Fox News indicated that they would support Laura Ingraham despite the boycott begun against her advertisers, and the decision by many advertisers to leave her show.
“We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts,” Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. “We look forward to having Laura Ingraham back hosting her program next Monday when she returns from spring vacation with her children.”
The Los Angeles Times says that it hasn’t really hurt Fox News much [yet], and advertisers expect to “revisit” the issue in a month or so after the furor dies down.
Although more than a dozen advertisers have stated publicly that they have pulled their commercials from “The Ingraham Angle,” far more have stayed away without making any public announcements.
Johnson & Johnson, Liberty Mutual, Office Depot, Expedia, Nestle and Hulu are among the advertisers that have pulled out of the show.
On Friday, the program had only two spots — both from IBM — that were not direct response advertisers (those that typically sell products and services through a 1-800 number and are usually less sensitive about where their spots run).
The situation has become so dire that even the studio that made “Chappaquiddick,” a controversial movie about the 1969 accident involving Ted Kennedy that killed young political campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, has pulled its ads from the program.
But a statement of support goes a long way to reassure viewers that Ingraham will keep defending Trump at all costs in her Fox News time slot for the foreseeable future. She took a vacation after mocking Parkland gun-grabbing kiddy brigade leader David Hogg on her Twitter.
Even though she apologized, Hogg moved the goalposts for his demand, and now wants her to apologize to EVERYONE she’s ever insulted in her entire career. That’s a lot!