Posted on 11/14/2017 8:28:06 AM PST by Kaslin
An avalanche of mass defections of advertisers from Sean Hannity’s Fox News program appears to have been staunched – at least for the present. Over the weekend, initially five, and then more, major sponsors were about to bolt. On Monday, the CEO of the company in the forefront of the defections, Keurig, apologized for his company’s threat to quit running its commercials on Hannity’s show. With that move, the tide against Hannity appeared to be turning. At least that is how Hannity positioned the news.
Monday was a day of fast-breaking developments, with Hannity’s fans, social media, and Hannity’s four hours of live radio and TV shows in the forefront. The sponsor defections started to gain momentum on Sunday after Media Matters for America (MMFA), a well-funded, left wing not-for-profit anti-conservative group with a long enmity toward Hannity, weighed in. MMFA construed Hannity’s reporting on Judge Roy Moore as support for the embattled Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama. MMFA has been encouraging sponsors to desert Hannity’s shows for months, and Hannity’s attempt to cover the red-hot Roy Moore story in a fair and balanced way gave Media Matters and its supporters a new opening to attack him. Recall that the network’s star Bill O’Reilly lost his show after sponsors started to abandon him in the wake of sexual harassment charges.
Last Thursday, the Washington Post published an article alleging that Moore had engaged in inappropriate, or even illegal, intimate contact with teenage girls two decades his junior back in the 1970s. The following day, Hannity interviewed Moore at length by telephone on his afternoon radio show – putting Moore on the record for the first time since the Post story was published and created a firestorm.
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I hope Keurig doesn’t go full libweasel. I love their system. It produces the best coffee this side of a French press.
THe best thing I saw yesterday was a video showing a guy use a 10 pound golf training club to smash one of those overpriced foofoo crappy-tasting coffeemakers to smithereens. But YMMV ;-)
"...It produces the best coffee this side of a French press..."
+1
I like how Hannity said Keurig had been hoaxed.
My $9.00, 5-cup, drip coffee brewer makes better coffee for about 10c a cup.
I have one too, and I like it.
The Media Matters Nazis will not stop their efforts to silence Hannity and all other conservative media that seem to be effective. I can think of few more repulsive human beings than David Brock.
I upgraded my Keurig about a month ago. Yes, it’s a bit pricey, but - for me - convenience trumps price. And, since I don’t drink more than two cups a day - sometimes less - the cost isn’t really all that much.
According to Hannity yesterday it was a handful of small, minor advertisers.
“10c a cup”
I’ll pass!
They can have my French press when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
On Monday, Hebrew National, Volvo, Hubble Contacts and Reddi Whip joined the DNA testing service 23andMe and Nature’s Bounty, who said they were withdrawing ads from Hannity’s primetime Fox News show, in addition to the previously announced moves by Keurig, Realtor.com and the plus-size fashion label Eloquii. Meanwhile, two other advertisers, HelloFresh and TripAdvisor, clarified that any ads that run during his show were done in “error.”
https://www.thewrap.com/sean-hannity-fox-news-loses-11-sponsors-roy-moore-defense/
OUCH!
As a matter of fact I have this one
I only drink one cup, currently I use the largest size, but if I use a smaller size I still would only drink one cup, because I like my coffee strong and I couldn't handle more than one cup.
I have Mr Coffee 12 cup coffee maker that I make coffee for my husband and he drinks the whole pot. He likes his coffee tasting like dishwater if you know what I mean. So I only 3 scoops in and set it on regular instead of strong.
A it wasn’t an avalanche
B. Most of those claiming to have deserted him never advertised on his show
C Sean has been at this awhile and knows how to fight
No Keith has done the right thing and backed down
Talk about good coffee. Unfortunately they stopped getting it.
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