Amid continued internal turmoil, plummeting ad revenues, and despite the election of Donald Trump, which the outlet hoped would spark its big comeback, ThinkProgress, an independent project of the Democratic Party&#8217;s Center for American Progress, shut its doors Friday.
In a report published Friday, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-a-top-progressive-news-site-is-shutting-down">The Daily Beast</a> announced the not-unexpected news that after reaching out to over a dozen news publishers to try to stave off the site&#8217;s demise, Center for American Progress Action Fund Executive Director Navin Nayak was forced to tell the already depleted staff of ThinkProgress that the project was officially defunct.
&#8220;Given that we could find no new publisher, we have no other real option but to fold the ThinkProgress website back into CAP&#8217;s broader online presence with a focus on analysis of policy, politics, and news events through the lens of existing CAP and CAP Action staff experts,&#8221; said Nayak in a statement reported by The Daily Beast&#8217;s Sam Stein and Gideon Resnick. &#8220;Conversations on how to do so are just beginning, but we will seek to reinvent it as a different platform for progressive change.&#8221;
Founded during the George W. Bush administration and maintaining prominence as one of the top progressive sites during the Obama era, ThinkProgress operated as an editorially independent project of CAP. Now, Nayak said, it would be folded back into the Democratic action fund.
While thinkprogress.org will continue to exist, Stein and Resnick explain, &#8220;it will no longer function as an independent enterprise focused on original reporting.&#8221; Future contributions to the site will come from the group&#8217;s various scholars promoting the progressive agenda, while the ClimateProgress blog will be taken back over by founder Joe Romm.
Stein and Resnick provide a summary of some of the reasons ThinkProgress ultimately failed to stay afloat (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>&#8230;the site suffered from editorial frictions during the Obama years, when the visions of some of the staff clashed with the larger political demands of CAP and its donors. At one point, CAP’s then-CEO Jen Palmieri <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/regarding-thinkprogresss-editorial-independence-f4ce69cd2c71/">wrote a guest post</a> on Yglesias’ ThinkProgress blog to issue a defense of Third Way after Yglesias had criticized the centrist-Democratic group. Elsewhere, there were <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/11/05/leaked-emails-from-pro-clinton-group-reveal-censorship-of-staff-on-israel-aipac-pandering-warped-militarism/">rifts and tensions</a> over ThinkProgress posts that were critical of Israel.
In the fall of 2015, staffers at ThinkProgress unionized, in part as a means of formalizing editorial independence from CAP brass. And there was a sense that the election of Donald Trump in 2016 would spark a boomlet in material for staff to investigate and cover. In 2018, the site brought on board Jodi Enda, an alum of CNN, to serve as editor in chief, in what was presented as a movement towards more original reporting. But editorial tensions have lingered.</blockquote>
The site&#8217;s unionized staff reportedly turned on CNN alum Enda, particularly over her handling of a piece that was critical of Bernie Sanders. The site&#8217;s publication of the piece resulted in backlash from the democratic socialist, who accused CAP of doing the bidding of corporate donors.
But what appears to have been the biggest factor was the site&#8217;s deepening financial woes. The Daily Beast obtained a document showing the site &#8220;facing a $3-million delta between revenues and expenses in 2019, of which $350,000 had come via a shortfall in ad revenue.&#8221; (<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-a-top-progressive-news-site-is-shutting-down">Read the full report here</a>.)
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Top Progressive Site Thought Trump’s Election Would Spark Comeback; Now It’s Closing Up Shop

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According to documents reviewed by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-one-of-the-top-progressive-news-sites-is-in-dire-financial-straits">The Daily Beast</a>, progressive news website ThinkProgress is in a financial spiral, suffering increasingly dire revenue gaps and rapidly shedding employees.
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org">ThinkProgress</a> &#8212; a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a think tank founded by members of the Obama and Clinton administrations &#8212; was launched in 2005 with the goal of helping promote the progressive agenda in the news cycle, but in recent years, the website has faced unprecedented revenue struggles that appear to be reaching a crisis point.
&#8220;A budget document provided to ThinkProgress management and obtained by The Daily Beast showed that the website was expecting a roughly $3 million gulf between revenue and expenses for 2019,&#8221; The Daily Beast reported Monday. Though ThinkProgress has &#8220;never been a revenue generator,&#8221; the outlet notes, the shortfalls in recent years appear to be unprecedented and escalating.
&#8220;According to the document, advertising revenue is projected to fall $350,000 short of what was budgeted this year, and online contributions are expected to fall short by nearly $180,000,&#8221; The Daily Beast&#8217;s Gideon Resnick and Sam Stein report. &#8220;The site is projected to have about $64,000 in grant revenue (money derived from donations to CAP and meant for coverage by ThinkProgress) in 2019. That&#8217;s roughly $60,000 short of what it had budgeted for the year and roughly $540,000 less than it received in 2018.&#8221;
Those steeply increasing revenue and donation gaps have already resulted in a 12% drop in payroll and several key departures, including a managing editor. Confidence in the leadership of the site also appears to be crumbling.
CAP Executive Director Navin Nayak acknowledged the site&#8217;s &#8220;large and growing budget gap&#8221; to The Daily Beast, citing widespread financial struggles for many digital media oragnaizations over the last few years.
&#8220;As with many other digital media organizations, 2017 and 2018 were particularly challenging years in this regard, as ThinkProgress experienced a 40 percent drop in ad revenue over just one year, creating an inevitable budgetary strain,&#8221; Nayak told the outlet.
Nayak reportedly met with the management of ThinkProgress Wednesday to discuss the gloomy financial situation. The site&#8217;s management then sent an email the following day, which The Daily Beast reviewed, admitting the grim outlook for the website. Sources told The Daily Beast that Nayak has been warning employees that they should start looking around for other employment. (<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-one-of-the-top-progressive-news-sites-is-in-dire-financial-straits">Read the full report here</a>.)
As an example of the kinds of pro-progressive, anti-Republican/Trump reporting coming out of ThinkProgress, here are some quick excerpts from pieces the embattled outlet is promoting online today:
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&#8220;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/conservatives-taking-a-page-from-the-2016-playbook-begin-targeting-joe-bidens-health-239ee3c78c3e/">Conservatives, taking a page from the 2016 playbook, begin targeting Joe Biden&#8217;s health</a>&#8220;: &#8220;Supporters of President Donald Trump on Fox News have begun speculating about presidential candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s health and physical aptitude, as the 2020 race begins heating up. The move mirrors a similar Republican strategy from 2016, when conservatives, trolls, and the Trump campaign questioned Hillary Clinton&#8217;s physical fitness and well-being.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/jewish-americans-rejecting-legacy-pro-israel-groups-6f602674d550/">No longer comfortable with legacy pro-Israel groups, many Jewish Americans are looking elsewhere</a>&#8220;: &#8220;Attitudes toward Israel have shifted among American Jews, as Trump and Netanyahu forge a sharp, rightward path together.
&#8220;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-picks-immigration-hardliner-to-lead-uscis-14457028e145/">Trump picks immigration hardliner to lead USCIS</a>&#8220;: &#8220;The Stephen Miller-ification of DHS officially begins.&#8221;
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Leaked Docs Show Democrats’ ‘ThinkProgress’ In Financial Spiral: Report

