Fox News stops running MyPillow commercials in a payment dispute with election denier Mike Lindell

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Updated 8:35 PM CST, January 12, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox News has stopped running his company’s commercials, disputing the network’s assertion that it is simply because he hasn’t paid his bills.

Lindell went public by tweeting that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow’s biggest advertising outlets, had canceled him. He said in his tweet that he didn’t know why but that he suspected that the network was trying to silence him. Fox denied that.

Losing Fox was just the latest in a series of financial and legal setbacks for Minnesota-based MyPillow and Lindell, who continues to propagate former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products, and lawyers who were defending him against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies quit.

“As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising,” Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti said.




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[Drum]

1. Isn't he also on the hook for a $5 Mil settlement to a person, on a "reward" that Lindell offered up and lost?

[RockRaven]

2. LOL at that quote:

“As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising..."

[Botany]

6. Great quote

I.O.W. Mike can’t pay his bills

[Dem2theMax]

3. . . .

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. They probably don't let him run as high a balance

as they once did.

[Wonder Why]

5. Fox doesn't silence people who pay their bills, pillowface. You know they will say anything that makes

them money (and too much that costs them a bundle).

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. +1

Lindell knows this but just likes to make himself the victim in everything. A real trumper.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Ask Jared to invest his Saudi billions in your company

You need new products and new partners.

[JoseBalow]

14. Brand Loyalty

[BaronChocula]

8. FOX IS SO WOKE!!!...

How woke are they?

They don't need a pillow.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Rec'd. . . . nt

[GoodRaisin]

9. Magats don't feel they need to pay their bills, like their orange

pisswig. He has empowered them to lie, cheat and steal in their alternate reality. Paying bills is for suckers and losers.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Mike Lindell, as my mother used to say:

You make your bed and then you lie on it.

[JoseBalow]

15. Mom was right

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

13. His pillows must not be selling anymore

The market must be saturated. I'm seeing his crap at the Ollie's near me and they keep moving the pallet around the store 'cause it's not selling, they even have a big promo card on the side with Mr. MyPronStache prominently featured. I flip it off whenever I see it.