Alan Jones’ Jacinda Ardern comment sparks mass exodus of advertisers
At least 10 brands have committed to pulling advertising from Alan Jones’ 2GB breakfast show, or confirmed their stance to continue to not advertise, in the wake of last week’s comment that Prime Minister Scott Morrison should shove a sock down New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s throat.
Anytime Fitness, ME Bank, Bing Lee, RSL Art Union, Amart, Mercedes Benz, Snooze, Bunnings, Total Tools and Big W have all issued statements after pressure mounted against advertisers, largely in response to a campaign by activist groups Mad Fucking Witches and Sleeping Giants.
“I just wonder whether Scott Morrison is going to be fully briefed to shove a sock down her throat,” Jones said after Ardern suggested Australia needs to “answer to the Pacific” on climate change. He then released a statement to say the resulting outrage was “wilful misrepresentation” because he meant to say that Ardern should “put a sock in it”.
This is good and all, but it’s not new behaviour from Alan Jones. If these brands (and their media agencies who are supposed to be protecting them from such negative associations) don’t agree with his statements, they should have dropped out years ago, or never gotten involved in his program in the first place. Placing ads in his show is incredibly simple to avoid.
Correct, it’s not new behaviour from Alan.
*collects popcorn and waits for the mouth to render himself extinct
(overjoyed)
How many of those protesting against advertisers were ever listeners?
My guess, zero.
And while advertisers will pause, his ratings will remain strong, Liberals will continue appear on his show as guests, and the advertising dollars will once again return in a few weeks.
I’m also not sure firing Jones would be in shareholders best interests. Perhaps it’s the shareholders than need lobbying and not the advertisers…
See you back here in a few months.
Alan Jones and his misogynistic ego should take a hike – he is a dinosaur
Well that comment is discriminatory and derogatory as well. What does his age matter? That makes him more knowledgeable if anything.
Yeah don’t put dinosaurs down like that
Ardern is a [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy], deserves the disdain of all Australians. More kiwis livng here than in NZ anyway, so who does she represent anyway.
She represents thise who stayed home to help build their country, you know, New Zealanders.
As an Australian I wish we had leadership to take pride in instead we have liars, thieves and cowardly grovellers who speak in tongues.
Jacinta Ardhern is a [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]
Most gain wisdom with age, some don’t. That’s Jones!
Big feet in big mouth.
Your world is all inclusive until it comes to “dinosaurs”? Old, white guys? Hypocrite
I feel like ‘Total Tools” should be sponsoring Alan Jones not pulling out!
You just won the internet.
Yes!!!! TOTALLY TOOLS
Of all the Total Tools I’ve come across, Jones is the big daddy of them all.
Sleeping Giants OZ is openly attacking one of the [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]
Is Mumbrella going to call that out for [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]
How pathetic.If you don’t like the bloke don’t listen to him.Grow up.
The perpetually offended need to get a life.Or better still,have a sock shoved down their throats.
This isn’t me – I couldn’t disagree more with these comments. What a horrible man and well done advertisers pulling their money.
1 in 6 women are physically or sexually abused by a PARTNER(1 in 16 men) 1 woman is killed every 9 days.
The reason people are up in arms about Alan’s comment is because this type of comment normalises aggressive behaviour towards women.
I support freedom of opinion, it just doesn’t need to be so brutal. It’s as easy as changing your words.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/behaviours-risk-factors/domestic-violence/overview
Adam [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]
I presume telling a male ‘ to put a sock in it ‘ is OK? When it is against a female it is war but to a male it is ‘ wipe your hands ‘ and we move on ??. Stop this gender inequalities because it is ruining this world of sheepish comments. ‘If it is good for the Goose, it is good for the Gander’ ???
