A group of Sean Hannity-loving diehards is taking aim at Vermont-based Keurig Green Mountain.
The Fox News host’s fans are upset that the coffee machine-making company has pulled its ads from Hannity’s show after he showed support for Roy Moore, the Republican Alabama U.S. Senate candidate accused of having made sexual advances on teenaged girls as young as 14.
The company’s brewing machines became blameless victims in a bizarre saga. Hannity supporters posted videos on social media of themselves bashing their Keurig machines with golf clubs, hammers and even dropping them from second-floor apartments.
The human-on-machine brutality broke out over the weekend. It began when Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters, urged Keurig on Friday to pull its ad from Hannity’s show because “he defends child molester Roy Moore and attacks women who speak out against sexual harassment.”
On Saturday, the Waterbury-based company tweeted back that it had done so. Several other companies also pulled ads.
Hannity fans weren’t pleased. The videos began to circulate and Hannity himself expressed his approval on Twitter, thanking supporters for taking a stand against Keurig’s decision. He also vowed to buy 500 coffee makers and give them away to people who post the “best videos.”
Keurig did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the Washington Post on Monday morning obtained a memo it claims was sent to company employees by Keurig CEO Bob Gamgort. He wrote that the tweet was “done outside of company protocols.”
“The decision to publicly communicate our programming decision via our Twitter account was highly unusual,” Gamgort reportedly wrote. “This gave the appearance of ‘taking sides’ in an emotionally charged debate that escalated on Twitter and beyond over the weekend, which was not our intent.”
Here’s a sampling of the machine-smashing videos.
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Just so you know, Sean did not “support” judge Roy Moore as Media Matters reported to Keurig. This was one of their lies. Sean declared a truce with the folks smashing the machines because Keuig was sucked in by social media and a statement by the CEO of Keurig has cleared up the matter. It would behoove Seven Days to do some real factchecking and not regurgitate the typical hard left narrative. Sean had a radio and television interview with the judge and gave America reason to doubt the truthfulness of the judge. His only transgression was a statement that he was not going to jump to judgement before the facts have been made available. This concept is foreign to the liberal left.
Smash them all…they produce enough non-recyclable pods to wrap the globe…perhaps wrap it twice by now.
Nice to see some nut jobs have good taste in coffee – recycling disasters that make terrible coffee.