State Farm drops ad starring Rob Schneider over anti-vaccine views

[HuckleB]

Source: PR Week

State Farm has pulled an ad featuring anti-vaccine activist Rob Schneider after a social media campaign urged the insurance company to end its affiliation with the actor.

Social media pages Food Hunk, Science Babe, and Chow Babe, all of which refute pseudoscience claims, started the anti-Schneider campaign last week, questioning how a company that sells insurance could hire a celebrity spokesman so openly against vaccinations.

The activists have encouraged consumers with State Farm policies to get involved by contacting their agents and telling them that "someone who publicly states dangerous opinions should not be a spokesperson for a health insurance company."

The anti-Schneider campaign also included a video that encouraged supporters to post on State Farm’s Facebook and Twitter pages, using the hashtag #StateFarm when demanding it cancel Schneider’s contract.

Read more: http://www.prweek.com/article/1313589/state-farm-drops-ad-starring-rob-schneider-anti-vaccine-views

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I'm not sure how this one got through a company that wealthy, when it sells health insurance policies, but...

[HuckleB]

1. And, yes, the author and editor(s) of this piece need some help.

Yes, there is a difference between illicit and elicit.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. That's the problem with relying on spellcheck, it won't pick up homonyms

[Archae]

7. You mean picking up gay nyms?

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Rob Schneider should stick to what he knows best...

...unfunny movies.

[SoapBox]

4. Oh!

I didn't know that he was in the wacky anti-vac group...good to know.

I want to send all of them, with their not-vaccinated spawn over to tour all of Africa...let's see how they feel after that.

[TlalocW]

5. Rob can't catch a break

A couple of years ago, he made an announcement on YouTube (I think) with his spokesperson about how he was leaving Hollywood and California because he didn't like their new taxes and because he couldn't find work because of his conservative politics. Not that he's an unfunny hack. He also didn't want to deal with the taxes because he has a health vitamin business, which is probably partly why he's anti-vaccination - buy more pills from him, etc.

TlalocW

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. I actually watched one episode of his last sitcom, "Rob"

Absolutely awful 80's sitcom schtick. The "joke" was his wife was Mexican and has a Mexican family.

[TlalocW]

13. Rob Schneider, da derp da derp derpity derp

TlalocW

[davidpdx]

6. Shneider should be dropped alright..

right off a.............

[stuffmatters]

8. State Farm should get out of ALEC too

[Redford]

9. State Farm is not a publicly traded company

It's policy holders own the company, fYI

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. The Rob-man! Pushing tinfoil stupidity!

Captain nitwit of the S.S. Wingnut! The Scheidermeister! Lacking a basic science education!

[HuckleB]

11. Apparently, Schneider sells worthless supplements to boot.

Oh, goodness. He's a classic snake oil scam artist all the way.