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</div><div>women for thomas --> IWF (funded by old white MEN]</div><div>
</div><div>...The

IWF’s Elizabeth Larson, in the organization’s Women’s Quarterly

magazine, called sexual harassment an issue drummed up by “a growing

number of women, many spurred on by Anita Hill’s example … [who] find it

more profitable to litigate than to work.” After the 1994 passage of

the Violence Against Women Act—spearheaded by then-Sen. Joe Biden in

what was widely seen as atonement for his mishandling of the Thomas

hearings—the IWF argued that the legislation should be repealed or

receive zero funding; IWF spokeswoman (and ’90s right-wing It Girl) Laura Ingraham referred to VAWA as feminist “pork” with a “tear-jerker” title. The

group also took on affirmative action, headlining a Women’s Quarterly

article on the topic “That’s No White Male, That’s My Husband”—a phrase

that revealed a lot about IWF constituents’ racial identities and

loyalties. (“You can’t have white guys saying you don’t need affirmative

action,” Ledeen told the Washington Post when asked why the

anti-feminist IWF had organized as women in the first place.)....
</div><div>
</div><div>===</div><div>
</div><div> News’ Laura Ingraham has drawn widespread rebuke following a racist

anti-immigrant rant on the August 8 edition of her Fox show. During her

far-from-subtle <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/08/laura-ingraham-massive-demographic-changes-have-been-foisted-upon-american-people-and-they-are/220944" style="text-decoration-line:none;">diatribe</a>,

Ingraham bemoaned “massive demographic changes, … changes that none of

us ever voted for, and most of us don't like,” and complained, “In some

parts of the country, it does seem like the America that we know and

love doesn't exist anymore.” Later in the program, she <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/08/laura-ingraham-black-black-crime-bigger-problem-community-just-racism-you-claim-criminal-justice/220945" style="text-decoration-line:none;">questioned</a>

whether “Black-on-Black” crime is a larger issue for the Black

community than the racism that infects the criminal justice system. Her

comments are a nearly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/09/laura-ingrahams-anti-immigrant-rant-ripped-white-supremacists/220951" style="text-decoration-line:none;">perfect parallel</a> of the rhetoric used by white supremacists and were <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-duke-praises-laura-ingrahams-anti-immigrant-rant-one-of-the-most-important-monologues-in-history" style="text-decoration-line:none;">embraced</a> and commended by former KKK leader David Duke. Outside of white supremacist circles, however, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenDuckworth/status/1027600770861092867" style="text-decoration-line:none;">politicians</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1027414717126594561" style="text-decoration-line:none;">activist groups</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1027906462503395330" style="text-decoration-line:none;">other</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1027555830454001664" style="text-decoration-line:none;">media</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1027400249612988417" style="text-decoration-line:none;">figures</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fndrew_lawrence%2Fstatus%2F1027380439420420101%20filter%3Averified&src=typd&lang=en" style="text-decoration-line:none;">widely condemned</a> the rant.

<div>[david duke praise retweet]
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Following the criticism, Ingraham <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/09/laura-ingraham-claims-her-racist-warning-about-demographic-changes-had-nothing-do-race-or-ethnicity/220956" style="text-decoration-line:none;">defended</a>

her comments, arguing that the goal of her monologue was “to point out

that the rule of law, meaning secure borders, is something that used to

bind our country together.” Ingraham’s deflection, however, is <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1027922493032554496" style="text-decoration-line:none;">disingenuous</a> and undermined by her history of racist commentary and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Her Fox News show, The Ingraham Angle, is <a href="http://press.foxnews.com/2017/09/laura-ingraham-to-host-the-ingraham-angle-weeknights-at-10pmet-on-fox-news-channel/" style="text-decoration-line:none;">less than</a> a year old, but Ingraham has already turned it into a racist, extremist cesspool.

</div>

It isn’t difficult to find examples of Ingraham’s boundless hostility

toward immigrants and her obvious apathy towards non-white communities.

Here are just a few highlights from over the years (seriously, there

are many more):

Ingraham has spent years demonizing and mocking immigrants.

On The Ingraham Angle, she <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/27/laura-ingraham-dismisses-asylum-claims-hondurans-fleeing-violence-its-not-our-problem/220064">dismissed</a> asylum claims from Hondurans fleeing violence because, according to her, “it’s not our problem.”

</li><li>

She <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/01/laura-ingraham-children-not-yet-reunited-families-are-being-protected-trump-their-drug-abusing-child/220886">claimed</a>

that children torn from their parents as a result of the Trump

administration policies and who were not yet reunited with their

families were being protected by the administration because, “due to

domestic or drug abuse, many of these parents are now deemed unfit to

care for their children or dangerous for their children.” [many more]

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</div><div>2019
</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/hate-lies-and-misinformation-laura-ingraham">https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/hate-lies-and-misinformation-laura-ingraham</a></div><div>
</div><div>ingraham has a long history of spreading hate speech, from her <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/11/what-you-need-know-about-laura-ingraham-who-fox-news-reportedly-giving-show-prime-time/217908" style="text-decoration-line:none;">prime-time</a> Fox News show, former radio show, and, now, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/02/25/laura-ingrahams-new-podcast-total-disaster/222957" style="text-decoration-line:none;">new podcast</a>. Ingraham has made scores of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/10/Here-are-52-examples-of-Laura-Ingrahams-racism/220966" style="text-decoration-line:none;">racist</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/12/video-years-laura-ingraham-s-anti-immigrant-commentary/223057/" style="text-decoration-line:none;">anti-immigrant statements</a>, including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/09/laura-ingrahams-anti-immigrant-rant-ripped-white-supremacists/220951" style="text-decoration-line:none;">echoing</a> white supremacists. On numerous occasions, she <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/04/30/how-fox-news-tries-mainstream-white-supremacist-conspiracy-theory/223586" style="text-decoration-line:none;">has propagated</a>

the popular white nationalist “replacement theory,” wherein non-white

citizens “replace” white citizens. More recently, Ingraham came under

fire for <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/05/31/laura-ingrahams-history-promoting-hate-and-white-supremacy/223843" style="text-decoration-line:none;">defending white nationalist</a> Paul Nehlen. In the past, advertisers <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/09/after-20-advertisers-remove-ads-following-her-attacks-parkland-student-laura-ingraham-calls-boycott/219897" style="text-decoration-line:none;">have fled</a> from her show after Ingraham mocked a Parkland school shooting survivor and when she <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/08/laura-ingraham-massive-demographic-changes-have-been-foisted-upon-american-people-and-they-are/220944" style="text-decoration-line:none;">attacked the concept of diversity</a>,

saying, “Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the

American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for,

and most of us don't like.”

        
          
            <figure class="image"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font><figcaption><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melissa Joskow / Media Matters</font></figcaption>

</figure>

<h3>Racism, race-baiting, and other race-based statements</h3>

Ingraham called Planned Parenthood “butchers” responsible for what her guest termed a “Black holocaust”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): We are calling you on the

hypocrisy of saying “Black Lives Matter,” when many in your leadership

do not believe that, because they countenance what Planned Parenthood

has done, in selling this lie of abortion to the African American

community. Selling this, as some type of solution, when it's ended up

slaughtering African Americans who could be leading great lives today.

So, when people say “Black Lives Matter” -- you bet, you bet they

matter. So, why allow these -- these butchers into your communities? Why

let them do this to you? Of course, why -- white people -- why, any of

these people? Big money. It's about big money in politics, and their

PACs, their political action groups, all -- they rake in money.

RAYMOND ARROYO (AUTHOR) A lot of Black pastors will tell you they are

incensed by this. There is an awakening in the Black community,

particularly in the Black churches in the inner city, and they are

outraged that other leaders in the past have not only been embraced by

Planned Parenthood, but embraced them back, and actually supported their

work in the community.

And now they realize what -- what many of these Black pastors have

told me, is a Black holocaust. They see this as a Black holocaust in

their community, a Black genocide. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/04/04/laura-ingraham-and-co-host-call-planned-parenthood-butchers-responsible-black-holocaust/223345" style="text-decoration-line:none;">4/4/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham claimed former Rep. Stacey Abrams (D-GA) called out racism against her because of her “entitlement mentality”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Stacey Abrams was on Morning Joe, and she's claiming now that people dismiss her for one reason.

…

It's not about the issues, it's about “Look at me, this is me, my

truth” -- it's that same thing with “my truth.” It's a -- well, a kind

of -- it's a -- you know, it's an attempt at coming across as confident,

but underneath that is an insecurity, in my view.

…

That's entitlement. That's an entitlement mentality.

…

“I'm a -- I'm a Black woman with a sturdy build” -- I literally don't think anyone I know even cares about that, at all. <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/04/04/laura-ingraham-and-co-host-claim-stacey-abrams-entitlement-mentality-reason-she-called-out-racism/223344" style="text-decoration-line:none;">[4/4/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham told Democrats to concentrate on white voters

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Wages for most Americans are going

up now, not because of government mandates, but because of Trump's

policies. What are they? Lower taxes, less regulation, pressure on China

trade cheating, and a tighter labor market for all working people. So,

the Democrats' answer is higher taxes, more regulations, more low-wage

laborers flooding into America.

That's exactly the opposite of what most working-class voters want.

Oh, oh, for those liberals who put all their hopes in being saved by

changing demography, well, here's a news flash: This is the percentage

of white non-college graduate voters in a handful of key states.

In Iowa, they make up 62% of the population. In Michigan, 54% of the

population, Ohio, 55%, Pennsylvania, 51%, and Wisconsin, 58%.

Trump does really well with that group, obviously.

...

Today's radicalized Democrat Party has moved further away from the

voters they need to win in 2020. They still have no clue. It's

unbelievable, really -- how to speak to the working-class white voters,

let alone how to get their votes. They look down their elitist noses at

all working people of all backgrounds. And their values? Come on. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/04/08/laura-ingraham-mocks-democratic-outreach-minority-voters-suggests-they-concentrate-white-voters/223377" style="text-decoration-line:none;">4/8/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham asked if the cast of Hamilton is guilty of cultural appropriation for playing white people

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Is that not that culturally

appropriating the other race? Like if it’s, if it’s just about cultural

appropriation, does it only go one way? That's interesting. I didn't

think about that Hamilton thing until just now. I love Hamilton. See, I think it's fine, I think it's all cool. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/02/07/laura-ingraham-asks-if-cast-hamilton-guilty-cultural-appropriation-playing-white-people/222800" style="text-decoration-line:none;">2/7/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham: “Because you're a minority, you get special standards, special treatment”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): This is what was referenced as

minority privilege last week by yours truly. What do I mean by that?

That because you're a minority, you get special standards, special

treatment in the eyes of some. And it's not fair to other people. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/23/laura-ingraham-because-youre-minority-you-get-special-standards-special-treatment/222619" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/23/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham said America is plagued by “white-aphobia”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Well, back to the collectivism

mindset. But she forgot Christophobia and I guess white-aphobia -- we're

running out of phobias and isms here, Dr. Steele. I'll let you take a

swing at that one. So you can't talk about identity politics -- another

way for them to shut conservatives up.

SHELBY STEELE (AUTHOR): They're on the defensive because identity

politics are inherently racist. They divide us up by color, by

ethnicity, by gender and so we're automatically set at odds. I mean,

identity politics is every bit as divisive as segregation was, as racism

of old was. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/02/28/laura-ingraham-says-america-plagued-white-aphobia/223014" style="text-decoration-line:none;">2/28/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham mocked and imitated Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) accent, claiming she “doesn't sound like Minnesota”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): By the way, the freshwomen -- can we call it that? Or, we can't call it anything -- freshpeople --

RAYMOND ARROYO (AUTHOR): Freshpeople --

INGRAHAM: The Freshpeople caucus -- the freshman caucus includes

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Democrat from Minnesota, also trying to outdo

-- I think all of them are trying to outdo one another to be the radical

it-girl of the moment.

...

She sounds like Rizzo on Grease,

she doesn't sound like Minnesota, that accent -- [IMPERSONATING] “I

demand that you open the wall” -- it doesn't -- he wants to open the

government. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/18/laura-ingraham-mocks-and-imitates-rep-ilhan-omars-accent-claims-she-doesnt-sound-minnesota/222578" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/18/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “minority privilege” to criticize Fox News hosts

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): So, when you can't debate a point,

you throw back “white privilege, you can't understand,” and then

there's nowhere for that person to go. You shut down debate.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying that little trick on Tucker Carlson and me.

She's out there saying it's amazing that people like this, I'm

paraphrasing, in Twitter, people like this can even make a living, these

racists at Fox.

Oh, really? You don't know me. Don't judge me. My authentic self has a

right to speak, and exist, and make a living, just like your, quote,

“authentic self,” whatever that is, progressive, Marxist, socialist,

whatever you want to call it.

But, you see, they're so eager to take away the rights of other

people, as they claim to be the most tolerant people on the face of the

planet.

