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Fox News puts MyPillow ads to rest in money dispute with election denier Mike Lindell
by STEVE KARNOWSKI | The Associated PressFri, January 12th 2024
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MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell gives a thumbs up as he passes by a rally for supporters of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox News has stopped running his company's commercials, disputing the network's assertion that it is simply because he hasn't paid his bills.

Lindell went public by tweeting that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow's biggest advertising outlets, had canceled him. He said in his tweet that he didn't know why but that he suspected that the network was trying to silence him. Fox denied that.

Losing Fox was just the latest in a series of financial and legal setbacks for Minnesota-based MyPillow and Lindell, who continues to propagate former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products, and lawyers who were defending him against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies quit.

“As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising,” Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti said.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Lindell acknowledged that MyPillow owes money to Fox. He put the figure at $7.8 million, but he insisted that the sum is within his credit line with the network. He said MyPillow has long spent an average of $1 million a week to run its ads on Fox. And he said the network had long allowed him 12 weeks of credit until it recently cut that to eight weeks.

Lindell said he believes Fox wants to silence him “because I want to secure our election platforms" — an assertion that Fox disputes. And he said he suspects the network is sore because his Lindell TV/FrankSpeech online channel recently hired former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, whose debut show on Monday night featured an interview with Trump, who made further false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

Fox last April agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 election on shows by Dobbs and other hosts. Fox canceled Dobbs' show three years ago.

Lindell acknowledged in an interview in October that he owed two law firms that were defending him against lawsuits by Dominion and Smartmatic millions of dollars that he couldn't pay, which is why they quit. He said MyPillow had been “decimated.”

But Lindell insisted Friday that MyPillow is “doing great.” He said it's still running ads on another conservative network, Newsmax, and on his own platforms. But he conceded that losing Fox will hurt the business and said he would run his ads there again if Fox would take them.


“Obviously, it would be great if Fox said, ‘Hey, come back,’" Lindell said.

Of course the other reason why Fox dumped Mike is he couldn't pay for his advertising.

Mike lives in an alternate universe.

He seems like a nice guy, but I think the crack permanently damaged his brain.

I have been meaning to order new pillows, I think now is a good time.

There is a really old Dallas Cheerleader that might rent you a couple.

Good grief the amount of slant and vile in that piece.

They mentioned “election denier” like 5 times.

A million dollars a week?? FUGK FOX

I canceled faux news a long time ago. They are all paid shills for the anti-American cabal.

I had a liberal at work tell me that I sounded like “Fox talking points”. I replied that he had CNN down Pat and Fox is a liberal New York Network, at least pick something that wasn’t left wing that I sound like. This was 3 years plus ago.

I buy My Pillow direct as much as practical for gifts.

So, Fox is saying: pay your bill, and you can come back.

Lindell is saying: He'll run ads again if Fox will have him back.

So: Pay the bill, Lindell.

Simple.

No fox is saying pay your bill so we can donate your money to a liberal cuk or traitor like Haley.

I quit watching Fox News forever on election night.

So I guess I wasn't seeing My Pillow ads anyway.

Throwing his business/life away over the delusion of a stolen election.

We will be reading about pillow guy dead in a gutter after relapsing on crack.

What an idiot, but anyone dumb enough to believe the bullshit he does, well, has it coming.

Don't feel sorry for the deadbeat.

I heard on the radio he was having a big sale

I support Mike as often as I can, but maybe not as often as I should. I believe in the guy, and he sells good stuff.

We took a chance a couple of months ago and bought two of his My Pillow 2.0's. They honestly are the most comfortable pillows we have ever owned.

Fox News is dead to me.

Any body tried the gaza dream sheets?

Yeah man. That election was perfectly legit. No issues. No interference.

You keep carrying that water my man!

Havent watched FOX in decades. Quite literally decades. As much of a trash outlet as MSNCB and Saturday Night Live or Colbert.

You just showed your stripes. Now We know who and what you are.

You pathetic, stupid fugk.