Young David Hogg is light years ahead of these RW morons

[malaise]

Hogg: I'll accept Ingraham's apology if she condemns Fox News coverage

Parkland, Fla., high school shooting survivor David Hogg said Thursday that he will only accept an apology from Fox News host Laura Ingraham for mocking him over college rejections if she denounced her network's coverage of the Parkland students pushing for gun control.

"I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children," Hogg tweeted Thursday.

Four companies — TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Expedia and pet food brand Nutrish — pulled their ads from Ingraham’s show on Thursday.

Hogg told The New York Times that he wasn’t impressed by the Fox News host’s apology.

“She only apologized after we went after her advertisers. It kind of speaks for itself,” Hogg said.

Hogg told the Times that it was “extremely frustrating” for Ingraham to personally target him over the college rejections, even as he’s grown used to harsh criticism.

“I’m not going to stoop to her level and go after her on a personal level,” he said. “I’m going to go after her advertisers.”

[erronis]

1. Do these shows/fools really rely on advertising for their paychecks? I thought it came from

several deep pockets such as the beautiful Mercer family or the Kochs who have been rather under the radar recently. And of course the NRA with supposed foreign cash to be passed on to congress, dump et.al., and various media.

Of course, all they really want are eyeballs. Attention to their messages. Flashy, blonde, legs, whoosh/whoosh. I know of a couple of those eyeballs that are in a fake orange coiffure (covfefe).

When murduck gets his message from somewhere, he'll pull the plug on the spouters. Of course they will all go on to write books and say how they've become good christians and were duped by big media .

[malaise]

2. I'd love details

Don't know

[tblue37]

22. And Saudis who own part of FOX. nt

[flibbitygiblets]

28. When we started targeting O'Reilly's advertisers, it quickly let to his being fired

per Wikipedia:

The O'Reilly Factor lost more than half its advertisers within a week; almost 60 companies withdrew their television advertising from the show amid a growing backlash against O'Reilly. Despite the loss of advertisers, The O'Reilly Factor's ratings increased during the controversy.

On April 11, 2017, O'Reilly announced he would take a two-week vacation and would return to the program on April 24; he normally takes a vacation around Easter. On April 19, 2017, O'Reilly's employment was terminated amidst these allegations

[Mariana]

30. When these companies remove the ads from her show

they don't remove them from Fox News. They just play the ads on different shows, and Fox News gets paid just the same - and don't doubt for a second they want that money. The advertisers should be boycotted until they stop supporting Fox News altogether. Make the Kochs and the NRA etc. pay for it all themselves.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. LOLOLOLOLOL! (Inhales) Hahahaha...

He turned things right back on that hate-filled POS!

[malaise]

6. Beautifully done

indeed

[pangaia]

4. No WONDER he didn't get accepted to all the schools to which he applied.

He used 'only' twice when only one was only needed.


These kids nowadays...

[malaise]

5. ROFL

Hahahahha

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. AND

". . . if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and *I* in this fight."

Should be ". . . My friends and *me*. . ." Wrong form of the pronoun. Oh, well. I will probably live just long enough to be the last speaker of English to get that correct. Not to mention the last one who understands the subjunctive.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Youre not alone!

I cringe whenever I hear otherwise well-spoken people begin their sentences “I and my friends” or confuse their pronouns. I’m also picky about “less than” versus “fewer.” I”ve almost given up on the effect/affect and who/whom confusion. Alas, I still hear my grammar teachers in my head, and their voices are relentless!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. "I and my friends" is far, far better than

"Me and my friends" which is what I all too often hear.

The first one has what grammar witches would think is a rude inversion -- you ought to name your friends first -- but at least the subject form I is being used.

Many years ago I asked my sister why she didn't correct her children when they used such incorrect forms, and she said Oh, they'll catch on because they hear me saying it correctly. Well, it didn't work out that way and it's all I can do when I'm around her now grown children (all in their 30s) when they speak like that. One daughter in particular comes across sounding ignorant and uneducated, and she actually has a college degree.

[HootieMcBoob]

12. Thank you 🙏🏾

That drives me nuts and I hear it constantly.

[DemocracyMouse]

19. Yet no one here is upset by the use of "moron"?

In DU it seems we are being trained to behave like attack dogs towards Republicans and avoid all critical thinking when it comes to ourselves.... just a hunch. Critical thinking in America is still what the founders of the country wanted by establishing the 1st amendment.... but not stooping to the gutter. Remember The Obama's sentiment:

"When they go low, we go high."

Still works for me.

[malaise]

29. They are morons

Just be thankful I didn't include effin' morons.

[DemocracyMouse]

31. LOL... i give up. Give 'em heck

[malaise]

15. Yep - picked that up immediately but I wasn't checking grammar here

On the other hand when I taught remedial English decades ago I'd tell the kids who had that problem to test the nominative and objective pronouns in the plural.
They'd never say 'have treated we' - they would use 'us', so it's got to be 'me'.

