Fux Noise host Laura Ingraham's glee at general's Covid diagnosis sparks outrage

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The rightwing Fox News host Laura Ingraham has stoked outrage by announcing that the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff had tested positive for Covid-19 – and applauding as she did so.

One critic called the host a “merchant of death”. Another said he was “not sure when hate became a Christian value”.

Gen Mark Milley became a target of rightwing anger after extensive reporting showed how he worked to contain Donald Trump at the end of his time in power, keeping US armed forces out of domestic affairs.

Milley has also defended the teaching in military institutions of critical race theory, an academic discipline which conservatives have turned into a profitable election issue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-s-glee-at-general-s-covid-diagnosis-sparks-outrage/ar-AASUja3

Woman is not even house trained.

[flying_wahini]

1. I have to believe that 'Arc of Justice' is coming for her.

I predict a hard rain gonna fall

[ck4829]

2. Disgusting

[Aristus]

3. Outrage is what she was going for.

n/t

[Random Boomer]

11. Bingo

She will keep pushing envelope until someone stops her. Hasn't happened so far, so why would anyone expect her to stop?

[Demovictory9]

24. not just her... it's the business model for Candace and others

[Maraya1969]

4. Link to video

[AngryOldDem]

17. That man she's with...

….Raymond Arroyo, a star on the Catholic EWTN network. Smarmy bastard who thinks he knows more than the Pope himself.

A pair of really exemplary Christians, right there.

[keep_left]

55. Arroyo has been with EWTN going on 20 years. He was their news anchor...

...until someone there decided they needed to appeal to Faux News viewers (middle-age+ men = we need more hot women). So now they have hired more of the "young chicky" types at EWTN (at least three different news shows, a "pro-life" show, etc. all with Faux fembot types, as Randi Rhodes called them). So now Arroyo is like their "senior anchorman" or something. EWTN is a real piece of work. You have to see it to believe it.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Don't watch her so I had to Google. She is a vile xxxx who was/is a nasty gay hater from college

onward.

Fuck her.

[Hieronymus Phact]

6. This is who she is.

Nothing but a public troll.
I wouldn't take her to task, that's like blaming the scorpion for stinging.
I would heap opprobrium onto whoever continues to give her a platform.

[badhair77]

7. Does she still wear that cross? Pretending to be a Christian woman?

She needs to take it off. There’s nothing Christian about her.

[wnylib]

18. She's a Chrino - Christian in name only.

[Jakes Progress]

20. The word "Christian" no longer means what it used to.

You know . . . like "Republican".

[vlyons]

8. She's just a mean-spirited self-righteous asshole

nt

[Torchlight]

9. I'd bet a ten that she and her fans tell themselves, 'we're just reporting politics'

That kinda seems the Excuse of Last Resort the past few days.

[Mr. Evil]

10. Focksnooze must be destroyed.

Allowing Helga the Nazi Thundercunt to do that on the air should be the final straw. We must absolutely stop buying anything and everything that is advertised on the Joseph Goebbels Memorial Network.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. That's who they are. Don't even blow dog whistles anymore.

[ypsiguy]

13. Strange behavior from a cancer survivor

https://www.survivornet.com/articles/fox-news-laura-ingraham-breast-cancer/

[Marcuse]

14. " черт! Even I wouldn't say that out loud."

[AngryOldDem]

15. Did anyone cheer her breast cancer diagnosis?

I have no use for those who take delight in another’s illness. Do unto others, you hypocritical POS.

[Aussie105]

16. So it has come to this?

The MAGA channel identifies someone as their enemy, and gleefully announce some bad news about that person?

Words fail me . . .

Mind you, DU is guilty of that too.
'MAGAts are all anti-vaxxers. Serves them right if they catch COVID and they all die!'

Got to watch this polarization and erosion of sane human values!

*Wanders off shaking his head.*

[Sympthsical]

19. I chuckled

It's like, haven't read around here lately? There's practically a daily People We Hate Got Covid High Five Party.

Remember: Everyone is horrible except for me. I am awesome.

[BlackSkimmer]

23. Lol, I posted before I saw your reply.

This is puzzling.

[Sympthsical]

25. I would've said performative

Still. I genuinely laughed my ass off when I saw it.

"It's sociopathic!" Oh, is it?

Huh. You don't say . . .

[BlackSkimmer]

26. I kept rereading, thinking I was missing something.

Where are the posters who love to post that Herman Cain meme? I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen that here.

[Tickle]

33. Ok I thought

it was just me who thought this

[BlackSkimmer]

36. No, several of us on this thread.

[tenderfoot]

38. Anonymous DU users aren't broadcasting their bad behavior on a popular television network

Tasteless for sure. Not the same as with Ingraham, who has a history of public repugnance.

