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JoeOtterbein

(7,699 posts)
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 11:38 PM Jul 2021

Mike Lindell Pulls All MyPillow Ads From Fox News After They Refuse to Run Ad About His Election Cla

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By Sarah Rumpf Jul 29th, 2021, 10:29 pm

The pillow fight between Mike Lindell and Fox News continues, as the MyPillow CEO has pulled all of his advertisements from the cable news network after a dispute regarding an entirely different commercial he wanted to run.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Lindell sought to air an ad for an upcoming “cyber symposium” in which he would present claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Lindell told the WSJ his proposed ad hadn’t mentioned specific claims of election fraud, but he has made multiple public statements that this symposium will “prove” the 2020 election was stolen.

Fox News has been sued by two different manufacturers of voting machines for allegedly defamatory comments made on-air about their products. The network has filed motions to dismiss the lawsuits, denying their coverage was defamatory and defending it as protected under the First Amendment.

Back in February, Lindell released a “documentary” called Absolute Proof, which, despite the title, did not actually provide proof of election fraud. OAN aired the “documentary” but prefaced it with an eyebrow-raising disclaimer that said Lindell was “solely and exclusively responsible” for its content.

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Mike Lindell Pulls All MyPillow Ads From Fox News After They Refuse to Run Ad About His Election Cla (Original Post) JoeOtterbein Jul 2021 OP
MyPillows are great... Blue Owl Jul 2021 #1
No one but MF45 cares FoxNewsSucks Jul 2021 #2
He's destroying his company, Haggard Celine Jul 2021 #3
Maybe the amount of drugs he used to take BigmanPigman Jul 2021 #4
That's a possibility. Haggard Celine Jul 2021 #6
More like he is just a plain, ol' idiot who got BigmanPigman Jul 2021 #8
and nobody misses them. Hugin Jul 2021 #5
Bwah!1 UTUSN Jul 2021 #7
I hope he pulls his ads from CNN too. zuul Jul 2021 #9
Try Sinclair Mikey! no_hypocrisy Jul 2021 #10

Haggard Celine

(16,834 posts)
3. He's destroying his company,
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:14 AM
Jul 2021

all for that piece of shit Donald Trump. He must have brain damage or a mental illness, because it's hard to imagine how someone could be that big a fool.

Haggard Celine

(16,834 posts)
6. That's a possibility.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:27 AM
Jul 2021

He had enough sense to build a successful company, though. I guess he's a sort of idiot savant.

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
8. More like he is just a plain, ol' idiot who got
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:42 AM
Jul 2021

lucky once. I read how he started his company in Rolling Stone about 5 years ago. He couldn't find a decent pillow so he got some foam and had his 2 sons rip it into tiny pieces. He was in debt and had a pretty big drug problem. Then he found God and put his free child labor into overdrive. Then he found Satan/tRump and the rest is history. Props like his giant cross around his neck is another PR move. Rip off the blind sheep and loyal Evangelicals and you get a ticket straight to Heaven (Ha!).

Hugin

(33,047 posts)
5. and nobody misses them.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:25 AM
Jul 2021

A crying shame, I'm telling you.

It's not like it's the only place in the world to get crappy overpriced pillows.

He took too many of his own drugs, he seems to think this is the case.

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