Fox News Pulls Trump Caravan Ad Decried as Racist

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediate



by Aidan McLaughlin | Nov 5th, 2018, 12:30 pm

Fox News and Fox Business will no longer air the President Donald Trump-approved campaign ad that many have decried as racist, according to a network executive.

“Upon further review, Fox News pulled the ad yesterday and it will not appear on either Fox News Channel or Fox Business Network,” said ad sales president Marianne Gambelli in a statement to Mediaite.

NBC drew outrage after the network aired Trump’s ad during Sunday Night Football.

The 30-second spot, a version of which Trump tweeted out last week to much outrage, warned of a “7,000-migrant caravan” approaching the U.S. border with Mexico. It also featured Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant convicted of murdering two sheriff’s deputies in 2014, falsely claiming that Democrats “let him into our country.”



Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-pulls-trump-caravan-ad-decried-as-racist/

[Shell_Seas]

1. Wow, even FOX is calling it racist. Shocker!

Are they finally turning on Trump?

[lagomorph777]

9. They must be seeing some interesting polls.

Either they're expecting a ginormous blue tsunami, and ensuing criminal investigations of many of their own staff, or their ratings are finally slipping.

[Shell_Seas]

13. I'm hoping for ALL of he above!!

[SunSeeker]

2. Is NBC still running the ad? nt

[AZ8theist]

7. NOPE.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142194254

[SunSeeker]

14. "will pull the ad from its network as soon as possible," NBC News reported.

Not clear if that means it is no longer running as of now.

[Raster]

3. Yes, but how many times did they run it before they pulled it?

Is this another case of a media outlet pulling the plug at an all-too-convenient time? If they believed the add was truly racist -and it was, I saw it on MSNBC- then why run it at all?

[watoos]

4. It's not just that it is racist,

it's a freaking lie. Where is an NBC reporter asking sheriff Joe why he let this guy out of jail? Someone needs to ask the question.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Everybody is pulling this ad. It's time to pull rump out. A clear indication that he's racist, ...

a bigot and worse. He's a traitor to American values, period. Once Nov 6, 2018 is over w/, I'm going to concentrate on getting this traitor out of office, hopefully along w/ Mueller's help in cleaning up this unholy mess.

[FakeNoose]

6. It's outrage - that's what they react to

We have to let the media outlets (NBC, Fox, CNN, etc.) know what we're angry about, and what makes us turn the channel. When they hear from enough of us, they get it. They'll finally do something.

But when nobody complains, they just keep on showing the same crap and worse. Like the old Frankenstein movies, we have to be the villagers with the pitchforks and torches.

[mpcamb]

8. The real reason Fox pulled it: Cop killer in Trump video was released by Sheriff Joe Arpaio

He re-entered the US under George Bush's time as president.

[cstanleytech]

10. When even Fox pulls an ad then it really must be bad. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Too late. It was already aired AND

now with the "pulling of it", that alone generates more buzz so people who normally wouldn't have seen it, may try to go seek it out.

The election is tomorrow so it doesn't matter anyway. Damage done.

[rocktivity]

12. "Upon further review...the commerical is reversed...

"Unsportsmanlike conduct..."


rocktivity

[texasfiddler]

15. It must have bad polling numbers. Fox has zero morality

Otherwise, they would keep running the Ad.

[SKKY]

16. They pulled it, but not until they ran it how many times???

[ProfessorGAC]

17. What Was NBC Thinking?

If even Faux pulls it, why would NBC show it in the first place?

Have they bought into all that nonsense about ratings being down because the cult members had a sad over the anthem?

That's already been completely disproven, but a major network didn't know that?