Laura Ingraham returned to her Fox News show Monday night after a week-long vacation amid a boycott by at least 20 top advertisers. And she returned fighting. The “Ingraham Angle” host painted those on the left as “intolerant,” violent, “speech czars.” And she told viewers that the boycott against her show, which was initiated by high school mass shooting survivor David Hogg in response to her mocking him, is “Stalinist.”
Stalin is responsible for tens of millions of deaths. Ingraham would like America to be tolerant of her describing the actions of a 17-year old fighting for the right to not be killed by guns in schools as “Stalinist.”
Will advertisers she’s called “Stalinist” ever return?
In the 10-minute intro (video below) kicking off her return Ingraham wailed against what she called “The Left’s Plot to Silence Conservatives.”
“Many of you have become accustomed to editing yourselves, let’s face it. Expressing views that just five or 10 years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired. It can cause to you lose a promotion, or you could be branded a hater, or, yes, you can get boycotted,” she complained.
And she attacked “the left’s propaganda” on college campuses, that “shaped a new generation of young adults, who then parroted all that malarkey about the ‘patriarchy,’ and then they came up with their own new phrases like ‘microaggressions’ and ‘safe spaces, and ‘white privilege,'” she said, mocking each phrase in air-quotes.
“Today, left-wing activists use these terms as bludgeons to intimidate those who disagree with them from entering the dialogue at all,” she claimed. Anyone who’s ever been on Twitter or Facebook probably would disagree.
“Their efforts are Stalinist, pure and simple,” Ingraham told Fox News viewers. “Their objective is a total transformation of American society, not through rational discourse and open debate, but through personal demonization and silencing,” she claimed.
And she even went as far as to falsely claim the First Amendment applies to Facebook. The First Amendment serves as a check on the government, not on companies.
“This is the intolerant left in action,” Ingraham said, as video of fights at a Trump rally and at the Charleston white supremacists’ rally played beside her. “Whether it’s striking voices from social media or driving certain viewpoints on the airwaves, beating people up, organizing boycotts for perceived unforgivable offenses or preventing speakers from being heard on a college campus, it’s all coming from the same place: a desperate desire to stop debate by branding your opponent unacceptable and driving him or her from the public square.”
As “proof” of conservative voices being silenced, she turns to the recent firing of far right wing columnist Kevin Williamson by The Atlantic – which had hired him to great controversy just weeks earlier.
Williamson supports hanging women for having abortions. Ingraham calls this a viewpoint that should not be silenced. He wasn’t silenced but no one has a constitutional right to a column at The Atlantic.
By the way, here’s what Williamson had said in a podcast several years ago:
“I would totally go with treating (abortion) like any other crime up to and including hanging — which kind of, as I said, I’m kind of squishy about capital punishment in general, but I’ve got a soft spot for hanging as a form of capital punishment. I tend to think that things like lethal injection are a little too antiseptic.”
“I’ve got a soft spot for hanging.”
Kirsten Powers, the conservative author of The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, apparently disagrees with Ingraham.
Watch Ingraham’s diatribe: