Laura Ingrahm announced she is taking a week's vacation.

She wants to be with her kids.


The vacation has been planned for a long time.


Sean Hannity say's he didn't answer phone call because he was in the bathroom!!!

Bill Maher say's he's going to have lunch around noon today!!!

Who really cares.

 

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

She wants to be with her kids.




The vacation has been planned for a long time.



she's always been a terrible person.  Where I always had the notion that Ann Coulter is pretending to be a mean, sarcastic troll, it always seemed that Ingraham is the real thing.



TJ said:

Sean Hannity say's he didn't answer phone call because he was in the bathroom!!!

Bill Maher say's he's going to have lunch around noon today!!!

Who really cares.

 

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

She wants to be with her kids.




The vacation has been planned for a long time.

The background:  last week, Ingram mocked David Hogg. He responded by calling for a boycott of her sponsors. By Friday, 11 major sponsors had dropped her program. 

—— vacation announcement.






Hogg not Hamm


Didn't we just have a thread where people were trying to tell us that boycotts don't work?


There was no way any boycott had a finacial effect yet.  It was advertisers deciding quickly they didn't want to be associated with Ingraham.

drummerboy said:

Didn't we just have a thread where people were trying to tell us that boycotts don't work?




yahooyahoo said:

There was no way any boycott had a finacial effect yet.  It was advertisers deciding quickly they didn't want to be associated with Ingraham.

It's nearly the same thing. Consumers threatened to boycott the advertisers if the advertisers didn't pull out.



Tom_Reingold said:



yahooyahoo said:

There was no way any boycott had a finacial effect yet.  It was advertisers deciding quickly they didn't want to be associated with Ingraham.

It's nearly the same thing. Consumers threatened to boycott the advertisers if the advertisers didn't pull out.

While I think you are correct, Tom, in this case I wonder how much of it was due to the blatantly repugnant behavior on the part of Ms Ingrahm.  She mocked a teenage survivor of a school massacre and he called out her advertisers on it.  "Conservative Pundit Bullies Teenager Who Survived School Shooting" is low-hanging fruit for a boycott strategy.

If she stuck to just presenting the party line on 2nd amendment rights without personally attacking him, and he called out her advertisers I wonder if it would have had the same effect.  



mrincredible said:



Tom_Reingold said:



yahooyahoo said:

There was no way any boycott had a finacial effect yet.  It was advertisers deciding quickly they didn't want to be associated with Ingraham.

It's nearly the same thing. Consumers threatened to boycott the advertisers if the advertisers didn't pull out.

While I think you are correct, Tom, in this case I wonder how much of it was due to the blatantly repugnant behavior on the part of Ms Ingrahm.  She mocked a teenage survivor of a school massacre and he called out her advertisers on it.  "Conservative Pundit Bullies Teenager Who Survived School Shooting" is low-hanging fruit for a boycott strategy.

If she stuck to just presenting the party line on 2nd amendment rights without personally attacking him, and he called out her advertisers I wonder if it would have had the same effect.  

I wonder if some of her advertisers have wanted to ditch her for a while, she’s a pill after all, and this incident was the low hanging fruit. It’s unbelievable to me that some people only find their “regret” when it hits their pocket. 


not to be cynical, but it would probably be worth looking in 3 or 6 months to see if any of those advertisers have returned to her show. Or even after the midterms.


She has said many things that are just as bad or worse than the David Hogg statement.  

She told LeBron to "shut up and dribble", which is dripping with latent racism.

Unfortunately, it took her attacking a teenage mass-murder survivor to wake up some of these advertisers.

ElizMcCord said:



mrincredible said:



Tom_Reingold said:



yahooyahoo said:

There was no way any boycott had a finacial effect yet.  It was advertisers deciding quickly they didn't want to be associated with Ingraham.

It's nearly the same thing. Consumers threatened to boycott the advertisers if the advertisers didn't pull out.

