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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Friday Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Laura Ingraham, Queen of the Nightcrawlers

Friday Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Laura Ingraham, Queen of the Nightcrawlers

by Anne Laurie|  June 1, 20193:07 am| 40 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, All Too Normal, Clown car, I Can't Believe We're Still Talking About Fucking Nazis, Nobody could have predicted

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Fox News silent after Laura Ingraham defends white supremacist, other extremists on her prime time show https://t.co/hwNUCcyZZ2

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) May 31, 2019

worst super smash bros character select screen pic.twitter.com/UT6zjL1wjD

— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 31, 2019

Per the Washington Post:

… The controversy stems from a Thursday night episode of “The Ingraham Angle,” in which the host lamented recent comments made by Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), criticizing Facebook’s refusal to take down an altered video of Pelosi.

Speaking with conservative activist Candace Owens, Ingraham likened the altered video to a work of satire. Clinton’s and Pelosi’s complaints, she said, were simply a coordinated effort from the left to “silence conservative voices” ahead of next year’s election, a common accusation by conservatives, including President Trump.

“Facebook now, what do they monitor, hate?” Ingraham asked. “That sounds good until you realize hate — and these are some of the people that they’ve shunned.”

Fox then displayed a graphic featuring Owens and seven other “prominent voices censored on social media.” Among those silenced, Ingraham said, were “people who believe in border enforcement, people who believe in national sovereignty.”…

Sen. Warren’s decision not to give them a media-friendly town hall looking pretty good right now…

Seriously. It really is the least they could do. I can't tell you how many conversations I have had with buyers over recent weeks who have shared Fox's spin that the Dem town halls show that it is safe for advertisers to come back in water.

Speaking up now would matter. https://t.co/wfy53kni2s

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) May 31, 2019

Defensive Laura Ingraham Challenges Critics To Try Making List Of Prominent Conservatives Without Including Few White Supremacists https://t.co/SNUVonXjbs pic.twitter.com/vWdLxr5kvy

— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 31, 2019


It took your PR team hours of workshopping and this is the best you could come up with? https://t.co/T5EZCz6PYk

— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) May 31, 2019

I can only imagine how happy those racists and anti-semites feel now that you’ve profiled them as prominent conservative voices who have been censored. https://t.co/U6ixu6Cchs

— Seth Masket (@smotus) May 31, 2019

.@IngrahamAngle, Paul Nehlen is not being censored because he's a conservative. He was kicked off social media for repeatedly spewing anti-Semitism & racism, and for targeting Jewish journalists. Do better, @FoxNews. https://t.co/loLhQ9F6Oh

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) May 31, 2019

Just a reminder that Paul Nehlen is a racist and if you’re defending him that’s what you’re defending. Cc ?@FoxNews? pic.twitter.com/kQJRtmecLe

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 31, 2019

Here's more on Paul Nehlen, who's so extreme that Steve Bannon and Breitbart disowned him years ago. He's even been kicked off of Gab! And now Laura Ingraham is positioning him as just another conservative victim of social media bias. https://t.co/sPcuc0fVu9

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) May 31, 2019

Right, he doxxed one of his rivals

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) May 31, 2019

What do I win? https://t.co/7LQyizHsAR

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 31, 2019

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  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 1, 2019 at 3:20 am

    Did anyone decent come out of Dartmouth in the early to mid-80s?

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2019 at 3:25 am

    Trying to imagine the ones they chose to remove from the preliminary list of examples because including them might damage the FOX brand.

  3. 3.

    Ruckus

    June 1, 2019 at 3:29 am

    @NotMax:
    The ones not racist enough?

  4. 4.

    Mary G

    June 1, 2019 at 3:35 am

    Just pathetic. Didn’t all her regular advertisers dump her? Are they back or is she surviving off Fox promos, survival kits, gold for sale at four times its price, and MyPillows?

  5. 5.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 1, 2019 at 3:40 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: No.

