Walmart, Best Buy pull advertising from Glenn Beck

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Certianly Walmart will never be mistaken for a supporter of liberal causes, this is just another indication that Beck crossed the line when he called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred of white people."

Some 20 companies have pulled their advertising from Beck since he made those loony remarks, including..

ConAgra Foods
Proctor & Gamble
Walmart
Geico
GMAC Financial Services
Best Buy
CVS
Travelocity
State Farm Insurance
Broadview Security
Progressive Insurance
Roche
Sanofi-Aventis
Radio Shack
Men's Wearhouse
Lawyers.com
Sargento


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/wal-mart-cvs-best-buy-dit_b_261424.html
 
Werbung:
Good, Beck is a nut job. This was shown to be quite true by his reaction to his loss of sponsorship. After being dropped, he hailed it as him having "angered a lot of powerful people." No beck, you just pissed off MOST the people who have ever had the misfortune of hearing you spot your nonsense, most people who have had to deal with the dullards who believe your nonsense, and the companies who's profits have taken a hit from the boycotts induced by their support of your show. The powerful people you have angered are the millions in america who find you pathetic and full of hot air.
 
Certianly Walmart will never be mistaken for a supporter of liberal causes, this is just another indication that Beck crossed the line when he called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred of white people."

Some 20 companies have pulled their advertising from Beck since he made those loony remarks, including..

ConAgra Foods
Proctor & Gamble
Walmart
Geico
GMAC Financial Services
Best Buy
CVS
Travelocity
State Farm Insurance
Broadview Security
Progressive Insurance
Roche
Sanofi-Aventis
Radio Shack
Men's Wearhouse
Lawyers.com
Sargento


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/wal-mart-cvs-best-buy-dit_b_261424.html

How can he have enough ad time to have this many people in the first place?

I think the left has got to shut him up even if it means to help him with a little "accident" and I do think they would do that.

Glenn exposes accorn and all the chicago curruption that is tainting this administration and that is very dangerous. So I can see why they must go hard on him but FOX would be crazy to cancel him, he is way better than anything else they have going.

By the way I am watching todays Glenn Beck show and the progressive ad is on right now as well as a couple others on your list :)
 
Why would they pull advertising from Beck?

According to the NYT:


ABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after Glenn Beck, the person, said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

That remark was a little over the top, especially when he followed up by saying that he wasn't saying that Obama didn't like white people.

That one was lampooned roundly on Colbert and Stewart, btw, as well it should have been.

Does that mean that Wal Mart has gone liberal and is only going to advertise on "liberal" media? Well, no:

“The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other day parts on the network, so there has been no revenue lost,” said a spokeswoman for the channel, a unit of the News Corporation.

So, the problem isn't Fox News. The problem is Glenn Beck and his outrageous statement.
 
I thought this was interesting. I am glad they added phone numbers, I will start calling tonight :)


Backlash Against Boycott of Glenn Beck

Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:32 PM

By: David A. Patten




A left-wing group’s effort to intimidate corporate advertisers on Fox News’ Glenn Beck show appears to be backfiring as it triggers a wave of support from grass-roots fans rushing to defend the popular TV personality from the attacks.

Even before the liberal boycott of Glenn Beck began this summer, the best-selling author and TV host had became a ratings superstar, with his 5 p.m. cable news program pulling mega prime-time viewership numbers. Beck also had become a lightning rod for liberal groups who didn’t like his anti-Obama message and his staggeringly large audience.

But now Beck’s fame seems to be growing even more as a spontaneous, nationwide effort has sprung up among fans to defend their hero, including Web sites, Facebook groups, homegrown e-mail blasts, and individual telephone campaigns.

The reaction in support of Beck comes in the wake of the advertiser-boycott campaign launched by Color of Change, an African-American advocacy organization with close ties to the Obama White House.

Although the group garnered some success initially, it appears that it is making claims that don’t match reality, with several major companies claiming they never joined any boycott of Beck’s show.

Major advertisers such as Wal-Mart, CVS, ConAgra, and Sargento have directed Fox News not to air their ads during the Glenn Beck Program, according to Color of Change.

