Posted on 03/30/2018 8:23:08 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Laura Ingraham is taking a vacation next week. Now the question is whether a controversy swirling around the host will go on hiatus as well.
The popular Fox News Channel host – her “Ingraham Angle” was the fourth most-watched cable-news program in February – told viewers Friday night she would not appear on air next week as she took what she described as a pre-planned break around the Easter holiday with her children. Substitute hosts are expected to fill in for her on the program.
She leaves in the midst of heightened scrutiny. Ingraham set off an imbroglio Wednesday with a Twitter post mocking Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg, one of the students who has spoken out about gun control prominently since a February 14th shooting incident at the Parkland, Florida school left 17 people dead. Her tweet linked to a report noting Hogg had been rejected from four California colleges. Her tweet also said Hogg “whines about” the rejections. In response, Hogg posted on social media a list of recent advertisers in her program culled from Media Matters, a left-leaning watchdog group, and urged followers to pressure them to remove their commercials from Ingraham’s show. Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, TripAdvisor, Nutrish, Expedia and Hulu – a video-streaming company partly owned by Fox News parent 21st Century Fox – are among the advertisers who have said they would no longer advertise in her program.
Ingraham apologized Thursday via Twitter, noting that she was sorry “for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.” She invited the student to appear on her program. Hogg said he would not accept her apology.
More to come….
Another “conservative “ slinks away into the night unwilling to fight.
Wimp. Stand your ground, never give in to a commie bully.
Between Ingraham and Fox News, they couldn't have handled a fabricated controversy in a more awful way than they did.
Disappoint that Laura would back down even an inch.
That’s not like you Laura...
She’s done....
One day this woman I did not recognize shows up on her new show. LOTS of plastic surgery, injections, etc. Noticed she was soft-pedaling her former conservatism...only tuned in once.
The network lets a psycho child drive an anchor off the air. Spineless
Another one of those infamous Fox “pre planned vacations”. Swell.
I can't be too harsh on Fox, I guess. They're a third-rate cable network from top to bottom. I refuse to watch them as long as they have cretin freaks like Shep Smith on the air.
Don’t give in to Teenage Tyrants.
Please. This is a thoroughly dangerpus man. He snaps his fingers and Laura is off the air. This is BS.
I noticed that as well. The Fox Networks have Hannity, Fox ‘n Friends, Maria, Varney and Dobbs - and not much else.
Hogg proves “some pigs are more equal”.
Amazed at what the media accomplishes.
She is a loser.
She destroyed herself.
She is finished.
but for pete’s sake she didn’t really say anything. And he put his list our like he was dialing a telephone. This is BS!
That’s all she wrote.
I watch shows based on the content. I like tucker because he doesn’t back down showing hypocrisy. Sometimes I watch the beginning of Hannity if something is really breaking not on the basis of his daily promise the world is ending. I like sarah carter and sheryl atkinson and stossell. If i had a bazillion I would start a network with hard news and objective investigations and fewer yelling heads.
Thats about all I almost never watch the Clinton News Network or MSNBC. Why does MS allow their name to be on that pile of feces?
Good idea. America loves a winner, but they hate a loser.
If Hitler and Obama had a kid and we knew it...
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