Anheuser-Busch cuts ties with Carson King, who raised a million dollars for a hospital...

MSN ^ | 09 27 2019 | Scottie Andrew and Christina Zdanowicz

[yesthatjallen]

Carson King raised more than $1 million for an Iowa children's hospital, borne out of a request for beer money on national TV. But old racist tweets ended his relationship with the beer company that promised to match his fundraising.

Anheuser-Busch announced it would no longer associate with King after he admitted posting two offensive tweets in 2012 when he was a 16-year-old high school student.

"Carson King had multiple social media posts that do not align with our values as a brand or as a company and we will have no further association with him," the company said in a statement to CNN.

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One of the tweets compared black mothers to gorillas and another joked about black people who were killed in the Holocaust, the Des Moines Register reported.

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[cornfedcowboy]

Anheuser Busch had an insanely successful
PR campaign with this whole situation. Now they ran it down their legs and losing market share. This story will be written in college marketing books for decades. Truly amazing.

[cornfedcowboy]

If anyone is wondering how the the Des Moines Register is doing today. Must read the comments.

https://twitter.com/DMRegister/status/1177395530718154752

[petro45acp]

CHAOS TO THE ENEMY!!!

How is A-B going to square that with the hospital? Are they taking back their year's supply of swill? Is it even possible in the age of antisocial media to do anything without someone on the opposite side or your position calling you out as evil (quoting someone else....c'mon!)

KYPD

[ontap]

The Des Moines Register and Anheuser-Busch are chicken sh!ts. All that garbage about they were doing their due diligence sounds pretty lame when it turns out they did not vette their own racist hypocrite reporter. And Anheuser-Busch is just cutting their loss on donations to the cause and hurting the cause that this guy so selflessly donated money he could have very well kept to him self....shame on the bastards. If was idiot enough to have drank that horse pi$$ they call beer I would stop!!!

[chris37]

Wow!

That is impressive.

These SJW types don’t seem to be as popular as they think they are.

[jjotto]

Reporter who harassed the guy has been fired, just to save the butt of racist Carol Hunter’s all-white Communists minions.

[Bookshelf]

Anhueser Busch is a foreign owned company. The Busch family sold out years ago. Want good beer? Find a craft beer you like.

[cornfedcowboy]

I am learning more about the “cancel culture.” Look into it when you get some time.

[sergeantdave]

“But build a world where they can shut off your bank accounts, and make it impossible for you to find work...”

Nope. I can find near anyone a good job in the south, paying $50,000 or more. There’s more options in the world outside of the nutty Northeast and California or corporations run by fascist crazies.