Laura Ingraham
MEMBERS ONLY: No, Fascism Doesn't Deserve A Platform
The Banter Long Read: After Bill Maher leapt to Laura Ingraham's defense against the dreaded power of the Parkland teens and their oppressive boycott, it kicked off the debate on the left again about freedom of speech versus progressive censorship, particularly on college ...read more
Fox News Sticks With Laura Ingraham
In the least surprising news ever, Fox News is deciding to stick with Laura Ingraham after she publicly mocked 17 year old survivor of the Florida high school mass shooting in Parkland, David Hogg. Why? Because Ingraham and "free speech" are apparently the victim in all of this. ...read more
The Parkland Boycott of Laura Ingraham Is Now A "Dangerous" Threat To Freedom
Oh my! I had no idea that the Parkland kids weren't just after our Second Amendment rights, but our First Amendment rights, too! At least, that's the argument that The Hill's Joe Concha is making as he laments the boycott of Laura Ingraham's advertisers led by Parkland student ...read more
Fox News Is In Crisis Mode After Laura Ingraham's Attack on David Hogg
Every now and then, we get an email from the PR people of disgusting right wing media figures asking us to take something down or alter a piece that threatens to take away the ad revenue of their client. We've had emails from Milo Yiannopolous's people, Charles C. Johnson's ...read more
Laura Ingraham's Sociopathic Trolling Of David Hogg Is The New American Normal
Regardless of Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg's political views, he is an 17 year old victim of a horrific event that no human being should ever have to go through. Yet a mainstream conservative media host saw fit to troll him on Twitter, mocking him for not getting into ...read more
Trump's Response to State Department Vacancies Question Should Terrify You
Responding to a question about lingering State Department vacancies last night, Donald Trump told Fox's Laura Ingraham that he wasn't really concerned about it. Why? Because according to Trump, he is "the only one that matters". "Are you worried that the State Department ...read more
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Laura Ingraham Mocks Bullied School Kids In Her Defense of Greg Gianforte
On Wednesday night, Republican House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted journalist Ben Jacobs of The Guardian in response to being asked about the CBO score for the American Health Care Act. Even more shocking than a white, conservative male resorting to brazen violence when he ...read more
White People Lecture Michelle Obama on Life as a Black American
During a commencement speech at Tuskegee University on Saturday, Michelle Obama spoke openly about what is was like being a black woman during the 2008 presidential campaign, and empathized with the black students in the audience who have no doubt been subjected to ...read more
White House Reacts To Chris Christie's 'Shut Up' Comments at CPAC
One of the many ways in which New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidick Chris Christie set tongues wagging at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was to try and obscure his RINO stripes with the tough-guy act that's wearing thinner than a ...read more
FOXTOBERFEST Of Stupid: Gretchen Carlson (4) vs. Laura Ingraham (5)
Game six of the FOXTOBERFEST Of Stupid features a pair of impressive résumés. Gretchen Carlson is a Stanford University graduate who won the 1989 Miss America pageant in part by playing Zigeunerweisenon violin in the talent portion of the competition. She once called Ted Kennedy ...read more
Alabama Congressman Says Obama Is Waging a "War On Whites," Surprising No One
One of the more entertaining habits of white Christian conservatives is to cast themselves in a Christ-like light; not in terms of deeds, because try as they might, there's simply no reconciling cutthroat Randian capitalism with the preachings of Jesus. Rather, Republicans like ...read more
The Death of the Republican Party?
By Bob Cesca: Holy hell, if we were only that lucky. Rush Limbaugh and his legion imitators in right-wing talk radio have lapsed into a collective freakout regarding the upshot of the dueling conventions and the polling numbers that point to the likely re-election of the ...read more
Limbaugh Controversy Is About More Than the Word "Slut"
By Bob Cesca: Finally, there appears to be significant action backing up the outrage surrounding Rush Limbaugh's attacks against Sandra Fluke. As of this writing, seven advertisers have dropped the Limbaugh show and there will likely be more to follow. But many of the rebukes ...read more
Ed Shultz and Laura Ingraham Debacle Symbolic of Ridiculous Media
Image by Dan Patterson via Flickr MSNBC host Ed Shultz called Laura Ingraham a 'Right Wing slut' on his radio show and was rightfully suspended from MSNBC without pay for a week. His words were inexcusable and Schultz deserves every bit of the backlash he gets. In a broader ...read more