Travel Site Kayak.com Pulls Ads From TLC's 'All American Muslim' [View all]
Travel website Kayak.com will remove all advertising from TLC's new reality-TV program "All American Muslim" days after an outcry over a similar decision by home improvement retailer Lowe's tore across the Internet.
A Kayak.com spokesman says that it has not pulled advertising from the program because of protests and backlash from conservative groups, including the Florida Family Association, but because TLC was "not up front about the nature of this show."
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Robert Birge, Kayak's chief marketing officer, wrote a letter on the company's website Wednesday saying that he is deeply sorry that the company's decision comes across as bending to bigotry.
"It's a worthy topic, but any reasonable person would know that this topic is a particular lightning rod," Birge says in the letter. "We believe TLC went out of their way to pick a fight on this, and they didn't let us know their intentions. That's not a business practice that generally gets repeat business from us. I also believe that it did this subject a grave disservice. Sadly, TLC is now enjoying the attention from this controversy."
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