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In the final moments of the epic, and epically dark, third episode of the final season of &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221; the figure who&#8217;s cast a long shadow over the entire multi-year series, the Night King, leader of the Army of the Dead, was rather abruptly eliminated &#8212;and with him, the Left&#8217;s hope that the whole show was really supposed to be about the &#8220;existential threat of climate change.&#8221; Some climate change alarmists are predictably not happy about humans rather easily defeating this enemy, including the folks over at ThinkProgress.
&#8220;Game of Thrones is not about climate change after all as HBO wimps out,&#8221; bemoans the leftwing website in a <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/game-of-thrones-is-not-about-climate-change-after-all-as-hbo-wimps-out-90fc9868065c/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=5cd10664df4239000111c3c4&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">piece </a>posted Monday (h/t <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/07/lmaoooo-thinkprogress-is-pissed-game-of-thrones-not-about-climate-change-after-all/">Twitchy</a>).
&#8220;The huge HBO hit Game of Thrones has long been seen as a metaphor or parable for the climate crisis &#8212; and the author of the original books, George R.R. Martin, said as much last year, calling his story &#8216;a great parallel&#8217; to modern day climate change,&#8221; ThinkProgress&#8217;s Joe Romm writes. &#8220;But in the show&#8217;s eighth and final season, as the TV series races far past where Martin left the story in his still unfinished book series, HBO&#8217;s writers and show runners have literally shattered the entire metaphor.&#8221;
Martin made the &#8220;great parallel&#8221; comment during an interview with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/t-magazine/george-rr-martin-qanda-game-of-thrones.html">The New York Times</a> in October 2018, in which he said that while he created &#8220;the winter is coming&#8221; theme &#8220;long before anybody was talking about climate change,&#8221; he fully embraces the connection:
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It&#8217;s kind of ironic because I started writing &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; all the way back in 1991, long before anybody was talking about climate change. But there is &#8212; in a very broad sense &#8212; there&#8217;s a certain parallel there. And the people in Westeros are fighting their individual battles over power and status and wealth. And those are so distracting them that they&#8217;re ignoring the threat of &#8220;winter is coming,&#8221; which has the potential to destroy all of them and to destroy their world. And there is a great parallel there to, I think, what I see this planet doing here, where we&#8217;re fighting our own battles. We&#8217;re fighting over issues, important issues, mind you &#8212; foreign policy, domestic policy, civil rights, social responsibility, social justice. All of these things are important. But while we&#8217;re tearing ourselves apart over this and expending so much energy, there exists this threat of climate change, which, to my mind, is conclusively proved by most of the data and 99.9 percent of the scientific community.
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But, to the great disappointment of ThinkProgress, that &#8220;great parallel&#8221; was utterly annihilated with one quick jab of a knife by a single character rather than &#8220;all of the major powers&#8221; fully uniting to thwart the enemy.
&#8220;One of the show&#8217;s heroes single-handedly ended the existential climate threat with a clever knife trick &#8212; abruptly returning the storyline to a conventional tale of humans fighting among themselves for political power,&#8221; writes Romm. &#8220;In the real world, climate change is far too challenging a threat to be ended by one person &#8212; or even one battle that doesn&#8217;t include all of the major powers.&#8221;
&#8220;Ultimately, HBO wimped out, and left us with a simple, fantastical solution to their existential climate threat,&#8221; Romm concludes, ending the piece on as moralizing and dark a note as he can muster. &#8220;Our climate crisis, however, will not be defeated anywhere near as easily. We will require all the major polluters, including the United States, to join this battle if we are to have a serious shot at avoiding a catastrophic outcome.&#8221;
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ThinkProgress Slams HBO For ‘Shattering’ Climate Change Theme In ‘Game Of Thrones’