“White privilege” -- how about the privilege of being a protected

member of a class that you can never criticize, lest you be called

racist? That's privilege. I think Victor Davis Hanson called it

“minority privilege” in his piece that he just wrote, that the people

who are the most protected are the people who are the first to say

“white privilege,” because then, you can't ever criticize them again. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/17/laura-ingraham-says-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-used-minority-privilege-criticize-fox-news-hosts/222567" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/17/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham:

Is “Black-on-Black crime ... a bigger problem for the community than

just the racism that you claim is in the criminal justice system?”

<blockquote>BRIAN WATKINS (ATTORNEY): It's what Elizabeth Warren was

saying, is there's racism in the criminal justice system, and step one

is recognizing that fact, that there is in fact racism in the criminal

justice system.

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Is Black-on-Black crime -- yeah, but is

Black-on-Black crime, for instance, right now, in Chicago a bigger

problem for the community than just the racism that you claim is in the

criminal justice system? [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/08/laura-ingraham-black-black-crime-bigger-problem-community-just-racism-you-claim-criminal-justice/220945" style="text-decoration-line:none;">8/8/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham: Affirmative action is “shafting people who are not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I love the fact that the Justice

Department, by the way, is going to be investigating what affirmative

action has done to universities. In other words, shafting people who are

not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity, and I love

that. Good for Sessions. I'd hit all these liberal -- the Holy Grail of

liberalism is abortion, and drugs, and affirmative action, and the

culture wars they're trying to push on our kids, all these new views of

gender. I'd smash back on all of that. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/02/laura-ingraham-affirmative-action-shafting-people-who-are-not-appropriate-color-or-background-or/217486" style="text-decoration-line:none;">8/2/17</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham

responded to backlash following her attacks on basketball star LeBron

James by saying liberals were playing the race card

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The left and the media attack dogs

can dish it out, can’t they, but they sure can’t take it. Last night we

played clips of NBA superstars LeBron James and Kevin Durant and an

ESPN co-host named Cari Champion trashing Trump

…

I called those remarks barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical.

…

When I call them out for their insipid commentary, they immediately throw down the race card. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/02/16/laura-ingraham-responds-backlash-following-her-attacks-lebron-james-liberals-are-playing-race-card/219419" style="text-decoration-line:none;">2/16/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham attacked Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and Cari

Champion for talking about Trump's racism: “Must they run their mouths

like that?”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): All right, we're gonna create a

new banner: “This is a jumb dock alert.” NBA superstar Lebron James is

talking politics again and this time it's R-rated. Here's his barely

intelligible -- not to mention ungrammatical -- take on President Trump

in a new ESPN podcast.

…

I'm numb to this commentary, “like.” Must they run their mouths like

that? Unfortunately, a lot of kids and some adults take these ignorant

comments seriously. Look, there might be a cautionary lesson in Lebron

for kids. This is what happens when you attempt to leave high school a

year early to join the NBA. And it's always unwise to seek political

advice from someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball.

Oh, and Lebron and Kevin, you're great players, but no one voted for

you. Millions elected Trump to be their coach. So keep the political

commentary to yourself, or as someone once said, shut up and dribble. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/02/16/laura-ingraham-attacks-lebron-james-kevin-durant-and-cari-champion-talking-about-trumps-racism-must/219405" style="text-decoration-line:none;">2/16/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham

agreed that Tyler Perry’s “Madea doing political commentary” would’ve

been better than Maxine Waters’ State of the Union response

<blockquote>RAYMOND ARROYO (GUEST): If you're going to impeach the president, you have to have grounds for impeachment.

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): No, no, no --

ARROYO: “I don't like him, he's mean, he's angry” -- and the other thing, this is Black Entertainment Television.

INGRAHAM: Waters is not entertaining at all. Well, it is actually sort of entertaining.

ARROYO: Mildly, but I would've preferred Madea doing political commentary, because --

INGRAHAM: Oh my god, Madea, that's a great idea --

ARROYO: At least Tyler Perry would draw a crowd and actually has an audience, and he would be funny. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/02/01/laura-ingraham-agrees-she-wouldve-preferred-madea-doing-political-commentary-instead-maxine-waters/219245" style="text-decoration-line:none;">12/1/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham: Minority voters picked Obama “because he was ... half-black”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Where is that written that on any

tablet anywhere that minorities have to vote Democrat? Maybe if you

shake it up on the campaign trail and you expose what the Democrats have

done in -- don't walk around like you're just all you want to do is

pander. Pander, pander, pander. That's all you can do to the minority

communities is pander to them. How about talking truth? You know the old

truth to power? How about talking the truth to the minority community

about what's happened? Obama certainly didn't do that, right? But he had

a, he had a type of appeal that transcended a lot of issues. And it was

true that, as so many have come on the show and said, there are a lot

of minorities who just voted for him because he was, you know,

half-Black, and that was a historical milestone. And they stuck with

that. But there wasn't really much of an alternative, I think, given to

the people to choose from in the last election cycle. Now you have a

real alternative from Hillary. There's a real alternative, perhaps, and

it's either going to be Trump or Cruz. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/04/26/laura-ingraham-minority-voters-picked-obama-because-he-was-half-black/210089" style="text-decoration-line:none;">4/26/16</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham: “The NAACP has become a push organization for racist sentiments in many ways”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Last week the

NAACP was working on its resolution, right, to condemn racist elements

in the tea party movement. … A lot of Tea Party party have come out,

they were so enraged by the flawed characterizations and maligning

that's been going on on the part of NAACP -- now this emerges and pretty

much confirming what many of us thought about people who have burrowed

their way into the Obama administration with radical outlooks, a radical

agenda, and, in this case, a racist sentiment. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2010/07/20/ingraham-the-naacp-has-become-a-push-organizati/167922" style="text-decoration-line:none;">7/20/10</a>]

</blockquote>

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<h3>Nativist and anti-immigrant statements</h3>

Ingraham

and a guest lashed out at people for speaking Spanish and claimed

immigrants leave trash everywhere because they not assimilated

<blockquote>VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR): When I go

out -- I'm told that illegal immigrants do not throw trash, they would

never do that, and I pick up mounds of trash out in front of my farm. I

have the addresses of the people, they put their power bills in, I know

exactly where they live, the sheriff doesn't do anything. I have six

dogs right now that were dumped on my property, so that's not -- it's

not a big thing, but that's what happens when you have large numbers of

unassimilated immigrants who came in illegally in large numbers, that

are not diverse.

It would really work if we had people coming from Korea or Africa or

Europe, all coming legally, all in measured numbers, all mixed up, and

they would assimilate. But that's not what's happening. We're getting

huge groups of one language, one culture --

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): One village --

HANSON: -- coming across the border illegally. The first thing they

do is break the law, the second thing they do is reside illegally and

break the law, so -- and they know it, and so, their attitude is, “If I

break the law in coming, and I break another law in residing, why do I

have to follow any other law?” And they -- they feel that sense of

exemption.

...

I'm not a very emotional guy, but when I go in town, and I go to my cleaner, and everybody's speaking Spanish --

INGRAHAM: Oh my gosh --

HANSON: And the cars in the parking lot all have Mexican flags on --

INGRAHAM: Oh, yeah.

HANSON: And people walk out of the cleaners, and they throw their McDonald's sack right in the gutter, it gets me really angry.

INGRAHAM: Oh no, I get enraged. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/05/21/laura-ingraham-and-guest-lash-out-people-speaking-spanish-claim-immigrants-are-leaving-trash/223763" style="text-decoration-line:none;">5/21/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham: Tax cuts mean nothing if we “lose the country because of this huge demographic shift”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The fact that the Republicans did

not do this when they had both houses of Congress, though, that makes me

even angrier, I think, than what the Democrats are doing. … But [the]

tax cut's value is going to be bled away if we lose the country because

of this huge demographic shift and bleed the country with all of these

expenses we have now. So it's a massive problem. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/05/13/laura-ingraham-tax-cuts-mean-nothing-if-we-lose-country-because-huge-demographic-shift/223692" style="text-decoration-line:none;">5/13/19</a>]

</blockquote>

</li></ul>

Ingraham said immigrant schoolchildren have led to a “diminished product” in U.S. schools

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The left, by the way, has told us

that we aren't allowed to talk about the need for immigrants to

assimilate into the American culture. That, too, is racist. Well, that's

especially true, as it relates to the public school system.

The question is, why is assimilation, even in the school system, now

controversial? Well, the reason is simple, but grossly punitive. They

wish to inoculate the entire public school system in the United States,

and thus, the powerful teachers unions, from criticism -- even if it

means a diminished product for the kids. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/02/12/laura-ingraham-says-immigrant-schoolchildren-have-led-diminished-product-schools/222853" style="text-decoration-line:none;">2/12/19</a>]

</blockquote>

</li></ul>

Ingraham

on undocumented immigrants: “This is an invasion of the country. ...

They want to tell you you can't say that anymore. They are invading the

country”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Tens of thousands of people

released into the country on a weekly basis. Really, on a weekly basis,

because we don't have the space for them in detention and we just

release them. I mean, what is this?

This is an invasion of the country. They want to -- they want to tell

you you can't say that anymore. They are invading the country, but it's

not even -- invading now isn't even accurate, because we're just

letting them come in. It's not an -- is it really an invasion, when

we're just basically saying “Come on in”? [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/03/28/laura-ingraham-undocumented-immigrants-invasion-country-they-want-tell-you-you-cant-say-anymore-they/223276" style="text-decoration-line:none;">3/28/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham said immigration is pushing “Western civilization” toward “tipping over a cliff”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Is Western civilization, as we

understood it, actually hanging in the balance? I think you could

actually make a very strong argument that it is tipping over the cliff. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/03/28/laura-ingraham-says-immigration-pushing-western-civilization-toward-tipping-over-cliff/223279" style="text-decoration-line:none;">3/28/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham: “The Democrats want to replace many of you” with immigrants

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): This is where we are. The

Democrats want to replace many of you with new voters -- who eventually

they will give amnesty to -- to new voters who have no real affinity for

the American founding. When you come illegally to a country, you

immediately disrespect the laws of the country. And that cannot stand. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/03/07/laura-ingraham-democrats-want-replace-many-you/223078" style="text-decoration-line:none;">3/7/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham warned that undocumented immigrants are coming to “replace kind of the old America with a new America”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM: The American people are just going to

have to organize and protest what's happening at the border in

Washington until something's done. The effort here is to replace kind of

the old America with a new America who's not coming into the country

legally. And the Democrats know that will tip the balance for them in

every state where it's even close and that will just be an electoral

lock forever. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/03/07/laura-ingraham-warns-undocumented-immigrants-are-coming-replace-kind-old-america-new-america/223077" style="text-decoration-line:none;">3/7/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham agreed with a guest that “Operation Wetback” should be re-created to deport immigrants

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): There was no debate about

Operation Gatekeeper. It was just a bipartisan thing. Of course you got

to enforce the border. That's how crazy things are today.

PAT BUCHANAN (CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR): I think -- I believe, and I

may be mistaken, but I believe that there was a time when Walter Mondale

and Cesar Chavez went down to look at the border and said we got to

stop folks from coming in and taking the jobs of our farmworkers here.

And when Ike [President Dwight Eisenhower] did it back in 1952/53, it

was called “Operation Wetback,” but he sent those folks back and they

were not wildly controversial. Everybody felt, look it's our home and we

got an immigration policy, and these folks are breaking the laws and

breaking in and we are going to send them back.

INGRAHAM: Eisenhower deported 80,000 people.

BUCHANAN: Yeah, Ike eventually got a million -- a million went home,

and they were sending them back on buses and ships and everywhere back

there to Mexico. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/02/06/laura-ingraham-agrees-guest-operation-wetback-should-be-recreated-deport-immigrants/222785" style="text-decoration-line:none;">2/6/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham attacked undocumented immigrants for not showing “any sense of gratitude”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Look, there's not any sense of

gratitude that I hear from individuals who are here illegally. There's

not a -- like, where's the gratitude? I mean, you don't get away with

this in other countries, where you just say, “We'll just stay

indefinitely and get all these benefits.” You're not -- that just

doesn't happen, for the most part.  [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/29/laura-ingraham-attacks-undocumented-immigrants-not-showing-any-sense-gratitude/222694" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/29/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham warned that “demographic changes” are “coming to your state”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Just like we exposed what's going

on in California, coming to a state near you if these demographic

changes keep flipping states from Republican to Democrat. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/17/laura-ingraham-warns-demographic-changes-are-coming-your-state/222566" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/17/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham claimed Democrats oppose a border wall because they can use undocumented immigrants to win elections

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): It's political. It's 2020. They

think they can flip states with a massive immigration surge -- illegal,

legal -- into the United States. They've done it with California, in

part, and they think they are going to do it with other states. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/10/laura-ingraham-claims-democrats-oppose-border-wall-because-they-are-using-undocumented-immigrants/222493" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/10/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham said Democrats oppose a border wall because they want to change “the demographic makeup of the country”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): To get to the point, [Victor Davis

Hanson,] it's about changing the demographic makeup of the country,

which they hope will change the electoral makeup of the country, period.

