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{{Short description|American radio and television host (born 1963)}} {{pp-blp|small=yes}} {{Use American English|date=September 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}} {{infobox person | name = Laura Ingraham | image = Laura Ingraham (52251744763) (cropped).jpg | caption = Ingraham in 2022 | birth_name = Laura Anne Ingraham | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|6|19}} | birth_place = [[Glastonbury, Connecticut]], U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|Television presenter|author}} | education = [[Dartmouth College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[University of Virginia]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]]) | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | children = 3 | website = {{URL|lauraingraham.com}} }} {{Conservatism US|commentators}} '''Laura Anne Ingraham''' ({{IPAc-en|'|I|N|g|r|@|m}}; born June 19, 1963)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/the-life-of-laura-ingraham-how-a-young-conservative-became-a-national-figure-then-a-fox-news-firebrand/slidelist/74746567.cms|title=The life of Laura Ingraham: How a young conservative became a national figure, then a Fox News firebrand|newspaper=[[Business Insider]]|date=March 21, 2020|access-date=July 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2021/06/19/UPI-Almanac-for-Saturday-June-19-2021/4401623699638/|title=UPI Almanac for Saturday, June 19, 2021|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=June 19, 2021|access-date=July 4, 2021}}</ref> is an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] television presenter.<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite book |chapter=Laura Anne Ingraham |title=The Complete Marquis Who's Who |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Marquis Who's Who]] |year=2010 |access-date=October 10, 2011 |url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK2017661462&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=aa0d362c78cbbaae9e6e24ad24d28cef |id=GALE|K2017661462 |format=fee, via [[Fairfax County Public Library]] |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214030628/http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK2017661462&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=aa0d362c78cbbaae9e6e24ad24d28cef |url-status=live }} [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] Biography In Context.</ref> She has been the host of ''[[The Ingraham Angle]]'' on [[Fox News|Fox News Channel]] since October 2017, and is the editor-in-chief of [[LifeZette]]. She formerly hosted the [[radio syndication|nationally syndicated]] radio show ''[[The Laura Ingraham Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/351209-fox-announces-ingraham-show-to-start-next-month/ |title=Laura Ingraham to host Fox News show |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=September 18, 2017 |access-date=October 18, 2018 |archive-date=August 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805131941/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/351209-fox-announces-ingraham-show-to-start-next-month |url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham worked as a [[speechwriter]] in the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]] in the late 1980s. She earned a [[Juris Doctor]] degree from the [[University of Virginia]] in 1991 and was a [[law clerk]] to [[United States Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice [[Clarence Thomas]]. She then worked for the law firm [[Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom]] in New York City. Ingraham began her media career in the mid-1990s. Ingraham is known for her support for [[Donald Trump]] and acted as an informal advisor during his first presidency. {{toc limit|3}} == Early life and education == {{expand section|date=April 2025}} Ingraham grew up in [[Glastonbury, Connecticut]], where she was born to Anne Caroline (née Kozak) and James Frederick Ingraham III.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=168503939|title=James Ingraham Obituary – Glastonbury, CT | Hartford Courant|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 17, 2016|archive-date=August 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813160025/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=168503939|url-status=live}}</ref> Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants and her father was of Irish and English ancestry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/1999/05/31/anne-ingraham-79-of-glastonbury/|title=Anne Ingraham, 79 – tribunedigital-thecourant|date=May 31, 1999|website=Articles.courant.com|access-date=November 17, 2016|archive-date=October 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030225841/http://articles.courant.com/1999-05-31/news/9906010360_1_anne-ingraham-glastonbury-south-korea|url-status=live}}</ref> She has two brothers. She graduated from [[Glastonbury High School]] in 1981.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://patch.com/connecticut/glastonbury/glastonbury-native-ingraham-poised-prime-fox-show-reports | title=Glastonbury Native Ingraham Poised for Prime Fox Show: Reports | date=September 13, 2017 }}</ref> Ingraham studied [[English literature]] and [[Russian language|Russian]] at [[Dartmouth College]], graduating in 1985 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]]. After college, Ingraham spent several years as a speechwriter for President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s domestic policy advisor. She then attended the [[University of Virginia School of Law]], where she was a notes editor for the ''[[Virginia Law Review]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Connecticut Forum - The Connecticut Forum |date=May 11, 2019 |url=https://www.ctforum.org/panelist/laura-ingraham |access-date=October 19, 2021}}</ref> She graduated with a [[Juris Doctor]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/2013_fall/ingraham.htm |title=Laura Ingraham '91 Says Law School Helped Her Media Career |publisher=law.virginia.edu |first=Eric |last=Williamson |work=University of Virginia School of Law |date=October 30, 2013 |access-date=September 6, 2019 |archive-date=September 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906171420/https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/2013_fall/ingraham.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ==Career== {{expand section|date=October 2022}} [[File:Laura Ingraham 2016 RNC (1).jpg|thumb|Ingraham speaking at the 2016 [[Republican National Convention]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kopan|first1=Tal|title=Laura Ingraham rocks the GOP convention, presses for unity behind Trump|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/laura-ingraham-donald-trump-media/index.html|access-date=March 15, 2017|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=July 21, 2016|archive-date=December 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214210658/http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/laura-ingraham-donald-trump-media/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>]] In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy Advisor.<ref>{{cite news |last=Longman |first=Phillip |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/14/magazine/reagan-s-disappearing-bureaucrats.html |title=Reagan's Disappearing Bureaucrats |location=United States |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 14, 1988 |access-date=November 17, 2016 |archive-date=November 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116015552/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/14/magazine/reagan-s-disappearing-bureaucrats.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref> She also briefly served as editor of ''The Prospect'', the magazine issued by [[Concerned Alumni of Princeton]]. After graduating from [[Law school in the United States|law school]] in 1991, Ingraham was a law clerk for Judge [[Ralph K. Winter Jr.]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]] from 1991 to 1992 and for Supreme Court justice [[Clarence Thomas]] from 1992 to 1993. She then worked as an attorney at the law firm [[Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Laura Ingraham, Reporting for W2004|first=Howard|last=Kurtz|author-link=Howard Kurtz|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 30, 2004|page=C01}}</ref> In 1995, she appeared on the cover of ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' in connection with a story about young conservatives.<ref>{{cite news | first=Rory | last=O'Conner | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-oconnor/laura-ingraham-right-wing_b_106034.html | work=[[Huffington Post]] | title=Laura Ingraham: Right-Wing Radio's High Priestess of Hate | date=June 9, 2008 | access-date=June 11, 2018 | archive-date=January 28, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128044014/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-oconnor/laura-ingraham-right-wing_b_106034.html | url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, she and [[Jay Lefkowitz|Jay P. Lefkowitz]] organized the first Dark Ages Weekend in response to [[Renaissance Weekend]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Republican, Connected and Rising|date=March 11, 1996|work=National Law Journal|publisher=ALM Properties, Inc.|access-date=October 10, 2011|url=http://www.kirkland.com/sitecontent.cfm?contentID=230&itemId=7724|archive-date=March 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329063910/http://www.kirkland.com/sitecontent.cfm?contentID=230&itemId=7724|url-status=live}}</ref> ===Television host=== Ingraham has had three stints as a cable television host. She first became a host on [[MSNBC]] in 1996.<ref>Collins, Scott ''Crazy Like A Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN'', {{ISBN|1-59184-029-5}}</ref> In the late 1990s, she became a [[CBS]] commentator and hosted the MSNBC program ''Watch It!''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://greatamericanspeakers.com/speaker-search/pro-life-issues/114-ingraham-laura |title=Ingraham, Laura |website=Greatamericanspeakers.com |access-date=November 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116020223/http://greatamericanspeakers.com/speaker-search/pro-life-issues/114-ingraham-laura |archive-date=November 16, 2016 }}</ref> Several years later, on her radio program, Ingraham began campaigning for another cable television show. In 2008, Fox News Channel gave her a three-week trial run for a new show entitled ''[[Just In]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010182611/http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/32746.html Great News on the Laura Ingraham Front by Michael Gaynor], theconservativevoice.com; accessed April 28, 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Ariens |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/americas-election-hq-returns-monday/20984/ |title=America's Election HQ Returns Monday |website=[[TVNewser]] |access-date=May 20, 2022 |date=July 3, 2008}}</ref> In October 2017, she became the host of a new Fox News Channel program, ''[[The Ingraham Angle]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |url=https://www.newyorker.com/sections/culture/the-obtuse-debut-of-the-ingraham-angle |title=The Obtuse Début of "The Ingraham Angle" |date=October 31, 2017 |access-date=December 18, 2019 |archive-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422212822/https://www.newyorker.com/sections/culture/the-obtuse-debut-of-the-ingraham-angle |url-status=live |last1=Patterson |first1=Troy}}</ref> ===Radio host=== Ingraham launched ''The Laura Ingraham Show'' in April 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-podcast-donald-trump-campaign-fox-news-podcastone-1437891|title=Donald Trump campaign sponsored Laura Ingraham's podcast, Fox News distanced itself from audio show|first=Katherine |last=Hignett|date=May 29, 2019|website=[[Newsweek]]|access-date=December 18, 2019|archive-date=December 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219234420/https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-podcast-donald-trump-campaign-fox-news-podcastone-1437891|url-status=live}}</ref> The show was heard on 306 stations and on [[XM Satellite Radio]]. It was originally syndicated by [[Westwood One (1976–2011)|Westwood One]], but moved to [[Talk Radio Network]] in 2004.