NewsmaxWell, that was fast.A day after storming out of his interview with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell after the Trump-boosting pillow salesman wouldn’t stop pushing baseless voting machine conspiracies, Newsmax anchor Bob Sellers issued a groveling apology to Lindell and Newsmax viewers on Wednesday afternoon.During an off-the-rails segment on Tuesday afternoon, Lindell—who is facing a potential lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over his false fraud allegations—kept ranting about Dominion, insisting that he has “100 percent proof” that there was “election fraud with these Dominion machines.”Considering that Newsmax is also looking down the barrel of pending litigation from Dominion and has already forced its hosts to read an on-air fact-check debunking the network’s bogus voting machine claims, Sellers was put in a perilous situation.Repeatedly cutting off Lindell and even having the MyPillow guy’s microphone turned down,
"We were supposed to discuss Twitter s decision to ban him and the impacts of cancel culture on his business, but there was some confusion," Sellers explained on Wednesday.
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Feb 04, 2021
Newsmax Host Is Now Sorry For Walking Out On Important Guest Mike Lindell
Bob Sellers called the MyPillow CEO a friend of this network after he cut off Lindell s unsubstantiated election fraud claims.
Newsmax host Bob Sellers pulled a stunning about-face Wednesday after walking out on conspiracy-spewing Mike Lindell during an interview. The anchor apologized for the dramatic exit and called the Trump-supporting MyPillow CEO a “friend of this network” and “an important guest.” (See the video below.)
In a shocking viral moment earlier this week, Sellers attempted to silence Lindell as the bedding mogul ranted about what even the far-right network host called unsubstantiated election fraud claims. When that didn’t work, Sellers walked off the set, leaving colleague Heather Childers to finish the chat.
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On Wednesday, Newsmax the demented far-right channel seemingly modeled after North Korean newscasts was forced to air a groveling apology to Mike Lindell, the mustachioed martial law enthusiast and pillow salesman. Lindell, you see, had been rudely cut off by a Newsmax anchor the previous day while spouting insane conspiracies about voting machines switching votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Lindell’s interlocutor, anchor Bob Sellers concerned about legal threats from the manufacturer of those voting machines tried to get Lindell to talk about being suspended from Twitter, then read a lengthy prepared statement about how there was no evidence of fraud in the election. When Lindell attempted to keep talking about fraud, Sellers walked out. It was, all told, one of the funniest two minutes in the history of cable news, no small accomplishment.
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So now Newsmax is censoring Mike Lindell too? Who’s left?
Bottom Line: When I woke up and checked my email yesterday, I had no idea what specifically happened on Newsmax TV Tuesday night, but I knew it upset a number of listeners like this one. In case you missed the segment or the subsequent news stories picked up by many mainstream news outlets, including the Washington Post, USA Today and Yahoo News among others..here’s what happened.
In an interview which didn’t last even three minutes, My Pillow founder Mike Lindell found himself almost immediately cutoff by anchor Bob Sellers in an interview which featured something I’ve never seen. A show anchor walking off of the set. Lindell was on the Newsmax TV show hosted by Bob Sellers and former Fox News anchor Heather Childers, to discuss his having been de-platformed with both his personal and MyPillow social media accounts. Almost immediately Lindell mentioned the reason he was de-platformed was due to