Tony Perkins Backs #DumpKelloggs: After Election Defeat, Left Will ‘Use Corporate America to Marginalize Conservative Thought’
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by JOHN HAYWARD
6 Dec 201670
Tony Perkins, host of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio show, discussed the #DumpKelloggs boycott with Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov on Monday.
“So what’s happening now with this pushback?” he asked Solov. “Did they expect you to push back and have others join, or were they thinking they could just get away with this?”
“I mean, they could have, if they wanted to, stop advertising on our site and frankly not made any announcement about it. But they came out and they made the announcement that they were blacklisting us because Breitbart.com and its readers – and by the way, we have 45 million readers…”
Perkins interjected, “I love to have our articles up there on Breitbart
I don’t know what values a cereal company should have, other than producing a great product and making shareholders happy. They of course did not specify what those values were, and they also didn’t specify how we don’t share those values – because frankly, Tony, they can’t point to anything.”
“This is a political hit,” Solov continued. “It is in part, as you mentioned, because Steve Bannon is now in the White House, and
it is an effort to denigrate, I think, the mainstream American values that we hold dear.
“It’s like a different version of Hillary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables,’” Perkins observed. “Kellogg’s has their bowl of deplorables, and they’re basically dumping this on half of America. I mean, it just doesn’t make sense from a corporate standpoint that you just want to insult people who are your customers or potential customers.”
“No, it doesn’t, and that’s why we think it took an extraordinary step by doing so, and why we’ve called for a boycott of Kellogg’s,” Solov agreed. “Because frankly this is an attack, not just on Breitbart, but this is an attack on your listeners and our readers, many of whom are the same.”
“You’re right, a lot of our material is published on Breitbart. When petitions that we do on religious liberty in the military get to Breitbart, they do extremely well – because you’re right, it’s God-fearing Americans who read Breitbart,” said Perkins.
“This label, and it’s part of this trump card they like to play – no pun intended there! – but
they like to play this race card.
That’s their trump card. They’re trying to say this [is] some kind of ‘white nationalist’ entity, Breitbart. I want you to address that,” he said to Solov.
Jeff Fusco/Getty Images
by JOHN HAYWARD
6 Dec 201670
Tony Perkins, host of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio show, discussed the #DumpKelloggs boycott with Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov on Monday.
“The Left has lost control of the government – at least, it’s about to – which they have used to basically punish dissenting thought, when it comes to their politically correct agenda.
So now there is this, it appears to be [a] rapid move to consolidate their control of corporate America – to use them to be their tool or their weapon of choice,” Perkins said, putting the Kellogg’s boycott of Breitbart News into the context of the 2016 election.
So now there is this, it appears to be [a] rapid move to consolidate their control of corporate America – to use them to be their tool or their weapon of choice,” Perkins said, putting the Kellogg’s boycott of Breitbart News into the context of the 2016 election.
“So what’s happening now with this pushback?” he asked Solov. “Did they expect you to push back and have others join, or were they thinking they could just get away with this?”
“I think they were thinking they could just get away with this,” Solov replied.
“I mean, they could have, if they wanted to, stop advertising on our site and frankly not made any announcement about it. But they came out and they made the announcement that they were blacklisting us because Breitbart.com and its readers – and by the way, we have 45 million readers…”
Perkins interjected, “I love to have our articles up there on Breitbart
“Yes, and we thank them, and we thank you very much for that,” said Solov. “Our 45 million readers, [Kellogg’s] said they do not share our values.
I don’t know what values a cereal company should have, other than producing a great product and making shareholders happy. They of course did not specify what those values were, and they also didn’t specify how we don’t share those values – because frankly, Tony, they can’t point to anything.”
“This is a political hit,” Solov continued. “It is in part, as you mentioned, because Steve Bannon is now in the White House, and
it is an effort to denigrate, I think, the mainstream American values that we hold dear.
Breitbart is, as you know, the most pro-family, pro-traditional American values news brand in the English language.”
“It’s like a different version of Hillary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables,’” Perkins observed. “Kellogg’s has their bowl of deplorables, and they’re basically dumping this on half of America. I mean, it just doesn’t make sense from a corporate standpoint that you just want to insult people who are your customers or potential customers.”
“No, it doesn’t, and that’s why we think it took an extraordinary step by doing so, and why we’ve called for a boycott of Kellogg’s,” Solov agreed. “Because frankly this is an attack, not just on Breitbart, but this is an attack on your listeners and our readers, many of whom are the same.”
“You’re right, a lot of our material is published on Breitbart. When petitions that we do on religious liberty in the military get to Breitbart, they do extremely well – because you’re right, it’s God-fearing Americans who read Breitbart,” said Perkins.
“This label, and it’s part of this trump card they like to play – no pun intended there! – but
they like to play this race card.
That’s their trump card. They’re trying to say this [is] some kind of ‘white nationalist’ entity, Breitbart. I want you to address that,” he said to Solov.