[Sympthsical]

40. Crappy behavior is crappy behavior

The horror of it all is disingenuous.

Either it's ok or it's not. If it's not, maybe catch it where you live.

Bitching about someone who will never hear it affects nothing. Cleaning up one's own neighborhood actually makes a difference.

[tenderfoot]

41. Sanctimony is sanctimony

eom

[Sympthsical]

45. And hypocrisy is hypocrisy.

Glad we had this chat.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. You Shouldn't Be (nt)

[BlackSkimmer]

27. Yep.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215701957#post25

One of many examples.

[BlackSkimmer]

21. You've never noticed the glee here at Covid death/diagnosis?

I’m sorry, but this kind of thing happens here too.

Glass houses, and all that…

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Is it possible both are wrong?

You seem to spend a lot of time criticizing DU

[BlackSkimmer]

39. I'm so flattered you follow me so closely.

No. What I criticize is hypocrisy. Since you seem to follow me so much, you should be able to see that.

And yes. BOTH are wrong.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

52. Actually I don't follow you

But you pretty revealed yourself on this thread.

Consider this. In most cases those who point out righties who've come down with COVID are noting the righties' carelessness in dealing with the pandemic.

[Jakes Progress]

22. Where can we get a list of her advertisers?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

28. When seeing Laura Ingram, think Mary Surrat.

"Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., in 1865 who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the US federal government."

[sarisataka]

29. Not that her statements are in any way acceptable

it is worth reflecting on threads here daily. Such as this one- https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216251513

[Zeitghost]

30. So now it's not cool...

To wish for or cheer at someone on the other side of the political spectrum getting COVID? I have a hard time keeping up with which side of that we at DU come down on. It seems to flip from thread to thread.

[BlackSkimmer]

32. Bingo.

This thread is a jewel.

[UnderThisLaw]

35. Something tells me

that determining which side to come down on isn’t hard for you at all

[iemanja]

31. She is evil

full stop.

[BlackSkimmer]

34. Are those that do the same thing here evil also?

We can’t have it both ways.

[Progressive Jones]

42. She's standard issue right wing trash and something that rhymes with bunt. nt

[BlackSkimmer]

49. Wow, how clever.

Unreal.

[Progressive Jones]

54. Gotta follow the rules... nt

[UTUSN]

43. K&R

[BlackSkimmer]

44. Ok when we do it though, right?

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Learn A New Tune

The one you're singing has gone stale.

[BlackSkimmer]

48. You didn't answer the question.

Not surprised. Is it ok when we do it?

[ret5hd]

56. If YOU can't tell the difference between...

laughing at a brain-dead idiot that is driving totally shit faced, claiming the “BAC theory” is an Illuminati plot and that seat belts and stop signs are direct government impositions on his “freedumbs”…

Who then dies in a car wreck, maybe with some of his brain-dead friends and relatives who were whooping and laughing and telling him how right he was…

As opposed to laughing at the innocent person killed in the other vehicle that knew EXACTLY how dangerous drunk driving is and was very careful in his driving habits…

Well, if you can’t tell the difference, then that’s on you…not us.

[AngryOldDem]

58. If people take pride in their Darwin Award nominations...

…then, yes, the scorn that is subsequently heaped upon them is well deserved.

I found the seat belt example to be a red herring, so to bring it back to COVID, it’s one thing to have little to no sympathy for somebody who loudly mocks the science, puts others at risk by their ignorance, and then gets sick — or doesn’t get sick but still spreads their dangerous bullshit (like Ingraham). It’s quite another if it’s somebody who did take all the precautions (as the generals did) and still gets sick, or has an underlying condition that prevents them from getting vaxxed.

So…the breast cancer example. Did anybody here gloat when Ingraham was diagnosed with something that was beyond her control?

I don’t suffer fools gladly. Never have, never will. Same goes for those who mount high horses.

[Mr. Ected]

50. She's an assassin, a callous influencer

Doing Putin's work without the Russian invasion.

[Torchlight]

51. Seems irresponsible for an individual with such a large influence

to engage in such cavalier behavior. I tend to believe those in positions of power and/or influence have a much greater obligation to temper their words and actions as those words and actions have a much greater impact.

Much as I hold law enforcement, doctors and jurists to a higher standard than the general populace, I also place that same duty of accuracy, good-faith and professionalism on many in broadcast journalism.

[Cha]

53. Fox Noise Talking

Zombie!

[Catherine Vincent]

57. Shame on her

Covid is no joke. I had it for 3 weeks and finally recovering back to normal. Not 100% but it's getting there.

[Emile]

59. What happened to Thank you for your service?