Fox News host Laura Ingraham returned to the air Monday night, quipping that she is "glad that I don't have a Google alert on my own name" after a week in which several of her show's major advertisers pulled back after she mocked a Parkland school shooting survivor.
USAToday reports other than a few quick jests with fellow Fox talk-show host Sean Hannity, Ingraham did not tackle the Parkland controversy. She moved right into her opinion-based program, The Ingraham Angle, and referred to her week off as "my Easter break."
Hannity introduced her Monday by saying, "I've been saying it for a week. Laura Ingraham is back on Monday. Laura Ingraham is back on Monday." Ingraham quipped, "Hey Sean, did anything happen while I was gone? It's boring."
She quickly launched into her on-air commentary in a segment titled, "The Left's Plot to Silence Conservatives."
Ingraham lost about half of her show's on-air advertising after David Hogg, a 17-year-old survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, called on Ingraham's advertisers to boycott the show. His appeal to advertisers came in the wake of Twitter post in which Ingraham wrote, "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.)"
Among the advertisers that pulled their ad sponsorship are Bayer, Hulu, Johnson & Johnson, Wayfair, TripAdvisor, Nestle, Honda, and over a dozen other large companies.
On Monday, TheWrap.com reported that Allstate joined in the advertising boycott.
Ingraham has publicly apologized to Hogg for her remark. Fox News Co-President Jack Abernethy has said that the network supports Ingraham. "We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts," he said.
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