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Cattledog

(5,918 posts)
Wed May 24, 2017, 05:58 PM May 2017

Advertisers drop Hannity.

Three advertisers have pulled their ads from Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, following a week in which Hannity has stubbornly clung to a debunked conspiracy theory.

Through his Fox show and social media platforms, Hannity has pushed theory that Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who was murdered last summer, was the source of the emails released by Wikileaks.

Hannity believes this theory would exonerate Russia and, therefore, Trump from interfering with the presidential campaign.
Hannity relied on the claims of a private investigator and a report published on FoxNews.com. The investigator has since recanted and FoxNews.com retracted their story.

Cars.com announced their decision to pull their ads in response to an inquiry from BuzzFeed News.

A few hours later, the exercise company Peloton announced it was following suit.

Soon after, a reader forwarded ThinkProgress a response he got from Leesa Sleep, an e-commerce mattress company, when he asked if they would reconsider advertising with Hannity. A company rep told their customer they would no longer air their ads during that show.

https://thinkprogress.org/first-advertiser-pulls-ads-from-hannity-584e1e4ce5e9

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Advertisers drop Hannity. (Original Post) Cattledog May 2017 OP
Cool beans Phoenix61 May 2017 #1
Beginning of the end, no sponsors no Hannity. Thinkingabout May 2017 #2
It may just be that his ratings slipped. Honeycombe8 May 2017 #3
i hope it's the start of a trend for all talk radio shits certainot May 2017 #8
Yep. And Hannity probably thought it was because he was so wonderful. :) nt Honeycombe8 May 2017 #10
He can be replaced for Watalapan May 2017 #4
Spicer can take over while Hannity gets waterboarded as he promised to do. keithbvadu2 May 2017 #5
And we all know how meticulous and persistent Hayduke Bomgarte May 2017 #6
GOOD!!! IT IS LONG OVERDUE. AgadorSparticus May 2017 #7
List of advertisers to boycott ProudLib72 May 2017 #9
guess I have already started boycotting them rurallib May 2017 #13
yeah ProudLib72 May 2017 #15
Hannity is a lying sack of s*it not fooled May 2017 #11
This is great news. Slowly Fox so-called news is being taken town and put in its place. Equinox Moon May 2017 #12
the bad news is that MSNBC has hired some of them rurallib May 2017 #14
Indeed Equinox Moon May 2017 #16
Right! MSNBC is starting to look like the dumping ground for FOX's refuse. Seems like a shitty Jno_Gilmor_ May 2017 #17
How about not fooled May 2017 #18
Wow - Knockin' them out 1 at a time so far this year. Lil Missy May 2017 #19

Phoenix61

(17,015 posts)
1. Cool beans
Wed May 24, 2017, 06:23 PM
May 2017

I hope they all pull their adds. What a horrible, aweful piss poor excuse for a human being to use the senseless murder of a young man to try to advance some bullshit conspiracy theory. The only thing that would make this better would be if some nice attorney out their offered to sue the shit out if him on behalf of the young man's family.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
3. It may just be that his ratings slipped.
Wed May 24, 2017, 07:15 PM
May 2017

A lot of this is just numbers-driven. They pay a certain amount of money to access a certain number of people through their ads. If the # of people drops down, they would either pull their ads to switch to a higher rated show, or they would expect a lower rate for the ads.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
8. i hope it's the start of a trend for all talk radio shits
Wed May 24, 2017, 07:55 PM
May 2017

all rw radio stations need to get boycotted - all their talkers follow the same line

they've all been pushing clinton conspiracies and lies for 25 years.

all universities that broadcast sports on rw radio stations need to be protested until advertisers get the picture and all start fleeing. they shouldn't be bringing in advertisers for professional racist liars like limbaugh and hannity, and they need to experience their true market value, not artificially pumped up because they hide behind call screeners and enjoy the protection of monopoly power.

then fox could not exist as is.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
6. And we all know how meticulous and persistent
Wed May 24, 2017, 07:47 PM
May 2017

That crowd is about keeping their promises. Money in the bank!

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
11. Hannity is a lying sack of s*it
Wed May 24, 2017, 08:09 PM
May 2017

who should be podcasting to a tiny audience of like-minded kooks via a show emanating from his basement.

Not a "commentator" on a "major network".

Of course, he probably doesn't believe the garbage he spews--he's something even worse, a cynical propagandizer selling out the interests of his dimwitted followers in order to get paid big $$$. After all, there's a lot of money to be made furthering the interests of the billionaires by conning morons to vote against their own interest.

This latest excuse for a "story" just shows how vile he is and how desperate to deflect attention from dump and his follies.



Jno_Gilmor_

(127 posts)
17. Right! MSNBC is starting to look like the dumping ground for FOX's refuse. Seems like a shitty
Wed May 24, 2017, 08:56 PM
May 2017

bussiness model if you ask me.

Lil Missy

(17,865 posts)
19. Wow - Knockin' them out 1 at a time so far this year.
Thu May 25, 2017, 01:15 PM
May 2017

And not even half way through the year! more to come ......

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