Two-way boycotts are underway.
47 U.S. COMPANIES JOIN
ANTI-TRUMP BREITBART BLACKLIST Leftist plot to
attack top advertisers, blame 'fake news' for president-elect's win, by Chelsea
Shilling, 12/1/16, WND
A Donald Trump-hating Twitter user
– who
is too scared to reveal his true identity because he says he fears backlash
from Trump supporters is attempting to destroy a
leading conservative news site with a coordinated campaign attacking its
advertisers and claiming it’s “racist.” The anonymous Twitter user, known as Sleeping
Giants, is attempting to take
down Breitbart News. It takes screenshots of advertisements on Breitbart
and then harasses companies that own the ads, demanding that they blacklist the
news site.
And several high-profile U.S.
companies are taking the bait. Ironically, while Sleeping Giants
accuses Breitbart of being a “racist” site, the Twitter account features raised
black fists that resemble those used in 1969
posters of the Black Panther Party. A
similar fist, though typically white, was used to symbolize white power, and
another red version represented leftist Autonnomist Marxism.
The blog DigiDay says, “The creator
of the account said he would prefer to remain anonymous to avoid being harassed
by Trump supporters on the internet. He said he started the account because
fake news and disinformation, are, in his opinion, two of the reasons why the
election turned out in favor of Trump.”
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news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. The creator of Sleeping Giants told
the blog, “The biggest way that this
disinformation will continue is ad revenue, just like any news source. Beyond
really wanting to stop this nonsense, this effort was really born out of the
need to inform advertisers about the kind of material that they’re sponsoring.
This isn’t supposed to be a boycotting effort as much as an information
effort.”
Sleeping Giants, a new Twitter
handle that was launched in November, offers this description of its
activities: “We are trying to stop racist websites by stopping their ad
dollars. Many companies don’t even know it’s happening. It’s time to tell
them.”
As of Thursday, Sleeping Giants
followed only 23 Twitter users – some of whom are actively helping
Sleeping Giants publicize its campaign against Breitbart. And nearly all are
linked directly to President Obama, left-leaning publications or far-left
causes.
The complete list includes:
·
Jon
Lovett, Obama speechwriter who worked
three years at the White House drafting speeches on public policy
·
Sarah
Silverman, an actress and comedian who spoke
at the Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton
·
Nicholas
Reville, founder of PCCulture.org, an
organization that lists leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society
Institute among its
“major funders”
·
Shannon
Coulter, a tech and media marketing
specialist who boycotted the Ivanka Trump Collection fashion line and demanded
that Macy’s, Nordstrom, Amazon, Lord & Taylor, Marshalls and Zappos stop
selling Ivanka’s clothing
·
Michael
Moore, leftist activist and filmmaker who
backed the presidential campaigns of both Obama and Hillary
·
Brian
Stelter, a CNN host who has attacked
Trump for what he said are “dangerous” lies about a “rigged” election and dismissed Hillary health concerns as “conspiracy
theories online promoted by conservative websites”
·
Stephen
Colbert, “The Late Show” host, a Democrat
who has been accused of having a deeply liberal bent that is “unremittingly
hostile to Republicans”
·
Lucia
Moses, senior editor at DigiDay, a
marketing blog that is promoting the Sleeping Giants campaign. Moses
has accused ad networks of funding “fake news” online
·
Ana
Marie Cox, MTV news correspondent,
contributor to the left-leaning Daily Beast and former editor at Time and
Mother Jones
·
Change
the Convo, a Twitter account that condemns
conservative news sites – such as Breitbart,
Daily Caller, Fox News, The Blaze, RushLimbaugh.com, American Thinker and
others – and accuses their
advertisers of supporting “hate speech”
·
Stop
Funding Hate, a Twitter handle that says it aims
to “take on the divisive hate campaigns of the Sun, Daily Mail and Daily
Express”
·
Josh
Mandel, a marketing director for ADHD,
which is housed under the Los Angeles-based All Def Digital, “a
media company for urban-centric youth culture.” In June, All Def Digital tweeted a video tribute to
President Obama titled, “Why
we’ll miss Barack Obama.” The company
has also praised
Michelle Obama and posted a video admiring
her derriere, “You
see Michelle Obama’s booty?”
