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applegrove

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Wed Aug 21, 2019, 01:17 PM Aug 2019

Advertisers Continue to Flee Tucker Carlson's Show

Advertisers Continue to Flee Tucker Carlson’s Show

August 21, 2019 at 10:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 63 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/21/advertisers-continue-to-flee-tucker-carlsons-show/

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New York Times: “Over the last year, dozens of advertisers, including Pacific Life, Farmers Insurance and SodaStream, have distanced themselves from Mr. Carlson, the host who caused an uproar with his recent on-air comments on white supremacy days after the mass shooting in El Paso. In the past two weeks, smaller companies, like the meditation app Calm and the online lending start-up SoFi, joined them.”

“The Monday episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host’s first since he left the airwaves for what Fox News said was a planned vacation two days after making the remarks on white supremacy, had fewer commercials than usual.”

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Advertisers Continue to Flee Tucker Carlson's Show (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2019 OP
Good news. "My Pillow" will be there until the bitter end, I guess. nt Mike 03 Aug 2019 #1
Wow,Farmers Insurance? Wellstone ruled Aug 2019 #2
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