In their statement yesterday explaining why they were removing their ads from ALL "political talk shows" on cable, Clorox said per their standards, they do not advertise on programs which "present facts inaccurately or distort them to blatantly partisan advantage".

Well I commend the executives at Clorox and indeed all other advertisers revising their ad placement standards over the Glenn Beck brouhaha, to see what MSNBC did during their morning show on August 18th.

The MSNBC footage is cropped so closely as to not permit the viewer to see the skin color at all of the presumably "white" protester.

Pool footage, you say? Well, sure it was...but let's see how CNN handled the situation with the same footage: Rich Sanchez showed a version of the same video, but without the extreme close cropping, revealing that the protester with the AR-15 was indeed an African-American. (These photos show the man from other angles). This is the EXACT same footage that MSNBC used for its own reporting, proving that a deliberate decision was made to conceal the race of the indivual, presumably to support a narrative that all these gun-toting protesters were not 2nd Amendment fans but rather a dangerous conspiracy of white racists threatening the President because he is a "black person".

I ask Clorox, is this not a prime example of what you termed presenting "facts inaccurately or distort(ing) them to blatantly partisan advantage"? Is this not, again in your words, "treating ethnic groups...in a disparaging manner"? If so, do you not have an obligation, according to your "standards", to immediately remove all Clorox advertising from MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" program?

Or, better yet, how about just getting back to the business of Clorox, selling bleach and other products, return all your ads to cable talk, reject the divisive, race-baiting rhetoric of extremist groups like "Color of Change", and let the free market of ideas run its course?

12:07PM UPDATE: EVEN VOICES ON THE LEFT ARE REACTING WITH OUTRAGE OVER THIS PERFORMANCE.