The Exodus Begins. First Advertiser Announces They're Dropping Laura Ingraham Show

[ButSeeYa]

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/exodus-begins-first-advertiser-announces-dropping-laura-ingraham-show-david-hogg-boycott/|

[CatMor]

1. Good news...

isn't Nutrish a Rachel Ray product?

[hlthe2b]

4. yup

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Yup, it's her brand.

[notdarkyet]

8. I buy nutrish, but never have watched fox.

[CatMor]

10. I too have never watched Fox.....

but I need cat food and I'll make sure I look for and buy Nutrish.

[Leghorn21]

2. From link:

“The first advertiser to drop Ingraham was pet food maker Nutrish, which responded to Hogg’s post and to numerous individual Twitter users.”


————-I like how it says “the first”, ha ha!

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Here are some others. Trip Advisor has pulled out also.

Link to tweet

[saidsimplesimon]

48. YES

AT&T is in my cross hairs for cancellation. I am a former management employee.

[Wwcd]

3. Nutrish grabs the first baton & passes it on

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. I'd Prefer Personal Humiliation For Her. Cold Tar & Feathers In The Public Square.

Some people just deserve total and damaging humiliation. I hate to be so brutal, but when will these people suffer deep personal pain. They are so evil that they deserve no mercy. .

Now a person does not want to get physical, but so many of the pundits really push the limit of any kind of decency. Think about it. These RW pundits are directly or indirectly calling for violence against these students or any one who apposes them. It is only a matter of time that something bad could happen.

If it were my child I would fear for their safety. The RW has no problem calling for the elimination of liberals, progressives, gays et al. Their vitriolic rhetoric aims to enrage their base. The NRA is over the top every day inciting their followers. You hear their innuendos constantly.

[maxrandb]

7. Why are we boycotting Laura Ingraham???

Isn't she just "giving us a realistic view into Donnie Short Fingers America"???

Where are the DUer's encouraging us to watch and listen to her, because...reasons

[MyOwnPeace]

11. If you are sincere...........

about knowledge of policy you need to be watching the "Faux & Friends" circus in the morning - that's where real policy is drawn up.

[RandomAccess]

12. Boy are you misinformed

Should you care to fix that, the best thing to do would be to see the show for yourself.

A second option would be to read these:

The Roseanne revival is incredibly honest about life in Trump's America
Source: Vox, by Todd VanDerWerff https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210424183

How Trump Inspired the ‘Roseanne’ Reboot
The show is trying to bridge America’s deepest political divide.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/26/roseanne-reboot-trump-voters-217711

Tom Arnold Reviews 'Roseanne' Reboot: If I Can Watch, So Can You
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-arnold-reviews-roseanne-r

You may still come out a strident Rosanne-refuser, but at least when you talk about that it will be with greater logic and accuracy. (IOW: you won't look so foolish.)

[Glorfindel]

17. Roseanne? I thought the thread was about Laura Ingraham.

I have looked in vain for a mention of Roseanne, "misinformed" or not.

[RandomAccess]

51. Perhaps that would be better addressed to

the person I was responding to who took the opportunity to allude to Barr.

[maxrandb]

20. Sorry, I don't need advice on how to deal with Deplorables from "effing" Roseanne

Just like I won't take governing advice from Donnie Shit for Brains.

there is only one thing that we need to do with deplorables and that is defeat them.

This is a binary choice

Either we embrace progress, promote liberty, advance tranquility, pursue knowledge, enhance intellectual problem solving and create a country of compassion, empathy, joy, vision and forward thinking...or we go the route of the Deplorables.

Trying to "understand", or "reconcile" with people that would consciously march down to a voting booth and select someone so vile and devoid of humanity as Donnie Shirt Fingers is like trying to teach a goat to sing.

It wastes your time...and it pisses off the goat.

[RandomAccess]

50. Okay, have it your way -- which is the INTENTIONALLY and RIGIDLY

ignorant assessment of pretty much everything about the show.

Your choice. You choose wrongly. It always works better when you know -- and can demonstrate with APPROPRIATE (which would also include reality-based) crticism -- that you know what the hell you're talking about. You only served to further demonstrate my point.

[maxrandb]

52. I'll keep your criticism in mind

when my friends and loved ones are rounded up, detained, and deported to a country they've never known... possibly to face death.

Your "intelligent" post will be a great comfort, I'm sure.

Donnie Shit for Brains, who can't stop tweeting insults long enough to call the families of our sons and daughters killed in service to our country, somehow found the time to call Roseanne and heap praise on her for her "great" show... but yeah, the show has nothing to do with normalizing this orange POS

[RandomAccess]

53. Oh so you're a drama queen too.

Shoulda guessed it.

