Right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham had a rough time last week, and the forecast for this week isn’t looking much better.
To make a long story short: It all started when 54-year-old Ingraham mocked 17-year-old David Hogg, who has become a outspoken voice in the debate over gun reform, for not getting into the college of his choice.
Hogg responded to Ingraham’s unprovoked slight by calling on his nearly 750K Twitter followers to contact her top advertisers. They did. And within 24 hours, seven of Ingraham’s highest paying advertisers pulled their ads from her show.
In response, Ingraham apologized to Hogg then announced she was taking a one-week “vacation” to celebrate Easter with her kids.
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Well, when it rains it pours. Because now an old story involving Ingraham and her treatment of her LGBTQ classmates in college has resurfaced and it has brought with it a fresh wave of outrage.
Basically, while she was studying at Dartmouth in the ’80s, Ingraham was editor of the conservative college newspaper the Dartmouth Review.
At one point during her tenure there, she assigned a reporter to sneak into a meeting for LGBTQ students and then record their conversations. She then published the transcript, outing many of the students to classmates.
But it gets worse.
Ingraham also allegedly sent tapes of the meetings to the students’ parents.
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In the article, Ingraham called the LGBTQ group “cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites” and later defended the outings as a “freedom of the press issue” then tried saying the purpose of the article was to question the school’s funding for the program.
“The big thing is what does this organization do with its money?” Ingraham said at the time. “It seems like they just have parties and talk about parties. There isn’t a heterosexual group that gets funding.”
When asked about Ingraham’s nasty tweet and insincere apology to him last week, Hogg told CNN over the weekend:
“It’s disturbing to know that somebody can bully so many people and just get away with it, especially to the level that she did. No matter who somebody is, no matter how big or powerful they may seem, a bully is a bully and it’s important that you stand up to them.”
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Kangol
She’s always been a rotten apple, and now she’s putrefied. Don’t forget, she also initially gave the Nazi salute before realizing it was a very bad look (and action) at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Kangol
It seems operation paper clip did not only include Nazi scientists.
DCguy
What a shock, somebody who spreads hate and attacks teens for daring to talk about gun issues was a monster when she was in college.
Fox News knew what it wanted and they hired it.
NateOcean
Fox News knew what she was, and that’s *why* they hired her.
Armiya
How cute! Trying to be a piece of sh*t Gregg? Unlike you, I’m sure David’s grammar would be on point!
DecaturJoe
What a vicious, unsubstantiated accusation, Gregg. His application to Berkeley was in long before the massacre.
JerseyMike
The depth you people will stoop never surprise me… Keep living your sad life…
JerseyMike
nothing surprises me about this evil devil…
PSGuy5
The vicious personal attacks on this kid show how much the gun control opponents fear his effectiveness.
Armiya
The best part? If you’re a grown ass adult screaming about losing their guns (which is NOT what is being asked..regulation and responsibility aren’t the ban word) and you feel that your enemy is a teenaged school shooting survivor? You’re pathetic.
Mandrake
What’s interesting and what many people may not know is that one of her brothers who lives in Massachusetts is gay.
Mandrake
She has one brother and his name is Curtis. According to reports she and Curtis are close which surprises me. He’s been out since the 90’s.
okiloki
Just read on the Heavy that she has previously stated that she regrets what she did at Dartmouth to those students and now has more empathy for gays because of her relationship with her brother and his partner. She’s still vile and should be off the airwaves, but she’s not the total monster that she’d be if she wasn’t apologetic about some of the horrible things she’s said and done.
Juanjo
Greg might just be a Russian bot.
The hashtag #istandwithlaura was the top trending hashtag for Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence campaigns, according to Hamilton 68, Business Insider reported. Hamilton 68 is a dashboard hosted by Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan transatlantic national security group that monitors 600 Twitter accounts linked to the Russian influence operations. The site recorded a 2,800 percent increase in the hashtag’s use on Friday and Saturday.
According to the website botcheck.me, which purportedly tracks 1,500 “political propaganda bots,” Hogg, Ingraham, and Fox News’s Twitter handles were among the most popular accounts that Russian-linked accounts tweeted at on Saturday, Business Insider reported. “David Hogg” and “Laura Ingraham” were the top two-word phrases the monitored accounts over the past 24 hours as of Monday.
BC
Why are you spewing so much hate? Has life treated you so bad that you have to mouth such cynical words here on Queerty? Maybe you should take a deep look inside you and question why you would make such a statement. Looks bad on you bro…..& no one else!
mhoffman953
@PSGuy5
I don’t think David Hogg is very effective considering since he’s been on a press tour, NRA donations have tripled
@Armiya
“If you’re a grown ass adult screaming about losing their guns (which is NOT what is being asked..regulation and responsibility aren’t the ban word) and you feel that your enemy is a teenaged school shooting survivor? You’re pathetic.”
I don’t know. I seen many signs at the recent protests calling for a full out repeal of the 2nd Amendment. I hear the phrase “regulation and responsibility” but no one throwing out those phrases ever specifically defines what they mean by that. Usually, whenever questioned it boils down to a ban and repeal in a nonsensical manner
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DCguy
And that’s why we love you Cylest!
Unless of course you remove one of MY comments….then that would make you a terrible person who was totally overreaching. 😉 j/k
Kieran
In 1997, Laura Ingraham wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing “the dignity, fidelity, and courage” with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with AIDS.
DCguy
So in other words, she hated lgbts outted them to their parents, had zero empathy and tried to harm them. She did this EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD A GAY BROTHER.
It was ONLY after somebody close to her died that she CLAIMED she changed her opinion. Funny that she still supports politicians who would have sought to do her brother harm. She didn’t change her views. She just used her dead brother to deflect criticism.
ChrisK
Thanks for giving both sides to the story from some of the commenters. Not that she’s not vile but it shows that we can be fair and balanced.
Bob LaBlah
ChrisK, the count says there are twenty-two comments. Why are only fifteen posted instead of twenty-two?