Monday, April 2, 2018

All the Advertisers That Dropped Fox’s Laura Ingraham Over Parkland Survivor Tweet ( Maybe it is Time to Drop all these Advertisers. Truth Out David Hogg Lied).

All the Advertisers That Dropped Fox’s Laura Ingraham Over Parkland Survivor Tweet ( Maybe it is Time to Drop all these Advertisers. Truth Out David Hogg Lied).

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By LISA MARIE SEGARRA 
March 30, 2018
Advertisers have been fleeing Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s show after she tweeted about Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg’s college rejections.
Ingraham tweeted Wednesday, “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.)” and linked to a story where Hogg commented on his college application process.
Hogg responded by calling on people to speak with 12 sponsors of Ingraham’s show The Ingraham Angle. Ingraham has since apologized tweeting, “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 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.”
The tweet also included a link to her interview with Hogg following the Parkland shooting.
However, Hogg said that her apology wasn’t enough and asked Ingraham to consider the treatment of other Parkland shooting survivors and said her apology was a response to losing advertisers.
Here’s a list of all the advertisers that have dropped The Ingraham Angle:

Expedia

Travel booking site Expedia told CNBC it’s pulled ads in light of Ingraham’s comments and that it “no longer advertises on the show.”

Hulu

Streaming site Hulu replied to Hogg’s tweet listing 12 sponsors of Ingraham’s show Thursday by saying they are no longer advertising on the show.

Nestlé

Food and beverage company Nestlé responded to customers asking for them to pull ads from Ingraham’s show by saying they had no plans to buy future ads. However, they did not say if they would pull any current ads for the show.

Nutrish

Rachael Ray’s pet food brand Nutrish also responded to Hogg’s tweet listing Ingraham’s sponsors by announcing it will remove its ads from the show.

TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor announced it would stop advertising on The Ingraham Angle and that it does not “condone the inappropriate comments made my this broadcaster.”
“We also believe Americans can disagree while still being agreeable, and that the free exchange of ideas within a community, in a peaceful manner, is the cornerstone of our democracy. In our view, these statements focused on a high school student cross the line of decency,” a TripAdvisor spokesperson told the New York Times.

Wayfair

Online furniture retailer also denounced Ingraham’s statements.
“The decision of an adult to personally criticize a high school student who has lost his classmates in an unspeakable tragedy is not consistent with our values,” Wayfair told CNN.
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New York magazine cover depicts Trump as a pig

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 04/01/18 09:24 PM EDT 3,315
   
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New York magazine is taking a harsh swipe at President Trump with its new cover depicting the president as a pig. 
The April 2 issue of the magazine features a close-up photo of Trump with a pig's snout replacing his nose. 
"Not Collusion... Not Incompetence... Not Cruelty... It's the Corruption, Stupid," the headline reads. "Why His Self-Dealing is His Biggest Political Liability."
The cover story, "Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump's Greatest Political Liability," hits Trump for what it claims is "corruption" and "greed" in nearly all aspects of his presidency, from his political appointees to his decision to let his sons take over his business after he took office.
"Since Trump took office, his pledge to ignore his own interests has been almost forgotten, lost in a disorienting hurricane of endless news," New York magazine's Jonathan Chait writes. "It is not just a morbid joke but a legitimate problem for the opposition that all the bad news about Trump keeps getting obscured by other bad news about Trump."
"Not only has Trump made no effort to raise ethical standards but he and his administration have flamboyantly violated the existing guidelines," Chait writes. "Lobbyists are seeded in every agency, 'regulating' their former employers and designing rules that favor bosses over employees and business owners over consumers."
The article comes amid a staff shakeup among some of Trump's top officials and mounting scrutiny over his and his son-in-law Jared Kushner's foreign business dealings.
Trump has been the target of unflattering magazine covers before, including Time magazine's depiction of his hair on fire and German magazine Der Spiegel's portrayal of Trump as a "devolved man."
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Ex-agent warns against Fox News hosts attacking FBI, other institutions

BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 04/02/18 07:56 AM EDT 837
   
CNN analyst Josh Campbell, a former FBI special agent, criticized Fox News hosts on Sunday, accusing them of doing a disservice to their viewers by attacking the bureau and other institutions.
Campbell said during an interview on CNN that there are a lot of good and hardworking people at Fox News.
"My focus here is on the prime-time lineup that often tries to masquerade itself as news when in fact it's really entertainment," he said.
"You look at the last year and what has now become fair game for these attacks. First it was the FBI. It was our institutions of justice, and now even high school kids are becoming the victims."
Campbell said that there is no "intelligent debate on ideas."
"You see attacks on people and on institutions. So we don't have an intelligent debate refuting Russian collusion, we get attacks on the FBI and on Bob Mueller," he said, referring to the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
"These folks start with the conclusion and then selectively pick facts in order to reach that conclusion. I think it does a disservice for the viewers."
Campbell earlier this year said in an op-ed that he decided to leave the FBI due to the "relentless" attacks on the bureau from critics such as Trump and congressional Republicans.
In an op-ed published in February in The New York Times, he wrote that "political attacks on the bureau must stop" and said he was "reluctantly turning in my badge and leaving an organization I love."
President Trump has frequently attacked the FBI and Mueller's probe into Russian election interference and possible ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the Russia probe as a "witch hunt" and has denied collusion.
He is known to frequently watch Fox News and has often praised the network's reporting.

