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Farmers Insurance Yanks Clear Channel Ads


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Jim Quinn

Farmer's Insurance is pulling advertising from Clear Channel Radio's national network after a host in Pittsburgh made disparaging remarks about gay people.

Jim Quinn, cohost of The War Room With Quinn & Rose, said July 28, “Pedophilia is far more rampant among the gay community than it is among the straight community.”

At the urging of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, almost 2,000 people wrote complaints to Clear Channel, one of the largest radio networks in the United States, which airs the show. In addition to the letter-writing campaign, GLAAD reached out to advertisers, asking them to consider pulling their radio spots from the company's stations.

Farmers’ assistant vice president for media and public relations, North America, Jerry Davies, confirmed the ad pull and thanked GLAAD for making the company aware of Quinn’s defamatory attacks against LGBT people, according to a statement.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: John M
    Date posted: 8/11/2010 6:51:07 PM
    Hometown: Los Angeles

    Comment:

    Glad I'm insured with Farmers, plan to stay there if if they cost a little more! Glad I don't and never have listened to Clear Channel if they put bigots on the airwaves

  • Name: Dan
    Date posted: 8/11/2010 2:16:57 PM
    Hometown: boston

    Comment:

    Bravo!

  • Name: Dana
    Date posted: 8/11/2010 2:14:47 PM
    Hometown: Leominster

    Comment:

    Thanks to Farmers Insurance and all who make the effort to promote only facts being told as facts in the media instead of just allowing fiction to be stated as fact.

  • Name: Jessica
    Date posted: 8/11/2010 2:03:50 PM
    Hometown: NJ

    Comment:

    "“Pedophilia is far more rampant among the gay community than it is among the straight community.”" No Jim Quinn, actually quite the opposite. US Government Statistics over the last 40 years states that for every 100 child molesters only 1 is Gay or Lesbian. That is far, far below the per capita rate of GLBT people. Your Hetero's are the child molesters not us jerk off.



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