Fox News host Laura Ingraham takes time off after being shunned by advertisers for attacking teenage gun control advocate David Hogg
Ingraham has been criticised for her social media taunting of Hogg over his rejection by several colleges
Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late on Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.
Eleven companies so far have pulled their ads after a pushback by Parkland student David Hogg, 17, who called for a boycott of her advertisers.
Liberty Mutual Insurance and Office Depot are the latest Fox News sponsors that have said publicly they will not run commercials in the conservative commentator’s nightly prime-time programme The Ingraham Angle.
Ingraham is under fire for her social media taunting of Hogg over his rejection by several colleges. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior, who has transformed into a highly visible gun control activist following the deadly shooting at his Florida school, mentioned in an interview that he was not accepted by four University of California schools.
“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” Ingraham tweeted on Wednesday. “(Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA … totally predictable given acceptance rates.)”
Ingraham issued an apology on Thursday after Hogg urged his followers to boycott advertisers on her show.