Anheuser-Busch just WON’T apologize for its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney



Anheuser-Busch has finally broken its silence on the Bud Light marketing collaboration with Dylan Mulvaney that sent sales crashing nearly overnight.

The company lost over $6 billion in market cap in just six days.

The global CEO of Anheuser-Busch, Michael Doukeris, told investors in a letter that “Anheuser-Busch did not intend to create controversy or make a political statement. In reality, the Bud Light can posted by a social media influencer that sparked all the conversation was provided by an outside agency without Anheuser-Busch management awareness or approval.”

“Since that time,” Doukeris continued, “the lack of oversight and control over marketing decisions has been addressed and a new VP of Bud Light marketing has been announced. We need to clarify the facts that this was one camp, one influencer, one post, and not a campaign.”

While Bud Light has released several ads apologizing to its drinkers, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales of "The News & Why it Matters wonders whether or not we should be “punishing Bud Light” for the crimes of an outside agency.

Jaco Booyens, who has been involved in many marketing campaigns himself, has an answer.

He says that “it’s just not quite how it works,” adding, “Someone in the company has to say yes.”

While he is not forgiving of Bud Light, he believes the widespread backlash against the company is a good sign.

“So, society actually does agree with us. They are not into this kid trans, crazy, insane — you know, psychosis movement.”

Chad Prather jumps in to add, “And for the record, Anheurser-Busch is lying.”

He says that there was more than one post and that obviously someone had to create the can with Dylan Mulvaney’s face on it.

“My point is,” he continues, “Dylan Mulvaney didn’t do this for free.”


Want more from The News & Why It Matters?

To enjoy more roundtable rundowns of the top stories of the day, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Steve Deace explains the new religion behind Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney



Why do brands like Bud Light make marketing decisions — like promoting transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney — that will lose customers and money?

While it may seem like a mystery, Steve Deace has some answers.

He says people “still believe there’s this neutral mechanism in our culture called ‘the marketplace’ where eventually these things get sifted and filtered, right? And the people decide if they want this or they want that or they don’t want that and they do want this, right?”

He continues, “I don’t think that’s true any more.”

As worship of God wanes, a new religion has begun to take its place. Deace believes that this is why brands like Bud Light are completely ignoring the desires of their target demographics.

He says, “The idea that it will just be a religionless society — oh no, it will not. There will be another religion. Another religion will emerge to take the place of the one that vacated said space. Nature abhors a vacuum. Something will emerge to take that place.”

And according to Deace, the left’s new religion of wokeness is a tight-knit one.

“They have built a fellowship. May I say a church? They have each other’s backs. They go to the end. This is where the real religious commitment and conviction exists in America.”

“America is not devoid of real religious commitment and conviction. It is replete with the wrong religious commitment and conviction.”


Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.