Ingraham fired back at her critics the following night.

“The point of last night’s Angle was that the rule of law – something that used to bind our country together,” Ingraham began.

Ingraham continued, “And despite what some may be contending; I made explicitly clear that my commentary had nothing to do with race or ethnicity, but a shared goal of keeping America safe, and her citizens safe and prosperous.”

If CNN was hoping Ingraham would lose her audience – which would make her vulnerable to an advertiser boycott, their plan backfired.

Ingraham won her timeslot and bested both CNN and MSNBC.

Fox News drew nearly 2.4 million viewers during Ingraham’s 10 PM time slot.

By comparison, MSNBC attracted just fewer than 2.1 million viewers, while CNN drew a little more than 1.1 million viewers.

However, CNN has succeeded in targeting other Fox News host advertisers before.

Last year the network hounded Bill O’Reilly’s sponsors until enough had dropped him.

When O’Reilly lost his advertisers, Fox News then jettisoned him in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.

It looked like CNN was running a repeat of this strategy with Ingraham.

If CNN could succeed in rendering Ingraham commercially toxic, sponsors would flee at the first hint of pressure.

Gun-grabbing activist David Hogg nearly succeeded with a similar tactic last spring.

But Fox News spared Ingraham and announced they would not give into ideological bullies.

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