Faux News Spews; I Need Booze

[AmazonGrace]

Tucker doesn't like Brown people: 

 

[JMarie]

4 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Tucker doesn't like Brown people: 

 

"(our leaders) caused all of this with their reckless immigration policies"

[AmazonGrace]

Sorry for flooding all the threads but no one else is awake yet I guess. Anyway, this chyron. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[JMarie]

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/03/29/rejected-by-4-colleges-and-whines-about-it-a-fox-news-host-mocked-a-parkland-school-shooting-survivor-now-hes-going-after-her-advertisers/23398264/

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David Hogg, a Parkland school shooting survivor who has become one of the prominent voices for gun control, is now going after a conservative talk-show host's advertisers after she made light of his college-rejection letters.

Laura Ingraham, a Fox News opinion host, tweeted a link to a news article about Hogg having received rejection letters from several University of California schools.

"David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied," the article's headline read, "and whines about it," Ingraham added.

That tweet went out to Ingraham's 2.2 million Twitter followers Wednesday morning and made its way back to Hogg nearly 10 hours later: "Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers ... Asking for a friend," Hogg wrote, with the hashtag, "BoycottingIngramAdverts."

Later, he tweeted a list of companies and urged his followers to contact them. It was not immediately clear which, if any, of the companies are current Ingraham advertisers. The boycott resembles campaigns that targeted Fox opinion hosts Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, who was forced off the network amid a sexual-harassment scandal last year.

Hogg, and other vocal survivors of gun violence, are among those leading renewed efforts to promote gun-law reforms after the February 14 shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed.

Students, parents, teachers, and other supporters flooded the streets in Washington, DC and all over the world last week for the "March for Our Lives" protest.

 

[Cartmann99]

@JMarie, will you please check out Laura Ingraham's show tonight? Just curious if she'll address the boycott against her advertisers. Her fans on Twitter are saying it will horribly backfire, she will end up super popular, and maybe even get elected president.

A lot of them are also #QAnon devotees, so I tend to take their predictions with a boatload of salt. 

 

[JMarie]

1 hour ago, Cartmann99 said:

@JMarie, will you please check out Laura Ingraham's show tonight? Just curious if she'll address the boycott against her advertisers. Her fans on Twitter are saying it will horribly backfire, she will end up super popular, and maybe even get elected president.

A lot of them are also #QAnon devotees, so I tend to take their predictions with a boatload of salt. 

 

I watched a few minutes of last night's show (a few minutes was all I could stomach).  Instead of her opening segment being about something important and timely, like the firing of the VA guy, she talked about the conservative goodness that is the Roseanne reboot.  She then talked about the conservative values of The Middle (???), and the tragedy of cancelling Last Man Standing.  Does Ingraham not remember how Roseanne got her daughter Becky on the pill, the time when Roseanne, her husband, and her sister got high after finding pot in the basement, or all the gay characters in the original cast?

[JMarie]

Update:  she's sorry, in the "spirit of Holy Week" (it has NOTHING to do with two advertisers already pulling their ads)

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, JMarie said:

Does Ingraham not remember how Roseanne got her daughter Becky on the pill, the time when Roseanne, her husband, and her sister got high after finding pot in the basement, or all the gay characters in the original cast?

Hell, remember when Roseanne sang the Anthem and grabbed her crotch? She's a Trumphumping conspiracy theorist now, so I guess she's forgiven for her past sins.

[GreyhoundFan]

I loved a lot of the people who slammed her on twitter. This is one of my favorites:

 

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, JMarie said:

Update:  she's sorry, in the "spirit of Holy Week" (it has NOTHING to do with two advertisers already pulling their ads)

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html

Wait a minute, shouldn't the "spirit of Holy Week" have kept her from going after a survivor of a mass shooting in the first place?

[47of74]

Wait a minute, shouldn't the "spirit of Holy Week" have kept her from going after a survivor of a mass shooting in the first place?

Yeah but the Reich wing “Christian” spirit rarely intervenes to keep its own super Christians from fornicating up.

[fraurosena]

 

[fraurosena]

The kid will get attacked for this by Faux pundits, of course. Heaven forbid that she does what he suggests.

 

[JMarie]

9 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

@JMarie, will you please check out Laura Ingraham's show tonight? Just curious if she'll address the boycott against her advertisers. Her fans on Twitter are saying it will horribly backfire, she will end up super popular, and maybe even get elected president.

A lot of them are also #QAnon devotees, so I tend to take their predictions with a boatload of salt. 

 

I'll list the commercials first:

Chappaquiddick movie

Gillette razors

Varidesk

local Lamborghini dealership (how many Fox News viewers can afford $4596/month for an Aventador S??)

