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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Thu Aug 18, 2016, 12:49 PM Aug 2016

Jack Daniel's nixes Clay Travis deal over 'Confederate' controversy

Posted: 7:37 a.m.
By Adam Tamburin, USA TODAY NETWORK — Tennessee

... sports talk show host Clay Travis said Wednesday that Jack Daniel's nixed a promotion deal with him because of two tweets criticizing Vanderbilt University's decision to remove the word "Confederate" from the face of a residence hall.

Travis wrote a blog post blasting the decision to officially rename Confederate Memorial Hall ...

... In an email Travis posted to his site, an unnamed Jack Daniel's representative said Travis' Twitter commentary "brings (the company) into public disrepute" ...

http://www.knoxnews.com/sports/jack-daniels-nixes-clay-travis-deal-over-confederate-controversy-390548721.html

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Jack Daniel's nixes Clay Travis deal over 'Confederate' controversy (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP

Always liked Jack,,,,,,, benld74 Aug 2016 #1

Good for them! Glamrock Aug 2016 #2

Now if only they can fix their nasty corn squeezins Dreamer Tatum Aug 2016 #3

Yep. Give me the Kickin' Chicken! LuvNewcastle Aug 2016 #4

101, never, ever, ever 80 nt Dreamer Tatum Aug 2016 #5

I don't know why they even make the 80. LuvNewcastle Aug 2016 #6

benld74

(9,904 posts)

1. Always liked Jack,,,,,,,

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 12:54 PM

Aug 2016

Glamrock

(11,797 posts)

2. Good for them!

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:42 PM

Aug 2016

Sick and tired of regular reminders of the Confederacy. Flags, statues, etc., etc. It was an armed insurrection against my country! Sorry, but fuck your "southern heritage"! I can't for the life of me see anything to be proud of from that time period.

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)

3. Now if only they can fix their nasty corn squeezins

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 03:19 PM

Aug 2016

JD SUCKS.

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)

4. Yep. Give me the Kickin' Chicken!

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 04:21 PM

Aug 2016

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)

5. 101, never, ever, ever 80 nt

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 04:22 PM

Aug 2016

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)

6. I don't know why they even make the 80.

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 04:31 PM

Aug 2016

I guess it's something for the teenagers to acclimate to drinking good whiskey. Get them to stop drinking wino shit. That's about the only use for it that I can think of.

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