AGE OF REBELION

If we are honest, we remember our teenage years when we spent a lot of time examining our parents and other adults real or imagined faults.  It is the Age of Rebellion in preparation for flying the coup out into society.  Thus it is no surprise that, when Fox News  Laura Ingraham (55) insulted 17-yr old survivor of the Parkland shooting  David Hogg on her TV show, he did not throw insults back but hit her where it hurt, i.e. through getting advertisers to boycott her show.*

This caused shock jock Ingraham to offer an apology to Hogg in the spirit of "Holy Week."  If it wasn't Holy Week, she wouldn't have apologized.?  At any rate, Hogg knew what was going on and wouldn't accept her apology and said that she is a bully and needed to be addressed as such.  He said it was the issues that are at stake, not personalities.*

As any parent of teenagers can attest, you must be careful of the way you deal with teenagers.  Hogg's 14 yr-old sister has also gotten into the act.**

Some time ago I wondered what the fuss is all about on Laura Ingraham so I started listening to her Ingraham Angle TV show.  I got the impression that she grew up in a working class family (her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Poland and her father an Irish American), and has never gotten over it.  She seems to live to give it to the "Swells."  But she was admirably motivated to get a B.A. from Dartmouth and a law degree from the University of Virginia.  She has three adopted children.  I don't know if she ever passed the bar examination to become a practicing lawyer.***

Ingraham was a homophobe, but there is nothing like having someone in the family with a condition to change your views.  It turns out that her brother is Gay, and she became impressed with how her brother and his partner coped with AIDs, thus changing her views.  She now even approves of civil unions for Gays.***

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/laura-ingraham-david-hogg.html
** https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/29/lauren-hogg-and-david-hogg-fight-back-against-laura-ingraham-s-bullying/219783
*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham