Laura Ingraham's despicable attack on David Hogg. I sense a boycott coming on...

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Fox News host mocks Parkland survivor for college rejections
Stay classy.

On Wednesday, Laura Ingraham, host of the primetime Fox News show Ingraham Angle, mocked 17-year-old Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg for getting rejected by four colleges.

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https://thinkprogress.org/laura-ingraham-mocks-david-hogg-parkland-fox-news-c9ab91e7b396/

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These fucking pieces of shit have been living in the sewer for so long any sense of decency they may have had at one time has long since died. I hope there are enough decent people left in America to sweep them all into the dustbin of history where they belong.

[blue neen]

1. I'll be e-mailing Arby's.

We eat their Roast Beef Sandwiches all the time. Not any more. Ingraham needs to be called out for her disgusting and despicable bullying tactics.

Ugh. She makes me sick.

[Awsi Dooger]

38. I just did

I have to say I'm pretty good at that type of contact. I let them have it.

The key is to make sure they understand you have been a long term customer. I used anecdotes and specifics going way back.

The email is not nearly as valuable if you merely start with the boycott aspect and never venture anywhere else. It screams as robotic.

[raven mad]

61. Awful, I haven't yet gotten a no-response from a complaint letter/email.

And have been doing it for 40+ years. Properly written, you can rip shreds out of a company or product and get a good response.

A) without being shrill or angry, succinctly state your complaint.

B) emphasize any long-term association w/company or product, add appropriate praise if sincere.

C) if possible, keep 1st paragraph (incorporating A above) light and use humor.

So far, I've done Bayer, Nutrish & AT&T. No Arby's here, will finish after lunch. GO DU!!! GET THE ATTENTION OF THESE SPONSORS!!

[Awsi Dooger]

66. Great tips

I'll take note and slightly amend my approach, although I am already incorporating most of that

[still_one]

2. She is trash like most republicans. She was an extreme anti-gay bigot, until her gay brother and

his partner had to deal with AIDS.

That is typical of the selfishness behavior or republicans. Screw everyone until they are personally impacted.

"Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable", claiming "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual."[8] In 1997, she wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with AIDS. Ingraham has stated that she supports civil unions, but still believes that marriage "is between a man and a woman".[9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham

Ingraham, D'Souza, and a whole cast of characters were part of the Dartmouth Review, a extreme right wing publication who has published racist and anti-Jewish garbage.

They are vile and disgusting human excrement

[Cha]

23. Aloha, still_one.. I googled to see why he would have been rejected..

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What’s more according to the UC site, a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for admission for California residents and 3.4 for nonresidents. Hogg’s GPA is 4.2.

For the record, Hogg did get accepted to Cal Poly, Cal State San Marcos and Florida Atlantic University, according to TMZ. But other reports say Hogg’s planning to take a gap year to help campaign for gun reform.

More..
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/27/uc-schools-reject-march-for-our-lives-leader-david-hogg/

The heinous sub-human garbage only make the KIDS, and every thinking human being more determined.

[still_one]

32. UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Berkely each have over 100,000 applying for admission That includes

both Freshman and transfers. For UCLA around 6000 of those admissions are freshman, and of those 6000, 4000 must be California residents.

There is a lot of luck involved, even with great SATs and excellent GPAs, and the odds are even more difficult for thos applying from out of state.

Cal Poly is a great school. They had about 65000 applying for admission where only about 5200 freshmen were accepted, so it is no small feat to get accepted there.

Those attacking the people who were on the Parkland campus during the mass murder, calling them liars and distorting facts are the scum of the earth, and there is no doubt where it is coming from.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-hogg-on-campus-rumor-hoax/

[Cha]

33. Mahalo for that info on the California Universities,

still_one. I actually did think of how is must be harder for an out of state student to get it.

David's GPA is 4.2.. I bet there are a lot of kids with even higher.

Besides, in his position after what he's been through.. "A Gap" year seems like just what is needed.. excellent therapy for him and the Planet!

