Beck's Ratings Surge as Ad Boycott Continues

Six more firms to refuse to run ads on host's show

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 27, 2009 3:08 PM CDT

(Newser) – The audience for Glenn Beck’s Fox News show continues to swell even as more advertisers decline to run commercials on the program in the wake of the talk-show host's assertion that President Obama is a racist, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beck’s Monday night show attracted 2.81 million viewers, his third-largest audience to date, and Tuesday’s segment drew 2.7 million.

Beck has devoted this week to an exposé of radical leftist groups he claims have unchecked influence in the Obama administration. Meanwhile, Color of Change, the advocacy group that organized the advertising boycott, says six more firms will join the 36 already boycotting Beck’s program. Beck is unfazed: “Even if the powers to be right now succeed in making me poor, drum me out,” he says. “I will only be stronger for it.”

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Shannonals

Aug 29, 2009 5:32 AM CDT

Are all your heroes former drug addicted personalities MrsK? Sure, Beck is an admitted recovering addict, but since he is always one to point out that what a individual has stated or done in the past is who theyare, what does that make him?

Shannonals

Aug 29, 2009 5:29 AM CDT

Jayter999 your touched in your head if you think any other race is better than another. I love how somone who claims to be so conservative can make the comments you have made in the past. If your a reflection of conservatives, than perhaps our country truly is doomed.

Shannonals

Aug 29, 2009 5:25 AM CDT

It amazes me about all this talk about the "left" and "Right". That is exactly whty our country is in such a mess, we are Americans first, perhaps people need to remember that

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Beck's Ratings Surge as Ad Boycott Continues