There’s ascerbic, and then there’s Laura Ingraham. There’s nasty, and then there’s Laura Ingraham. There’s hypocritical, and then there’s Laura Ingraham. Ascerbic, nasty, hypocritical, times ten.
Ingraham is a Fox regular fill-in host on shows like The O’Reilly Factor, as she was last night.
But before I go into last night’s show, here’s a bit of background, via Wikipedia, on Ms. Ingraham.
Ingraham earned a bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College, in 1985, and a law degree at the University of Virginia School of Law, in 1991. As a Dartmouth undergraduate, she was a staff member of the independent conservative newspaper, The Dartmouth Review. In her senior year, she was the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, its first female editor. She wrote a few controversial articles during her tenure, such as a piece characterizing a campus gay rights group as “cheerleaders for latent campus Sodomites”. She also secretly tape recorded the organization’s meetings, and sent copies to the participants’ parents. Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for the Dartmouth Review, described Ingraham as having “the most extreme antihomosexual views imaginable,” and noted that “she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual and might touch her silverware or spit on her food, exposing her to AIDS.” In 1997, Ingraham wrote an essay in the Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views after witnessing “the dignity, fidelity and courage” with which her brother and his late companion coped with AIDS. She said she now understands why gays need protection and regrets her “callous rhetoric.” However, in 2009, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation named Ingraham as one of the “worst anti-gay and anti-transgender voices of 2008,” citing her statements regarding transgendered people and “allusions that being gay is a ‘bad choice’.“
Get the picture?
So, it should come as no surprise then that Ingraham was originally for the “mosque near Ground Zero” before she was against it. “Liberal” Alan Colmes challenged her on this last night, but she would have nothing to do with it, at one point screaming, “I don’t care WHAT he says!”
I was at the gym last night when I watched this, but managed to eek out a few tweets, the last one demanding she be fired.
Fox, you call this journalism?
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