While I think you are correct, Tom, in this case I wonder how much of it was due to the blatantly repugnant behavior on the part of Ms Ingrahm.  She mocked a teenage survivor of a school massacre and he called out her advertisers on it.  "Conservative Pundit Bullies Teenager Who Survived School Shooting" is low-hanging fruit for a boycott strategy.

If she stuck to just presenting the party line on 2nd amendment rights without personally attacking him, and he called out her advertisers I wonder if it would have had the same effect.  

I wonder if some of her advertisers have wanted to ditch her for a while, she’s a pill after all, and this incident was the low hanging fruit. It’s unbelievable to me that some people only find their “regret” when it hits their pocket. 




ml1 said:

she's always been a terrible person.  Where I always had the notion that Ann Coulter is pretending to be a mean, sarcastic troll, it always seemed that Ingraham is the real thing.

Doesn't work that way. You don't "pretend" to mean like that on her scale, and also maybe be a nice/different person.


Hopefully like BOR she won't return. 



Baldwin said:

Hopefully like BOR she won't return. 

Just heard that Fox announced that she is returning right after her vacation with her kids. Hard to believe but then again her crowd probably lobbied for her just to make us miserable.


What kind of people enjoy listening to her?



Tom_Reingold said:

What kind of people enjoy listening to her?

the people who love liberal tears.


My brother-in-law.  A stunningly capable guy and loving in his way, but all straight lines & square corners & house rules.  I think he admired her sharp tongue, hopefully not all her positions.  Can only wonder how he would have reacted to DJT, as he is now moving down the road into dementia.  LOL   I can't imagine he would have taken to the con-man aspects, nor the scattershot "policies" of DJT.


there's often a meanness to right wing "satire." If one listens to Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, Levin, or any of the rest, there's a "punching down" aspect to their "humor."  It just comes with the territory, and their audiences love it. 



ml1 said:

there's often a meanness to right wing "satire." If one listens to Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, Levin, or any of the rest, there's a "punching down" aspect to their "humor."  It just comes with the territory, and their audiences love it. 

I never understood that kind of "humor". It's not funny. Self-deprecating humor is the funniest. 




Morganna said:

Just heard that Fox announced that she is returning right after her vacation with her kids. Hard to believe but then again her crowd probably lobbied for her just to make us miserable.

Maybe having her kids on will make the show better


when Jon Stewart was doing The Daily Show, he didn't even have to say anything.  He'd just play a clip of a politician saying something absurd, and then stare into the camera.

LOST said:



ml1 said:

there's often a meanness to right wing "satire." If one listens to Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, Levin, or any of the rest, there's a "punching down" aspect to their "humor."  It just comes with the territory, and their audiences love it. 

I never understood that kind of "humor". It's not funny. Self-deprecating humor is the funniest. 



Yeah, the punching down, so to speak, is what baffles me. Haven't we grown up yet? Apparently not.



Tom_Reingold said:

Yeah, the punching down, so to speak, is what baffles me. Haven't we grown up yet? Apparently not.

Some have, some haven't. Using humor to degrade someone, particularly someone weaker or lower in status, is childish and mean. 


This is why there are no accomplished conservative comedians. Punching down is not funny to the average person.



ml1 said:

there's often a meanness to right wing "satire." If one listens to Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, Levin, or any of the rest, there's a "punching down" aspect to their "humor."  It just comes with the territory, and their audiences love it. 

It's called a reaction to urban elites telling people how they should live there lives.


Dennis Miller, Jeff Foxworthy, Norm Macdonald (up in the air about him)



tjohn said:



ml1 said:

there's often a meanness to right wing "satire." If one listens to Limbaugh, Ingraham, Coulter, Levin, or any of the rest, there's a "punching down" aspect to their "humor."  It just comes with the territory, and their audiences love it. 

It's called a reaction to urban elites telling people how they should live there lives.

yes, because Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and the rest aren't urban elites.


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