[maxrandb]

54. Not a drama queen

Just not willing to validate hatred... even for 22 minutes of a sitcom.

Maybe you should go check some of Roseanne's Twitter feed from the past couple of years before you look to her for enlightenment.

You'd better hurry though. ABC's been scrubbing that shit harder than a Donnie Short Fingers gold plated shitter after an all night KFC binge.

Oh... and please take Donnie's advice and go .....

[RandomAccess]

55. I hate to tell you this, but --

-- let me back up a bit first.

Your understanding of the show you're so worked up about is seriously defective. You've taken what you know about typical Trump supporters and smeared a whole cast AND the writers, etc., with that ugly broad brush. And it doesn't fit. At all.

I watched the first 2 episodes on Tuesday night, and I was very pleasantly surprised that it was very even-handed.

IF THE SHOW CONTINUES IN THE EXACT SAME VEIN, then I suppose it's possible that ardent Trump supporters will see affirmation of their choice in the show, while anti-Trump people will definitely see adequate pushback from the other side. I frankly thought it skewed a bit toward the liberal side, myself. The characters they built are a hoot -- a little black granddaughter, a grandson who seems gender-confused, a widowed daughter signing up to be a surrogate mother for some couple, and so forth and so on. They're going to be handling the Opoid crisis as one of their story lines.

For the most part, you can't treat subjects like those on TV in the way stereotypical Trump supporters would want, especially in a sitcom. They HAVE to be treated sympathetically. Else it's not funny, there's simply no place to affix any jokes.

Now, I'm not trying to convince you to watch Rosanne, and I'm not defending her as a person at all. You and everyone else here at DU have the right to choose your own entertainment. But what I am saying is this (the "I hate to tell you this --- ) is:

Watching a neutral sitcom doesn't validate Trump and NOT watching a given sitcom doesn't fight Trump.

I understand and share your concern about where the country is going under Trump. But let's fight where it makes sense to fight because the fight has the possibility of having an impact, not where it's a total waste of time and energy.

Watch what you want. Damn and demonize what you want. But again, it works better when you know what you're talking about in your denunciations.

[blake2012]

30. Hehe. I know. Hard to tell who is trolling on Roseanne

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vs. how many at DU are legitimately enamored by that psycho.

[sprinkleeninow]

33. Did you mean enamored? In lieu of enameled (or shellacked). 🤔

🙃

[jberryhill]

34. Enameled is when you watch her and get that odd feeling of decoupage

Decoupage is a French word for being covered in varnish, and it feels like it's all happened before.

[sprinkleeninow]

45. I used to decoupage, but then I got married.😝

[blake2012]

38. Goddamn autocorrect!!!

😀

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. Ha!

[sprinkleeninow]

43. Yeah, but it may be mysteriously on point, and humorous at times. 🤗

[Thekaspervote]

9. I have some kind of points card from wayfair I will be calling them!

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. They have dropped her now. Just announced via Twitter news. n/t

[sprinkleeninow]

46. Some down, more to go. A vote with yer 👜 is also effective.

Whatever it takes! 👊

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. AT&T just lost me - no longer gonna "bundle" cable, etc. despite their incentives. I can't support

them supporting someone who attacks our kids.

And for Nutrish - I'll buy it for my 4 (yes - 4. Don't ask.) rescue cats. I've bought it before and the cats liked it, even the one picky one.

[sprinkleeninow]

36. I tried Ray's dogga treats and they were very well received!

Then I read her on the list. Oh, no.

So glad she's made the decision to dump ingraham. Her treats ain't cheap, but I choose quality over quantity. I already have a list of entities I boycott. Political and personal reasons. In my own protest parade for two running decades. I reprimand hub when he unknowingly buys products on my 'list'. 🙂



~sprink
💙🇺🇸🌊

[raven mad]

14. Being who it was,

I'd have to say THAT'S DELICIOUS!!!😎

[rsdsharp]

15. Am I reading her tweet correctly?

Hogg has a 4.1 grade point and he can't get into UCLA? Just what are their criteria for admission?

[shenmue]

22. The UC system is pretty hard to get into

[sarah FAILIN]

26. I bet they would see it differently now

The kid is part of a movement. Who wouldn't want him?

[trotsky]

23. GPA isn't everything, of course. But the point of her tweet was just to further mock.

Raising the discourse, as the right wing so loves to do. They don't want to talk about gun violence, so they just smear anyone who tries to.

