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Glenn Beck, the boycott-beleaguered Fox News television host once again took aim on Monday at White House special adviser Van Jones. Reiterating claims made consistently on his program, Beck claimed that Jones was a “self-avowed Communist,” and part of a “silent revolution,” in the Obama administration. The focus on the White House green jobs adviser has intensified recently as Beck has claimed that the boycott launched against his television show by Color of Change, an organization co-founded by Jones, was retaliatory. The advocacy group, however, has long held that its successful efforts to have major advertisers pull spots from the program was in direct response to comments made by the host on television where he deemed President Obama a “racist,” with a “deep-seated hatred of white people.” Since that time, dozens of advertisers such as Sprint, Bank of America, and Wal-Mart, have respected the boycott and pulled advertising. Neither Fox News nor Glenn Beck has offered any pubic statement of apology for the remarks made. The cable news channel has, instead, noted no loss of revenues as advertisers have merely pulled away from the program and not the network. In the meantime, as the boycott has intensified, Glenn Beck posted some of his highest ratings to date last week.

GUEST: Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America

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