Daily Beast: “In late July, Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who’s made a new name for himself as one of Donald Trump’s most diehard political supporters and 2020 election deadenders, irately announced he was yanking his company’s pillow ads from the Fox News airwaves. The immediate source of tension between the MAGA pillow magnate and the pro-Trump cable-news giant – a relationship that for years has been financially fruitful for both, and led to Lindell’s seeming omnipresicence on the Fox universe – was the network’s refusal to run a TV ad mentioning Lindell’s then-upcoming ‘cyber symposium’ featuring baseless 2020 election ‘fraud’ conspiracy theories.”
“It was the latest salvo in a media mini-saga of bruised feelings, constant accusations of censorship and election-hacking, and political extremes, with the quarrel between Lindell and Fox serving as a microcosm of the ravingly anti-democratic state of U.S. conservatism in the long shadow of a Trump presidency. By August, however, according to Lindell and Fox, the pillow mogul began trying to rekindle the advertising bond with Fox, following the speedy MyPillow withdrawal. But the overture towards a Fox-Lindell detente only went so far, with Fox rejecting his new ads multiple times, including as recently as this past Monday and Wednesday.”