It's that cynical.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR): Yeah, no, it's two things: political power and money. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/12/12/laura-ingraham-says-democrats-oppose-border-wall-because-they-want-change-demographic-makeup-country/222302" style="text-decoration-line:none;">12/12/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham called migrant caravan “a health issue” and speculated that migrants might be carrying diseases

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): This is a national security issue,

an economic issue, costs taxpayers billions of dollars to take all of

these people in, public schools, health care, all of it we know.It's a

health issue too, because we don't know what people have coming in here.

We have diseases in this country we haven't had for decades. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/23/laura-ingraham-calls-migrant-caravan-health-issue-speculates-they-might-be-diseased/221812" style="text-decoration-line:none;">10/23/18</a>]

</blockquote>

</li><li>

Ingraham warned that electing Democrats would mean a flow of “4 million-plus” migrants crossing the border

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Don't buy for a moment what the

left is selling you. Democrats are the ones using this and stoking false

fear among the Latinos to try to flip Congress. Again:No ideas, just

more emotional manipulation.

...

Now, the Democrats taking the House will ensure that this caravan of

4,000 eventually becomes a flow of 4 million, 4 million plus, before we

know it. This cannot happen. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/18/laura-ingraham-warns-electing-democrats-will-mean-flow-4-million-plus-migrants-crossing-border/221744" style="text-decoration-line:none;">10/18/18</a>]

</blockquote>

</li><li>

Ingraham said viewers should vote Republican or they will be replaced by immigrants

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Of this, my friends, you can be

sure: our views on immigration will have zero impact and zero influence

on a House dominated by Democrats who want to replace you, the American

voters, with newly amnestied citizens and an ever-increasing number of

chain migrants. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/16/laura-ingraham-vote-republican-or-you-will-be-replaced-immigrants/221711" style="text-decoration-line:none;">10/16/18</a>]

</blockquote>

</li><li>

Ingraham

complained that “massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the

American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for,

and most of us don't like”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Nevertheless, [Rep. Alexandria

Ocasio-Cortez] iskind of right in a general sense, because in some parts

of the country it does seem like the America that we know and love

doesn't exist anymore.

Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American

people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of

us don't like. From Virginia to California, we see stark examples of

how radically, in some ways, the country has changed.Now, much of this

is related to both illegal, and in some cases legal, immigration that,

of course, progressives love. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/08/laura-ingraham-massive-demographic-changes-have-been-foisted-upon-american-people-and-they-are/220944" style="text-decoration-line:none;">8/8/18</a>]

</blockquote>

</li><li>

Ingraham

said immigrant children not yet reunited with families are being

protected by Trump from their drug-abusing, child-trafficking parents

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Out of the roughly 2,500 children

who were separated from their family units at the U.S.-Mexico border,

more than 1,800 have already been reunited with their parents.And of the

700 children or so who still [have] not been reunited, 431 have parents

now outside the United States. Those parents were either deported, or

voluntarily abandoned their children, a fact that is conveniently

omitted from the Dem-tifa crowd.

Democrats wailing over the plight of the remaining children are

completely ignoring the facts.Due to domestic or drug abuse, many of

these parents are now deemed unfit to care for their children or

dangerous for their children. So, news flash,the U.S. government is

protecting the border kids today. Or do the Democrats want them to be

reunited with parents who could traffic them or who are criminals

themselves? Is that what they want? [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/01/laura-ingraham-children-not-yet-reunited-families-are-being-protected-trump-their-drug-abusing-child/220886" style="text-decoration-line:none;">8/1/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham on family separations at the border: “There's only so much of the love” our country has to “spread around”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Most people believe that if you

come into the country illegally, it's sad when your family gets

separated -- no one wants to see that -- but it's your responsibility.

You made a decision to cross the border. You didn't go through a normal

port of entry, and now you are complaining that America doesn't have a

heart, which is what one woman did today, was reunited with her

daughter.

So that's nice that she's reunited, but she made that decision. So I

understand the heart argument, I get the compassion argument, but

Americans have been struggling for, like, three decades, and haven't

seen a raise.So there's only so much of the love you can spread around,

when your own family, an American citizen, or an American veteran on a

street is having trouble. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/07/02/laura-ingraham-its-sad-when-your-family-gets-separated-border-theres-only-so-much-love-you-can/220585" style="text-decoration-line:none;">7/2/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham argued that terrorism is “the price ... to pay for multiculturalism”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): But the thing that's really sad

about it, guys, is that innocent Brits and people traveling to London

and all over the western Europe, now the price they have to pay for

multiculturalism is the risk that you're walking on the sidewalk and a

man will -- or a woman -- will purposefully mow you down. And then while

you're maybe finishing your cappuccino in a cafe, or having a drink,

someone will put a knife to your throat and slit it with the attempt,

perhaps, to behead you. That's what we all have to live with for the

free and open society that [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan and all these other

multiculturalists want Britain to become. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/06/06/foxs-laura-ingraham-terrorism-price-pay-multiculturalism/216798" style="text-decoration-line:none;">6/6/17</a>]

</blockquote>

</li><li>Ingraham called “toxic” Univision and Telemundo networks “Hispanic-centric outlets” that “revile the American experience”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Mass migration, especially Latino

migration -- illegal,legal --has transformed previously solid Republican

stronghold counties into Democrat-leaning counties or solidly Democrat

counties.

[…]

And sadly, our public schools don't assimilate people into the

country as -- they used to have actually a role in instilling civic

pride and patriotism. That's out the window. And you add to that the

toxic effect of Univision and Telemundo, which are overwhelmingly

left-leaning media outlets. These are not media outlets that encourage

objectivity in reporting or even a positive worldview toward the

American experience. No, no, no, no, no. These are Hispanic-centric

networks that I think in many ways, and we've talked about this before,

revile the American experience, and I think even encourage the

understanding that we're living on stolen land. So the idea that, like,

Univision and Telemundo are going to be great agents of assimilation

into the way the framers understood our balance of powers and checks and

balances in Washington, forget about it. You're not going to learn

about Adam Smith on Univision. This is a left-wing outlet, and it's

going to propagate left-wing views. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/11/04/laura-ingraham-univision-and-telemundo-are-toxic-hispanic-centric-outlets-revile-american-experience/214308" style="text-decoration-line:none;">11/4/16</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham called child detention centers “essentially summer camps”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): So, since more illegal immigrants

are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their

parents, and temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps or,

as the San Diego Union-Tribune described them today, as looking like basically boarding schools.

Having lost the argument, and frankly, the last election, liberals

have seized on the separated children and turned the entire image into a

political weapon, attempting to emotionally manipulate the public

perception of immigration enforcement. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/06/18/laura-ingraham-calls-child-detention-centers-essentially-summer-camps/220472" style="text-decoration-line:none;">6/18/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham dismissed asylum claims from Hondurans fleeing violence, saying, “It's not our problem”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I spent a lot of time in Africa

and there's a lot of people there who -- their villages are being burned

with flamethrowers by Islamic groups, their mothers and sisters have

been stolen and kidnapped. They do live in actually fear. It's not just

economic, but fear for their existence.

ELISA MASSIMINO (PRESIDENT, HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST): So, let me just tell you about that --

[CROSSTALK]

INGRAHAM: My point is--

MASSIMINO: Honduras, let’s just say to the point that you just raised, Honduras--

INGRAHAM: I’ve spent a lot of time there, I know Honduras very well.

MASSIMINO: It’s one of the top five most dangerous countries--

INGRAHAM: It’s not our problem.

MASSIMINO: --in the world.

INGRAHAM: It’s not our problem. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/27/laura-ingraham-dismisses-asylum-claims-hondurans-fleeing-violence-its-not-our-problem/220064" style="text-decoration-line:none;">4/27/18</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham said Mexicans “have come here to murder and rape our people”

<blockquote>CALLER: And the thing about the Mexicans and murderers and rapists, everybody knows--

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Well, they have come here. They have. Yeah,

they have come here to murder and rape our people. We know that. That

doesn't mean everybody has, doesn't mean everyone who comes across the

border is a nasty, horrible person, but they have violated our laws. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/03/04/laura-ingraham-mexicans-have-come-here-to-murde/209025" style="text-decoration-line:none;">3/4/16</a>]

</blockquote>

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Ingraham Used Taco Bell ad to mock immigrant children in detention

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I bet there are a lot of American kids who would like free food before they go to bed at night.

[Audio clip from a Taco Bell advertising campaign from the 1990s, in

which a chihuahua says repeatedly, “Yo quiero Taco Bell.”] [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/10/laura-ingraham-uses-taco-bell-ad-to-mock-immigr/199655" style="text-decoration-line:none;">6/10/14</a>]

</blockquote>

<h3>Transphobia and homophobia</h3>

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Ingraham claimed that “the Hollywood deal” is why “transgenderism” is no longer “called a mental condition”

<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Just five or six years ago, you

know, a lot of these psychiatric associations and so forth had a

different view of transgenderism. Remember, it -- wasn't it a diagnostic

manual?

MICHELLE MALKIN (CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER): Right, it was in the DSM, correct.

INGRAHAM: Yeah, and it was called a mental condition of some type,

right? Some type of gender dysphoria, and then just a few years later,

no, we're not saying that anymore. I mean, so, it's -- again, it's the

Hollywood -- it's the Hollywood deal. [<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/18/laura-ingraham-hollywood-deal-why-transgenderism-no-longer-called-mental-condition/222579" style="text-decoration-line:none;">1/18/19</a>]

