Laura Ingraham Announces Week Off Air As Advertisers Flee
Almost a dozen advertisers have dropped her Fox News show after she mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre
Reuters) - Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.
Eleven companies so far have pulled their ads after a pushback by Parkland student David Hogg, 17, who called for a boycott of her advertisers.
Hogg is a survivor of the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Parkland suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He and other classmates have become the faces of a new youth-led movement calling for tighter restrictions on firearms.
Hogg tweeted a list of a dozen companies that advertise on “The Ingraham Angle” and urged his supporters to demand that they cancel their ads.
On Thursday, Ingraham tweeted an apology “in the spirit of Holy Week,” saying she was sorry for any hurt or upset she had caused Hogg or any of the “brave victims” of Parkland.
But her apology did not stop companies from departing.
The companies announcing that they are cancelling their ads are: Nutrish, the pet food line created by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, travel website TripAdvisor Inc, online home furnishings seller Wayfair Inc, the world’s largest packaged food company, Nestle SA, online streaming service Hulu, travel website Expedia Group Inc and online personal shopping service Stitch Fix.
According to CBS News, four other companies joined the list Friday: the home office supply store Office Depot, the dieting company Jenny Craig, the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort and Johnson & Johnson which produces pharmaceuticals as well as consumer products such as Band-Aids, Neutrogena beauty products and Tylenol.
I wouldn't be surprised to see her never come back, although Fox will have to stop firing their hosts at some point. Doesn't look good
Is this deja vouz? Didn't Sean Hannity also say he was taking a week off to spend Easter with his family as she is and he was fired during that week?
Regarding Parkland survivors the alt-right has exposed its ugly hateful syphilitic underbelly...
What has been seen cannot be unseen. At long last the far right wing has no decency, at all.
The likes of Ted Nugent, Frank Stalone and Laura Ingraham relegate themselves to pariahs...
Like Bill O'Reilly said when he took a week off from his show after his many sexual harassment allegations came to light?
Laura ain't going nowhere. Hogg and others can't prevail in the battle ideas and wits, so they have to resort to boycotts and the courts and to other devious tactics to get their way, or attempt to silence the opposition.