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} In 2012, Ingraham was rated as the No. 5 radio show in America by ''[[Talkers Magazine]]''.<ref>[http://www.talkers.com/top-talk-radio-audiences Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527181136/http://www.talkers.com/top-talk-radio-audiences/ |date=May 27, 2012 }}, Talkers.com; accessed April 28, 2014.</ref> In November 2012, she announced her departure from Talk Radio Network, declining to renew her contract with TRN after nearly a decade of being associated with the network. She was the second major host from TRN's lineup to leave the network that year: TRN's other major program, ''[[The Savage Nation]]'', left TRN two months earlier. Her new program, syndicated by Courtside Entertainment Group, began airing on January 2, 2013, and went off the air in December 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/laura-ingraham-radio-return_n_2295796.html|title=Laura Ingraham Returns To Radio January 2|work=[[HuffPost]]|date=December 13, 2012|access-date=October 15, 2013|archive-date=December 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216053713/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/laura-ingraham-radio-return_n_2295796.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham continues to produce podcast material for Courtside's [[PodcastOne]] division.<ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/172013/laura-ingraham-to-end-syndicated-show-move-to-podcastone/ "Laura Ingraham To End Syndicated Show; Move To PodcastOne"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705144604/https://radioinsight.com/headlines/172013/laura-ingraham-to-end-syndicated-show-move-to-podcastone/ |date=July 5, 2019 }} from Radio Insight (November 14, 2018)</ref> ===LifeZette=== {{main|LifeZette}} LifeZette is a conservative American website founded in 2015 by Ingraham and businessman Peter Anthony.<ref name=vanityfair>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/spicer-white-house-lifezette |title=WITH ONE WORD, SPICER FLIPS THE WHITE HOUSE MEDIA ORDER |date=January 25, 2017 |publisher=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |access-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924124844/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/spicer-white-house-lifezette |url-status=live }}</ref> In January 2018, Ingraham confirmed that she had sold the majority stake in LifeZette to The Katz Group, owned by Canadian billionaire [[Daryl Katz]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/30/media/daryl-katz-laura-ingraham-lifezette/index.html|title=Canadian billionaire's company buys Laura Ingraham's site LifeZette|last=Gold|first=Hadas|date=January 30, 2018|website=[[CNN Business]]|access-date=December 13, 2018|archive-date=December 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218212727/https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/30/media/daryl-katz-laura-ingraham-lifezette/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> == Books == [[File:Laura Ingraham.jpg|thumb|Ingraham at a book signing in 2007]] * ''The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places'', first published June 2000 and updated in 2005, accuses [[Hillary Clinton]] of being a faux [[feminist]]<ref>[[Mary McGrory]], "The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places", ''Washington Monthly,'' Vol. 32, No. 6 (June 2000), p. 51.</ref> whose "[[Liberalism|liberal]] feminism has created a culture that rewards dependency, encourages fragmentation, undermines families, and celebrates victimhood".<ref>Cynthia Harrison, "The Hillary Trap: Women Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places", ''Library Journal'', Vol. 125 No. 12 (July 2000), p. 119.<!-- ISBN/ISSN needed --></ref> * ''[[Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America]]'', published October 25, 2003, decries liberal elites in politics, the media, academia, arts and entertainment, business, and international organizations, and praises Middle Americans as "the kind of people who are the lifeblood of healthy democratic societies".<ref>Kathryn Jean Lopez, "Books in Brief", ''National Review'', Vol. 55, No. 21 (November 10, 2003), p. 51.</ref> * ''[[Power to the People (book)|Power to the People]]'', a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' number one best seller,<ref name="Arave">{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20071012/ai_n21051734/ |title=Author brings 'Power' to Utah |last=Arave |first=Lynn |date=October 12, 2007 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |access-date=July 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812163527/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20071012/ai_n21051734/ |archive-date=August 12, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Clapp">{{cite web|url=http://www.clapplibrary.org/new_york_times_best_seller_list.htm|title=New York Times Best Seller List|date=September 30, 2007|publisher=Clapp Library|access-date=July 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720152943/http://www.clapplibrary.org/new_york_times_best_seller_list.htm|archive-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> published September 11, 2007, focuses on what Ingraham calls the "pornification" of America and stresses the importance of popular participation in culture, promoting conservative values in family life, education and patriotism.<ref>{{cite news |title=The life of Laura Ingraham: How a young conservative became a national figure, then a Fox News firebrand |url=https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/the-life-of-laura-ingraham-how-a-young-conservative-became-a-national-figure-then-a-fox-news-firebrand/slidelist/74746567.cms#slideid=74746601 |access-date=21 January 2025 |work=Business Insider |language=en}}</ref> * ''[[The Obama Diaries]]'', a ''New York Times'' number one best seller,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/books/bestseller/besthardnonfiction.html|work=[[The New York Times]] |title=Hardcover Nonfiction|date=August 1, 2010|first=Jennifer|last=Schuessler}}</ref> published July 13, 2010, is a fictional collection of diary entries purportedly made by President [[Barack Obama]], which Ingraham uses satirically to criticize Obama, his family, and [[Obama administration|his administration]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Laura Ingraham takes aim in 'The Obama Diaries' |date=July 12, 2010 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38211169|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715051356/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38211169/ns/today-books|archive-date=July 15, 2010|publisher=[[MSNBC]] |url-status=live |access-date=July 13, 2010}}</ref> * ''Of Thee I Zing'', a ''New York Times'' best seller,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-07-31/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Hardcover Nonfiction|date=July 31, 2011|first=Jennifer|last=Schuessler|access-date=February 10, 2017|archive-date=May 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160502203821/http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-07-31/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html|url-status=live}}</ref> published July 12, 2011, is a collection of humorous anecdotes meant to point out the decline of American culture, from muffin tops to body shots. * ''Billionaire at the Barricades'', published 2017, explains the 2016 election victory of [[Donald Trump]] as the continuation of a populist revolution, initiated by [[Ronald Reagan]], with [[working class]] support. == Political views == Ingraham has been described as reactionary,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=David |date=2025-04-07 |title=I Should Have Seen This Coming |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-populism-power-pursuit/682116/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=The Atlantic |language=en |issn=2151-9463}}</ref> "no stranger to generating controversy" by ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Steinberg |first=Brian |date=March 29, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham Apologizes for Tweet as Advertisers Raise Concerns |language=en-US |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/laura-ingraham-apologizes-parkland-advertising-1202739384/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416073627/http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/laura-ingraham-apologizes-parkland-advertising-1202739384/ |archive-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref> and as a "name-brand provocateur" by ''[[Politico]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The New Conservative Media Establishment |work=[[Politico| Politico Magazine]] |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/27/the-new-conservative-media-establishment-218107 |url-status=live |access-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427123459/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/27/the-new-conservative-media-establishment-218107 |archive-date=April 27, 2018}}</ref> ''[[Business Insider]]'' has referred to Ingraham's on-air style as "wad[ing] into debates on racism and gun violence".<ref name="BI controversy">{{cite web |last=Relman |first=Eliza |date=March 30, 2018 |title=Fox News host Laura Ingraham has waded into two huge cultural controversies recently, and her attacks have backfired |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/laura-ingraham-fox-news-racism-gun-violence-2018-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416134903/http://www.businessinsider.com/laura-ingraham-fox-news-racism-gun-violence-2018-3 |archive-date=April 16, 2018 |access-date=April 15, 2018 |website=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref> Ingraham has said that her influences include [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Robert Bork]], and [[Pat Buchanan]].