Laura Ingraham apologizes for taunting shooting survivor

[Steve Timko]

Four advertisers withdrew and a fifth, Expedia, said it stopped advertising some time ago.

Have they seen FOX News? What what were they expecting?

The problem is that we can expect retaliatory boycotts from the right wing.

Link to New York Times story.

[Kevin M.]

I know it is fashionable to compare the Trump cult to the prior regimes of other countries, but I must point out that publishing the grades of the children of political rivals was common practice in the Soviet Union era. 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Steve Timko]

Now she says she's going on vacation next week. She said it was planned.

Link

She continues to lose advertisers.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know it is fashionable to compare the Trump cult to the prior regimes of other countries, but I must point out that publishing the grades of the children of political rivals was common practice in the Soviet Union era. 

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:41 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

Four advertisers withdrew and a fifth, Expedia, said it stopped advertising some time ago.

Have they seen FOX News? What what were they expecting?

The problem is that we can expect retaliatory boycotts from the right wing.

Link to New York Times story.

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[Kevin M.]

P.S.- If you're going to send a nasty message to Ingraham, make sure you don't accidentally send it to the #wrongLaura

https://twitter.com/lauraingle/status/979336497609564161

[Steve Timko]

Turns out this "vacation" thing is not new at FOX News.

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[Tom Wolper]

"Laura Ingraham's show is taking a vacation at a farm upstate where it can play with all the other shows."

https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/980108284890877952

[Steve Timko]

IBM bails as an advertiser as boycott continues to grow.

The Wrap

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

"Laura Ingraham's show is taking a vacation at a farm upstate where it can play with all the other shows."

https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/980108284890877952

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Timko

>IBM bails as an advertiser as boycott continues to grow.

>The Wrap

 

Elsewhere on topic, previous boycottee Bill Maher stood up for Laura Ingraham on “Real Time” Friday night, and totally misread the room.

http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/07/bill-maher-laura-ingraham-boycott/

 

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[Kevin M.]

Bill Maher molests collies 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Tom Wolper]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

Bill Maher molests collies

I honestly wonder what happened to Maher. YouTube recommends his videos to me and I watched a recent monologue. Trump jokes might be stale by now but at least they are easy to do and there are lots of them. Maher's presentation was lousy and the material didn't work. His audience ate it up but it was a very poor monologue.

[Kevin M.]

His problem is he takes himself too seriously. He focuses more on his righteous (in his opinion) indignation and less on being funny. It is basically what occurred with Dennis Miller. He was successful because he used humor to combat political correctness (or one incarnation of political cotrectness), but as both culture and pop culture evolved, Maher dug in his heels.

 Religulous was a funny movie that made fun of many beliefs, some of which I share — but I still laughed out loud and was not offended by it. But now he’s just mean-spirited about people of faith. He and other celebrity “new atheists” like Ricky Gervais (not to be confused with atheists in general, whose lack of faith I have no problem with and whom have no problem with my faith) got nasty, and when people called them out on it, they cried victim. 

Honestly, if Maher wants to play the victim, or if he wants to lash out at Muslims or Christians or whomever, I wish him all the best. But he cannot expect me to laugh at the words coming out of his mouth. I’d like to be able to find him funny again. Heck, I’d like to be able to find Dennis Miller funny again. But before I can, they have to actually be funny again. It’s the difference between an insult comic and someone who is just insulting. 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[PGage]

I usually like to partly agree and then explain in excruciating detail my micro disagreements with Kevin, but in this case I just want to say Amen to every thing he wrote about Maher, and especially the analogy to Miller.

There is a whole discussion to be had about the “New Atheists” (many of whom sound a bit like the old Nazis), but that would take us too far afield. But they, like Maher, do often take themselves too seriously, which is another way of saying they don’t have a sense of humor, which is basically not good for a comic.

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