David Hogg, the teenage insta-activist, is trying to shut down the career of talkshow host Laura Ingraham. He’s doing a petty good job thus far.
Ingraham lost a slew of advertisers after she made fun of Hogg being unable to find a college that will accept him.
Mean-Spirited? Yes. Ill-advised? Of course.
But hardly something to wreck a career over.
Ingraham apologized, but Hogg is not accepting the apology. He wants to drive Laura Ingram off the air, as do millions of other liberals.
It’s a tactic that works. Recall Bill O’Reilly’s career coming to a sudden halt after advertisers bailed and Fox terminated his show.
It’s a tactic that works—and will be used again in the future.
Hogg was helped by Media Matters, the George Soros bull dog operation that goes after conservative media folks. He also enlisted the help of Daily Kos, the largest liberal website on the internet run by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a former Reaganite millionaire with shady connections to the CIA.
This is how it will work after the Democrats take back the House and maybe the Senate later this year. Specific paleo and conservative media types will be targeted by the authoritarian left. If they manage to impeach Trump or he is defeated in 2020, the gloves will come off.
The cultural Marxists and their childhood activist surrogates will not stand for allowing conservatives and others including libertarians to express their political views in any public forum.
Advertisers, notoriously lacking spines, will bow down and pull their support for a number of not only talkshow hosts, but websites and social media voices as well. Speaking engagements will be targeted with disruptive and violent behavior.
Democrats dominating Congress will use the FCC and other bureaucratic tools to shut down radio and television shows. “Hate speech” regulations similar to those used in Europe will be used to shut out conservatives.
Meanwhile, social media will fine tune its “fake news” algorithms and its squads of censors—many financed by liberal foundations—to lock out dissent and any challenge to the cultural Marxist agenda.
Hogg is in the perfect position. He’s a kid—you can’t criticize children—and a “survivor” of a school shooting, even though he wasn’t at school during the incident.
This unique position allows him and his fellow coached teeny-bopper activists to engage in irrational criticism and make threats against people and organizations that support the Second Amendment while not suffering pushback from the opposition.
Brownshirts.