<ref name=":2">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/business/media/laura-ingraham-fox-news.html |title=Laura Ingraham Is Ready to Rev Up Fox News |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 8, 2018 |access-date=October 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017005039/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/business/media/laura-ingraham-fox-news.html |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> === Homosexuality === In her senior year at [[Dartmouth College]], during her tenure as editor-in-chief of independent campus newspaper ''[[The Dartmouth Review]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/dartmouth-review-celebrates-25-years/31813|title=Dartmouth Review Celebrates 25 Years|last=Shapiro|first=Gary|date=April 28, 2006|work=[[The New York Sun]]|access-date=June 24, 2008|quote="The Review made me who I am", the radio host and former editor-in-chief of the Review, Laura Ingraham '85, said.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203020035/http://www.nysun.com/arts/dartmouth-review-celebrates-25-years/31813/|archive-date=February 3, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham wrote several controversial articles. She sent a reporter undercover in 1984 to a campus [[LGBTQ|Gay Students Association]] meeting, and later received criticism when, despite an oath of confidentiality being read to participants,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/16/us/dartmouth-group-privacy-battle-concord-nh-july-15-ap-student-reporter-s-taping.html|title=DARTMOUTH GROUP IN PRIVACY BATTLE|location=Concord, New Hampshire|quote=A student reporter's taping of a Gay Students Association meeting and the publication of excerpts in an unofficial Dartmouth College newspaper have stirred a dispute over privacy rights and freedom of the press|date=July 16, 1984|work=[[The New York Times]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|access-date=March 29, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330012409/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/16/us/dartmouth-group-privacy-battle-concord-nh-july-15-ap-student-reporter-s-taping.html|archive-date=March 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham published a transcript of the meeting and included the names of the attendees, describing them as "cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites".<ref name=":0" /><ref name="oconnor">{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-oconnor/laura-ingraham-right-wing_b_106034.html|title=Laura Ingraham: Right-Wing Radio's High Priestess of Hate|last1=O'Connor|first1=Rory|date=June 10, 2008|website=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=June 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128044014/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-oconnor/laura-ingraham-right-wing_b_106034.html|archive-date=January 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham argued that confidentiality did not apply because the meeting had been advertised, and defended the [[outing]] of the gay students as a "freedom of the press issue".<ref name=":0" /> [[Jeffrey Hart]], the faculty adviser for ''The Dartmouth Review'', described Ingraham as having "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable", and said "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual".<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|first=Maura|last=Henninger |date=May 8, 1997|url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/1997/05/ingraham-85-renounces-intolerance/|title=Ingraham '85 renounces intolerance|work=[[The Dartmouth]]|access-date=March 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329185031/http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/1997/05/ingraham-85-renounces-intolerance/|archive-date=March 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Carlson">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/04/14/time/carlson.html|title=Only In My Backyard|last=Carlson|first=Margaret|date=April 21, 1997|website=[[CNN]]|author-link=Margaret Carlson|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720204149/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/04/14/time/carlson.html|archive-date=July 20, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1997, Ingraham wrote an essay in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in which she stated that she had changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother, Curtis, and his partner coped with the latter being diagnosed with [[AIDS]]; Curtis's partner ultimately died of the disease. Ingraham has stated that she supports [[civil unions]] between same-sex partners, but believes marriage "is between a man and a woman".<ref>{{cite episode|title=Civil Unions Vs Marriage: Laura Ingraham Weighs In|url=http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/2013/5/24/civil-unions-vs-marriage-laura-ingraham-weighs-0_ficgcth9|series=Larry King Now|series-link=Larry King Now|network=[[Ora TV]]|air-date=May 24, 2013|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909122715/http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/2013/5/24/civil-unions-vs-marriage-laura-ingraham-weighs-0_ficgcth9|archive-date=September 9, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> === Immigration and race === Ingraham is a frequent critic of immigration and has expressed anti-immigration views.<ref>{{cite news|first=Krissah|last=Thompson|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/laura-ingraham-was-trump-before-trump-but-is-she-made-for-tv/2017/10/24/d1481916-b50e-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html|title=Laura Ingraham was 'Trump before Trump.' But is she made for TV?|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|language=en|date=October 25, 2017|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731093239/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/laura-ingraham-was-trump-before-trump-but-is-she-made-for-tv/2017/10/24/d1481916-b50e-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Durkin |first1=Erin |title=Laura Ingraham condemned after saying immigrants destroy 'the America we love' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/09/laura-ingraham-fox-news-attacks-immigrants |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=August 9, 2018 |language=en |access-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102182445/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/09/laura-ingraham-fox-news-attacks-immigrants |archive-date=January 2, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> She opposed the proposed bipartisan [[Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013|2013 US Senate comprehensive immigration reform plan]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Peters |first=Jeremy W. |date=February 15, 2018 |title=Trump Gets What He Wants in Immigration Debate: Quiet on the Right |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/politics/conservatives-immigration-trump.html |url-status=live |access-date=March 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330150530/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/politics/conservatives-immigration-trump.html |archive-date=March 30, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2014, Ingraham said that allowing more immigrant workers to come to the United States would be "obscene to the American experience".<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Topaz |first=Jonathan |date=May 20, 2014 |title=Ingraham fights 'whining' Norquist |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/laura-ingraham-grover-norquist-immigration-whining-argue-radio-106892 |url-status=live |access-date=March 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330080428/https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/laura-ingraham-grover-norquist-immigration-whining-argue-radio-106892 |archive-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref> In 2014, she denounced House Majority Leader [[Eric Cantor]] after he expressed support for the [[DREAM Act]] and a GOP bill to grant a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/What-Happened-to-the-Republican-Party-And-What-It-Means-for-American/White/p/book/9781612059228|title=What Happened to the Republican Party?: And What It Means for American Presidential Politics|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=New York City|pages=6–7|language=en|access-date=July 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731111643/https://www.routledge.com/What-Happened-to-the-Republican-Party-And-What-It-Means-for-American/White/p/book/9781612059228|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> At the time, Cantor faced a primary challenge from [[Dave Brat]], which he would go on to lose.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Matt K.|last=Lewis|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/451776/did-laura-ingraham-take-down-eric-cantor|title=Did Laura Ingraham take down Eric Cantor?|work=[[The Week (magazine)|The Week]]|date=June 12, 2014|access-date=July 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731093126/http://theweek.com/speedreads/451776/did-laura-ingraham-take-down-eric-cantor|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/us/dave-brat-was-aided-by-laura-ingraham.html|title=Potent Voices of Conservative Media Propelled Cantor Opponent|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 11, 2014 |access-date=July 31, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813122815/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/us/dave-brat-was-aided-by-laura-ingraham.html|archive-date=August 13, 2018|url-status=live|last1=Peters |first1=Jeremy W. }}</ref> According to ''The New York Times'', "Few people did more than Ms. Ingraham to propel Mr. Brat ... from obscurity to [[national conservative]] hero."<ref name=":7" /> Ingraham said the race would go "down as one of the most significant repudiations of establishment immigration reform that I've seen in my 20 years of doing politics",<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/laura-ingraham-eric-cantor-david-brat-immigration_n_5483825.html|title=Laura Ingraham Celebrates Eric Cantor's Defeat, Blames Immigration Reform|last=Mirkinson|first=Jack|date=June 11, 2014|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=July 31, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129201311/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/laura-ingraham-eric-cantor-david-brat-immigration_n_5483825.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and that due to the outcome of the race, "immigration reform is DOA".<ref>{{Cite news|first=Dylan|last=Byers|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/eric-cantor-laura-ingraham-107743|title=Right-wing radio's win|work=[[Politico]]|date=June 11, 2014|access-date=July 31, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731093238/https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/eric-cantor-laura-ingraham-107743|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> That same year, Ingraham harshly criticized Republican congresswoman [[Renee Ellmers]] for expressing support for a comprehensive immigration bill which included a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who were in the country at the time.