Lefties cant on…they stuck in reverse
He didn’t say “put a sock in it”… he said, and quite deliberately, “shove a sock down her throat”. If this was a one-off, we might believe it was just an unfortunate slip of the tongue, but he doubled down on his violence sexism with this comment: “Now I hope Scott Morrison gets tough here with a few backhanders … hasn’t got a clue this woman.” https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/fresh-audio-reveals-yet-another-alan-jones-tirade-against-jacinda-ardern/news-story/92d92a9871c80930dc7a26cf9c6989d4
This misogynistic racist (he effectively launched the Cronulla riots) has been doing this job for far too long, and with too much form to consider this anything but deliberate. That you support Jones and think we should “Stop this [sic] gender inequalities” – on the basis that women are somehow staging and winning an imaginary war against white males by complaining about violent hate speech – speaks volumes.
Does he own a powerful remote control ha ha.
I didn’t know he hangs around Cronulla.
As Creative Hack said, his exact phrase was “shove a sock down her throat”. It wouldn’t be okay to say this about a male either, but the reason it’s worse to say it about a woman is the much higher rate of violence against women by men.
As I said previously you are in hiteria ,the comment’s are not meant to be taken literally!
Are we to believe that there is some huge distinction between Put a sock in it and put a sock down the throat .
Same results words ,and expression that came out a little different.
Can I now fear the next sock advertising campaign, closely followed by an increase domestic
violence.
Please it is simply a witch hunt .
The bow is so long now and it might actually be a Giant rainbow most likely.
Firstly, read the comment above.
Secondly, AJ didn’t say “put a sock in it”…he suggested Scomo (male) should “shove a sock down the throat of JA” (a female).
Thirdly, WTF does this sentence mean “Stop this gender inequalities because it is ruining this world of sheepish comments”?
I listen to Alan Jones regularly. Oddly, I can’t recall hearing any messages from those advertisers now claiming to be pulling their advertising from his program. Perhaps it’s the old routine of the few jumping at the opportunity for some free publicity – PC driven and a waste of time. It leaves me feeling most of those companies have an executive structure full of wankers.
????Well said.
Great that they have given us a list of companies not to spend our money with. Go Jonesy.
If you’re listening to 2GB you’re probably in the lower IQ bracket. 2GB make their money by bullshitting the battlers with right-wing ideology. Climate change is always a hoax on 2GB and you will never hear a bad word about Donald Trump., no matter how appalling his behaviour or policies are. 2GBullshitting the battlers
Alan Jones cares more about Australia than all you lefties that want to get on your high horse over every comment made however you should stick to the ABC if you can’t handle the truth.
Long live AJ.
Well said..l agree
Haha…yr [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]
You are spot on ! Stay with the ABC, and drool and drible when that dreadul tv show comes on, Monday nights, while we vomit !
One day someone will start a protest organisation that will hit back at sleeping giant and the fools who follow this crap. A Jones is a decent man who loves this country shame to all you scum who hate this great country
Russian bots alert.. lol, yeh, he’s a ripper bloke.
The share of total advertising held by AJs breakfast show is minimal – how many of these same advertisers will pull all their spend from Nine Ent?
To the morons, pulling their advertising from Alan’s Show, what bloody petty small minded people you are.. stupid nitwits!
It is not a matter that your product wont be supported if you advertise on the highest rating radio show in history… We are all circulating your poor brand names o AVOID BUYING YOUR PRODUCTS !
Alan speaks his mind, he has the guts and intelligence to represent by far the majority of true Australians !
So.. BAN THOSE, WHO BAN ALAN.
Lol. Nicely put by the big flea on the dogs back. [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]
Totally agree Chris Thomas. I won’t use their brands now. Totally gutless fools!
And.. WHO on earth is ME BANK ?
Must indeed be a light weight in the banking industry !
Funny, we all heard, and appreciated a number of quality commercials this morning on Alan’s show for COMMBANK… Australia’s biggest makor Bank. They are not silly, prudent people. We know who to support.. ” Which Bank ” !
You ever heard of the Royal Commission into the Banking Industry?
Just a little thing that pointed the finger at Comm Bank as being one of the main offenders in fraudulently gouging money from more that likely people who listen to Jones’ programme. And you’re defending them.What will it take for you lemmings to stop jumping off the cliff?
