This just in: Fox News propagandist Laura Ingraham can dish it out but she definitely cannot take it.
The 55-year-old TV anchor ripped into 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg on her show last night after he took a swipe at her during his Fox News town hall on Sunday evening.
It all started when Buttigieg told Chris Wallace that he had to give it serious thought before agreeing to appear on the conservative news network.
“You know a lot of folks in my party were critical of me even doing this with Fox News,” Mayor Pete said, “and I get where that’s coming from, especially when you see what goes on with some of the opinion hosts on this network.”
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“I mean, when you got Tucker Carlson saying that immigrants make American dirty. When you got Laura Ingraham comparing detention centers with children in cages to summer camps—summer camps—then there is a reason why anyone has to swallow hard and think twice before participating in this media ecosystem.”
Even though some of these hosts are not always there in good faith, I think a lot of people tune into this network in good faith.
Whether it’s going on Fox or going into places where Democrats haven’t been seen much, we have to find people where they are–not change our values. pic.twitter.com/xNHoD0uzE4
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) May 20, 2019
Not surprisingly, Ingraham didn’t take well to being criticized.
“Beyond his Boy Scout demeanor and Mayor Pete shtick, Buttigieg is but another creation of a media apparatus desperate to oust Trump,” she snarled on Monday’s show. “And as I’m sure you saw again and again on the other networks, he showed this unattractive strain last night.”
Without any sense of irony, the Trump supporter continued, “But it is hard to patronize and condescend your way to win the nomination. You can’t do it. You’ve got to treat the people like they deserve to be treated.”
“Forget Mayor Pete, maybe we should call him Pope Pete. Because don’t you love how because he attends church, we are supposed to treat him like the be-all and end-all moral authority, or the arbiter or of who is and who is not operating in good faith.”
Ingraham concluded by saying, “I think we need a papal proclamation. This eager beaver mayor has perfected the art of mild-mannered extremism,” before going off on some bizarre tangent about how Buttigieg gives aide to “the modern day Taliban” and then Pete’s his father a Marxist.
Things took an interesting turn when Igraham’s own brother, Curtis, who happens to be gay, got involved, praising Mayor Pete for calling out his sister’s bigotry.
Pete, you couldn’t have chosen a better example of my sister’s flip and insensitive remarks. She herself adopted an immigrant daughter from Guatemala some years back. One can only wonder how she squares these remarks with her? @PeteButtigieg @IngrahamAngle https://t.co/u54KPIQ6FN
— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) May 20, 2019
Sad that my sister has chosen such a path. I will continue to hold up a sibling’s mirror of truth as long as it takes. Bring it on!
— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) May 21, 2019
Watch Laura’s anti-Pete tirade. Or don’t.
Related: Pete Buttigieg kills it at Fox News town hall… by trashing its hosts and slamming Trump
Cam
Now if only media would stop using words like “Falsely Claimed” when they mean “Lie”, and “Religious liberty” when they mean “Bigoted” to describe Ingraham’s words.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
She is the most pathetic miserable nasty crunt on the air today…
And let’s not forget her disgusting bullying of David Hogg a 17 year old boy who witnessed a dozen of his fellow students being massacared….
DavidThomasCurran
Well said!
Tombear
Laura Ingram is not the most popular girl in class. Her own brother dislikes her and says she is a bigot.
Tombear
I like mayor Pete and will probably vote for him. My demographic chatter is tics are I am educated, married to the man I love, we have five German Shepard dogs on our five acres and I am wealthy. Most important is I want Trump defeated in 2020!
Franco
Good comment Tombear. I feel the same way you do and I have contributed often to Mayor Pete’s campaign. I am hoping you use some of that wealth to do the same. All the best to you and yours.
kenneyv
This is a classic example of an ad hominem attack. Notice she never disputes his argument, only attacks him as a person and his supporters. This is the attack of someone without a case.
GourmetGuy
Laura Ingraham is so worthless, so clueless, so homophobic, and such a “tool” of the Trump establishment that her OWN BROTHER berates her. Like most bigots, she will self-destruct in due course. Just not soon enough.
Kangol2
He is leaving these FauxNews propagandists wrecked! Whatever happens in terms of his election, I’m all for how he’s dealt with these awful Drumpf-loving hacks.
justyouandi
I would hardly say she “ripped into” or “snarled”. The children at the border were not being mistreated or neglected. The border guards were overwhelmed, certainly, but they were doing the best they could. If Congress had not blocked funding for more border guards they could have done better. Those kids were in a place that, for some of them, was like summer camp. But the media keeps showing those little ones in what looked like cages in a pic taken in 2014 (Obama), but they were not actually anything resembling “cages”.
