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Advertisers ditch Carlson and Pirro's Fox News shows

Boycotts can be very effective

The Washington Post
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Advertisers ditch Carlson and Pirro’s Fox News shows as protesters urge companies to join them https://wapo.st/2TLomBy

A number of advertisers are distancing themselves from the Fox News Channel shows featuring Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro after the two high-profile hosts were accused of making bigoted statements.

Carlson is under fire for misogynistic, homophobic and racist comments unearthed from past radio appearances. Pirro came under scrutiny for comments she made about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is Muslim. Both have pushed back against the criticism, but multiple companies have reportedly pulled their support this week. Targeting advertisers with boycott campaigns is a frequent tactic of the networks’ critics.

Beginning Sunday, Media Matters for America, a watchdog group that monitors conservative media outlets, released several audio clips of Carlson’s appearances on the “Bubba the Love Sponge Show,” a Tampa-based radio show, from 2006 to 2011.

In one set of recordings, Carlson made controversial statements about child rape and comments that some have called misogynistic.

“If you’re talking to a feminist and she’s giving you, ‘Well, you know men really need to be more sensitive,’ no actually, men don’t need to be more sensitive. You just need to be quiet and do what you’re told,” he is heard saying in one recording.

In another segment, Carlson is heard calling Iraq a “crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys” and jokingly using a homophobic slur.

After the recordings were published, some companies decided to pull their advertisements from Carlson’s show.

Debby Jennings, a spokeswoman for SHEEX, a bedding company, told The Post on Tuesday that “due to the inappropriate statements of Tucker Carlson that have recently come to light, SHEEX has made the decision to cease advertising on his television program, ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/13/advertisers-ditch-tucker-carlson-jeanine-pirros-fox-news-shows-protesters-urge-companies-join-them/?utm_term=.42461aaf540b