Just when the safe betting was that nothing could possibly upstage the Bud Light debacle, Fox News broke clear of the pack and also shot themselves through the foot with large-caliber pistol. Steve Green brings us some new information on the amount of damage both of these Woke / Broke adventures have done to their own brand, and how unlikely it is that either will recover.
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I still stay New Coke was in fact a brilliant publicity stunt. And I’d have to see some real numbers on sales to move me off that position.
IIRC Tucker still has two years left of his contract with fox. They are still paying him. He just doesn’t have air time anymore. He can’t sign a new contract without getting out of his fox contract. All Tucker can do is post on a public platform like twitter. Fox is literally trying to keep Tucker from having a show until after the election. EVIL!
When a CEO or government official encounters shadowy powerful people who tell them that the world is being re-organized and they can either comply and have a seat at the table or resist and be eliminated along with about seven billion other worthless people, this makes their decisions appear more rational and self serving and less crazy and self destructive.
The new person can not come into a job and say ‘ Looks pretty good , let’s leave it alone’ the newcomer has to push for radical change in order to ‘make their mark’
Not any more, I’m done with Fox News. I also have never consumed alcohol, so they won’t miss me either.
I would love to see Tucker Carlson steal Greg Gutfeld, Tyrus, and Kat Timpf from Fox just to add insult to injury.
This was hinted at a week or so ago but today it was revealed that over 40 companies who had dropped their ads of Fox due to Carlson’s positions on various issues, immediately jumped back to Fox after they announced his leaving. Money talks.
That might work in the short term, for Fox, but if viewership stays down they won’t be able to charge as much for the ads, resulting in a longer term drop in revenue.
Then again we maybe should not discount the ESG ratings that Bill mentioned for Bud also affecting Fox and the leadership minds there.
This is funny to me. I’m so happy to see the wokenistas get their comeuppance in a big way. I’ve known a lot of people who drink Bud Light and never will do so again as long as they live.
It’s a terrible beer but it’s cheap. If you want to sit down and appreciate a beer then Bud Light isn’t the beer you’re looking for. If you want to keep something in the fridge for a cool down after lawn mowing or some such, Bud Light is that kind of beer. Bud Light is a soda pop made like beer with alcohol in place of sugar and very little alcohol at that.
The thing is, there’s a lot of that sort of beer available. My sister and I call that “porch beer”. I go over to her house in the early evening and we sit on the porch, drink a couple beers, watch the world go by and talk about stuff, usually family stuff. She’s not a beer fan by any means and she doesn’t like what she calls “strong flavored” beers. (By which I think she means hoppy and/or bottom brewed beers.) So her ‘go to’ beer for a long time has been Bud Light Lime. It’s not the Bud Light that all the controversy is over but it is a Bud Light and it’s made by Anheuser-Busch so …
Spring is here and that means prime porch time. Two days ago we were in the store picking up porch beer. She very carefully read the labels to make sure she wasn’t buying anything sold by Anheuser-Busch. She didn’t care who owned or produced the beer she was going to buy as long as it wasn’t Anheuser-Busch.
My sister, being an actual real female was so offended by the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco she swore never to buy an Anheuser-Busch product again.
As it turns out, there are an awful lot of people who are like my sister. This is a good thing and something I’m very happy to see.
(If anyone is curious, I like hoppy and/or bottom brewed beer. For “porch beer” I usually get Yuengling Traditional Lager. It’s two bucks cheaper than a case of Bud Light. For a real beer I prefer Dirty Bastard’s Scotch Ale. Which is a heavier dark amber ale with about twice the ABV of Yuengling. I usually drink it from a traditional ale horn and as it says under the cap, it “Ain’t for the wee lads”.)
You have excellent taste in beer; I am not surprised.
For a long time, until the damn hipsters drove the price up, I was using PBR as my – after doing enough stuff in the yard to justify having a cold one – beer. It had the added benefit of having been one of my dad’s after yard work beer, the other was Black Label. Kept in the garage which was enough under ground to keep it cool enough to drink.
Then I switched to Miller. The original, champagne of beers. Pretty good for flavored water.
Yuengling is very good. My Godson (current Marine) got a case of Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy last year. It is pretty refreshing as flavored water goes. Actually better than that it is really pretty good. Get your sister to try that one.
They have an Octoberfest that I will try this year to see if they can do that.
But I like a good dark beer so if we go to any kind of brew pub, I will always try their stout or porter. I think it is the whiskey lover in me. That type of beer is essentially pre-distilled whiskey.
As a Wisconsinite, I have to say thank you for drinking some of our produced beer. I’m not much of a beer drinker so I don’t drink too many Leinies. The other couple of brands I can mention by name are Sprecher (which also does a line of great sodas) and New Glarus ( which I have had the Spotted Cow and like ) though you might find that hard to find.. for some reason it cannot be exported.
I just knew there was some reason I read all of your posts Karl! Leinenkugels! Are you North of Stevens Point or South?
Far south, between Madison and Milwaukee. Probably closer to the brewery for Sprecher than New Glarus but all three are sold in most places around here. We are spoiled with choices, that is for sure.
I think something I did like was owned by a larger outfit, but I don’t remember which brand that was and whether it was just not a local (but owned by Molson Coors maybe) or if it was a Bud brand.
omg! Ron….you just brought back great memories from my days in the 1980’s….a California kid having to make business trips to North Central Wisconsin, where my woodshops were. Leinies and brats by the lakeside….Point Beer from Steven’s Point Wisconsin, and those silly Point Beer locally produced TV commercials!, local refreshments to help down the locally made cheese curds!
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Good beer, good times up there in the North Woods….geeze, dontcha know!
Fox was supposedly a conservative slanted cable news network, however it has revealed itself to be a controlled opposition network run by leftists who don’t care about their viewers.
The woke can’t go broke fast enough for me. Drop cable TV and quit buying stocks and products from ESG leftist corporations and ESG banks.
We got rid of cable 10 years ago when we figured out we’d save $1000 per year. I just sign up for Sling in the fall for college football and cancel it as soon as the season is over
Where I live my only choice for the solid, reliable, high capacity internet connection that I need is a cable company.
All we use from that cable company is the internet connection and if a better one becomes available I’ll switch in a heartbeat.
We used to subscribe to the Cable TV stuff too. When that was no longer necessary and we could get what we want over the internet we stopped that immediately. That saved us around $300 a month so more like $3600 per year than $1000.
The internet subscription is more costly if you don’t have Cable TV services too so the net is maybe a savings of $3000 a year.
That’s pretty substantial and well worth the savings so I encourage anyone who has Cable TV services to consider doing what we did.
I hate to be the one to break this to you but Fox was always a controlled opposition network and … There’s nothing wrong with that as far as it goes. What I mean by that is that If you’re looking for ideological purity in a major commercial enterprise you’re never going to find it. If you think you’ve found it, you are being deceived or you are deceiving yourself.
The only thing pure about an organization the size of Fox News is going to be greed. Whatever else was behind the firing of Tucker Carlson, someone’s lust for something they don’t have or for more of something they do have, was the driving factor. They wanted more control or more acceptance or more money or more of all three and more of other things too.
The thing they didn’t give a damn about is Conservative ideology. That was just the draw, the bait and switch. Fox News always had the idea of mainstreaming Conservatism, their brand of Conservatism which is largely Leftism Light.
Even so, in order to fulfill their own agenda Fox had to drop us Conservatives tidbits and morsels to keep us coming back. Tucker was one of those attractors. I like Gutfeld & his show so there’s that too. Other people like other shows.
But I never, ever for one minute fooled myself into thinking that Fox News was on my side of the political divide. Fox news has given up way, way too many clues for me to be pulled into that.
That all said, Fox News was largely a solid plus on the Conservative (sounding) side of the media. It was inevitable that Fox would go soft and softer and softer over time. The pressures from the Left are ENORMOUS and it was only a matter of when not if that Fox would begin to fold.
Subsequently I’ve found myself watching Fox News less and less as time goes on. As each card in the house of cards falls, my interest has waned proportionately.
Then when something like The Daily Wire comes along and tries to commingle both ideological correctness and a growing revenue stream, Conservatives do their best to strangle the company to death calling it things like “Big Conservatism”.
We on the Right, and I’m using ‘we’ generically not inclusively, have every bit the same propensity for cancel culture and eating our own as the Left does.
In the meantime while we wait for TDW to either thrive and keep the faith or squish and sell out, we can find the relevant truths there, here, and places like NewsMax etc.
The world is dynamic and it is always changing. When you find something no longer serves your needs, discard it.
I don’t look for that to happen here on BWC during my lifetime. Being as I can only afford one monthly subscription, here I am and here I will stay.
I would love to see this enterprise develop to the scale of TDW or larger with Bill’s sense of objective truth, Scott and Zo’s sense of righteousness and Christian viewpoints and Steve’s sense of humor and rapier wit.
My prime goal as far as Conservative media is concerned is to see the BillWhittle.com business enterprise flourish. This is one of or the only one of the media outlets available to me that I have any faith in. I think that if the enterprise succeeds it will stay true to its original values.
Which makes it paramount that this enterprise succeed. The enterprise comes first and this business venture will drag ideology kicking and screaming with it.
Sadly there’s little I can do about that but pay my monthly subscription and point out pitfalls here in the comments. This is why I watch for and comment against the things that will be a detriment to this enterprise and if anyone is still reading this … Why I strongly disagree with any sort of avoidance of potentially gargantuan audiences like YouTube.
You didn’t do that, btw.
Bud Light has a simple path back. Painful? Yes, but it will work.
Fox News’ only path is to go further left and rip off the mask of cortrolled opposition. I don’t see any way for them to bring back us Normals.
Well, if you develop commercials for the commerce arena that merge or join or provide a tolerant view between the conservative base and the woke menagerie, you risk diluting your wokeness and anger and antipathy towards the deplorables and fly over country residents in the political realm. If we can all buy the same set or kinds of products, why can’t we at least “get along” well enough to discuss and possibly resolve our differences. No more lies and inuendo, just plain facts and opinion, and the bases for them.
