the basis that enough is enough. Free Speech supporters are beginning to speak out against the advertisers, but slander is not covered under the Constitutional Amendment of Free Speech. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with a person's views, political positions, decisions, etc but we must use tact when conveying that message regardless of how mad we are at that person, especially when that person is a member of the media. The Republican spin wash cycle better known as Fox News has gone to far in this situation, but its a surprise that something like this never happened before. I wonder if Clorox is going to step up and pull ads from Rush Limbaugh's show especially after his comments earlier this year stating that President Obama was forcing reparations on the American people. Yea ridiculous and they pay these individuals millions of dollars a year to so call discuss current and political newsworthy events.

It will be interesting to see if Fox News is going to clean it up and move towards a more unbias format. In my opinion, I think that ol' Rupert Murdoch is going to continue the political spin cycle until they are forced off the air.

Written by: Ran @rannyran on Twitter www.OURBLOC.com