David Hogg shaking up the DCCC

David Hogg's organization gave $100,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after angering House Democrats with plans to back primary challengers against their older incumbents.

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Hogg told the New York Times his group, Leaders We Deserve, will spend $20 million going after older House Democrats in solidly blue districts.

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"This is not me playing nice. It is demonstrating my commitment to winning back the house and making Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker," the 25-year-old Democratic National Committee vice chair posted on X.

Hogg suggested he will continue to go full bore with his efforts to drive out House Democrats' oldest members.

  Axios

I'm here for it.

Sad Laura, again

Oopsie.  There goes another one.



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Sad Laura

SlimFast announced Tuesday that it is no longer advertising on Laura Ingraham's show, more than a week after companies began cutting ties with the Fox News host.

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During the program Monday night, Ingraham tore into what she called "Stalinist" efforts on behalf of liberal activists to "intimidate those who disagree with them."

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SlimFast, the 21st company to drop its ads on the show, made its announcement a day after Ingraham's first episode back from a planned vacation.

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"Let's face it: expressing views that just five or 10 years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired," Ingraham said. "It can cause you to lose a promotion. Or you can be branded a 'hater,' or, yes, you can get boycotted."

  The Hill

And, apparently, you can also get boycotted by doubling down on your insanity.

And while we're on the subject of gun protests...

A Bank of America executive announced Tuesday that the bank will stop lending money to companies that manufacture "military-style" rifles that are available for civilians to purchase.

Anne Finucane, Bank of America’s vice chair, told Bloomberg TV that the bank doesn’t want to “underwrite or finance military-style firearms” and has told a number of gun manufacturers that it will no longer do business with them.

The bank has lended to the gun makers Vista Outdoor, Remington and Sturm Ruger, CNBC reported.

  The Hill

But when did the present perfect of lend change from has loaned to has lended?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Oops...

Fox' Laura Ingraham still bleeding advertisers

Add Ruby Tuesday and Liberty Mutual to the list of companies pulling advertising from Ingraham's show.  (Previous companies that pulled out.)

It couldn't happen to a more deserving twat.  Fox News certainly understands:  Miss Laura is "taking vacation".

Ingraham on her show Friday night described the vacation as a pre-planned break with her children for the Easter holiday.

“A blessed Good Friday and Passover to all of you; I’ll be off next week for Easter break with my kids,” she said. "Fear not. We've got a great lineup of guest hosts to fill in for me."

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"The Ingraham Angle," which launched five months ago, finished fourth in the cable news ratings race in total viewers in February, averaging more than 2.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Only "Hannity,” and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox and "The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC delivered more viewers last month.

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At least 14 companies have stopped advertising on Ingraham's show in the days since the Fox News host mocked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg for being rejected from colleges.

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The only blue-chip company to advertise on Ingraham’s show Friday night was IBM, according to Variety.

  The Hill

So the teenager who couldn't get into the college of his choice can take down a Fox News show.  The GOP will be taking note, I'm sure.

Otherwise, many of the sponsors were direct-response advertisers like MyPillow.com, or lesser-known entities such as the American Petroleum Institute, Interstate Batteries and KT Tape. Fox News also filled commercial breaks with promos for hosts like Bret Baier, or the mid-morning team of Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith.

  Variety

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



UPDATE 4/1:

There goes another:  Miracle-Ear pulled its ads.

And another:  Bayer pharmaceuticals.

Fox News reaps the whirlwind

David Hogg, the Parkland student that Laura Ingraham tried to humiliate on Twitter, may not be getting into the college of his choice, but he's schooling Ingraham and her employer, Fox News.  And, by extension, the GOP and the NRA, as they begin to see just what power the Parkland students are wielding.

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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.

Johnson & Johnson, Nutrish (Rachael Ray), TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Nestlé  & 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:

There goes Office Depot.

At least 11 advertisers have now pulled their support from Ingraham's show after she mocked Parkland, Fla., high school shooting survivor David Hogg on Wednesday over his college rejections.

  The Hill

Additions to the above list: Hulu, Jenny Craig, Stitch Fix, and Atlantis Paradise Island Resort.

UPDATE 3/31:

Still bleeding advertisers, and Ingraham is "taking vacation".

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".

The NRA takes on teenagers

One small correction:  the NRA is changing, not missing, the point.  They're framing it this way on purpose.

Here's a face you'll be seeing in your political future:

Clearly threatened by the powerful advocacy of the Parkland survivors, the NRA and its right-wing allies have spent the past week pushing demonstrably false smears and conspiracy theories in a failed effort to discredit the teens.

Hogg has been called a “crisis actor” by some, while others claim he’s a “pawn” for the gun-control agenda who has been “coached” to deliver anti-gun talking points. Some have also accused Hogg’s father, a former FBI agent, of coaching his son to speak out against Trump — a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump Jr. endorsed on Twitter.

The NRA has good reason to be scared: The teens from Stoneman Douglas have sparked a movement that is driving the NRA’s corporate sponsors to flee in unprecedented numbers.

They’ve also kept the nation’s attention focused on gun violence prevention for ten days straight — something that no one else has been able to achieve in the aftermath of any other major mass shooting in modern history.

But there’s one thing that terrifies the NRA more than anything: By the next presidential election, most of these teens will be old enough to vote.

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[Parkland school shooting survivor David] Hogg’s voice is so powerful, in fact, that the NRA and its attack dogs are terrified of it — and they’ve launched an all-out smear campaign in an attempt to silence him.

But the teenage shooting survivor isn’t letting them get in his way, as he made clear Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “AM Joy.”

“The right is claiming that you are being led around by celebrities, by George Soros, by the left,” host Joy Reid said. “Your response?”

“I’m so sorry for each and every one of them,” Hogg said, before turning to the camera and addressing his attackers directly. “It’s so sad to see how many of you have lost faith in America, because we certainly haven’t, and we’re never going to.”

“You might as well stop now,” he added, “because we’re going to outlive you.”

  Shareblue

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.