'SOUTH PARK' Creators Come Out: We're Republicans!

This was obvious to anyone paying attention https://t.co/PYgb78nXwS

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 29, 2018

VICTORIA'S SECRET Fashion Show is quickly becoming a Holiday Classic for Women (and men)

ICYMI: #VSFashionShow is quickly becoming a Holiday Classic for Women (and men) . https://t.co/naEaxRXPCL #TJAMS pic.twitter.com/cROZRmBPiE

— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) December 12, 2015

The best (and worst) looks on the #Emmys red carpet

The best (and worst) looks on the #Emmys red carpet. http://t.co/l6Fj4wY5I3 pic.twitter.com/tdL9i0Ital

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 21, 2015

Controversy Drives Advertisers From ‘All-American Muslim’ — Or Does it?

◼ Advertisers pull spots from “All American Muslim” - HotAir

In the meantime, starting such a protest draws media attention, generates controversy, and pretty much acts as free advertising for the show on a broader scale than the network could ever afford through conventional marketing. It will be interesting over the next few weeks to see what happens with its ratings. It debuted with a modest 1.7M viewers (not a shockingly high or low number for a ten PM Sunday night slot) and in its third week had dropped nearly 50% to roughly one million.

◼ At least two advertisers have withdrawn commercials from “All-American Muslim,” a new series on the TLC cable channel, since an activist organization called the Florida Family Association condemned the show. But others cited by the organization as pulling out as sponsors are disputing the claim. - NY Times

The organization has attacked the series as propaganda that obscures “the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.” The series, which has been on TLC at 10 p.m. Sunday since mid-November, follows the lives of five Muslim-American families in Dearborn, Mich., a Detroit suburb with a sizable Muslim population.

The organization says 65 companies have left the show since it began urging advertisers to withdraw their support. Among those that have were Kayak, the travel Web site, and Lowe’s, the home-improvement retailer.

◼ 'All-American Muslim': Kayak calls show terrible, apologizes to customers - LA Times

◼ Another company has pulled its ads from TLC’s controversial docu-series “All-American Muslim,” saying it did so because TLC “was not upfront with us about the nature of this show” and was deliberately “trying to pick a fight” over the series. The online travel company Kayak.com also says that its chief marketing officer watched a couple of episodes and thought they were lousy. - Washington Post

“When TLC pitched ‘All-American Muslim’ to advertisers, it was characterized as a fair-and-balanced look at the life of an American Muslim. However, what was not disclosed was the preexisting controversy surrounding race, religion and specifically the divide between the Muslim and Christian communities in Dearborn, Mich.,” Birge said in the statement e-mailed to The TV Column.

“Dearborn has been a center of controversy for right or wrong; however, that was omitted by TLC when it pitched the show.”

◼ The Shocking Truth about Lowe's and All American Muslim - Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack/Jihad Watch

◼ ANOTHER SHOW PULLS ADS OFF "ALL AMERICAN MUSLIM" - Atlas Shrugs

Was it the media controversy? Or perhaps the boring story line? The coerced conversion to Islam? The banishment of the newly converted husband's dog? Or perhaps it was the Hezb'Allah supporting (the same Hezb'Allah killing our CIA agents in Lebanon and Iran) Husham Alhusayni – the main spiritual leader of the Karbala Center in Dearborn and featured in All American Muslim, which airs on The Learning Channel (TLC). In the program, Hezbo-linked Alhusayni is seen presiding over marriages within Muslim families in Dearborn, whose day-to-day lives are portrayed as they interact in English. ◼ (read the whole ugly thing here).

Whatever the case, Kayak has pulled its ads off the dead in the water show.

◼ Lowe's faces backlash over pulling ads from 'All-American Muslim' - LA Times

Politicians and activists slam Lowe's choice to stop advertising on a reality TV show about Muslim Americans. The home improvement chain says it did so only after the show became a 'lightning rod.'

Republicans vs. Democrats TV survey results: Lefties want comedy, right wingers like work

◼ Republicans don’t watch MTV’s Jersey Shore. But they dig ABC’s Castle. Democrats don’t like Discovery’s Deadliest Catch. But they swoon for NBC’s Parks and Recreation. - Inside TV
LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT FAVORITES:
– 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation (NBC): Literate media-savvy comedies score high among Dems in general, notes Experian-Simmons senior marketing manager John Fetto. “Sarcastic humor is always a hook for them,” he adds.
– The View (ABC): Shows that skew female tend to do better among Dems, while male-friendly shows tend to do perform higher among Republicans.

CONSERVATIVE-REPUBLICAN FAVORITES:
– Swamp Loggers (Discovery) and Top Shot (History): Gritty documentary-style work-related reality shows on cable index really strongly with conservative Republicans. Swamp Loggers is particularly polarizing.
– Only in America With Larry the Cable Guy, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Swamp People (History): If you’re a Republican candidate looking to raise money, put ads on History.
– Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, The Mentalist (CBS): Popular crime dramas — except the left-wing Law & Order franchise — tend to draw a conservative crowd.
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Democrats vs. Republicans: Stars they Won’t Pay to See; Movies They Hate and Love (Poll)

◼ On Sept. 23, Morgan Freeman went on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight to proclaim that Tea Party opposition to President Obama "is a racist thing." The timing wasn't ideal, considering Dolphin Tale had opened that day and the film was tracking particularly well among conservatives, many of whom the star had suddenly maligned. - Hollywood Reporter

While only 627,000 people saw Freeman on CNN that night, millions soon viewed the clip as Drudge Report, Twitter, Facebook and other digital outlets turned it into a viral sensation -- not difficult given how partisan and personal politics have become in this run-up to the 2012 presidential election. "He belongs on my 'no pay, no watch' list after his latest, nearly hallucinatory raving," wrote one commenter on a conservative media site.

With Dolphin Tale opening with a strong $19.2 million that first weekend and finishing No. 1 with $13.9 million in its second, the financial impact of Freeman's comments is hard to quantify. But they did have an effect.