A Fox News defector gets it right on Laura Ingraham -- and on MAGA

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Greg Sargent
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Here's what Ingraham and many Republicans will not say:

The 1/6 attack *actually was* inspired by Trump's lies about 2020.

It was part of a broader plot that *actually was* about blocking a legitimately elected government from taking power.

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Opinion | A Fox News defector gets it right on Laura Ingraham — and on MAGA
What many Republicans and Fox News personalities will not say about Trump and Jan. 6.
washingtonpost.com
8:47 AM · Dec 16, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/16/laura-ingraham-texts-jan-6-maga/

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https://archive.ph/h8yGg

Last month, two Fox News contributors quit the network to protest its descent into rank propaganda about Donald Trump and Jan. 6. Now that Fox has been drawn into the House select committee’s investigation of the assault on the Capitol, one of those defectors has broadened his indictment — in scathing fashion.

The defector, writer Jonah Goldberg, just posted a new piece at the Dispatch that takes on Fox host Laura Ingraham over the news that she texted Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows on Jan. 6, urging Trump to call off the mob. “This is hurting all of us,” Ingraham warned.

Goldberg’s response gets at a set of disputes that go beyond those over Trump’s culpability for Jan. 6 or over Fox’s role in driving the abandonment of democracy highlighted by those events. At issue are deeper questions about the MAGA movement — what’s driving it, where it’s going, and the GOP’s cynical incorporation of its ugliest, most destructive impulses.

Earlier this week, Ingraham issued a tortured response to criticism of her Jan. 6 conduct. She denied any conflict between her texts and her public comments at the time: Both, she said, expressed strong distaste over the violence and both openly called on Trump to stop it.

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[malaise]

1. Hey I love that photo - she's shoving him away

[scipan]

2. What's his left hand doing? Looks like it is between her arm and her breast.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Sure looks like it.

[drmeow]

3. Wait - Jonah Goldberg?

The same Jonah Goldberg whose Daily Show interview in 2008 was so incoherent that 18 minutes had to be spliced to get a 6 minute interview segment? That Jonah Goldberg?