I wrote a diary last night about this here:
www.dailykos.com/...
At that point only oddly, Mercedes Benz had withdrawn their advertising, then closely followed by Hyundi, based upon the NYT's article on the 13 million in pay outs that FOX has paid to keep Bill-O on the air, no matter how many women he has harassed.
Today the list grows:
Mitsubishi Motors (odd to me, all these car dealers!)
Lexus
BMW
T. Rowe Price
Wayfair
Bayer
Credit Karma
Sanofi Consumer Healthcare
GlaxoSmithKline (drug maker)
ALLstate
Ainsworth Pet Nutrition
Untuckit---mens clothing
www.huffingtonpost.com/...;
Please read the article where many of these company’s put out statements about why they’ve withdrawn their advertising, and go to their sites and thank them for taking a stand.
What is somewhat amazing to me is all these advertisers actually made a PREMPTIVE move, within just a day or two of the NYT article. IOW, it didn't take thousands of e-mails and months to make a difference like it did with Rush.
However, some of the language used by advertisers here suggests the withdrawal of their ads is TEMPORARY, “for now”----Read between the lines---if no one minds, we’ll be right back there
It is up to all of us to make sure it isn’t temporary. And I want to EMPHASIZE, that I don’t think this should be presented as a partisan issue, or a political issue. I think when we write to these advertisers we make it clear that Democratic or republican, sexual harassment is unacceptable, and that we women, and the men who love and respect us, have A LOT of buying power.
AND, Bill-O is silent on all of this. HE IS SCARED INTO KEEPING HIS BIG FAT MOUTH SHUT, because he knows anything he says at this point will just wick the flame. Although gee, even as I type this watching LO, he is about to follow a story of Bill-O threatening one of his accusers. As Rachel would say, watch that space.
Finally, would appreciate help from the Flush Rush people as to how to get a list of Bill-O’s advertisers. Nor sure how to go about this, and am certainly not going to watch his show to find out. But would like to present such a list to this community.
Bill O’Reilly and I don’t agree on anything politically, and that’s one thing. I am not interested in bringing him down because we don’t agree. I am interested in bringing him down because he is a sexual predator.