Parkland survivor-turned gun control advocate David Hogg called for a boycott of Fox News prime-time host Laura Ingraham’s sponsors Wednesday night after she mocked him for not getting accepted to some of his college choices.
Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers … Asking for a friend. #BoycottIngramAdverts
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018
“Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers … Asking for a friend. #BoycottIngramAdverts” Hogg tweeted, following with another tweet showing twelve Ingraham advertisers.
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
The call to his more than 600,000 Twitter followers to boycott advertisers on Ingraham’s show comes after the Fox News host mocked the high school senior’s four rejection letters from University of California college 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
The acceptance rate for the University of California, Los Angeles, one of the schools to which Hogg applied, reported an acceptance rate of just more than 16 percent for the fall of 2017.
Hogg’s sister, Lauren, appealed to first lady Melania Trump claiming that her brother is being “cyberbullied.”
“HEY @FLOTUS MY BROTHER IS LITERALLY GETTING CYBERBULLIED BY @IngrahamAngle. ANY COMMENTS?” Lauren Hogg tweeted.
HEY @FLOTUS MY BROTHER IS LITERALLY GETTING CYBERBULLIED BY @IngrahamAngle.
ANY COMMENTS?
— Lauren Hogg (@lauren_hoggs) March 29, 2018
Trump made the issue of cyberbullying an issue she would be focusing on as first lady.