Finally, Advertisers Pull Ads on Hate Speech Advocate Glenn Beck.

It didn’t have to come to this. Normally, a program director oversees the on air talents show content and topics, reining in a hosts outrageous unsubstantiated comments that would sometimes offend the stations audience. This one element has disappeared completely in media.

I can’t say I’ve agreed with every decision they've made, but they are running a business and their talk hosts are employees. Stations have a image and responsibility to their local community. And they have advertisers who depend on that image. If these advertisers decide they don’t like a program, they will pull their ads.

That’s the simple truth. Glenn Beck may try to blame someone else for his own crazy statements, but people are smarter than that. The Examiner.com has the rest:

Several companies who run ads during Glenn Beck’s show are distancing themselves from the talk show host for the public comments he made about President Obama.

During a guest appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ Tuesday, Fox News Channel Commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Obama is a racist. He said the President has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” Several companies who run ads during Glenn Beck’s show are distancing themselves from the talk show host for the public comments he made about President Obama.

During a guest appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ Tuesday, Fox News Channel Commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Obama is a racist. He said the President has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” According to Jack & Jill Politics, Lawyers.com, Proctor & Gamble, and Progressive Insurance have distanced themselves from Beck. Lexis Nexis, who owns Lawyers.com pulled its advertising and said it has no plans to return, while Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance said Beck advertising placement was an error that would be corrected.S.C. Johnson also announced they made a mistake in running ads with Beck and would not be doing so in the future.Just recently Glenn

On one show, Beck staged having a glass of wine with a Nancy Pelosi stand in.

Beck: I just want you to drink it. Drink it. [Laughs] Drink it! I really just wanted to thank you for having us over here to wine country. You know, to be invited, I thought you had to be a major Democratic donor or longtime friend of yours, which I'm not. Oh, ah, by the way, I put poison in your -- no I –

There goes another advertiser…

Current TV had this humorous take on Beck: