Red Lobster: Apparently Still off the Glenn Beck Show
Earlier this week I received an email from ColorOfchange.org, which bills itself as "the largest online African-American political organization in the country." Last month the group launched a boycott of the Fox Network’s "Glenn Beck Show" after host Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a "racist." Dozens of advertisers complied by pulling their ads, including Red Lobster.
In the email spokeswoman Dani McLain of ColorOfChange.org said that the organization, which monitors the show, hadn’t spotted a Red Lobster commercial since August 7. A recent call to Red Lobster President Kim Lopdrop was not returned. Beck made the remark on July 28.
Clarence Otis, the CEO of Darden Restaurants, which owns Red Lobster, is African American.
Curiously, the seafood chain is left off of a list of companies compiled by ColorOfChange.org that have dropped plans to advertise on the controversial program:
| Aegon, Ashley Furniture, Airware Inc. (makers of Brez anti-snoring aids), Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Ancestry.com, Applebee’s, AT&T, Bank of America, Best Buy, Binder & Binder, Blaine Labs Inc., Broadview Security, Campbell Soup Company, Capital One, ConAgra, Clorox, CVS, The Dannon Company, DirecTv, Discover, Ditech, The Elations Company, Experian (creator of FreeCreditReport.com), Farmers Insurance Group, GEICO, General Mills, HSBC, Humana, ICAN Benefit Group Insurance, Infiniti, Jelmar (manufacturer of CLR All-Purpose Cleaner) Johnson & Johnson (makers of Tylenol), Jordan McKenna Debt Counseling Network, Kraft, Lawyers.com, Lowe’s, Luxottica Retail (retail parent of LensCrafters and Pearle Vision), Men’s Wearhouse, Mercedes-Benz, NutriSystem, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Re-Bath, Regions Financial Corporation, Roche, Sam (Store and Move), SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, Simplex Healthcare (creator of the Diabetes Care Club), Sprint, State Farm Insurance, Traveler’s Insurance, Travelocity, United States Postal Service, The UPS Store, Verizon Wireless, Vonage, Wal-Mart and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare. |
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