Eight Feet Deep

 It is nice to see that some large cor­po­ra­tions still respond to the wishes of the consumer.

 Sev­eral spon­sors of the Fox News show “Glenn Beck” have announced they are pulling their adver­tise­ments in the wake of the host’s remarks that Pres­i­dent Obama is racist.

 Beck, not to be con­fused with the one-named singer Beck, said on another Fox show that Obama is a “racist” and has a “deep-seated hatred for white peo­ple.” Obama, not be con­fused with an Irish bar­tender, replied that Beck was a “hor­ri­ble bas­ket­ball player” and “can’t dance for diddly.”  

  The adver­tis­ers which include Geico, Sar­gento, Proc­tor and Gam­ble, the Phizer phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal company, Kraft Foods and Pro­gres­sive Insur­ance did not remove their com­mer­cials from the Fox News net­work. Thus the Rupert Mur­doch Repub­li­can Party’s Right Wing Hate Machine net­work as it is also known stands to lose no money from sponsors.

 A black polit­i­cal coali­tion, ColorofChange.org, launched the drive for spon­sors yank­ing their ads from Beck’s show. The linked “The New York Times” arti­cle describes Beck also as a “con­ser­v­a­tive radio host and come­dian.” That descrip­tion is itself funny because Beck has all the humor of Hein­rich Himm­ler on a bad day.

 Speak­ing of con­cen­tra­tion camps, Beck said in recent months that FEMA was build­ing con­cen­tra­tion camps for Repub­li­cans and other Obama oppo­nents. The rumor was later debunked on his own show. Too bad the same can’t be done for Sarah Palin’s “Death Pan­els.”