Dem Strategist: Corporate America ‘Only’ Entity Standing up to Rhetoric on Fox News

‘Corporate America seems to be the only sector that can maybe influence some of these right-wing comments on networks like Fox’

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ELROD: "Look, corporate America seems to be the only sector that can maybe influence some of these right-wing comments on networks like Fox. Again, somebody like Tucker Carlson, he knows and you see this with Laura Laura Ingraham too, they know how to push the limit to the — like, as far as they can go, and then they pull back and they apologize. Now, of course, Tucker Carlson didn't apologize. He actually leaned in some of his comments and defended them, but if you are a Fortune 500 company and you're advertising on a show that makes — where the host makes comments like this and clearly has these beliefs, it's not a good place for you to be, and it's something that consumer demand is not — consumers do not want this. They don't want to see the products, they won't buy products. We're seeing this more and more on — with advertisers who advertise on these shows. If the shows — the hosts are not willing to take a stand and make a change, then the advertisers are coming in."

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