Updated at 8:17 p.m.
Sponsors of Fox News’ prime-time cable news show “Ingraham Angle” are pulling their ads from the show after host Laura Ingraham mocked Parkland-survivor-turned-gun-control-advocate David Hogg for his four college rejection letters.
Here are the companies that have pulled their advertisements from the show so far:
- TripAdvisor, American travel website
- Wayfair, e-commerce company
- Nutrish, Rachel Ray’s pet food brand
- Expedia, American travel company
- Nestle, food company
- Hulu, Internet video streaming service
Jos. A Bank, a men’s clothing company, also distanced itself from Ingraham’s show, telling the Daily Beast that though the show ran two advertisements on Wednesday, the company does not pay for its advertisements on the show.
The companies announced Thursday they were removing their ads from the show following Hogg’s call to boycott them after Ingraham’s tweet about Hogg getting rejected from four University of California campuses.
“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.)” 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.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018
Hogg responded to Ingraham’s criticism, calling on his more than 600,000 twitter followers to boycott advertisers on Ingraham’s show and then listing some of the show’s top sponsors for his followers to boycott.
Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers … Asking for a friend. #BoycottIngramAdverts
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018
Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that #
Top Laura Ingraham Advertisers
1. @sleepnumber
2. @ATT
3. Nutrish
4. @Allstate & @esurance
5. @Bayer
6. @RocketMortgage Mortgage
7. @LibertyMutual
8. @Arbys
9. @TripAdvisor
10. @Nestle
11. @hulu
12. @Wayfair— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018
Ingraham then apologized as her show began to lose advertisers.
Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA —incl. @DavidHogg111. On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland. For the record, I believe my show was the first to feature David…(1/2)
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 29, 2018
Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA —incl. @DavidHogg111. On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland. For the record, I believe my show was the first to feature David…(1/2)
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 29, 2018
