Conservative hatemonger and frozen food heir Tucker Carlson has lost at least 19 advertisers in less than a week after an anti-immigration rant on December 13, in which he claimed folks from other countries make the United States “dirtier.”
Carlson joined the “You Got Boycotted” club for the very first time on Friday, when Pacific Life Insurance became the first to pull ads from Tucker Carlson Tonight. Then the flood gates opened, and by Tuesday, the bigoted boy wonder found himself a double-digit dumpee.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Carlson was creeping up on 20 lost advertisers.
Advertisers abandoning ship:
- IHOP
- Voya Financial
- Just For Men
- Pacific Life Insurance
- Zenni Optical
- Nerd Wallet
- Bowflex/Nautilus
- Minted
- SmileDirectClub
- United Explorer credit card
- Jaguar/Land Rover
- Ancestry.com
- SCOTTeVEST
- SodaStream
- Career Builder
- United Explorer
- Takeda
- Robitussin/Pfizer
- Samsung
Just eight companies are publicly vowing to continue giving Tucker Carlson Tonight their ad dollars.
Advertisers sticking around:
- Mitsubishi
- AstraZeneca
- John Deere
- Farmers Insurance
- Gold Bond/Sanofi
- Bayer
- GMC
- Infiniti
Fox News, predictably, has declared its endless devotion to Carlson, and refuses to change a thing.
"We cannot and will not allow voices like Tucker Carlson to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts. ... Attempts were made last month to bully and terrorize Tucker and his family at their home. He is now once again being threatened via Twitter by far left activist groups with deeply political motives. While we do not advocate boycotts, these same groups never target other broadcasters and operate under a grossly hypocritical double standard given their intolerance to all opposing points of view.”
Tonight, ol’ Tuck is sure to dig his heels in deeper. Or perhaps, like his colleague Laura Ingraham, he’ll flee the airwaves. The timing couldn’t be better, honestly, if, like Ingraham, he wants to frame it as a “planned vacation.”
He could even say he’s recovering from the War on Christmas, if he really wants to save face.