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/08/this-southern-republican-backed-immigration-reform-and-lived-to-tell-about-it|title=This Southern Republican Backed Immigration Reform and Lived to Tell About It|last=Murphy|first=Patricia|date=May 8, 2014|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=July 31, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|first=Tal|last=Opan|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/renee-ellmers-laura-ingraham-104632|title=Ellmers: Ingraham's 'ignorant' stand|work=[[Politico]]|date=March 13, 2014|access-date=July 31, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731093152/https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/renee-ellmers-laura-ingraham-104632|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In an interview with Ellmers, Ingraham accused her of supporting amnesty and using liberal talking points, and said her arguments were "infuriating to my listeners".<ref name=":8" /> In September 2014, Ingraham claimed that then-President [[Barack Obama]] sent assistance to Africa during the [[Western African Ebola virus epidemic|2014 Ebola outbreak]] and exposed Americans to the virus because of his guilt over "[[colonialism]]".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/sunday-review/the-ebola-conspiracy-theories.html|title=The Ebola Conspiracy Theories|last=Feuer|first=Alan|date=October 18, 2014|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 16, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=May 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501234913/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/sunday-review/the-ebola-conspiracy-theories.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2017, amid reports that Trump was considering an agreement with Democrats on amnesty for approximately 800,000 DREAMers, Ingraham criticized him, tweeting "When does American working class w/out real wage increase in 15yrs & who send their kids to overcrowded public schools get amnesty?"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/350631-laura-ingraham-scolds-trump-when-does-american-working-class-get-amnesty/|title=Laura Ingraham scolds Trump: 'When does American working class' get amnesty?|last=Balluck|first=Kyle|date=September 14, 2017|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=July 31, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731031822/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/350631-laura-ingraham-scolds-trump-when-does-american-working-class-get-amnesty|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In July 2018, Ingraham harshly criticized Republican congressman [[Kevin Yoder]] after he expressed support for a Democratic bill that rolled back Attorney General [[Jeff Sessions]]' order that immigration judges not be allowed to grant asylum to [[asylum seeker]]s fleeing [[Domestic violence|domestic abuse]] or [[Gang|gang violence]] in their home country.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|first=Lindsay|last=Wise|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article215656440.html|title=After right slams Yoder on immigration, he pledges to work with Trump to 'fix this'|work=[[The Kansas City Star]]|date=July 30, 2018|access-date=July 30, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730235220/https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article215656440.html|archive-date=July 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She called on the congressman "to stop selling out the Trump agenda".<ref name=":6" /> In February 2018, Ingraham said [[NBA]] players [[LeBron James]] and [[Kevin Durant]] should "[[Stick to sports|shut up and dribble]]" after James called comments by Trump "laughable and scary".<ref name="dribble">{{Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Emily |date=February 19, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham told LeBron James to Shut Up and Dribble; He Went to the Hoop |work=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/19/587097707/laura-ingraham-told-lebron-james-to-shutup-and-dribble-he-went-to-the-hoop |url-status=live |access-date=March 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330234442/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/19/587097707/laura-ingraham-told-lebron-james-to-shutup-and-dribble-he-went-to-the-hoop |archive-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref> When her statement was criticized, Ingraham said there was no racial intent in her remarks and cited her 2003 book [[Shut Up & Sing (book)|''Shut Up & Sing'']] and other instances when she had said performers should "shut up" about politics.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jon|last=Levine|date=February 16, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham Slammed After Calling LeBron James 'Ignorant' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/laura-ingraham-under-fire-after-telling-lebron-james-to-shut-up-and-dribble/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127022808/https://www.thewrap.com/laura-ingraham-under-fire-after-telling-lebron-james-to-shut-up-and-dribble/ |archive-date=November 27, 2018 |access-date=January 29, 2019 |website=[[The Wrap]]}}</ref><ref name="dribble" /><ref name=":10">{{cite news |first=Des|last=Bieler|title=LeBron James turns 'Shut up and dribble' insult into title of Showtime series |language=en |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/08/07/lebron-james-turns-shut-up-and-dribble-insult-into-title-of-showtime-series/ |date=August 7, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=August 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808123634/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/08/07/lebron-james-turns-shut-up-and-dribble-insult-into-title-of-showtime-series/ |archive-date=August 8, 2018}}</ref> In 2020, when [[Drew Brees]], a white athlete, criticized [[U.S. national anthem kneeling protests|protesters who kneeled during the U.S. national anthem]], Ingraham was criticized for supporting his statements, which she had not done in the earlier case with the African-American athletes.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bieler |first=Des |date=June 4, 2020 |title=Lebron James Calls Out Laura Ingraham over Drew Brees |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/04/lebron-james-calls-out-laura-ingraham-over-drew-brees/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605034117/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/04/lebron-james-calls-out-laura-ingraham-over-drew-brees/ |archive-date=June 5, 2020}}</ref> Ingraham defended the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]]'s "zero-tolerance" [[Trump administration family separation policy|family separation policy]] for children of illegal immigrants, and in a June 18, 2018, broadcast compared the children's facilities to "summer camps" that "resemble boarding schools".<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|first=David|last=Choi|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/laura-ingraham-goes-to-summer-camp-detention-facility-migrant-2018-6|title=Laura Ingraham compared migrant child detention centers to 'summer camps' as the Trump administration faces escalating blowback over family separation policy|work=[[Business Insider]]|date=June 18, 2018|access-date=June 19, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113035555/https://www.businessinsider.com/laura-ingraham-goes-to-summer-camp-detention-facility-migrant-2018-6?r=UK|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/392922-laura-ingraham-describes-child-detention-centers-as-essentially-summer-camps/|title=Laura Ingraham: Migrant child detention centers 'essentially summer camps'|last=Anapol|first=Avery|date=June 18, 2018|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=June 19, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619024815/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/392922-laura-ingraham-describes-child-detention-centers-as-essentially-summer-camps|archive-date=June 19, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-immigrant-summer-camp_us_5b28b769e4b0f0b9e9a4840c|title=Laura Ingraham Compares Child Immigrant Detention Centers To Summer Camps|last=Frej|first=Willa|date=June 19, 2018|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=June 19, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620012239/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-immigrant-summer-camp_us_5b28b769e4b0f0b9e9a4840c|archive-date=June 20, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She further described criticism of the policy as "faux liberal outrage".<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-immigrant-kids-detention-centers-essentially-summer-camps|title=Laura Ingraham: Immigrant Kids' Detention Centers 'Essentially Summer Camps'|last=Wilstein|first=Matt|date=June 19, 2018|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=June 19, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621083637/https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-immigrant-kids-detention-centers-essentially-summer-camps|archive-date=June 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham had referred to the border crossings as "slow-rolling invasion of the United States".<ref>{{Cite news|first=Matthew|last=Nussbaum|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/trump-border-children-inflammatory-rhetoric-655479|title=Trump leans on inflammatory rhetoric to defend border separation|work=[[Politico]]|date=June 19, 2018|access-date=October 17, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018003023/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/trump-border-children-inflammatory-rhetoric-655479|archive-date=October 18, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[School shooting]] survivor and activist [[David Hogg]], who had led a previous campaign to pressure advertisers to leave ''The Ingraham Angle'', called for a second boycott, but advertisers interviewed by ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' on June 19 did not plan to leave the show.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Jeremy |date=June 19, 2018 |title=Amid Social Media Backlash, Fox News' Laura Ingraham Faces No Advertiser Boycott |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/fox-news-laura-ingraham-faces-no-advertiser-boycott-social-media-backlash-1121431/ |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Wootson| first=Cleve R. Jr. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/06/19/fox-news-laura-ingraham-says-immigrant-child-detention-centers-are-essentially-summer-camps/?noredirect=on|title=Fox News's Laura Ingraham says immigrant child detention centers are 'essentially summer camps'|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 20, 2018|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701030917/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/06/19/fox-news-laura-ingraham-says-immigrant-child-detention-centers-are-essentially-summer-camps/?noredirect=on|archive-date=July 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/393160-foxs-ingraham-sees-no-advertiser-boycott-despite-outrage-over-child-migrant/|title=Fox's Ingraham Sees No Advertiser Boycott despite Outrage over Child Migrant Comment|last1=Concha|first1=Joe|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|date=June 19, 2018|access-date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011359/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/393160-foxs-ingraham-sees-no-advertiser-boycott-despite-outrage-over-child-migrant|archive-date=October 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> ==== Speculation on promoting the "Great Replacement" theory ==== {{See also|Great Replacement|Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the United States}} Ingraham has objected to the changing racial [[demographics of The United States]].