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Major advertisers exit from "Judge Jeanine" and "Tucker Carlson" on StateTV

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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Just two days after Judge Jeanine Pirro remarked on her Saturday night show that Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is "Sharia-compliant" because she wears a traditional hijab head covering, three major advertisers - Novo Nordisk, LetGo and Nerdwallet - have decided not to advertise on her show any longer. Pirro tried to walk the statement back, and FOX distanced themselves from the comment, but apparently to no avail. More major advertisers are expected to follow in the coming days.

And "Tucker Carlson" has lost more advertisers this week, having shed about a dozen last November (and never recovering from that). After audio from his appearance on 'Bubba the Love Sponge' surfaced Sunday night in which he of comments he made during appearances on a radio show in which he disparaged sex workers in Florida and described women as being “primitive”, more advertisers have pulled the plug on his show.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca issued a statement today confirming they will no longer be advertising on his show, as did Outback Steakhouse. Sheex, a luxury bedding firm, also issued confirmation that it will no longer be advertising on his show.

Maybe Mar-A-Largo and T-rump Hotels can help a friend or two out, and buy the vacant spots on each show?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Using the word monkey to describe brown skinned people would be an instant career killer for a lot of people. Carlson is a right wing pundit though, so his employer and audience will probably be fine with it.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Maybe he can start a “ go fund me” page to stay on the air now that more advertisers are fleeing ?

[–] PimpFranklin (55) 5 years ago

What about actually killing brown skinned people? It got Obama and Bush re-elected.

[–] ultravioletx (10212) 5 years ago

I heard about the Tucker Carlson thing yesterday. At first he was defending a guy who set up marriages between adults and 16 year old girls saying the arranger shouldn't be associated with child rape. But then it got real disgusting. He said guys that marry young girls shouldn't be lumped in with rapists because those guys end up taking care of the girls. He was taking the misogynist talking point that a husband cannot possibly rape his wife and he was applying it to underage marriages. Yuck.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I started a separate thread for Carlson and his horrible comments on the 'Bubba the Love Sponge' radio show. Absolutely disgusting, yet he called them 'naughty words'.

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 5 years ago

That's just terrible. Rachael Maddow would never say anything that Fortune 500 corporations disagree with.

[–] Duck6 (425) 5 years ago

A win for censorship and fake news

[–] Frogarama (12942) 5 years ago

LOL you equate the freedom of companies to sponsor who they wish as "censorship."

Here:
Trolling is original, unique and creative. You're totally not blandly parroting the exact styles and strategies copied by thousands of others. You totally don't sound indistinguishable from the other trolls, and it totally doesn't give the impression of an ultraconformist hive mind mentality.

[–] PimpFranklin (55) 5 years ago

How come no advertisers left the New York Times after they lied about WMDs?

[–] Frogarama (12942) 5 years ago

Trolling is original, unique and creative. You're totally not blandly parroting the exact styles and strategies copied by thousands of others. You totally don't sound indistinguishable from the other trolls, and it totally doesn't give the impression of an ultraconformist hive mind mentality.

[–] dteam6 (5073) 5 years ago

And starving Mexicans at the southern border are our "real" threat? I'd say Trump and his base are our biggest threat whenever I read things like this.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

34 advertisers in total have boycotted "Tucker Carlson Tonight" as of this past week, according to sources. As of Wednesday night - just days after audio tapes leaked of him defending statutory rape, and calling Martha Stewart's daughter 'a c*nt' - just 'MyPillow' was the only national advertiser on his show. The rest of the commercial breaks were promos for FOX NEWS shows.

The boycott started in December, after the white nationalist made very derogatory remarks against minorities and immigrants. In the past three months, more and more national advertisers have backed out of his TV show, refusing to spend advertising dollars on his show. His ratings have suffered slightly since a year ago. Yet, as one source said, 'you can have the #1 show on the air, but if advertisers aren't paying your bills ratings don't matter.'

[–] PimpFranklin (55) 5 years ago

It's actually illegal for advertisers to refuse to serve his show, just as it's illegal for cake bakers to refuse to serve lesbians. Once you decide to open your doors to the public, you can't discriminate.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

No it isn't.

The advertisers are doing the 'purchasing' (like the lesbians in your post above), not the 'selling'.

The network is doing the 'selling', (just like the cake bakers in your post), not the 'purchasing'.

Wanna try again?