[still_one]

40. When they talk about a GPA greater than 4.0 they are referring to a weighted GPA, which means harder

classes are given more weight.

I agree with everything you said Cha

[Cha]

42. Oh wow.. shows you

what I know. 4.0 is the highest GPA and 4.2 means David had weighted classes. There is no 5.0 unweighted.

So he's the among the top.. well he is so smart and book learning, too.

Got it!Thanks, still_one

[still_one]

43. Yes he is Cha. I am from the old school where 4.0 GPA was the highest. There was no weighting. It

is different now

[BumRushDaShow]

51. When I was in HS in the mid-late 70s

we had AP ("Advanced Placement" ) classes offered at my school that were weighted. And part of being in the AP program and taking AP courses required taking standardized AP exams at the end of the school year.

[VOX]

39. The UCs are tough to get into, and UCLA is always crushed under the weight of freshman applicants.

I had to wait it out for two years in a state college before transferring to UCLA. It may still be the best way to do it, but you don't get those first two years of bonding with campus life. Even the sons and daughters of wealthy alums don't get any preferential treatment.

If David Hogg is set on UCLA, this would be his easiest route. I wish him the best wherever he winds up.

[still_one]

41. You are absolutely right VOX. My daughter graduated from UCLA for her undergraduate studies, and

she was fortunate to get in as a freshman.

The odds are improved if you go two years to a California UC or State school then transferring as you said.

[VOX]

49. Good for her! That's no easy feat!

I had a 3.6 GPA and that was nowhere near the freshman cut, and that was awhile ago; it's so competitive now. UCLA undergraduate students are incredibly bright and motivated. In my case, I think the incremental path actually did some good, as the profs in the Cal States are first-rate, and the classes were smaller, although I doubt that's the case now.

Glad your daughter is a member of the Bruin family!

[Gothmog]

53. From David's sister

Link to tweet

[Cha]

55. Wow! Fourteen years old.. she nailed

it with the ratings question.

Gotta love twitter.. you can speak your thoughts to anybody until they block you.

Mahalo, Goth

[Gothmog]

58. David and his sister are both impressive

[Gothmog]

65. I love this tweet also

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Yavin4]

3. When you cannot counter their message, use personal attacks on the messengers

This is how they've built their base for years. Personal attacks. Goes all the way back to Reagan and how he ran against Carter in 1980.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Exactly main feature of whole offensive against Florida students movement. All they got. . . . nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. I hope she doubles and even triples down on her

stupid beyond belief comment...... these young adults can handle a shit for brains Faux News bully and come out on top.

[dalton99a]

5. A boycott is way overdue

[OliverQ]

6. Best way to get these advertisers to take notice? Twitter? Email?

I never feel like Boycotts gain enough steam.

[uponit7771]

7. How in the hell are any of these MSD kids being turned down by any college ?! Or is this another lie

[Hekate]

19. First, this was all before they showed exceptional leadership skills organizing the biggest March

...on DC in history.

Second, I am sure any college worth its salt will be re-evaluating their rejection of any of these students.

Third (refers back to #1) major colleges and universities are insanely competitive for freshmen admissions. It is quite normal for high-GPA students to have to keep trying. Population has outstripped seats in colleges.

[spooky3]

20. Not to quibble but I believe that the Womens March last year

was estimated to have been larger.

[keithbvadu2]

22. No! No! No! Dotard's inauguration crowd was so much larger. - As we have heard.

[demmiblue]

44. I know you are being sarcastic, but these pics make me smile:

A screengrab of EarthCam's live feed of the National Mall during Trump's inauguration ceremony.