<ref name="Esquire">{{cite magazine|first=Jack|last=Holmes|url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22685107/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism-fox-news-tucker-carlson/|title=Fox News Now Airs Unabashed White Nationalism in Primetime|date=August 9, 2018|magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014230256/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22685107/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism-fox-news-tucker-carlson/|archive-date=October 14, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Natalie|last=Gontcharova|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/laura-ingraham-goes-white-nationalist-184800214.html|title=Laura Ingraham Goes On White Nationalist Rant About Immigrants|date=August 9, 2018|website=[[Yahoo News]]|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811195738/https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/laura-ingraham-goes-white-nationalist-184800214.html|archive-date=August 11, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Greg|last=Price|url=https://www.newsweek.com/ingraham-race-charged-fox-warned-1066570|title=Laura Ingraham Airs Racially Charged Segment After Fox President Reportedly Warned Producers About Content|date=August 9, 2018|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023005815/https://www.newsweek.com/ingraham-race-charged-fox-warned-1066570|archive-date=October 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2018, she stated "some parts of the country it does seem like the America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people. And they're changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like... much of this is related to both [[illegal immigration|illegal]] and, in some cases, [[Immigration to the United States|legal immigration]] that, of course, [[progressivism|progressives]] love."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-immigration-rant_us_5b6bbfd7e4b0bdd0620646fa|title=Laura Ingraham Targets Even Legal Immigrants In Off-The-Rails Rant|last=Mazza|first=Ed|date=August 9, 2018|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=August 9, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809122555/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-immigration-rant_us_5b6bbfd7e4b0bdd0620646fa|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/401044-laura-ingraham-america-as-we-know-it-doesnt-exist-anymore-due-to-demographic/|title=Laura Ingraham: America as we know it doesn't exist anymore due to 'demographic changes'|last=Samuels|first=Brett|date=August 9, 2018|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=August 9, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809144532/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/401044-laura-ingraham-america-as-we-know-it-doesnt-exist-anymore-due-to-demographic|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Various commentators criticized Ingraham's comments, with ''[[The Atlantic]]'' claiming she was alluding to the U.S. becoming "less and less white with every passing year".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/laura-ingrahams-loss-of-love-for-america/567122/|title=Laura Ingraham Doesn't Love Her Country Anymore|last=Friedersdorf|first=Conor|date=August 9, 2018|work=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=August 9, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809141526/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/laura-ingrahams-loss-of-love-for-america/567122/|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Many outlets argued that it echoed [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] rhetoric or that itself constituted a "white nationalist rant".<ref name="Esquire" /><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite news|first=Jack|last=Holmes|url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22685107/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism-fox-news-tucker-carlson/|title=Fox News Now Airs Unabashed White Nationalism in Primetime|date=August 9, 2018|work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|access-date=August 9, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809163151/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22685107/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism-fox-news-tucker-carlson/|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Philip|last=Bump|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/09/laura-ingrahams-immigration-comments-are-different-words-for-the-same-trump-era-rhetoric/|title=Analysis {{!}} Laura Ingraham's immigration comments are different words for the same Trump-era rhetoric|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 9, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809164942/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/09/laura-ingrahams-immigration-comments-are-different-words-for-the-same-trump-era-rhetoric/|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=August 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/09/media/fox-news-laura-ingraham-tucker-carlson-white-nationalism/index.html|title=White anxiety finds a home at Fox News|first1=Tom|last1=Kludt|first2=Brian|last2=Stelter|work=[[CNN Business]]|date= August 9, 2018|access-date=August 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810041815/https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/09/media/fox-news-laura-ingraham-tucker-carlson-white-nationalism/index.html|archive-date=August 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham's comments were endorsed by white supremacist and former [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansman]] [[David Duke]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Maglio |first=Tony |url=https://www.thewrap.com/david-duke-laura-ingraham-ku-klux-klan-immigration-monologue/ |title=David Duke Endorsed Laura Ingraham's Anti-Immigration Monologue |work=[[The Wrap]] |date=August 9, 2018 |access-date=October 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002125406/https://www.thewrap.com/david-duke-laura-ingraham-ku-klux-klan-immigration-monologue/ |archive-date=October 2, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Jack|last=Holmes|url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22685107/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism-fox-news-tucker-carlson/ |title=Fox News' Laura Ingraham Airs White Nationalist Rant About 'Changing Demographics' Destroying America |work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |date=August 9, 2018 |access-date=October 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014230256/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22685107/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism-fox-news-tucker-carlson/ |archive-date=October 14, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Sara|last=Beboltz|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism_us_5b6c5728e4b0bdd0620727b1 |title=Laura Ingraham Has Been Peddling White Nationalism For Years: A Reminder |work=[[Huffington Post]] |date=August 9, 2018 |access-date=October 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018030802/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-white-nationalism_us_5b6c5728e4b0bdd0620727b1 |archive-date=October 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In response, Ingraham called Duke a "racist freak whose name I won't even mention".<ref>{{cite news |first=Chris|last=Riotta|title=Laura Ingraham slams 'racist freak' and white nationalists after comments spark immigration controversy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-ingraham-racist-immigration-fox-news-scandal-merit-based-donald-trump-a8486596.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=August 10, 2018 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830100527/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-ingraham-racist-immigration-fox-news-scandal-merit-based-donald-trump-a8486596.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Some mainstream media described Ingraham's views as advocating the [[white genocide conspiracy theory]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-duke-praises-laura-ingrahams-anti-immigrant-rant-one-of-the-most-important-monologues-in-history|title=Laura Ingraham's Anti-Immigrant Rant Was So Racist It Was Endorsed by Ex-KKK Leader David Duke|date=August 9, 2018|website=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202123915/https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-duke-praises-laura-ingrahams-anti-immigrant-rant-one-of-the-most-important-monologues-in-history|archive-date=December 2, 2018|url-status=live|first1=Timothy|last1=Burke|first2=Kelly|last2=Weill}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Luke|last=O'Neill|url=http://observer.com/2018/08/laura-ingraham-anti-immigration-rant-mainstream/|title=Laura Ingraham Isn't an Outlier, She's the Mainstream|date=August 10, 2018|newspaper=[[The New York Observer]]|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108224611/https://observer.com/2018/08/laura-ingraham-anti-immigration-rant-mainstream/|archive-date=November 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In her August 9, 2018 ''Ingraham Angle'' monologue, Ingraham stated she was not talking about "race or ethnicity" and went on to say, "There is something slipping away in this country and it's not about race or ethnicity. It's what was once a common understanding by both parties that American citizenship is a privilege, and one that at a minimum requires respect for the rule of law and loyalty to our constitution."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/laura-ingraham-blasted-rant-demographic-changes-us-dont-like/|title=Laura Ingraham Blasted for Rant About 'Demographic Changes' That 'Most of Us Don't Like'|last=Levine|first=Jon|date=August 9, 2018|website=[[The Wrap]]|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810221556/https://www.thewrap.com/laura-ingraham-blasted-rant-demographic-changes-us-dont-like/|archive-date=August 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2018, Ingraham urged her audience to vote Republican in the upcoming [[U.S. Senate election, 2018|midterm elections]], saying that Democrats "want to replace you, the American voters, with newly [[Amnesty|amnestied]] citizens and an ever-increasing number of [[chain migration|chain migrants]]."