Thread by @lukerosiak

Insane new audio: Remember a few years ago how Papa John was supposedly racist? A lawsuit says a PR company demanded $6M or it would 'bury' him, then a thinly-sourced story appeared in Forbes.

Audio suggests the company was setting up its own client.

dailywire.com/news/papa-john…

PR firm Laundry Service was hired to improve Papa John's reputation, but a secret recording suggests that its woke staffers were more interested in imposing their ideology, calling him a "sociopath," lamenting that he is "BFFs with [Mike] Pence" and liked a libertarian group.

The woke PR firm lost the Papa John's contract, and had to lay off 10% of its staff. Two days later, Forbes published a thinly-sourced story saying he used the n-word. The call suggests that the company was trying to set up Papa John before he ever made the remark.

A Laundry Service employee says it tries to interlace corporations with politics, promoting "black lives matter." When Papa John expressed a more nuanced view than the PR firm's preferred politics, the recording suggests that that they tried to end the career of their own client.

None of Laundry Service's own executives are black, according to its website. And if the allegations of a $6M demand are true, its strident ideology may not be so inflexible if there's money to be made. So far, woke staff have seemed to be a liability, with layoffs and a lawsuit.

The context of the tape makes clear that when Papa John used the n-word, it was in the context of condemning it, and expressing bafflement that his remarks calling on “NFL leadership” to find a way to satisfy both players and owners on anthem kneeling were compared to real racism

The PR firm got him on the phone for what he thought was a call about advertising, but which it said was actually to get his "raw" and un"rehearsed" views on race, which were secretly recorded and later made their way, stripped of context, to a news outlet.