Nike Posts Huge Earnings After Kaepernick Ad, Leaving Egg on These Right-Wing Pundits' Faces

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Timothy Burke
12.21.18 12:58 PM ET

When apparel giant Nike released its new “Just Do It” advertisement featuring Colin Kaepernick in September, it launched collective right-wing hysteria.

Fox & Friends declared the ad an “attack on the country,” while Fox Sports host Clay Travis penned a USA Today op-ed parroting the dismissive alt-right epithet of “get woke, go broke” while predicting financial doom for the corporation.

As we now know, Nike did not “go broke.”

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[dlk]

1. I'm Glad Nike Made a Profit Supporting Kaepernick, However...

How American is it for a large corporation to find a way to realize a huge profit by addressing a critical social issue? Is it really the issue or just the money? Does everything in our culture require monetizing to be of value? Food for thought.

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3. I have no problem with it. Nike kept Kaepernick from going bankrupt while the NFL

was blacklisting him. And don't think for one minute that they didn't.

On edit: And I don't think anybody thought it was worthless until Nike advertised it. Why do yo think that?

[Adrahil]

5. I dunno.... I think it was a good thing.

Kap got a job, and Nike sold some sneakers. Seems like a win-win.

[Gothmog]

2. This makes me smile

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. how many RWNJ bought Nike shoes just to burn them?

[Demovictory9]

6. k&r

[Cha]

7. Not to mention.. traitortrump's

fucking face. Doesn't it look like it's plastered with egg?

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8. You always manage to make me laugh, Cha

[Cha]

10. Grrreat, catbyte!

[malaise]

9. Have the RW pundits seen the Ikea Christmas ad

about what makes America great.