The group probably would have been dismissed as a gadfly were it not for its high-level connections to the Obama White House. Color of Change co-founder Van Jones now works in the Obama administration as the president's "green jobs czar."

Beck has been a fearless critic of both President Obama and Jones, whose association with Color of Change was said to have ended in December 2007.

Color of Change Executive Director James Rucker tells Newsmax that his organization wants Beck silenced for his July remark on Fox & Friends that Obama -s "racist" — an opinion Beck voiced in the context of the president’s chastising of the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt. James Crowley for acting "stupidly" in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

"It's preposterous and absurd," Rucker tells Newsmax of Beck's utterance. "It's insulting to black Americans, and it corrupts honest debate. Anyone who uses such a platform to spew such vitriol, whether Glenn Beck or anyone else, has no place on the air, and we at Color Of Change would use every resource available to us to remove corporate sponsorship from their platform."


Conservative Backlash


Beck's enemies on the left, however, have awakened a sleeping giant in their campaign to destroy Beck.

Like the town hall protesters, Beck's supporters are rising up to declare they're fed up and not going to take it anymore. And joining in their counterattack are some of the most respected voices in conservative media.

"Glenn Beck is to be congratulated," New York Times best-selling author Peter Schweizer tells Newsmax. "They only go after you when you are being effective — he must really be causing them problems."

And Rich Noyes, research director for the conservative Media Research Council watchdog organization, says, "I think it tells us a lot about the style of politics coming from the organized left and this White House. They want to be so strenuous in going after their adversaries that they have a take-no-prisoners approach. I think it would be unthinkable if conservatives, particularly those affiliated with the Bush White House, had gone after a media figure associated with one of the other networks."

Conservative icon and direct-marketing expert Richard Viguerie tells Newsmax: "That's Chicago politics. We're seeing the Chicago-ization of politics. We hear how dangerous it is for some of these people to come in the vicinity of the president with a weapon. Then we see the chairman of a powerful committee, Henry Waxman, issuing subpoenas to 50 insurance executives for their corporate records. That's how they play the game. They will use any method they can to attain power and then hold onto that power. They tried to do the same with Rush Limbaugh, but Rush Limbaugh is too big for them to handle. This is how Democrats operate."

On Thursday, DC Examiner editorial page editor Mark Tapscott wrote: "Funny, I don't recall that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression to everybody except those whose opinions the four members of ColorofChange.org find ‘repulsive and divisive.’"

Tapscott called on readers to conduct a reverse boycott against the companies bowing to left-wing pressure, who are pulling their ads from Beck's program. Those companies, Tapscott says, "are aiding and abetting a vicious, political campaign to slander him by an outfit apparently created for just such a purpose."

A reverse boycott is precisely what's taking place.

On Aug. 16, Beck supporter John Hill launched a Web site, DefendGlenn.com. Five days later, the site had recorded 1.9 million visits, racked up 1,033 Twitter followers, and garnered 5,800 user comments on its "Support Wall," Hill says.

"Let your voice be heard! Fight back against the lies and the extremist boycott of Glenn Beck," the site declares.

DefendGlenn.com provides contact information for companies that have pulled their advertising. It also lists and encourages the companies who have stuck with the Beck program.

"We launched DefendGlenn basically just to counter a lot of the distortions and lies that were put out by this group Color of Change, which we saw weren't being countered at all," Hill tells Newsmax.

Among the messages fans left on the DefendGlenn "Support Wall" to show their support for Beck:


"Freedom of speech applies to all speech, even those from the right," wrote Matt Elmore of Woodbridge, Va.


"You are not alone, but like Gen. Washington, out in front of the troops," wrote Michael Lyon of Estero, Fla.


"Never give up,” Leonor Godwin of Stephenville, Texas, wrote him. “They are trying to break you. You are our inspiration and our rock."

Hill also tells Newsmax he has received 5,000 e-mails from people who tell him they are canceling their Geico insurance policy because the company has joined the boycott against Beck, and about 6,500 e-mails from consumers who say they never will buy a Sargento product again.