[deurbano]

29. You don't want to know. The college admissions process these days is unbelievable.

Kids are expected to take honors and AP classes that then weight their GPA higher than a 4.0 (if they have straight A's... which they should for competitive schools, and that includes a lot of colleges you probably never considered competitive.). They get a 5 for an AP 'A' or Honors 'A'. Mind you, there seems to have been grade inflation at many high schools, too, which puts kids at competitive high schools (especially if there hasn't been the same type of grade inflation) at a disadvantage. But that's just the GPA part... and then there are the ACT or SAT results to consider... all the extracurriculars... activities that demonstration 'leadership'... admissions essays...awards...references... etc.. The whole thing is quite the racket, and universities, especially the private ones, spend extraordinary amounts of money to deluge high school students with snail mail and email in order to entice kids who have no hope of getting into these schools (see University of Chicago) to apply anyway (pipe dream), so the university can have an absurdly low admission rate. (Which is seen as highly desirable.) I would never have gotten into Berkeley with the requirements today.

[still_one]

39. There are over 100 thousand students that apply to UCLA. In fact over a 100 thousand students apply

to UC San Diego and UC Berkley

Of those over 100 thousand students applying to UCLA, about 6000 are accepted, where it is mandated that about 4000 MUST be California residents.

While a high GPA and SAT scores, and essays are critical, there are just too many students applying for a limited number of spots, and since he was from out of state that makes the odds more difficult. This absolutely has no reflection on his qualifications. Just too many applications, and not everyone is accepted. That is why students apply to several schools

What isn't being talked about was that he got accepted to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. About 65 thousand students applied there, and about 6000 are accepted. Cal Poly is a very good school also, and nothing to sneeze at. He also got accepted at other schools around the country, and I don't recall which ones.

[SDJay]

16. These Young People

are going to kick this asshole's ass to the moon and back, and I absolutely love it. Shitheads like Ingraham are about to learn a hard lesson: you can fool your rube followers online, on the radio and on the teevee machine, but when you mess with these young people you're poking the proverbial hornets' nest. They know too much about the online/social media world and won't be trolled. They are the farthest thing from the middle-aged and old-aged cowardly, angry bigots who form your audience.

I hope every single advertiser pulls their money from that show. With scum like Ingraham, the only way for them to learn their lesson is the hard way.

[shelshaw]

18. Add Tripadvisor to the list

TripAdvisor says it will stop ads for right-wing TV host Laura Ingraham after she criticized Parkland shooting survivor[link:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/tripadvisor-drops-laura-ingraham-after-she-attacked-parkland-activist.html|

[OMGWTF]

21. Yay TripAdvisor!

I was just at their site trying to figure out how to contact them to ask them to drop the LI show. I write a lot of reviews for TA and was going to boycott them until they did so. Thanks for sharing!

[TeamPooka]

19. I feed my dog Nutrish. Made in the USA and has good health ratings so we chose it.

Now I'm super glad we did.

[mgardener]

24. Bayer

Makes a lot of products for your garden.
I just emailed them and told them I could no longer support them.

[sdfernando]

25. So now she attempts an apology?

Me thinks she's not sorry for her words/tweet...me thinks she is scared her advertisers will evaporate.

[sprinkleeninow]

37. Like smoke, let them vanish. As wax melts before a fire. eom

[hibbing]

27. From wikipedia

I did not know this about her, how horrid.




As editor of The Dartmouth Review, she had a reporter go undercover at an LGBTQ meeting on Dartmouth campus and published the transcript including the attendees.[8] She was criticised for forcibly outing them to friends and family.[8] At the start of the meeting, an oath of confidentiality was read whereby participants in the meeting were assured that information from the meeting would not be made public.[8] Ingraham claimed confidentiality did not apply, because the meeting had been advertised, and defended the outing of the gay students as a "freedom of the press issue".[8]


Peace

[njhoneybadger]

28. Supervillian Laura Ingraham auditions for female Two-face character.

[amuse bouche]

31. Pretty sure Nutrish is Rachael Ray's company.

[jberryhill]

35. Yes, because she was not as successful getting people to eat her food

[GulfCoast66]

40. Good for Trip Advisor!

I not only write lots of reviews but have pretty muched planned 3 European trips renting apartments thru them and reserving side trips thru their other company, Viator.

I was going to send them a note but they beat me to it.

Besides, how much business can they get from Fox? Yeah they have viewers, but none of the right wing people I am aquatinted with are serious travelers.

[saidsimplesimon]

42. welcome to DU

[ButSeeYa]

49. Thank you!

Been here a while - but seldom get the chance to post.

[Stuart G]

47. k and r...nt