No apology over mocking tweet accepted..

Florida shooting survivor Hogg won't accept Ingraham's apology over mocking tweet

By CRISTIANO LIMA

Florida shooting survivor David Hogg declined on Friday to accept Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s apology over a tweet mocking him, saying she’s expressing remorse only because a flurry of advertisers dropped her program.

Hogg, who called for companies to boycott the talk show host after she derided the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student over several college application rejections, framed Ingraham’s apology as insufficient and self-serving. Pressed on whether he'd accept her apology, he replied, "No."

“She’s only apologizing after a third of her advertisers pulled out, and I think it’s really disgusting the fact that she basically tried promoting her show after apologizing — or ‘apologizing’ — to me,” Hogg told CNN during an interview Friday.

Ingraham issued an apology for her remarks Thursday after several advertisers announced they were cutting ties with the program.

“Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA —incl. @DavidHogg111,” the host tweeted. “On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.”

The Fox News host went on to note that she interviewed Hogg on her program in the aftermath of the massacre in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 and injured several others last month. Ingraham extended an invitation to the student to return to show “for a productive discussion.”

Hogg on Thursday praised advertisers for heeding his denunciation of Ingraham’s remarks. Hogg, who gained national prominence after the shooting as an advocate against gun violence, listed several of Ingraham's top advertisers on Twitter after her initial comments.

“I think it’s great that corporate America is standing with me and the rest of my friends, because when you come against any one of us, whether it be me or anybody else, you’re coming against all of us,” he said.

At least 12 companies have said they will cease to run ads on Ingraham’s program in response to her tweet.

TripAdvisor, Nutrish, Expedia, Nestle, Wayfair and Hulu said they will stop their ads on “The Ingraham Angle,” which airs daily on Fox News Channel at 10 p.m. Johnson & Johnson, Jenny Craig and Stitch Fix told HuffPost they would follow suit. According to the Daily Beast, Jos. A. Bank and Office Depot said they had no plans to buy future ads for the show. On Saturday, pharmaceutical giant Bayer said it was dropping its ads from the show.

The moves came after Ingraham shared a report on Twitter that Hogg’s college application had been rejected by certain schools. “David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” the Fox News host wrote Wednesday.

Hogg told CNN that Ingraham’s remarks were part of an effort to “distract” from the debate on gun violence.

“From a journalistic standpoint, I would say she needs to be more objective and stand down, because I am not the issue here,” he said. “The issue needs to be gun violence in America. But what she’s trying to do is to distract from that, and I hate it.”

Ingraham said Friday when she signed off from her show that she would not be appearing on the network this week.

"A blessed Good Friday and Passover to all of you," Ingraham said. "I'll be off next week for Easter break with my kids."