A screengrab of the EarthCam feed from the National Mall before the Women's March

[keithbvadu2]

48. Dotard did not like his crowd pics... He wanted better ones.

[oberliner]

8. Wasn't she on MSNBC at one point?

[DFW]

9. Laura Ingraham was savagely and accurately depicted by a TV series over a decade ago

Barely disguising her as "Dr. Jenna Jacobs," on an episode of the West Wing, the President tore her apart as the real Laura Ingraham deserves to be:

[RhodeIslandOne]

13. That was a parody of Dr Laura Schlessinger

Not Ingraham....

[DFW]

36. OMG, you're right. I should get back to the States more

I am definitely not up on my evil Republicans named Laura (how many more of them are out there?)

[spooky3]

37. There was a funny Dr. Nora parody on Frasier, too.

[maxrandb]

63. Potato - Po-tah-to

The Deplorables are interchangeable.

Hell, if you could train a monkey to go on the radio and say "Retrumplicans Good - Demoncrats Bad" for three hours a day, you could get it a show.

[RhodeIslandOne]

67. Some of what you say is true....

....but Dr Laura held herself out as some Doctor and all she would babble on about was half baked bible crap and kitchen table moralizing (when she herself was not raised Christian and had a pretty checkered past) while sniffing down on the people calling her show for advice. Her political agenda was tangential to her need to pump her own tires as some sort of moral savant.

Ingraham has always been a standard boilerplate conservative talk show yakker getting her bullet points from the RNC and delivering them in her own smug snarky self-absorbed “I went to Dartmouth but somehow I’m not an Ivy League elitist” fashion. I doubt she’d know a scripture if it wasn’t posted in an Ed Gillespie email circa 2004 and repeated by George W Chimpy.

[pangaia]

26. One of the great scenes from so many great ones on one of the greatest shows ever.

[Gothmog]

11. Laura Ingraham is a sorry excuse for a human being

[SCVDem]

12. Los Angeles news radio Monday

On KNX they were saying how the entire UC system is being flooded with applicants.
Due to a change in local students getting a higher number, they said that many straight A students are being rejected.

Mr. Hogg was rejected shortly after the shooting and would not have a resume yet.

No conspiracy but I do think he deserves a scholarship. Same for the others.

[Gothmog]

14. From Joy Reid

Link to tweet

[Hassler]

15. Laura Ingrahack has been in her customary spot,an 8 hour shift on a barstool. Picket the angry drunk

[Initech]

16. You really can't get much lower than attacking a high school student who survived a shooting.

Really, stay classy, gun nuts. Oh and fuck you.

[Honeycombe8]

17. I wonder how she knows? Did he make that public?

Regardless how she knows, I was afraid of this. That they'd get personal and ugly with the kids.

I'm concerned for these kids. But maybe their parents and friends can help them keep steady through all this. This must be a heady experience, something that even adults would find difficult to cope with.

I hope karma gets Ingraham. Her attack was low and despicable. Maybe she did it to get more twitter followers.

[robbob]

57. He was on a TMZ (?) interview talking about his personal life.

And he definitely was not “whining” about anything, so that part is just a lie. Kind of like the photo of him with his fist in the air that the deplorables are trying to frame as a Nazi salute.

[Honeycombe8]

64. Okay, so at least it was public knowledge already. She didn't spill the beans on the rejections.

That was important to me. The comments were deplorable, but I was wondering how she got that info.

[oasis]

18. Trumpezoid Deplorables have no decency.

[Cha]

25. Aloha, oasis.. I googled to ask "why?"

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What’s more according to the UC site, a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for admission for California residents and 3.4 for nonresidents. Hogg’s GPA is 4.2.

For the record, Hogg did get accepted to Cal Poly, Cal State San Marcos and Florida Atlantic University, according to TMZ. But other reports say Hogg’s planning to take a gap year to help campaign for gun reform.

More..
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/27/uc-schools-reject-march-for-our-lives-leader-david-hogg/

The heinous sub-human garbage only make the KIDS and human beings more determined.

