Glenn Beck chases the lizards out of the closet...

The cat's out of the bag...
And the lizards that were chased out are:

GEICO Insurance
Progressive Insurance
Procter and Gamble

These three firms pulled their advertising out of the Glenn Beck show. They are not happy with his pro-America tirades (and facts).

Here is the leftist Huffington Post inside story.

And here is the story from Atlas Shrugs.

Google "Glenn Beck advertisers" and you will see the "Media Matters" and other left wing smear machines at work, targeting Glenn Beck.

Beck is one of the few who are providing alternatives to the "cram it through" attitude of Washington and most of the media. The left and Obama radicals want to silence one of the few voices that value human life over government control of health care and runaway deficits.

My hope is that many of us will pull our purchasing dollars out of these firms that pull their advertising dollars out of Beck.

Personally, I began researching other car insurance options last night. I hear great things about State Farm, Allstate and AAA. In fact AAA has an affiliation with several auto insurers who compete for quotes. I might save a few bucks as well as have the satisfaction of playing my small part to let GEICO know their leftist politics suck. Apparantly there are many ties between these companies and radical leftist money merchants and others who hold their own agendas above Americas.

We become what we consume...

Are you among those who doubt or deny that what you read, what you watch on TV or at the movies, or the music you listen to has little if any influence on your thoughts, your attitudes, and ultimately, your behavior and character?

I am amazed at people who actually believe that the entertainment they regularly expose themselves to has little or no influence on the person they become. They seem oblivious to an obvious reality.

Doesn't it make sense that those who expose themselves constantly to violence develop violent tendencies? That those who expose themselves constantly to dishonesty tend toward dishonesty?

And conversely, wouldn't it make sense that those who expose themselves constantly to selfless, giving situations tend toward becoming selfless and giving?

I'm not speaking of absolutes here. I'm speaking of human tendencies that result from what we do with our lives, our senses, and our time.

One might then ask, "does that mean if I watch a show featuring terrorists that I'll become a terrorist?" No. But if you spend large amounts of time watching shows depicting terrorism in a positive light, such as from an Islamofacist perspective (or from an America-hating perspective like Newsweek) then you are likely to have a greater tendency to agree with the purposes of terrorism, if not also develop tendencies toward that sociopathic behavior.

Another might suggest that watching anti-social or immoral entertainment is a person's voyeuristic outlet - by having an outlet one could argue a person is less inclined to do such things in real life. This would argue for the thought that billions are spent on advertising so that people will NOT buy the product; that such advertising just serves as an outlet to reduce the desire for the product. Hmmm.

Newsflash: Adverstisers spend billions on advertising because advertising works! People who watch or read advertisements are more likely to buy the product!

Our practice of watching immoral entertainment and denying its effect on us is an addiction just as assuredly as smoking is an addiction. I've spoken with addicted smokers who will actually get defensive and angry at the suggestion that there is a connection between smoking and emphysema as they hack and choke with their smokers' cough.

The addict denies his addiction. In a sense we are all addicted to various things that aren't all that good for us. It is our challenge to identify them and change if we sincerely desire to be a better person, whether the addiction (or strong, controlling habit - take your pick of words) involves the foods we eat, substances we smoke, entertaining we soak in, friends we keep...

It all boils down to life priorities. What do we want to become? Just as "we are what we eat", we become what we consume, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. The book of Proverbs proclaims, "As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7.)

Some don't care what they become, so whatever life makes of them is OK. Others believe they are so much in control of their lives that the negative, destructive, anti-social entertainment they consume doesn't effect them. They are above it all - uh huh, uh huh.

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