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State Farm dumps pitchman Rob Schneider over anti-vaccine views
www.latimes.com ^ | By Meredith Blake

Posted on 09/26/2014 10:05:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

ob Schneider has learned the hard way that there's no way to inoculate yourself against an Internet backlash.

State Farm Insurance has dropped an ad campaign featuring the "Deuce Bigalow" star in a reprisal of his "Richmeister" character -- a.k.a. the "making copies" guy -- from "Saturday Night Live." The decision stems not from an objection to rehashed humor from the mid-'90s, but to Schneider's outspoken stance against childhood vaccines.

Along with former "View" co-host Jenny McCarthy, Schneider, who has lately been busy trying to revive his career with a spec sitcom, has been one of the most vocal celebrity proponents of the thoroughly discredited theory linking immunizations to autism. In 2012, he campaigned against California Bill AB 2109, designed to make it harder for parents to receive vaccine exemptions for their children.

When it passed, he registered his unhappiness in rather inflammatory terms on Twitter. "Today California passed a law to force parents to get a Doc's permission to not vaccinate their kids or they can't attend school! Nazi's," he wrote.

Some viewers of the State Farm ads thought it ironic that a company that provides health insurance should hire a celebrity spokesperson who is opposed to a standard and effective public health measure, and made their objections known via social media. This week, a representative of State Farm confirmed to PR Week that the company was working to remove the commercials from rotation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: health; hollywood; medicine; vaccine
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Comedic actor Rob Schneider is photographed on the set of his new, self-financed production, "Real Rob," at L.A. Film School in Hollywood. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

1 posted on 09/26/2014 10:05:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: GraceG

Ping!. Thanks for the heads up!....................


2 posted on 09/26/2014 10:06:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

See his previous statements from May 2014

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3151337/posts


3 posted on 09/26/2014 10:06:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

I am against MANDATORY vaccines.


4 posted on 09/26/2014 10:09:24 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Red Badger

He is correct, we are sliding towards fascism and silencing people we disagree with is a perfect example.


5 posted on 09/26/2014 10:12:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Red Badger
Along with former "View" co-host Jenny McCarthy, Schneider, who has lately been busy trying to revive his career with a spec sitcom, has been one of the most vocal celebrity proponents of the thoroughly discredited theory linking immunizations to autism. In 2012, he campaigned against California Bill AB 2109, designed to make it harder for parents to receive vaccine exemptions for their children. When it passed, he registered his unhappiness in rather inflammatory terms on Twitter. "Today California passed a law to force parents to get a Doc's permission to not vaccinate their kids or they can't attend school! Nazi's," he wrote.

Because medication isn't something that is swallowed with water, but instead something that is rammed down your throat.

6 posted on 09/26/2014 10:12:43 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: cripplecreek

I think we’re falling head first..............................


7 posted on 09/26/2014 10:16:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Personal views aside, his “Richmeister” character went stale years ago. Whoever thought resurrecting this obnoxious boob as their pitchman is an idiot.


8 posted on 09/26/2014 10:18:14 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: taxcontrol

>I am against MANDATORY vaccines.

As long as they are quarantined from the rest of the population it should be okay.


9 posted on 09/26/2014 10:20:41 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Red Badger

You knew he was going to get needled about this.


10 posted on 09/26/2014 10:20:48 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Red Badger
When it passed, he registered his unhappiness in rather inflammatory terms on Twitter. "Today California passed a law to force parents to get a Doc's permission to not vaccinate their kids or they can't attend school! Nazi's," he wrote.

Yet another person who doesn't know or care what an apostrophe is or how to use it. I guess he just thinks it looks cool.

11 posted on 09/26/2014 10:32:05 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: soycd

As long as you get YOUR vaccine, why does it matter? If you don’t take your polio shot, and I went ahead and got mine. *Shrug*

If the retard are dying in the streets because they wouldn’t take their shots, it doesn’t affect the immune ones. I say we do the big fun experiment. No such thing as “herd immunity”, only individual immunity.


12 posted on 09/26/2014 10:33:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: soycd
As long as they are quarantined from the rest of the population it should be okay.

In camps where they can work and be of some use to society?
13 posted on 09/26/2014 10:35:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Steely Tom

Journalism school............spelling and punctuation optional............


14 posted on 09/26/2014 10:39:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: chajin

Right in the butt!...........


15 posted on 09/26/2014 10:39:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: cripplecreek
In camps where they can work and be of some use to society?


16 posted on 09/26/2014 10:39:56 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: taxcontrol
I am against MANDATORY vaccines.
So you and/or your kids wouldn't mind getting polio?
17 posted on 09/26/2014 10:48:31 AM PDT by oh8eleven (vietnam)
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To: Alex Murphy
Because medication isn't something that is swallowed with water, but instead something that is rammed down your throat.

A spoonful of fascism helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine go down.

18 posted on 09/26/2014 10:49:45 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: cripplecreek

applauding your reply


19 posted on 09/26/2014 10:53:49 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Red Badger

Good. Anti-vaccing is idiocy. It is pure Third World and spreads disease. Some diseases are making a huge comback because of the Rob S’s of the world.

And, no. You shouldn’t be made to be vaccinated but if you don’t then you shouldn’t be permitted in schools, etc where you would infect the rest of us and our children.

Why should I and mine have to run the risk of disease and even death because of someone else’s stupidity?


20 posted on 09/26/2014 11:13:25 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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