Boycott Precious(Advertiser on Glenn Beck) Until Removed

As of December 16, Precious is still a advertiser on Glenn Beck. Until they take the ads off his showtime, I would strongly suggest boycotting movie as they should listen to a mostly moderate-to-liberal base of movie goers(at least not b#$crazy right).
List is on Media Matters
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200912160036

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Email:
To Whom It May Concern:
I recently discovered that the movie Precious was being advertised on Fox’s Glen Beck show. Due to the nature of this show, many advertisers have pulled out. It is disappointing to discover that a film I’m interested in seeing is still being advertised on Beck’s show. I will not see your film until the ads are pulled from the Beck show.
Thank you very much,

and because roger ebert gave it a 4 (teasing Steve)

double post

You’re all idiots!

Big RDB: did you maybe mean “you’re”?

Yes, thank you.

This is a horrid idea and a dangerous slipperly slope for anyone who cares about the arts to be on (regardless of your politics.)

Does it really matter. Does it? I’m glad I’m a centrist.

I’m definitely boycotting Precious… because it looks like garbage.

Agreed with Vellaem, coming from someone who had the opportunity to see it for free, but chose to stay home and study instead.

Here’s a new petition:

To whom it may concern,

your film looks awful. Please stop making awful films.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Done!

I called Lionsgate (thanks for the phone number, Maud’s Son). An actual living person answered the phone. After hearing that I’d boycott until….he asked if I’d care to leave a message in this regard for one of their people. After assuring me that, by doing so, my declaration would carry some resonance, I agreed. Left the message and hung up.

Easy. Effective? Only if I’m one of thousands, perhaps. Nevertheless, it was easy to register my resolve.

Go for it.

I always thought petty boycotts were supposed to be something conservatives were criticized for.

I’ll watch what I damn well please regardless of politics.

Are you for real?

WOW

Ridiculous.

vellaem: that is the only reason you should boycott precious

“a film I’m interested in seeing”

But I don’t want to lie. ):

You guys must not have been following this, the boycotts so far have taken a bunch of companies off Beck’s show. This will work if a few people that have friends on different social networks simply sends a email to the company. I didn’t think the movie would be that good either by I do see other film by distributed by Lionsgate. It’s just a quick email. I posted on this website b/c ppl care about the film industry here. I didn’t count on the level of apolitical thinking though. I didn’t ask anyone to send a message to any other company. It’s not a slippery slope becaue it’s BECK, a clear line dividing legit politics from fearmongering. Scary to think of the world that will be created when so many people just don’t care anymore— I get the feeling of just not caring— but I put this up because it HAS been working so far, and it’s not even like getting pissed at Oreilly, it’s BECK- which means it’s clear what is targeted and is NO slippery slope.

I’m as repulsed by Beck as many, but don’t really go for censorship of assholes or harassment or their advertisers. Hell, pricks like him seem to thrive on it.

I don’t mean to generalize “conservatives” here, but considering that precious has come under fire for reinforcing stereotypes, I really wonder what Lionsgate think the “Fox Nation” would see in it, or why it would appeal to them. I hate to play the Beckian “I’m not saying this, but I’m saying this” game, but if precious (which I have seen) can be attacked as some kind of maudlin Minstrellized Queen-for-a-day soap opera, why would you sell it to an audience that, based on the iedology of the program it’s advertised on, are quite likely to see it and possibly sell it as such.

Apologies for the run-on sentence there. I’m too damn tired to fix that.

I can’t stand Glenn Beck. But he has a right to make a living spouting his opinions as long as there’s people who will listen. If you don’t like hearing them, then change the fucking channel. This boycott business is lame.

Glenn Beck is a patriot.

Bad movies are bad movies. Should conservatives boycott movies that are advertised on Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Ed whatever his name is?

Beck has one of the highest rated shows on cable, even if this silly attempt were to prevail, others were gladly take their spot.

My question is this, what is Glenn Beck saying that is so dangerous to the progressive movement? Oh, thats right everything, because the progressive movement is an anti-american, one world socialist movement. Those who don’t understand that are simply pawns in George Soros’ game.

Boycott those who use their first amendment rights…sounds like a page out of Hitler and Mao’s book.

