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Online travel website TripAdvisor is planning to stop advertising on Laura Ingraham's show after the Fox News host posted a critical tweet about a Parkland, Fla., high school student.
A company spokesperson said in a statement that the company doesn't "condone the inappropriate comments made by this broadcaster," according to CNBC.
"In our view, these statements focused on a high school student cross the line of decency. As such, we have made a decision to stop advertising on that program," the spokesperson said.
Ingraham on Wednesday shared a Daily Wire story that reported Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School student David Hogg was rejected from four colleges.
“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),” Ingraham tweeted....
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I saw David Hogg on Real Time yucking it up with Bill Maher. It was unbelievably inappropriate. I saw a child using typical (for the show) “gotcha” lines to garner audience applause in a shameless attempt to use this tragedy for self-promotion. He appeared joking on a comedy show mere days after this tragedy.
Then he voluntarily engaged in an interview with TMZ to complain about not being accepted to the colleges he wanted to attend, referring to himself and others like him as “amazing people”.
He gladly appeared on Laura’s show shortly after the shooting and she was effusive in her praise of him and now he has rejected Laura Ingram’s apology saying it didn’t go far enough. He is calling for her sponsors to stop advertising on her show because of something she said about him, not about gun control, not about school shootings, but something she said about his complaining publicly about being rejected by colleges, just like thousands of other “amazing” students are rejected every day.
He is using his newly found fame to hurt the career of one of the people who made it possible. He is using his freedom of speech to attempt to silence someone else’s because he didn’t like an honest observation she made about him. She apologized, she invited him back on the show but he refused her invitation and instead decided he wanted to destroy her for daring to criticize him.
Maybe what these colleges saw was an egotistical child who is willing to bite the hand that feeds him and would be a disruption and distraction on campus who might one day unleash his wrath on them, which BTW is exactly what he did by mentioning them by name to TMZ. He has served notice to any college that if he doesn’t get his way, he will run to the press.
I don’t own a gun and I have no intention of ever doing so. But I think the NRA should urge its members to boycott Trip Advisor for kowtowing to this self-absorbed child. For every action there is an equal, and opposite, reaction.
Mike, I know you like it when anything bad happens to a Conservative, but the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. Take off your Liberal goggles so that you can see what is actually happening without bias.
Now David Hogg is on CNN saying that Laura Ingram is trying to distract from the real issue which is gun violence and he “hates it”. No, actually David is trying to distract everyone from what Laura actually said which was a criticism of his whining about being rejected by some colleges. He created the distraction, she commented on it.
Hmmm, what the world needs now is more hate, sweet hate, thanks David.
Wait a minute. Didn’t David go on TMZ just to complain about being rejected by some colleges? What does that have to do with gun violence?
He claims that he doesn’t want to make this about him when everything he is doing is proving the opposite to be true.
He said that as a talk show host Laura has an obligation to present both sides of the issue. What planet does this guy live on? As a talk show host Laura’s obligation is to entertain people and get ratings, period. She is not a newscaster and doesn’t purport to be one.
Now Laura has lost 7 advertisers to date because this high school student got his feelings hurt when she said he was whining about being rejected by some colleges, which is exactly what he did.
He is acting like a child because he is a child.
The fact that advertisers have pulled off the show does not mean that they agree with what he says or even that he has a valid point. It merely means that they think that it is bad for business to continue advertising there. And maybe they are right. There are a lot of people like you, Mike, who will have a knee jerk reaction and assume the worst of anyone who doesn’t share their world view. There are a lot of “haters” in the world like David.
Laura is the one who should be demanding an apology for David misrepresenting what she said as anything other than what it was, a comment about David complaining to TMZ about being rejected by some colleges.
Even if David had a point, and Laura was somehow commenting on gun control, (which she didn’t) is this how to advance the conversation, silence anyone who has a different opinion? I don’t think so.
BTW, according to David he has: “a 4.2 GPA and an SAT score of 1270”.
“For students applying to the class of 2021, out of 102,232 applicants, UCLA admitted 16,494. The average GPA of admitted applicants was 4.13, the average……the average SAT score was 1370.”
So it appears that although David considers himself to be an “amazing” person his resume seems to be well below the average for acceptance into UCLA. His SAT score is a full 100 points below the average student accepted at UCLA. Which is why Laura said that he shouldn’t be whining about it.
... on Friday, Hogg praised “corporate America” for “standing with me and the rest of my friends,” and accused Ingraham of creating a distraction.
“It is important that we stand together as corporate and civic America and show them that they cannot push us around, especially when all we’re trying to do here is save lives,” he said. “And when people try to distract, like what Laura is trying to do right now, from what the real issue is, which is gun violence in America, it’s not only sad, it’s just wrong.”
“I am not the issue here,” Hogg went on. “The issue is gun violence in America, but she is trying to distract from that, and I hate it.” ...
Enough said!
Ok. There is nothing new there.
What did Laura say constituted her "pushing him around"?
You posted quotes from Hogg. Now post the quote that from Laura that constituted her "pushing" him around".
I will assume that if you do not post one it is because it doesn't exist.
The kid talks in meaningless sound bytes to get people like you, who don't actually think about what he is saying, to sympathize with him.
Don't assume anything
Good point. I no longer have to assume anything. We now know that the reason that you didn’t post a quote from Laura “pushing” David Hogg around is because no such quote exists. If you found one, you would have posted it instead of the nonsense that you did post.
You read a headline. You liked the fact that it made a Conservative look bad so you put it in your blog. But when it came time to engage in a conversation and defend your point of view with facts about a topic that you brought up, you couldn’t do it. There are very intelligent people on both sides on the political spectrum. It’s too bad you are not one of them.
There are journalists and then there are personalities whose bread and butter is controversy, not news. Ingraham is the latter. She made the decision that saying something controversial would appeal to her audience, but she miscalculated the fallout from sponsors. This is an occupational risk for people whose trade is controversy and outrage rather than facts.
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