Laura Ingraham found herself in hot water with advertisers when she needlessly insulted Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg over his college acceptance rate. Since Ingraham’s comments, many sponsors have been pulling ads from The Ingraham Angle — so much so, that one of Ingraham’s guests recently remarked upon the mass exodus of advertisers.
Enrique Morones, an immigration advocate and the founder of Border Angels, recently appeared on Ingraham’s show to discuss immigration with Republican candidate for California governor, John Cox.
During the broadcast, Morones couldn’t resist throwing some pretty blatant shade at Ingraham for her dwindling list of advertisers.
Guest Enrique Morones asks Ingraham: “Where’s your sponsors @davidhogg111 got rid of half of them”, then gets kicked off the show pic.twitter.com/GCdUPgKMhJ
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) April 19, 2018
“You’ve been so incredibly rude and nasty since almost the first second of this appearance,” Ingraham noted when Morones began taunting Cox.
“Where’s your sponsors? David Hogg got rid of half of them,” Morones retorted. “A high school kid shut you down!”
Moments later, Morones disappeared from the screen, presumably because he had been kicked off the show. (Insert joke about how conservatives might just be snowflakes after all.)
While Morones is correct about Ingraham losing sponsors, it should also be noted that, since the beginning of the controversy, the ratings for Ingraham’s show have only gone up.
(Sooo, perhaps hurling insults at Ingraham isn’t the best idea, since it only appears to make her stronger?)