“because the progressive movement is an anti-american, one world socialist movement”

HAHAHAHAHA,that should go on the Funniest Posts thread,hahahaha.

“Glenn Beck is a patriot.”

great irony and/or sarcasm,hahahaha.

@Maud’s Son

I know what you are talking about. I’m rather political. I also live in Canada. Stop assuming I care about some media entertainer in the US, and by not going to Oprah/Mariah/Medea’s 90 min self-pity wallow I’ll affect “change” on a US based channel by calling a Canadian-based distribution company.

Climb down off your soapbox of self-righteousness and cultural imperialism.

“Precious” revels in disjointed stereotypical slop. The US ghetto culture affects Canadian black culture, the latter of which has a much shorter, less hideous, history of disenfranchisement. By streaming that garbage over here, Canadian blacks get the idea that by whining about disenfranchisement and wallowing in a history they don’t share that they are somehow being political. It isn’t a political act; it is put-on whining, at least in a Canadian context.

Annually, Toronto has slightly more gang and gun violence as guns are smuggled in from Detroit, Buffalo, etc. Our statistics are laughable when compared with US cities, but I’m not dealing relative terms here. Guns and violence increase largely due to US cultural and gun manufacturing influence. Plenty of dumb city Canadians (white, black, arab, indian, native, etc) try to be ghetto hard and thug life forever based on US gangsta culture, and the other side of that coin is self-pity wanks like “Precious.”

If you want real change, make many cross-cultural and cross-class friends. Clean up the divide in America. The poor neighborhoods in the US resemble third world countries. Canada’s ghettos are bad too, but they don’t look that bad prima facie. Help clean up your country. Don’t start with some spouting white man on TV that thrives on any buzz about himself. The crappy neighborhoods in the US and their (mostly truly but wallowy) sob stories— their toxic existence are more far reaching than some mewling mormon commentator. You are picking an absurd battle and ignoring the larger problem, either that or you are dead-on and starting from the wrong end.

The Point here is not whether you like Glenn Beck or not. I happen to think he’s a wingnut clown, but we’ve got this freedom of speech thing going here in the US. Maud’s Son, you may think it’s not a slippery slope because you’re only targeting one broadcaster, but if you do succeed, you set a precedent. Next time, an organized right wing boycott could target films that advertise on, say, the Rachel Maddow Show. If this becomes a trend, studios will start to get very nervous about, not just where they advertise, but political content in their films (not that there isn’t some of that already, but it could be worse.) Remember, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

@Jason Troches​set

“Boycott those who use their first amendment rights…sounds like a page out of Hitler and Mao’s book”

Ooo ooo, or Stalin, or the Burmese Junta, or Pinochet, or Ho Chi Minh, or Kim Jong-il or Ack-meny-ji-had.

All the same to you I guess. Anyone who godwins a thread not even a page deep must be rather terrible at history or insular or both. Someone asked for a little less crocodile tears on Fox, so you imply they are a nazi AND a communist. Go you.

I come to theauteurs for movies not the social commentary, and Precious sucks. I’m sure a movie about Glenn Beck would suck too. The closest thing that address his role in US society is A Face in Crowd which I highly recommend for its chilling, apt foretelling of US “journalism.” Lonesome Rhodes could be O’Reilly, Olbermann, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, or any other politically-motivated entertainer who appeals emotionally and persuasively to a large group of riled people.

Maddow harkens back to actual journalism. She fact checks, tries to remain rational and neutral even in extremis. She has a progressive viewpoint, but debates well, cites her sources, and comes prepared. She’s doing it right. More people of all viewpoints should take that tack; it is the actual, sadly former, practice of the field.

Damn, is there no way to get away from that moron Beck. So they rotate a movie ad into Beck’s slot. What people never seem to understand is that a station doesn’t care if someone pulls an ad from Beck because he’s scaring the clientele. It hurts if someone stops advertising with Fox but that rarely happens. So the advertisers look responsible and everyone feels swell about pressuring Beck even though he hasn’t dropped a beat and Obama pretends Larry Summers and the monopoly health insurers aren’t running the country and it’s all one big hype. Forget about a loser like Beck, get in the damn streets. I can’t believe that anyone thinks “Precious” is in Beck’s demographic, bizarre.