</blockquote>

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</div><div>...</div><div>
</div><div>What kind of reporting does the Fox News viewership receive through prime-time reporting and commentary? Consider the lessons viewers learned on Thursday, December 20, 2018, an extraordinary day of troubles for Trump’s presidency. Leading print and television journalists outside of Fox expressed shock that Trump suddenly announced plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and quickly draw down half of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. They warned that an American exodus in Syria could benefit the Russians, Syrians, Iranians, and Turks at the expense of Kurds who fought bravely against ISIS. Military leaders and foreign policy experts blasted Trump’s decision as ill-advised and dangerous.<div class="p3_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General Jim Mattis’s decision to resign as Secretary of Defense, also received abundant commentary on December 20. Mattis’s letter of resignation communicated strong disagreement with the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Mattis, in a clear rebuke of the president, noted that during his four decades of “immersion in the issues” he had learned the importance of treating allies with respect and “being clear-eyed about malign actors and strategic competitors.” Both American and international leaders were alarmed that the last general who seemed capable of taming the erratic president planned to leave his post.<div class="p4_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the home front, President Trump led congressional leaders to believe that a compromise was workable on temporarily funding the government. But Trump suddenly reversed his position, insisting there would be no settlement unless Congress provided $5 billion for a border wall. On December 20 the stock market tanked on this news and other developments. The next day Wall Street closed with its worst week since the financial crisis of 2008.<div class="p5_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mainstream journalists focused on the chaos associated with these developments. Several Republican leaders joined them in expressing concern, including Senators Lindsay Graham and Bob Corker. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell backed compromises aimed at averting a shutdown, but Trump and his backers in the Freedom Caucus made compromise unworkable.<div class="p6_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News television viewers got almost no sense of this mounting crisis when watching prime-time programing on the night of December 20. Shows hosted by Martha MacCallum, Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino (sitting in for Sean Hannity) and Laura Ingraham directed viewers’ attention to other matters. The programs focused on a subject that had already received extensive coverage on Fox in previous months and years: undocumented immigrants. Hosts and guests warned repeatedly that dangerous foreigners threatened to overrun American society.<div class="p7_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Even though the real “news” on December 20 was about struggles in Congress to keep the government running, Fox’s prime-time programming highlighted stories about an immigrant invasion. Commentators asserted falsely that Democrats advocated “open borders.” They accentuated a report about a violent undocumented immigrant in California. In each program hosts and commentators left viewers with an impression that the big news of the day concerned security threats from aliens. Speakers praised President Trump for his determination to build a wall.<div class="p8_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What other topics dominated the night’s discussions on Fox, essentially eclipsing any discussion of the big stories of the day about blow-back from the president’s controversial actions?<div class="p9_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Martha MacCallum’s program featured a lengthy interview with Susan Collins. The senator from Maine talked at length about some extremist critics of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court (individuals who harassed her in disgusting ways).<div class="p10_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tucker Carlson drew attention to the work of Robert Shibley, who maintained that America’s universities have been pushing aggressively against free speech. Carlson also took shots at a “Climate Tax” and made fun of claims about Russian interference. He maintained that China was the real threat.<div class="p11_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dan Bongino and his guests blasted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s defense of the “so-called Russia investigation.” Bongino praised a “terrific book” by Gregg Jarrett called The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.<div class="p12_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Laura Ingraham, like all the other prime-time hosts, devoted considerable time to immigration, but she encountered difficulty when a sheriff objected to some of her arguments. The officer acknowledged the difficulty of holding a violent undocumented man in California because of laws pertaining to sanctuary cities, but he noted that many immigrants in his community were good citizens and sought help from law enforcement when troubled by criminals. “That’s a lie!” Ingraham responded. She ended the interview quickly by mentioning “violence, rape, burglary, robbery and other offenses against property and people.”<div class="p13_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A pattern in the reporting and commentary on Fox was evident in these four prime-time programs. By focusing on old news stories that had been red meat in right-oriented media commentary for years, there was little time left for an analysis of stunning developments in the previous 24-hours. General Mattis’s resignation letter hardly got a nod. The outcry by national and international leaders regarding President Trump’s plan to withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan received little or no attention. The impact of a government shutdown on the American economy and the American people was almost completely ignored. There was hardly a word about the stock markets’ plummet that day or the huge slide of recent weeks. Instead, viewers heard about scary threats from immigrants, Democrats, university administrators, and Chinese hackers. They were reminded often that President Trump fights tenaciously for ordinary Americans.<div class="p14_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Much of the discussion did not reflect what used to be identified as mainstream Republican stands on economic and political affairs. Instead, viewers got an earful of analysis from individuals who spoke from the margins of political debates. Hosts and commentators seemed eager to please their most important viewer, the President of the United States. Most of them endorsed and celebrated Donald Trump’s statements and actions, despite their sharply controversial nature. Dan Bongino, substituting as host for Sean Hannity, provided an example of the slant by promoting his co-authored book, Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump.<div class="p15_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Endorsing controversial and often questionable ideas, has, of course, been evident in Fox’s broadcasting over many years. A decade and a half ago, the channel sounded a drumbeat for war in program after program, convincing many viewers that Saddam Hussein had been responsible for the 9/11 tragedy, threatened the world with WMDs, including nukes, and needed to be removed. On the same channel host Bill O’Reilly devoted considerable time to warning viewers about a “war on Christmas.” Anti-religious forces were trying to replace “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays,” O’Reilly cautioned. During those years, Roger Ailes, then Chairman and CEO at Fox News, designed the channel’s modus operandi, applying a heavy-handed slant on the news.<div class="p16_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Complaints about Donald Trump’s enthusiasts are often misplaced. Many citizens who are regular patrons of Fox News and other right-oriented programming want to be well-informed about current events. They take civic engagement seriously. Those listeners and viewers should be more discerning, of course, but they are not fully to blame for making judgments about national and international affairs that raise the eyebrows of Trump’s critics. Fox News, and other opinion sources on television and radio are primarily responsible for the base’s narrow and skewed viewpoints. Millions of Americans have turned to the Fox News Channel and other sources, seeking knowledge about current events. They have been let down by the manipulators of “news.”<div class="p17_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert Brent Toplin has published several books about history, politics, and film. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington</div><div>=</div><div>=</div><div>filter bubble fail?</div><div>Once again proving they probably don't realize <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/01/debunking-pundits-and-corporate-democrats-new-poll-finds-unabashedly-left-agenda" style="text-decoration-line: none;">just how popular such ideas have become</a>, Fox News on Tuesday tried to ridicule and discredit key platform planks that progressive Democrats successfully ran on this election cycle but ended up just reminding people that these ideas actually make a lot of sense.In a segment titled "<a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/5966650393001/?#sp=show-clips" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Freshman Insurrection</a>" on Tuesday night, right-wing host Laura Ingraham presented newly-elected House members—namely Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota—as a cabal of nutty radicals hell-bent on upending Nancy Pelosi's leadership as they advocate for "wacky" ideas like providing every, single person in the United States access to healthcare and saving the planet's natural systems from destruction while providing quality, high-paying jobs to millions of people as the country makes a rapid transition to a renewable energy system.As the left-leaning group People for Bernie [Sanders] pointed out:<blockquote data-lang="en" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is the best agenda Fox News has promoted all week. <a href="https://t.co/p8FXqMCtTu" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pic.twitter.com/p8FXqMCtTu</a><interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true">— People For Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1062554108471652353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">November 14, 2018</a></interaction></blockquote><blockquote data-lang="en" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Weird how the right says "nothing is free" but then give the Left wonderful free advertising like this.— Giovanni Torre (@GiovanniTorre) <a href="https://twitter.com/GiovanniTorre/status/1062562597231190016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">November 14, 2018</a></blockquote>"Fox really makes the best pro-progressives graphics," <a href="https://twitter.com/Statistar30/status/1062552168501313537" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> another as screenshots of Ingraham's segment began to make the rounds on social media. The outlet has been caught doing the same multiple times in the last year (<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/24/watch-right-wing-reporter-describes-how-uncomfortable-she-felt-ocasio-cortez-rallied" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/01/fox-friends-poll-designed-discredit-medicare-all-explodes-their-face" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>).As it turns out, an increasing number of Americans support bold climate action, a Medicare for All plan, student loan forgiveness and tuition-free higher education, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/25/heeding-immigrant-rights-activists-demands-democratic-lawmaker-joins-growing-call" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a more humane immigration system</a>.Meanwhile, Parker Malloy, editor-at-large for Media Matters for America, offered Fox News her graphic design skills so "wacky" Republicans in the House (albeit less of them in the coming Congress) do not feel left out:...</div><div></div>2/18 rww

Fox News is reportedly <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F04%2Ffox-news-reportedly-having-difficulty-selling-ads-sean-hannity-and-laura-ingraham-s-shows-pro-trump%2F220370&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=610weekly&n=7&v=1396" style="">having trouble selling</a> ads for Sean Hannity's and Laura Ingraham's shows. One Fox News staffer told Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman that "The pro-Trump thing isn't working. We can't monetize DACA and the wall and that right-wing shit."This follows an October 2017 report that Fox News' ad revenue had dropped 17 percent, while revenue for its competitors had remained virtually unchanged.The toxic conspiracy theories, the pro-Trump propaganda, the racism and sexism and bigotry, and the extreme measures to defend anything that comes out of the White House (including conspiracy theories, racism, sexism, and bigotry) make Fox News unsafe for most advertisers. And whether it's Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham's show, the core issue is that Fox News management, from the Murdochs on down, is not interested in fixing the problem.Also: Once again, Fox News anchor Shep Smith <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmmfa%2Fstatus%2F1004823733662609408&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=610weekly&n=8&v=1396" style="">has debunked</a> a pro-Trump lie spread by Hannity. This same thing <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmmfa%2Fstatus%2F1001841898632474624&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=610weekly&n=9&v=1396" style="">keeps happening</a>.=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/parkland-shooting-survivor-david-hogg-isnt-here-bill-oreillys-ridiculous">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/parkland-shooting-survivor-david-hogg-isnt-here-bill-oreillys-ridiculous</a>=
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transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">JANUARY 24, 2017 3:14 PM</a>Laura Ingraham’s Lifezette Scrubs Clinton Murder Video</li><li class="full-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-fact-free-white-house-donald-trump-assembles-a-team-of-conspiracy-theorists/" title="The Fact-Free White House: Donald Trump Assembles A Team Of Conspiracy Theorists" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">DECEMBER 12, 2016 10:23 AM</a>The Fact-Free White House: Donald Trump Assembles A Team Of Conspiracy Theorists</li><a href="https://www.alternet.org/media/fox-news-hire-laura-ingraham-signals-theyve-picked-side-gop-civil-war">https://www.alternet.org/media/fox-news-hire-laura-ingraham-signals-theyve-picked-side-gop-civil-war</a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/11/what-you-need-know-about-laura-ingraham-who-fox-news-reportedly-giving-show-prime-time/217908">https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/11/what-you-need-know-about-laura-ingraham-who-fox-news-reportedly-giving-show-prime-time/217908</a>CNN: Laura Ingraham set to take over Fox News’ 10 p.m. slot. According to CNN, Fox News contributor and syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham will host the 10 p.m. hour on the network.
Ingraham is expected to take over the 10 p.m. hour on Fox News, according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity.
While there may be one or two final details to negotiate, Ingraham has been telling friends that the deal is essentially done, the sources said.
Her new show will be part of a broader change to the network's top-rated prime time lineup. Sean Hannity's show, currently at 10 p.m., will move one hour earlier to 9 p.m., multiple sources confirmed.
And "The Five," a talk show originally named for its 5 p.m. time slot, will shift from 9 p.m. back to its namesake hour. [CNN, 9/11/17]Ingraham has a long history of extremely offensive rhetoric 
Ingraham: Affirmative action is "shafting people who are not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity." Ingraham expressed her opposition to affirmative action, saying that the concept is “shafting people who are not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity.” From the August 2 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I love the fact that the Justice Department, by the way, is going to be investigating what affirmative action has done to universities. In other words, shafting people who are not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity, and I love that. Good for Sessions. I'd hit all these liberal -- the Holy Grail of liberalism is abortion, and drugs, and affirmative action, and the culture wars they're trying to push on our kids, all these new views of gender. I'd smash back on all of that. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 8/2/17]
 
Ingraham questioned why "the Muslims" are "never supporting the conservatives on" anti-LGBTQ initiatives. After President Trump announced that he would seek to block transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, Ingraham came out in support of the announcement and asked, “Where are the Muslims” on the issue of transgender service members? Ingraham went on to ask why “the Muslims” are “never supporting the conservatives on” whether or not transgender people should be able to serve in the military. From the July 26 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Join the military to get the [gender reassignment] operation for free? Probably get some one of these groups to sponsor you and get it for free. I mean -- I mean, maybe. I guess people do a lot of things to get stuff for free. I just don't believe it's 6,630 people. I mean, ten years ago, wasn't it on the -- in the diagnostic manual as a mental disorder? Ten years ago? Ten -- check the -- check the year. I think it was ten years ago it was a mental disorder. Now it's streamlined all through, it's just everything's the same, nothing's, nothing's -- your relation no better than this one. OK, I guess, so just everything's the same. I mean how is that all working out for us? No difference, everything's the same.
And, by the way, your religious beliefs don't count for anything. Like, if you're a chaplain or if you're a -- oh sorry, imam in the military. Where are the Muslims? I always say where are the Muslims on these issues? Why are they never supporting the conservatives on this? I don't want to say "conservative," "traditionalists." Do you notice that? The Muslim -- we always hear about the Muslim soldiers. Where the heck are the Muslim soldiers? They just never say anything.
Line four, Mike, go ahead. Where are the Muslims? Why don't they ever speak out on these issues? Never. Cat got their tongue? [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 7/26/17]Ingraham: Terrorism is "the price ... to pay for multiculturalism." Following a vehicle and knife attack in London in June, Ingraham opined on the situation, saying that “the price” many Europeans “have to pay for multiculturalism is the risk that you're walking on the sidewalk and a man will -- or a woman, will purposefully mow you down.” From the June 6 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): That's why, and Laura, the left is trying to be so PC and love everybody. You have all these celebrities -- the love fest. But here's the thing --
LAURA INGRAHAM: Right until the knife is at your throat, yeah.
EARHARDT: Right. We look at what's happening in London. And we have to look as a country and say, "What can we learn from this?" They were in the parks. Some of these terrorist suspects were in their parks with ISIS flags and the local network, Channel 4 there, had them on doing this documentary and no one went to their house and arrested them. Imagine if that happens in the parks here.
INGRAHAM: Well, yeah, well there will be a lot of people saying "that's free speech" and celebrate it. And -- that was all -- that all all look staged. Yeah, all of that looks staged, by the way. Didn't that look like that was all -- "OK, we're going to go in there, we're going to put our flag on the ground. Then we're all going to do the call to prayer and we're all going to" --that all looked -- that entire thing was made for TV and the journalists who were part of this, it's all part of the big scam. We saw that with the anti-ISIS protests that CNN was staging the other day. I mean, this is all part of the show. But the thing that's really sad about it, guys, is that innocent Brits and people traveling to London and all over the western Europe. Now the price they have to pay for multiculturalism is the risk that you're walking on the sidewalk and a man will -- or a woman, will purposefully mow you down. And then while you're maybe finishing your cappuccino in a cafe, or having a drink, someone will put a knife to your throat and slit it with the attempt, perhaps, to behead you. That's what we all have to live with for the free and open society that [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan and all these other multiculturalists want Britain to become. They want, they want -- this is the nirvana they wanted to create and this is what we have. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 6/6/17]Ingraham has said that she will not let her daughter use transgender-inclusive restrooms by herself. Ingraham expressed her opposition to transgender-inclusive restrooms saying that she will not let her daughter use the restroom by herself anymore. From the April 21 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Oh, by the way, I just want to say I have a great sense of relief today. So some people are in the resignation stage of their Trump grief. I'm in the relief stage, I'm just relieved. Now why am I relieved? Because Target is now going to allow transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice. Target has made a decision, and they did the big icon where they changed the red Target mark to a rainbow, or half rainbow and half other. So I'm just personally, I'm very relieved by that. Because now I'm relieved that I have to now walk into bathrooms with my 11-year-old daughter, soon to be 11-years-old. Now I can just say I'll wait outside, but now apparently I'm going to have to walk in with her to every public restroom. Because, you know, there's a subjective test for how you identify as something. Does it require a dress? Does it require a mindset? Does it require an amount of time that you identify as something other than your biological gender? I mean no one's really gamed out how this is going to work as a practical matter, everybody's just feeling good about themselves because we've made so much progress in LGBTQRST rights. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 4/21/17]
Ingraham attacks Pope Francis for his attention to climate change and its effects: “Aren't they supposed to be saving souls, not saving trees?” Ingraham complained about the Catholic church’s focus on climate change under Pope Francis’ leadership, sarcastically asking a guest on her radio show, “Aren't they supposed to be saving souls, not saving trees?” From the November 14, 2016, edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:RAYMOND ARROYO: [The bishops] are meeting today, actually, in Baltimore. You'll hear nothing about it. No news at all.LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Are they meeting about how to figure out how to denounce Donald Trump? What's the meeting --ARROYO: No. I think they're just trying to figure out how to survive. I mean, look, some of these men are holy and really good, wonderful guys, and speak out forcefully at great cost. There are others who are politicians. But this is the nature of the whole thing from the beginning of time. People tell me, you know, aren't you upset? Jesus handpicked 12 guys. Eleven of them walked out on him, OK? One stayed around during the rough times. That's what you're going to get. One in 12 are going to be worth a damn. So that's what I think is happening there. We'll see. Bishops are going to have a tough time in the age of Pope Francis finding common ground with Donald Trump. And, as I told you back in March when I traveled to these primary states on book tour, people were telling me, evangelicals and Catholics, I'm supporting Trump -- because everyone was scratching their heads, why are they supporting Donald Trump? -- and they told me, I'm supporting Trump because he's a check of my church's forays into politics. We don't think the church should be involved in politics, they told me, in immigration, and in the green debate, and climate change. So, when you look at it that way, you realize, there's a real tension among the people --
INGRAHAM: Aren't they supposed to be saving souls, not saving trees?
ARROYO: Well, but again, Pope Francis has put an emphasis on creation as a whole. You love life? Well, that's part of God's whole creation, so you have to love it all, protect it all.
INGRAHAM: I don't like that. I don't like that. I like the John Paul the two. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 11/14/16]
 