ME Bank is owned by the unions, shock, horror
I guarantee there’s one person commenting on this post using several different names.
Agreed. Can we have an IP address check and confirmation on multiple-posters pls eds?
Agree, IP adress’s should be on all posts
Alan Jones unreservedly apologised for his comment.
I agree his perceived misogyny is a problem.
His producer/s should have hit the silence button as he tends to fixate and becomes animated if the theme of his comment requires explanation.
Furthermore the 2GB management have to take ownership. Alan’s popularity and widespread coverage has made them and their station Billions.
Perhaps a coincidence… ?
The price of NINE shares continues to fall., self destructing at top level.
I will be selling my shares.
Alan does not need these incompetents. When Alan choses to depart..2GB will become another 2UE.
Only in Sydney
Not in Melbourne
Ok
Well one of those advertisers sums up the lot of them: Total Tools.
You know intellect is limited when a person cant communicate a point of view without common decency
The left will fall if the public ever wake up to their nefarious reactions oganising the useful idiots who hate themselves and everyone else.
Jacinda Adern is the worst type of Marxist playing on the crowds emotions with swift reactions before logical decisions are able to be considered.
Sleeping giants expertly play the Australian sleeping public and commercial community.
Leftist online outrage campaigns are just that.
Only the leftist dominated media hacks take notice then create the media beat up.
DOWN WITH OGANISING!
Freedom of speach, it’s alright for.NZ PM to.make comments about Australia and what we do in the Pacific, but God forbid if we ask the PM to stop and.look after there own backyard and make her point of view in private to Mr Morrison, This was a calculated comment from.her to get a reaction and good for.Mr Jones to get her to.mind her own business , it’s All advertising wether it’s good bad and when you want the.number radio show to.advertise your product and boost your sales you have the choice to stay or go , if you go don’t big note because someone else.will take.your place .
So true
I like lamp.
You lefties are all wankers, stop ruining this society with you infintile whinging,
I’m sick of people being offended by every little thing. GET A LIFE LISTEN TO MUSIC.!!!
I wish sometimes I would have the guts to speak my mind like alan does, just because he said it to a woman all the bra burners and PC brigade come out in force,
Its time society stood up to these minorities and extinguished these clowns
Lets go back to the old days when you could have a joke with your mate and not be crucified for doing so….
Go back to your PC suburbs and sip your lattes and eat your smashed avocados and leave us alone…..
I agree Stephen babs! BUT LEAVE AVOCADO ALONE, I LOVE IT.
One day someone will start a protest organisation that will hit back at sleeping giant and the fools who follow this crap. A Jones is a decent man who loves this country shame to all you scum who hate this great country
I strongly agree with you he is like a voice in the cowardly week social engineering society we are becoming.
Alan is one of the few brave journalists left.
I can’t believe how ignorent and Precious our society has become .
We are destroying the ability to express veiws .
Words only word’s there is nothing wrong with robust debate !
Most sensible free thinking people would understand that he was simply meaning that Mr Morrison should think twice about taking advice from Jasinda.!
most probably because Alan is not a huge fan of climate change and the scientific proof used to prove it.
I doubt greatly that the way the sock comments were in anyway meant as derogatory or violent.
Please Australia don’t go down the track of adding all comments made by Allen as some orchestrated pattern.
Considering Alan’s age and the fact that he speaks on a myriad of topics over decades .
Are we ready so ignorent and unfair as to link those comments into some kind of singular event or a surmation of his character .
If you express views and question things in order to make people think ,your bound to offend and if you a leftest idiopathic well your permanently in a state of offence.and yes they are enemies of the truth because it sometimes isn’t nice .
We need more Alan’s in this world .
Or there won’t be a voice
1 in 6 women are physically or sexually abused by a PARTNER(1 in 16 men) 1 woman is killed every 9 days.
The reason people are up in arms about Alan’s comment is because this type of comment normalises aggressive behaviour towards women.
