In an op-ed for The Daily Wire Friday, Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro argues that the campaign against Fox News host Laura Ingraham has “nothing to do with decency” and “everything to do with politics.” A closer look at who is promoting the so-far-successful boycott effort against her advertisers reveals some familiar names from the progressive end of the political spectrum: Media Matters and Think Progress.
The campaign to take down Ingraham all stems from a tweet the host issued on Wednesday in which she described Parkland gun control activist David Hogg as “whining” about getting rejected by four California colleges. Though Hogg has repeatedly attacked his political foes in far more incendiary ways, even prompting CNN to call his rhetoric “unnecessarily provocative,” Hogg responded to the mildly critical tweet by calling for a boycott campaign against Ingraham’s advertisers, a boycott he has since doubled down on despite Ingraham apologizing for her initial tweet.
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