Posted on 04/05/2018 3:10:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has apologized, as has the network, for nothing more serious than her tweet: "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.)"
The 17-year-old Hogg, a survivor of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is the new face of the anti-gun movement, having achieved overnight victim status, reserved, apparently, only for those on the left, which supposedly insulates him from criticism.
Hogg rejected Ingraham's apology and called her a "bully." Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me"? If Hogg thinks he is being bullied by Ingraham, how would he react to a real bully, the kind who punches you in the face?
Instead of adopting a "poor me" stance, Hogg should have asked to appear on Ingraham's show where the two could have debated the issues. He didn't make this request; instead he swiped at Ingraham in the media. Isn't there something a little cowardly about that?
I first met Laura Ingraham in the early '80s when she was a student at Dartmouth College. Even then she was smart, articulate and opinionated. She and two male colleagues got into a battle with the college administration over a student publication called "The Dartmouth Review." The conservative campus newspaper often satirized the growing political correctness movement, including attempts by the school to remove its Native American mascot.
Laura is a kind, compassionate woman and a practicing Roman Catholic. She is a single mother of three adopted children who might have experienced a far different life without her. She is also a breast cancer survivor.
The left says things far worse than what she tweeted about David Hogg. My hate mail makes her remarks seem tame by comparison, but I don't demand apologies. I can take it.
Speaking of comparisons, recall what Joy Behar said on ABC's "The View" about Vice President Mike Pence's Christian faith. She mocked his beliefs and suggested they might reflect a mental illness.
Apparently under similar pressure from ABC, Behar apologized on the air and went further, calling the vice president and apologizing to him directly, which he graciously accepted.
In an interview with The Outline, Hogg spewed the worst profanities and insulted parents, who he thinks are stupid because they are not fluent in social media. Where is parental discipline when it's needed most? If he were my kid and behaved as he does, he'd be grounded. If the behavior continued, he'd have to find somewhere else to live.
Some sponsors have pulled their commercials from Ingraham's show, as some did after Behar's insulting remark.
This is the wrong approach. Instead of boycotts and threats, how about celebrating the First Amendment by encouraging people to say what they think? Then viewers can decide whether to "buy" what a program is selling or change channels. That was what the left said to do in the 1980s when conservatives were upset by some TV programming. "If you don't like it, change the channel," they said. If that was an option then, why isn't it an option now?
Debate is better than boycotts and pressure, egged on by groups that raise funds from this type of controversy. The country and its politics would benefit from genuine debate, rather than attempts to silence people with whom we might disagree.
Let David Hogg speak his immature mind and let Laura Ingraham have her say. And then let them debate each other, assuming Hogg doesn't want to adopt another role, that of coward.
Has Cal been on a remote island with no news feed? Or just taking a nap.
She made a Statement of FACT, not OPINION.
I guess Facts are not worthy of Free Speech Protection while Liberal whining is given special consideration.
If I were Ingram, I’d invite the little bum on the show and when he refuses to show up, state that his not showing up proves her point.
Sorry Laura, but you should have never apologized. You should have doubled-down, and joined in the fight against this piece of human filth, as you would have before getting your own Fox platform.
Agree completely!!!!!!!!
TIME OUT FOR A FACT CHECK.
<><>The 17-year-old Hogg, a survivor of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida...<><>
How can Hogg be a “survivor”, if he was NOT at school when the shooting occurred?
<>By this standard, I am also a “survivor “ of the 911 twin towers collapse.
Excellent point. You have to remember that’s the media.They probably don’t even know that he wasn’t even at the school.
“the parent” aren’t doing anything to stop them, because they’re the ones that raised them to be whiney little anti-American brats.
You can bet Hoggboys CNN Mama and FIB Daddy are cheering him on
She did. His response was, “I’ll come on when you denounce Fox News.” Punk. He also rejected an offer to appear at the White House. He doesn’t want a discussion or solutions. He just wants to be a buttstick.
Having an 18-year-old boy living here, and a lot of extra 17 and 18 year olds underfoot, I find it very hard to believe this “child” is 17. He looks early to mid-20s to me. PLUS there is a youtube video of Hogg and his mother on graduation day from a high school in California. He looks 18 in that picture. A lot of comments posted there state that these are pictures of his 8th grade graduation but, if so, those graduates are the biggest most mature 8th graders I have ever seen. I think there is a lot more to David Hogg than meets the eye.
I don’t know who that Black guy is, but I already like him.
A woman after my own heart...
I notice the most conservative and spiritual women are the most beautiful. Inside and out.
That guy with the AR-15 shirt is my kind of guy!
I don’t know who that Black guy is, but I already like him.
He'd be a great neighbor!
Thomas states that sponsors pulled out of the View after Behar’s trashy comments re: Pence, Christianity, etc. yet gives no examples of any company that has done so. I performed a search, and can find no evidence of the View losing any advertisers! I doubt whether any corporations would have the courage to drop any liberal programing.
Have any of you heard of anyone dropping their sponsorship of the View?
I want one of those T shirts!
So did these guys!!
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