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Some advertisers leave Carlson show after immigrant comments [Tucker Carlson]
ABC "News" ^ | December 18, 2018 | By MAE ANDERSON, AP BUSINESS WRITER

Posted on 12/18/2018 12:47:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Some advertisers say they are leaving conservative host Tucker Carlson's show following his remarks that immigrants could make the U.S. "poorer and dirtier."

It's the latest example of sponsors leaving a Fox News Channel show after controversy, but experts say the flap is likely to blow over. So far, the show's biggest advertisers appear to be sticking with him and his prime-time show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Carlson said last Thursday that there's pressure from "our leaders" to accept immigrants "even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided." He added Monday that in the Southwest, "thanks to illegal immigration, huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste that degrade the soil and kill wildlife."

The comments caused a furor on social media. Several advertisers, including the IHOP restaurant chain, personal finance website NerdWallet and Pacific Life insurance, have pulled advertising from the show. (NerdWallet is a content partner of The Associated Press.) SmileDirectClub said it is working with its ad buyers to stop running ads during any political opinion shows.

Fox News Channel said in a statement that "left wing advocacy groups" were using social media to "stifle free speech." The network said it "continues to stand by and work with our advertisers through these unfortunate and unnecessary distractions." Fox added that all advertisers have switched their ads to other shows, so no revenue was lost.

Carlson said he would not back down to criticism.

"We're not intimidated," he wrote . "We plan to try to say what's true until the last day. And the truth is, unregulated mass immigration has badly hurt this country's natural landscape."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carlson; fox; groupthink; news; pomposity; smugness; tucker; tuckercarlson
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Tucker didn’t mention “disease.”


21 posted on 12/18/2018 1:06:16 PM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: gaijin

Aaron Rogers is reason enough...................


22 posted on 12/18/2018 1:06:26 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Regulator

You can’t fool me! That’s the aftermath of an Obama speech!...............


23 posted on 12/18/2018 1:07:56 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m guessing that the advertisers are responding to several thousand online complaints, which are in truth, generated by a handful of real people.


24 posted on 12/18/2018 1:08:00 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sick of the PC police and ruining people.


25 posted on 12/18/2018 1:09:59 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember how Laura Ingraham’s program was destroyed when sponsors walked away?

Right, neither do I.


26 posted on 12/18/2018 1:10:07 PM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Meh. Advertisers come back to Fox News because it is *watched* news.


27 posted on 12/18/2018 1:10:53 PM PST by SleeperCatcher
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Until we get out on the streets and yank these treasonous politicians out of their offices, nuttin is going to change this slide into slavery.


28 posted on 12/18/2018 1:11:20 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

I don’t understand the treasonous pols and Chamber of Commerce types who want these hygienically deprived individuals cooking their food and cleaning their houses. It would be nice to have someone clean and cook here at our nest, but I’m not gonna take a chance on my health and getting stolen blind. Will just do it myself.


29 posted on 12/18/2018 1:15:24 PM PST by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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To: Nea Wood
When these “wonderful, vibrant, hardworking undocumented folks” decide they no longer want a mattress, Christmas tree, piece of furniture, or anything else, they dump it on the sidewalk.

I particularly enjoy seeing the hundreds of dollars worth of toys and bicycles/tricycles that have been given sanctuary/amnesty on that sidewalk... not so much "dumped" as "permanently parked." Most colorful.

30 posted on 12/18/2018 1:16:37 PM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Corporate America is not our friend.


31 posted on 12/18/2018 1:17:39 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never apologize for speaking truth to the new stalinists.


32 posted on 12/18/2018 1:26:13 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: gaijin

Send them this...

https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/02/24/cost-trump-border-wall/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094033/Illegal-immigrants-leave-trash-deserts-border-cross-US.html

.


33 posted on 12/18/2018 1:28:30 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: McGavin999

I know my wife thinks I’m a bigot because I said the problem with California is all the Mexicans.


34 posted on 12/18/2018 1:28:51 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks now I know who to avoid


35 posted on 12/18/2018 1:29:53 PM PST by ronnie raygun (when the mars probe went in for a landing)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Been trying to find out if there is any decline in over all television news watching over the last 40 years.

I did see a poll that over 65, 85% get their news from TV. What Dinosaurs. I definitely do NOT watch news on TV, unless you count commentary shows like Tucker and Hannity.


36 posted on 12/18/2018 1:30:50 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Oh Well,
Tell her you are
Learning Spanish!
.
“Manos Arriba!”

Means Hands Up,,,
America is being Invaded.


37 posted on 12/18/2018 1:34:00 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: gaijin

Why State Farm?


38 posted on 12/18/2018 1:37:01 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess the advertisers just can’t accept the truth. All they have to do is look at the crap holes south of the U.S. border and you’ll see what these illegals will be bringing.

We are heading down the same path as the Roman Empire. Only question I have is how long will it take?


39 posted on 12/18/2018 1:38:56 PM PST by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I will never again eat at IHOP.


40 posted on 12/18/2018 1:48:05 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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