Showing posts with label Laura Ingraham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Ingraham. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Fox "News": Vaccines For Me, Not For Thee



Fox "News" (a.k.a Bullshit Mountain) has been in the forefront of vaccine disinformation and fear- mongering, especially after President Biden took office and began the historic push to vaccinate Americans against COVID.  It's prime time anchors -- notably Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham -- have railed against getting vaccinated, even though they won't say whether they've been vaccinated or not (spoiler alert: they have).  Rupert Murdoch was one of the first to get a shot in his withered arm.

The disregard for the lives and well- being of their devoted audience, while making sure they're protected, is part of the Fox culture, though, as made clear by a corporate policy that none of the shitmongers is willing to discuss:

Hypocrisy, spreading lies, and fear-mongering are all well-known staples over at Fox. But Monday’s news about how Fox Corporation has already implemented a vaccine passport-type program for its own employees that is similar to what hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have loudly railed against is a window into how little they actually care about the well-being of the people who watch their shows.

Businesses that require employees to provide proof of vaccination, commonly referred to as a “vaccine passport,” have been slammed frequently on the network. Tucker Carlson has called the idea of issuing vaccination passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” segregationist laws. Another host compared the requirements to communist East Germany, and Laura Ingraham has falsely claimed that such programs are akin to tracking mechanisms.

But so far not one host has told their audience about “FOX Clear Pass,” which works for Fox employees the same way most “vaccine passports” systems do in other businesses.

An internal Fox email, which was first reported by Ryan Grim and was also obtained by Rolling Stone, spells out how Fox employees were instructed how to enter their vaccination information into the company’s passport program called “FOX Clear Pass” in order to avoid Fox’s mandated requirements to social distance and wear masks while at work.

"Vaccines for me, not for thee" is what this collection of sociopaths masquerading as a news organization is saying.  Stirring up their viewers for political points, in this case in a self- defeating effort to foil the Biden Administration's efforts to save the lives of their own audience, is what they've always been about.  It's all part of the malignant former guy's attempts to tie doubts about the vaccine, to doubts about the Biden Administration, to doubts about the 2020 election

But this isn't about hypocrisy and lying to score points over immigration, or the economy, etc. This is hypocrisy and lying that has deadly consequences. And every day and every night, it takes hold deeper and deeper.


Saturday, March 31, 2018

Laura Ingraham "Taking Week Off" (In Futile Search For Her Soul? Update Resume?)



Awww:
Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.
Here's the latest update on the companies no longer advertising on Ingraham's Fox "News" hate fest:
The companies announcing that they are cancelling their ads are: Nutrish, the pet food line created by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, travel website TripAdvisor Inc (TRIP.O), online home furnishings seller Wayfair Inc (W.N), the world’s largest packaged food company, Nestle SA (NESN.S), online streaming service Hulu, travel website Expedia Group Inc (EXPE.O) and online personal shopping service Stitch Fix (SFIX.O). 
According to CBS News, four other companies joined the list Friday: the home office supply store Office Depot, the dieting company Jenny Craig, the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort and Johnson & Johnson which produces pharmaceuticals as well as consumer products such as Band-Aids, Neutrogena beauty products and Tylenol.
It was almost a year ago that fellow Fox fascist Bill "O'Liely" O'Reilly, under fire for multiple sexual harassment claims accompanied by the flight of advertisers on his show, announced a surprise, unscheduled vacation -- during which he was fired from the network.  May the same fate befall the odious Ms. Ingraham (though she would be replaced by another odious creature -- you've noticed Fox has lots of them).

BONUS:  Interesting tidbit --

And some "thoughts and prayers" from "God":

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Then They Came For The Bat-Shit Crazy. . .


Again, Jon Stewart performs a critical national service in his latest demolition of the teabagger crowd and their cynical right-wing Rethuglican leaders, who protested health insurance reform earlier this week at the Capitol. His take-down of Fux News harpie Laura "Bat Shit" Ingraham is especially priceless. Speaking to the clueless tea party crowd, "BS" did her take on the famous "first they came for..." poem about the Holocaust:
"First they came for the rich, but I was not rich so I didn't speak up. . ."


You get the drift -- health care reform is equivalent to the Holocaust. Stewart mocked Bat Shit's shrieking by concluding that if the Government "begins to round up and kill the rich, and the landowning and those who choose to exercise their right to bear arms....I'll speak up."

(photo: Bat Shit Ingraham prepares to take on the Gummint)

Monday, March 16, 2009

Cat Fight of the Week



For about a week now, those dizzy dames of the far right, (M)Ann Coulter and Laura "Bat Shit" Ingraham, have been in a full-blown cat fight with Meghan McCain, daughter of you-know-who. To catch us up, here are some quotes via today's WaPo:

McCain on Coulter: "I find her offensive, radical, insulting and confusing all at the same time" (from Monday's Daily Beast).

Ingraham on McCain: Do you think that anyone would be talking to you if you weren't kind of cute and you weren't the daughter of John McCain?" Bat Shit then goes on to mock McCain's supposed "plus-size."

McCain on both: "At this point, I have more respect for Ann Coulter than I do for Laura Ingraham, because at least Coulter didn't come back at me with heartless, substance-less attacks about my weight" (from Saturday's Daily Beast).

It occurs to us that Meghan McCain is exhibiting more, um, balls in standing up to the bizzaros on the far right than the Tin Man (see below). Meghan for RNC Chairman?

(Photo: (M)Ann Coulter: offensive, radical, insulting and confusing, oh, and SCARY!)