Fox News is a cornucopia of terrible people and ideas. Laura Ingraham has risen from the bile-filled swamps of that organization into the light in recent years, in no small part due to her support of the hate-filled rhetoric and bullying tactics of white supremacist in chief Donald Trump. Since the students of Parkland, Florida, found themselves forced into the spotlight, Ingraham as with the rest of her colleagues has been grotesque in her hypocrisy toward peaceful protest. After attacking student David Hogg, Hogg decided to show Ms. Ingraham how activism works for simpleminded bigots like her. He organized a protest of her advertisers.
Now, advertisers have begun to heed the call, with companies like TripAdvisor, Wayfair, and Nutrish saying they won’t buy ad time during Ingraham’s show anymore.
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Rachael Ray’s pet-food brand Nutrish was the first, telling HuffPost in a statement: “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.” [...]
Home-goods digital retailer Wayfair said in a statement to The Daily Beast: “As a company, we support open dialogue and debate on issues. 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.”
Advertisers matter to Fox. And that money is the only thing that matters to people like Ingraham.
“In the spirit of Holy Week,” Laura Ingraham is practicing both vanity (we had him on television first!) and avarice (where did my advertisers go????).
Too late. You suck. You’re going down.