Fox & Friends "Raucous" - Def: Disagreeably Harsh or Strident. Hoarse.

Unpleasantly loud Boisterous. Rowdy. Cacophonous. Rough. I guess that's why F&F is the #1 cable news morning show.

FOX attacks NBC and MSNBC parent company GE. NBC retaliates by dispatching annoying MSNBC/CNBC talking head and adman Donny Deutsch to encourage Glenn Beck sponsors to bail after Beck called Obama a racist who hates white people.

Deutsch to NYT's Brian Stelter:  “We have TV today that’s very polarizing and controversial."

No shit, Sherlock.

Stelter in today's piece with the accompanying photo above:  Last month, Mr. Deutsch listed some of the “Glenn Beck” advertisers and told MSNBC viewers that people who objected to Mr. Beck’s remark should write to the chief executives of the companies. In an interview, he said corporate decisions about where to allot ad dollars were the “ultimate check and balance.”

Stelter notes "about a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck... The companies that have moved their ads elsewhere in recent days included ConAgra, Geico, Procter & Gamble and the insurance company Progressive. In a statement that echoed the comments of other companies, ConAgra said on Thursday that “we are firmly committed to diversity, and we would like to prevent the potential perception that advertising during this program was an endorsement of the viewpoints shared.”

The campaign against Mr. Beck is rooted in an advocacy group’s objection to the commentator’s remarks on July 28. Given the number of advertisers that have pledged to remove their spots, it appears to have been unusually successful.

Its success also indicates that as commentary on cable news reaches a rhetorical boiling point, advertisers may become more skittish about being near it.

The sponsors’ shifts came after a campaign by ColorOfChange.org, a black political coalition, to contact sponsors of Mr. Beck’s program. The remark by Mr. Beck, a conservative radio host and comedian who joined Fox News in January, came not on his 5 p.m. talk show but on “Fox and Friends,” a raucous morning program.

That day, Fox News appeared to distance itself quickly from Mr. Beck’s remark that Mr. Obama was a racist, telling the TVNewser blog that Mr. Beck had “expressed a personal opinion, which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel.”

Fox said the campaign had no financial effect. “The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other day parts on the network, so there has been no revenue lost,” said a spokeswoman for the channel, a unit of the News Corporation.

What Mr. Beck said about Mr. Obama in July was “race-baiting packaged as news,“ said James Rucker, the executive director of ColorOfChange. (Mr. Beck declined to comment.)

Calling Fox News a “good network,” Mr. Deutsch..." Blah, blah, blah...

Some FOX hosts and other websites point to Obama's Green Jobs Czar Van Jones as the culprit with the Hansel & Gretel breadcrumbs leading to The Man himself.  Jones is a former ColorOfChange  "staffer": "Van Jones (Co-founder, inactive) While Van hasn't been active in the work of ColorOfChange in recent years, we are proud of where his work las led him. After helping ColorOfChange get started in 2005, Van moved on to other pursuits. In 2007, he founded and served as the executive director of Green For All, an organization dedicated to creating opportunities for low-income communities connected to the greater effort of addressing climate change. Van now serves as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

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