United Negro College Fund (seems like an odd choice for the network)

Advil

Progressive insurance

Miracle-Ear

Jenny Craig

Sandals resorts

Trust (FX network miniseries about the Getty kidnapping -- same subject as last year's All The Money In The World)

Sleep Number beds

Genius: Picasso (National Geographic miniseries)

WeatherTech floor liners

HomeAdvisor

Office Depot

Beaches.com

San Diego Zoo global wildlife conservancy

USAA insurance

some "crash-proof retirement" seminar

Republican gubernatorial candidate (we get to vote for governor in November)

the other Republican gubernatorial candidate

Belfor property restoration

Sandals (again)

CLR cleaner

One Strange Rock (National Geographic show about astronauts)

Jenny Craig (again)

 

She didn't mention David Hogg or the tweets.  At.  All!  But she did have a segment about how "crazed" women are "throwing themselves" at the Parkland shooter, complete with opinions from a forensic criminologist and a forensic psychiatrist.

[AmazonGrace]

 

[SamuraiKatz]

Every time I see a picture of Hannity, I always think of Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World segment back when he was on MSNBC.  He always read out Hannity's quotes using stereotypical dumb Irish galoot voice. (Bill O'Reilly was called Bill O the Clown and he'd read his quotes using a Ted Baxter voice.)    

I miss Olbermann. He is top notch.

[onekidanddone]

7 hours ago, SamuraiKatz said:

I miss Olbermann. He is top notch.

I used to quote Stephanie Miller and call him my future husband

[JMarie]

21 hours ago, JMarie said:

I'll list the commercials first:

Chappaquiddick movie

Gillette razors

Varidesk

local Lamborghini dealership (how many Fox News viewers can afford $4596/month for an Aventador S??)

United Negro College Fund (seems like an odd choice for the network)

Advil

Progressive insurance

Miracle-Ear

Jenny Craig

Sandals resorts

Trust (FX network miniseries about the Getty kidnapping -- same subject as last year's All The Money In The World)

Sleep Number beds

Genius: Picasso (National Geographic miniseries)

WeatherTech floor liners

HomeAdvisor

Office Depot

Beaches.com

San Diego Zoo global wildlife conservancy

USAA insurance

some "crash-proof retirement" seminar

Republican gubernatorial candidate (we get to vote for governor in November)

the other Republican gubernatorial candidate

Belfor property restoration

Sandals (again)

CLR cleaner

One Strange Rock (National Geographic show about astronauts)

Jenny Craig (again)

 

She didn't mention David Hogg or the tweets.  At.  All!  But she did have a segment about how "crazed" women are "throwing themselves" at the Parkland shooter, complete with opinions from a forensic criminologist and a forensic psychiatrist.

I'll be recording and fast-forwarding through tonight's episode.  Jenny Craig and Office Depot won't advertise on Ingraham's show anymore.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laura-ingraham-11-advertisers-drop-show-fans-launch-istandwithlaura-hashtag/

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Supporters of conservative TV host Laura Ingraham are calling for a boycott of advertisers who have dropped her show.

Eleven companies so far have withdrawn their ads from Ingraham's Fox News program after she feuded with a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shootingover Twitter. The Atlantis, Paradise Island resort; Office Depot, Jenny Craig, Hulu, Nutrish, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Wayfair, StitchFix, Nestlé and Johnson & Johnson said they would pull ads from the show. 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Laura Ingraham doesn’t really want to debate David Hogg"

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Two reasons could explain Laura Ingraham's decision to mock Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg for his college rejections. One is schadenfreude, but it is seems overly cynical to think that the Fox News host takes pleasure in watching more bad things happen to a teenager who lost 14 schoolmates and three educators last month.

The other, more plausible reason is that Ingraham wants to remove Hogg from a national conversation about gun control. Rather than debate him, she would prefer to disqualify him.

On her show last week, Ingraham described Hogg's commentary as a “tantrum” — a jab at his youth — while complaining that in “the mainstream media, it's practically a coronation of the new leftist heroes, the kids who have become the public face of the movement.”

On Monday, Ingraham played part of Hogg's remarks at Saturday's March for Our Lives in Washington, in which he said, “To those politicians supported by the NRA that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future, I say, 'Get your résumés ready.' ”

“Who wrote that line?” Ingraham asked, suggesting that Hogg could not have composed such a clever quip.

Ingraham's steady implication has been that Hogg is not as impressive as he has been portrayed elsewhere by the media. Her tweet Wednesday that taunted Hogg for failing to get into four colleges (he was accepted by three others) was one more way for Ingraham to signal that Hogg is overrated and unqualified to opine about public policy.