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Comey's book tour is a colossal mistake ( Oh I Am Just So Darn Happy For Him!)

Comey's book tour is a colossal mistake ( Oh I Am Just So Darn Happy For Him!)

BY JAMES GAGLIANO, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/01/18 09:00 AM EDT 5,344
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Announcements of scheduled appearances for the widely anticipated $850-to-attend book tour by fired FBI Director James Comey foreshadow a much-ballyhooed return to the public square. Media outlets eagerly booked the former director, and his opus, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” briefly jumped to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list.
But should Comey — a central witness in special counsel Robert Muellerprobe — be making public his version of events which will certainly differ significantly with what President Trump, the central target in the special prosecutor’s probe, has repeatedly stated?
Comey was humiliatingly removed by the president last May and enjoyed a brief period of bipartisan sympathy for the disgraceful manner in which he was dispatched. The FBI’s seventh director learned of his termination via televised news reports while appearing before an FBI audience in Los Angeles. This is not the manner with which career public servants should ever be separated from service. Yet, with the current president, it has become de rigueur.
Initially taking the high road, remaining silent, professional and above the fray, Comey has now resorted to directly confronting the president at his own game. He shed his original anonymous Twitter nom de plume, “Reinhold Niebuhr,” and directly waded in to criticize and taunt his tormentor. In the immediate wake of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s firing and Trump’s Twitter gloating, Comey ominously warned, “Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon. And they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.”
And, just like that, Comey conceded the tiny sliver of moral high ground he precariously clung to and reduced his position as an advocate of the pursuit of facts into a narcissistic quest to sell books. He unwittingly joined Trump in the pig-wallow that currently serves as civil discourse.
He continues to diminish himself and the cherished office he once held.
It didn’t have to be this way.
Comey was appointed to be FBI director by former President Obama in September 2013. He was quite unlike his predecessors; he enjoyed a cult of personality that resulted in numerous FBI professional support employees — even some agents — donning “Comey is my Homie” T-shirts after his humiliating firing by Trump last May. The tears shed following his public scourging were real. I was one of the forlorn, feeling in the immediate aftermath that a good man had been done wrong.
Yet, recent revelations of his questionable decisionmaking and lack of courage in failing to stand up to Loretta Lynch, Obama’s politicized attorney general, and the current president, have changed the views of many of us who carry (or once carried) the shield and credentials of FBI special agents.
We base this assessment on a number of impossible-to-defend actions and inactions by Comey.
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, laid out a strong case that Comey contributed to the disgraceful politicization of the FBI — which, in part, led to his dismissal — via stupefying decisions in the Clinton emails and Trump-Russia collusion cases. The former chief prosecutor’s adapted remarks, delivered in a speech in January at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, can be found in the February 28 edition of Imprimis in a piece titled, "The Politicization of the FBI."
Comey is certainly viewed as a polarizing figure by many Americans. Part of what makes him such an enigma to those of us who served under him was that he could appear so courageous and, yet, so self-admittedly cowardly.
His speech at Georgetown University in February 2015, “Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race,” was an unprecedented acknowledgement by an FBI director that, at times, people of color don’t receive equal treatment under the law. It was a seminal moment in the lagging effort to achieve a police partnership with inner-city communities by honestly engaging and speaking truth to power. It was a brave speech — in my estimation, the high-water mark of his directorship.
But the sober, courageous director who gave those remarks exited the stage long ago, replaced by a character on Twitter. Emboldened by the left’s new adoption of him as a victim/messiah, he has shed any pretense of professional stoicism and seemingly cares little that self-indulgently discussing his interactions with the president now, before the probe concludes, may deleteriously alter the outcome.
Then again, recall his less-than-honorable leaking of his memos, through a surrogate, to The New York Times. His explanation, that he hoped it would trigger the appointment of a special prosecutor, was a clear abdication of responsibility. His nine encounters with the president left him admittedly “uneasy.” And, as he shamefully recounted to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during a Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing last June, “maybe other people would be stronger in that circumstance but that — that was — that’s how I conducted myself.”
In failing to challenge the president, one only needs to recall Comey’s failure to also push back on the aforementioned Lynch, in order to establish a sad pattern of behavior. Lynch added to the undeniable politicization of the Department of Justice by outrageously suggesting that the FBI refer to the Clinton investigation as a “matter.” This was language repeatedly utilized by the Clinton campaign to dismiss a federal investigation as “much ado about nothing.” Comey testified that Lynch’s directive left him feeling “queasy.” But, instead of appropriately pushing back on the attorney general, he somehow felt the issue wasn’t “a hill worth dying on.” 
Many inside and outside of the FBI disagree.
While these revelations are supremely disappointing, it is his current vainglorious effort to “set the record straight” amid the hugely consequential Russia probe that seems so reckless, foolhardy and self-serving. It appears to add credence to the president’s charge that Comey is, first and foremost, a grandstander.
Comey’s book tour may indeed settle an old score. But it will undoubtedly diminish what’s left of his once-bulletproof reputation and expose to further, irreparable harm the agency he once professed to so deeply love.
James A. Gagliano is a CNN law enforcement analyst and retired FBI supervisory special agent. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at St. John's University and is a leadership consultant at the Thayer Leader Development Group (TLDG) at his alma mater, the United States Military Academy at West Point. Follow him on Twitter @JamesAGagliano.
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