"Bye-bye Tucker Carlson!" T-Mobile CEO says as advertisers drop Fox News show

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Source: CBS News

Companies including T-Mobile and Papa John's Pizza are distancing themselves from Tucker Carlson's television show on Fox News after the conservative host's dismissive comments about the Black Lives Matters movement.

The backlash intensified after Carlson on Monday offered an inflammatory take on the nationwide anti-racism demonstrations that have followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

"This may be a lot of things, this moment we're living through, but it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will," Carlson told viewers on June 8, the first day of Floyd's memorial in his adopted hometown of Houston.

Asked by a Twitter user the next day if Carlson's message was one T-Mobile supported, CEO Mike Sievert tweeted back, "It definitely is not. Bye-bye Tucker Carlson! #BlackLivesMatter."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-advertisers-leave-fox-news-show/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Limbaugh is still around, so some rightwing company will step in and save the fascist.

Would love to be wrong.

[FakeNoose]

6. He won't be around long though

(Not nice, I know)

[cstanleytech]

2. Need to focus more on the cable companies as that is where Fox is getting alot of income these days

as they charge the cable companies about 2 to 3 dollars for every cable customer to allow the cable company to carry Fox News where as most other stations like CNN only charge a dollar or so.
So everyone contact Comcast, DirecTV and other providers and make them aware of this and put them pressure on them to tell Fox that if Tucker stays that Fox News goes.

[brewens]

3. I was wondering why last time I had a DISH account, I didn't get FOX "News".

I expected that to be on there, though I would only check it out occasionally to see what the half-wits were being taught to make believe. I had always had it before with even a rock bottom cable package. Just like drug dealers. Get them hooked and then they pay!

[ProfessorGAC]

8. That's True

At the same time, Comcast pays CNN 28¢. And, they own MSNBC, so that carriage fee is just taking money from one pocket to another.
I've sent complaints to Comcast about my bill since they're paying $2.70 for Faux, passing that cost to me and I've got it locked on the entire X1 system. It won't come in on any TV in the house. Yet, we pay nearly $3 per month for it.
No reply yet.

[relayerbob]

4. Disney also

[SCantiGOP]

5. Can the Pillow Guy

keep FOX alive by himself?

[Fla Dem]

7. He can always go to OANN or RT tv.

[keithbvadu2]

9. As long as it makes money for him, he will advertise wherever.

As long as it makes money for him, he will advertise wherever.

That's normal business.

If he has to kiss Trump's backside for the bucks, he will.

[Grokenstein]

10. Little bastard should have been finished after Jon Stewart burned him to ash.

[donkeypoofed]

14. I didn't watch Jon's show, can you tell me what happened?

[Grokenstein]

15. Wasn't even on The Daily Show!

They invited him on Crossfire. He looked Tuckles right in the eyes and told him off--and Tuckles flinched.

[Cha]

11. KR!

[Lock him up.]

12. K&R

Lock him up (in a padded cell).

[beachbumbob]

13. be much better if these advertisers DEMAND Carlson be FIRED