[oasis]

56. Thanks Cha for getting the truth out.

[certainot]

21. here's a way to use artificial intelligence to weaponize a boycott

you could record the closest radio station she’s on using a free trial from ‘apowersoft mac audio recorder’ for instance, or using any of the many recording programs, and then taking the mp3 or other sound file to sonix.ai to get it transcribed for $5/hr. doesn’t take long - just drag the file onto their 'box'

no need to do much listening

you’ll have a list of LOCAL advertisers with their contact info and if you search the transcript for ‘hogg’, which is a very common name all over the country on rw radio, you’ll be able to associate what she says with the advertisers that are sponsoring it, in print, and send it to them in an email that prob has a good chance to reach the owner/boss.

most of them have no clue who she is or that she isn't just some 'political entertainer' getting wild to attract listeners

and there’s about a 1/5 chance or better that that station also depends on a local/state university to keep broadcasting sports on it to help attract the advertisers, most who won’t know shit about ingraham’s show until someone puts in in print in an email along with the ads

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210313820|Artificial intelligence can amp up the boycotts, democratize talk radio, doom the GOP.
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[Cha]

24. Mahalo catbyte.. thought you'd like to see this news..

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What’s more according to the UC site, a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for admission for California residents and 3.4 for nonresidents. Hogg’s GPA is 4.2.

For the record, Hogg did get accepted to Cal Poly, Cal State San Marcos and Florida Atlantic University, according to TMZ. But other reports say Hogg’s planning to take a gap year to help campaign for gun reform.

More..
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/27/uc-schools-reject-march-for-our-lives-leader-david-hogg/

The heinous sub-human garbage only make the KIDS more determined.

[SomethingNew]

27. Why would you post the same thing three times in a single thread?

[Cha]

28. I'm not going to answer

your rudeness.

[SomethingNew]

29. Lol, ok.

[Cha]

35. Well, it looks to me like you

toned down your first post.. now it's not rude.

The reason I did that is because I wanted to make sure they all saw it.

Two posters are cyber-buds of mine and I wanted to make sure the OP saw it, too.

Otherwise there's no guarantee they would check out the thread again.

[SomethingNew]

68. I did not edit my post at all.

[Cha]

69. Then I was hallucinating

sorry.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Back When I Was in HS. . .

. . .i went to a private academy (parochial).

All my classes were accelerated or AP and we had to take 5 "majors". (No gym, although we still had to meet the state requirement by either participating on a sports team or intramurals. I played basketball and jumped in track so i just played flag football in the fall.)

We were graded on 5 point scale too, but the colleges simply took whatever the GPA and multiplied by 4 over 5. Hence, my 4.97 became a 3.98.

They might have done the same thing here, and a 4.2 would become a 3.36, therefore less than 3.4

Now, if he really wants to go there, his leadership skills would seem to easily make up for 0.04 of GPA. Extracurricular activities have been part of the admissions process for practically ever.

[dalton99a]

47. +1

[catbyte]

59. Thanks, Cha!

[syringis]

30. Hello Catbyte

I truly hate this kind of human garbage who thinks her diploma makes her special and above the others.

As high as a diploma can be, it is nothing without a minimum of politeness and good manners.

Laura Machinchouette can turn it the way she want : her behavior proves a huge lack in her education. I won't give a damn shit about her degrees, masters or whatever !

[trueblue2007]

31. i reported her tweet

[Cha]

34. Good for you, Mahalo, trueblue!

[catbyte]

60. Good idea, trueblue.

[Vinca]

45. This might be a great big, giant gift for David Hogg.

I bet he ends up with numerous offers.

[mnmoderatedem]

50. reminder for Laura

David Hogg spent over six minutes wondering if he was going to live or die due to some guy going on a rampage with a semi automatic rifle, something YOU have never had to go through.

Your desire to publicly mock him says a hell of a lot more about you than it does him.

[DinahMoeHum]

52. Check out the tweet from Hogg's sister. . .

. . .in response:

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[Gothmog]

54. Boycotts can work

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[Gothmog]

62. A third advertiser has joined boycott

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