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may not have Hillary Clinton to contend with in this Democratic nomination process, but he&#8217;s not about to let Clinton allies who are still active in the Democratic Party jump on the bandwagon of his success.
Over the weekend, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-writes-complaint-letter-because-thinkprogress-criticized-him-for-being-a-millionaire/">Mediaite reports</a>, Sanders&#8217; campaign &#8220;fired off an angry letter to [the] liberal think tank&#8221; Center for American Progress, now run by a longtime Clinton fan, Neera Tanden. The letter excoriated the Center for American Progress and it&#8217;s 501(c)(4) offshoot, CAP Action Fund, for allowing an affiliated website, Think Progress, to attack Sanders for his &#8220;appearance&#8221; and for having earned more than a million dollars per year in 2017 and 2018, in part because of a bestselling book.
&#8220;Last week,&#8221; Bernie and his team fumed, &#8220;you published an article on ThinkProgress criticizing me for my appearance and for the income I earned from writing a book. Then, a day later, you published a video that dishonestly attacked me for hypocrisy in my effort to address income inequality in America &#8211; a video that was excitedly discussed on many conservative websites.&#8221;
As Mediaite notes, the piece doesn&#8217;t exactly call Sanders a hypocrite, though he&#8217;s responded with a temper tantrum nearly every time he&#8217;s asked about his newfound wealth, but it does point out that Sanders, once a millionaire, quickly went from decrying the greed of &#8220;millionaires&#8221; and &#8220;billionaires&#8221; to decrying the greed of &#8220;multi-millionaires&#8221; and &#8220;billionaires,&#8221; conveniently exempting himself from his own criticism.
The author also pointed out that it seems Sanders feels his wealth is &#8220;very off-brand and embarrassing,&#8221; and that he and his campaign have taken pains to hide his status not just as a millionaire, but as the owner of three houses and other trappings of wealth, even though Sanders defends his own riches by saying he still supports a &#8220;progressive tax system which demands that the wealthiest people in this country finally start paying their fair share in taxes.&#8221;
In his letter, Sanders called out Tanden specifically &#8212; one of Clinton&#8217;s top staffers on her 2008 campaign &#8212; for &#8220;maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas.&#8221;
Center for American Progress is, of course, no conservative outlet and neither is Think Progress. To suggest that either group is even close to the middle is downright outrageous. It&#8217;s also not directly affiliated with Think Progress, CAP claims, which they consider an &#8220;editorially independent&#8221; outlet under the umbrella of the 501(c)(4) but not directly related to it.
Center for American Progress is a generous donor to both progressive and moderate Democratic campaigns as well as to left-leaning PACs and organizations. They&#8217;re not a particularly good enemy to have, either, since they control a <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-american-progress-cap/">large donor and influencer network</a> that includes billionaire George Soros, the powerful Tides Foundation, and the always-flush-with-cash Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They partner with no less than the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations.
CAP also has direct links to the Podesta group, founded by John Podesta, a longtime Hillary Clinton ally and her 2016 campaign director.
So why is Bernie so desperate to earn their ire? It&#8217;s possible that Bernie is sore about an article and that he&#8217;s particularly vulnerable to attacks on his wealth coming from the Left. But more likely, Bernie Sanders&#8217; war with former Clinton allies is strategic. He did well, in 2016 and after, reminding his core followers that they were hated by &#8220;Establishment Democrats,&#8221; and who better to represent that bogeyman in the 2020 contest than an organization led by recognizable Clinton-era names?
It keeps the wounds of 2016 fresh.
It seems to be working. In the last week, Sanders has gone from second place to first in the Emerson presidential poll, and he&#8217;s the only candidate on the trail drawing significant crowds in early primary states. If he and his staff successfully reframe his candidacy as anti-Establishment (even though he&#8217;s been in the Senate several decades), it could propel him to the nomination.

