My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell said the network has canceled its advertising deals with the company amid his ongoing legal and financial troubles

Fox News appears to have cut ties with the conservative bedding brand My Pillow, once one of the network’s largest and most prominent advertisers.

A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Rolling Stone that the network’s partnership My Pillow “was paused due to the fact Mike Lindell hasn’t been able to finance the commercials and this was communicated to his media agency at length.”

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    The title of this article makes it sound like it’s being said by the my pillow guy

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    was paused due to the fact Mike Lindell hasn’t been able to finance the commercials and this was communicated to his media agency at length.”

    Oh, they didn’t stop because he’s an insurrectionist who wants to overthrow democracy, but because he can’t pay his bills. “Kicked out” implies a moral stand, but he’s just broke.

    They dropped his broke ass because he can’t pay for his commercials.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Fox News appears to have cut ties with the conservative bedding brand My Pillow, once one of the network’s largest and most prominent advertisers.

    My Pillow Founder and CEO Mike Lindell announced that the right-wing news network revoked their advertising deals with the brand on Thursday during a broadcast of the Steve Bannon “War Room” show.

    Lindell added that he had not been given an explicit reason for the cancellation, but speculated that the rupture might have been motivated by Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the first battle of the 2024 Republican primary.

    A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Rolling Stone that the network’s partnership My Pillow “was paused due to the fact Mike Lindell hasn’t been able to finance the commercials and this was communicated to his media agency at length.”

    In recent years, Lindell has been embroiled in a series of lawsuits stemming from his public peddling of conspiracy theories on behalf of former President Donald Trump in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss.

    In April, Fox News agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by Dominion which included an astounding $787.5 million payment to the company.


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    A good wordplay in the title is a little ruined by capitalizing every word, losing the brand name capitalization for those out of the loop. This trick of magazines and youtubers is dumb.

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      Because modern media deliberately caters to dumb, gullible, easily angered people.

      They craft it this way on purpose, just like email scammers.