"I don't want to do that," Hill tells Newsmax. "I think boycotts are stupid. But if they're going to join the boycott, boycotts work two ways. Earlier in the week, the companies were saying, 'Yeah we're dropping the ads.’ But as soon as people started getting in touch with them, they started denying they were dropping anything.'"

Other Beck supporters also are getting into the act. They include an upstate New York stay-at-home mom who became alarmed when she saw the orchestrated campaign to make one of the most independent voices in American media a pariah. Already a member of the 912 organization Beck initiated to recapture the nonpartisan spirit of unity the nation experienced after the 9/11 terror attacks, she created SupportGlennBeck.com.

The site includes a petition that states: “Through his radio and television show, he promotes God, family, and country — which resonates with a majority of Americans.

“There are some people who have an ideological problem with Glenn Beck. These people will not be satisfied until voices such as Glenn’s are silenced. For the millions of us who share Glenn’s values, there is nothing more frightening than losing our forum,” the petition states.

The growing pro-Beck movement has also reached social networking sites. One example: Beck supporter Doug Edelman of St. Louis has established a new Facebook group, “Defend Glenn Beck Against Thug Inspired Boycott.” During its first week, more than 790 members joined the group, which includes a statement of support for Beck and lists contact information for companies that are said to be boycotting his show.


Exaggerated Boycotts


The anti-Beck activists claim that more than 20 advertisers have dropped the Beck program. Hill and others on the pro-Beck side dispute say Color of Change has greatly exaggerated the effect of its boycott.
 
Many of the companies the organization lists now deny they have anything to do with the boycott. Newsmax contacted Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson, and Radio Shack, all of which said they have not directed Fox News to pull their ads from the Glenn Beck Program, as Color of Change has stated.

In fact, these companies’ representatives tell Newsmax that, as a matter of corporate policy, they never did advertise on the Glenn Beck Program and ask how they could boycott a program they never placed an ad on in the first place.

Another company, State Farm, tells Newsmax that its ad was never supposed to air on the Glenn Beck Program. State Farm has a longstanding company policy against advertising on any "political or opinion programming," its spokesman says.

Having discovered the error, State Farm says, it will not be advertising on any cable talk show. And it is careful to emphasize it is not singling out Beck in this regard.

As State Farm’s response suggests, the net effect of the anti-Beck crusade probably will be fewer advertisers willing to advertise on the talk shows of any cable network.

Consider, for example, the corporate response from Clorox. On Thursday, company executives wrote Hill stating: “After a comprehensive review of political talk shows across the spectrum, at this time we have made a decision not to advertise on political talk shows.”

Assuming the pro-Beck backlash continues, that probably means the activist campaign intended to hurt Beck will, ironically, damage Beck’s progressive competitors more than it hurts him.

Lost ads will impact smaller networks such as MSNBC far more than it will affect ratings juggernaut Fox News, industry sources say.

Nearly 2.5 million viewers tuned in to Beck’s show in its 5 p.m. Eastern time slot last week, according to Mediabistro’s TV Newser. Beck’s ratings on Fox exceeded those of CNN, MSNBC, and Headline News combined.

All of which calls into question whether advertiser boycotts work anyway.

“It’s funny because I think their calculation is that by going after advertisers they are going to affect his bottom line,” Schweizer says. “But this is a common misperception of liberals. Beck isn’t in this for the money. So even if they could succeed, they won’t silence him.”

Michael Harrison has seen plenty of media campaigns come and go as publisher of Talkers Magazine. “My guess,” he says, “is he will weather this storm.”

“Beck expected to get hostile feedback, and a whole bunch of publicity, and he succeeded on both counts,” Harrison says. “People have the right to be offended and businesses have the right to spend their advertising dollars however they choose. Free speech guarantees the right of having an opinion without government censorship. It doesn’t guarantee that people won’t be angry and withhold their support. The free marketplace of ideas is not for the faint hearted!”

And for ratings giant Fox, Beck’s remarkable connection with viewers has made the free market a profitable one indeed. “The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network,” a Fox spokesman recently told Ad Age, “so there is no revenue lost.”





