Laura Ingraham outed her gay classmates to their families to boost her college newspaper sales

[RandySF]

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.

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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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Didnt she do this with whatshiname D'Souza?

vile, filthy disgusting wastes of space is what they are.

[dalton99a]

6. It's a reasonable assumption:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/dinesh-dsouza-indictment-dartmouth-outed-gay-classmates/
Remember How Dinesh D’Souza Outed Gay Classmates—and Thought It Was Awesome?
I do—and years ago I had a run-in with him over the sleazy tactics used to do it.
David Corn | Jan. 24, 2014 6:48 PM

In 1982, I attended—that is, snuck into—a conference for conservative students journalists held at the New York Athletic Club and sponsored by foundations eager to spread the conservative gospel on college campuses. D’Souza was received at this affair as royalty. And at lunch, I had the good fortune to share a table with him. There he bragged about the Review having made use of a list of Dartmouth alumni it had somehow procured—without the university’s approval—for a mailing. (The university maintained the Review had misappropriated the list and committed a copyright violation.) He and his surrounding acolytes also gloated over an infamous Review article that had outed members of Dartmouth’s Gay Student Association and published excerpts of letters written by the group’s members. (As a result of this article, some members of the group had their sexual orientation disclosed to friends and family members.)

Nine years later, when D’Souza was being hailed upon the publication of his book, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus—the Washington Post called him “palpably smart,” “sober-minded,” and a “gentleman”—I wrote a short piece in The Nation and recalled that I had once witnessed him boasting about improperly purloining documents for the gay-naming article. ...

At first, I took D’Souza at this word, accepting his account that the Review had used public information for its article naming the officers of the Gay Student Association, and conveyed that in the correction. That was a mistake on my part. After D’Souza complained about the correction, I decided to investigate further. I called Dolores Johnson, director of student activities at Dartmouth. She said it was “absolutely untrue” that the documents the GSA had filed with the school were open to the public. Certainly, she explained, the GSA, like all student groups, had provided her office the names of its officers and a constitution (and perhaps letters written by students about the group). But, she said, “I would never give that information out to the public.” And there was this: She pointed out that shortly before the Review published its article naming the gay students, some documents had disappeared from the GSA’s desk in a student center. Johnson noted that these missing documents were the ones cited in the Review story.

So the evidence—at least, Johnson’s account—suggested that foul play had been involved in the outing article. And D’Souza’s self-serving cover story—we obtained the information from public records—was undercut. He had duped me. Not surprisingly, after I returned to this matter in the pages of The Nation to relate Johnson’s description of the events and partially retract the correction, D’Souza did not respond. His silence spoke loudly.

[Gothmog]

2. Ingrahm is a sad excuse for a human being

[Chipper Chat]

4. Rush Limbaugh is a prince

Compared to this witch.

[BigmanPigman]

12. But, but she is a Christian.

Doesn't that make her morally above just about everyone else?

[a kennedy]

14. and do I mention here that I just loathe the little crosse she wears???

and not that I mind crosses, I bought my mom a Waterford crystal cross, which hangs in my car after the death of my mother, but I despise it around the neck of that lying piece os sh*t.

[MineralMan]

3. Once a nasty person; always a nasty person, I guess.

She is truly deplorable.

[marble falls]

5. She'll make a great guest on Glen Beck's show... wait he doesn't have a show, either.....

Lets start a pool on how long Ingraham has the show.

[poboy2]

7. She needs to shut up and shut up. -nt

[VOX]

8. Another unfeeling, uncaring, offensive, me-first right-winger.

Do ANY of the Fox Entertainment consumers know how much their figurehead like to be publically put down?

[bobbieinok]

9. Dartmouth R was part of a network of college reviews set up by national conservatives. DineshdeS

Dinesh was also on the Dartmouth Review. Students who worked there and at similar reviews at other colleges had a fast track to jobs with major RW organizations.

This info about Ingraham has been long known. David's relating her treatment of him and LeBron to what she did to the LGBTQ students thankfully has made her actions at Dartmouth known to a much larger national audience.

[Happyhippychick]

10. Why didn't Dartmouth kick her out for that?

They should revoke her degree.

[cab67]

13. my guess....

...is that because Dartmouth Review wasn't an official Dartmouth publication, the incident wasn't seen as an infraction of college policy.

That's only a guess, mind you.

[Happyhippychick]

16. Probably that and they wanted the tuition $

[Dawson Leery]

20. Because Dartmouth is a frat house for rich, white, right wing thugs.

I would be inclined to reject an employment application if it said they graduated from that s**thole.

[oasis]

11. A sure qualifier for Family Research Center Lifetime Achievement Award.

[paulkienitz]

15. Ingraham's whole career has been as a cheerleader and enabler for bigots

particularly for homophobes and racists.

[Upthevibe]

18. She is a HORRIBLE

excuse for a human being....she really is - I just cant stand her......

[SunSeeker]

17. K & R for exposure.

[ailsagirl]

19. What a piece of work

[UTUSN]

21. Required reading: "Blinded By the Right" by whassisname

[highplainsdem]

22. David Brock, founder of Media Matters.