Fox News is many things to many people and to Mike Lindell it’s apparently the object of his unrequited love. Lindell recently pulled all of his advertising from Fox and now he’s claiming that he’s “losing a million dollars a week” because he did “direct response” advertising with them and you “just can’t take that anywhere.” But in the next breath he says he’s glad that he’s away from Fox.
And why is that? Why, because they “turned” on the country, when they should have stood strong and talked about all the cures for coronavirus. Umm….did it never occur to Mike that they didn’t want to get sued for broadcasting damaging disinformation? Again?
Evidently not. This is a little over six minutes but it’s entertaining.
The way he ends this clip on an apocalyptic note is interesting. “I won’t have a country or a company if we don’t address the 2020 election. Period.” You can address it all you like, but if “addressing” it translates as somehow magically vacating Joe Biden’s win, then you are screwed.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. The Big Lie is fascinating in all its permutations but this Greek tragedy side show that is Mike Lindell might be the most intriguing aspect of it. He may not be the official martyr of the Big Lie, that’s Ashli Babbitt, but he’s making himself one of the most obvious casualties.
Funny, it’s now August 2021, and the country is still here. So are Lindell and his company.
“I won’t have a country or a company if we don’t address the 2020 election. Period.”
No, Mike, you will have a country (just maybe not the racist, white supremacist wasteland you want) because the 2020 election HAS BEEN DECIDED. “PERIOD.”
As for your company? Well, if you hadn’t decided to turn into such a publicly arrogant Trump brown-noser (using the least objectionable term available), your company would probably be doing okay at least. Other CEOs have accepted that their public statements DO influence and affect their company’s image so they tend to make a distinction between their PERSONAL beliefs and the COMPANY’S image (of course, this is helped by the existence of boards of directors and other people who believe they have a stronger obligation to the shareholders in the company over the company’s head). Some companies (like Chik-fil-a) are willing to take public hits over their sometimes controversial ideals but most companies do try to accept the fact that their brands (even the most “family-friendly” ones) are used or followed by more than just the white-bread, “Leave It To Beaver”/”Father Knows Best” 50s-era-style families (even -gasp- single folks).
Lindell, though, decided to tie himself into his company brand (from the onset, he was pretty much in every single “My Pillow” commercial) and then doubled-down after making himself such a public Trump supporter. (Oddly enough, even the folks behind “Trumpy Bear” weren’t willing to identify themselves in the commercials. Some may have been the “proud owners” in the commercial but they never identified themselves as having any other involvement with the stuffed animal.)
His first mistake is calling Fox a news organization.
I ran across a trumpy bear commercial right after he was “elected”. My first thought was that someone decided that his followers were idiots and they could make a fortune with a piece of crap. I didn’t see the bear again for years and suddenly it was back and I still think someone is packing their pockets with cash while laughing their ass off at the morons who a buying it.
“A fool and his money…”
Just wait until August 13th rolls around and Trump is not sitting in the Oval Office, and Joe Biden is not in jail. Lindell will explode. If he thinks he knows more than Rudy Giuliani (with his law licence suspended), then he’s going to be very mistaken when his lack of proof is not accepted as evidence of election fraud. What part of “Trump lost the election. Period.” can these twits not get through their thick heads?
Boo hoo mikey ?