Florida school massacre survivor David Hogg seeks boycott of sponsors of Fox's Laura Ingraham

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Source: CNBC

Florida school massacre survivor David Hogg, who has turned into fierce gun control advocate, is asking his 599,000 Twitter followers to boycott advertisers of Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

The conservative commentator mocked Hogg on Twitter on Wednesday after the 17-year-old revealed in an interview on TMZ that his applications were recently rejected by four University of California campuses. Ingraham tweeted: "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.)"

Hogg fired back with his own tweet calling on his followers to boycott Ingraham's advertisers. "Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that #," he tweeted.

TMZ producer Harvey Levin, who interviewed Hogg, was among many who responded to Ingraham's remarks. He tweeted: "@IngrahamAngle David was not whining. I called him about the story. He was not feeling sorry for himself in the slightest. It was my idea that colleges should consider applicants who are so committed. Did you watch the video???"

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[DinahMoeHum]

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

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fyc%2Fhtml%2Fembed-ifram

[SunSeeker]

2. She dounds as sharo as her brother!

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Little too quick with the fingers, eh?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Stop with the sharo criticism, already!

Let he who is without tpyos cast the frist snote.

[calimary]

19. Yed indees!

[riversedge]

8. I just tweeted two of her advertisers. Will do more today. Lets all help these wonderful kids.

[SunSeeker]

3. I DM'd TripAdvisor on Twitter with this message:

Please stop advertising on Fox's Laura Ingraham show. Her attack on 17-year-old David Hogg was beyond the pale and reflects poorly on your judgment if you continue to be her sponsor. I will not use TripAdvisor for my trips while you are her sponsor.

[Freethinker65]

4. Honestly I would prefer he sticks to promoting common sense gun laws

Let someone else handle the idiots that attack them on social media.

I think that Ingraham and others are trying desperately to get "the kids" off message. If they keep up with saying it is not about us, or our heritage, or our sexual preference, or our individual politics but about common sense gun legislation backed by an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens, the kids could and should win this.

[Nitram]

6. I respectfully disagree. We should stop "ignoring" ignoramuses and cons on the right who smear

liberals who express their views in public. We should hit back where it hurts - their bank account. This is part of the fight for rational gun regulation.

[olegramps]

15. Ingraham and her ilk are poisoning the minds of simple folks 24/7. Sad situation.

[Igel]

21. Absolutely.

If somebody says something offensive, the only response is to utterly crush and kill them. We're the righteous ones; what we do *has* to be good because we're the righteous ones.

Rhetoric >> logic.

Ever see a conservative smeared? Of course not. Anything we say about those subhumans has to be merited. Because this kind of thinking is purely rhetional. Oops. Rational.

[Nitram]

48. Of course I have indeed seen conservatives smeared. Gerald Ford for one.

And they smear each other all the time during primaries. But conservatives have become so bat shit crazy that it is impossible to smear them. Accuse them of any wildly imaginative crime and it will turn out to be true.

[Freethinker65]

46. Agree. WE should hit back. I would prefer if the Parkland "Kids" stay on message

If they can do both, more power to them. I just have seen times when extremely capable individuals spend so much time defending themselves from false accusations and demonization attempts that their message gets lost.....

If others take up the defense and let the individual stay on message, the results might be better

[mac56]

24. A wise man once told me

"Never let anyone become comfortable with disrespecting you."

[riversedge]

5. Here are the advertizers for her show......

Link to tweet

[Oppaloopa]

7. Thank you. let's all do this.

[PearliePoo2]

10. Nice work! Thank you!

[femmocrat]

16. I signed up for Wayfair.

It is the only one I use from the list.

[calimary]

20. Excellent! Keeping this.

Thanks for relaying this, riversedge!

[abbeyco]

27. Called #1 & #12

Neither was particularly helpful nor cared too much...so next contact will be via Twitter or FB. This ingraham harpy needs to be taken down several notches.

[raven mad]

36. LOL! Told Bayer that Ingraham is not JUST a headache...

I've found that letters/email/tweets get more attention from companies if you also add:

a) praise for product/service but only if sincere;

b) an upbeat attitude when suggesting a remedy or remedies to the reason for the complaint.

I've gotten a LOT of great responses that way,from government agencies to restaurants and beer distilleries.

Some of the advertisers above don't exist here, but the ones who do will be tweeted and followed up by e-mail if available.

Republicans and their supporters have a lot in common with sewers and sceptic tanks.

[kag]

41. Great advice.

Thanks.

[Bengus81]

11. Eh...product boycotts are usually duds no matter which side uses them. It's up to the Company...

themselves to make the decision to keep advertising on that show or not. I'll give them much more credibility and my business if THEY decided to not support people like Ingram and pull advertising.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It wasn't a "dud" when Glenn Beck was removed from terrestrial radio

and forced to go internet, afterwhich he had to retool to get back on the radio again. Plus boycotts pretty much added to the bankrupting of Clear Channel (renamed IHeartRadio after being vulture capitalized and milked before it bit the dust a couple weeks ago), where they were trying hard to hang on after significantly cutting Limpball's income when his contract was renewed. And with that contract being based on "revenue sharing" and IHeart going bankrupt, the handwriting is on the wall.

[Bengus81]

31. Ok...well I was discussing the 12 Companies listed,not Limbaugh or crazy ass Beck.........

Who are both still on the air. In fact our local hate radio went back with Beck a couple of years ago. Let's keep tab and see how many of those 12 Companies refuse to advertise on Ingrams show or FOX for that matter.

On the flip side let's see if crazed Trumpanzies cause a big revenue drop at Amazon seeing how their always the party of boycotting.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. There is a thread I literally just read before seeing your post where the 1st has announced

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210428409

There will probably be a (mini) exodus. Ingraham is part of the 2nd tier crowd - including Mark Levin, Savage Wiener, Hugh Hewett, Mike Gallagher, Ann Coulter, etc.

