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Related: About this forumRacist Rant of Luara Ingraham (starts at about 1:55) entire rant..11 minutes
........key part everyone is talking about, 1:55... "Laura Ingraham: "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like ... this is related to both illegal and legal immigration"
IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)We can only believe her gaslighting us when she says she didn't say all this
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)In 1910 all four of my grandparents came here... and one hundred and eight years later, I write these words..
Unlimited immigration at that time..only 2 requirements...read a language, no tuberculosis ...now any language would be ok, grandparents read Yiddish.
...All 4 from what is now known as the Ukraine..Oh my, ??? what a looser she is...
Rhiannon12866
(205,552 posts)"On the last boat" as my mother used to say. My maternal grandparents came from Poland, both in 1912, she was 15 and came without family, went to work in a factory at 10-cents an hour, and he was 18 - was made a citizen and sent to France to fight for this country in WWI. They raised two daughters, the eldest was my mother, and both graduated from college. My mother was an honor student, earned a full scholarship and she said her father cried.
My paternal great grandparents emigrated from Ireland in the late 1800s. She came with her family as a child, he arrived later as a young man. They met and married here, ran a farm and raised a family, their two eldest sons joined up together and were both sent to France to fight for this country in WWI. My grandfather was with the Cavalry, delivered needed ammunition to the battle lines on horseback. My great uncle was on the front lines, earned the silver star.
Would they be welcome here today?
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)Is that we know to hit the Mute button when she comes along. Just like Hannity and Pirro and all the rest of them. This is where she lines up. Right behind a bully dictator with delusions of grandeur.
Rhiannon12866
(205,552 posts)She has the absolute worst voice for TV - and her dubious claim to fame was a short-lived campaign against my senator - Hillary Clinton - that fell apart when she got too confused and flustered to make it through a speech - she got her notes mixed up...
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Back in the early 1900s there were areas of cities that spoke Yiddish, Italian, as well as other languages. And many talked the same shit about those neighborhoods. but most didn't care. (why?? Most lived in their own neighborhoods with their own people) .. Cities had and have neighborhoods like this now
... It is well known that immigrants built the New York subway system, as well as did the jobs that no one wanted to do. And guess what...??? are you ready??? for the total answer...
.......Immigrant children born here, are citizens as defined by the Constitution of the United States..Most immigrant children grow up and give back to the country they were born in by holding down jobs and paying taxes..My father became a lawyer, my mom became a teacher in the public schools. So did I. enough..
Oh one more thought...Fuck Laura Ingraham.!!
Biden My Time
(87 posts)cp
(6,640 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)When she was initially boycotted for her reprehensible remarks about David Hogg and the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, many of her advertisers bailed. She unexpectedly took that "planned vacation" and disappeared for two weeks. Then faux news rallied behind her, she returned to the air and some of her sponsors returned.
All this did was embolden her to crank up her racist rhetoric. Since then, she has made more and more ugly remarks.
Tell us, Laura, where did YOUR family come from to live in this country ? Would they have been allowed to immigrate now under today's criteria ? When I was a child, people from Poland were referred to as "bohunks" and "Polacks" and none of that is flattering. They were perceived to be of lower intelligence with poor hygiene. (Of course this is stereotypical nonsense, but it enjoyed wide acceptance and was very prominent opinion at that time.)
This woman is going to continue to ratchet up her racist attacks on anyone in her cross-hairs. We should not be surprised when she does it again. And again. And again.
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 11, 2018, 02:29 AM - Edit history (1)
Ingraham grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where she was born to Anne Caroline (née Kozak) and James Frederick Ingraham III. Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants, and her father was of Irish and English ancestry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/10/us-editorials-called-polish-immigrant-grandparents-laura-ingraham-undesirables
They_Live
(3,236 posts)couldn't make it more than 17 seconds. Garbage.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)as a refugee from violence must be given the full due process of the law. But she just lies and says that Democrats don't believe in borders and that we will let anybody in at any time because we don't believe in the law. So dishonest. And her meme that Americans have had demographic change "foisted on them" is just pure propaganda. Liberals foisted demographic change on America? Right. Just like we foisted climate change on the western states, and foisted wildfires on innocent Americans.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)But she didn't say that?...(that is what she says)..well here is the proof. (Original Post) So one lie on top of another.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Like the Red Scare of the '50s.
If you look hard enough, you can find individual examples of undocumented immigrants involved in criminal activity, even the worst kind.
Duh
Just as you can find many more examples of citizens involved in the worst kind of criminal activity. Citizenship does not turn one into a saint. There will always be bad elements in every nationality.
But by showing an array of criminals who happen to also be undocumented immigrants, it seers into the brain, especially simple minded brains, that that is the norm rather than the exception.
It is the height of disingenuous to present the state of things this way. This should be criminal. To falsely present reality by cherry picking events and stringing them together to stoke fear and racism in the country.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)I got in a minute before I quit... my Bullshit meter was peaked 99.9 percent. I hate Fox News cause its not news, its propaganda just like what was once behind the Iron Curtin.