Ingraham tweets herself into trouble by attacking teen
SAN DIEGO -- Conservatives like to preach that people should take responsibility for their actions and not play the victim.
Thus, it is not a good look when they themselves refuse to take responsibility for their actions and instead play the victim.
The latest right-wing victim is Laura Ingraham. The Fox News host is steadily bleeding advertisers from her primetime show after she messed with the wrong kid. She is now on a "preplanned vacation."
Preplanned? If you believe something that far-fetched, you must be a regular viewer of Fox News' primetime lineup. There, the theme seems to be: Democrat-voting illegal aliens are taking your guns!!
Things went awry when Ingraham mocked 17-year-old David Hogg in an attempt to defend the National Rifle Association. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student -- who has called for stricter gun laws since the Feb. 14 shooting on that campus in Parkland, Florida -- had revealed his college admissions setbacks during an interview on another network.
Firing up her 2.19 million followers on Twitter, @IngrahamAngle 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.)"
Here you have Ingraham, a full-grown woman who -- besides writing books and hosting a daily radio show -- also has a nightly show on Fox News that attracts more than 2 million viewers, and she still finds time to pick a fight with a teenager.
Guess what? The teenager won. Via Twitter, Hogg playfully asked Ingraham for a list of her advertisers -- saying he was "asking for a friend." Then he called for a boycott.
Ingraham's list is shorter now that nearly 20 companies have bailed, including Bayer, Office Depot, Hulu, Johnson & Johnson, TripAdvisor, Nutrish, Expedia, Honda and Nestle.
Conservatives responded by making whine.
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