Pillow Man hasn't paid his bills. FOX cancels him (Pillow Man's charge). Republicans here won't criticize Cancel Culture when it's Right-on-Right cancellation.
But the partnership appears to have hit a wall. On Friday, Lindell announced on Stephen K. Bannonās podcast that his companyās media-buying agency was told this week that the network would no longer accept MyPillow advertisements.
Lindell told The Washington Post they got no explanation for the decision, but he thinks itās connected to his hiring of former Fox host Lou Dobbs to anchor shows on his website FrankSpeech.com. Dobbsās first guest, on Monday, was former president Donald Trump.
But a person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment said the partnership has not been canceled but rather has been paused because Lindell has failed to pay for his ads since August.
This person added that Lindell is not banned from advertising on the network. A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Lindell hotly denied this assertion, saying that āof courseā his company has paid for its ads. āI just checked and we paid them $4 million for ads in December alone,ā he said. āYour sources are false!!!! Try again!!!ā
The person with knowledge of the situation said that Lindellās December payment was for ads that aired in June and July.
Lindell framed the networkās current prohibition as indicative of cancel culture. āItās disgusting. Iām beside myself,ā he said, adding that āit should be almost illegal that you donāt accept money to buy ads when youāve been doing it this long.ā (He said that MyPillow spends $1 million to $2 million per week on Fox advertisements.)
Lindell, who spent millions trying to prove baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, continued advertising on Fox even as he heavily criticized the network for not giving as much credence to those theories as he did. (Fox last year settled a defamation suit from a voting-machine company for a staggering $787.5 million over false claims of fraud that other Trump allies promoted on its airwaves.)
Fox News and Mike Lindellās MyPillow are taking a break
Lindell said heās been ācanceled,ā but a source with knowledge of the situation said he just hasnāt paid his bills
MyPillow, the bedding company founded by conservative activist Mike Lindell, has long been a prominent sponsor for Fox News, its commercials comfortably woven into the fabric of the networkās programming over the past decade.But the partnership appears to have hit a wall. On Friday, Lindell announced on Stephen K. Bannonās podcast that his companyās media-buying agency was told this week that the network would no longer accept MyPillow advertisements.
Lindell told The Washington Post they got no explanation for the decision, but he thinks itās connected to his hiring of former Fox host Lou Dobbs to anchor shows on his website FrankSpeech.com. Dobbsās first guest, on Monday, was former president Donald Trump.
But a person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment said the partnership has not been canceled but rather has been paused because Lindell has failed to pay for his ads since August.
This person added that Lindell is not banned from advertising on the network. A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Lindell hotly denied this assertion, saying that āof courseā his company has paid for its ads. āI just checked and we paid them $4 million for ads in December alone,ā he said. āYour sources are false!!!! Try again!!!ā
The person with knowledge of the situation said that Lindellās December payment was for ads that aired in June and July.
Lindell framed the networkās current prohibition as indicative of cancel culture. āItās disgusting. Iām beside myself,ā he said, adding that āit should be almost illegal that you donāt accept money to buy ads when youāve been doing it this long.ā (He said that MyPillow spends $1 million to $2 million per week on Fox advertisements.)
Lindell, who spent millions trying to prove baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, continued advertising on Fox even as he heavily criticized the network for not giving as much credence to those theories as he did. (Fox last year settled a defamation suit from a voting-machine company for a staggering $787.5 million over false claims of fraud that other Trump allies promoted on its airwaves.)