Ingraham: Univision and Telemundo are “toxic” “Hispanic-centric outlets” that “revile the American experience.” Ingraham attacked “Hispanic-centric outlets,” Univision and Telemundo, as “toxic” outlets that “propagate left-wing views” and “revile the American experience.” From the April 4, 2016, edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Mass migration, especially Latino migration, illegal or legal, has transformed previously solid Republican stronghold counties into Democrat-leaning counties or solidly Democrat counties. And why? You can ask yourself why is that? So Latinos are just going to be more knee-jerk liberal? Well, they come from countries where big government is a way of life, and often times they left corrupt governments, and now they think they're in the United States, and the government's going to do a lot more for them and be more benevolent. And sadly, our public schools don't assimilate people into the country as -- they used to have actually a role in instilling civic pride and patriotism. That's out the window. And add to that the toxic effect of Univision and Telemundo, which are overwhelmingly left-leaning media outlets. These are not media outlets that encourage objectivity in reporting or even a positive worldview toward the American experience. No, no, no, no, no. These are Hispanic-centric networks that I think in many ways, and we've talked about this before, revile the American experience, and I think even encourage the understanding that we're living on stolen land. So the idea that, like, Univision or Telemundo are going to be great agents of assimilation into the way the framers understood our balance of powers and checks and balances in Washington, forget about it. You're not going to learn about Adam Smith on Univision. This is a left-wing outlet, and it's going to propagate left-wing views. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 11/4/16]Ingraham suggested that people wear diapers rather than share restrooms with transgender people. Ingraham once gave a “transgender update” for her listeners to suggest people wear diapers instead of using transgender-inclusive restrooms, saying, “Everyone will just be happy. Then you’ll be in your own bathroom.” From the June 29, 2016, edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Oh we have a new transgender update for you as well. Oh no new transgender news for all of you who are bathroom-goers and public -- you use public restrooms? I think a lot of people are going to be walking around with just Depends on from now on. They're just not going to use the bathroom. Adult diapers, diapers for everybody. No one's going to be going to the bathroom. You have little kids, there's going to be no bathrooms. We're just going to all wear Depends. Everyone will just be happy. Then you'll be in your own bathroom. Everyone's bathroom is just their own clothes, OK? So this is what we're going to go to. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 6/29/16]Ingraham: “I don’t think of Jewish people as minorities because they're so successful.” During comments on whether candidate Bernie Sanders should concede the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton, Ingraham stated that she does not “think of Jewish people as minorities because they’re so successful.” From the May 18, 2016, edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Well, now they're saying, "How dare you, Bernie [Sanders]. How dare you stay in this race." Now, what if Bernie were a minority? Oh he is kind of. He's a socialist, so. But what if Bernie were a minority? What if he were a 74-year-old black man who was arguing for these? Would you think they'd be telling him to get out of the race? I don't think so. They can -- I think this is ageism. Don't you think this is ageism against Bernie? Although Hillary's not any spring chicken herself, so. But I think, maybe he should just start raising that as an issue, but they say he wants to have some input on the platform, so that might be also what's going on with Bernie Sanders.
[...]
Oh, OK, you're reminding me. Bernie is a minority. He's Jewish. OK. See I don't think of Jewish people as minorities because they're so successful and so. But, yeah, that's technically correct so I appreciate that correction on our Twitter feed. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 5/18/16]
 
Ingraham: "A lot of minorities ... just voted for [President Obama] because he was, you know, half-black.” Ingraham asserted that “a lot of minorities” supported Barack Obama for president “because he was, you know, half black.” From the April 26 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show:...capt 11/16<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog">http://mediamatters.org/blog</a>=not good score:<a href="http://www.politifact.com/personalities/laura-ingraham/">http://www.politifact.com/personalities/laura-ingraham/</a>fail:<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201011/memberresigns.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201011/memberresigns.cfm</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.4;">Fox Fails at Fact-Checking 101</h3>The October 12 segment of Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” featured an erroneous report that mis-identified APS President Curtis Callan as a member who had resigned. (For the non-erroneous version, see the accompanying story.) APS has requested a retraction, and to date Fox News has refused.Correspondent Laura Ingraham said, “Basically what Curtis Callan is saying is that this American physics society, it’s called physical society, has turned into an organization affected by the money flow in science. In other words trillions of dollars he argues is invested in this idea of global warming, and that has clouded what the group itself, what the leadership of the group has concluded about the science, which he says is faulty, flawed and frankly needs to be discarded. So he said it’s become corrupting.”The reports of Callan’s resignation are greatly exaggerated. Curtis Callan, the current president of APS, has not resigned his membership, or his position, nor has he written any letters refuting the science of global warming. Ingraham incorrectly attributed a letter written by Hal Lewis of UCSB and sent to Callan as being written by Callan himself. The letter was clearly addressed to Callan (it begins, “Dear Curt”) and was signed by Lewis at the end. It is unclear how Ingraham, with an accompanying graphic, confused the two.Fox News got it wrong.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In early October, a long-time member of APS, Hal Lewis, publicly resigned from the Society over issues having to do with climate change. Lewis, who is an emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara, addressed his letter of resignation to APS President Curtis Callan, simultaneously circulating it on the Internet. In response to some of the points in Lewis’s letter, APS issued a statement that can be found on the press-release page of the APS website. Callan also sent a personal reply to Lewis in which he expressed his regret at Lewis’s decision, along with his strong disagreement with the substance of Lewis’s complaints against the APS. Lewis’s specific complaints focus on the recent decisions of the APS Council concerning the 2007 Statement on Climate Change and the ongoing process of formation of a topical group on the physics of climate. Characterizing recent APS decisions, Lewis contends that “It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.” Concerning the topical group, Lewis claimed that the petition for creating such a group which he had signed had been arbitrarily rejected by “APS HQ”. The APS press release rejected Lewis’s characterization of the state of the science, stating:“On the matter of global climate change, APS notes that virtually all reputable scientists agree with the following observations: carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere due to human activity; carbon dioxide is an excellent infrared absorber, and therefore, its increasing presence in the atmosphere contributes to global warming; … On these matters, APS judges the science to be quite clear. .. In light of the significant settled aspects of the science, APS totally rejects Dr. Lewis’s claim that global warming is a ‘scam’ and a ‘pseudoscientific fraud’.”In his letter, Lewis speculated that Council’s policy positions on climate change must be driven by financial interest, adding that Callan’s own physics department “would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst”. The APS press release categorically rejected the notion that APS as an organization is benefitting financially from climate change funding and further pointed out that the vast majority of the Society’s members do not work on climate and derive no personal benefit from such research support.  Callan, in his reply, criticized Lewis’s speculation about the role of financial interest in determining the attitude of physicists to climate change as unacceptably disrespectful of the intellectual integrity of his scientific colleagues. He also noted that Lewis’s statement about the reliance of Callan’s department on climate science funding was wrong, as the actual level of such funding was precisely zero.In his letter to Lewis, Callan also addressed the issue of the formation of the new topical group, explaining that, far from being rejected, the proposal for a topical group focusing on the physics of climate had met with enthusiastic acceptance and was being implemented (see <a class="CP___PAGEID_225014" href="http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201010/climatechangegr.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer;">October APS News</a>). Callan closed his letter by saying that, while he respected Lewis’s decision to resign, it was a pity that, by doing so, he was cutting himself off from participating in the very APS initiative he had called for.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/348383-laura-ingraham-proposes-declaring-antifa-a-terrorist-organization">http://thehill.com/homenews/media/348383-laura-ingraham-proposes-declaring-antifa-a-terrorist-organization</a>enforcer:<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/01/26/laura-ingraham-calls-out-conservative-critics-o/208169">
</a><a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/01/26/laura-ingraham-calls-out-conservative-critics-o/208169">http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/01/26/laura-ingraham-calls-out-conservative-critics-o/208169</a><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/laura-ingraham-trump-press-secretary-position-231840">http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/laura-ingraham-trump-press-secretary-position-231840</a>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Laura Ingraham doesn’t want to be just another flack.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The popular conservative-radio talk show host is willing to accept the position of White House press secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, but she wants a bigger title, a role in policymaking and a seat at the decision-making table with the president, according to a source familiar with the discussions.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">It’s not yet clear how Ingraham, a regular on Fox News who boosted Trump's anti-establishment candidacy throughout the campaign, would mesh with the rival power centers that currently define Trump’s inner circle. On one pole is senior adviser and Breitbart News publisher Steve Bannon, who represents the rejection of the Republican establishment, and on the other is incoming chief of staff and outgoing Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who represents the continued influence of the Washington insiders on Trump, and a connection to House Speaker Paul Ryan.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Trump's inner circle is also tossing around the possibility of Fox News analyst Monica Crowley as press secretary. The longtime Trump believer, who describes herself as a “happy warrior” in her Twitter bio, was an early advocate for Trump. Back when he announced his seemingly quixotic presidential bid in June 2015, Crowley warned on Fox News not to underestimate the real estate mogul. Last June, she penned an article for The Washington Times titled “How Donald Trump is resurrecting the ‘great, silent majority.’”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Ingraham has made no secret of her interest in the press secretary gig, a high-profile position that could put her in front of the White House press corps — and in front of the cameras — every day. Ingraham, a Fox News contributor and former Supreme Court clerk, is against same-sex marriage and was a supporter of Trump’s proposal during the campaign to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. — a ban he has softened on since clinching the Republican nomination in May.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“I would say it’s not broad enough,” Ingraham said on her radio show in December 2015.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Ingraham has confirmed that her name is in the mix and hinted, in her public comments addressing the speculation, that she wants a role in shaping the Trump agenda. But she apparently wants a title that elevates her beyond just dominating the spin cycle.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“It’s a big decision, but I’m at the point where, if my country needs me, and if I can do something to actually, you know, advance the Trump agenda, which is stuff I have written about now for 15 years, with trade, immigration and just renewing America, then I obviously have to seriously consider that,” she told Fox’s Tucker Carlson.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">For now, the public-facing communications team is made of campaign spokesman Jason Miller and RNC spokesman Sean Spicer. The duo are currently in charge of the transition team's daily press calls and are also said to be in the mix of potential podium picks. The team is also considering other names that have yet to be made public, a source familiar with the transition team's conversations said.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">A Fox News spokeswoman referred POLITICO to Ingraham's own recent comments about her potential official government post on the news channel. Ingraham and the Trump campaign also did not respond to requests for comment.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro, Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">If Crowley instead gets the job, it would be another example of an early Trump believer being rewarded with a White House position. On Fox News, Crowley argued during the campaign that questions about Hillary Clinton’s health were legitimate for Trump to raise, and she herself questioned Clinton’s honesty about her medical conditions after her public collapse at the 9/11 Memorial. Clinton released a doctor's note that said she had walking pneumonia, and she recovered within days.<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2008/06/10/laura-ingraham-right-wing-radios-high-priestess-hate">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2008/06/10/laura-ingraham-right-wing-radios-high-priestess-hate</a>excerpt from <a href="https://www.alternet.org/books/9/Shock+Jocks%3A+Hate+Speech+and+Talk+Radio+/" style="text-decoration: none;">Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio</a> by Rory O'Connor with Aaron Cutler (AlterNet Books, 2008).

Laura Ingraham is ... different. Not only is Ingraham younger than many other conservative radio personalities (at 45, she's more than a decade from Limbaugh's cohort), and the only female among them, but she also brings to the airwaves a snarky brand of aggressive humor fused with an attack-dog sensibility that she expresses with a chalk-on-gravel voice. Her goal is not to assert her own glory, but to rip apart her enemies, which include everyone from liberals and "elites" to, from time to time, even President George W. Bush and presidential hopeful John McCain. Her style of argumentation is bare-bones simple; in a 1997 piece for Salon.com, Eric Alterman wrote that Ingraham just laughed in response to a position he took on television during the 1996 election. How could he counter that?

