WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED:
- Actor Frank Stallone has made a public apology after posting a vile rant on Parkland shooting survivor and student activist David Hogg.
- Sylvester Stallone’s 67-year-old younger brother said he was “deeply ashamed” after calling Hogg a “coward” and a “rich little b—h” on Saturday’s tweet.
- Fox News Laura Ingraham tweeted an apology on Thursday for any hurt or upset she had caused Hogg or any of the survivor of the Parkland massacre.
“To everyone and to David Hogg especially. I want to deeply apologize for my irresponsible words,” Stallone wrote on Twitter Sunday. “I would never in a million years wish or promote violence to anyone anywhere on this planet. After what these kids went through I’m deeply ashamed. Please accept my apology.”
David Hogg and fellow activist Emma Gonzales lead other fellow Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School classmates to rally, calling for gun control, after the Feb. 14 attack.
Stallone’s first tweet read: “This David Hogg p—y is getting a little big for his britches. I’m sure someone from his age group is dying to sucker punch this rich little b—h. Watch him run home like the coward he is. He’s the worst rep for today’s youth headline grabbing punk.”
The actor has already deleted the repulsing tweet along with his other tweet calling Gonzalez a “headline grabbing clown.”
Stallone’s tweets instantly caught the attention of other Twitter users, prompting numerous tweets against him.
“We don’t have to worry about a Frank Stallone boycott. That started in the late seventies,” comedy director Judd Apatow tweeted.
American comedian Ike Barinholtz wrote “What Frank Stallone said is despicable and I call on the Lomita Community Blood Bank to boycott him and no longer buy his plasma.”
Other famous people who attacked Hogg on Twitter include rocker Ted Nugent and Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
On Saturday, Nugent described the student activists as “mushy brained children who have been fed lies.”
Ingraham, on the other hand, mocked Hogg by mentioning his rejection by several universities.
“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.),” Ingraham tweeted on Wednesday.
Hogg responded by listing down the biggest advertisers on Ingraham’s show “The Ingraham Angle,” and coaxed his more than 700 thousand followers to call the companies and demand they pull their ads.
To Ingraham’s dismay, at least a dozen advertisers obliged, including Hulu, Office Depot, Expedia, TripAdvisor, and Johnson & Johnson.
“I’m a 17-year-old kid, she’s bullied people before and I think people are just sick and tired of it. She needs to acknowledge what she has done wrong,” Hogg told the Daily News.
Ingraham tweeted an apology later and invited Hogg to return to her show for a “productive discussion.”
Source: Daily News
19 comments
Wait! So who is David Hogg? Is he just a 17 year old kid? Is he coached by professional groups with the goal of disarming American citizens? The actions, words and organizational skills are not those of inexperienced 17 year olds! Sadly he is being used and not mentally ready to take on the 2nd Amendment!
Totally agree, that brat has not got a clue, says what he is told to say for promised gratifacation that he will never receive. Dumb.
When the heat is on, always revert back to the safety of “I’m just a 17 year old kid” but in DC he acted like he was calling the shots for the entire country with his vast knowledge of the world.
You thrust yourself into the public eye, either willingly or unwittingly, you are a target for anything that comes along. Your handlers did not mention that to you?
Stallone and Laura never should have made an apoligy, they were right. Hog boy can say anything he wants about anybody and get away with it, I don’t think so. Maybe Hoggy should do something about his minions snorting “condumbs”. Such bright little people.
Who the hell is Frank Stallone?
He donotes blood plasma.
Isn’t shaming someone into an apology by threatening their livelihood for merely stating an opinion a form of bullying? Good Lord what has happened to the land of the free? I am so tired of people being called in the carpet for what they believe. Frank Stallone could have said what he did minus the vulgarity and I would have been fine with it. It’s his opinion. The way he chose to speak shows an absence of class. I have no problem with what anyone else said. It just seems to me we have gotten to the point where free speech only applies to some. Because, if you say the wrong thing it will cost you.
Nothing to add to Judd Apatow’s tweet. Couldn’t have said it better. Even Frank’s brother won’t hire him!
David Hoag deserves the respect of his opinions as much as those who disagree with him. Vulgar name calling diminishes the strength of any opposing view. If one can’t use facts and logic to argue one’s position, that opinion means nothing!
Read the article in todays Wall Street Journal by another 17 year old by the same name, David Hogg, who’s is a college student…actually he is only 16 and is studying engineering at Univ. of N.C. hIS SO MUCH SMARTER. The article written by him is on page A17. Mary Brookwell
David Hogg is NOT a Parkland survivor. Didn’t anyone at Dailey News catch his interview when he admitted to the whole effin ‘ world that he had been home, got on his bike and pedalled,the 3 miles to Parkland that morning? HEY???? DAVID?????? WHY were you at home at the time your fellow students were being murdered? I, for one, think your little act stinks to high heaven of dead fish! And as to those companies that jumped,on the Bandwagon to NOT advertise on Ms Ingraham’s show???? See if I buy a single product from all y’all until I see an advertisement on her show.
Mr Hogg…..if you want to be taken seriously as an adult, do not act like one one day and hide behind your youth the minute someone takes umbrage with your so-called adult stance the next……
Oh no! You’re not going to buy any of their products? Well I’m sure they won’t cry over the lost $2.50 that you spend on baby lotion or whatever. Give me a break.
My opinion this boy is an attention seeking w hore. I’m sick of him and his attitude
I’m thinking that with a little more training David Hogg could be his generation’s Barrack Hussein Obama, a silver-tongued, know-nothing community organizer.
It takes a snake to know a snake
Yet he’s still smarter than the idiot running our country into the ground.
Typical Liberal. Trump won get over it. And he will win again in 2020 especially if you Libtards keep acting the way you do. Poooor losers
Typical conservative. Trump is losing. YOU get over it.
Like most Hoggs, he was probably fed garbage all his life, so, I guess we can’t blame his ignorance on his so called education.
He shouldn’t listen to those that are apparently teaching him what he thinks he knows.