At least one advertiser—and possibly more—has dropped Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s show, “The Ingraham Angle,” after her comment Monday comparing immigration detention centers to summer camps, according to a Thursday Politico report.
IAC, a media and internet company that is reportedly Ingraham’s second biggest advertiser, has pulled commercials for Angie’s List and Home Advisor from the show’s block.
A Fox News spokesperson told Politico that the boycott is not affecting business. “There’s been no impact on our business, and new advertisers continue to opt in for our powerful prime-time lineup,” the spokesperson said.
According to research analysts, the ad time on Ingraham’s show has dropped “significantly” since Monday’s show during which she made the remark, leading them to conclude that other advertisers have pulled out as well. Many advertisers declined to discuss their ad buys with Politico.
Ingraham tried to walk her comments back at the end of the show Monday: “Apparently, there are a lot of people very upset because we referred to some of the detention facilities tonight as essentially like summer camps,” she said. “The San Diego Union-Tribune today described the facilities as essentially like what you would expect at a boarding school. So I will stick to there are some of them like boarding schools.”
She omitted details in the story referring to round-the-clock surveillance and armed doors that blare alarms if a child tries to escape.
David Hogg, a Parkland shooting survivor who successfully pushed Ingraham’s advertisers to boycott when she previously made offensive comments about him, tweeted at her “we meet again” and a list of her advertisers.
Despite the criticism and advertising drops her comment garnered, Fox News is standing by the host.
“Laura Ingraham’s very personal, on-the-ground commitment to the plight of impoverished and abandoned children — specifically in Guatemala — speaks for itself,” a Fox News spokesperson told Politico in reference to her adopted child. “So, too, does her strong belief in a common-sense, legal immigration system, which will continue to be a focus of her show. Fox News will never tolerate or give in to attempts to silence diverse viewpoints by agenda-driven intimidation efforts.”
A Fox News spokesperson told Politico that the boycott is not affecting business. “There’s been no impact on our business, and new advertisers continue to opt in for our powerful prime-time lineup,” the spokesperson said.
In the Trump era, some days it feels like Germany circa 1936-37, and other days it feels like the US circa 1963-64. These past 7 days have felt like both.
In the case of Laura Ingraham, the building reaction to her reminds me of how things quickly turned against pro-segregationists through the 60’s. There was a sea change in terms of the political acceptability of racism that sent a lot of hard core racists out of the mainstream and politically empowered minorities for the first time since the end of the Civil War.
Laura Ingraham is a fascist and a propagandist who has thought that she was in the mainstream, even more so as Fox pushed conservative America even further to the extreme. She is losing advertisers and further branding herself and her network as the racist pile of crap that it has always been. She’s also just very bad at her job. What’s disturbing about her show and Tucker Carlson’s is that the theme is white nationalism. She brings a certain air of reverence to Nazism as evidenced by her interview with Beauregard the other day. Fox will not survive as a network if they keep people like that around.
I wouldn’t put it past her to try to “get” one of these young children herself. A similar thing happened in Argentina during the péron years.
Every once in awhile, I tune into Fox to get some idea of the propagandist spew they’re projecting. This week, I stumbled across the Ingraham show and watched for a good 30 minutes.
It took me 3 days of intensive reading of the Encyclopedia Britannica to recover the 30 point IQ dip that I suffered.
All these advertisers simply keep coming back after the storm dies. Its just meaningless.