Florida high school massacre survivor David Hogg, who along with some of his fellow teens have turned into fierce gun-control advocates, is asking his nearly 600,000 Twitter followers to boycott advertisers of Fox News host Laura Ingraham. 
 
 The conservative commentator mocked Hogg on Twitter on Wednesday after the 17-year-old revealed in an interview on TMZ that his applications were recently rejected by four University of California campuses. Ingraham tweeted: "David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)" 
 
 Hogg fired back with his own tweet calling on his followers to boycott Ingraham's advertisers. "Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that #," he tweeted. 
 
 TMZ producer Harvey Levin, who interviewed Hogg, was among many who responded to Ingraham's remarks. He tweeted: "@IngrahamAngle David was not whining. I called him about the story. He was not feeling sorry for himself in the slightest. It was my idea that colleges should consider applicants who are so committed. Did you watch the video???" 
 
 Hogg's 14-year-old sister Lauren, who also survived the mass shooting, came to her brother's defense as well, telling Ingraham to "please grow up." 
 
 Hogg and Ingraham didn't immediately respond to CNBC to comment. ||||| When Fox News host Laura Ingraham taunted a Parkland shooting survivor in a Wednesday- ­morning tweet about his college applications being rejected, Twitter users hit back where it hurt most: among her advertisers. 
 
 David Hogg, the 17-year-old high school senior who has become a gun-control activist, mustered the collective power of social media — and his more than 630,000 Twitter followers — and urged them to “tweet away” at her top sponsors to call on them to boycott her TV show, “The Ingraham Angle.” 
 
 Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers ... Asking for a friend. #BoycottIngramAdverts — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018 
 
 Within 24 hours, several companies responded — among them the pet food brand Nutrish and the home goods retailer Wayfair — announcing over Twitter and in media interviews that they would pull their ads from Ingraham’s show. 
 
 By Thursday afternoon, Ingraham apologized. “On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland,” she tweeted. 
 
 Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA —incl. @DavidHogg111. On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland. For the record, I believe my show was the first to feature David...(1/2) — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 29, 2018 
 
 ... immediately after that horrific shooting and even noted how "poised" he was given the tragedy. As always, he’s welcome to return to the show anytime for a productive discussion. WATCH: https://t.co/5wcd00wWpd (2/2) — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 29, 2018 
 
 In the era of boycotts as a byproduct of outrage, with figures such as President Trump threatening the NFL over player protests and airline customers employing the tactic to force change, Hogg’s push for Ingraham’s advertisers to respond to her comments worked remarkably quickly. 
 
 The swift results showcase the power that the Parkland survivors have, not just in organizing rallies but in spurring corporate America to act. Brands, too, have become quicker to distance themselves from controversy, whether by denouncing white supremacy after neo-Nazis praise their products or by pulling their sponsorship after another Fox News personality, Bill O’Reilly, was accused of sexual harassment. 
 
 Since the 2016 election, calls to boycott retailers have become frequent: The #GrabYourWallet campaign began as a way to protest Trump, and it identified companies that carried merchandise bearing the Trump name. Those calls have been met with equally passionate responses by Trump supporters who say they are determined to use their buying power to stand with the president and his family. 
 
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 On Thursday, #GrabYourWallet co-founder Shannon Coulter called Ingraham’s mocking of Hogg’s college rejections “really egregious violations of basic human decency.” 
 
 “Corporate America has a really positive role to play in preventing that kind of targeted harassment,” Coulter said. “It’s not just that one tweet. It’s that [Ingraham is] signaling to her large audience that it’s okay to do that. Particularly when minors are concerned, I think there’s a line that corporations can draw that apparently Laura Ingraham’s parents didn’t draw.” 
 
 Ingraham, in addition to apologizing, tried to curtail the damage by noting that Hogg had appeared on her show after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14. 
 
 Hogg said he felt the apology was merely an effort to save her advertisers. 
 
 “I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight,” Hogg tweeted. “It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children.” 
 
 I 100% agree an apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough. I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I️ in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children. https://t.co/H0yWs4zMGk — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018 
 
 Ingraham had faced immediate backlash over her original tweet Wednesday from those shocked by her attack on a teenager who had survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Some of them reminded Ingraham, simply, that she was a mother. Hogg’s 14-year-old sister accused the Fox News host of stooping to a “real low” to boost her ratings. 
 
