I don’t believe he folded to media pressure.
I believe he made a financial decision.
IMHO, the companies who pay him for endorsements (perhaps 50% of his annual income, or more) just do not appreciate controversy.
Interesting thought.
Oh, yeah. He works for them. He has a lot of money but that only gives him fteedom if he’s willing to not only walk away from these guys but to deal with the pressure. They’ve got a lot of money invested in him.
He forgot about that.
Precisely right. He got spanked by his sponsors...”Phil, if you want to keep rolling in the green, go apologize.”
Same thing with the Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey. He compared Obamacare to “fascism,” but reversed course a day or two later, no doubt after the Board said “John, we’ rather you didn’t alienate 80% of our customer base. Now go apologize.”
When one speaks honestly about the insanity of run-amok liberalism or is critical of the Messiah, money interests quickly whack you upside the head. You reverse course or lose your gravy train.
That is what I think happened also.