HANDOUT IMAGE: MyPillow’s Mike Lindell. (MyPillow)
MyPillow founder and mustache enthusiast Mike Lindell says that Fox “News” Channel has cancelled his company’s advertising with no explanation.
Lindell — former crack addict turned Trump addict — took to a podcast hosted by fellow conspiracy weirdo and serial shirt wearer Steve Bannon to complain that he was the victim of “cancel culture.”
One of the leading proponents of various bizarre election theories (he refers to Trump as “our real president”), Lindell was apparently banned from being a guest on Fox “News” after the makers of voting machines sued him and the network over false allegations they were making.
But until December, commercials for Lindell’s overpriced pillows were welcome on the channel, because Cash Rules Everything Around Murdoch. Not any more.
“Everything is just alarming and suspicious,” Lindell said. “Why now, just out of the blue, ‘you’re canceled’?”
Well, smiley, stop paying your bill and see what happens:
A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Rolling Stone that the network’s partnership with My Pillow “was paused due to the fact Mike Lindell hasn’t been able to finance the commercials and this was communicated to his media agency at length.”
Lindell is rather famously out of money as a result of the aforementioned lawsuits.
(What? And his good friend, the Real President, the deal-maker of all deal-makers, hasn’t stepped up to bail him out? What a surprise! Well, you could just knock me over with a feather.)
Meanwhile: Things are getting worse and worse for Substack, the e-newsletter that recently decided that it’s not anti-Nazis.
What do we call people who are not anti-Nazis, kids?
Right, Nazis.
More high-profile writers have announced they’re giving up publishing on Substack, including technology journalist Casey Newton and Jonathan M. Katz.
The only thing fascists understand is pain. They love to inflict it and they’re utter wusses about receiving it. Mike Lindell is a fascist, and he’s feeling the pain of spreading fascist lies. Now Substack is being pinched.
I continue to feel bad for people who use Substack and have suddenly lost thousands of dollars in monthly income as readers flee the platform. But there’s really no alternative for the rest of us. I don’t want my money — even a few pennies of it — to fund a company that prints white supremacist and anti-semitic propaganda, and brags about it.
Deplatform Nazis. Make them suffer now, or we’re all going to suffer later.
A friend and former boss pointed out that The Guess Who are coming to Wheeling, but it’s the band without founding members Burton Cummings or Randy Bachman.
So then it’s really “guess who”?
Bachman and Cummings are currently suing the group that’s touring as The Guess Who, calling it a “cover band.” Two of the other members, Jim Kale and Garry Peterson, are using the name and occasionally (though seldom, it seems) appear with the touring group.
It reminds me of one year when Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. were grand marshals of the Kaufmann’s Christmas parade.
Doug Hoerth said “Pittsburgh is so broke this year, we can only afford two-fifths of the 5th Dimension.”
Speaking of fakes, I have absolutely no intention of watching the A.I. simulation of George Carlin. Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, who do a podcast called “Dudesy,” partnered with some tech dorks to create an artificial Carlin, then programmed it to tell artificial jokes.
From every review I’ve read so far, it’s absolutely awful. People who’ve suffered through it say the voice doesn’t sound like Carlin and the jokes are just barely coherent.
Worst of all, Sasso, Kultgen and the dorks didn’t get permission from the Carlin family for their little stunt.
Carlin’s daughter, Kelly, blasted the project this week. She called it, among other things, “a dead machine stealing others’ lives to ‘create’ something new.”
“We are clearly at the beginning of a new era of the lack of respect and autonomy of artists by corporations and other entities that want to use source material without permission,” she said, adding that she’s looking into legal options.
Will Sasso is maybe best remembered (if at all) from “Mad TV,” for playing Curly Howard in a terrible “Three Stooges” biopic, and from a bunch of minor roles in other awful movies (“Beverly Hills Ninja,” “Army of One”), so it’s not exactly like his career was red-hot.
Nevertheless, I predict that he’s going to be radioactive now. No one in the comedy community is going to want to come near him with a 50-foot pole after he shat on George Carlin’s legacy. When Sasso’s reduced to one-night-stands at the Chuckle Hut in West Moline, he’ll be the next one to complain about “cancel culture,” I guess.