In the past, when embattled Fox News hosts have taken a “short vacation,” it hasn’t gone well for them. For better or worse, Bill O’Reilly and Eric Bolling both took outrage-inspired “breaks” that ended up becoming permanent after a few days. It appears Laura Ingraham will not suffer the same fate, as Fox News has issued a strong statement in her defense.
Ingraham is “taking a week off” after her advertisers followed child gun control advocate David Hogg’s lead and began pulling support from her show. Ingraham had, perhaps foolishly, taken the Hogg-bait and tweeted about his college rejections. Hogg, who demands to be taken seriously as a font of very grown-up gun control wisdom – but also argues that responding to ‘children’ is wrong – led a boycott, refused an apology, and got his cronies to apply pressure.