Below are companies listed on the DefendGlenn site as having joined the Color of Change boycott against Glenn Beck:


Ally Bank

President and CEO Mark B. Hales

(877) 247-2559

6985 Union Park Center

Midvale, Utah 84047

-------------------

Broadview Security (Brinks)

Robert B. Allen

(800) 445-0872

8880 Esters Blvd,

Irving, Texas 75063

-------------------

CVS Caremark Corp.

Thomas M. Ryan

(401) 765-1500

One CVS Drive

Woonsocket, R.I. 02895

------------------

Geico

Chairman and CEO Tony Nicely

(800) 861-8380

5260 Western Ave.

Chevy Chase, Md. 20815

-------------------

Healthy Choice Foods

A subsidiary of

ConAgra Foods Inc.

President and CEO Gary M. Rodkin

(402) 595-4000

1 ConAgra Drive

Omaha, Neb. 68102-5001

-------------------

Lawyers.com

A subsidiary of

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

CEO Andrew Prozes

(800) 526-4902

121 Chanlon Road

New Providence, N.J. 07974

-------------------

Men's Wearhouse

Chairman and CEO George Zimmer

(281) 776-7200

6380 Rogerdale Road

Houston, Texas 77072

-------------------

Sanofi-Aventis U.S.

President and CEO Gregory Irace

(800) 981-2491

55 Corporate Drive

Bridgewater, N.J. 08807

-------------------

Sargento Foods Inc.


Chairman and CEO Louis Gentine

(800) 243-3737

One Persnickety Place

Plymouth, Wis. 53073





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Many of the companies the organization lists now deny they have anything to do with the boycott. Newsmax contacted Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson, and Radio Shack, all of which said they have not directed Fox News to pull their ads from the Glenn Beck Program, as Color of Change has stated.

In fact, these companies’ representatives tell Newsmax that, as a matter of corporate policy, they never did advertise on the Glenn Beck Program and ask how they could boycott a program they never placed an ad on in the first place.

Another company, State Farm, tells Newsmax that its ad was never supposed to air on the Glenn Beck Program. State Farm has a longstanding company policy against advertising on any "political or opinion programming," its spokesman says.

Having discovered the error, State Farm says, it will not be advertising on any cable talk show. And it is careful to emphasize it is not singling out Beck in this regard.

As State Farm’s response suggests, the net effect of the anti-Beck crusade probably will be fewer advertisers willing to advertise on the talk shows of any cable network.

Consider, for example, the corporate response from Clorox. On Thursday, company executives wrote Hill stating: “After a comprehensive review of political talk shows across the spectrum, at this time we have made a decision not to advertise on political talk shows.”

Assuming the pro-Beck backlash continues, that probably means the activist campaign intended to hurt Beck will, ironically, damage Beck’s progressive competitors more than it hurts him.

Lost ads will impact smaller networks such as MSNBC far more than it will affect ratings juggernaut Fox News, industry sources say.

Nearly 2.5 million viewers tuned in to Beck’s show in its 5 p.m. Eastern time slot last week, according to Mediabistro’s TV Newser. Beck’s ratings on Fox exceeded those of CNN, MSNBC, and Headline News combined.

All of which calls into question whether advertiser boycotts work anyway.

“It’s funny because I think their calculation is that by going after advertisers they are going to affect his bottom line,” Schweizer says. “But this is a common misperception of liberals. Beck isn’t in this for the money. So even if they could succeed, they won’t silence him.”

Michael Harrison has seen plenty of media campaigns come and go as publisher of Talkers Magazine. “My guess,” he says, “is he will weather this storm.”

“Beck expected to get hostile feedback, and a whole bunch of publicity, and he succeeded on both counts,” Harrison says. “People have the right to be offended and businesses have the right to spend their advertising dollars however they choose. Free speech guarantees the right of having an opinion without government censorship. It doesn’t guarantee that people won’t be angry and withhold their support. The free marketplace of ideas is not for the faint hearted!”

And for ratings giant Fox, Beck’s remarkable connection with viewers has made the free market a profitable one indeed. “The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network,” a Fox spokesman recently told Ad Age, “so there is no revenue lost.”