SCHISM: Bernie Sanders And Staff Declare Open War On Clinton Allies

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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 &#8220;nothing to do with decency&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28886/laura-ingraham-boycott-has-nothing-do-decency-it-ben-shapiro">everything to do with politics</a>.&#8221; 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 &#8220;whining&#8221; about getting rejected by four California colleges. Though Hogg has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28152/david-hogg-begs-twitter-not-make-anti-gun-agenda-ryan-saavedra">repeatedly attacked</a> his political foes in far more incendiary ways, even prompting CNN to call his rhetoric &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28705/watch-cnn-calls-out-parkland-student-his-attacks-ryan-saavedra">unnecessarily provocative</a>,&#8221; Hogg responded to the mildly critical tweet by calling for a boycott campaign against Ingraham&#8217;s advertisers, a boycott he has since doubled down on despite Ingraham apologizing for her initial tweet.
The boycott effort has already successfully stripped Ingraham of at least eight advertisers, including insurance company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28895/breaking-insurance-company-pulls-advertising-ryan-saavedra">Liberty Mutual</a>, which caved to the pressure on Friday. Part of the reason for that success is the high-profile <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/29/hold-soros-funded-groups-fueling-laura-ingraham-advertiser-boycott/">involvement</a> of influential left-wing organizations.
Media Matters For America, which its Clinton ally founder <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/politics/hillary-clinton-media-david-brock.html">David Brock</a> has openly described as waging a prolonged &#8220;<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2011/03/media-matters-war-against-fox-051949">war</a>&#8221; on Fox News, sprang to action to embolden and aid fellow progressive activists. MMFE President Angelo Carusone has effectively dedicated his Twitter account over the last few days to taking down Ingraham. Here are some of his tweets, in which he provides a list of Ingraham advertisers and instructions to activists targeting the Fox News host:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidhogg111</a> FYI. Laura Ingraham has 2 really big named sponsors right now. These the big ones with strongest association: <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyMutual?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@libertymutual</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/BayerAG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bayerAG</a>/<a href="https://twitter.com/BayerUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BayerUS</a>
#1) <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyMutual?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LibertyMutual</a>. &#8220;The Ingraham Angle is brought to you by Liberty Mutual Insurance. Liberty stands with you.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/V4YQZTgtGM">pic.twitter.com/V4YQZTgtGM</a>
&#8212; Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/979190992229273600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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#2) <a href="https://twitter.com/BayerAG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bayerAG</a>/<a href="https://twitter.com/BayerUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bayerUS</a> (which owns Claritin): &#8220;The Ingraham Angle is brought to you by non-drowsy 24 hour Claritin. Live Claritin clear.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/oRMj9setM7">pic.twitter.com/oRMj9setM7</a>
&#8212; Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/979191767756140544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Just a general word of caution: be careful with advertiser lists unless you really know the source they came from and how they compiled. Pulling accurate and up-to-date advertiser info is a big effort&#8230;and it&#8217;s important that you always work from accurate and thorough sources.
&#8212; Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/979195869680586754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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FYI. Here are <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">IngrahamAngle</a>&#8216;s advertisers: <a href="https://t.co/GbuxzmZvvy">https://t.co/GbuxzmZvvy</a>
&#8212; Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/979443043244920832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#65039; tweet away <a href="https://t.co/cKe4iTTulV">https://t.co/cKe4iTTulV</a>
&#8212; David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/979444200201773057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Media Matters Chief <a href="https://twitter.com/GoAngelo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GoAngelo</a> on Laura Ingraham boycott
&#8220;You can expect more advertisers to leave &#8230; Fox News is reckless propaganda machine. It&#8217;s bad for business.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lJohvDnTEM">pic.twitter.com/lJohvDnTEM</a>
&#8212; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/979448754519658497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And here is Carusone celebrating the victories over Ingraham&#8217;s advertisers:
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I calculated percentage of total advertising base Ingraham has lost so far. In short, it&#8217;s more than 7% with just these 8 drops.
Nutrish (1.6%) 
WayFair (1.5%) 
Trip Advisor (1.2%) 
Hulu (1.1%) 
Stitch Fix (1%) 
Jos A Bank (0.5%) 
Nestle (0.25%) 
Johnson &amp; Johnson
&#8212; Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/979525764738580480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As for Think Progress, a project of the progressive activist organization Center for American Progress Action Fund, its founder and editor, Judd Legum, has likewise dedicated a whole lot of time over the last couple of days to trying to keep the anti-Ingraham momentum going. A few examples of his tweets:
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UPDATE: First company pulls ads from Fox News&#8217; Laura Ingraham after David Hogg called for boycott <a href="https://t.co/gSbzZtaLVE">https://t.co/gSbzZtaLVE</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979393285440622592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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UPDATE: Second company pulls ads from Fox News&#8217; Laura Ingraham after David Hogg called for boycott <a href="https://t.co/G8YbQ5dPum">https://t.co/G8YbQ5dPum</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979413479508660229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The difference is that these students are a savvy bunch and they know exactly how to hurt Fox News. They are winning <a href="https://t.co/G8YbQ5dPum">https://t.co/G8YbQ5dPum</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979413851883044864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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To borrow words from Laura Ingraham, &#8220;in the spirit of Holy Week&#8221; a third company, <a href="https://twitter.com/Wayfair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Wayfair</a>, won&#8217;t advertise on The Laura Ingraham Show <a href="https://t.co/rnoB6F4PQx">https://t.co/rnoB6F4PQx</a>
&#8212; Rebekah Fernández Entralgo (@rebekahentralgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/rebekahentralgo/status/979417199910768642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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UPDATE: Fourth advertiser drops Laura Ingraham&#8217;s show on Fox News following attack on Parkland survivor <a href="https://t.co/rcZwD4fgzD">https://t.co/rcZwD4fgzD</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979438578488004609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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1. To review, seven companies have pulled their ads from Laura Ingraham&#8217;s show following her tweet attacking Parkland survivor David Hogg
Nutrish 
TripAdvisor 
Wayfair 
Expedia 
Nestlé 
Johnson &amp; Johnson 
Hulu<a href="https://t.co/rcZwD4fgzD">https</a><a href="https://t.co/rcZwD4fgzD">://t.co/rcZwD4fgzD</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979521085610905602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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2. Notably companies have continue to drop Ingraham even after she tried to quell the controversy by saying she was sorry if she hurt Hogg&#8217;s feelings <a href="https://t.co/TqY4QXxRSZ">https://t.co/TqY4QXxRSZ</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979521500779876352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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3. Ingraham&#8217;s decision to not address the controversy until AFTER companies started abandoning her appears to be a major miscalculation.
We&#8217;ll see if she addresses the issue further on her program tonight.<a href="https://t.co/TqY4QXxRSZ">https://t.co/TqY4QXxRSZ</a>
&#8212; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/979521854888083456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28859/shapiro-calls-hogg-apologize-gop-loesch-rubio-james-barrett">Shapiro Calls For Hogg To Apologize To GOP, Loesch, Rubio</a>
H/T <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/29/hold-soros-funded-groups-fueling-laura-ingraham-advertiser-boycott/">Aaron Klein</a>