<ref name=":14">{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-gop-midterms-immigrants_us_5bc6d489e4b055bc947b6d7d|title=Laura Ingraham: Vote GOP Or Democrats Will Replace You With Immigrants|last=Moran|first=Lee|date=October 17, 2018|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=October 17, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017180801/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-gop-midterms-immigrants_us_5bc6d489e4b055bc947b6d7d|archive-date=October 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In May 2019, Ingraham showed a graphic on her show of "prominent voices censored on social media", which included "people who believe in border enforcement, people who believe in national sovereignty." Among those listed was [[Paul Nehlen]], known for making numerous [[anti-Semitic]] remarks, who was banned from [[Twitter]] after making racist remarks about [[Meghan Markle]], the wife of [[Prince Harry]].<ref>{{Cite news|first=Michael|last=Brice-Saddler|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/01/laura-ingraham-promoted-white-supremacist-her-show-least-one-advertiser-is-pulling-out/|title=Laura Ingraham promoted a white supremacist on her show. At least one advertiser is pulling out.|date=May 31, 2019|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|archive-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605192520/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/01/laura-ingraham-promoted-white-supremacist-her-show-least-one-advertiser-is-pulling-out/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/media/laura-ingraham-paul-nehlen-extremists/index.html|title=Fox News stands by Laura Ingraham after she defends white supremacist, other extremists on her prime time show|first=Oliver|last=Darcy|website=[[CNN]]|date=May 31, 2019|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605193927/https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/media/laura-ingraham-paul-nehlen-extremists/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2019, she spread unsubstantiated claims that asylum seekers to the United States may carry the [[Ebola virus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/448197-ebola-outbreak-in-africa-spreads-fake-news-in-america/|title=Ebola outbreak in Africa spreads fake news in America|last=Swanson|first=Ian|date=June 12, 2019|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en|access-date=June 16, 2019|archive-date=June 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616175945/https://thehill.com/policy/international/448197-ebola-outbreak-in-africa-spreads-fake-news-in-america|url-status=live}}</ref> === Economics === Ingraham has supported [[deregulation]] and has spoken against [[trial lawyers|lawsuits]].<ref name=":13">{{Cite news |first=Cleve R. Jr. |last=Wootson |date=February 10, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham gave a keynote speech for La. business leaders. It did not go over well. |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/02/10/laura-ingraham-gave-a-keynote-speech-for-la-business-leaders-it-did-not-go-over-well/ |access-date=October 9, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In 2021 Ingraham suggested getting rid of [[unemployment benefits]] for people capable of work.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zorrilla |first=Mónica Marie |date=August 13, 2021 |title='Bar Rescue' Host Jon Taffer Apologizes After Fox News Interview Comparing Out-Of-Work Employees to Hungry Dogs |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/bar-rescue-host-jon-taffer-apologizes-fox-news-laura-ingraham-1235041545/ |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=David|last=Moye|date=August 13, 2021 |title=Laura Ingraham And Jon Taffer Suggest Treating Workers Like Hungry Dogs |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-jon-taffer-workers-hungry-dogs_n_6116a206e4b07c140314a6a2 |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=[[Huffington Post]] |language=en}}</ref> In September 2022, Ingraham criticized the [[Biden administration]]'s student loan forgiveness program, stating that her mother worked as a waitress until she was 73 to pay for Ingraham's loans. Ingraham was criticized on Twitter with some asking why she let her mother work into her 70s to pay her debt, while she had held a number of high-paying positions in government, law and the media.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gomez |first=Dessi |date=April 28, 2022 |title=Laura Ingraham Scorched for Saying Her Mom Worked Until 73 to Pay Off the Fox News Host's College Debt |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/laura-ingraham-scorched-saying-her-204346715.html |access-date=April 29, 2022 |website=[[The Wrap]] |language=en-US}}</ref> ===Foreign policy === Ingraham advocated for the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. However, during the [[2016 Republican Party presidential primaries]], she said she considered the Iraq war a mistake, and criticized "[[Bush Doctrine|Bushism]]" as Trump ran against [[Jeb Bush]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Mark Antonio |last=Wright |date=May 16, 2016 |title=Show a Little Charity, Laura Ingraham |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/05/laura-ingraham-iraq-war-she-sides-leftists-now/ |access-date=September 24, 2022 |website=[[National Review]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brigham |first=Bob |date=January 8, 2020 |title=Ingraham warns Trump to ignore advice from those who advocated for the Iraq War, like herself |url=https://www.salon.com/2020/01/08/laura-ingraham-warns-trump-on-fox-news-to-never-listen-to-people-like-herself_partner/ |access-date=September 24, 2022 |website=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |language=en}}</ref> In August 2019, Ingraham condemned China's "brutal violation of basic human rights" and China's [[Xinjiang internment camps]] for [[Muslim]] ethnic minority groups.<ref>{{cite news |title=Laura Ingraham: Bernie Sanders has 'soft spot' for 'Chinese thugs' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/ingraham-blasts-sanders-for-praising-china |work=[[Fox News]] |date=August 30, 2019 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830095028/https://www.foxnews.com/media/ingraham-blasts-sanders-for-praising-china |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=China committing 'crimes against humanity' in Xinjiang: report|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/China-committing-crimes-against-humanity-in-Xinjiang-report|access-date=June 17, 2021|website=Nikkei Asia|language=en-GB}}</ref> Ingraham is a supporter of [[Israel]], which she called "one of our closest allies". She criticized [[Ilhan Omar]]'s description of Israel as an [[apartheid]] regime.<ref>{{cite news |title=Laura Ingraham: Nancy Pelosi has her hands full with the freshman insurrection on Capitol Hill |url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/laura-ingraham-nancy-pelosi-has-her-hands-full-with-the-freshman-insurrection-on-capitol-hill |work=[[Fox News]] |date=November 14, 2019 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830095027/https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/laura-ingraham-nancy-pelosi-has-her-hands-full-with-the-freshman-insurrection-on-capitol-hill |url-status=live }}</ref> === Donald Trump === Ingraham is known for her strong support for [[Donald Trump]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kludt |first=Tom |title=Fox News host Laura Ingraham apologizes for mocking David Hogg |work=[[CNN Business]] |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=March 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329195103/http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html |archive-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref> During his first presidency, she acted as an informal advisor to the administration, flouting journalistic ethical norms.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Windolf |first1=Jim |last2=Koblin |first2=John |date=December 15, 2021 |title=Fox News Hosts Take the Offensive About Texts to Meadows |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/business/media/fox-news-trump-january-6.html |access-date=December 16, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2016 after Trump became the Republican nominee Ingraham expressed support for Trump during her speech at the [[Republican National Committee]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kopan |first=Tal |date=July 21, 2016 |title=Laura Ingraham rocks the GOP convention, presses for unity behind Trump|website=[[CNN Politics]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/laura-ingraham-donald-trump-media/index.html |access-date=September 24, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> In June 2019, Ingraham mocked reports that Trump had delayed his participation in [[D-Day]] commemoration activities to sit for an interview with her, strongly dismissing them as "patently false—[[fake news]]", despite video of the interview showing Trump saying, "These people are so amazing, and what they don't realize is that I'm holding them up because of this interview, but that's because it's you."<ref>{{cite web |last=Rupar |first=Aaron |date=June 7, 2019 |title=Watch Laura Ingraham tell her audience to disbelieve something Trump just told her |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/6/7/18656564/ingraham-trump-d-day-ceremony-normandy-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607230227/https://www.vox.com/2019/6/7/18656564/ingraham-trump-d-day-ceremony-normandy-interview |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=June 7, 2019 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref> ==== January 6 United States Capitol attack conspiracy theories ==== {{See also|January 6 United States Capitol attack|QAnon}} Following the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|attack on the United States Capitol]] by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, Ingraham was among those who advanced the conspiracy theory that people associated with [[antifa (United States)|antifa]] were responsible.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zadrozny |first1=Brandy |author-link1=Brandy Zadrozny |last2=Collins |first2=Ben |date=January 7, 2021 |title=Trump loyalists push evidence-free claims that antifa activists fueled mob |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-loyalists-push-evidence-free-claims-antifa-activists-fueled-mob-n1253176 |access-date=January 7, 2021 |website=[[NBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Armus |first=Teo |date=January 7, 2021 |title=Rep. Matt Gaetz and other GOP politicians baselessly suggest antifa is to blame for pro-Trump mob rioting into Capitol |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/07/antifa-capitol-gaetz-trump-riot/ |access-date=January 7, 2021}}</ref> During the attack, she had texted Trump's Chief of Staff, [[Mark Meadows]], "Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |date=December 13, 2021 |title=Fox News hosts urged Meadows to have Trump stop Jan. 6 violence, texts show |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/12/13/fox-ingraham-hannity-kilmeade-jan-6-trump-texts |access-date=December 15, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 13, 2021 |title=Rep. Liz Cheney read text messages she said Mark Meadows got during the Jan. 6 siege |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/12/13/1063955835/rep-liz-cheney-read-text-messages-she-said-mark-meadows-got-during-the-jan-6-sie |access-date=December 15, 2021 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref> However, she downplayed Trump supporter involvement that evening on ''Ingraham Angle'', stating, "They were likely not all Trump supporters. I have never seen Trump rally attendees wearing helmets, black helmets, brown helmets, black backpacks — the uniforms you saw in some of these crowd shots."