The difference between them and us is that THEY will continue airing and otherwise spewing their bullshit at a loss because they consider that a "donation" to their cause. See the Moonies and the Washington Times that operated for 33 years, with $1 billion in losses before finally turning a profit 3 years ago - all to spew RW bullshit.

Same with Cumulus (and their RW stations), that is going through bankruptcy too. They don't care.

But I say make them operate at a loss. Eventually they will cut them loose and move on.

[forgotmylogin]

22. They do need to hear it though.

One customer doesn't matter, but hordes of them will, especially on social media where they are on public display.

I get cable and internet through AT&T and I can totally let them know that Charter Spectrum (gritting teeth) is offering that for $30 less.

[Dream Girl]

30. Disagree boycotts are extremely effective. Ever heard of Montgomery bus boycott?

It’s the one way to get a media figure:s attention..., hit them where it hurts.

[certainot]

13. suggestion: record an hour of her show, get it transcribed for $5/hr, get LOCAL advertisers

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

then drag the mp3 or other sound file to the 'box' sonix.ai to get it transcribed for $5/hr (plus monthly fee $15 - 1st 1/2 free). it doesn’t take long and they send you an email when it's done. they use AI and it's much faster, accurate and cheaper than anything else available 1 year ago.

then you’ll have a list of LOCAL advertisers with their contact info and you’ll be able to associate what she says with what the advertisers are sponsoring, in print, and send it to them in an email that prob has a good chance to reach the owner/boss.

similar can be done for ALL the RW hosts - local and national - all are attacking the kids when not excusing trump. and if you search the transcript for ‘hogg’, which is a very common name all over the country on rw radio, or "guns" NRA, AR-15, "second amendment" "parkland", etc there will be a lot of ammo....

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

other benefits here:
Artificial intelligence can amp up the boycotts, democratize talk radio, doom the GOP.

[shenmue]

17. Wha

[mahina]

29. That is excellent info. Would you consider making an op?

That could make a big difference.

[certainot]

33. i'm expanding on it - i just got a recording off an iheart limbaugh station in madison

where the local rw blowhard on before limbaugh calls the pope a communist for praising the parkland protestors - i think that's what i heard - right after iheart ran a local ad for a new mexico credit union - there's a lot of love for the pope around here and i'll send them a transcript of that......

now i just recorded an ad a touting the university of new mexico's diversity!!!! during the limbaugh show - i've recorded about 3 of those in the last few days

getting one of these 88 unis to drop limbaugh stations could start a landslide of unis and advertisers

i'll add more to this last diary in the near future

[mahina]

39. Thank you. I'll come back to your journal and read more.

[mahina]

43. Would it be ok with you if I made an op of your post, with link and text for people here to read?

Your post stands out to me in a sea of others as one that can help us break through serious obstacles as a society.

Better yet, you post it.

Hopeful!

[certainot]

45. please do - i'm in the middle of work!

[Gothmog]

18. Boycott Ingraham

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Zorro]

23. A punch in the nose or a punch in the wallet

Those are the only two things Republicans understand.

[poboy2]

34. truth-nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. There are going to be plenty of colleges

who will want Hogg and all the other students from Parkland who have spoken up.

With all due respect to the UC schools, he'll get into one much better for him than the ones who rejected him.

[3Hotdogs]

26. Arby's 800-599-2729

[SCantiGOP]

28. I cant in good conscience threaten to boycott Arbys

Since I would never eat there even on the brink of starvation.
I have sent emails to several others on the list.
I am a big fan of using your consumer power to influence these advertisers. For every one who contacts them they assume there are another 20 or so who feel the same way.

[3Hotdogs]

35. I do (did) eat there. It is one of the better fast foods.

I will not go back unless they withdraw from L.I.

There is a 5 Guys in the same shopping strip as the Arby's.

[FreeState]

40. They are slammed - been on hold for 20 minutes... n/t

[Moral Compass]

37. Straight to the carotid

This young man has mad skills for one so young.

He knows where the areas of weakness are and went straight for the carotid.

Ms. Ingraham is backing up so fast she’s burning rubber but I fear it may be too late. The Kraken has already been released.

These youngsters are not messing around.

[TuxedoKat]

49. Not Messing Around Indeed

I pulled up this news item on my iPhone yesterday to my 16 year old daughter as she hadn't heard about it yet. She had a slightly bemused expression on her face as she read it. We were discussing the incident for a few minutes and I made a comment about how the kids had handled the situation and she tossed off a comment while looking down at her cellphone about something else, and said, "Yeah, we'll get you."

[Yavin4]

38. Maybe Hogg got rejected by the UC Cal schools because he's not a state resident.

They give priority to state residents.

[Stuart G]

42. k and r...no text

[SergeStorms]

44. Yeah, smart thing to do Laura.

Go whacking the hornet's nest with your big, stupid, floppy lips. Does this noxious toad think her moronic followers have one quarter of the pull these young people now wield? They have truth and numbers on their side, Laura. You have lies and some doddering old fools on your side, Laura.

Good luck with your little loud mouthed, stupendously stupid diatribe, Laura. Oh yeah, and fuck you.

[duforsure]

47. Great move David,

Hit them where it hurts, money . Ever thought about running for office David? You should, we need good young people in our government , and you have shown you DO have the abilities to do well in that position. We also need others from your group to also think about running for office after seeing , and hearing your voices for this country's gun problems, especially some of the girls. Emma and Ms Tar were very , very good as were some others, but more women need to be in our government asap. Keep it up David, they are feeling the effects .