As for brother Curtis ….. what a disappointment! I assumed he would be a person of higher character. His sister has done nothing to hurt any children but has in fact adopted three who were older and would almost for sure have lived lives of desperation had it not been for her selflessness to give them a good life.
For so many gays if their family, friends, and neighbors are not affirming their victimhood, wearing their ribbons and walking in their parades …. they are bigots!
vancouverdoug
DId you translate this from the original Russian, or are you in the “advanced” courses that enable you to write your original trolling in English? Remember, if you are pretending to be part of the gay community use “our” instead of “their” in the last sentence. See I can use lots of “…..:” also.
dwes09
“Those kids were in a place that, for some of them, was like summer camp.”
Being forcibly removed from your parents by uniformed and armed men who do not speak your language is nothing like summer camp. Nor is being kept in warehouse like spaces full of cots with barely adequate toilet and shower facilities.
And you make rather baseless assumptions regarding these kids lives to assume anything about their situation might seem cushy or luxurious. While these children varied in economic level from very poor to middle class, and their families fled for differing reasons, they were used to loving families, and companionship.
You clearly have the same level of compassion and understanding as Ingraham and her ilk.
Mick406
justyouandi
The most rational comment on here so far. She didn’t melt down. And the children, or any illegal, has not died because of being in a concentration camp set up by the government. EVERY case has been documented that they died while receiving medical treatment or HAD received medical treatment. About half of them came here with whatever condition they had. That one kid that died last week had a brain aneurism that happened to burst unexpectedly. This would have happened had she been in a
5 star hotel. Another one had TB. Those being held are in temporary status, which offers them a hell of a lot more than when they were walking hundreds of miles without food, water, or shelter. Let’s be fair, people!
Also, I think it is disgusting to see Mayor Buttplug licking and slurping on another man’s face on national TV. This does nothing but cause the general population to hate gays. Most parents don’t want to have to explain what the hell that was all about to their 8 or 9 year old!
paul dorian lord fredine
can’t help but think that since you and mick406 have such similar ideas you just might be one and the same….or should be. you’d make such a lovely couple of bigots. maybe laura should receive an invite when you get married. you certainly deserve one another.
justyouandi
For some people being gay means nothing more than which gender they prefer to have sex. They don’t feel victimized and they don’t read bigotry into every news item that doesn’t advance the gay agenda (according to whichever gay guy happens to make the most noise), and they are able to think logically about what is best for most people. In these days of identity politics, in which everybody is expected to toe the line with whichever victim group they belong to, I choose to stand apart and get back to basics.
Aires the Ram
@justyouandi: You said: ” In these days of identity politics, in which everybody is expected to toe the line with whichever victim group they belong to, I choose to stand apart and get back to basics.”
I usually write at length, but I’ve no need to now. In both your posts you’ve hit the nail right on the head.
MountainCowboyMan
“Laura Ingram Is A Documented & Certified UnAmerican, Treason, White, 2.0 Hitler, KKK, Jim Crow, John Birch Society, Koch Brothers, NRA=Death+Cash, Card Carrying Nationalist of Vladimir Putin, Donald J. Trump, Michael R. Pence, Mitch McConnell & Families Inc., Racist, Bigoted, Homophobic, Sexist, Anti-LGBTQ, Of Hatred, Violence, Round-Up Juice 24/7, Party Member That Has No Place In Public or Private Society In The United States of America.”
Mick406
You left out she doesn’t leave home without her American Express card!
Aires the Ram
Oh……so you hate Trump, and anybody that voted for him and agrees with his policies. We get it. But guess what!!! The 2016 Presidential election is over. Our economy is booming for everyone, and we’re better off now than we were with 8 years of Obama’s attempts to ruin this country.
OzJosh
Flat-out hilarious. She’s so flummoxed by Buttigieg that the only thing she can do is attack him for attending church! WTF? And “mild-mannered extremism”. She’s clearly pretty stupid, but she can’t be stupid enough to really think that means anything. I’d call her a c***, but she lacks both the depth and warmth.
Gary Q VV
Hold on to your bonnets… All of these pathetic “option anchors” (which are neither reporters, nor journalists), and the far-‘way-out’-right religious mongers, and the politicians, and of course Tiny-Thumbs-Trump, all are sponsored by the crème a la crème ultra-wealthy puppeteers, who control every aspect of our society. I know I’m not the only person who is aware of this atrocity. And when individuals and groups, such as Buttigieg, et al, start to have masses following their ideology, these puppeteers start pulling their puppets invisible strings to flood the society with their poison to fool and squelch the masses. How else do you think a nobody scum of the earth like Trump got elected? It had nothing to do with the Russians. Money, and piles of it, got this tiny, insignificant man elected to our most honorable governmental office in America. As well as sickos such as McConnell, and the list go on and on… Thanks, Mayor Pete, and all others, for your courageous efforts to bring about change in this society.