Ingraham often uses laughter as a weapon. One of her show's most popular parodies, "But ... Monkey," interposes the sound of a screeching monkey over a sound bite from a political figure. Victims have included Democratic senators Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer as well as conservative gurus like columnist Charles Krauthammer. Other regular segments include "Deep Thought of the Day" and "Lie of the Day." Ingraham also makes great use of pop culture clips (she plays the theme song from the television show "Flipper" when discussing John Kerry), and her production values are generally superb. Like many other successful hosts, she is often very funny, and her rapid-fire pacing and easy banter with her younger male producers (all three are in their early 20s) has more in common with the liberal "Stephanie Miller Show" than the hard-line commentary sometimes heard on conservative talk shows. At a deeper level, however, despite the comedy, Ingraham takes what she does quite seriously.

The rabid nature of her assault against immigration reform is a good example. Ingraham has perhaps been more strongly anti-immigration than any other talk personality except Michael Savage. Her show even features a regular segment called "The Illegal Immigration Sob Story" alert, in which she reads news pieces she feels are biased toward illegal immigrants. When she had White House spokesman Tony Snow on her program, she began by asking him why the Bush administration was dragging its heels on immigration reform. After sarcastically apologizing for interrupting his talking points, she said, "69 percent of Americans, 85 percent of the GOP, 55 percent of the Democrats want the border enforced. Does that affect you guys, or do you guys just blow it off?"

In the two-for-one combination that all too often serves conservative radio well, Ingraham once claimed that the immigration bill was an attempt by the mainstream media to make more people liberals. Anyone who still wonders whether talk radio had an influence on the bill's defeat should look at Ingraham's numbers; with more than 5 million weekly listeners, she is tied with Glenn Beck as the fourth most listened to radio talk show host in America. Alterman wrote that Ingraham's popularity is due to her having "something more important than knowledge or experience. ... She has star quality." She is also fearless: She once confronted CNN host John Roberts for calling her "outspoken," saying, "Do you guys introduce liberal commentators that way?"

She's more aggressive than Limbaugh, more blatant than Hannity, and more rational than Beck or Savage, and although she often supports many of them (erroneously stating, for example, that Limbaugh never claimed the Clintons murdered Vince Foster), she is equally willing to call them out. She walked out of a "Hannity & Colmes" installment after the Don Imus "nappy-headed ho's" controversy was twisted into a discussion of Democratic vices, and once asked on her radio program after an appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor," "Why is Bill O'Reilly afraid of George Soros?" (In the same broadcast, Ingraham accused columnist Helen Thomas of working for Hezbollah, which has been identified by the U.S. government as a terrorist group.)

Ingraham was born and raised among the wealthy in Glastonbury, Conn., one of the state's richest suburbs, although her mother worked as a maid to support the family. She went to Dartmouth University and became the first female editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, where conservative author Dinesh D'Souza, a former boyfriend, also worked. While there, she secretly sent a reporter with a tape recorder to a campus gay students association meeting; she then outed the students in print and sent tapes of the meetings to the students' parents. In the magazine she called association members "cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites." (In 1997, more than a decade later, she wrote an article in the Washington Post detailing how she had changed her views in light of her brother Curtis' coming out as gay.)

After graduating from Dartmouth, she went to work for the White House as a speechwriter; like her peers, conservative radio talkers Mark Levin and Hugh Hewitt, Ingraham began her professional career as a Reagan employee. She also obtained a law degree from the University of Virginia and clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. In 1995 she appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine -- wearing a friend's hip, leopard-print miniskirt -- to illustrate an article about rising young conservatives. She then became both a regular MSNBC pundit and a commentator on the "CBS Evening News," where she once asked Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres if the United States should bomb Libya or Syria in retaliation for a TWA flight explosion whose cause was unknown. Ingraham argues politics the way lawyers argue cases, as if there can be no possible interpretation other than her own. She is a class-A schmoozer who understands and exploits her verbal gifts to the fullest. Her skill for networking, along with her willingness to go for the jugular, has allowed her to break into the boys' club of conservative radio.

In the late 1990s, she briefly hosted her own MSNBC cable television show, "Watch It!" (17 months and three time slots later, she joked that it should have been called "Watch It Get Canceled!"), and then, in 2001, launched "The Laura Ingraham Show" on radio. Ingraham's particular blend of humor and argument apparently translated more effectively on radio than on television, and the Talk Radio Network now syndicates her show on nearly 325 terrestrial stations (it's also available on Sirius and XM satellite radio). She has survived both a breast cancer scare and a broken wedding engagement, and continues to mock the establishment sardonically for three hours daily.

Ingraham has made more than her share of controversial comments, with frequent guest appearances on television affording her as much prominence as her radio work (for someone whose own television show was relatively short-lived, she spends a tremendous amount of time on other people's programs). She's no Neal Boortz, but she's certainly more outrageous than, say, Hugh Hewitt. In one of her most famous incidents, on Election Day 2006 Ingraham encouraged listeners to jam the phone line of a toll-free Democratic Party service for reporting voting problems. No tangible consequences came of it (the Democrats won anyway), but it did put Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy up in arms.

Perhaps the greatest controversy of Ingraham's career, however, came from comments she made about the Iraq War. In March of 2006, Ingraham went on a six-day tour of Iraq, visiting hospitals, orphanages and Iraqi villages. Upon returning to the United States, she appeared on NBC's "Today Show" to criticize the mainstream American media for its unwillingness to report "the truth" of the Iraq situation. She said that NBC had focused on programming "Where in the World is Matt Lauer?" and that "to do a show from Iraq means to talk to the Iraqi military, to go out with the Iraqi military, to actually have a conversation with the people instead of reporting from hotel balconies about the latest IEDs going off."

Washington Post writer Jonathan Finer later reported that Ingraham "rarely, if ever, spent a moment outside the protection of U.S. forces or a night outside a military base." Finer compared her experience with that of the Iraq-stationed journalists she criticized, "almost all of whom operate without military protection." While the National Review's Tim Graham applauded Ingraham for bringing out the "facts the media self-defense teams ignore," MSNBC host Keith Olbermann said on his show "Countdown" that Ingraham had dishonored the memory of the 80 American journalists killed and others kidnapped in Iraq, and that her comment "was not only unforgivable of her, it was desperate and it was stupid."

Ingraham's stance on women's issues is divided at best; around the time of Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court appointment, she joined with a conservative group called Independent Women's Forum that formed a committee to attack and discredit Anita Hill's sexual harassment testimony against Thomas. (Independent Women's Forum's other activities included testifying in Congress for defunding the Violence Against Women Act and against affirmative action.) While she has criticized Fox for gratuitous, sexually explicit programming and helped lead a media campaign against the misogynistic rapper Akon, she also co-hosted a three-part PBS special on "the gender wars," which explored "whether the advancement of women in virtually all areas of society can be achieved without a retreat, in some way, on the part of men." One need not guess where Ingraham, a convert to Roman Catholicism, stands on a woman's right to choose.

Among prominent female political figures, Hillary Clinton in particular provokes Ingraham's ire. Her first book, The Hillary Trap, tried hard to make the case that Clinton was actually setting women's rights back by arguing for special status for them. "The complaints of Western feminists look like petty self-absorption when you line them up against human rights abuses in Third World military dictatorships," Ingraham wrote.

Ingraham also argues that a vocal minority -- the "elites" -- is threatening American values, and they should pipe down for the majority's sake. Elites include anti-war demonstrators and university professors ("It's well known that in the 1960s, leftists conquered the academies"). There is also no love lost between Ingraham and Europeans, who she believes fail to understand and appreciate America's love for "God, guns and the death penalty."

Ingraham's third book, Power to the People, was released on Sept. 11, 2007. The patriotic timing was deliberate; the book is partly memoir but is mostly devoted to annihilating what she calls the "pornification" of America, an increasing cultural tendency toward flaunted sexuality and the loss of traditional values. She calls the book "a rallying cry for common sense and good old-fashioned American ideals of patriotism, family, faith and country," one that encourages people to take matters into their own hands. In its first week, the book ranked third on the Amazon.com best-seller list.

