Fox News host Laura Ingraham appeared giddy Monday night when delivering the news that General Mark Milley, the highest-ranking US military officer, tested positive for Covid.
In “Positively Boosted,” a recurring segment on her show where she flippantly highlights vaccinated public figures who catch the disease, Ingraham discussed the 63-year-old general’s diagnosis.
The segment includes cartoon syringes and zany theme music.
“All right, the triple vaxxed Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley – our favorite, Mark Milley! – tested positive for Covid yesterday,” Ingraham said while clapping.
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“And who else? General David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant, also positively boosted.”
Despite the graphic next to her that notes Milley is experiencing only mild symptoms, Ingraham does not mention that the vaccine has been shown to be extremely effective at protecting against severe illness, hospitalization and death from the highly contagious Omicron variant.
“We certainly hope they’re all healthy and fine, but stop pushing your mandates on us,” Ingraham says later in the segment.
The words of Curtis Ingraham, Laura’s older, gay brother, come to mind: “She’s very smart, she’s well-spoken, but her emotional heart is just kind of dead,” he said in 2018.
Here’s how it played out on Twitter:
Laura Ingraham actually has a segment on her show called ‘Positively Boosted’ where she rejoices over people who test positive for COVID after being vaccinated. She of course fails to mention these people are far less likely to be hospitalized or die, or that she is vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/l2JRTyPZ1r
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) January 18, 2022
Why would FOX’s Laura Ingraham clap her hands and smile on the air upon learning that General Mark Miley had contracted Covid-19? What an awful, despicable, person. Kind, sensible, civilized people just don’t do things like this. Do your soul a favor – stop watching FOX.
— JoeBoySea (@joeboysea) January 18, 2022
I'm shocked that Laura Ingraham–who mocks survivors of school shootings and mocks police officers who were traumatized and beaten on 1/6–smiled and clapped at the news that an Army General/Joint Chiefs Chair contracted COVID. Shocked! ?
— ?Billy D Starchild (@BillyDStarchild) January 18, 2022
Laura Ingraham clapped when she heard that General Milley got COVID, but Milley is vaccinated and will survive while @IngrahamAngle's unvaccinated viewers will die from the disease and her disinformation campaign.
— Chafed Charlie (@ChafedCharlie) January 18, 2022
1) It’s not news anymore when officials catch Covid unless they’re hospitalized or die.
2) If Laura Ingraham cared about her viewers she would do a segment about people who rail against vaccines and die, because her audience needs to hear that.
3) What a morally bankrupt person. https://t.co/90ZiqxOFrA— honeybee sarah ? (@foxysera) January 18, 2022
Laura Ingraham gleefully clapped her hands, live on-air, when she learned Gen Mark Milley was infected with COVID.
FYI: Laura Ingraham's show is what happens when you leave creamy white mayonnaise in the hot Alabama sun; rancid, toxic, and unfit for human consumption.— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) January 18, 2022
Laura Ingraham has a segment on her show, with animations and everything, where she shares how delighted she is that people perceived to be enemies of the GOP have contracted COVID. How is that journalism?
— Rex Zane (@rexzane1) January 18, 2022
I wonder how many gifted doctors and nurses are being driven out of medicine so Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, Ted Cruz, and Laura Ingraham can keep cashing million-dollar checks for spreading lies about #COVID19?
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) January 11, 2022
ptn2719
A vaccine that won’t stop you from getting sick is worthless. And the current Covid vaccines don’t work, period. Which is why i haven’t left my home for over a month. At the rate this is going, I may never leave my home again!
Chrisk
For the millionth time the vaccine does not stop you from acquiring the virus dumbass. It protects you from getting seriously ill.
The only correct thing was the never leaving home part. May that stay true.
Chrisk
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Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated
otttovan
“I refuse to buy this product for 95% off, I’ll only take it if it’s free”
“You mean this seatbelt will only protect you from flying out the windshield? I’ll only wear one if it protects me from whiplash too”
Cam
@ptn2719
AntiVaxx Russian Troll says What?
mcflyer54
And we’ll thank you for never leaving your home again.
barryaksarben
A vaccine that prevents the DEADLY or EXTREME effects of an illness is INVALUABLE. But hey go ahead and stay in your house. I mean if you go outside you may fall off the flat earth
ZzBomb
It’s been 2 years now, it’d be nice if people like you would stop repeating things that have already been roundly debunked to the point of et nauseam.
Kangol2
Laura Ingraham is like a Chernobyl reactor, spewing endless radioactive toxins! The saddest thing about her vileness is that people listen to and believe her AND she gets paid to vomit up her hate!
tjack47
She’s like a C word alright. They all know exactly the lies and damage they’re doing, as demonstrated by her texts to stop the Frankenstein’s monster SCROTUS. I forgot how to spell the acronym, POTUS. Evil, evil people. Kill your own base is a strategy, I guess.
spunkfunker
Make no mistake the frau is vaccinated, and boosted!
rockland2u
must be a messy commute across the river styx. the souless harpy
BDAguy
Odd isn’t it that her stated (malevolent) position on vaccines is in direct contradiction to that of the company she works for… Fox has mandated vaccination or daily testing for its employees. The fact that she clapped when announcing the Covid status of the two generals speaks as much to her amorality as it does to her sociopathic lack of empathy… then again, maybe she’s just one more of Vladimir Putin’s plants just doing her job to undermine the nation and further divide us. I mean Fox is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Russia’s vision and intent for America: plunging us ever closer to civil war. Whatever her ultimate goal, she truly represents the worse example of a human being.
trojanboy
My god. The devil, just like god, really does inhabit the most disgusting people.
cuteguy
Hey, if her faux news audience refuse to get vaccinated bc they listen to this m0ron and then somehow die when they catch it, will anyone really miss them?