Parkland survivor David Haugh goes after Laura Ingram's advertisers. The media seek to bar conservatives on any grounds possible, and we check the mailbag. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

All right. Well, we have a lot to get to. I want to talk a lot about what's been going on with Laura Ingram and this AstroTurf boycott by media matters and why it has nothing to do with civility or decency and has everything to do with politics. We'll go through all of it in just one second. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at PolicyGenius. So life insurance is one of those things that you really don't like thinking about. You don't like talking about it because it suggests that one day you're going to die. Well, I have news to break to you. We all will. And when that day comes, you want to make sure that your family is taking care of. Four out of ten people in the United States do not have life insurance. You might be one of those people, but life insurance rates right now are the lowest they have been in 20 years. And the best place to buy is policy genius.com. In just five minutes, you can compare

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advertisers have now dropped Laura Ingram's show on Fox News. And the reason they dropped Laura Ingram's show is because she tweeted something out yesterday, which we discussed, in which she suggested, I'm going to quote her directly. She said, David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied and whines about it. And we played the clip of David Hogg, who is the Parkland shooting survivor, who's obviously made a name for himself saying pretty vicious things on television about Second Amendment advocates, Dana Lash, GOPers. He's been pretty brutal to everyone who disagrees with him. And he's wanted to have it both ways, David Hogg. And again, there's not a criticism of his right to speak. Obviously, he has the right to speak. And he should speak however much he wants. And this isn't a criticism of his status as a survivor. Obviously, something awful that never should happen to anybody of decency happen to David Hogg. And that's awful and unforgivable. But he's now in the political debate, and that means that there's some slings and arrows

that come with the political debate.

I know this.

Okay, when I was 17 years old,

the same age as David Hogg, I started writing a syndicated column, and I got clubbed about the years for it, and a lot of that was deserved, because guess what? At 17, you don't know everything, and sometimes your perspectives are wrong. And if you join in the political debate, then it is open season on your politics.

And by the way,

it's not to be go-shoulders. Like insults are bad, people saying silly, stupid things about you.

That's nasty. But it does happen on a relatively regular basis. Okay, for years, I was called

the Virgin Ben in the left-wing press. And that is not a joke. From the time I was 17,

there were people who were calling me the Virgin Ben because obviously I was a nerd who had never had sex. And I was proud about the fact that I hadn't had sex and I was a virgin until I was married, but I was called the Virgin Ben. Not once. Did I ever call for the people who were calling me the Virgin Ben to lose their advertising base? And my retaliatory response was always, okay, let's talk about ideas or you're an idiot. Okay, that's the way that politics works. David Hogg, however, called immediately for an advertiser boycott on Laura Ingram and all these advertisers complied. A lot of advertisers comply with this stuff because they're afraid that they don't really want the controversy. They're concerned that any controversy associated with their product is going to hurt their sales. The reality is these boycotts don't really work very well. When they tried an actual boycott against Chick-fil-A, for example, it failed immediately. I remember just a few weeks ago, months ago, when Kureg coffee was bullied into dropping Sean Hannity as an advertiser, Sean fought back and Kurek reinstated their advertisement within like a week.

So all this talk about advertisers really feeling the impact of politics.

It's just not true.

People don't not buy products because they don't like the programs that advertisers advertise on, right?

Secondary boycotts generally do not work.

That's worth noting. But one of the questions I want to ask here is what is this boycott against Laura really about. She's come out and apologize now. So if you said that it was about civility, if you said it was about decency, she shouldn't have said what she said. I don't think she should have said what she said either. I said that yesterday on the show. But if you think this boycott is about civility or decency, you got another thing coming, because now she's apologized. Okay, status quo ante restored, right? We're all supposed to be cordial with the Parkland survivors, which we should be. We should be decent with the Parkland survivors, which we should be. I've been very focused on doing that throughout this entire, entire horrible mess that's happened in the aftermath of an even more horrible, horrible incidents, obviously.

But decency was restored, right? Well, not right, because after Laura Ingram apologized,

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