But since conservatives are “evil” there can be no such accommodation allowed!
Best comment on that Bud Light exec:
“Aww, I think she’s kind of cute. I’d love to offer her a salt lick and feed her a sugar cube”
Part of Gunther Gebel-Williams act was sticking his head into a tiger’s jaw while three scantily clad women with whips were behind the tiger. The women were his wife, his ex-wife and a young attractive woman not related to anybody on stage. [Except possibly the tiger.]
Originally, the act was composed of just two women: ex-wife (than wife) and current wife (than young attractive women not related to anybody on stage except possibly the tiger).
Controlling a wild beast is nothing. Getting three women to do exactly what you want is something I will gladly pay money to see.
I will let myself out the door.
OK, that was damned funny!
Nice!
I had posted on an article over at PJ a very similar ad idea to what Scott said. Except I would have used Ru Paul, who is a gay man who performs in drag, instead of a man pretending to be a little girl.
Submitted for your approval.
Camera starts on an obviously heterosexual couple in western garb laughing and clapping to a stage performance.
Cut to the finish of the show, and you see Ru Paul in full regalia taking his bows.
Then cut to the stage door where he leaves dressed as a man, but very flashy, (maybe with another performer) and goes to a nearby bar. Where he sits down next to cowboy and his wife who are enjoying a bud light. The bartender comes over, and Ru Paul points at the Bud Light the cowboy is drinking. Pull back and the foursome is seen talking and laughing just like regular people would do in a bar. With sports on the TV behind them.
No in your face, no preaching, just saying we all like to have a beer together.
Major missed opportunity.
Glad you didn’t go “Brokeback Mountain” with the cowboy.
Didn’t need to, would be much more effective if it were a true manly man and his smoking hot wife or girlfriend.
But your way is how they would have screwed that one up.
Somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that something like that was suggested and rejected. What you wrote would have been a reasonable, personable, inoffensive, non-combative way to get the point across and we just can’t have that sort of thing anymore.
Because being reasonable, personable, inoffensive and non-combative is not virtuous behavior to the other side anymore. They think their in-your-face insulting methods are working for them. They mistake politeness for weakness. The is a common failure in the human psyche among a certain kind of people. To mistake kindness, politeness, or non-aggressiveness for weakness.
That kind of person is always bad because that kind of person is looking to manipulate and intimidate rather than persuade. If that kind of person gets the upper hand they will always enforce their will and worldview on the rest of us.
Which is obviously the goal.
I try to be patient and polite.
However, I can get quite angry, although its not easy. And its worse if the anger is cold.
“Beware the wrath of a patient man.”
(Especially if he knows how to make certain chemicals you don’t want around you.)
My thoughts are similar , normals are fed up with it being shoved in our faces wherever we go and Budlight may have been enough to push people over the edge into outright rage .
A better question is who Bud Light thinks it’s going to add to its customer base by targeting its marketing toward people who only drink hard seltzer or Smirnoff ice?
Harsh but true
I think the failure of the concept you posted is “why would that couple be at a drag show?” Drag shows having been pushed into schools and held as a symbol of woke thought would create a backlash on the beer as well, I suspect. Unless you meant Ru Paul doing some other kind of show (I don’t have cable so I haven’t watched any of his).
I would go with either Bill’s idea (people at a sporting event learning both the sport and beer), which I think was riffing on Dylan insulting women by pretending to not know sports and joking about it, or some other sort of setup where your pair of normal straights and a pair of “new marketshare people” find each other both drinking Bud Light and they comment on why they both like it.
That or a mock taste test where 4 people are masked or hooded in some way, maybe taste testing plain numbered cans through straws, and after they all agree that Can #3 is the best, the cans are revealed to be Bud Light and the people are revealed to be all different as well.
Actually, until the recent BS, drag shows were relatively mainstream. “Kinky Boots” was very successful on Broadway quite a few years ago. Drag queens are not typically trans. They are much more typically gay men (or hetero) who perform in women’s clothing. Most are not trans.
Somewhere the LGB++++ mafia accepted the trans group, this was the big mistake.
I prefer the name “Gaystapo”. I think Mark Steyn is the one who coined the term
We go from Foxweiser to Muskweiser because Elon just appointed the wokester shill Yaccarino to be Twitter CEO. She is a big supporter of WEF and DEI. So much for free speech.
Yeah, what’s up with that???
It’s possible that Yaccarino’s support of WEF and DEI was just her doing her job as she was instructed to do. Meanwhile, Musk said “freedom of speech” is the most important thing so, maybe she can do that, too.
We’ll have to wait and see.
TechEconomy.ng on May 12, 2023 on Linda Yaccarino bio”
“Yaccarino is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture. She is also a member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees.”
“She’s a vocal advocate for DEI.”
When “just doing your job” is malevolent and decidedly against our survival as a free nation whose citizens have sovereign rights and free speech.
Bills video doesn’t match the audio.
First time I’ve seen it that bad.
Ooops! Mistakes happen!