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ADT to Pull Advertising from CNN After Kathy Griffin ‘Beheading’ Photo
Big Hollywood ^ | 5/31/17 | Jerome Hudson

Posted on 05/31/2017 5:47:34 PM PDT by markomalley

The ADT Corporation, the largest security company in the United States and Canada, announced Wednesday that it will pull its ads from CNN in the wake of the growing drama surrounding a photograph showing Kathy Griffin lifting up a bloodied decapitated head meant to resemble President Donald Trump.

A Twitter user sent ADT a message asking the Florida-based company to “drop CNN.”

“We do not support these views,” ADT responded. “We’ve begun the process of pulling our ads from this network.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; adt; braking; cnn; kathygriffin; media; msm; searchworks
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A small sample of ADT's tweets:


1 posted on 05/31/2017 5:47:34 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

she’s fired


2 posted on 05/31/2017 5:50:00 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: markomalley

CNN - FIRED
Sunset Center, Calif, Oct 13 - CANCELLED
ADT - FIRED

others?


3 posted on 05/31/2017 5:50:56 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: yldstrk

she sleeps with the fishes


4 posted on 05/31/2017 5:51:16 PM PDT by BOOHA
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To: markomalley

As an ADT customer, I couldn’t be happier. Like to employ sane people!


5 posted on 05/31/2017 5:51:31 PM PDT by son of terrence
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To: BOOHA

no cnn gave her the ax


6 posted on 05/31/2017 5:52:11 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: gaijin

Don’t forget the Squatty Potty.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/entertainment/squatty-potty-dumps-kathy-griffin-decapitated-trump-photo-article-1.3208604


7 posted on 05/31/2017 6:00:36 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: markomalley

*APPLAUSE*

Wish I needed protection from ADT. I’d buy their services in a minute if I needed to. ;)


8 posted on 05/31/2017 6:05:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: markomalley

Her photo shoot was ill-advised.

Not sure I’m excited about getting axed and career-killed over an absence of wisdom or perspective. Isn’t that what we accuse the Left of doing?

Freedom of speech means we endure the uncomfortable message and speak back.


9 posted on 05/31/2017 6:07:00 PM PDT by lurk (TEat)
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To: markomalley

10 posted on 05/31/2017 6:17:25 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: lurk
I understand your compassion and I can only tell you, that even if we harbor some amount of pity for them, they would still continue to do their very worst to us.

We could advocate the most admirable traits of honor and propriety. They will still scrape up their feces and hurl it at us, all while claiming we are the ones doing it.

It is far past time to collect on the debt of misery. With interest.

11 posted on 05/31/2017 6:19:11 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: lurk
This photo shoot was the subject of a background video, and in this video, Kathy Griffin said words to the effect of "well, if people react negatively, I'll just issue a phony apology and that'll be that".

So, in that context, it seems like Griffin is just following through with her phony apology.

It's not like this was a "spur of the moment" thing. Griffin planned this all out well in advance, and planned for this firestorm...

12 posted on 05/31/2017 6:19:57 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: lurk; ExTexasRedhead

“Freedom of speech means we endure the uncomfortable message and speak back.”

We surely do have to endure it, but that doesn’t mean we have to pi$$ ourselves over this trailer trash. Personally, I’d like for her to repeat her “performance” over in North Korea. Let her swing Kim Jong Un’s bloody head facsimile on local TV and see how long it takes for her to become the female version of Ichabod Crane.


13 posted on 05/31/2017 6:24:33 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: markomalley

Gosh, I wonder if USAA is adv on CNN?

Perhaps adv need to be targeted.


14 posted on 05/31/2017 6:24:52 PM PDT by Balata
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To: markomalley

Great news and a first for conservatives! When the left speaks up we need to speak back. But when the left acts and causes people like Bill O’Reilly and Hannity to be attacked and fired we need to start making them accountable -— we need to follow what Hannity is doing “Fight Fire with Fire” if they do not have or suffer consequences for what they do they will NEVER stop. Conservatives have had enough SPEECH is one thing but ACTIONS are another. THEY get conservatives fired all the time we need to start hurting them back. It would be foolish to say well because I’m a conservative if someone hits me I’m not going to hit them back. People are always saying “when is the left going to stop this behavior, when is Antifa going to go away Etc... The answer is when we start fighting back!!!


15 posted on 05/31/2017 6:28:34 PM PDT by Just a little eagle
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To: lurk

Pulling your ads, boycotting a compnay are also freedom of speech issues.

My guess is with a few more of these types of endings the left will calm down a bit.


16 posted on 05/31/2017 6:29:25 PM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wkikileaks, murdered he was)
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To: lurk
Freedom of speech means we endure the uncomfortable message and speak back.

No it does not.

Griffin's action was incitement to a murder.

The appropriate response does not involve endurance or tolerance.

17 posted on 05/31/2017 6:32:15 PM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: lurk

Okay “NotSure”,,,,

Let “Us” know if and When You are allowed to post again , What Should Be Done?


18 posted on 05/31/2017 6:34:14 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: markomalley


19 posted on 05/31/2017 6:40:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: markomalley
BINGO!

Hit 'em in the pocketbook.

20 posted on 05/31/2017 6:43:53 PM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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