As of Thursday, Sleeping
Giants was targeting the
following companies, demanding that they ban their ads from appearing on
Breitbart: American Express, LG, Jeep, Zillow, Epson, Revlon, Dollar General,
Kohl’s, Gap, Ralph Lauren, Sprint, Guitar Center, Famous Footwear, PayPal, Frontgate,
Citi, Burlington Coat Factory, WebMD, Canon, SiriusXM, Vistaprint, Walgreens,
BMW, Zulily, Hotels.com, Kia, Pottery Barn, Volvo, Toys “R” Us, NFL, American
Legion, Purina, Samsung, Whole Foods, T-Mobile, Staples and dozens more.
As
WND reported, Breitbart was one of many
so-called “fake news” websites recently targeted by the left in a major “hit
list” designed to discredit legitimate news organizations. WND found a leftist,
Trump-bashing assistant professor in Massachusetts who specialized in “fat
studies” was behind that campaign. The assistant professor, who publicly bashed
Trump as “sexist, racist, homophobic, and xenophobic,” has only had her position
teaching journalism at Merrimack College for 15 months. Mainstream media
outlets such as the Los Angeles Times circulated her list without offering any
details concerning her qualifications or apparent history of left-leaning bias.
The following are some major companies
that have committed to blacklisting Breitbart.
Kellogg’s, the famous food
manufacturer, has censored Breitbart.com, pulling ads from the website
because, it says the news organization’s 45 million conservative readers are
not “aligned with our values as a company.” The news site is formerly run by
President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon. Some of Kellogg’s
popular brands include JIF peanut butter,
Pringles, Eggo waffles, Rice Krispies treats, Kellogg’s To Go breakfast shakes,
Nutri-Grain breakfast bars and the following cereals: Frosted Mini-Wheats, Corn
Pops, Frosted Flakes, Raisin Bran, Special K, Apple Jacks, Froot Loops, Honey
Smacks, All-Bran, Crispix, Krave, Smorz, Smart Start, Mueslix and
Cracklin’ Oat Bran, among others. “We regularly work with our media-buying
partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned with our
values as a company,” said Kellogg’s flak Kris Charles, Breitbart
reported. “We recently reviewed the list of
sites where our ads can be placed and decided to discontinue advertising on
Breitbart.com. We are working to remove ads from that site.”
Breitbart said the food manufacturer
never offered any examples of how its readership failed to align with Kellogg’s
values. “The decision by Kellogg’s … will make virtually no revenue impact on
Breitbart.com,” the news organization wrote. “It does, however, represent an
escalation in the war by leftist companies like Target and Allstate against
conservative customers whose values propelled Donald Trump into the White
House.”
Breitbart also said the decision
“appears to be one more example of an out-of-touch corporation embracing false
left-wing narratives used to cynically smear the hard working Americans that
populate this nation’s heartland.”Breitbart News Editor in Chief Alexander
Marlow called for a boycott of Kellogg’s, saying the company’s “war” against
the news site shows its “cowardice” and “bigotry”: “Breitbart News is the
largest platform for pro-family content anywhere on the Internet. We are
fearless advocates for traditional American values, perhaps most important
among them is freedom of speech, or our motto ‘more voices, not less.’ For
Kellogg’s, an American brand, to blacklist Breitbart News in order to placate
left-wing totalitarians is a disgraceful act of cowardice. They insult our
incredibly diverse staff and spit in the face of our 45,000,000 highly engaged,
highly perceptive, highly loyal readers, many of whom are Kellogg’s customers.
Boycotting Breitbart News for presenting mainstream American ideas is an act of
discrimination and intense prejudice. If you serve Kellogg’s products to your
family, you are serving up bigotry at your breakfast table.” Breitbart urges
conservatives to join its boycott and sign the #DumpKelloggs
petition. “Kellogg’s has shown its contempt
for Breitbart’s 45 million readers and for the main street American values that
they hold dear,” said Breitbart President and CEO Larry Solov. “Pulling its
advertising from Breitbart News is a decidedly cynical and un-American act. The
only sensible response is to join together and boycott Kellogg’s products in
protest.”
Welch’s, a company known for its
juices and jams, confirmed
it is removing its ads from Breitbart Wednesday. Facebook
user Mary Dibbern had complained to the company, writing: “Welch’s is advertising on the Breitbart site. I
will boycott all Welch’s products, plus post a photo of the ads onto my FB and
Twitter accounts if Welch’s does not stop giving Breitbart their advertising
business.” Welch’s responded to the complaint:
“Mary, we assure you that we are taking the necessay steps to remove all
Welch’s content from this site, and others like it. Thank you for reaching
out.”
