Laura Ingraham makes fun of new House Democrat's accent in cringeworthy segment

The epitome of deplorable.


Laura Ingraham makes fun of new House Democrat’s accent in cringeworthy segment
Ilhan Omar came to the U.S. as a 12-year-old refugee who couldn't speak English.
Frank Dale
Jan 19, 2019, 1:50 pm


Fox News’ Laura Ingraham has claimed “the America that we know and love doesn’t exist anymore” due to immigration, mocked a 17-year-old survivor of a school shooting, smeared an alleged survivor of attempted rape, retweeted a prominent neo-Nazi, and referred to President Donald Trump’s abusive family separation policy as “essentially summer camp” in just 15 months on the conservative network.

However, Ingraham’s history of offensive and ridiculous remarks extends well beyond her time as a Fox host.

During her 17 years as a host on a nationally-syndicated nationally-syndicated radio show Ingraham blamed terrorism on “multiculturalism,” parroted Trump’s racist and Islamophobic rhetoric on refugees, and suggested the U.S. government should shoot undocumented immigrants.

She also played the sound of a gunshot to “celebrate” the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, claimed Jewish people aren’t “minorities because they’re so successful,” predicted “we’re just going to all wear Depends” instead of sharing bathrooms with transgender people, attacked Telemundo and Univision as “Hispanic-centric networks,” and said the feminist movement “has set women back” because “the most powerful thing a woman can do is give birth, that is it.”

On Thursday’s episode of her show — which became a podcast earlier this month — Ingraham mocked the accent of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who couldn’t speak English when she came to the U.S. at the age of 12 after living in a refugee camp during Somalia’s civil war.

Ingraham claimed that one of the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress “sounds like Rizzo on Grease” and “doesn’t sound like Minnesota.”

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