Advertisers virtually abandon OReilly in bizarre, truncated show

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https://thinkprogress.org/advertisers-virtually-abandon-oreilly-in-bizarre-truncated-show-e68754ecd29c

Judd Legum
Editor-In-Chief, ThinkProgress
Apr 7
Advertisers virtually abandon O’Reilly in bizarre, truncated show
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On Thursday night, virtually all national advertisers abandoned The O’Reilly Factor, the nation’s top-rated cable news show. The program included just seven advertisements and was, without warning or explanation, cut 15 minutes short.

More than 50 advertisers have announced they will stop airing ads on the show this week, following an explosive report in the New York Times that O’Reilly and Fox News had paid millions to five women who accused O’Reilly of sexual harassment. Even more advertisers appear to have done so without making an announcement.


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[PsychoBabble]

1. Sounds like abuse.

(That ANY part of the show remained.)

[ToxMarz]

2. Who were the advertisers

Survival seeds, silver? Maybe Tiger Lady would be a good fit.

[SCantiGOP]

3. Viagra?

[Initech]

19. Old angry white guys like O'Reilly are Viagra's target market!

I should have been in advertising.

[Coventina]

12. Pat Boone pimping gold to frightened seniors.

Is my guess.....

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[True Blue American]

46. Tom Sellick pimping

Reverse mortgages.

[crazycatlady]

22. Trump Steaks?

[adigal]

4. What I find interesting is what I call the tidal wave effect

Sometimes things pick up steam, the wave gets bigger and bigger even though we have known this about this douchebag for 15 years at least, but there is no stopping this tsunami.
My prediction? Trump will go on to try to save O'Reilly, but it won't work. He is done. Put a fork in him. Part of the backlash against Trump and sex offenders, IMHO.

[volstork]

6. I hope you are right.

o'reilly is just another festering boil that is finally getting lanced.

[rpannier]

20. Depends on his ratings

My understanding is his ratings have gone up. If that is true, then there will be companies willing to fill the slots.

[Dave Starsky]

25. The ratings are up because of the car accident effect.

Once people see he's the same boring asshole he's always been, but with additional sexual predator baggage, they will turn him off. That won't take very long.

[DownriverDem]

41. Not his die hard fans

Many of those fans are so called religious repub voters. If what we all learned about trump didn't turn them off, Bill won't either. They were promised the end of Roe v Wade and possibly that religious nut Pence as President. See what unity can do? When will we left leaners learn the lesson of sticking together to defeat the repubs?

[keithbvadu2]

27. They will come back.

They will come back.

Billo has a loyal cadre of followers.

[womanofthehills]

44. He needs advertisers to come back and they won't.

[pbmus]

35. We thought the same with rush, that didn't happen...

Same idiots watch both narcissistic fools.

[DownriverDem]

40. If only

Folks had felt that tidal wave affect against trump last November. I can't help but wonder if folks really understand how screwed we truly are.

[nolabear]

5. So he couldn't go the distance, eh?

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[Ligyron]

7. Great to hear!

But have you guys checked out the advertising on Faux in general?

OMG! The world is ending! Economy is getting ready to crash (again), worse even than '29. Quick! Buy gold and survival supplies! Food buckets.

It's just all paranoia all of the time over there.

It's like - you watch this shit and think, "Can people really be THIS stupid?"

What a hideous, depressing mind-set.

Anyway, if you cut the commercials out of a show that length, that's about the amount of time any show would run I should think.

[renate]

10. that's kind of interesting

I don't think I've watched more than ten seconds of Fox News in my life, literally, but I've heard about how their programming is fear-based. And fear makes people hyperreactive and full of hatred towards all that is other, and that all makes sense.

I didn't realize the advertising was just more of the same. Silly me, I just thought the advertisements would be, like, normal. Fox really has cultivated the perfect audience for their OMG OMG OMG all the time programming, haven't they?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. I used to laugh at my father in law's Newsmax magazine ads.

Gold schemes/Get rich quick schemes

Baldness cures

Brazilian Jui jitsu how to

And limp,dick pills

Which really paints a picture of how and why people are miserable petty republicans with a hatred of their fellow man.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Newsmax has a special way with Social Security,,, But you have to give them your credit card first.

Newsmax has a special way with Social Security

But you have to give them your credit card first.

https://www.truthinadvertising.org/socialsecurity211-com/

They are in the business of selling newsletter subscription and you'll have a really hard time cancelling to get them off your credit card.

https://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/24/hating-on-the-welfare-state-while-pushing-taxpa/195042

And the info they finally give you is available for free.

