Papa Johns Pulls Ads from Wonkette After Revolting Post About Trig Palin

Newsrealblog ^ | Wednesday April 20, 2011

[Bigtigermike]

This is what needs to be done and thanks to sites like Twitter and to citizen journalism, it can happen. Papa Johns was alerted to the beyond odious post on Wonkette and, as a result, they say they are taking steps to ensure their ads no longer appear on the sewer slime trash site.

@robertcurlin Thank you for alerting us to this. We’ve taken steps to make sure our advertising doesn’t appear on that site in the future. about 3 hours ago via HootSuite in reply to robertcurlin

If you choose to be disgusting and vile in order to garner the attention you so desperately crave, don’t be surprised when that attention backfires when those with common decency are outraged and call you out on it. And when advertisers use their right to pull their ads from sites that publish absolute filth. Well done, Papa Johns.

[Republic]

lol! Me, too! And I did.

[Lees Swrd]

He is what we call a bag roller it takes a whole bag of tolit paper to wipe that fat a$$!

[curth]

More advertisers:

* Hyatt
* HP
* Celebrity X Cruises
* Fed Ex
* Reliant Energy
* Jack in the Box (say it isn’t so, Jack)
* AT&T
* San Diego Zoo
* Nordstrom
* Constant Contact

[Joe 6-pack]

Just finishing the last of mine :-) Had a coupon for three toppings so I did pepperoni, black olives and mushrooms tonight, then emailed corporate to give them an attaboy on pulling their ad.

Although I'm a semi-regular there, I'll definitely be pushing more business their way.

Now if I could only get them to add anchovies to their toppings!!

[curth]

Tweet from Vanguard:

@Vanguard_Group Vanguard
@
@AlexMarlow No intention to offend. We’re looking into how to prevent our ads from appearing next to such content in the future.

[secondamendmentkid]

“They did the right thing in dropping Wonkette and I am going to reward them.”

A partial post on wikipedia about wonkette - “..while following the election of Barack Obama, the site also began making frequent jokes at the expense of Tea Party Protesters, Birthers, Peggy Noonan’s weekly column and Sarah Palin.”

So, in reality, they were okay with flaming liberal garbage until it went over the top and they thought it was going to impact their bottom line. Complimenting them for dumping wonkette might well be tempered by asking them why they advertised on that leftwing site to begin with. Before you dive in, it’s helpful to see what is under the surface.

DiGornos is cheaper and better.

[curth]

Add two more to the list of advertisers who have pulled their ads:

Nordstrom and Holland America Cruises

http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/04/20/papa-johns-huggies-pulls-advertising-from-wonkette-after-trig-taunts/

[curth]

http://custhelp.meijer.com/app/ask/session/L3RpbWUvMTMwMzM1NjUwOC9zaWQvRk42b0Jfcms%3D

Customer Questions
Call us toll-free at 1-877-E-MEIJER (1-877-363-4537)

Write to us here:
Meijer
2929 Walker Ave., NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49544-9424

Meijer Credit Card Customer Service
Meijer Platinum MasterCard: 1-866-789-6041
Meijer Private Label Credit Card: 1-866-7-MEIJER
(1-866-763-4537)

Email Advisory Panel (monthly $1,000 sweepstakes,
PINSs and user names).
survey@meijer.com

News Media
Call our Media Relations hotline at 734-844-2781

[curth]

This is great!. Someone bought the domain name of the piece of trash behind the Trig smear.

Some people are simply brilliant!

http://jackstuef.com/

[dforest]

Save those diapers and donate them to Obama when he loses. LOL He might need them.

[kevkrom]

So, in reality, they were okay with flaming liberal garbage until it went over the top and they thought it was going to impact their bottom line. Complimenting them for dumping wonkette might well be tempered by asking them why they advertised on that leftwing site to begin with. Before you dive in, it’s helpful to see what is under the surface.

I'm guessing that many/most/all of them don't specifically advertise on Wonkette, but rather buy their ads in some sort of ad-placement pool that Wonkette subscribes to. Most such pools allow the vendor and/or site to specify what kinds of ads will be run on what kinds of sites, but until a site crosses the line like Wonkette did, there was little reason to call them out specifically to ban advertising on.