And apparently 19 other major companies that according to the organizing web site have all agreed to pull advertising from the Glenn Beck Show on the Fox News Channel.

In their latest release ColorofChange.org claims they have received confirmation from 20 companies that they have contacted Fox News and requested their ads not be shown during the Beck Show. Best Buy and Travelocity along with Wal-Mart are the 3 latest additions to this supposed boycott.

This all began when Beck, commenting on Barack Obama’s uniformed defense of the black Harvard nutty professor over the stupidly acting white police, said that Obama was racist. Becks exact comment was: “This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over again, who has a deep seated hatred for white people or the entire white culture. I don’t know what it is…” At that point when questioned about Obama having more white advisors than black, Beck said “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people. I’m saying he has a problem. This guy, I believe is a racist.”

So is this what we have come to? Are we now so politically correct that if anyone points an accusatory finger at this President of Hope and Change, regardless of his actions, he will be shunned by corporate America like a pariah? Well not so fast Skippy. (not that Skippy was involved in the supposed boycott)

As it turns out not all the names listed by ColorofChange.org have actually pulled their ads from the Glenn Beck Show. Imagine that! A left wing political action web site publishing bold faced lies. Who would have thunk it? Okay, I mean other than Al Franken and his Air America scammers.

While a few advertisers have indeed pulled ads off the Beck show, like Sargento, they claim it was for reasons other than the racist portrayal of Barack Obama. And most of the advertisers that pulled their revenue enhancing commercial time off the Glenn Beck Show have also pulled their ads off competing liberal shows on CNN and MSNBC.

It seems that while ColorofChange.org would have us believe it was their efforts to silence conservative speech that succeeded, when in fact what actually happened was that corporate America got scared and decided to place their ads in less turbulent waters until they can at least tell which way the tide is rising.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a fan of Glenn Beck or not. The idea that a corporate board and their advertising gurus will decide what is proper or improper speech is more than a little scary. To think that these same companies have no problem advertising during some of the mind-numbing unadulterated crap that is broadcast nightly on each of the three major networks, but will fake some sort of corporate conscience in an effort to make a statement is beyond hypocritical.

It once again brings us back to the beauty of capitalism. If a corporation wants to flex its revenue muscle and decides to support a show or a channel that expresses a particular viewpoint I applaud their commitment and defend their right to spend their money as they see fit. However, if they should decide to support those views that I personally oppose, while I defend their right to do so, they will lose me as a customer. That goes for any company regardless of whether I like their products or not.

If Best Buy pulls their ads from a conservative show and leaves them on the likes of that drivel coming out of the mealy mouth of Keith Olbermann and the rest of the liberal ilk, I will not shop at Best Buy anymore. The same holds true for Wal-Mart, Con-Agra, CVS, Radio Shack, Geico, State Farm, Proctor & Gamble, Men’s Warehouse and the rest.

I have no problem switching stores, brands or insurance companies to keep the airwaves open to conservative viewpoints.

Capitalism is the most powerful force known to man.