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Laura Ingraham Getting Outplayed and Outclassed by a High School Kid? Yes, Please.
Out on the weekend, where the kids are showing us how it's done.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAR 30, 2018
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I have to admit Im enjoying watching Laura Ingrahams flopping around in the bottom of the boat. Ive long been a fan of her ability at dehumanization, all the way from that time at Dartmouth when she helped to out gay students. Read that old New York Times Magazine piece. God, it was a high time to be a conservative without a conscience.
As we sat in the bar of the Tabard Inn knocking back big glasses of Sambuca ("Should we all sing 'Kumbaya'?" suggested Ingraham), she entertained us with stories of her adventures in El Salvador during the mid-80's. What was she doing there? I asked. "Subjugating third-world nations," she said with a dry laugh.
Between 1980 and 1992, estimates say, 75,000 people were killed in a civil war in which the United States was intimately involved. Archbishop Oscar Romero, whos on his way to becoming a saint, was murdered on the altar during mass. Four American nuns were raped and murdered by our client army. Wasnt Ms. Ingraham just a card back then?
Anyway, when she first took her cheap shot at David Hogg, there was a part of me that said, well, he walked into the slaughterhouse with the rest of us with his eyes open. What I didnt know is that he would be so good at operating therein. In less than a day, Hogg scared Ingrahams sponsors so badly that she was frightened into a hapless apology (note to Laura: Holy Thursday did not make you what you are) that nobody believed, and that Hogg, god bless him, declined publicly. (If the Democratic party had more people with this attitude toward the flying monkeys of modern conservatism, wed all be better off.) This is just tremendous.
MORE:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19645597/laura-ingraham-david-hogg/
via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/1/1753647/-Read-Charles-P-Pierce-s-Take-down-of-the-Nazi-Princess-This-is-just-tremendous
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Just ask the staff of my congressperson. Pramila. Who wants her to fight to the death for what is right? Me.
We need to fight Republicans with baseball bats, and flame throwers, not words.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)tax cuts are eating the bones of civilization now.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Tax free. Their stocks and corporations value go up along with their net worth And they only pay taxes on dividends.
For us every cent of our wages are taxed. We areally being screwed big time.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Abolition of capital gains and estate taxes? Absolutely APPALLING ideas. If you have enough wealth that it can create more wealth, you could make as much as there is to make, and pay no tax on the earnings. Then, you could pass on every nickel to near-useless progeny like the Drumpf Bros and Paris Hilton.
What a great, great plan. They should get on it; I hear there is still some money they don't have yet.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Haven't you been effective! Thank you for your service. Just a suggestion: timing and tone are everything. "Bats and flamethrowers" are exactly how to lose. Hogg used neither. He used the truth and he used words to stir effective action. Learn from him, please. Bomb throwers are losers in the long run.
Lunabell
(6,105 posts)You're comments were particularly nasty.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:56 AM - Edit history (1)
I recommended your post. He said we "We need to fight Republicans with baseball bats, and flame throwers, not words." I disagree. We need to fight with the truth, as you did. Do you disagree?
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)She did the convert thing during the wave of Spooks, FBI, Robert NOVAKula doing it, an Opus Dei thing. When she re-emerged into the yak game, I peered at her mug and strained my ears to detect any signs of Christlike emulating behaviors. She was a bit toned down for a year or two but soon enough she was back at full tilt in vociferous hate speech. I actually called The Little Sisters of the Poor and asked a (Mother Superior?) whether a convert to Catholicism might be expected to show some outward behaviors of spirituality like humility, love of others, benevolence, and whether INGRAHAM's donations were substantial, and she said that she had never heard of her and knew of no donations from her.
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bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)and how is it that the best political consultants and PR people Democrats can find didn't figure out what David Hogg did?
This should have been done long long long time ago
I bet we won't learn from it. The PR people are too afraid for their jobs.