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    Damien

    June 1, 2019 at 3:58 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: You seem to be assuming anyone decent is coming out of Dartmouth now…

  7. 7.

    hells littlest angel

    June 1, 2019 at 6:00 am

    What could Fox have said? Racism has no place in modern-day conservatism? The poor bastards are stuck between alienating their advertisers or alienating their viewers.

  8. 8.

    rikyrah

    June 1, 2019 at 6:08 am

    When I think about that she was allowed to adopt non-White children ???

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    germy

    June 1, 2019 at 6:48 am

    @Mary G:

    Just pathetic. Didn’t all her regular advertisers dump her?

    From what I understand, advertisers make a big show out of leaving, and then a few months later (when no one is looking) they come slithering back.

  10. 10.

    Princess

    June 1, 2019 at 6:49 am

    @rikyrah: It’s awful. I feel really sorry for those children.

  11. 11.

    germy

    June 1, 2019 at 7:13 am

    Laura’s brother knows the truth:

    Fox News says it's "obscene to suggest" that Ingraham was defending white supremacist Paul Nehlen on her show. https://t.co/RejJ2mgu5V via @HuffPostPol
    Horrific on all levels! Shame on you, Laura. Deeper shame on Fox!— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) June 1, 2019

  12. 12.

    germy

    June 1, 2019 at 7:15 am

    My sister's use of the word "lifestyle" is beyond disturbing, especially given her involvement with me and my late partner. Love is not a "lifestyle" choice, Laura, and I speak from experience…what about you? @IngrahamAngle— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) May 31, 2019

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    debbie

    June 1, 2019 at 8:29 am

    Speaking with conservative activist Candace Owens, Ingraham likened the altered video to a work of satire.

    Then let’s have a real satire of Trump. All the fat photos, facial contortions, and dementia-ridden pronouncements, rolled into one, convenient package.

  14. 14.

    biff murphy

    June 1, 2019 at 8:30 am

    Laura’s douchbaggery has no bounds…

  15. 15.

    Duane

    June 1, 2019 at 8:43 am

    @hells littlest angel: Fox is determined to normalize people like that. Given time it may work. Good people, both sides all that rot. Trumpov is a good example. A truly awful person still acceptable to millons of people.

  16. 16.

    Frankensteinbeck

    June 1, 2019 at 8:51 am

    @Duane:

    Fox is determined to normalize people like that.

    A bedrock element of modern conservatism. They’re pissed as Hell they can’t say the n- word anymore. It really helps explain why Trump of all the people they could have chosen.

  17. 17.

    AM in NC

    June 1, 2019 at 8:56 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Dartmouth was my top college choice in the mid-80s because I’d had an amazing experience there at a summer debate workshop. I didn’t get in and ended up going to UNC (which I also didn’t know much about, not being from NC). Boy am I glad the fates intervened that way. A large public school that was pretty diverse (especially compared to Dartmouth) was great for me. Of course this was before football was remotely a thing on campus, and the core liberal arts mission of the school hadn’t been swallowed by the health affairs campus ($$$$$$$$$$$). But still, bullet dodged.

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 1, 2019 at 9:04 am

    @NotMax:

    Trying to imagine the ones they chose to remove from the preliminary list of examples because including them might damage the FOX brand.

    Someone started June with excess brainpower that he had to get rid of.

  19. 19.

    randy khan

    June 1, 2019 at 9:21 am

    @NotMax:

    Trying to imagine the ones they chose to remove from the preliminary list of examples because including them might damage the FOX brand.

    Yeah, it wouldn’t have been on-brand to include any mainstream conservatives.

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    bemused

    June 1, 2019 at 9:23 am

    I feel ill imagining how Ingraham parents her three adopted kids, one from Guatemala,. Will they become twisted hateful people just like mommy? Will they believe it’s normal to spout vile wingnut beliefs to get six figure paychecks?

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    Matt

    June 1, 2019 at 9:37 am

    Is it just me, or did they LIGHTEN the photo for Candace Owens? o_O

  22. 22.

    debbie

    June 1, 2019 at 9:59 am

    @AM in NC:

    I went to summer school at Dartmouth after my freshman, so no danger of football anywhere. I loved studying at the library (Baker!), sitting in an overstuffed chair with a board laid across the arms serving as a desk and overlooking the green. I wrote some of my best papers there, and I would have been happy being there forever.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    June 1, 2019 at 10:01 am

    @Matt:

    Something was nagging me about that picture, and I think you hit it. Maybe it’s just the original lighting, but that is lighter than the general run of her pictures on the Google.