Below are companies listed on the DefendGlenn site as having joined the Color of Change boycott against Glenn Beck:


Ally Bank

President and CEO Mark B. Hales

(877) 247-2559

6985 Union Park Center

Midvale, Utah 84047

-------------------

Broadview Security (Brinks)

Robert B. Allen

(800) 445-0872

8880 Esters Blvd,

Irving, Texas 75063

-------------------

CVS Caremark Corp.

Thomas M. Ryan

(401) 765-1500

One CVS Drive

Woonsocket, R.I. 02895

------------------

Geico

Chairman and CEO Tony Nicely

(800) 861-8380

5260 Western Ave.

Chevy Chase, Md. 20815

-------------------

Healthy Choice Foods

A subsidiary of

ConAgra Foods Inc.

President and CEO Gary M. Rodkin

(402) 595-4000

1 ConAgra Drive

Omaha, Neb. 68102-5001

-------------------

Lawyers.com

A subsidiary of

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

CEO Andrew Prozes

(800) 526-4902

121 Chanlon Road

New Providence, N.J. 07974

-------------------

Men's Wearhouse

Chairman and CEO George Zimmer

(281) 776-7200

6380 Rogerdale Road

Houston, Texas 77072

-------------------

Sanofi-Aventis U.S.

President and CEO Gregory Irace

(800) 981-2491

55 Corporate Drive

Bridgewater, N.J. 08807

-------------------

Sargento Foods Inc.


Chairman and CEO Louis Gentine

(800) 243-3737

One Persnickety Place

Plymouth, Wis. 53073





© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.


http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/be...2009/08/23/251369.html?s=al&promo_code=85E5-1

WOW, fantastic...thanks for another hit list...I'll get a campaign of calls going out to them on my other web sites...gotta keep that whiny NUT JOB off of the air. HE'S PATHETIC 4 sure!!! LMAO
 
WOW, fantastic...thanks for another hit list...I'll get a campaign of calls going out to them on my other web sites...gotta keep that whiny NUT JOB off of the air. HE'S PATHETIC 4 sure!!! LMAO

The list is people I supose you call to thank. Its so sad that free speech is not an American thing anymore, its only important to us terrorist types.

but oh well :)
 
How can he have enough ad time to have this many people in the first place?

I think the left has got to shut him up even if it means to help him with a little "accident" and I do think they would do that.

Glenn exposes accorn and all the chicago curruption that is tainting this administration and that is very dangerous. So I can see why they must go hard on him but FOX would be crazy to cancel him, he is way better than anything else they have going.

By the way I am watching todays Glenn Beck show and the progressive ad is on right now as well as a couple others on your list :)


first you have many markets, different ads will play in diff areas. 2nd they dont all run evry time it airs.

2 you can pull a add, but does not mean you dont already have some paid for that will still air..just means no future ads. Some adds where not even set to be in his time frame, just aired, but they have put special requests in that it will not be aired in his time slots...but they can air any other time. It cost more to pick the time your add is aired, so sometimes they just pay less and its up to fox to say when they air them. could be at prime time, could be at 1am....there are many ways to buy air time ( my first degree is in marketing so we did advertising

3, Beck exposes one thing, himself as a loon.
 
first you have many markets, different ads will play in diff areas. 2nd they dont all run evry time it airs.

2 you can pull a add, but does not mean you dont already have some paid for that will still air..just means no future ads. Some adds where not even set to be in his time frame, just aired, but they have put special requests in that it will not be aired in his time slots...but they can air any other time. It cost more to pick the time your add is aired, so sometimes they just pay less and its up to fox to say when they air them. could be at prime time, could be at 1am....there are many ways to buy air time ( my first degree is in marketing so we did advertising

3, Beck exposes one thing, himself as a loon.

Hannity is not a loon, Rush? the only difference is Beck talks about the Czars and acron where Hannity and Rush do not... other than that they pretty much say the same stuff. Why go so hard after Beck? Is his free speech worth less than yours?


