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CNN’s Stelter On Laura Ingraham-David Hogg Dust-Up: Increase In Ad Boycotts ‘Dangerous’
Breitbart ^ | 4-1-2018 | Trent Baker

Posted on 04/02/2018 5:20:29 AM PDT by blam

During Sunday’s “Reliable Sources” on CNN, host Brian Stelter weighed in on the advertiser boycott initiated by Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg on Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham, calling the uptick in the boycotts ” dangerous.”

“Are ad boycotts the right answer here?” Stelter asked. “I’m personally pretty wary of this.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycotts; cnn; davidhogg; deadchildrenrico; hogg; hoggrico; hoggwash; ingraham; laura; lauraingraham; payorelserico; rico
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To: TallahasseeConservative
RE:”This kid is an 18 year old snot nosed punk, who doesn’t know a damn thing about life. Who the hell is he to call for boycotts etc. It’s about time that he gets some push back.”

He's the guy who got 14 sponsors to pull their ads from her show.

21 posted on 04/02/2018 6:26:38 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Florida school safety bill=gun grabbing)
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To: sickoflibs

And that’s the problem.


22 posted on 04/02/2018 6:27:37 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: sickoflibs

No he didn’t.

His puppet masters in the extreme left wing pressure groups who are using him as a sock puppet did it. They had their PR firm fire up the computer bots to generate a fake email bombardment.

It time the Right create the same sort of PR machine to destroy these extremist Leftists like Media Matter, Organizing for America etc. Instead we don’t even engage them.


23 posted on 04/02/2018 6:31:22 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: MGG

I noticed that too.


24 posted on 04/02/2018 6:32:31 AM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: blam

I wonder the accounts actually moved to a more general category. Could be a lot of over wrought theater going on here.


25 posted on 04/02/2018 6:35:55 AM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: blam

Yes it is dangerous. Dangerous to the profits and financial stability of those companies supportive of the filthy mouthed anti-Trump Hogg. Those companies deserve whatever blowback their action (withdrawing from the Ingraham show) for political reasons befalls them. The polling news on Drudge today shows Trump with 50% popularity. That means potentially a LOT of voters and consumers disagree with corporate leftism. They went that way, now they can deal with the blowback.


26 posted on 04/02/2018 6:39:52 AM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: junta

To name a few: Katie Hopkins, Michele Malkin, Pam Geller, Brittany Pettibone, Jeanine Pirro, Dana Loesch, Tammy Bruce. I’ve only had one cup of coffee so when I wake up, I’ll think of more.


27 posted on 04/02/2018 6:40:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: blam

Jemele Hill, Just “shut up ”


28 posted on 04/02/2018 6:41:14 AM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: blam
The 14 Advertisers who have dropped Laura Ingraham's Show- let your voice be heard (vanity)

Thanks for that link...I was beginning to think the only conservative response was to blame Ingrahm for apologizing to Hogg in the spirit of Easter and then taking her planned break.

29 posted on 04/02/2018 6:42:33 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: JohnG45

What you did is react. You are on defense. I’ve been doing the same thing.

We would be better off asking sponsors to drop one of the mouthpieces on the left. Turn the tables and go on offense when one of them says something offensive. Pick one and destroy him. Just like they do.


30 posted on 04/02/2018 6:42:49 AM PDT by jean michael
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To: HotHunt
I've never done business with any of the named 14 companies that have pulled ads. So what's the point?

Have you considered calling some of them anyway and give them a piece of your mind...or calling one of the advertisers who didn't cut and run to show support?

This is more about the hurt feelings of a 17yo, David Hogg is a proxy for every gun grabber in the country.

31 posted on 04/02/2018 6:46:36 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: blam

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy


32 posted on 04/02/2018 7:11:48 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: blam
initiated by Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg

He's admitted he wasn't even there but got there as fast as he could.

33 posted on 04/02/2018 7:28:45 AM PDT by 1066AD
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To: MNJohnnie
What dangerous is the naivety of Corporate American falling time and again for these computer bot driven PR “boycott” campaigns.

Leftists pressure groups use computer bots programs to generate thousands of fake emails. Politician have gotten wise and know how to screen out these but Corp America still is falling for this garbage.

it time for the Right to stop playing with kid gloves and destroy these Leftist clown shows at their own game.

YES! If "media matters" and the leftists can use bots to "generate thousands of fake emails," why can't we do it? Turnabout is fair play.

34 posted on 04/02/2018 10:39:29 AM PDT by CDB ("I thought that 'gun control' was shooting with both hands")
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To: blam

In a rare moment of clarity, liberal mouth breather realized that boycotts can work against them too.


35 posted on 04/02/2018 10:42:08 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Trump20162020
It’s only the left (i.e., Media Matters) doing it though.

Let me see if I have you right, you think that only the left does advertiser boycotts? If so, you lead a very sheltered life if you don't believe the right also engages in boycotts, ever hear of Disney, JCP, Target, NFL, Starbucks, Keurig, Nordstrom, Kellog, to name a few, remember The Dixie Chicks?

The right boycotts just as much as the left, but the left uses bogus email, fax and letter campaigns to bolster their boycotts and for some reason advertisers seem to fear the left more.

36 posted on 04/02/2018 11:28:37 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1
It said ad boycotts. When has the Right prominently went after a Leftist host's advertisers the way the Left has with Rush Limbaugh (post-Sandra Fluke), Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, etc. recently?
37 posted on 04/02/2018 11:52:12 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: CDB

“YES! If “media matters” and the leftists can use bots to “generate thousands of fake emails,” why can’t we do it? Turnabout is fair play.”

I’ve been saying that for quite some time.


38 posted on 04/02/2018 12:32:46 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Trump20162020
Boycotts to damage a company and all it's employees is no better or worse. But here ya go, a few of the other.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/31/two-can-play-this-game-sean-hannity-supporters-go-after-rachel-maddows-advertisers/?utm_term=.474745b97aa4

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/jimmy-kimmel-goes-hard-left-ratings-drop/

https://www.facebook.com/conservativesboycottingjimmykimmellive/

https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/boycott-stephen-colbert-and-advertisers.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/68tfpw/list_list_of_stephen_colbert_advertisers_to/

http://www.thebarbedwiresatire.com/conservatives-announce-boycott-of-activist-david-hoggs-sponsors/

http://www.varight.com/news/list-of-chris-matthews-hardball-sponsors-to-boycott/

https://www.facebook.com/Join-boycott-the-view-group-168744219818097/

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2018/02/21/mrc-announces-campaign-hold-view-advertisers-accountable-anti-christian

https://twitter.com/hashtag/boycottsarahsilverman?lang=en

39 posted on 04/02/2018 12:50:55 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: mac_truck
No. I've never considered that.

I am not aware that I have ever purchased products from any of these advertisers.

I am not even a cable TV watcher, let alone Ingraham's program.

And I am not an activist.

What I am is a retired, 70 year old, hard-working, conservative cattle rancher who puts in long hours and hard days.

I'm not the slightest bit interested in calling companies I don't know, about advertising on a TV program I don't watch, to tell them they're a bunch of lily-livered, yellow-bellied, p*ssy hat-wearing, wimpy, spineless corporate wienies.

Maybe you can pass on my critique of their abilities as corporate leaders for me, when you call them yourself. I give you my permission to quote me word-for-word. Thanks.

Look, I hate to deflate your sails here, but I've been there done that in my life. Let the young folks do the protesting.

40 posted on 04/02/2018 1:31:39 PM PDT by HotHunt
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