Ingraham's effort to marginalize Hogg does not mean that she is afraid to debate him. Ingraham is a lawyer, and even the best lawyers — no matter how strong their arguments — would rather see cases dismissed because opponents lack standing than try to win on the merits.

Then again, we are talking about cable news, not a courtroom. Yet Ingraham — author of a book called “Shut Up and Sing” — often attacks opponents' standing instead of their substance.

When NBA stars LeBron James and Kevin Durant suggested last month that President Trump is racist, Ingraham did not make the case that the label is unfair; she told the players to “shut up and dribble.”

“Keep the political commentary to yourself,” she added, while calling their comments “barely intelligible” and “ungrammatical.”

A day later, responding to criticism of her comments by the players and others, Ingraham said that “if you want to be a political pundit, you're coming on my court. Let's do it. Let's have a real conversation about black unemployment. Let's talk about violence in the inner city. Let's talk about all the issues like school choice. Let's do it. Don't think you're not going to get criticized if all you do is a drive-by hit on Trump and say he's no leader.”

Suddenly Ingraham was game to debate. But her first move had been to assert that James and Durant should not participate in political debates.

Ingraham has taken the same approach to late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, a critic of Republican health-care policies.

“Leave it to the pros, Jimmy,” she said in December.

After this month's Academy Awards ceremony, which included political commentary by actors, Ingraham asked her viewers, “Do we watch films and Oscars for them to opine on politics?”

“I think when these actors and celebrities just marinate themselves in politics, you can watch us or other networks for that,” she said.

On Thursday, Ingraham apologized to Hogg for “any upset or hurt my tweet caused” and noted that Hogg has appeared on her show before. The interview occurred on the day of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and focused on basic facts about the event; there was no back-and-forth on gun policy.

Ingraham said that Hogg is “welcome to return to the show anytime for a productive discussion” — an invitation extended only after she cast him as an unworthy adversary.

 

[JMarie]

For some reason, my DVR is saying "to be announced" instead of Ingraham's show.  But I did catch the end of it live, and she said she will be off next week so she can spend some time with her kids (but haven't her kids had all of this week off??).  But Hannity had off this week, at least last night and tonight, because That Loud Woman Judge Jeannine was filling in for him.   I'll have to see if the rerun gets picked up by my DVR, but it won't have the primetime commercials

[Cartmann99]

5 hours ago, JMarie said:

For some reason, my DVR is saying "to be announced" instead of Ingraham's show.  But I did catch the end of it live, and she said she will be off next week so she can spend some time with her kids (but haven't her kids had all of this week off??). 

Does she plan to get a guest host to cover her radio show next week? If not, her radio show is probably going to be the equivalent of Trump's rage tweets. 

[JMarie]

Alright, the 2 A. M. episode did record, so here we go with the commercials:

Fox News (what?  a commercial about Fox News ON Fox News??)

Bowflex Maxtrainer

Shannon Bream's show at 11 P. M. (another Fox News commercial?)

Addiction Rehab Specialists

Xfinity

catheter supply company

HomeAdvisor

American Petroleum Institute

Experian

IBM

a commercial for The Ingraham Angle, during The Ingraham Angle

First American home warranty

Independence University

First American home warranty (again)

Relaxium Sleep

 

There seemed to be less commercial breaks, but I don't know if that's the norm for a late night rerun.  And she only made two slightly interesting points (below), but did close the hour with a nice minisegment on the 98 year old chaplain of the Loyola men's basketball team.  And she did say she'd be spending next week with her kids during their Easter break, so I'm guessing she hopes nobody does the math and realizes that Easter break just ended.

-- Ingraham again talked about the Roseanne reboot, and claimed it was started the day after the election (but that's not how things really happened).  http://people.com/tv/sara-gilbert-emotional-roseanne-reboot/

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Many cast members, including John Goodman, have credited Gilbert as the architect of the reboot and the mastermind behind getting the entire cast on board. In addition, she serves as executive producer of the ABC revival.

-- evangelicals don't believe Trump's accusers, so they're sticking with him

 

[fraurosena]

Not only Faux, but also local news stations bought by Sinclair Broadcasting, all word for word mouthing the exact same propaganda news. 

"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy."

 

[JMarie]

6 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Not only Faux, but also local news stations bought by Sinclair Broadcasting, all word for word mouthing the exact same propaganda news. 

"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy."

 

There was an article in my local paper about Sinclair.

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/sinclair-pennsylvania-fake-news-script-cbs21-nbc6-fox56-20180330.html

And here's a list of all the Sinclair-owned channels (they're alphabatized by city, not state)