Fast forward to the present, Lindell encounters another substantial setback, with reports indicating that Fox News has decided to cease airing MyPillow advertisements.
From MSN:
MyPillow, the bedding company founded by conservative activist Mike Lindell, has long been a prominent sponsor for Fox News, its commercials comfortably woven into the fabric of the network’s programming over the past decade.
But the partnership appears to have hit a wall. On Friday, Lindell announced on Stephen K. Bannon’s podcast that his company’s media-buying agency was told this week that the network would no longer accept MyPillow advertisements.
Lindell told The Washington Post they got no explanation for the decision, but he thinks it’s connected to his hiring of former Fox host Lou Dobbs to anchor shows on his website FrankSpeech.com. Dobbs’s first guest, on Monday, was former president Donald Trump.
But a person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment said the partnership has not been canceled but rather has been paused because Lindell has failed to pay for his ads since August.
This person added that Lindell is not banned from advertising on the network. A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Lindell hotly denied this assertion, saying that “of course” his company has paid for its ads. “I just checked and we paid them $4 million for ads in December alone,” he said. “Your sources are false!!!! Try again!!!”
It's certainly hard to know who exactly is telling the truth here, but clearly Lindell is and has been struggling for a number of years now.
Either way, we hope this issue can be resolved for Lindell's sake.
