Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Thursday released a video message demanding that the sponsors of ABC’s The View stop subsidizing the show’s anti-Christian bigotry. Regarding the MRC’s campaign to hold ABC responsible for sliming Christianity as a “mental illness,” Bozell warned, “We’ve moved on to the advertisers.”
Putting the sponsors on notice, he challenged: “We want these advertisers to publicly commit that, until the bigots of The View publicly apologize for slandering Christians, none of their advertising dollars will be spent on that show. It’s just as simple as that.”
Go to StopAttackingChristians.com to see how you can help in this campaign.
Text of the February 22 video statement is below:
BRENT BOZELL: Hi, folks. As you probably know, we’ve kicked off a national campaign aimed at holding responsible those who are promoting bigotry on ABC’s The View. We’ve done this because recently Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin of The View attacked Vice President Pence’s Christianity. Hostin, who calls herself a practicing Catholic, called Mr. Pence’s Christianity, quote-un-quote “dangerous.” And Behar likened his faith to a, quote, “mental illness.” When they said these things, they were attacking all Christians. You were outraged by their bigotry and so were we. We asked you to call ABC to protest this bigotry and did you ever!
More than 30,000 of our supporters called ABC and demanded an apology to millions of Christians who were so blatantly insulted by Hostin and Behar. But they won’t apologize. Maybe ABC supports this bigotry. So, we’ve moved on to the advertisers. I should tell you that we’ve already tried multiple times to reach out to them privately and in a constructive manner. But we haven’t heard back from them either. They are hoping this will go away, but we’re not going anywhere. Now, I’m calling them out too: Clorox, Gerber, Home Adviser and Oreo are just as responsible for what happened on The View as Behar and Hostin. They too need to apologize for supporting this bigotry with their advertising dollars. Their silence on this matter is deplorable. Do they support bigotry too? I hope that’s not the case.
We want these advertisers to publicly commit that, until the bigots of The View publicly apologize for slandering Christians, none of their advertising dollars will be spent on that show. It’s just as simple as that. How can they argue it? This is a way to make their sponsors do the right thing, to have their customers publicly shame them. I’m asking you to please call Clorox, Gerber, Oreo and Home Adviser today. Go to StopAttackingChristians.com. All the information you need is there. That’s StopAttackingChristians.com. We need another 30,000 phone calls. We will make it another national news story. We want to put all these anti-Christian bigots on notice for once and for all that we’ve had it! Thank you for your help and God bless.
