UPDATE: Office Depot Joins Companies Pulling Ads From Laura Ingraham’s Fox News Show

A number of companies have announced they will be pulling their ads from Laura Ingraham’s primetime show, after the Fox News host taunted Parkland, Florida student David Hogg on Twitter.

To recap, for those of you lucky enough to not have a Twitter account:

David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland high school shooting who has emerged as a vocal advocate for gun control, told TMZ he was getting rejected from a number of California colleges.

Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host who has been critical of Hogg and his cohorts’s attempts to push gun control, mocked Hogg in a tweet:

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.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018

In response, Hogg called for an advertiser boycott of Ingraham’s show, and tweeted out a list of companies to his legions of followers.

Ingraham eventually tweeted an apology, which Hogg rejected.

Since, the boycott has proven to have some legs. Despite questions over its legitimacy, a number of companies have announced they will no longer advertise on Ingraham’s 10 p.m. show on Fox News — by Friday night, at least 14 advertisers had pulled support, the latest being Office Depot.

“We will no longer advertise with The Laura Ingraham Show moving forward,” an Office Depot rep told HuffPost on Friday.

Here’s the list:

– Nutrish
– Office Depot
– Jenny Craig
– Hulu
– TripAdvisor
– Expedia
– Wayfair
– Stitch Fix
– Nestlé
– Johnson & Johnson
– Jos A Bank
– Miracle Ear
– Liberty Mutual
– Principal

Watch Hogg discuss the boycott in a Friday appearance on CNN above.

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