Laura Ingraham offers half-assed apology to the teenager she cyberbullied
March 30, 2018
As we discussed yesterday, Laura Ingraham is a C-U-Next-Tuesday. She always has been, but in the cold light of day in 2018, it’s good to see that the children are our future and that a 17-year-old is perfectly capable of handing Ingraham her ass. It all started when TMZ did an interview with Parkland survivor David Hogg, a 17-year-old who has become one of the most vocal of the Parkland survivors, and one of the big organizers and speakers of the March for Our Lives. TMZ’s interview was about Hogg’s future, a brief moment where he just got to be a 17-year-old kid talking about college admissions. Hogg listed the California universities which had rejected him, and listed the universities which had accepted him.
Conservative sites picked up the interview and put their own spin on it, laughing at David Hogg for “whining” about being rejected from his first choice colleges. Laura Ingraham picked up the story and posted it on Twitter, using the word “whining.” Even Harvey Levin was aghast, and he tweeted at Laura: “David was not whining. I called him about the story. He was not feeling sorry for himself in the slightest. It was my idea that colleges should consider applicants who are so committed. Did you watch the video???” People were calling Ingraham out immediately in her comments. David Hogg responded by getting his hands on – and posting – a list of her advertisers. Her name was trending on Twitter all day. And so she offered this weaksauce, bullsh-t apology for cyberbullying and misrepresenting a 17-year-old survivor of a massacre.
“I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him”… bitch, sit down. That’s not an apology. And “in the spirit of Holy Week,” you should have checked yourself before you even tweeted that crap. But here’s the truly beautiful and inspirational part of the story. You know how Hogg tweeted out a list of Ingraham’s advertisers? Yeah, they’re dumping her like the plague, even WITH her apology.
At least half a dozen advertisers on Laura Ingraham’s primetime Fox News show pulled their support on Thursday in response to her comments mocking Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor David Hogg over his rejection from colleges. So far, six companies have announced they will no longer support the program: Nestle, Wayfair, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Joseph A. Banks and Nutrish, a pet food brand.
“As a company, we support open dialogue and debate on issues,” Wayfair told the Daily Beast. “However, the decision of an adult to personally criticize a high school student who has lost his classmates in an unspeakable tragedy is not consistent with our values. We do not plan to continue advertising on this particular program.”
A Nestle spokesperson told the website, “We have no plans to buy ads on the show in the future.”
Nutrish, which is owned by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, was the first to abandon “The Ingraham Angle.”
“We are in the process of removing our ads from Laura Ingraham’s program, as the comments she has made are not consistent with how we feel people should be treated,” a spokesman for Nutrish told HuffPost.
I could nitpick and wonder why these companies were even advertising on the state-run media outlet of a fascistic banana republic, but I’ll save that for a rainy day. In the meantime, good for you, Nutrish, Wayfair, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Joseph A. Banks and Nestle. Oh, and David Hogg didn’t accept Ingraham’s apology either.
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