[brewens]

37. My girlfriend is kind of a radical libertarian type. A few years back she was trying to get me to

read this book she had been reading. All about the coming global catastrophe and how to prepare for it. Just her description told me it was junk. I don't argue with her about that stuff much. It was a "free" book btw.

A month or so later I see a $50 charge show up on our business bank account from Newsmaxx. I ask her what that was for and she had no clue. A quick online search confirmed what I suspected. A lot of people had been scammed the same way. For the "free" book, they need a credit card number for some reason. Then if you don't scroll all the way down and uncheck a box in the terms, you subscribe to Newsmaxx, a reoccurring charge of course. She got on the phone and got it reversed. She never said, but I bet that wasn't easy to finally get through and get it done.

What a sleazy way to do business. Says all you need to know about what they are worth. I wonder how many people are paying them $50 bucks a year, forgot all about it, and don't even use their site? They probably know exactly what percentage of people they hook that will keep overlooking that annual fee because they don't really look over their statements.

[True Blue American]

47. I mentioned Tom Sellick

And reverse mortgages in another post. So help me God, I just receieved a letter telling me how much my house was worth and how much I could get in a reverse mortgage.

I would never think of falling for a scheme like that, but have to worry how many swamped with DOctor and drug bills,rising costs would think it is mannah from Heaven.

You know good and well Tom does not need that money. Fonzie did those commercials,too.

[eleny]

8. He can make room for Greta to return

[Wounded Bear]

9. About right...

the average "one hour" TV show has about 40-45 minutes of content. Eliminate all the ads and it gets short.

[czarjak]

11. Judge Pirro...

Is standing strong, and marching in lock-step at the same time. Can't be easy.

[PJMcK]

13. This is the free market in action! (n/t)

[Guilded Lilly]

14. Power of the collective pennies! Hopefully this is a permanent removal for

all these advertisers. This man has been a foul bully for years.
Accountability, Jagoff.

[maxrandb]

16. Now

If we could get them to do the same for the rest of the Faux News lineup we'd be getting somewhere

[Initech]

17. Good! Hit em where it hurts!

[griloco]

18. I don't know...I hear he's picked up new advertisers

[rpannier]

21. Spatula City

They could be next

[ornotna]

33. The possibilities are endless

Chateau La Feet Pirini Scleroso could be next.

[BannonsLiver]

23. I wonder how many will return?

I recall a few "for now" qualifiers from some of the pr departments of advertisers who pulled out.

[Dawson Leery]

26. Bye Bye!

[Cha]

29. Wow.. the big ugly mouth finally gets a take down

[warmfeet]

30. Hope his crap show, and he, disappear forever.

A scourge on humans and humanity. Oh yeah, I hope that other crap hole disappears also - hannity, the scourge of humanity.

[OliverQ]

31. They need to stop advertising on Fox altogether.

[Jim Beard]

32. Things are going bad for ORiley and good for Colbert

[workinclasszero]

34. 'Welcome to the No Ad Zone.'

[sheshe2]

36. Bye...

[spanone]

38. even angies list finally pulled out their ads....

[CanonRay]

39. Trump's running mate in 2020?

The All Pussy-Grabbing Team!

[Alice11111]

48. MAGA, Make America Grab Again

The sound of O'Reilly's sleezy, authoritarian, condescending voice has always given me chills. They are two of a kind. What a buffoon DT is to defend him.

The thing that gets me is that it will most Fox news watchers won't even know about it, because they don't watch or read other news, except even worse stuff, like Drudge or Glen Beck.

[KPN]

42. Screw Fox News -- O'Reilly should be gone 100% ...

and should have been years ago. They gave him as much time as they could profit from ... and will continue to do so.

I'd say we need to keep the pressure on the corporations -- this isn't a one time effort, but the reality is there is only so much we as individuals can do consistently to resist the whole fucking cabal. We all have other responsibilities -- including the basic life tasks like eating, sleeping, working, etc., etc. It's frustrating.

Wish there were a better way to organize our mass resistance such that everyone could contribute consistently and effectively, but also with maximum efficiency.

[certainot]

43. fantesticle!! and all advertisers to all hate/trump/putin talk radio should be boycotted

talk radio is where oreilly, like hannity started. it does the groundwork repetition to make their racism sexism and ignorance acceptable for TV.

reducing rw talk radio from a protected PSYOPS/monopoly of 1200 think tank-coordinated stations down to maybe 100 - a true representation of market demand - would destroy fox for good and make the process of getting trump out and getting majorities in 2018 a lot easier.

one way to start that major shaming of advertisers would be to start protesting the 88 universities that support 257 limbaugh stations with sports broadcasting.

[oberliner]

45. The show was neither bizarre nor truncated

It was his normal show - there was breaking news about Syria that came in.