Laura Ingraham Loses 8 Sponsors After Parkland Survivor David Hogg Calls for Boycott

Jennifer Maas

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At least eight major companies announced Thursday that they were pulling their sponsorship of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program because of a Wednesday tweet by the anchor widely seen as mocking Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor David Hogg.

Hulu, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Nutrish, Expedia, Stitch Fix, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle bowed to public pressure to stop advertising on “The Ingraham Angle” after Hogg himself called for a boycott of her sponsors.

In a statement to TheWrap, a spokesperson for TripAdvisor said the company did not “condone the inappropriate comments made by this broadcaster. 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.”

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Home furnishing site Wayfair said in its statement: “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.”

Nestle, Expedia, Stitch Fix and the pet-food company Nutrish issued similar statements to Johnson & Johnson, which told HuffPost it “will pull advertising from Ms. Ingraham’s show.”

 

 

 

 

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A seventh company, men’s clothing retailer Jos. A Bank, told TheWrap that it does not consider itself a sponsor of Ingraham’s show and that the two ads that aired during Wednesday’s broadcast were most likely bonus ads from the network.

A rep for Fox News did not response to a request for comment, but Ingraham on Thursday tweeted an apology “for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.”

Ingraham had come under fire on Wednesday after tweeting about how Hogg, a senior at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, “whines about” his rejection by UCLA and several other colleges to which he had applied.

“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.),” she tweeted.

Hogg responded Wednesday evening by naming 12 of Ingraham’s top advertisers  and suggesting a boycott of them in a tweet (though one that actually misspelled the network host’s name).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Several of the company’s named were in the category of former advertisers by late Thursday afternoon.

Reps for the other companies named by Hogg have not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.

In its statement, TripAdvisor did not rule out future sponsorship of Ingraham’s show. “It is important to note that TripAdvisor has a global and diverse customer base, and is an active advertiser on a number of networks including news. Our media buys target a variety of time slots and audiences,” it said. “That said, we will continue to monitor where our advertisements appear in the open market to ensure they fit our guidelines.”

The streaming TV service Hulu replied directly to Hogg’s call to action:

 

 

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