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Breitbart News sees Advertisers exit, calls Kellogg's Decision 'un-American'

cpwill said:
Freedom of Association? As I recall, that was the refuge of bigots, and didn't apply to companies who sold goods to the public?
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In this case it is Kellogs (the customer) not wishing to buy advertising space from Breitbart (the merchant). Are you suggesting that a customer not doing business with a particular company is valid grounds for a discrimination suit?
 
beefheart said:
Conservatives....they are all for the free market...until they aren't.
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Wrong, this has nothing to do with Conservatives as a (unified?) group - this is the (rather bizarre?) opinion of one web site as to what is "un-American" business behavior. Breitbart was completely happy to accept and display ads from this (and likely other?) "un-American" company - the objection was raised only when this particular "un-American" company no longer wished to remain a sponsor of (advertiser on?) Breitbart. It seems that a key component of being (becoming?) "un-American" is to stop supporting Breitbart. ;)
 
Kobie said:
Kellogg's can associate with whom they choose.
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ttwtt78640 said:
Wrong, this has nothing to do with Conservatives as a (unified?) group - this is the (rather bizarre?) opinion of one web site as to what is "un-American" business behavior. Breitbart was completely happy to accept and display ads from this (and likely other?) "un-American" company - the objection was raised only when this particular "un-American" company no longer wished to remain a sponsor of (advertiser on?) Breitbart. It seems that a key component of being (becoming?) "un-American" is to stop supporting Breitbart. ;)
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Kellogg can take their money wherever they want, but the Breitbart rabble is all butthurtt because a company has a choice to do what they want in a a free market.
 
beefheart said:
Kellogg can take their money wherever they want, but the Breitbart rabble is all butthurtt because a company has a choice to do what they want in a a free market.
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Breitbart rabble =/= Conservatives was, and remains, my point - they are not interchangeable or synonymous. Please take care to use appropriate words (labels?).
 
all I know American farmers are required to provide honey buckets to pickers in the fields. Mexican farmers do not provide honey buckets for field hands.....think that one through.
 
truthatallcost said:
Making food products in Mexico is way worse for their reputation than advertising on Breitbart.

Plus, look at ads on Youtube, companies pay money and end up showing ads on videos that are way worse than Breitbart.
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I still don't see the equality.
 
Redress said:
(and the hometown of Rob Van Dam).
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Never was much of a fan of his. His match with Cena at ONS '06, however, was fantastic.

Also, umm...I don't eat Kellogg's cereal and I don't read Breitbart. So I guess I have no dog in this fight.
 
Punishing advertisers for stopping their advertising is a very risky game, because who wants to start dealing with such an outfit?

Also, it was just two weeks ago that Breitbart was all "We are going to be the voice of the Trump Administration".....

Do they really want to advertise that they are this insecure?
 
Kellogg’s guidelines state that it won’t place ads in media that “encourages offensive behavior to others, or where the media is not consistent with our product or corporate image.”
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Says the company involved in a nasty child labor scandal in a recent report by Amnesty International.
 
This sugar-smacks of the same old SJW bullying/demonizing that's been going on for the past few decades. Bash the opposition, then when they defend themselves, call them racists/bigot/mysgonists. Do it long enough and some people will believe. Breitbart is controversial, and intends to be, and even if Kellogg's is wrong to pull out because of Trump, in general, what big family brand really needs to be associated with any controversial anything? Its often just bad business. The story is in why, and the addition of "but they make some cereals in Mexico", doesn't make it more of a story IMO. Most companies are sell-outs, its what business largely is...a vehicle for selling out.
 
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