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DamnLaura Ingraham, the Fox News host of the Ingraham Angle was riding high as she presided over the fourth most watched cable news show in America. She used her freedom of speech to scrawl an emotional screed critical of David Hogg, a high school student who has become the face of the anti-gun movement. Ingraham, well educated, articulate woman, went from the penthouse to the outhouse overnight because she turned to the bathroom stall wall we call Facebook and attacked Hogg with a cheap, signed smear.
Hogg promptly identified her showās sponsors and called for boycotts which quickly materialized leading Ingraham to take a āplanned vacationā which is code for sheās likely gone. Ingraham should have known better.
Whenever or wherever opinions are expressed there is bound to be disagreement because people have different life experiences. This causes most people to reserve personal opinions especially in public settings. In the United States we have the first amendment which essentially means that we can say or write anything so long as what we say or write does not slander or bring harm to others or infringe on the rights of others to express different or unpopular opinions.
The First Amendment is a golden rule of American democracy that sets it apart from most other great civilizations not just in space but in time. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the event was hailed as a decisive victory for democracies embracing freedom of speech and the table appeared to be set for a golden age of world democracy.
But freedom of speech has a built in flaw: it raises the specter that the people could use it to call for getting rid of it. Just the fact that people are endowed with freedom of speech does not guarantee that they understand its significance or will use it responsibly. When it becomes a means to an end people will find creative ways to abuse it.
Both Laura Ingraham and David Hogg are guilty of abusing freedom of speech. Ingraham went after Hogg with the power of Fox News via Facebook and Hogg went after Ingrahamās livelihood probably on the advice of his political handlers.
Does this balance out? Not really. Itās wrong to crush opposing points of view with power and itās just as wrong to go after a personās income because you donāt agree with them.
If we lose freedom of speech here weāll deserve it.
Did Hogg slap down that hateful bitch or what?
She announced last night she is taking a āvacationā
Hogg doesnāt even have his own cable news program
Media Matters is backing Hogg. You can tell he's a catcher just by witnessing who is lining up behind him pardon the pun. Oh drill me sir should be his motto as Anderson Cooper Jr.
PS her vacation was pre planned. She has children and its spring break baby for students who really do attend school.
UNLIKE FUCKING HOGG WHO WASN'T EVEN AT SCHOOL THAT DAY OF THE MASSACRE.
either you are pathetically stupid as hell & will swallow any load from the fake news makers, or you know it's a lie & don't a fuck...
David Hogg not at school during shooting? Bloggers spread misinformation
By Allison Graves on Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.
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Hereās what happened...
Hogg was at the school during the shooting. Hogg shot a video on his cellphone while taking cover in a classroom closet.
David Hogg not at school during shooting? That's fake news