"We are the government," Ingraham said in an interview promoting the book. Controlling people by telling them how to think for themselves is a nice piece of demagogic trickery, though hardly original among the conservative bloc that crowds talk radio today. Ingraham has proved to be a master at such trickery -- and like her or not, she's every bit as funny, as appealing and as dangerous as each of her male peers and friends.<div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_media-culture" style="width: 630px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field field-name-field-bio field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Filmmaker and journalist Rory O'Connor is the author of <a href="https://www.alternet.org/books/9/Shock+Jocks%3A+Hate+Speech+and+Talk+Radio+/" style="text-decoration: none;">Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio</a> by Rory O'Connor with Aaron Cutler (AlterNet Books, 2008). 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text-decoration: none;">AUGUST 29, 2014 5:34 PM</a>Right Wing Round-Up – 8/29/14</li><a href="https://boingboing.net/2016/11/26/trumps-presidential-hires-an.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://boingboing.net/2016/11/26/trumps-presidential-hires-an.html</a>Floyd Brown invented the Reagan-era Willie Horton lie, helped create the Citizens United group, and now owns Liftable Media, including sites like Conservative Tribune (50th most-trafficked site in the USA) and Western Journalism (81st), whence came fake news stories like the lie that Obama had altered the White House logo to include a white flag of surrender (the logo change came from GWB's White House); the lie that Muslims had been "ordered" to vote for Hillary; the lie that Obama had encouraged millennial non-citizen Latin@s to vote without fear of reprisals; the lie that Clinton had a Vegas "drug holiday" before the debate; the lie that Obama's birth certificate was not accepted by experts as genuine -- Brown's sites are all included in Facebook's verified news sources.Brown is a Trump advisor, also identified by Trump's spokesperson as "a close friend."Laura Ingraham is another Trump ally who's been tapped to be his presidential secretary: she owns the Ingraham Media Group, including sites like Lifezette, which produced the hoax video "Clinton Body Count," which accused the Clintons of conspiring to crash John F Kennedy, Jr's airplane and of complicity with many other deaths, a video that was shared 14,000,000 times after its successful viral debut on Facebook.Lifezette also produced a viral hoax video about George Soros buying a voting machine company whose products were widely used in counting US ballots (Soros didn't invest in the company, nor does that company supply US ballots). Other Lifezette hoaxes include a story asserting that a Wikileaks-published document linked Clinton to occult rituals.Most significant of all, though, is Trump's presidential chief strategist Steve Bannon, whose Breitbart News is a font of hoaxes and slanders:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 4px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Breitbart News blends commentary and journalism with inflammatory headlines, in many cases producing fake stories sourced from online hoaxes. The site once attempted to pass off a picture of people in Cleveland celebrating the Cavaliers as a massive Trump rally. The site furiously defended Trump’s false claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey were “cheering” the 9/11 attacks, a claim that multiple fact-checking organizations have thoroughly debunked.</blockquote><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Some Fake News Publishers Just Happen to Be Donald Trump’s Cronies</a>[Lee Fang/The Intercept]THE EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON of fake news spread by Facebook and other social media during the 2016 presidential election has been largely portrayed as a lucky break for Donald Trump.By that reckoning, entrepreneurial Macedonian <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo?utm_term=.xymy3QKRv#.dqyJ0KO57" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">teenagers</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/fake-news-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-georgia.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">opportunists in Tbilisi</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">California millennials</a> have exploited social media algorithms in order to make money — only incidentally leading to the viral proliferation of mostly anti-Clinton and anti-Obama hoaxes and conspiracy theories that thrilled many Trump supporters. The Washington Post published a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">shoddy report</a> on Thursday alleging that Russian state-sponsored <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_propaganda-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">propagandists</a> were seeking to promote Trump through fabricated stories for their own reasons, independent of the candidate himself.But a closer look reveals that some of the biggest fake news providers were run by experienced political operators well within the orbit of Donald Trump’s political advisers and consultants.Laura Ingraham, a close Trump ally currently <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/14/media/laura-ingraham-press-secretary/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">under consideration</a> to be Trump’s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette, a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LifeZette/videos/356164274715005/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">video</a> produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled “Clinton Body Count,” promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/laura-ingraham-lifezette-hillary-clinton-bill-2016-10" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">some role</a> in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as the deaths of various friends and Democrats.
imgAnother LifeZette <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LifeZette/videos/394720544192711/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration="text-decoration" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">video</a>, picking up false claims from other sites, claimed that voting machines “might be compromised” because a voting machine company called Smartmatic, allegedly providing voting machines “in sixteen states,” was purchased by the liberal billionaire George Soros. Soros <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/10/24/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-election-george-soross-voting-machines/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration="text-decoration" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">never purchased</a> the company, and Smartmatic did not provide voting machines used in the general election.The video, published on Facebook from LifeZette’s verified news account, garnered over 400,000 shares and 14 million views.One LifeZette article <a href="http://www.snopes.com/un-backs-secret-obama-takeover-of-police/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">misleadingly</a> <a href="http://www.snopes.com/un-backs-secret-obama-takeover-of-police/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">claimed</a> that the United Nations backed a “secret” Obama administration takeover of local police departments. The article referenced Justice Department orders that a select few police departments address patterns of misconduct, a practice that, in reality, long predates the Obama presidency, is hardly secret, and had no relation to the United Nations.Another LifeZette article, which <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/drudge-hannity-and-ingraham-push-claim-that-john-podesta-practices-occult-magic/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">went viral</a> in the week prior to the election, falsely claimed that Wikileaks had revealed that a senior Hillary Clinton campaign official had engaged in <a href="https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-podesta-practices-occult-magic/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">occult rituals</a>. Ingraham’s site regularly receives links from the Drudge Report and other powerful drivers of Internet traffic.But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites run by Floyd Brown, a Republican consultant close to Trump’s inner circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago for his role in helping to produce the “Willie Horton” campaign advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to derail Michael Dukakis’s presidential bid. Brown is also the political mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trump’s presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United group. In an interview this year, Brown called Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m3Ww0qdOrM" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">longtime friend</a>.”Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content through a company he owns called Liftable Media Inc., which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of Brown’s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the U.S. with <a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/11/westernjournalism.png" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">13 million</a> monthly unique page views, according to rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative Tribune, is the <a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/11/conservativetribune.png" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">50th largest site</a> with over 19 million monthly unique visitors.
As the fact-checking website Snopes was quick to <a href="http://www.snopes.com/white-house-logo-change/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration="text-decoration" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">note</a>, it was no signal of surrender and the bleached white version of the White House logo, complete with a white flag, was not even an Obama creation. The white logo dates back to as early as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030919050031/http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/progress/progress_report_0903.pdf" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration="text-decoration" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">2003</a>, under the Bush administration, which used it for official documents.Brown’s sites churn out bombastic headlines with little regard to the truth. One viral piece shared by Brown’s news outlets <a href="https://archive.fo/7RwN4" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">claimed</a> that President Obama had redesigned the White House logo to change the American flag to a white flag, “a common symbol for surrender, which has many people wondering if Obama was trying to secretly signal to America’s enemies that he was surrendering.” The Facebook post <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WesternJournalism/posts/10154472465718984" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">touted</a> the article with the line, “We all know Obama hates the United States, but what he just did to the White House logo is beyond the pale.”The Conservative Tribune and Western Journalism provide a steady stream of similarly deceptive, eye-catching headlines.“BREAKING: Muslims Ordered to Vote Hillary,” is the headline for one election <a href="http://conservativetribune.com/american-muslims-given-orders/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">post</a> that grossly mischaracterized a <a href="https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/162819-Pakistani-American-Muslims-make-final-push-for-Hillary" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">mundane</a> article about a Pakistani American activist going to door to door to help Clinton’s campaign. “Obama Urges Illegal Immigrants to Vote Without Fear of Getting Caught,” <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-urges-illegal-immigrants-vote-without-fear-getting-caught/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">blared</a> Western Journalism, claiming that President Obama had suggested in an interview on issues facing Latino millennial voters that noncitizens could vote and “will never get caught if they do.” The article <a href="http://www.snopes.com/obama-encouraged-illegal-aliens-to-vote/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">left out</a> the part of the Obama interview in which he said noncitizens “can’t legally vote, but they’re counting on you to make sure that you have the courage to make your voice heard.”The hits go on, with posts on a regular basis making claims ranging from the assertion that Clinton went on a “<a href="http://conservativetribune.com/debate-hillary-vanishes-expert/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">drug holiday</a>” before the Las Vegas presidential debate to <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/criminal-complaint-details-birth-certificate-forgery/?utm_source%3DFacebook%26utm_medium%3DPostTopSharingButtons%26utm_content%3D2016-08-16%26utm_campaign%3Dwebsitesharingbuttons" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">rumors</a> that Obama’s birth certificate is under serious scrutiny.Thanks to views sourced largely to referrals from Facebook, Brown’s websites now outrank web traffic going to news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and NPR, according to data compiled by Alexa. Both Western Journalism and Conservative Tribune are certified by Facebook as bonafide news providers.Trump’s relationship with one particularly influential online news site with a history of fabricated stories couldn’t be much closer. Steve Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart News, took a leave of absence from the organization to become the chief executive officer of Trump’s presidential campaign and has been tapped to serve as Trump’s chief strategist in the White House. Trump himself regularly promoted Breitbart stories, including a <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/226019096460918784" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">tweet</a> used to justify his campaign to prove Obama was not born in the U.S.Breitbart News blends commentary and journalism with inflammatory headlines, in many cases producing <a href="http://www.snopes.com/2015/06/14/breitbart-pear-flag/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">fake stories</a> sourced from <a href="http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/07/breitbart-duped-by-fake-news-again/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">online hoaxes</a>. The site once attempted to <a href="http://wonkette.com/605169/breitbart-and-stupidest-man-on-internet-cant-stop-posting-fake-ass-trump-rally-pictures" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">pass off</a> a picture of people in Cleveland celebrating the Cavaliers as a massive Trump rally. The site furiously <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/12/02/trump-100-vindicated-cbs-reports-swarms-on-roofs-celebrating-911/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">defended</a> Trump’s false claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey were “cheering” the 9/11 attacks, a claim that <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/dec/02/new-information-doesnt-fix-donald-trumps-911-claim/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">multiple</a> <a href="http://www.snopes.com/2015/11/22/donald-trump-cheering-911/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">fact-checking</a>organizations have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/22/donald-trumps-outrageous-claim-that-thousands-of-new-jersey-muslims-celebrated-the-911-attacks/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">thoroughly</a> debunked.Other conservative content farms, including WorldNetDaily, maintained ties to the Trump election effort. Campaign finance records show that Great America PAC, a Trump-backing Super PAC, <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00608489/1098788/se" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">paid</a> WND, known as the largest purveyor of Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories, for “online voter contact.”The surge of fake news has been much commented on in the mainstream media — and its effect on Trump’s election victory has been widely debated — with little mention of the purveyors close to the Trump campaign.A <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Buzzfeed News article</a> that came out shortly before the election famously traced more than 100 pro-Trump websites to young entrepreneurs in a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, who discovered that the best way to generate clicks — at a fraction of a penny per click in ad revenue — is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook. After the election, New Yorker editor David Remnick <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">described</a> President Obama as “talking obsessively” about that article, and quoted him bemoaning its significance. “[T]he capacity to disseminate misinformation, wild conspiracy theories, to paint the opposition in wildly negative light without any rebuttal, ” Obama said, “that has accelerated in ways that much more sharply polarize the electorate and make it very difficult to have a common conversation.”The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">interviewed Paul Horner</a>, the “impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire,” who sounded somewhat aghast when he said, “I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything.”Another <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post story</a> described two Southern California slackers turning their website of made-up pro-Trump clickbait in a virtual goldmine. The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/fake-news-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-georgia.html?r=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">profiled</a> a fake news operation run by three brothers in Tbilisi, Georgia, who experimented with a variety of content, sometimes lifted from other sites, at other times made up from whole cloth, finding that pro-Trump material was the most popular, and therefore the most profitable.Finally, a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">story</a> this week alleged a Russian government role in spreading fake news to help Trump. But its <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/russian-fake-news/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">sources were not remotely credible.</a> For instance, it cited a <a href="http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">list</a> that characterized as “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda” a number of well-established and well-respected websites including Truthdig, a site published by award-winning journalist and long-time Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer, Naked Capitalism, and Truth Out.The growth of fake news isn’t confined to Trump or to conservative sites. A number of left-wing political sites have trafficked in demonstrably false stories, including deceptive pieces stoking fear about vaccines. Earlier this year, when critics called for Clinton to release the transcripts of her three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, as well as to other interest groups, Daily News Bin, a new liberal website specializing in viral hits, <a href="http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/when-hillary-clinton-gave-a-speech-to-goldman-sachs-the-topic-was-female-entrepreneurship/23763/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">published</a> a piece titled, “Video surfaces of Hillary Clinton’s paid speech to Goldman Sachs, and it’s completely harmless.” The video embedded in the piece, however, was not one of Clinton’s paid speeches; it was a public event sponsored by Goldman Sachs. The article was shared over 120,000 times.“We live in a time when people don’t care about facts,” said Judy Muller, professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.During the last three months of the campaign, Buzzfeed News found that the top 20 best-performing hoax stories related to the election <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook?utm_term=.cdRmmroD7#.agdJJdz9O" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">had more Facebook engagement</a> than the 20 best-performing stories from major news outlets.Facebook has <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-23/facebook-s-quest-to-stop-fake-news-risks-becoming-slippery-slope" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">responded</a> to the recent outcry over fake news websites with promises to crack down on obvious phony sites. Many critics are still worried that Facebook is not doing enough to counter outright lies promoted by the platform; meanwhile, others are concerned that such efforts risk suppressing critical information.Muller said that if Ingraham is nominated by Trump to be his spokesperson to the press, she will have to distance herself from her growing Facebook content empire.But the demand for fake news is unlikely to subside.A recent study by Stanford University researchers found that students have <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-news-is-fake-stanford-study-finds-1479752576" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">difficulty</a> discerning between fake content, corporate sponsored advertorial content posing as journalism, and legitimate news.“People only care about opinions that support their own biases,” said Muller. “So they’re not reading other people’s facts, they’re not checking the facts, and they don’t want to know — and that’s the scariest development to me.”<a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/how-misinformed-tweet-was-manufactured-major-right-wing-news" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">http://www.alternet.org/media/how-misinformed-tweet-was-manufactured-major-right-wing-news</a> <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook?utm_term=.fyovdvW932#.hqPXYXMjLo" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Buzzfeed News</a> analysis found that the top 20 fake political news stories in circulation during the election got more clicks, views, shares and reactions on Facebook than the top 20 real news stories. The vast majority of those fake stories—all but three—were “overtly pro-Donald Trump or anti-Hillary Clinton,” meaning they pinged around the conservative webosphere, where they were accepted without question by millions and then passed to the next gullible consumer.Paul Horner, among the most prolific and successful fake news writers, recently told the <a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/fake-news-writer-feels-guilty-helping-put-trump-white-house" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Washington Post</a> that Trump voters and other “right-wing Republicans” were almost single-handedly responsible for the $10,000 he pulls in every month, because they “post everything, believe anything,” and continue to share fake news even when they find out it isn't true. That might explain why so many fake news stories seem specially tailored for the conservative news reader.One of Horner’s most popular stories was a fabricated interview with a made-up person who said he’d been paid to protest Trump ahead of the election. During the campaign, multiple members of <a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/fake-news-writer-feels-guilty-helping-put-trump-white-house" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Trump’s team</a> retweeted the story, even though many sources pointed out it wasn't true. The ludicrous idea that anti-Trump demonstrators are each paid thousands of dollars by billionaire George Soros—who plays a starring role in pretty much every right-wing conspiracy—has now become conservative gospel.Eric Tucker, a marketer in Austin, Texas, was probably very familiar with this rumor when he recently sent an erroneous tweet that launched a viral right-wing story. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=fb-nytimes&mccr=NovHighMC&mcdt=2016-11&subid=NovHighMC&ad-keywords=AudDevGate&r=0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">New York Times</a> decided to examine how Tucker's tweet became a major topic of conservative discussion, following its online travels step by step. On the evening of November 9, just as protests against President-elect Trump were erupting all over the country, Tucker tweeted the photo and message below to his tiny group of 40 followers. ...=<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/laura-ingraham-right-wing-anti-latino-pundit-front-runner-trump-press-secretary">http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/laura-ingraham-right-wing-anti-latino-pundit-front-runner-trump-press-secretary</a>tells hannity immoral not to vote for trump mmaABC News announced that it <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F1m0k2aq&utm_campaign=417weekly2&n=14&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email" style="line-height: 15.6px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has hired</a> right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham as a contributor. She regularly uses inflammatory rhetoric to be a voice for the fringe:<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F1m0k2aq&utm_campaign=417weekly2&n=15&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email" style="line-height: 15.6px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://mm4a.org/1m0k2aq</a> Related:Laura Ingraham is one of the right-wing radio hosts whose shows have deep financial ties to the tea party: <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpoliti.co%2FQr0ApD&utm_campaign=417weekly2&n=16&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email" style="line-height: 15.6px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://politi.co/Qr0ApD</a>Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham attacked the speakers at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, at one point using the sound of a gunshot to cut off a sound bite of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) -- a man whose skull was infamously fractured by a state trooper on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, AL, in 1965. Ingraham used the speech's anniversary to race-bait about black-on-white crime statistics and hosted Pat Buchanan to bemoan the idea that minorities face any higher level of adversity in America 50 years later.Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC over the weekend to commemorate and recreate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, an event originally dedicated to calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans. CBS News <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57599979/march-on-washingtons-50th-anniversary-commemoration-draws-tens-of-thousands/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">reported</a> that the 50th anniversary event -- part of a week-long build-up to Wednesday's anniversary -- "was sponsored by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Martin Luther King III and the NAACP, featured a roster of speakers, including King, Sharpton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. They spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where 50 years ago this month King delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech."On her August 26 radio broadcast, Ingraham criticized the event and its speakers, saying the goal "was to co-opt the legacy of Martin Luther King into a modern-day liberal agenda," and scoffing at the topics speakers supposedly discussed: "From gay marriage, to immigration -- amnesty, was thrown in for good measure. We talked about the Voting Rights Act."Ingraham ran through a list of African-American crime rates before hosting Pat Buchanan, a prominent racist with <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/07/29/the-bigotry-of-pat-buchanan/186810#longhistory" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">white nationalist</a> ties. Buchanan dismissed the idea that minorities suffer any disadvantages in contemporary America, calling the idea "absurd" because "black folks excel and are hugely popular figures in everything from sports to entertainment to athletics to politics. Everywhere you go ... So the progress has been enormous."At one point during her broadcast, Ingraham began playing a clip of Lewis' speech from the 50th anniversary rally, before interrupting the playback of his comments with the sound of a loud gunshot.<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/vp/51837416#51824772">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/vp/51837416#51824772</a> (ingram question inhofe on ammo wacko theory)=
Of course Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham  <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/16/the-worst-conservative-reactions-to-the-boston/193638">used the terror</a> attacks[in boston]

to push her partisan agenda about immigration reform. (This, before she

knew anything about the suspects.) Of course chronic Obama critics like

Fox News host Oliver North  <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/18/foxs-oliver-north-attacks-obama-over-visit-to-b/193682">attacked</a> the

president for traveling to Boston to attend a prayer service for the

terror victims; to try to help comfort the rattled city. And of course

Fox News couldn't wait more than five minutes after that prayer service

concluded before inviting Stephen Hayes on to criticize Obama for how

he'd handled the issue of gun legislation. ===

hypocrit: <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/05/laura-ingrahams-newsletter-doesnt-remember-when/191698">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/05/laura-ingrahams-newsletter-doesnt-remember-when/191698</a>

