Everyone is up to speed on the spat between Parkland student David Hogg and Fox News host Laura Ingraham, right? If not, here is the short version: Hogg has been busy telling everyone on Twitter and CNN about all the colleges he hasn’t gotten in to. Ingraham retweeted a story about it, and said this:

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.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018

Cue the outrage machine, et al. David Hogg, high on his own power trip, immediately demanded a boycott of all of Ingraham’s sponsors. Ingraham actually did apologize to Hogg, which Hogg refused to accept. Victory Girl Kim covered the back and forth, plus the fact that Hogg is actively avoiding a debate with either Hunter Pollack, who lost his sister Meadow in the shooting, and Kyle Kashuv.

However, we now are operating under The New Rules. The New Rules state that any Parkland student is an ironclad and irrefutable expert on anything they wish to be. David Hogg made these rules. But he probably never expected that his allies would have to live up to them as well.

For example, Kurt “Tentacle Porn” Eichenwald‘s trashing of Kyle Kashuv… before claiming that he had no idea who Kashuv was.

Kurt Eichenwald attacking children. pic.twitter.com/L3jIDrc89c

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 30, 2018

WAIT! @KyleKashuv. I apologize. I thought you were someone else who keeps challenging me to a debate with insults. I probably have in the past. This is the first tweet where I know who you are. Nothing else I said is relevant.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

I owe an apology to @KyleKashuv. I have no idea how many times I have commented to him. There is a high school kid who has a podcast who keeps challenging me to debates with insults. I mixed up their names. Please ignore every tweet Ive sent. They were written for someone else.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

New Rules, Kurt!

But, @kurteichenwald, your apologies mean nothing, as we have recently learned from @davidhogg111. https://t.co/rdGMQl96IO

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 30, 2018

He only apologized because he’s afraid of losing his job. Apology not accepted, and love thy neighbor, or something. pic.twitter.com/neBHm9Mcjb

— BT (@back_ttys) March 30, 2018

For what it is worth, Kashuv tried to let Eichenwald bow out gracefully. Eichenwald couldn’t do it.

I call on @kurteichenwald to publicly accept @IngrahamAngle apology to @davidhogg111 just as I accepted your apology.

Mistakes happen. Doesn't mean it should be the end of their career.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 30, 2018

Kyle…I can't accept someone else's apology to a third party for something that was done involving the third party.. Not my circus.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

It's a circus you inserted yourself in yesterday. So acknowledge that these boycotts are stupid, and as you're witnessing, counterproductive.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 30, 2018

I'm sorry. I will not take a position against the First Amendment. Just like Trump supporters have the right to rage at Kathy Griffin and boycott Dicks, Hamilton, Pepsi, Starbucks and all the others they have declared, the other side has the right too.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

You're a hypocrite and a clown. Great to know.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 30, 2018

And like Sir Robin, Eichenwald “ran away, bravely ran away away…”

This is what love looks like pic.twitter.com/c75lMNCW0v

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 30, 2018

Also unaware that the New Rules applied to him, Canadian government employee Max Fawcett.

So everyone can laugh and enjoy the ignorance of @Maxfawcett pic.twitter.com/3XstVEEJgE

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 31, 2018

But when he did…

Awww. So cute pic.twitter.com/CZnNlOQNtV

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 31, 2018

New Rules, Max!

You know what they say, stupid doesn't pay the bills… if this is true, be a man and apologize to me. Why'd you block first? pic.twitter.com/eMa54UXiT2

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 31, 2018

This isn’t an apology pic.twitter.com/W4843oraTM

— Ian Fapoport (@IanFapoport) March 31, 2018

Looks like he's trying to hide from everyone now, Lol. pic.twitter.com/W1f7t78Ore

— Elizabeth Purdy (@ElizbethhPurdy) March 31, 2018

Hogg made the rules on this very clear. This person's livelihood must now be destroyed.

— Bruce Wayne (@DKVolbeat) March 31, 2018

Sorry man as you know apologizing doesn’t cut it anymore. pic.twitter.com/ftlst0NydI

— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) March 31, 2018

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/980176684971208704
Now that the shoe has to be worn on the other foot, suddenly CNN’s Brian Stelter is SO! CONCERNED! ABOUT! THESE! BOYCOTTS!

Stelter opened Sunday’s Reliable Sources with an explanation of the ongoing feud between Ingraham and Hogg: Ingraham mocked Hogg’s college rejections in a tweet; Hogg called for an ad boycott of her show; companies began to pull their ads; Ingraham apologized; Hogg declined her apology; Ingraham went on vacation as advertisers continued to pull out.

“Are ad-boycotts the right answer here?” Stelter asked his guests. “I’m personally pretty wary of this. I think it’s dangerous to see these ad boycott attempts happening more and more often in this country.”

“My view is let’s not shut down anyone’s right to speak. Let’s meet their comments with more speech. Lets try to respond that way.”

Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik noted that the Parkland students have a “great moral authority” due to the tragedy they experienced, and questioned why Ingraham thought it was a good idea to criticize them.

Zurawik obviously is in favor of The New Rules. Stelter is at least savvy enough to realize that The New Rules mean him – and that worries him.

Now, I don’t like The New Rules. But I’m not the one that was anointed with media sainthood. David Hogg made The New Boycott Rules, and Kyle Kashuv is smart enough to know that those Rules can work for him as well. The media isn’t used to having to play by the rules they created. Now that The New Boycott Rules are the law of media, who knows who will be devoured next?