re: Laura Ingraham forced to apologize to David Hogg UPDATE: 15 advertisers gone

You're not a parent, are you?

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You're not a parent, are you?

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In 1966, my parents were 20 years old. They were married, had a child and owned their own home. My Dad was a sergeant in the Marine Corps.

And their situation was far from uncommon among people their age.

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I was married at 20, we both worked and went to school full time. Built my first house by 21. Didn't have children until I was 26.

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It is also alarming that the media is only focusing on that particular group of kids. Not any others who either saved fellow classmates or have differing opinions.

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This is alarming to you? The leftwing/Commie/MSM pandering to the these SJWs? Sounds spot on to me.

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Kids today are light years ahead in math/science than in the past, but socially and creatively they're suffering. The perfect formula for producing drones.

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Nothing in my experience says this is true either.

When I was a teenager working friggin fast food, every person in my store could work drive through which required figuring change on your own in your head.

Every waitress you met in a restaurant knew how much to give you back when you gave her cash.

Those are low level jobs held by the bottom rung and they could all do it.

Now? You can generate hours of fun just handing any one of those people cash.

frick, I was behind a guy in a sports store when he and the cashier BOTH couldn't figure out what 50% off of a $270 coat was.

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It's obvious you have no experience when talking about kids today.

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I've spent most of the past ten years working with high school and college students.

I've seen first-hand the kind of things that Roger's research articles are describing.

In general, if you ask a student nowadays to get from point A to point C, they have no idea how to do it unless you give them point B to guide them.

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This is alarming to you? The leftwing/Commie/MSM pandering to the these SJWs? Sounds spot on to me.

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Know this: He may be 17 but should be treated like an adult after entering the arena and becoming a prominent voice in what has become the biggest story of the year thus far.

But things have gone sideways since. Hogg has played loose with more than a few facts and has leveled the same kind of personal attacks on which he's basing this boycott. And, through it all, almost all anchors and reporters have allowed him to go unchallenged out of that same fear of being seen as monsters for going after "the kid with the just cause."

There are exceptions to those not willing to challenge Hogg, starting first and foremost with conservative writer/commentator and podcast/radio host Ben Shapiro. "I look forward to Hogg's apologies to Republicans ('sick f***ers'), Dana Loesch (she was 'hypocritical and disgusting' for criticizing Broward Sheriff Scott Israel), and Marco Rubio (he said Rubio was bribed by the NRA to give away children's lives)," Shapiro wrote in the online publication he founded, The Daily Wire.

"You may not like what Ingraham said. You may disagree with it. I did. But it isn't remotely CLOSE to the level of viciousness with which Hogg has attacked people who disagree with him," Shapiro added.

And Shapiro is correct. As is Parkland student Kyle Kashuv.

"The media took interest in him [Hogg] to push an agenda," Kushuv, a pro-Second Amendment student wrote in a series of tweets aimed at Hogg. "They've propped people up and have turned them into shields. I am not doubting anyone's sincerity, but people have certainly been hiding behind my classmates to push an agenda."

Hogg has rejected Ingraham's apology and says he will only accept such an overture if she denounces what he described as the network's attempt to "mudsling at children."


David Hogg
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@davidhogg111
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 I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children. LINK …

2:06 PM - Mar 29, 2018 · Arlington, VA

If someone is offended by her program or her as a person, don't watch or listen and allow the free market eventually to decide if she's worth keeping on.

But the effort to silence a voice, to essentially end a career, based on something like this sets not only a dangerous but completely un-American precedent. LINK

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I was married at 20, we both worked and went to school full time. Built my first house by 21. Didn't have children until I was 26.

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I appreciate the honesty and props to you for building a steady homelife at an early age I'm not putting you down for that. I can only speak to the school system that I see working for my children. It's truly exceptional and does not jive AT ALL with what you say.

I've got to run. Have a good day, sincerely. And you have my apology for being such a dick about Alaska in the past. That was over the line and not cool.

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I've got to run. Have a good day, sincerely. And you have my apology for being such a dick about Alaska in the past. That was over the line and not cool.

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That's sig worthy Dig.

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I think his takedown of Laura Ingraham was fricking awesome. He cut her off at the knees with a single tweet.

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I mean we all know you agree with him and his side. That's not surprising.