 The shooting in Florida — one of several school attacks in 2018 — left 17 students and staff members dead, and it galvanized a new generation of activists, including many teenagers from Parkland. 
 
 Hogg has been one of the most vocal, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally against gun violence in Washington. Since the shooting, the teen has appeared frequently on television and rallied his growing number of Twitter followers to become civically engaged if they are frustrated with the status quo. 
 
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 In an interview with TMZ on Tuesday, Hogg spoke about receiving rejection letters from California colleges. Hogg, who has a 4.2 GPA and an SAT score of 1270, was accepted to Florida Atlantic University, California Polytechnic State University and California State University at San Marcos, TMZ reported. 
 
 On Wednesday morning, Ingraham tweeted a story from a conservative news site that described Hogg as a “Gun Rights Provocateur” who had not gained acceptance to four University of California schools. 
 
 “David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” Ingraham tweeted. “(Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.)” 
 
 David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018 
 
 Hours later, Hogg wondered, on Twitter, who Ingraham’s biggest advertisers were and soon compiled a list of 12 companies that his followers could contact. 
 
 Before long, Hogg’s tweet was flooded with replies from his supporters, some of whom pasted images of their messages to the companies mentioned. Also responding were people accusing Hogg of “bullying” Ingraham. 
 
 At least half a dozen companies have responded to the boycott call. 
 
 “We are in the process of removing our ads from Laura Ingraham’s program,” Nutrish tweeted Thursday morning. 
 
 TripAdvisor pointed to one of its company values — “We are better together” — in its decision to stop advertising on Ingraham’s show. 
 
 “We do not . . . condone the inappropriate comments made by this broadcaster,” TripAdvisor said in a statement. “In our view, these statements focused on a high school student cross the line of decency.” 
 
 Online home goods retailer Wayfair told CNBC that Ingraham’s personal criticism of Hogg was “not consistent with our values.” 
 
 Nestlé told ThinkProgress it had no plans to buy future ads on the show. Johnson & Johnson, Stitch Fix and Hulu have also joined the boycott. 
 
 [The extraordinary number of kids who have endured school shootings since Columbine] 
 
 It was unclear whether any of the brands would change their minds after Ingraham apologized. 
 
 “We’ve seen corporations years ago pull out from O’Reilly, only to go back and have to pull out again,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color Of Change, a nonprofit advocacy group pushing corporations on issues of racial justice. 
 
 “The question is, if the corporations do go back, what are they sponsoring? They are sponsoring someone who will use the next tragedy to attack the most vulnerable,” Robinson said. “Laura Ingraham would not exist without corporations enabling her to exist on the air.” 
 
 Ingraham was previously criticized for telling professional basketball players to “shut up and dribble” after Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James criticized Trump in an interview. 
 
 While Ingraham has been the most recent target of criticism, she is not the only prominent figure who has faced backlash for attacking the high school students. 
 
 Just days ago, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and his campaign team were sharply criticized for posting a meme on Facebook about Emma González, another Parkland student and activist. The meme was decried as attacking González’s Cuban heritage. 
 
 And CNN contributor and former U.S. senator Rick Santorum had to backtrack after saying students would be better off learning CPR than demonstrating for tighter gun laws. 
 
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 In this combination photo, Fox News personality Laura Ingraham speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 20, 2016, left, and David Hogg, a student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks at a rally for gun control legislation in Livingston, N.J. on Feb. 25, 2018. (Photo: AP) 
 
 Fox News Host Laura Ingraham says she's taking a week off for an Easter break with her family as advertisers continue to pull their support for her show amid backlash over her criticism of school shooting survivor David Hogg. 
 
 Ingraham made the announcement during Friday's The Ingraham Angle, but reassured viewers, "Fear not. We've got a great lineup of guest hosts to fill in for me." The vacation was pre-planned, a FOX News spokesperson told USA TODAY. 
 
