Pacific Life Yanks Ads from Tucker Carlson's Show After Controversial Immigration Remarks

[DonViejo]

by Tamar Auber | Dec 15th, 2018, 12:47 am

Pacific Life announced on Friday that it was pausing ads on Tucker Carlson‘s Fox News show after the host made a controversial remark about immigration.

On Thursday, Carlson said that immigrants are making America “dirtier” prompting fierce backlash online.

“Our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this,” Carlson opined at the top of his show. “We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement.”

In response, people took to Twitter to call for a Fox boycott, prompting Pacific Life to respond by saying that while their ads appeared on Thursday night’s show, they would no longer appear until the company could re-evaluate their relationship with his program.

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Fox News also issued a statement blaming leftists for stifling free speech.

“It is a shame that left-wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed ‘media watchdogs,’ weaponize social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech,” the fiery statement read. “We continue to stand by and work with our advertisers through these unfortunate and unnecessary distractions.”

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pacific-life-yanks-ads-after-tucker-carlsons-controversial-immigration-remark/

[Iliyah]

1. Per Carlson, brown people are dirt.

[Igel]

5. They're apparently also poverty.

So the war on poverty was actually a war on immigrants?

[oasis]

2. Slimy rat Tucker has always held that belief. Now Fox gives him a chance

to spew racist bullshit. He'll never get a job w/MSM after this.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I Bet Tucker's Too Clueless To See Why Pacific Life Yanked

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their advertising. It isn’t just nebulous good public relations, it’s because Tucker's comments are a threat to their bottom line.

I wonder if Tucker has a clue that people of other races and other ethnicities buy insurance and other financial products? Or if Pacific Life has glommed onto the fact that they need a wider customer base than bigoted white folks? Or that Pacific Life has noted that regardless of skin color, gender, or ethnicity, money is green? Judging by his response, I’d say he hasn’t.

I can think of yet another reason not to advertise with people purveying racism. They look stupid. And looking stupid is definitely bad for business.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Wait A Second

Citzens' United says money is speech but according to Faux, the public choosing not to spend their money on an advertiser for political reasons abridges free speech?
That's utterly ridiculous!
Not that we should be surprised! Faux & ridiculous are practically synonyms

[Gothmog]

6. Businesses boycotting Tucker Carlson, according to HuffPost:

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[Gothmog]

7. Almost 20 advertisers are boycotting tucker

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