Posted on 01/12/2024 7:37:30 PM PST by Coronal
MINNEAPOLIS -- MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox News has stopped running his company's commercials, disputing the network's assertion that it is simply because he hasn't paid his bills.
Lindell went public by tweeting that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow's biggest advertising outlets, had canceled him. He said in his tweet that he didn't know why but that he suspected that the network was trying to silence him. Fox denied that.
Losing Fox was just the latest in a series of financial and legal setbacks for Minnesota-based MyPillow and Lindell, who continues to propagate former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products, and lawyers who were defending him against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies quit.
“As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising,” Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti said.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Lindell acknowledged that MyPillow owes money to Fox. He put the figure at $7.8 million, but he insisted that the sum is within his credit line with the network. He said MyPillow has long spent an average of $1 million a week to run its ads on Fox. And he said the network had long allowed him 12 weeks of credit until it recently cut that to eight weeks.
Lindell said he believes Fox wants to silence him “because I want to secure our election platforms" — an assertion that Fox disputes. And he said he suspects the network is sore because his Lindell TV/FrankSpeech online channel recently hired former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, who made further false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
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The pillows are the best!
“The Swamp is trying to bankrupt him.”
Not only that, they’re going after his employees personally, doing their best to ruin the lives of the lower- and middle-class citizens. It’s shameful. Sadly, the left has no shame.
That darn truth-teller. That noticer.
MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell
Lou Dobbs, who made further false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
Is it OK if I add the topic "Editorial" to this post?
I was talking about his business. He is deep into the red and having trouble with financing. It’s very sad. As l said l think Walmart was the kill shot. The rat CEO removed the entire product line despite strong sales.
Wrong, he built a multimillion dollar business out of nothing but dared to speak the truth about the stolen election.
The “repect” of the issue being referred to was whether he did it “correctly” or not, not whether. he should have done it at all or not.
That is, in my mind, not negotiable. He tried to help repair a stolen election, and that is right in any book.
Collecting fees in advertising is a tough business. The ads have already run, so there is nothing you can do to “late payers” except cut them off.
Mike should be talking to his accounts payable people for the answer.
Lindell forgot the Mike Jordan rule: “He doesn’t talk politics. Republicans buy sneakers too.”
This story will be the basis of case studies in advertising and political science classes for years to come.
“He tried to help repair a stolen election, and that is right in any book.”
Amen!!
It is all BS!
Lindell is on WR right now explaining what FAUX did to him.
I believe Lindell over some spokesperson of FAUX.
FAUX continues to cut off its nose to spite its face.
AFAIK, NO Democrat has EVER said that Sloe Joe, The Hoe and other Democrats who “won” the election “won” because of massive and pervasive Democrat cheating!
Democrats are “by any means necessary” LIEberals! IOW, why not cheat to win and then deny the cheating?
His life, his fortune, and his sacred honor.
Many are called, but few are willing these days.
“His life, his fortune, and his sacred honor.”
Exactly.
God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taken out of our schools and lives, a nation had turned its back on God. A nation had turned its back on God. I encourage you to use this time at home to get back in the Word, read our Bibles and spend time with our families.The left has been after Mike Lindell ever since.Our president gave us so much hope. Where just a few short months ago, we had the best economy, the lowest unemployment, and wages going up, it was amazing. With our great president, vice president and this administration and all the great people in this country praying daily, we will get through this and get back to a place that’s stronger and safer than ever.
-PJ
When I took him to task for his mindset (a mindset that those who perpetrated the assault on American citizens exercising their Constitutional rights had every intention of planting in the minds of any American who took issue with the open and pervasive illegality that led to the stolen election) he lashed out with "Well, why didn't YOU go there".
I would have told him that I absolutely thought hard about it up to less than a week before the event, but I couldn't go due to personal commitments, but that wasn't his point to find out why I didn't go. He asked the question to try to shame ME into silence.
I told that POS person posting on this board that the difference was, I admire those who went, and view them as Patriots, while pointing out that he disparaged those who went, and viewed them as fools and chumps.
And so it is with Mike Lindell and his persecution by the Left. I refuse to denigrate him because he didn't "handle things" the right way with respect to his considerable support for those who wish to protest and prosecute the Election Fraud that took place.
I hold him wholly in respect for doing so. If I am called, I hope I can do so with as much enthusiasm and personal capital has he has.
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