Laura Ingraham Getting Outplayed and Outclassed by a High School Kid? Yes, Please.

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by Charles P. Pierce at Esquire

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19645597/laura-ingraham-david-hogg/

"SNIP.........

I have to admit I’m enjoying watching Laura Ingraham’s flopping around in the bottom of the boat. I’ve 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, who’s 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. Wasn’t 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 didn’t know is that he would be so good at operating therein. In less than a day, Hogg scared Ingraham’s 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, we’d all be better off.) This is just tremendous.

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[Cha]

1. Thank you, apple, for Charles Pierce's take..

[pangaia]

2. I too wish more if our reps would stand upon the rooftops as David and Emma and their friends do,

and shout the truth for all to hear.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. Ms. Ingraham sure demonstrates their new propaganda tagline, 'Real news. Real honest opinion.'

I think everyone needs to support these young adults and keep up the pressure on all Faux Noise advertisers.

Top 10 Brands on Fox News (Feb. 2018)
Nutrisystem $1.90M
Otezla $1.04M
Jenny Craig $806K
Sleep Number $655K
Indeed $587K
South Beach Diet $574K
Smile Direct Club $563K
Liberty Mutual $488K
GEICO $469K
Inogen $450K

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4. (A diarrheaic dog's poop would out-class Ingraham....)

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5. She has lots of bots tweeting for her.

Well it looks like we’ve tapped into Laura Ingraham’s most loyal fan base.

[blockquoteAs companies yank their ads from Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham's show in droves, she continues to draw support from one key Twitter demographic: Russian bots.

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On Saturday evening, #istandwithlaura was the top trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that tracks Russian propaganda campaigns in near-real time.

Per the site's data, the frequency with which the accounts tweeted the hashtag jumped by 2800% on Friday and Saturday.[/

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/1/1753696/-Russian-Bots-Come-Running-To-Rescue-Laura-Ingraham

I can’t do a blockquote, but there should be one for all of it.

[applegrove]

6. I just use italics. Try closing your first blockquote before the text you want captured.

Then get rid of the space in the closing blockquote. See if that works. The text is supposed to be in between two closed blockquotes instructions, not within the first one.

[notdarkyet]

7. Thanks.

[Marie Marie]

8. "I have to admit Im enjoying watching Laura Ingrahams flopping around in the bottom of the boat."

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. For me, the flying monkeys were a nice touch.

Can't go wrong with a W of Oz quote in this house. My wife's favourite movie - even our dog is named Ozzie.

[Sam McGee]

10. My Laura Ingraham story

I retired from the Army in early 1995 and worked for a few months for a defense consulting firm. I then was hired by Skadden Arps -- a heavy-duty DC law firm (with worldwide offices) for a six-month temporary job -- Skadden had a case involving a defense contractor and they hired a few of us retirees for our expertise.

Down the hall from my office was the office of one of the associate attorneys. The secretary who supported me was next to the associate's office, so, I was there several times a day.

The associate's office looked like a pigsty (no offense intended to pigs) -- books, papers, other crap piled on every surface as well as on the floor -- empty McDonald's wrappers and pizza boxes. From time to time I saw a dishwater-blonde woman in the office, occasionally heard her shouting at a secretary or paralegal. I also saw her around the firm, usually alone, seemed to me the other associates, the partners, and the support staff avoided her.

After a few weeks, I asked my secretary about this person . . . "That's Laura -- everyone hates her -- she's about to be fired because her work is sloppy and she's a revolting BITCH." And that was the kindest thing the secretary said.

I'll let you guess who this associate was.