Now just who’s the bully?
What did Fox News’ Laura Ingraham say that cost her advertisers?
About David Hogg, the teenage Parkland, Fla., high school shooting survivor, Fox’s 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.)” Insensitive, given the mass shooting that killed 17 at Hogg’s high school? Yes. Insulting and condescending coming from an Ivy League-educated lawyer? Yes. But the punishment does not fit the crime.
Hogg urged Ingraham’s advertisers to drop her show. Several did. Ingraham apologized, but Hogg refused to accept her apology.
He called her a “bully” and wants Ingraham to extend her apology to others she offended: “She told Lebron James to shut up and dribble. I don’t see any apology for those people . ... I would only consider (going back on her show) after she apologizes to all the people that she’s hurt throughout her professional career because of her immaturity and unprofessionalism.”
Two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Hogg gave an interview to The Outline, in which the writer described Hogg as “exhausted” and “still traumatized.” Hogg said:
“What sick (expletives) out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get re-elected. What type of (expletive) person does that?
They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn’t take action, because they all still see these dollar signs.”
Referring to Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and money contributed to him by the National Rifle Association, Hogg said: “What about the $176,000 you took for those 17 people’s blood?”
But Ingraham is a “bully”? Now does this “Ingraham Standard” apply to, say, CNN’s Anderson Cooper? Frustrated at what he perceived as his guest’s blind defense of President Trump, Cooper said, “If (Trump) took a dump on his desk, you would defend him.” Cooper apologized, but then so did Ingraham.
What about Time Warner’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” show on HBO? Here are some of Maher’s greatest hits on conservative women:
Sarah Palin’s son, who has Down syndrome, is “retarded.” Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are “two bimbos.”
What about CNN’s Don Lemon, who called President Trump “racist” following reports that Trump called Haiti and African counties “(expletive)hole countries”? When Fox’s then-host Glenn Beck called Obama “racist,” a group called Color of Change put up an online petition calling for the cancellation of Beck’s show.
If Ingraham is a “bully,” what do you call MSNBC’s caustic, Trumphating lineup of hosts? Apply the Ingraham Standard to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Angry with the Republican opposition to Obamacare, Matthews tore into the GOP and accused the party of wanting “people who don’t have insurance to die on the gurney.”
As for Hogg, he sounds like a teenager. Oh, wait, he is.