It took just one advertiser dumping Laura Ingraham for her to issue an apology for attacking Parkland student survivor David Hogg, citing as her reason, “Holy Week.” But despite her flimsy tweet of regret, advertisers continued to pull support from the Fox News host’s show. By Thursday evening eight top companies said they would no longer be advertising on “The Ingraham Angle.”
Less than 24 hours later, than number has now more than doubled. Sixteen major U.S. companies have stood up and said they are either pulling their ads or will not advertise in the future on Ingraham’s show.
On Wednesday, in response to Ingraham’s attack, Hogg posted these two tweets:
Thursday night at 7 PM seven advertisers had pulled support:
Nestle
TripAdvisor
Nutrish
Expedia
Wayfair
Johnson & Johnson
Joseph A. Banks
That number is now 16, as delightfully illustrated by HuffPost senior politics reporter Jennifer Bendery:
Ingraham’s Fox News show premiered October 30:
Friday morning advertising executive Donny Deutsch on MSNBC called Ingraham “a reprehensible human being,” and said, “You might see Laura Ingraham saying bye-bye.”
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