Left-Wing Groups Team Up To Take Down Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham

Media Matters For America

Left-wing Politico <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/democrats-real-people-lessons-234198">reported</a> that Senate Democrats will &#8220;hold lessons on how to talk to real people,&#8221; in an article published on Wednesday.

In an event hosted by David Brock &#8211; a Clinton loyalist and founder of Media Matters for America &#8211; entitled &#8220;Hold Trump Accountable,&#8221; Democrats will attend political strategy seminars hosted by Center for American Progress (CAP) CEO Neera Tanden and Priorities USA CEO Guy Cecil.

The event included political strategy segments on &#8220;speaking to those who feel invisible in rural America&#8221; and &#8220;listening to those who feel unheard.&#8221; 

Senate Democrats will also be advised by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) on how to &#8220;go around Republicans by trying to work with [President Donald Trump]&#8221; in a seminar entitled &#8220;Triangulating Trump.&#8221;

Sen. Dianne Feinsten (D-CA) will &#8220;prep Democrats on how to engage against Republicans over Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court pick.&#8221;

Reporters were not allowed to attend the event.

In December, Brock <a href="https://americanbridgepac.org/david-brock-announces-american-bridge-trump-administration-accountability-war-room/">announced a project</a> with American Bridge 21st Century &#8211; a leftist political agitation organ of the Democrat Party &#8211; to presumably ensure that the Trump administration would be &#8220;accountable, transparent, and held in check.&#8221;

Describing the project as the formation of a political &#8220;war room,&#8221; Brock warned of the Trump administration having &#8220;a minister of disinformation operating from the West Wing with ties to a proto-fascist media empire that is nothing more than a pro-Trump propaganda machine.&#8221; 

Brock promised to combat &#8220;Trump&#8217;s unprecedented willingness to lie and his infrastructure to propagate those lies.&#8221; The political &#8220;war room,&#8221; he added, would &#8220;fact-check administration statements in real-time.&#8221;

Despite being a neo-Marxist and Democrat-aligned agitation outlet, CAP <a href="https://ssl1.americanprogress.org/o/507/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=1818">enjoys nonprofit status</a> as a 501(c)(3) charity. Donations to such charities offer tax deductions to donors.

H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/burgessev">Burgess Everett</a> at <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/democrats-real-people-lessons-234198">Politico</a>

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