More advertisers drop Laura Ingraham's Fox News show over David Hogg tweet
At least 14 advertisers say they are pulling their ads from Laura Ingraham’s primetime show on Fox News after the host mocked the Parkland, Fla., teen shooting survivor and activist David Hogg for receiving rejection letters from multiple colleges. (cont'd)
The latest companies to pull their ads from the show are Office Depot, the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas, Progressive insurance, and the global investment group Principal.
In a statement to the Hill, the Atlantis said it “does not support or agree with the recent comments” made by Ingraham, the conservative firebrand.
“Although we are an organization that believes in freedom of expression, we do not condone discrimination, bullying, mockery or harmful behavior of any kind,” an Atlantis spokesperson added. “As a result of these events, we have decided to remove all brand advertising tied to the program.
Ingraham issued an apology on Thursday.
“An apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough,” he tweeted. “I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children.”
Earlier this month, Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate for Maine’s House of Representatives, called Gonzalez a “skinhead lesbian” and Hogg a “bald-face [sic] liar.” Gibson later apologized.
On Friday, the Washington Times published an op-ed by Cheryl Chumley who said Hogg “would’ve made a pretty decent brownshirt” — a reference to uniforms worn by members of the Nazi militia under Adolph Hitler before World War II.
Hogg, for his part, is apparently unfazed.
“When you come against any one of us, whether it be me or anybody else, you’re coming against all of us,” he said on CNN’s New Day on Friday. “They cannot push us around, especially when all we’re trying to do here is save lives.”
I have to wonder how many of those mud-slingers are also members of, supporters of, or contribution beholders to the NRA.
all we’re trying to do here is save lives.
And how they are going about that? By demonizing anyone who disagrees with their methods and tactics??
I find it interesting that you are so strongly in support of the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution-- yet are so extremely critical of the 1st Amendment (the past about Constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech).
No I'm not, and I have never given any indication to the contrary...and I am not the topic here. I have mentioned on more than one occasion that a person can say (or do) anything they want, but they will be subject to the consequences of their words or actions. That applies to both Hogg and Laura Ingraham. This will all quiet down and Laura will continue her program with new or returned advertisers. Perhaps, after several more years of life experience and education, Hogg will make something of himself and act on his own instead of being an obedient bot for a bunch of radical political hacks.
in short, you think Hogg just needs to 'grow up' and Ingraham won't.
BTW, what empirical evidence do you have that Hogg is doing or saying anything other than what HE wants to do and say?
I give these kids that props they deserve. They have been effective, cogent and kicked ass. It's no wonder y'all are loosing it...