Fox News issued a statement standing by embattled primetime host conservative Laura Ingraham who lost over a dozen advertisers stemming from a boycott campaign by liberal Parkland school shooting student activist David Hogg.
It appears that Fox News will not give in to the David Hogg, Media Matters and #TheResistance driven faux outrage over Laura Ingraham’s mild rebuke of Hogg as someone who “whines.” That faux outrage has been used to intimidate advertisers into fleeing Ingraham’s highly-rated program.
“We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts,” Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. “We look forward to having Laura Ingraham back hosting her program next Monday when she returns from spring vacation with her children.”
For a decade activists like Angelo Carusone of Media Matters have been trying to pick off Fox News and other conservative media personalities by bombarding advertisers on social media. If Ingraham could be taken down over a mild comment about a flame-throwing activist like Hogg, then it would be like blood in the water to the unhinged social media anti-Trump activists.
If past experience with other conservative hosts holds true this time, expect a continuing, guerilla-warfare style harassment of advertisers.
"It’s not about Laura Ingraham or David Hogg — it’s about an unhinged and emboldened totalitarian movement that seeks to deplatform conservatives. Their primary target for a decade has been Fox News, which is the one non-liberal network in a sea of liberal major media."
(Via: Legal Insurrection)
Blog Author's Comments: I was pleasantly surprised Fox News made this statement and took this position, very helpful. Attention Hogg - loses all teenage protection when he calls for boycotts against corporations and peoples’ livelihoods. Good for Fox for not caving to the one way outrage industry.
Hogg wants to be taken seriously as an adult, but as soon as he receives criticism, he wants to be protected as a child. What Ingraham said was very mild compared with all the vile accusations Hogg has thrown at Rubio and the NRA. And what I am hearing is that David Hogg was not even at his school when the shooting happened, so he is not a 'survivor' of said shooting.
As Rush Limbaugh noted: These things happen like clockwork. There is an entire left-wing apparatus set up to run these operations. I don’t know about Fox, but a lot of those advertisers who were quick to drop Limbaugh came quietly slinking back when they saw the impact to their bottom lines.
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