I support freedom of opinion, it just doesn’t need to be so brutal. It’s as easy as changing your words.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/behaviours-risk-factors/domestic-violence/overview
Again the comment is just a comment put a sock in it ,has absolutely nothing to do with domestic violence .
He is a radio announcer he is trying to be animated and Jacinda is a politician a strong successful women as you probably would discribe her !
Well I’m pretty sure she can verbally defend her self and we won’t have to worry about Alan Jones life being threatened .
Male or female word’s don’t kill certainly not in the context we are talking about here.
I bet if she was to say the same back to him people wouldn’t be asking her to resign.
Alan Jones didn’t say ‘put a sock in it’. If he did no one would have complained. He said ‘shove a sock down her throat’ – which is far more violent and cannot be explained as common usage. It’s not. He also said that Scott Morrison should get tough with a few backhanders – which means a slap with the back of the hand. He has in the past talked about putting another woman Prime Minister in a chaff bag and throwing her out to sea. If he didn’t really mean it then he shouldn’t say it. It has an impact.
To whomever posted the nonsense of one in 6 women .. really?
Do you have to constantly paint men as murders .
I wonder how many men who have been financially raped andhad their characters assassinated so their children turn against them.!
How many men have ended it because of a woman who mascarades as a victim it’s the type who quote these figures repeatedly on any occasion.
Stick to the context it’s a comment .
Sticks and stones are what you need to worry about ,!and there aren’t any here.
Just words get over yourself.
Find some hobbies.
Just because you don’t accept or don’t seem to care about violence towards women doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t. Almost 100 organisations have now distanced themselves from Jones/2GB so this is having a big impact. You can’t argue the fact that one woman a week is killed by her male partner in Australia. This is why the MFW campaign has the support of at least 55,000 people.
I’m sorry but who the hell do u think u are… Allan Jones can say what he wants.. Toughen up.. It was only a comment… Put a sock in it has been around for years… Get over it. Jacinda Aden is no saint…. She is only famous for one thing
He didnt say that..you realky need to listen up mate. There is a difference in what jobes said and what you think he said. Oh how embarrassing ! Another man who doesnt like women. Ha ha
He was figuratively telling her to shut up, that’s it! …If you actually think Alan Jones would physically take of his dirty socks and literally shove them down the throat of a NZ prime Minister, you are Delusional.
Alan can be a dick but I think he is correct on this one, we give all the Pacific Island money loads of money and they carry on and as for New Zealand maybe they should kick the can a lot harder. Our globle warming is a joke or a blip on the radar and all the politicle correct lefties won’t to carry on Go Alan don’t go changing now .
Seriously you ever offended bunch of goons need to get a life. Bloody grow up and PUT A SOCK IN IT!!
Go Alan Jones. Adern is an Australian hating [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy].
Wouldn’t have been such a fuss if a man was told to put a sock in it. Violence against anyone weaker is reprehensible not just women.
I find it an ironic twist of fate that Alan who has defended free speach and a recent example in defence of Israel Falou .
again a case of the leftest in conjunction with leftest corporates influence in threatening an outspoken persons job it’s happening all to often .
Alan Jones has defended Australian’s for decades ,who is defending him.
I stand beside he this day as a fellow Australian.
I don’t agree with all, his view’s but I do
,agree we should be allowed to express them.
He is Dangerous to those who want to control us more power to Alan .
Thank you for your guts.
The NZ PM is a complete nitwit, only got to be PM because Winston Peters sided with Labor or we would have never heard from her, Winston is now regretting his decision and has voted against her on occasion as she and her party are halfwits. As for Alan Jones, keep up the good work at pointing out the loonie stuff that is coming from the left on both sides of the Tasman Sea, I am a former Kiwi now living in Australia and an Australia Citizen and say ” Put a sock down this woman’s throat because all that comes out is the stuff from the back of the bull”
Jones at least speaks the truth, if roughly. Ardern is a trouble making novice and climate hypocrite stirring trouble for Australia with the Pacific island nations, who wouldnt have a bloody clue. Nor would she. And if MacQuarie media let Jones go theyd be in deep shit. They sre posturing. They wouldnt have the balls. Jones is a warrior for Australia against the troubled “luvvies” who have no idea. He keeps the dickheads straight. There is no other properly factual voice on Australian radio.