[3catwoman3]

34. No one ever says, "Me went to the store." Never ever.

If people can do it right in the singular, why can't they do it right in the plural? This mystifies me. I must have been an English teacher or grammarian in a past life. Sloppy language use sets my teeth on edge.

A recent atrocity that really gets on my nerves is people making a possessive out of "I " - John and I's wedding, or Mary and I's vacation, etc. Really cringeworthy.

[demigoddess]

20. same here. I hate hearing the so and so and I when it should be and me.

My english teacher is rolling over in her grave!!

[tblue37]

25. What about me? I am working hard in the trenches:

"The Case for Pronouns"
http://grammartips.homestead.com/case.html

"More on When to Use 'Who' and 'Whom' "
http://grammartips.homestead.com/who.html

"Yet Another Article about When to Use 'Who' and 'Whom'"
http://grammartips.homestead.com/who3.html

"Subjunctive Mood"
http://grammartips.homestead.com/subjunctive.html

[3catwoman3]

35. I have just emailed these links to myself so I...

...can savor them later.

These days, how many people even know the subjunctive mood exists, let alone use it.?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

37. OMG! Those are wonderful articles.

I have long wished to take an advanced English grammar class, and frequently find myself fretting over exactly such dilemmas as are illustrated in those articles.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[tblue37]

39. The articles on my site are targeted. I don't try to solve all possible grammar and usage

problems. Instead, I identify the ones that a lot of people seem to keep having trouble with and write articles that even someone without a lot of background knowledge can understand.

Notice that the title of the website is Grammar and Usage for the Non-Expert.

If I have to use technical terminology I explain it right there, or, if it would take too long to explain within that particular article, I write another article and then link to it so the necessary background information is easily accessible.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

40. Meanwhile, I am completely serious when I say I'd like to take a college level

class in grammar.

The last time I took an English grammar class was in the fall of 1963, in high school. I was in a sort of advanced junior English class, with an amazing teacher, and learned a lot. But I still feel as though I could learn a lot more.

Offhand, do you know of any colleges that teach English grammar?

I know, I'm weird.

[tblue37]

41. I actually wrote a little 77-page booklet in 1984 that I used to teach my grammar classes

at KU. I called it A Practical Guide to Basic Sentence Grammar. In it I use traditional diagramming (with a few modifications that I introduced for clarity) as a method for explaining the parts of the sentence and showing how they relate to each other.

I taught the remedial writing course for freshmen, and I also taught an advanced grammar course.

Unfortunately, neither of those courses are offered any longer at KU. The last time I taught advanced grammar was also in 1984.

I still make my little grammar book available as a download to all my students, along with another one (50 pages long) called A Brief Guide to Comma Usage.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

42. Nice.

It's scary the extent to which grammar is barely taught in schools any more.

Foreign language teachers complain that they have to teach English grammar to their students before they can teach their language's grammar.

[Lucinda]

7. He really has this all figured out.

[ProudLib72]

9. He has her number.

Headline should read:

High school kid quickly figures out ploy of dimwitted Faux Nooze talking head while millions of her viewers gape with drool hanging off their chins.

[malaise]

16. LOL

Perfect

[Kurt V.]

11. He goes directly at corporate America.

first the NRA and now corporate sponsors. he knows the system already.

[malaise]

17. +1,000

[BigmanPigman]

14. Wise beyond his years!

He knows that these talking head "Christians" are full of shit, lying, hate filled hypocrites and isn't afraid to call them out. He wasn't elected so doesn't have to kiss anyone's ass, has the support of millions around the world and has no fear! GO DAVID GO!

[malaise]

18. Yes indeed

[DemocracyMouse]

21. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone..."

In DU it seems we are being trained to behave like attack dogs towards Republicans and avoid all critical thinking when it comes to ourselves.... just a hunch. Critical thinking in America is still what the founders of the country wanted by establishing the 1st amendment.... but not stooping to the gutter. Remember The Obama's sentiment:

"When they go low, we go high."

Still works for me.

[Blue_true]

23. He is very relevant and the Neanderthals know that.

They don't attack people that do not scare them.

[Mr. Ected]

24. So refreshing that David Hogg is both unleashed and untethered

He doesn't have to filter his statements through the political calculations of our elected leaders.

[meow2u3]

26. David Hogg is hurting an evil person where it hurts the most

Right in their wallets!

[dlk]

27. Go David! Faux News is all About the Money.

I would say shame on them but they have no conscience. They only care about money, so targeting their advertisers is the most effective strategy.

[bigtree]

32. yes. He's sharp.

...I hope he takes some serious downtime. I'm sure this work he's doing is cathartic, but fighting to maintain his sanity is a different kind of effort.

He's definitely got a lot of the right stuff for this challenging occurrence in his life. Ingraham is definitely out of his league.

[Initech]

33. I'll take a million David Hoggs before I take one MAGAT.

[Gothmog]

36. From David and the father of a victim

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Leghorn21]

38. David is just trolling the crap out of sister Ingraham - cheeze, this kid!!

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Gothmog]

43. Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

44. David Hogg/Emma Gonzalez 2036!

A winning ticket!

[malaise]

45. LOL

Love it