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo
Nordisk has stated on Twitter that it pulled at least one advertisement on
Breitbart, USA
Today reported. “Danish biopharma Novo Nordisk
pulled at least one ad appearing on the controversial website Breitbart this
week after social media users alerted the company that one of its products was
being marketed alongside an article about how women are ‘screwing up the
internet for men,'” the BioPharmaDive
blog wrote. When Sleeping Giants brought the ad to the
company’s attention, it pressured Novo Nordisk to remove its
advertisements from Breitbart and promised a “retweet” that would be “good for
business” if it complied with the request. Novo Nordisk said it would “take
care of” the ad and later confirmed that it had removed it.
Insurance provider Allstate says it
is pulling ads from Breitbart, according to Nicholas Reville, founder of PCCulture.org, an organization that lists
leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute among its “major funders.” On Nov. 21, Reville tweeted to Allstate, “Want to help
reduce Breitbart revenue, staff, influence? Tweet at their advertisers.” He
included an image of a direct message sent to him by Allstate, which stated:
“Thanks! We value the questions and
feedback we receive. We appreciate your concern regarding our advertising
appearing on the website Breitbart News. Unfortunately, the nature of internet
media buys is such that we are not always able to receive full disclosure with
regards to all of the websites on which our advertising may run. The site
Breitbart News was not excluded from one of our network buys in this instance,
but will be in the future. We will take your thoughts into consideration …”
Warby Parker, a maker of
prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses, has said it will ban its ads from
appearing on Breitbart, according to DigiDay. “Warby Parker does not buy
advertising from Breitbart News Network directly,” a Warby spokeswoman told the
site. “If one of our ads appears on a Breitbart site, it’s due to a sale
through third-party ad networks or ad exchanges. We are looking into actively
blocking our ads from appearing on Brietbart News Network. As a company, we are
committed to building a diverse and inclusive community that treats everyone
with respect and dignity, and it’s important to us that our advertisements
appear on sites that believe in those same values.”
The San Diego Zoo has indicated it,
too, has pulled ads displayed on Breitbart, the
Associated Press reported. On Nov. 22, Sleeping Giants
tweeted the San Diego Zoo, asking, “Can you confirm that you have dropped
Breitbart from your media plan? Let us know!” The San Diego Zoo replied a day
later: “We can confirm that our media buyer is removing the site from our
network as we speak.”
AppNexus Inc., a digital ad firm,
banned Breitbart from using its ad-service, according
to Bloomberg. “The digital ad firm decided the
publication had breached a policy against content that incites violence,”
Bloomberg reported. AppNexus spokesman Joshua Zeitz said, “We did a human audit
of Breitbart and determined there were enough articles and headlines that cross
that line, either using coded or overt language.” Zeitz also claimed Breitbart
isn’t being targeted for its conservative bent. “This blacklist was solely
about hate speech violation,” he said. Bloomberg reported that AppNexus is
second to Google in the ad serving market for publishers.
Other
companies
As of Thursday, Sleeping
Giants claims other companies have dropped advertising on Breitbart, including:
·
3M
·
AAA SoCal
·
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
·
AARP
·
Aqua Carpatica
·
Avvo
·
Blue Sound Hifi
·
BOMBAS
·
Chasing Fireflies
·
Conrad CH
·
Earthlink
·
El Torito
·
Finlandia Cheese
·
Galaxus
·
Harry Rosen Inc.
·
L’Occitane
·
Madison Reed
·
Miele
·
MM Lafleur
·
Mod Cloth
·
Monogram Appliances
·
Moz
·
MVMT watches
·
One Month
·
Paperless Post
·
Post Schweiz
·
Rapid Release Technology
·
Rhone
·
Saddleback Bags
·
Salsify
·
Shinola
·
SoFi
·
The Good Chocolate
·
The Land of Nod
·
The Webby Awards
·
Touch of Modern
·
U.S. Bank
·
Udi’s Gluten Free
·
Vanguard Group
·
Wildfang
·
Workable
·
Xero
http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/47-u-s-companies-join-anti-trump-breitbart-blacklist/
Comments
The
brainwashing of corporations began to take place after 1993 at the time of the
NAFTA scam when globalism became the new hoax. The UN Agenda 21 crony group was
being formed and included almost everybody. After the Trump election, most
companies who drank the Kool aid have relaxed their Liberal club and are
figuring out how to make the changes that are coming. A few of these companies
are still hanging on and are targeting Breitbart a well-known conservative
media site that supported Trump’s message.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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