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Laura Ingraham is taking an ‘Easter break,’ but advertisers keep taking a permanent break from her

Bayer AG is the source of her latest headache

Emily Q. Hazzard Updated:
Radio Host Laura Ingraham speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 20, 2016. (CREDIT: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
Radio Host Laura Ingraham speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 20, 2016. (CREDIT: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Laura Ingraham announced on Friday that she was taking last-minute “Easter break” from her show. But The Laura Ingraham Angle is on the ropes: the show is hemorrhaging advertisers after she bullied teenaged Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg.

Conservative political commentator Laura Ingraham walks on stage during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Laura Ingraham takes an ‘Easter break’ after advertisers rush to drop her program

It all started when Ingraham decided to bully Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg.

Advertisers didn’t like being associated with a TV host who harangued a kid for not getting into college, and dozens have announced they would cut ties with her show. Bayer AG is the latest company to announce it would pull its ads from the Fox News program, confirming via Twitter late Saturday that they have no plans to return, either.

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Companies announcing that they have dropped advertisements from her show include Nutrish, TripAdviser, Wayfair, Expedia, Nestlé, Stich Fix, Hulu, Jenny Craig, Office Depot, Honda, Miracle-Ear, Liberty Mutual, Principal Financial Group, Ruby Tuesday, Atlantis Resort, Entertainment Studios, and Johnson & Johnson.

Political talk radio host Laura Ingraham delivers a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (CREDIT: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Laura Ingraham apologizes to David Hogg after losing multiple advertisers

This should be a familiar routine for Fox News by now: Bill O’Reilly also announced he was taking a “scheduled” vacation right around the time he lost advertisers in droves. In that case, he and Fox News were under fire for having paid millions of dollars to women who say O’Reilly had sexually harassed them. O’Reilly never came back on air from that vacation: Fox News had fired him before his scheduled vacation was even over.

CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Bill O’Reilly is going on vacation and he may never come back

Tonight’s show “could be his last.”

Fox News told the Washington Post that Ingraham’s vacation was pre-planned.

CORRECTION: This story originally included Jos. A Bank in a list of companies which had pulled advertisements from The Ingraham Angle. Since then, a spokesperson for the company reached out to ThinkProgress to clarify that they aren’t pulling their advertisements from the show. In a statement, the spokesperson wrote: “In these volatile times we are constantly monitoring our commercial placements in attempts to remove ourselves from inflammatory statements while still supporting free speech. Jos. A. Bank has not specifically selected and paid for advertising in The Ingraham Angle as part of their media buy. Any commercials that have aired there have been at the networks discretion.”