{"id":75088,"date":"2017-06-13T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75088"},"modified":"2017-06-13T08:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:23:35","slug":"jpmorgan-pulls-ads-from-nbc-news-after-megyn-kellys-repulsive-alex-jones-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75088","title":{"rendered":"JPMorgan Pulls Ads From NBC News After Megyn Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Repulsive&#8221; Alex Jones Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">JPMorgan Pulls Ads From NBC News After Megyn Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Repulsive&#8221; Alex Jones Interview<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>While Megyn Kelly&#8217;s interview with Russian President <em>(and all around global bad guy if one were to believe the daily barrage of leftist headlines)<\/em>\u00a0 Vladimir Putin did not raise the ire of advertisers, it appears <strong>her interview with right-wing provocateur Alex Jones has lurched from social media firestorm to real-world dollars and cents for NBC News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The sit-down has been promoted as a discussion about \u201ccontroversies and conspiracies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a video promoting the interview, Jones talks about the 9\/11 attacks as an \u201cinside job.\u201d In the clip, Kelly also brings up Sandy Hook, saying: \u201cWhen you say parents faked their children\u2019s deaths, people get very angry.\u201d Jones replies: \u201cBut they don\u2019t get angry about half-a-million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Next Sunday, I sit down with conservative radio host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealAlexJones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealAlexJones<\/a> to discuss controversies and conspiracies <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SundayNight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SundayNight<\/a> June 18 on NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7bVz6Fobf5\">pic.twitter.com\/7bVz6Fobf5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/874053387389513728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/j-p-morgan-removes-nbc-news-ads-over-megyn-kelly-interview-with-alex-jones-1497311738\">And now, as The Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>, <strong>J.P. Morgan has asked for its local TV ads and digital ads to be removed from Kelly\u2019s show and from all NBC news programming until after the show airs<\/strong>, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The company doesn\u2019t want any of its ads to appear adjacent to any promotions for the interview, <\/strong>the person added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/06\/11\/20170612_kelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/06\/11\/20170612_kelly_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This comes hours after Kristin Lemkau, J.P. Morgan\u2019s chief marketing officer, questioned why Ms. Kelly would conduct the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>As an advertiser, I\u2019m repulsed that @megynkelly would give a second of airtime to someone who says Sandy Hook and Aurora are hoaxes.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/KLemkau\/status\/874224702067281920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-06-12%2Fjpmorgan-pulls-ads-nbc-news-after-megyn-kellys-repulsive-interview<\/p>\n<p>On his radio program Monday,\u00a0 Jones said that he thinks Sandy Hook happened, or at least that children died, though there are anomalies about the event. However, he said that was edited from the NBC promotion. <strong>\u201cI\u2019m tired of being misrepresented,\u201d Jones said and added that he demanded Kelly\u2019s \u201chit piece\u201d not air on Father\u2019s Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/j-p-morgan-removes-nbc-news-ads-over-megyn-kelly-interview-with-alex-jones-1497311738\">WSJ reports<\/a> that other NBC advertisers have stayed mum on the planned episode, at least publicly.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-12\/jpmorgan-pulls-ads-nbc-news-after-megyn-kellys-repulsive-interview\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-12\/jpmorgan-pulls-ads-nbc-news-after-megyn-kellys-repulsive-interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPMorgan Pulls Ads From NBC News After Megyn Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Repulsive&#8221; Alex Jones Interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}