Laura Ingraham's Paranoid Stereotypes

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Laura Ingraham's Paranoid Stereotypes


May 10 2004
Counterbias.com
Frank Wallis


Laura Ingraham is a fair representation of conservative political thought. Ingraham, who is a radio talk show host and prolific op-ed writer, is a graduate of Dartmouth College (Ivy League), got a JD from Virginia Law, specialized in white collar criminal defense, worked in the Reagan administration, and claims to be a friend of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. Her book, Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America (Regnery, 2003), is an attempt to define liberals and expose their "elitism". The attempt fails, but in the process one can only marvel at the abundance of crude stereotypes Ingraham divulges to her audience.

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1. Shut Up and Sing

Shut Up and Sing was dated the first day it went on sale. Ingraham hails the Iraq war as a great success, and scolds "the liberals" for predicting a quagmire.

There are a number of other examples of Ingraham's premature celebration. Where others saw complexity, Ingraham saw only simplicity. It turns out she was quite wrong. It's an embarrassing book.

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2. Do people remember that while at Dartmouth,

Ingraham, an undergraduate, was so involved with the OUTing of gay students, (her classmates and peers) and the harassment of the school's
gay/lesbian student organization - that she received national news attention?