Posted on 04/03/2018 7:16:01 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
David Hogg, a 17-year-old student who survived February's mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Monday night downplayed claims that his boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham's advertisers was being led by "powerful, shadowy radical groups."
Hogg appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word," where he was asked about former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's tweet about the boycott "being directed by powerful, shadowy radical groups who want Laura Ingraham off the air."
The boycott, which has been pushed by Media Matters for America among other liberal-leaning groups, has led to at least 15 companies dropping their ads from her show in the last week.
While Ingraham apologized on Twitter a day after the initial tweet, Hogg did not accept the apology and instead continued to call on his Twitter followers to help put pressure on Ingraham's advertisers by sharing the Media Matters article with a list of all her advertisers.
"I'm pretty well lit. I don't see any shadowy figures behind me," said Hogg, who appeared to downplay Media Matters' involvement. "Honestly, if he sees powerful shadowy groups, as corporate America standing with us. Okay? I guess it doesn't really make sense."
Hogg's attempt at a boycott campaign got the attention of Media Matters for America president Angelo Carusone, who has been instrumental in targeting Fox News host Sean Hannity's advertisers. Hogg's tweet prompted Carusone to warn him about the importance of being "careful with advertiser lists unless you really know the source they came from and how they compiled."
Media Matters was founded by David Brock, an ally of Hillary Clinton, and is partly funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, who donated a $1 million back in 2010 "to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast." Think Progress editor and founder Judd Legum has also been instrumental in pushing the boycott on Twitter and through multiple articles on his website.
Hogg then shifted the conversation away from shadowy groups to discuss the negativity aimed at the gun control movement, where he has emerged as a national voice.
"I want to focus on what's ahead for our movement. It's really what we need to be focusing on is the positivity and really bringing everybody together and that's the first thing that we have coming up are the town halls on April 7th that we are trying to get into every Congressional district," Hogg said.
He then addressed O'Reilly and Ingraham's criticism of him by saying it is "absolutely okay" for them to criticize him on policy differences, but added they are crossing a line when they go after him or any of the gun control student activists on a personal level.
"What does that accomplish? It doesn't make any sense. I don't have any shadowy figures behind me. At least, I don't see any. I'm pretty well lit and I'm just a kid that uses Twitter and if he sees me as powerful, that's okay. I don't see myself that way," Hogg said.
Hogg talked about the importance of not attacking others personally, but he has held himself to a different standard in recent weeks. He called the National Rifle Association and Republican politicians it supports "pathetic fuckers" that "want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get reelected."
The summer I turned seventeen I was at sea some five hundred miles from home on the Campeche Banks reeling in Red Snapper and Grouper from the last sailing fishing trip on the Gulf.
Globalist Soros in Gitmo forever.
In a previous, saner, age he would have been hanged for treason against the U.S. Constitution.
“Media Matters was founded by David Brock, an ally of Hillary Clinton, and is partly funded by liberal billionaire George Soros”
Uh-huh.
/eyeroll
Too friggin skinny to cast his own shadow . What shadow he has looks like a balloon on a string. CNN / DNC CGI’d one for him.
Did his FBI father keep him home that day?
His FBI daddy, Kevin Ralph Hogg, retired from the FBI in October 2016, due to early onset Parkinson's. He had been assigned to the Los Angeles International Airport Resident Agency, where he had handled such dangerous critters as Olajide Noibi. His main claim to fame at LAX appears to be giving stuffed animals to arriving refugee children.
As for David's whereabouts when it happened, he was at school, and video-journalist wannabe that he is, he captured this inflammatory interview in the aftermath:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=E8luXbglTaw
Oh, and no, his retired FBI daddy doesn't work for Cubic Simulation Systems. That's the Orlando Kevin Hogg, not the Parkland one. There are actually no fewer than five Floriduh Kevin Hoggs. LOL! Who knew!
AttentionHogg, your 15 minutes is up, so STFU!
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
I’m one pathetic fkr you better not cross paths with.
I don’t feel sorry for him....
....stupid mistakes are one thing
...but this young man (NOT KID)....exhibited extreme disrespect, anger, hatred and acted it out.
Fox standing with Laura no doubt puts a kink in his plans.....ie the softer bs approach as stated in these quotes of his
His extra long 15 minutes are almost over, and he knows it.
David, we will not forget what you deliberately did and said!
“Sleep Number was the first company to drop Rush after the Sandra “fake” Fluke story. Most of these advertisers think they will gain business by joining the outrage”
Actually it was Sleep Train Mattress. They came crawling back shortly after, Rush told them to take a hike.
he has a mother
He does
....and right after he became the icon of the cause celebre his mother was on TV taking her ‘behind the star kid’ role and fully in compliance
Did anyone else notice that the youtube shooter and Hogg are dead ringers... The youtube shooter Nasim Najafi Aghdam
looks like David Hogg in drag... :)
25th percentile is not “mediocre”, it’s substandard.
This was taken from Thatsnonsense.com. Lberals covering their tracks?
On the day of the shooting, I got my camera and got on my bike and rode as fast as I could three miles from my house to the school to get as much video and to get as many interviews as I could because I knew that this could not be another mass shooting.
It is true that Hogg did indeed make the above quote, ...However, it has been taken completely out of context....In reality, in that quote, Hogg is describing his trip back to the school later that evening, many hours after the shooting had occurred. Hogg had been on campus during the shooting, and upon being evacuated, had at some point went home to retrieve his camera and then returned back to the school at around 6pm.
I would say that any basic understanding of Hogg’s quote COMPLETELY flies in the face of how you are trying to interpret it.
I find it hard to believe anything he says.
“I think his liberal idiocy is derived from his parents and the schooling he received in CA before moving to FL.”
I have absolutely no doubt about that.
In his case, heavy drinking might improve his toxic personality.
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