Thats interesting about the advertising, you have a lot of different skills and talents. Apparently some of these groups said they are not boycotting Beck, but a few of them are. So Ill write my usual letters and make my usual phone calls.

I personally think Keith O is one of the most disgusting people on the planet but I would be upset if I thought people were trying to get him off the air. He is not my style but its wrong to try and shut him up even if he is a lying sack of crap :)
 
The list is people I supose you call to thank. Its so sad that free speech is not an American thing anymore, its only important to us terrorist types.

but oh well :)

DEMOCRACY IN ACION...smell the voice of 'FREE SPEECH' as it permeates the air...MARVALOUS. That's what it's all about leaning on the people that pay for the air time that can 'pull the financial plug' ;)

Counter balance for the 'hate mongers' who keep getting the 'NUT JOBS' all worked up...a cold bath of reality...no sponsors - no show!
Ahhh the reality of it all :D
 
The list is people I supose you call to thank. Its so sad that free speech is not an American thing anymore, its only important to us terrorist types.

but oh well :)

what happend to the free market? the market is speaking. and people are freely speaking and saying we dont want to help him and his ideas buy purchasing crap that is sold on his show.

are you against others speaking against him? and telling its advertisers they dont support there support of him?
 
what happend to the free market? the market is speaking. and people are freely speaking and saying we dont want to help him and his ideas buy purchasing crap that is sold on his show.

are you against others speaking against him? and telling its advertisers they dont support there support of him?

I do not think you understand where I am coming from.

I will give you some examples


ok.. I hate Susan Sarandon. I will not pay money to see movies she is in, I will not do anything to help her get rich and promote the trash she talks about but I will not ever join in some boycott to stop her from being in a film or having a voice.

I personally like Wal Mart, but many do not and for many reasons. Some dislike them because they are not union, some because the founder is Christian, some because much of what they sell comes from China, some because they think Wal Mart kills small business.

I personally like Wal Mart and shop there sometimes but I have absolute respect for those who say I will not shop there because of X Y or Z. I would defend them and respect that they just do not want to help support the company. But I get disgusted with people who do everything they can to stop WalMart from having a store or being in a town.

I personally really hate Keith O, I dont watch his show, I would not want to help his ratings but I would never join in a boycott to try and get him fired or shut him up or stifle his free speech.

When people started screaming for David Letterman to be fired for his gross and distasteful statements about Sarah Palin and her child I was against that totally. He has a right to say what ever he says, I just make it my choice not to listen to it.

So I do agree with boycotting things but never for the reason of shutting them up or getting them fired or trying to stop the free speech they deserve.

Others can and do on both the right and left, I just personally think those people are maggots :)
 
I personally really hate Keith O, I dont watch his show, I would not want to help his ratings but I would never join in a boycott to try and get him fired or shut him up or stifle his free speech.
Bullseye! What is the point of their boycott? To intimidate and silence opposition.

keith_olbermann.jpg


These are the modern day "Liberals". There used to be a saying among Liberals, "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it!" That has since been replaced with a more Progressive line of thought, "I disagree with what you say and I'll use any means necessary to stop you from saying it!"

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These Progressives didn't cry about Keith Overbites constant fear-mongering during the Bush years... they ate it up! It fueled the "Bush-Hitler" crowd and spawned such Progressive mental masturbatory fantasies as movies and books about the assassination of George W Bush.


Progressives are Anti-Liberals
 
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Bullseye! What is the point of their boycott? To intimidate and silence opposition.

keith_olbermann.jpg


These are the modern day "Liberals". There used to be a saying among Liberals, "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it!" That has since been replaced with a more Progressive line of thought, "I disagree with what you say and I'll use any means necessary to stop you from saying it!"

dhs.jpg


These Progressives didn't cry about Keith Overbites constant fear-mongering during the Bush years... they ate it up! It fueled the "Bush-Hitler" crowd and spawned such Progressive mental masturbatory fantasies as movies and books about the assassination of George W Bush.


Progressives are Anti-Liberals

I have just got to get my computer fixed, I would like to watch that youtube of keith comparing President Bush to Hilter. Funny how things have changed :)
 
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