My recommendation to advertisers is to ask yourself if you trust your media agency, or Sleeping Giants Oz to advise you on your media placement? One of them has your commercial interests and brand reputation at heart, and has access to all brand safely tools, audience analysis, attribution, usually PR advisors etc. I’m not entirely sure what the other one even is.
I’m not excusing Alan Jones, and I’m not saying that brands should or shouldn’t continue advertising on his morning show, but I do take issue with this type of lobbying from Sleeping Giants Oz, which seems associated with GetUp. This is political, and should be labeled as such.
He is correct the NZ prime minister is not fit for the position the quicker they get rid of her the better.
Well done sponsers. The NZ Prime Minister is a household name around the world and very well respected. More than I can say for our P M. Maybe some of the comments above reflect sour grapes. She is one of Time magazines 100 most influential people and was the victim of a raging lunatic. I am Australian and proud of it but acknowledge how respected the NZ PM is. We will wait for his next rant. Time to retire old fellow.
Only respected by far left wing fools and quislings
It’s the advertisers loss. The pearl clutchers who are bombarding them with pleas to withdraw sponsorship are not 2GB listeners. He’s not the most successful broadcaster in the country for nothing. Only those who don’t listen to him hate him.
You pathetic people,you don’t like him but you listen to him,
You are all clowns,allegedly
Jones has done more to fan the dying embers of climate denial then anyone in this country.
The right wing feel threatened by Adern—and for good reason. Have a look what Peta Credlin is saying about her on Sky
Are you serious? Who gives a $@***! what Peta Credlin says about her? In fact who cares what Peta Credlin says about anything?
She lacks credibility lol.
So it’s fine for leftists to mock and criticize conservative women , but dare criticize a leftist women and it’s Protest, Ban , winge , harrass
Who are Mad Fucking Witches and why are they taking credit for Sleeping Giants’ work?
They are proud to call themselves that?
If there is an association like that connected with those advertising ,well it would explain this madness ironic.!
It would also explain the comment’s and terms they use like masogoney .
I thought woman wanted equality, not special privileges, where you can’t criticize them, it’s fine to criticize male leaders like Trump and say the most disgusting things and advertising doesn’t boycott those media companies but if you dare criticise a woman leader it’s’ no free speech for you’ boycott.
A side note! thanks ? to mumbrrella for allowing a decent discussion here in this forum ,we don’t all agree with each other but we can express our view’s.love you all.
Aren’t we lucky that we can speak freely? Voice our opinions? The left are so invested in destroying our freedoms they completely forget why and how western democracy is the reason they have a voice at all. Of course the climate is changing, always has and always will, oceans have been rising for millennia, that’s why we’ve got ancient cities under water! We only have ourselves to blame, not the sun, not the volcanoes, us! Keep drinking the kool aid (was that how it is spelt? Dunno, never drank the stuff myself)
Glad i now what products not to buy i seen flyers at the plaza calling these companies left wing quislings ant they were left on all notice boards
Geez who woke up the Tele comments section…
Where was the outrage when Kyle Sandilands was deeply offensive? Weak hypocrites who cannot see past their noses.
Above is a treasure trove or organisations I will now actively avoid.
Attempts to silence voices you don’t like is un-Australian and a sign of a fragile society.
When did we become so triggered? Our great ancestors would be truely embarrassed by what we’ve become. Incapable of rational discussion and rigorous public debate, the impotent armchair warriors cannot cope with dissenting views so rather than engage they spit their dummy and move to silence others. It’s not about justice, it’s about revenge.
So happy to see in this instance they cannot win. Jones, for all his bigotry should continue.