Best Buy, Walmart Finally Agree: Glenn Beck is an Idiot

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Best Buy and Walmart — two big-box retailers that have been sparring lately over which company offers a more “specialty electronics” experience — seem to agree on one thing: Glenn Beck isn’t good for business.

The host of Fox News’ “The Glenn Beck Program” has been in the news lately for comments he made while appearing on “Fox & Friends.”

Best Buy and Walmart are among several companies that reportedly pulled their ads from Beck’s show after his comments. The ads have been moved to other Fox News programming.

Here’s what Beck said while discussing how President Obama handled the Henry Louis Gates situation:

"This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don't know what it is."

Asked about Obama’s cabinet being filled mostly by white people, Beck said:

"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. He has a — this guy is, I believe, a racist."

So Obama “has a deep seated hatred for white people” and “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people” — in two consecutive breathes.

Beck changed his message almost as quickly as Best Buy and Walmart did when Circuit City and Tweeter went out of business. Suddenly they both became “specialty retailers.”

Let’s be honest. These advertising boycotts are always pretty disingenuous. Companies never seem to pull their ads until the media outrage reaches a boiling point.

As with most complex issues, I always like to get Stephen Colbert’s take:

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