In light of M. Simon's earlier post, I thought a brief word about Glenn Beck would be in order. As Simon points out,

"some folks are unhappy with Glenn Beck and want advertisers to boycott his show."

So I never watch Glenn Beck unless it's purely by accident flipping through the channels (and then only briefly).

That said, I find it most annoying to be told not to watch him, as it's no one's business but my own what I watch or don't watch. What's really horrifies me about the Glenn Beck boycott is that the group which is spearheading it -- Color of Change -- is directly tied to the White House:

Van Jones, who the Los Angeles Times describes as "a White House environmental advisor and co-founder of an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program."

So what do you do if you don't like a show but you don't like the boycott? Boycott the boycott? How? I'm not about to spend my time searching out Beck's former advertisers who canceled and not buying from them. I probably don't buy their stuff anyway, and unless I sat down and wrote letters in protest they'd never know (and I'm not going to do that either), so any boycott of the boycott would be lame and ineffective. And sending money to Glenn Beck strikes me as even more ridiculous; as it is I can't afford to support causes and people I do like. Hence the blogpost.

Besides, if this White House-assisted boycott is actually helping Glenn Beck, why should I stand in its way?

It deserves my sincerest efforts at ridicule.