Laura Ingraham

[[File:Laura Ingraham (52251744763) (cropped).jpg |thumb|right|165px|Ingraham, seen here being consumed by dark magic.]]{{expand}}{{pundits}}
{{cquote|What if we just cut off the unemployment [aid]? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing.|||Laura Ingraham on her ''Fox News'' segment, August 2021.<ref>[https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1426017141724270597 Laura Ingraham: "What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing."] ''Twitter''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221020054815/https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1426017141724270597 Archive].</ref>}}
{{cquote|We are all officially working for an organization that hates us.|||Ingraham, complaining about the 'news' side of Fox on November 16, 2020 for doing fact checking of her broadcast<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/10/fox-news-lawsuit-key-players What key players at Fox News said about the network and its viewers] by Sarah Ellison et al. (March 10, 2023 at 1:17 p.m. EST) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>}}

'''Laura Ingraham''' {{lived|1963}} is an American [[conservative talk radio]] host, television personality, and [[Ann Coulter]] knock-off. During the 1980s, Ingraham was the first female editor of the ''Dartmouth Review'' and then a speechwriter in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]]. During the 1990s, she became a commentator for [[liberal media|CBS and MSNBC]]. She launched her radio show, 'The Laura Ingraham Show' in 2001. She occasionally filled in for [[Bill O'Reilly]] and other [[Fox News]] hosts.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45203-2004Aug29.html Laura Ingraham, Reporting for W2004], Howard Kurtz, ''[[Washington Post]]''</ref> She currently hosts her own Fox News program, ''The Ingraham Angle''. Due to similarity in names and people too high on rage to properly read bylines, vitriol intended for Ingraham ends up directed to Australian reporter Lauren Ingram with depressing frequency.<ref>Jorge Rivas, [https://splinternews.com/meet-the-australian-woman-who-keeps-getting-hate-tweets-1824200195 Meet the Australian Woman Who Keeps Getting Hate Tweets Meant for Laura Ingraham]. ''Splinter'', 30 March 2018.</ref>

==''Dartmouth Review''==
Ingraham began her career as a [[pundit]] at the ''Dartmouth Review'', Dartmouth College's student-run conservative rag. During her stint at the ''Review'', she met and dated fellow [[wingnut]] [[Dinesh D'Souza]] and helped to out members of the university's [[gay]]-straight alliance.<ref name="huffpo">[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-oconnor/laura-ingraham-right-wing_b_106034.html Laura Ingraham: Right-Wing Radio's High Priestess of Hate], Rory O'Connor, ''[[Huffington Post]]''</ref> [[Hypocrisy|Despite her status as a Dartmouth alum]], she enjoys railing against "elites" with fancy-pants college degrees.<ref>See ''[http://www.conservativebookclub.com/products/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6365p Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America'']</ref>

==Nazi sympathies==
[[File:Ingraham Nazi.jpg|thumb|left|The salute in question]]
At the 2016 [[Republican]] convention, Ingraham stuck out her right hand in a way that closely resembles a [[Nazi]] salute. Her older brother, Curtis Ingraham, publicly accused her of being a Nazi sympathizer, and stated "We grew up with an abusive, alcoholic father who was a Nazi sympathizer. Like father like daughter?! This was the familial soil that gave bloom to my sister's anger."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingrahams-brother-goes-to-war-against-her</ref>

==Political positions==
*Ingraham is against [[gay marriage]],<ref>[http://www.queerty.com/laura-ingraham-i-will-always-be-against-gay-marriage-20090525/ Laura Ingraham: I Will Always be Against Gay Marriage], Queerty</ref> of course, and has made [[transphobia|transphobic]] comments.<ref>[http://equalitymatters.org/factcheck/201205250003 O’Reilly, Ingraham Criticize “Dopey Parents” For Supporting Their Transgender Son], Equality Matters</ref> [[Stopped clock|However]], she does find [[Louis Farrakhan]] to be too [[homophobic]] even by her standards.<ref>[http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-factor-guest-infuriates-laura-ingraham-with-claim-that-farrakhan-is-a-private-citizen/ O’Reilly Factor Guest Infuriates Laura Ingraham With Claim That Farrakhan Is A ‘Private Citizen’], Frances Martel, Mediaite</ref>
*She enjoys railing against the "[[porn]]ification of our [[culture]]."<ref name="huffpo"/>
*She is a [[global warming denier]], characterizing it as a [[secular religions|religion]]<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201202210002 Ingraham: Obama Has A "Maniacal Adherence" To "The Church Of The Global Warming"], [[Media Matters]]</ref> and endorsing the [[Climategate]] [[global warming conspiracy theory|conspiracy theory]].<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912010004 Noted climate scientist Ingraham says emails indicate "shocking scientific fraud," global warming a "lie"], Media Matters</ref>
*[[Stopped clock|Even]] [[Bill O'Reilly|Bill-O thinks]] she's a "rabid ideologue" and "[[Kool-Aid drinker]]."<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912170040 O'Reilly calls Ingraham "a blind ideologue" and "a Kool-Aid drinker" after she criticizes his praise of Michelle Obama], Media Matters</ref>
*Ingraham has gone full-tilt anti-vaccine and hosted [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]] on her podcast.<ref>Matt Gertz, [https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-teamed-rfk-jr-push-deranged-vaccine-conspiracy-theories Laura Ingraham teamed up with RFK Jr. to push deranged vaccine conspiracy theories]. ''Media Matters'', 9 February 2021.</ref>
*Ingraham has promoted [[The Great Replacement]] conspiracy theory.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/15/buffalo-suspect-great-replacement-theory-conservative-media/ Conservative media is familiar with Buffalo suspect’s alleged ‘theory’] by Paul Farhi (May 15, 2022) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>
*Ingraham hates the fact that Disney opposes Florida governor Ron DeSantis' hatred towards LGBTQ people, and laments the fact that they cater towards evil [[Middle East|brown]] and [[China|yellow]] people respectively.
*Because her father was a Nazi sympathizer, she has support for nationalism, xenophobia, and bigotry.

==See also==
*[[Tucker Carlson]]

==External links==
*[http://www.lauraingraham.com/ Ingraham's site]
*[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/343110/august-03-2010/laura-ingraham Ingraham on ''The Colbert Report''] 
*[http://www.salon.com/2010/11/24/hack_list_9/ Hack Thirty List No. 9: Laura Ingraham], Alex Pareene, ''Salon''

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