You Will Anyway: This will be an interesting experiment

Thursday, March 29, 2018

This will be an interesting experiment

It could give the GOP a hint as to the power the Parkland activists will have in this year's elections, and beyond.

[Fox News host Laura] Ingraham had tweeted a Daily Wire story earlier Wednesday about Parkland student David Hogg not getting into four colleges he had applied to.

“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates,)” she tweeted.

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Hogg has emerged as a national figure in the weeks since the mass shooting at his Florida high school that left 17 people dead. He helped to organize and lead the March for Our Lives in D.C. on Saturday.

The Hill

Laura Ingraham lives and works from a gutter.

Hogg responded:

I'd be interested to know how that turns out.

(BTW, Hogg did get accepted to a college...just not his first choice. How many high school seniors have that same experience? Did Laura Ingraham go to college? Also, I'll be expecting to see Hogg go straight into politics from whatever college he attends.)

UPDATE 3/30:

Looks like Hogg is already winning this one.

At least five companies said they were dropping advertisements from Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter and he responded with a call for a boycott.

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On Thursday, Ingraham tweeted an apology “in the spirit of Holy Week”, saying she was sorry for any hurt or upset she caused Hogg or any of the “brave victims” of Parkland.

Guardian

I bet she did.

“For the record, I believe my show was the first to feature David … immediately after that horrific shooting and even noted how ‘poised’ he was given the tragedy,” Ingraham tweeted.

Nice try. No cigar.

But her apology did not stop companies from departing.

Johnson & Johnson, Nutrish (Rachael Ray), TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Nestle & Expedia pulled their ads.

Hogg wrote on Twitter that an apology just to mollify advertisers was insufficient. He said he would accept it only if Ingraham denounced the way Fox News treated him and his friends.

“It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children,” Hogg tweeted.

Back to you, Laura.

UPDATE 3/31:

Ingraham's show is bleeding advertisers, and she's "taking vacation".

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