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |date=January 7, 2021 |title='Not all Trump supporters': Conservative media tries to shift blame, cast doubt on identities of Capitol invaders |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/01/07/conservative-media-capitol-breach-reaction-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity |access-date=December 15, 2021}}</ref> She later ridiculed four members of the Capitol Police and D.C. Police who had responded to the insurrection, after they testified to House lawmakers on July 27, 2021.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roche |first1=Darragh |date=July 28, 2021 |title=Laura Ingraham Mocks Police Testimony on January 6 With 'Best Performance' Awards |url=https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-mocks-police-testimony-january-6-best-performance-awards-1613793 |access-date=July 28, 2021 |work=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jankowicz |first1=Mia |date=July 28, 2021 |title=Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham mocked the harrowing police testimony about the Capitol riot with snickers and a 'best political performance' trophy |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-laura-ingraham-mock-police-testimony-capitol-riot-2021-7 |access-date=December 15, 2021 |work=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ellefson |first1=Lindsey |date=July 28, 2021 |title=Fox News' Laura Ingraham Gives 'Best Performance' Awards to Cops Who Testified About Capitol Riot (Video) |url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/fox-news-laura-ingraham-gives-125918669.html |access-date=December 15, 2021 |website=[[Yahoo!]]}}</ref> ==== FBI search of Mar-a-Lago ==== {{See also|FBI search of Mar-a-Lago}} In 2022, Ingraham criticized the Justice Department and FBI for the [[FBI search of Mar-a-Lago|search]] of Trump's private club and residence, [[Mar-a-Lago]], over his [[Donald Trump's disclosures of classified information|handling of classified information]], but suggested that Republican voters might "turn the page" and back another [[United States presidential election, 2024|2024]] presidential candidate "if we can get someone who has all Trump's policies, who's not Trump".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mastrangelo |first=Dominick |date=August 15, 2022 |title=Laura Ingraham: Voters might say it's 'time to turn the page' on Trump |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3602789-laura-ingraham-voters-might-say-its-time-to-turn-the-page-on-trump/ |access-date=September 24, 2022 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |language=en-US}}</ref> === COVID-19 pandemic === ==== Anti-vaccination conspiracy theories ==== {{See also|Vaccine hesitancy|COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States}} During the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|coronavirus pandemic]], Ingraham repeatedly questioned vaccine legitimacy, and instead pushed for the use of the unproven drug [[hydroxychloroquine]] as treatment for [[coronavirus disease 2019]] (COVID-19).<ref name=":11">{{Cite news|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/media/virus-fox-news-hydroxychloroquine.html|title=Fox News Stars Trumpeted a Malaria Drug, Until They Didn't|date=April 22, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 23, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423161833/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/media/virus-fox-news-hydroxychloroquine.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She characterized it as a miracle drug and booked guests on her show to promote the drug.<ref name=":11" /> She mocked [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] director [[Robert R. Redfield]] after he cautioned against the drug.<ref name=":11" /> After a study was released which tested the drug on 368 Veterans Affairs patients and showed that the drug was associated with an increased risk of death, she attacked the study as "shoddy", "shockingly irresponsible" and "agenda-driven".<ref name=":11" /> She questioned whether attempts to "disprove effectiveness" of the drug was "triggered by pure hatred of Trump? Of Fox? Of me?"<ref name=":11" /> On June 15, 2020, the [[Food and Drug Administration]] revoked the [[Emergency use authorization|Emergency Approval]] of hydroxychloroquine (and [[chloroquine]]). FDA said that a review of some studies showed that the drugs' potential benefits in treating COVID-19 did not outweigh the risks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/health/fda-hydroxychloroquine-malaria.html |title=F.D.A. Revokes Emergency Approval of Malaria Drugs Promoted by Trump |work=[[New York Times]] |date=June 15, 2020 |first=Katie |last=Thomas |access-date=July 16, 2020 |archive-date=July 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716212050/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/health/fda-hydroxychloroquine-malaria.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Ingraham was an early media proponent of the anti-parasite drug [[ivermectin]] as a treatment for COVID-19 (a use not recommended by the FDA), and promoted a [[conspiracy theory]] that doctors and officials "vilify and dismiss and demean, and, frankly, lie about it, the effectiveness of these drugs".<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=August 24, 2021 |title=How the right's ivermectin conspiracy theories led to people buying horse dewormer |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/24/how-rights-ivermectin-conspiracy-theories-led-people-buying-horse-dewormer/}}</ref> ==== Other COVID-19 criticisms ==== In May 2020, Ingraham criticized requirements that people wear [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|face masks]] in public as a way to halt the spread of the coronavirus.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Kathryn|last=Krawczyk|date=May 27, 2020|title=Fox News' Laura Ingraham claims Democrats will make Americans wear masks 'forever'|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/916654/fox-news-laura-ingraham-claims-democrats-make-americans-wear-masks-forever|access-date=July 13, 2020|website=[[The Week (magazine)|The Week]]|language=en|archive-date=July 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715142916/https://theweek.com/speedreads/916654/fox-news-laura-ingraham-claims-democrats-make-americans-wear-masks-forever|url-status=live}}</ref> She gave airtime to [[Harmeet Dhillon]], a Republican operative who filed lawsuits against [[California]] to stop the implementation of [[shelter in place|stay-at-home orders]] intended to halt the spread of the coronavirus. She praised her as "leading the charge to keep [[Gavin Newsom]]'s power grabs in check."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Marinucci|first=Carla|title=Conservatives turn to San Francisco lawyer to fight coronavirus orders|url=https://politi.co/2LZS9AZ|access-date=July 13, 2020|website=[[Politico|Politico PRO]]|date=May 26, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In October 2020, Ingraham and her guest [[Victor Davis Hanson]] spread misinformation about [[COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand|New Zealand's response to the pandemic]] on her show. Referring to a "terrifying new response" which was months old, she called [[COVID-19 managed isolation in New Zealand|New Zealand's managed isolation facilities]] "camps" when they are in fact lavish hotels.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/covid-19-coronavirus-fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-attacks-new-zealand-covid-response/J645WLL7EOVZM2N2V7UGCFJZZ4/ |title=Covid 19 coronavirus: Fox News host Laura Ingraham attacks New Zealand Covid response |work=[[New Zealand Herald]] |date=October 29, 2020 |access-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029075839/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/covid-19-coronavirus-fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-attacks-new-zealand-covid-response/J645WLL7EOVZM2N2V7UGCFJZZ4/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/fox-news-host-goes-bizarre-rant-nz-mocks-accent-and-details-terrifying-covid-camps |title=Fox News host goes on bizarre rant about NZ, mocks accent and details 'terrifying' Covid 'camps' |website=TVNZ |date=October 29, 2020 |access-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101012632/https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/fox-news-host-goes-bizarre-rant-nz-mocks-accent-and-details-terrifying-covid-camps |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Jamie |last=Ensor |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/10/who-is-laura-ingraham-a-look-at-the-fox-news-host-whose-quarantine-camps-comments-shocked-nz.html |title=Who is Laura Ingraham? A look at the Fox News host whose 'quarantine camps' comments shocked NZ |date=October 29, 2020 |website=[[Newshub]] |access-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029005828/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/10/who-is-laura-ingraham-a-look-at-the-fox-news-host-whose-quarantine-camps-comments-shocked-nz.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> === Gun issues === {{See also|Gun rights in the United States|Second Amendment to the United States Constitution}} Ingraham warned Trump not to support [[gun control]]; after comments he made in the wake of the [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]], Ingraham said in a February 2018 tweet that "If the President @realDonaldTrump dives on the [[Second Amendment |2nd [Amendment]]], he won't have to worry abt who runs his [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2020|2020 campaign]]."<ref>{{Cite magazine |first=Tina |last=Nguyen |date=March 1, 2018 |title='Kooky,' 'Idiotic': The Far Right Seethes Over Trump's Gun Flip-Flop |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/far-right-seethes-over-trumps-second-amendment-flip-flop |access-date=October 10, 2022 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en-US}}</ref> ==== Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and cyberbullying accusations ==== {{See also|Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|David Hogg|Cyberbullying}} In March 2018, [[Boycott of The Ingraham Angle|Ingraham's show was boycotted]] by 27 sponsors<ref name="Lincoln">{{cite web |last=Lincoln |first=Ross |date=April 13, 2018 |title=Ebates Is 27th Laura Ingraham Sponsor to Pull Ads |url=https://www.thewrap.com/ebates-pulls-ads-from-laura-ingrahams-fox-news-show/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414044209/https://www.thewrap.com/ebates-pulls-ads-from-laura-ingrahams-fox-news-show/ |archive-date=April 14, 2018 |access-date=April 14, 2018 |work=[[The Wrap]]}}</ref> after she ridiculed [[David Hogg]], a 17-year-old student survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, for supposedly complaining about being rejected by four colleges.