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Orbitz Refuses to Participate in Media Matters’ ‘Smear Campaign’ Against Fox
Left wing Media Matters campaign to pressure advertisers to pull the ads from Fox News got off to a rocky start when their first target not only refused to comply but attacked the organization for its efforts.
The DropFox website has the following statement on its website as to why advertisers need to stop supporting Fox News:
By sponsoring Fox News, advertisers are financially supporting a political operation that masquerades as a news network. Advertisers are also associating their brands with Fox News’ reckless vitriol, race-baiting, anti-LGBT bigotry and deliberate spread of misinformation.
The site also accuses Fox of providing a megaphone for anti-LGBT extremists and has” proven to be an unseemly associate for organizations committed to decency, inclusiveness and equality for all.”
Media Matters carefully selected seven key advertisers on Fox that they figured would roll over and play dead when confronted with their “evidence” of how out of the mainstream that Fox really is .
The first advertiser the campaign chose t target the online travel giant. Others include Netflix, Best Western, Priceline, Delta Airlines, Ocean Spray and Southwest Airlines.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the advertising boycott. Orbitz grew a spine.
The company not only refused to buckle to Media Matters’ request to pull their advertising on Fox, they shot back at the Soros funded group calling it a smear campaign according to the Hollywood Reporter:
“This is a political organization that has been funded pretty extensively to go after one network, and we aren’t going to engage in that fight,” Orbitz spokesman Brian Hoyt said.
“We have a strict policy of tolerance and non-discrimination, and that means we don’t favor one political side over another. Tolerance is a two-way street,” he said. “We’re going to advertise on conservative TV stations, liberal TV stations and — if there are any out there — unbiased news broadcasts.”
Orbitz recognizes that this has nothing to do about fairness and balance on the issues but is simply a well funded attack on the number one cable network because it gives voice to conservatives and their issues.
The DropFox effort is also misguided in the fact that they are trying to convince these companies to drop the ads based on politics even though that isn’t why they advertise on Fox. Ad dollars flow to where the audience is pure and simple.
Even though according to the Hollywood Reporter, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a big supporter of Democrats that doesn’t mean that he would limit his advertising to only liberal networks. That would be economic suicide.
The other companies targeted by Media Matters and their DropFox campaign should follow the lead of Orbitz and let the market decide where they should place their ad dollars and not cave in to this Soros funded anti-Fox smear campaign.
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This should actually give a boost to Orbitz in that many intelligent people will credit the principled and well articulated response they have formed over organized attempts by radical left wing elements to strong arm Fox advertisers. However, Orbitz will, unfortunately, be losing booking business from the likes of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and their acolytes.
The same process used to occur in the Soviet Union only then they were called enemies of the state and traitors.
How ugly and ignorant can the left get, they seem to be so saturated with their ideology they can’t think straight or even keep a bit of common sense.
Despite their DROP FOX campaign, Soros, Media Matters, and their ilk already have people working on the inside thanks to Ted Turner and Time Warner. they are Larry McReynolds, Kyle Petty, Ralph Sheheen, Adam Alexander, Matt Yocum, Dick Stockton, Pam Oliver, Joe Buck, Bernard Goldberg, Nina Easton, Adam Lashinsky, and Leigh Gallagher.
Fox has been pushing the radical gay agenda for years proving moveon ppl have a hidden agenda.
I am SO proud of Orbitz! Way to go! I will definitely be using them when we fly and will tell every individual I know about how they did the right thing and stood up to this one sided smear campaign! I am so SICKENED by where this country is going…fast! Yay Orbitz!
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It’s nice to see some common sense – and courage – rule. Way to go Orbitz! I will definitely be using you more in the future for my online bookings. Scary how these powerful left-wing radicals are so determined to shut down opposing points of view. I’m finding more & more that the preachers of tolerance are the most intolerant, hateful, oppressive people I’ve encountered in my entire life.
Thank you Orbitz, Accuracy in Media and others helping in peaceful reform efforts !! Hopefully more will get on board … Orbitz is way to fly !!
Time for soros to be deported from america to a far far away place maybe like outer siberia and for the UN to be evicted from america have the entire UN facility bulldozed to the ground and the area turned into a bird refudge
Fox News is a disgrace to this country and the world. Orbitz will never get my biz again.
the arrogance of media mutters. I will use Orbitz for my travel plans
Refreshing to see that there still is free speech, and that totalitarianism does not prevail.
If you guys knew anything about business, you’d know that Orbitz is part of a gigantic corporation called Cendant. Do you really think a subsidiary of a large, rich, multinational corporation is really going to snub Fox News? You’re giving Orbitz credit for something they would have done in any situation. There’s no question that Fox News lies, is biased, and is unfair in their criticism of every move the President makes, but it’s still better than any other news organization. Especially the new and horrendous programming of CNN.
If,,as Wildbird #11 suggests,,we the people ,,deport Soros &his billions to anywhere in the world,,even solitary confinement,,IF he still had access to a computer,,he could still have his monet & spread his influence.
Nice idea,,,won’t work.
Correct me if I’m wrong,,,but didn’t Soros use his money to help Hillary Clinton START MediaMatters??? I could be wrong.
Will someone out there smack Jonathan Levy #12 & wake him (or her) UP. If it wasn’t for Fox,,,ALL of the media would not only be in BHO’s pocket,,but they would be CONTROLLED by BHO & his 40 thieves + his minions of Far-Left Radicals who want nothing more than to bring this nation DOWN by destroying our system of Free Religions,,Free Markets & the Constitution
& ALL of our God Given RIGHTS. Since our RIGHTS do NOT include Welfare,,Health care,,& Public schools ,, as they are GOODS & SERVICES,,NOT RIGHTS,,it was Fox that EXPOSED the Czars & ALL of their POWERS trips that want to NOT just “Fundementally Transform” our nation,,but ‘TRANSFORM the FUNDAMENTALS’ of our Country. Kudos to Fox,,,& 3 cheers to Orbitz & any others who stand up to Bullying Leftist Obamanistas.
We have complained for years about France refusuing extradition of
American criminals while we in turn refuse to allow the extradition of billionaire Soros to France to stand trial for his crimes there! (If his crimes had been in tne US, no doubt Clinton would have pardoned him–thank God for small favors!) It’s worth trying: France might consider a high-level swap–Soros for some equally notorious American criminal hiding out in France.
Great! Why let these Soros idiots spread fear and intimidation via threats? It’ll be their loss. I WILL book with Orbitz for standing up for free speech and capitalism. Go, Orbitz!