 Around a dozen advertisers have pulled their support for the cable news program after Ingraham taunted Hogg over his college admissions on Twitter. Liberty Mutual Insurance and Office Depot were the latest to publicly say they wouldn't run ads during the show. Nestle, Expedia, Hulu, Johnson & Johnson, Nutrish pet foods, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Jenny Craig and the Atlantis Paradise Island resort were also among the companies pulling their commercials. 
 
 In a tweet earlier this week, Ingraham said Hogg, 17, whined about his recent college rejections. "Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates," she said. 
 
 David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018 
 
 Hogg responded by tweeting a list of companies that advertised on Ingraham's show. "Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that #," Hogg said with the list of 12 companies. The Fox host walked back her comments less than a day later, apologizing "in the spirit of Holy Week." 
 
 Hogg quickly responded to Ingraham's break. "Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week," the student activist tweeted. 
 
 Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week. https://t.co/bjSLmj3gyH — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 31, 2018 
 
 Hogg also told the (New York) Daily News, "I hope she uses this time to reflect not only on how she treated me but so many others like the students at Dartmouth or even people like LeBron James." 
 
 According to Variety, IBM was the only blue-chip advertiser to appear during Ingraham's Friday show. 
 
 Ingraham's break and lost ad support was reminiscent of former Fox news host Bill O'Reilly, who faced an ad boycott last April over reports that he and Fox News had paid $13 million in settlements for past sexual harassment. O'Reilly took what was slated as a pre-planned vacation but was fired before he returned to the air. 
 
 Hogg is one of a half-dozen students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., who helped build a national movement for gun control following the killing of 17 people by a former student armed with an AR-15-style rifle on Valentine's Day. Hogg was also a prominent speaker at the "March for Our Lives" in Washington, D.C., calling for tightening gun laws. 
 
 Shortly after the shooting, Hogg became a target for some conservative pundits and internet conspiracy theorists. The aspiring television journalist spoke up early against gun violence and had even taped real-time reactions from fellow students inside barricaded classrooms during the shooting. 
 
 As for his college options, Hogg said he was accepted at Florida Atlantic University, Cal Poly and Cal State San Marcos. 
 
 Contributing: Doug Stanglin and The Associated Press 
 
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 Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2Gm5Vxj ||||| Fox News host Laura Ingraham is taking vacation time as advertisers flee her show, "The Ingraham Angle," over a feud with a high school student who advocates for gun control. 
 
 Ingraham on her show Friday night described the vacation as a pre-planned break with her children for the Easter holiday. 
 
 “A blessed Good Friday and Passover to all of you; I’ll be off next week for Easter break with my kids,” she said. "Fear not. We've got a great lineup of guest hosts to fill in for me." 
 
 Ingraham, who hosts one of Fox News’s highest-rated talk shows, leaves in the midst of controversy and boycotts. 
 
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 More than a dozen companies have stopped advertising on Ingraham's show in the days since the Fox News host mocked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg for being rejected from colleges. 
 
 Hogg is both a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that took place in February and a national gun control advocate. He helped organize the "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington, D.C., which brought hundreds of thousands to the Capitol to pressure Congress to change laws in favor of tighter restrictions on guns. 
 
 Ingraham apologized on Thursday “for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.” She also praised Hogg’s “4.2 GPA,” which she had previously mocked. 
 
 She noted she was the first to feature Hogg on the air after the shooting that left 17 dead, praising him at the time for his “poise” and for speaking so well and informatively. She also invited Hogg back on the program to have "a productive discussion." 
 
 Hogg rejected her apology, however, calling it “an effort just to save your advertisers.” He had called for his Twitter followers to contact her top advertisers. He went on to accelerate the boycott effort by listing 100 advertisers for the show by retweeting a list provided by Media Matters. 
 
 Since Wednesday night, at least 14 advertisers have stopped advertising on the program, including Liberty Mutual, Office Depot, Jenny Craig, Atlantis Paradise Island, Stitch Fix, Johnson & Johnson, Hulu, Nestle, Expedia, Wayfair, Trip Advisor, Ruby Tuesday, Nutrish, and Global investment group Principal. 
 
 The only blue-chip company to advertise on Ingraham’s show Friday night was IBM, according to Variety. 
 
 In response to Ingraham's announced vacation, Hogg tweeted: "Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week." 
 
 Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week. https://t.co/bjSLmj3gyH — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 31, 2018 
 
 "The Ingraham Angle," which launched five months ago, finished fourth in the cable news ratings race in total viewers in February, averaging more than 2.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. 
 
 Only "Hannity,” and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox and "The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC delivered more viewers last month. 
 
 The Hill has reached out to Fox News for comment. 
 
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 Known for his "heat phone" and pro-Trump bent, St. Louis radio and TV host Jamie Allman is now facing calls for boycott over a tweet indicating his desire to introduce a heated fireplace implement to the ass of a Parkland shooting survivor.The student, seventeen-year-old David Hogg, has been a vocal advocate of gun control.Like other conservative commentators, Allman — whose platforms include a morning radio show at 97.1 FM andon the ABC affiliate KDNL — has been critical of Hogg's role in urging a boycott of Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham, who last week took to Twitter to mock the teen for being rejected by several colleges. Ingraham was subsequently accused of bullying Hogg for cheap attention, and since then a dozen advertisers have removed themselves from Ingraham's show.But even before the Ingraham controversy broke, the role of Hogg and other Parkland shooting survivors in the national gun debate was raising complicated questions, as pundits across the conservative spectrum have argued that the teens shouldn't be protected from criticism simply because of their age and status as victims of a traumatic mass shooting.Granted, that's a much nicer way to put it than Allman did last week, when he hopped on Twitter to boast that he was "getting ready to ram a hot poker up David Hogg's ass."Notably, Allman tweeted the above missive on March 26, two days before the Ingraham controversy broke, but a screenshot began circulating in recent days that's drawn new attention to the adult man casually joking about how he'd like to assault a teen shooting-survivor's butt.And like Ingraham, Allman is starting to take some heat. Last night, Missouri Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis), a longtime supporter of increased gun control, called Allman out in a Facebook post. In it, Newman also leveled criticism at Allman for his support of failed Parkway School Board candidate and self-described "Confederate" Jeanie Ames."We demand advertisers stop being complicit," Newman wrote. "Stop supporting an adult who spews such hate."Allman hasn't kept his opinions about Hogg restricted to Twitter. On, which airs on Channel 30, a segment last week touched on the boycott of Ingraham and whether Hogg was a reasonable target for critique."You can't say 'Hey I'm just a kid," Allman said of Hogg. "We have to be allowed to refute what you're saying... or to respond to it, you can't be all the time grabbing your blanket when the going gets tough."During the segment, Allman repeatedly noted that Hogg liked dropping "f-bombs" and that he should expect to receive push-back if he's going to "get his hands dirty" in political issues.Allman added, "Just be a grownup about it." Which, in Allman's world, apparently means being threatened publicly with sodomy before you're even old enough to vote. How very grown up of him.
– Parkland survivor David Hogg, one of the leaders of the teen activists calling for gun control in the wake of the Florida school shooting, is asking supporters to boycott sponsors of Laura Ingraham's Fox News show after Ingraham mocked him—and at least one is pulling its ads from the show. It started with an interview Hogg gave to TMZ in which he revealed he'd been rejected from four University of California colleges. While Hogg acknowledged it's been "disappointing" for him and other leaders of the movement dealing with college rejections, he told TMZ's Harvey Levin he wasn't surprised: "I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college." Ingraham's Twitter take on the interview: "David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA ... totally predictable given acceptance rates.)" Both Hogg and Levin were quick to respond, CNBC reports. "David was not whining," Levin tweeted to Ingraham. "I called him about the story. He was not feeling sorry for himself in the slightest. It was my idea that colleges should consider applicants who are so committed. Did you watch the video???" Hogg tweeted, "Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers ... Asking for a friend." He followed that up with a list of what he says are the 12 biggest advertisers on Ingraham's show, asking his more than 600,000 followers to pick one and get in touch. Hogg's 14-year-old sister and fellow Parkland survivor, Lauren, simply told Ingraham to "grow up." The Washington Post, which rounds up other outraged responses to Ingraham, reports that Rachael Ray's Nutrish replied directly to Hogg as well as to others on Twitter that it's in the process of removing its ads from Ingraham's show.