  24. 24.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 1, 2019 at 10:21 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Connie Britton graduated in 1989 and Kirsten Gillibrand in 1988.

  25. 25.

    EthylEster

    June 1, 2019 at 10:27 am

    @Damien replied to : @Omnes Omnibus:

    You seem to be assuming anyone decent is coming out of Dartmouth now…

    Broad brush, Damien and Omnes Omnibus.
    Yes, of course, EVERYONE who EVER went to Dartmouth is indecent.
    Please stop writing bullshit.

  26. 26.

    StringOnAStick

    June 1, 2019 at 10:43 am

    @bemused: Wanna bet that Ingraham adopted those POC kids so she could raise/turn them into Oreos like Clarence Thomas? Conservatives love having POC to spout the RW party line but they don’t have enough yet to provide the cover they’d like to have for their racist policies from that angle. Ingraham is vile enough to do exactly what I’ve described; I just hope those poor kids are able to both resist it and not internalize in any way the racism that oozes from her. Slim odds, I know. Poor kids.

  27. 27.

    James E Powell

    June 1, 2019 at 11:25 am

    @Duane:

    Fox is determined to normalize people like that. Given time it may work.

    To some extent, it is working. Such people should be universally condemned, but they are not. And they do not need to be all the way normalized to be very damaging.

  28. 28.

    Tom Levenson

    June 1, 2019 at 11:42 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: No. SATSQ.

  29. 29.

    Raoul

    June 1, 2019 at 11:49 am

    @germy: Angry older white people still buy laundry soap. Can’t miss that market of somewhere around two million crabapples over age 55! (Plus a fairly weak 400,000 in the prime 25-54 demo.)

  30. 30.

    different-church-lady

    June 1, 2019 at 12:09 pm

    @Duane: Acceptable because he is awful. That’s the scary part.

  31. 31.

    Butter emails!!!

    June 1, 2019 at 12:39 pm

    One of the tweets strikes why I’m not as forgiving of those who like Sanders and Buttigieg did Town Halls on Fox. It may have been the best decision for them, but it hurt the efforts of a lot of people. Do we really want to elect politicians where it’s all about them and fuck the rest of us? Or, let’s put it this way, we’re trying to convince advertisers not to place adds on Fox News because it’s bad to support the racism and bad optics to have your product advertised alongside racist assholes. Meanwhile, along come Democratic politicians who are apparently OK with appearing on the white supremacy network, because hey they get to be on TV. Are we supposed to hold people who are just trying to sell soda and erectile disfunction pills to a higher standard than our politicians?

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 1, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: Both of those are late ’80s

  33. 33.

    Balconesfault

    June 1, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: they had a really good distance running program and a great cross country coach at the time.

  34. 34.

    planetjanet

    June 1, 2019 at 1:55 pm

    @Steeplejack: Is this the source of the photo? They definitely processed it to give that light from the side.

  35. 35.

    leeleeFL

    June 1, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: My niece. So, one.

  36. 36.

    brantl

    June 1, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    @EthylEster: You aren’t very good at spotting the joke, before your delicate fee-fees are hurt, are you?

  37. 37.

    tam1MI

    June 1, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    Did anyone decent come out of Dartmouth in the early to mid-80s?

    Kirsten Gillibrand in 1988.

    So, no one then.

  38. 38.

    Ruckus

    June 1, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    @brantl:
    Some feel they are in the line of fire of a joke when it knocks down the front door of their house.

  39. 39.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    June 1, 2019 at 6:08 pm

    @EthylEster: even among decent, normal human beings who went to Dartmouth, which a friend of mine is one, “Dartmouth weirdos” is a running joke.

  40. 40.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    June 1, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    This is bad news for Meghan McCain.

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