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As Breitbart Wages "War" On Kellogg’s, Advertisers Flee [Vanguard, 3M, AARP Leave Too]
CBSNews ^ | December 2, 2016 | IMEE PICCHI

Posted on 12/02/2016 2:51:35 PM PST by Steelfish

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To: Maudeen

Most of us dumped AARP when they supported the ACA aka Obamacare, guess you missed the memo....


41 posted on 12/02/2016 3:12:45 PM PST by stockpirate (OBAMA MUST BE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.)
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To: Steelfish

Anyone approaching retirement would be a fool to have anything to do with AARP. They are in business to screw old people.


42 posted on 12/02/2016 3:13:28 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Steelfish

The sides are forming...keep reloading.


43 posted on 12/02/2016 3:15:52 PM PST by soycd
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To: Cicero

Absolutely. I found my mom had her car insurance through AARP (which strangely sounds like digestive distress) and put her on my State Farm policy, and it cut her premiums in half. Half. Blood sucking bastards.


44 posted on 12/02/2016 3:17:18 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: stockpirate

I divorced AARP when I learned that they for gun control and abortion.


45 posted on 12/02/2016 3:18:55 PM PST by sport
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To: DoughtyOne

3D chess.

Delicious. Best election ever.


46 posted on 12/02/2016 3:20:00 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: glock rocks

This may be the first game of inter-dimensional chess.

LOL


47 posted on 12/02/2016 3:22:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: Steelfish
There is a terrible, terrible line we are approaching, at which point a left-leaning "journalist" is going to be murdered in cold blood and it will absolutely not bother me at all.

And I am appalled and ashamed as a Christian to admit that.

These people have had it coming for a very long time. They should have known better. They have abused the talents and platforms given them, and have destroyed much of what is good about America.

They are inviting their own destruction and continue to invite it. It's only a matter of time.

48 posted on 12/02/2016 3:30:26 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Steelfish

Advertising will go to where the eyeballs with money are. Advertising that doesn’t follow that rule will be ineffectual. It will eventually show up at the bottom line.


49 posted on 12/02/2016 3:31:20 PM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Paine in the Neck

What is bad here is that these companies have Hillary and LGBTq contacts in their boardrooms, and this is payback for Trump.


50 posted on 12/02/2016 3:32:54 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

The left is merely flexing its muscles as is quite common lately: i.e. destroy a person, firm or entity, economically. Works every time and gives a salutary example for anyone thinking of opposing leftist goals.


51 posted on 12/02/2016 3:34:18 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: stockpirate

I never have been a member of the AARP. I have always joined the alternative.


52 posted on 12/02/2016 3:35:10 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: sport
"I divorced AARP when I learned that they for gun control and abortion."

There is an alternative to AARP called Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) which is run by conservatives.  I am with them.

 

53 posted on 12/02/2016 3:38:14 PM PST by OneHun
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To: OneHun

Thanks for the information.


54 posted on 12/02/2016 3:40:35 PM PST by sport
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To: Steelfish

AARP isn’t for anything conservative anyway.


55 posted on 12/02/2016 3:46:40 PM PST by Wneighbor (Deplorable. And we win!)
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To: Steelfish

I don’t know about the rest of the advertisers, but AARP is no big loss as far as I am concerned. They support and have always supported abortion. Don’t use them as a retirement channel.


56 posted on 12/02/2016 3:47:04 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: LS

According to Alexa.com, Breitbart.com is # 36 in the USA, # 231 globally. There’s been a sharp uptick recently (more of a “hockey stick” graph, actually). I wonder what event triggered that. :-)

If anyone has an “Advanced plan” on Alexa, it would be interesting to see more comparative metrics. The free version is rather limited.


57 posted on 12/02/2016 3:54:45 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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I'm boycotting Kelloggs ... not because of their blacklist of Brietbart but because they are a "retail" supplier and are killing half their customer base with a STUPID political idea. You are not in business for political purposes, you are in business for PROFITABILITY!!! I won't support such a corporation, stock sold too. How can you be this dumb? Keep your damned corporate mouth shut and take in the money from BOTH sides.

S T U P I D ..... M A N A G E M E N T!!!!!

58 posted on 12/02/2016 3:56:04 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: snarkpup
"No company in its right mind would want to begin advertizing on some medium if the deal is that, if they ever leave, that medium will start a national campaign to boycott them. Sounds like Breitbart may be screwing themselves here."

If Kelloggs had just walked out the door, I couldn't have cared less. If they had been non political my response would have been "so what". It was the shot across the bow that they took that ticked me off. When they declared that as conservatives we "don't align with their values as a company" I had no option but to respond. But now my "conservative" money will no longer support their "enlightened" company.

59 posted on 12/02/2016 4:03:40 PM PST by Grammy (Save the earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

What Dan Fluette, managing partner at BB told me, was that in “news” it is in fact #1-—that they are well below some others in total hits (like HuffPo) where there is more entertainment.


60 posted on 12/02/2016 4:14:05 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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