The December 5 edition of conservative pundit Laura Ingraham's newsletter attacked President Obama for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/obama-rachel-maddow-al-sharpton_n_2240011.html?utm_hp_ref=politics">recently meeting</a> with MSNBC personalities, claiming that "if Fox News hosts and conservative personalities had stopped by the Bush White House to discuss policy" the press "would have been rightly outraged." But President Bush did meet with a group of Fox News and conservative personalities at the White House -- including Laura Ingraham.

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defends alec on b'o

<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11445">http://www.prwatch.org/node/11445</a>

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AGW: fox touted false claims for CTT eg heritage.

House Clean Energy and Security Act, SHanity said util bill upo 3K and lise 2.5 mil jobs.  3k from MIT study that some of its own authors walked back from  170. CBO said 80 to 175/family

boosted climategate

12/08/09 bill s memo , 4 days before 29 sci open ltr to congress

2007 Murdoch said news corp carbon neutral by 2010 (son too?]  b/c of 10 yr Aus drought, and hottest year

News corp hired Luntz on msg (sustainablebusiness.org jan 20) clear maj want gov't action, bo and mccain voters

Fox Ingraham manipulated video to maker it seem like Gore profiting from GW action, leaving out bit where he said all profit going to ngo to fight 174

3 weeks later Bo'R flogs segment 177

===https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_IngrahambsLaura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1963) is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">radio talk show host</a>, author, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservative</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commentator" class="mw-redirect" title="Political commentator" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">political commentator</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-WhoWho-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a> Her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_syndication" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio syndication" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">nationally syndicated</a> talk show, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laura_Ingraham_Show" title="The Laura Ingraham Show" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Laura Ingraham Show</a>, airs throughout the United States on Courtside Entertainment. Ingraham is also the official guest host on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fox News Channel</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O%27Reilly_Factor" title="The O'Reilly Factor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The O'Reilly Factor</a> and a contributor on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week(ABC_TV_series)" title="This Week (ABC TV series)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">This Week</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC" class="mw-disambig" title="ABC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ABC</a>.Laura Anne Ingraham is a potential candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect" class="mw-redirect" title="President-elect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President-elect</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> cabinet to serve as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Press_Secretary" title="White House Press Secretary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">White House Press Secretary</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-uofsc-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" id="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#Early_life_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Early life and career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#Radio_show_host" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1Radio show host</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#Books" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2Books</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Early life and career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Ingraham&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Ingraham grew up in a middle-class family in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury,Connecticut" title="Glastonbury, Connecticut" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Glastonbury, Connecticut</a>, where she was born to Anne Caroline (née Kozak) and James Frederick Ingraham III.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants, while her paternal grandfather was of English and her paternal grandmother was of Irish ancestry.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> She was graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_High_School" title="Glastonbury High School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Glastonbury High School</a> in 1981.Ingraham earned a B.A. degree at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dartmouth College</a> in 1985 and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> degree at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia_School_of_Law" title="University of Virginia School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Virginia School of Law</a> in 1991. As a Dartmouth undergraduate, she was a staff member of the independent conservative newspaper, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dartmouth_Review" title="The Dartmouth Review" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Dartmouth Review</a>. In her senior year, she was the newspaper's editor-in-chief,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a> its first female editor. She wrote several controversial articles during her tenure, notably an article alleging racist and unprofessional behavior by Dartmouth music professor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cole(musician)" title="Bill Cole (musician)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Cole</a>, who later sued Ingraham for $2.4 million. The college paid his legal costs. The suit was settled in 1985.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hart" title="Jeffrey Hart" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeffrey Hart</a>, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable", claiming "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-Carlson-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a> In 1997, she wrote an essay in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington Post</a> in which she stated that she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">AIDS</a>. Ingraham has stated that she supports <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_unions" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil unions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">civil unions</a>, but still believes that marriage "is between a man and a woman."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a>In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> administration for the Domestic Policy Advisor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> She also briefly served as editor of The Prospect, the magazine issued by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerned_Alumni_of_Princeton" title="Concerned Alumni of Princeton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Concerned Alumni of Princeton</a>. After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_school_in_the_United_States" title="Law school in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">law school</a>, in 1991, she served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">law clerk</a> for Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_K.Winter,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Ralph K. Winter, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ralph K. Winter, Jr.</a>, of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit</a>, in New York and subsequently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">clerked</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clarence Thomas</a>. She then worked as an attorney at the New York-based law firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher%26_Flom" title="Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a> In 1995, she appeared on the cover of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Magazine" title="The New York Times Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times Magazine</a> in a leopard-print miniskirt in connection with a story about young conservatives.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a>In 1996, she and Jay P. Lefkowitz organized the first Dark Ages Weekend in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Weekend" title="Renaissance Weekend" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Renaissance Weekend</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a>Ingraham has had two stints as a cable television host. In the late 1990s, she became a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CBS</a> commentator and hosted the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a> program Watch It!.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a> Several years later, Ingraham began campaigning for another cable television show on her radio program. She finally got her wish in 2008, when Fox News Channel gave her a three-week trial run for a new show entitled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_In" title="Just In" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Just In</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a>Her most recent book, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Of_Thee_I_Zing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Of Thee I Zing (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Of Thee I Zing</a>, was released in July 2011. In August 2013, conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsmax" title="Newsmax" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Newsmax</a> magazine named Ingraham among the "25 most influential women in the GOP."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">Radio show host[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Ingraham&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Radio show host" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 212px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laura-in-2012.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Laura-in-2012.jpg/210px-Laura-in-2012.jpg" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Laura-in-2012.jpg/315px-Laura-in-2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Laura-in-2012.jpg/420px-Laura-in-2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5616" data-file-height="3744" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" width="210" height="140" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laura-in-2012.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" viewbox="viewBox" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="id" magnify-clip="magnify-clip" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" bigbox="bigbox" m1.509="M1.509" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" smallbox="smallbox" m-1.499="M-1.499" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" fg="Fg" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Ingraham at Conservative Political Action Conference, 2012</a></div></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laura-in-2012.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" viewbox="viewBox" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="id" magnify-clip="magnify-clip" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" bigbox="bigbox" m1.509="M1.509" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" smallbox="smallbox" m-1.499="M-1.499" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" fg="Fg" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Ingraham launched The Laura Ingraham Show in April 2001, which is heard on 306 stations and on </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM_Satellite_Radio" title="XM Satellite Radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">XM Satellite Radio</a>. It was originally syndicated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_One(1976%E2%80%932011)" title="Westwood One (1976–2011)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Westwood One</a>, but moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Radio_Network" title="Talk Radio Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Talk Radio Network</a> in 2004. Ingraham is also the official guest host of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O%27Reilly_Factor" title="The O'Reilly Factor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The O'Reilly Factor</a> on Fox News Channel and a weekly contributor with her segment, "The Ingraham Angle."[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In 2012, Ingraham was rated as the No. 5 radio show in America, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkers_Magazine" title="Talkers Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Talkers Magazine</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[17]</a> In November 2012, she announced her departure from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Radio_Network" title="Talk Radio Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Talk Radio Network</a>, declining to renew her contract with TRN after nearly a decade of being associated with the network. She said, in jest, that she had decided to "pursue my first loves – modern dance and the xylophone."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a> She was the second major host from TRN's lineup to leave the network that year: TRN's other major program, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savage_Nation" title="The Savage Nation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Savage Nation</a>, left TRN two months earlier. Her new program, syndicated by Courtside Entertainment Group, began on January 2, 2013.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">Books[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Ingraham&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Books" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places, first published June 2000, while Ingraham was a talk show host on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a>, was updated and reissued in paperback December 25, 2005. It analyzes and reinterprets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> as a faux <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">feminist</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a> whose "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">liberal</a> feminism has created a culture that rewards dependency, encourages fragmentation, undermines families, and celebrates victimhood."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up%26_Sing:How_Elites_from_Hollywood,Politics,and_the_UN_Are_Subverting_America" title="Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America</a>, published October 25, 2003, decries liberal elites in politics, the media, academia, arts and entertainment, business, and international organizations, on behalf of disrespected Middle Americans, whom the author praises as "the kind of people who are the lifeblood of healthy democratic societies."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_the_People(book)" title="Power to the People (book)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Power to the People</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Times</a> number one best seller,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-Arave-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-Clapp-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a> published September 11, 2007, focuses on what Ingraham calls the "pornification" of America and stresses the importance of popular participation in culture, promoting conservative values in family life, education and patriotism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[25]</a></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obama_Diaries" title="The Obama Diaries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Obama Diaries</a>, a New York Times number one bestseller,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[26]</a> published July 13, 2010. The book is a fictional collection of diary entries purportedly made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a>, which Ingraham uses satirically to criticize Obama, his family, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">his administration</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[27]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Of Thee I Zing, a New York Times best seller,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a> published July 12, 2011. The book is a collection of humorous anecdotes meant to point out the decline of American culture, from muffin tops to body shots.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Ingraham&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>She has dated broadcaster <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Olbermann" title="Keith Olbermann" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Keith Olbermann</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a> and former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Jersey</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Torricelli" title="Robert Torricelli" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert Torricelli</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[31]</a> In April 2005, she announced her engagement to businessman James V. Reyes, and that she had undergone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer" title="Breast cancer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">breast cancer</a> surgery. In May 2005, Ingraham told listeners that her engagement to Reyes was canceled, citing issues regarding her diagnosis with breast cancer. Despite the breakup, she maintained that they remain good friends and told listeners she was in good health.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[32]</a>She is a convert to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roman Catholicism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[33]</a>In May 2008, Ingraham adopted a young girl from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Guatemala</a>, whom she has named Maria Caroline.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[34]</a> In July 2009 she adopted a 13-month-old boy, Michael Dmitri, and two years later in June 2011 she announced the adoption of her third child, 13-month-old Nikolai Peter. Both of the boys were from Russia, a nation where Ingraham has spent considerable time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[35]</a>

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Executive summary: The Hillary Trap

Law clerk for <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/906/000024834/">Clarence Thomas</a>, 1992-93. Wore a leopard-print miniskirt on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. An occasional caller to the <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/922/000023853/">Don Imus</a> radio show, her show Watch It! once followed the Imus telecast on MSNBC, but was moved and then cancelled for failing to interest Imus viewers.

Boyfriend: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/810/000049663/">Dinesh D'Souza</a> (broken engagement)

Boyfriend: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/065/000049915/">Robert Torricelli</a> (1999)

Boyfriend: James V. Reyes (broken engagement)

Brother: Curtis Ingraham

University: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/edu/853/000068649/">BA Russian and English, Dartmouth College (1985)</a>

Law School: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/edu/551/000068347/">JD, University of Virginia School of Law (1991)</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/gov/374/000123005/">Law Clerk</a> for <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/906/000024834/">Clarence Thomas</a> (1992-93)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/media/001/000055833/">The Dartmouth Review</a> Editor-in-Chief

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/064/000123692/">Family Security Matters</a> Board of Advisors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/493/000049346/">Hoover Institution</a> Media Fellow (2003)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/687/000051534/">Independent Women's Forum</a> Advisory Board

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/event/930/000084678/">Converted to Catholicism</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/724/000206106/">Global Warming Skeptics</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/937/000043808/">Polish Ancestry</a>

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