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Ace Hardware has reportedly decided to resume advertising on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News talk show, a week after announcing it would quit ads with the conservative commentator. A spokeswoman for the hardware chain told The Wrap the company had “incomplete information” when it decided to stop advertising on “The Ingraham Angle.” Ace was among numerous companies that fled Ingraham’s show after she mocked David Hogg, a survivor of the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

“Advertising on any network or show, is in no way an endorsement from Ace of the content contained or spoken within that program,” the Ace spokeswoman said in a statement.

“We appreciate the different points of view from our customers, and believe people should be treated with respect and civility. … At this time, we have not altered our current media schedule; however, we regularly review our media strategy.”

The Ace flip-flop comes after other Ingraham advertisers, including Red Lobster, Blue Apron and SlimFast, announced that their ads will no longer appear on her program. The advertisers abandoned Ingraham’s show after she tweeted that Parkland teenager Hogg, a high school senior, was “whining” about rejections from four California colleges:

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

A week ago, an unnamed Ace spokeswoman confirmed “we do not have any plans to nationally advertise on Ingraham’s show in the future,” according to The Wrap.

Need something from Ace Hardware this weekend?

Please find an alternative to giving them business- they don’t deserve our support. https://t.co/LUlxNyh507 — Arne Duncan (@arneduncan) April 14, 2018

People on social media quickly vented their outrage with Ace’s reversal, with some vowing to boycott:

Retweet to let Ace Hardware know that we will no longer shop there for advertising on Laura Ingrahams show. Seems like @AceHardware lied when they said they wouldn't advertise on her show

cc: @MoveOn @RedXBoycott @PegsterG @harryp3115 https://t.co/FkiktYaNC7 — Thomas Kaine (@thomaskaine5) April 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/984748147367964673

Ooh, @AceHardware, this isn't going to end well for u. And incomplete information? Let me summarize for u: Laura ingraham tried to bully and shame a 17yr old victim of a mass shooting. U need any more info, u let us know. #BoycottAceHardware https://t.co/9ljIHEeeOS — Mark Has Had Enough (@ligos29) April 13, 2018

Ace is the place with the spineless, weak-kneed twits. https://t.co/4iZC2nwoYM — Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/wesley_jordan/status/984780062711885825

Hey @AceHardware, why are you *still* advertising on child-bully Laura Ingraham's show? — William LeGate (@williamlegate) April 13, 2018

Who would’ve guessed that a bunch of whiny SJW’s wouldn’t be regular customers at a do it yourself hardware store? I figured these people were building sheds and doing kitchen redesigns. Let this be a lesson to all advertisers – the mob doesn’t buy shit. They’re cheap fucks with no jobs and no money. They don’t actually matter and neither does their faux outrage. The silent majority still supports free speech and free commerce and doesn’t care where a company advertises so long as they provide a quality product at a fair price.

Can’t tell you how happy this makes me. I’ve never watched Laura Ingraham’s show. I don’t even know what channel Fox News is on Dish Network, nor do I care because I’m too busy watching sportball or Nat Geo most of the time.

But this was so important for free speech and freedom in general. The fact of the matter is that the Second Amendment isn’t nearly as under attack as the First Amendment. Your guns aren’t going anywhere. Your speech is. Western countries like Canada and Germany have “hate speech” laws that outlaw criticizing certain protected groups. Canada can force you use certain speech by mandating certain pronoun use for mentally unbalanced individuals. The speech police will argue that you still have your First Amendment rights to say whatever you please, but the fact of the matter is that you really don’t. The government is not regulating your speech, but the mob is. And when you let the mob decide what you can and cannot say, that’s a dangerous, dangerous precedent to set.

Laura Ingraham’s show could not survive without sponsors. She’s not a Nazi, she’s just a far right winger. And she has a right to be a far right winger, just as Rachel Maddow has the right to be the exact opposite. She pointed out that David Hogg was being a whiny little bitch by projecting to his 750,000 followers about how unfair it was that he wasn’t getting into UCLA and other colleges. Laura Ingraham called him whiny for doing so. He then used his platform to order a HARASSMENT, not a boycott, a HARASSMENT campaign against her advertisers. Businesses can deal with boycotts, because most of David Hogg’s followers weren’t buying things from them anyway. But the harassment is what gets them. After fielding thousands of phone calls while they’re trying to conduct business, a lot of these sponsors probably decided it was a distraction and they just didn’t want to deal with it anymore.

She then apologized to David Hogg, but instead of just being an adult (because he’s not an adult, despite the media treating him like one) and accepting her apology and moving on, he declined it and called for more harassment. Because David Hogg is a selfish child who adults are using as a pawn to push their agenda. And these adults are too gutless to tell him he’s wrong for doing this, and they lack the foresight to see how this could affect them in the future.

It’s a dangerous precedent to set, yet many on the left were embracing it with open arms. Because ultimately these people have no principals. They’re happy to see someone they disagree with suffer. But what happens when the mob decides that something Jake Tapper says is hate speech? CNN, or any other network could be the mob’s next victim. This is not something anyone who enjoys free speech should be championing.

Not everyone on the left embraces this though, and some are many are smart enough to see this. Like Bill Maher, who actually had David Hogg on his show last month:

“If you’re gonna be out there in the arena and make yourselves the champions of this cause, people are going to have the right to argue back. Maybe she shouldn’t have said that

“He complains about bullying – THAT is bullying. We shouldn’t do this by team, we should do this by principal.”

Gotta love Elliot Spitzer, a man who used his money and influence as governor of New York to exploit sex workers:

“Boycotting is part of free speech.”

Bitch, this isn’t a boycott. Rosa Parks boycotted the busses by not riding on them. Ya know what she didn’t do? She didn’t start a newsletter and tell people to call up the Montgomery bus depot thousands of times a day and tell them they’re not riding the bus until they integrate.

“This is the modern day of cutting off free speech. I’m not saying this is a violation of the First Amendment. This is an end-around the First Amendment.

More importantly, advertising on a blog, newspaper, TV show, or any other media outlet does not mean that you are endorsing all of the opinions and views on that platform. The entire point of advertising is to be seen by the most amount of people for the best price you can find. And the fact of the matter is that Fox News gets very good ratings, so advertisers would be moronic not to advertise there.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott worked because black people made up a large portion of bus riders, and it hurt the city economically by not riding for a year. If these people want to not shop at certain advertisers that’s their right. If there’s enough of them that it hurts these company’s sales, then they’ll reconsider advertising where they are.

But the fact of the matter is that it doesn’t hurt companies by advertising on Fox News. It helps them. Because lots of people watch Fox News and support Laura Ingraham and like chain hardware stores because they’re cheaper.

Nice to see a victory for freedom.

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