<ref name="USAToday">{{cite web |last=Stanglin |first=Doug |date=March 29, 2018 |title='In the spirit of Holy Week': Fox's Laura Ingraham apologizes to David Hogg after ad boycott |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/29/parkland-student-david-hogg-answers-fox-host-laura-ingrahams-ridicule-ad-boycott-call/468760002/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404084404/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/29/parkland-student-david-hogg-answers-fox-host-laura-ingrahams-ridicule-ad-boycott-call/468760002/ |archive-date=April 4, 2018 |access-date=April 5, 2018 |website=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> In response, Hogg posted a list of Ingraham's advertisers and called for a boycott,<ref name="NYT 29 March 2018">{{cite news |last1=Victor |first1=Daniel |date=March 29, 2018 |title=Advertisers Drop Laura Ingraham After She Taunts Parkland Survivor David Hogg |website=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/laura-ingraham-david-hogg.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125000838/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/laura-ingraham-david-hogg.html |archive-date=January 25, 2019}}</ref> accusing her of [[cyberbullying]].<ref name="NYT 29 March 2018" /> After several advertisers left the show<ref name="Mazza">{{cite web |last=Mazza |first=Ed |date=April 6, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham Dumped By Yet Another Sponsor Despite Being Off TV For A Week |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-ace-hardware_us_5ac6e9c3e4b09d0a1191e4b0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406092322/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-ace-hardware_us_5ac6e9c3e4b09d0a1191e4b0 |archive-date=April 6, 2018 |access-date=April 6, 2018 |work=[[Huffington Post]]}}</ref><ref name="Welk March 2018">{{cite web |last1=Welk |first1=Brian |date=March 31, 2018 |title=Here Are the Advertisers David Hogg Convinced to Dump Laura Ingraham |url=https://www.thewrap.com/here-are-the-advertisers-david-hogg-convinced-to-dump-laura-ingraham/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224004931/https://www.thewrap.com/here-are-the-advertisers-david-hogg-convinced-to-dump-laura-ingraham/ |archive-date=December 24, 2018 |access-date=January 29, 2019 |website=[[The Wrap]]}}</ref><ref name="Perez">{{cite web |last=Perez |first=Maria |date=April 6, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham Advertising Boycott: Here Are The Companies That Have Pulled Out of Fox News Host's Show |url=http://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-david-hogg-advertisements-875876 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406223906/http://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-david-hogg-advertisements-875876 |archive-date=April 6, 2018 |access-date=April 7, 2018 |work=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref> Ingraham apologized,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Savransky |first1=Rebecca |date=March 29, 2018 |title=Ingraham apologizes amid backlash over Parkland student criticism |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/380846-ingraham-apologizes-after-posting-critical-tweet-about-parkland-student/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028154634/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/380846-ingraham-apologizes-after-posting-critical-tweet-about-parkland-student |archive-date=October 28, 2018 |access-date=January 29, 2019 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |language=en}}</ref> which Hogg dismissed as insincere.<ref name="Kludt March 2018">{{cite web |last1=Kludt |first1=Tom |date=March 30, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham's apology to David Hogg has not stemmed the advertiser exodus |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html?sr=twCNN033018laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg0656AMStory |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028154721/https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html?sr=twCNN033018laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg0656AMStory |archive-date=October 28, 2018 |access-date=January 29, 2019 |website=[[CNNMoney]]}}</ref> Advertising time during the show dropped by as much as 52 percent.<ref name="Berr">{{cite web |last=Berr |first=Jonathan |date=April 12, 2018 |title=Ad Prices On Fox's 'The Ingraham Angle' Fall In The Wake Of Advertiser Boycott |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanberr/2018/04/12/ad-prices-on-foxs-ingraham-angle-fall-in-the-wake-of-advertiser-boycott/#3a40e0b44ef4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413044504/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanberr/2018/04/12/ad-prices-on-foxs-ingraham-angle-fall-in-the-wake-of-advertiser-boycott/#3a40e0b44ef4 |archive-date=April 13, 2018 |access-date=April 12, 2018 |work=[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]}}</ref><ref name="Thomsen">{{cite web |last=Thomsen |first=Jacqueline |date=April 11, 2018 |title=IBM stops advertising on Laura Ingraham's show |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/382750-ibm-stops-advertising-on-laura-ingrahams-show/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412082532/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/382750-ibm-stops-advertising-on-laura-ingrahams-show |archive-date=April 12, 2018 |access-date=April 11, 2018 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref name="twsWashPost3377">{{cite news|first=Sarah|last=Ellison|date=April 8, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/laura-ingraham-returns-to-air-amid-a-boycott-drama-its-the-new-normal-for-fox-news/2018/04/08/55087a74-3945-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1|title=Laura Ingraham returns to air amid a boycott drama. It's the new normal for Fox News.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612150924/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/laura-ingraham-returns-to-air-amid-a-boycott-drama-its-the-new-normal-for-fox-news/2018/04/08/55087a74-3945-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1|archive-date=June 12, 2018|access-date=April 9, 2018|quote=... Ingraham's slap at David Hogg, ... a wire that even the controversy-hardened Fox did not welcome....}}</ref> After Ingraham returned from a vacation following the boycott, her program earned its best ratings ever, spiking 25% in total viewers and saw an increase of 36% in the key 25–54 age group demographic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Levine |first1=Jon |date=April 16, 2018 |title=Laura Ingraham Ratings Spike to Highest Ever Despite Advertiser Boycott |website=[[Yahoo! Entertainment]] |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/laura-ingraham-ratings-spike-highest-ever-despite-advertiser-233346790.html |url-status=live |access-date=April 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417042814/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/laura-ingraham-ratings-spike-highest-ever-despite-advertiser-233346790.html |archive-date=April 17, 2018}}</ref> As of October 2018, companies were continuing to shun Ingraham's show despite the increased ratings.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Jason |date=October 16, 2018 |title=Big advertisers still shunning Ingraham's Fox News show months after boycotts |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/16/ingraham-fox-news-advertising-902466 |url-status=live |access-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116012755/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/16/ingraham-fox-news-advertising-902466 |archive-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref> === Conspiracy theories === Ingraham has promoted [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] about topics such as the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]<ref name=":12" /> and the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Bajak |first1=Aleszu |last2=Zarracina |first2=Javier |date=January 12, 2021 |title=How the antifa conspiracy theory traveled from the fringe to the floor of Congress |language=en |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |url=https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/01/12/how-antifa-conspiracy-theory-traveled-fringe-floor-congress/6620908002/ |access-date=September 6, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Meg |date=March 2, 2021 |title=Antifa Didn't Storm The Capitol. Just Ask The Rioters. |language=en |work=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972564176/antifa-didnt-storm-the-capitol-just-ask-the-rioters |access-date=September 6, 2021}}</ref> Ingraham has promoted the [[Great Replacement]] theory and stated that Democrats "want to replace you, the American voters, with newly amnestied citizens and an ever-increasing number of chain migrants".<ref name=":14" /> Ingraham also hosted Republicans [[Jim Banks]], [[Stephen Miller (political advisor)|Stephen Miller]], and [[Jim Jordan]] who also endorsed the theory.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Jane |last2=Sadowski |first2=Alicia |title=A list of Fox hosts and personalities who have pushed the "great replacement" theory |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/list-fox-hosts-and-personalities-who-have-pushed-great-replacement-theory |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Media Matters for America |date=June 30, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> During an appearance on ''[[Fox & Friends]]'' Ingraham promoted the conspiracy theory that the [[Democratic National Committee]] was involved in the murder of [[Seth Rich]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baragona |first=Lloyd Grove, Justin |date=2020-11-01 |title=Fox News Is Still Defending Its Seth Rich Lies—Three Years Later |language=en |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-is-still-defending-its-seth-rich-lies-three-years-later |access-date=2022-10-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gertz |first=Matt |title=Laura Ingraham's astoundingly ghoulish attack on Seth Rich's family |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingrahams-astoundingly-ghoulish-attack-seth-richs-family |access-date=2022-11-16 |website=Media Matters for America |date=May 15, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> ==Personal life== Ingraham attended a [[Baptist]] church until the age of twelve, later converting to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]].<ref>{{cite web |work=The National Catholic Register |title=How Radio Star Talked Her Way Into the Church |last=Roberts |first=Judy |date=February 29, 2004 |access-date=August 26, 2021 |url-status=live |url=http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/how_radio_star_talked_her_way_into_the_church |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003065059/http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/how_radio_star_talked_her_way_into_the_church |archive-date=October 3, 2019 }}; {{cite book|last=Ingraham|first=Laura|title=[[Power to the People (book)|Power to the People]]|publisher=Regnery Publishing|location=Washington, D.C.|year=2007|isbn=978-1-59698-516-2|oclc=152580809}}, pp. 307–309.</ref> She studied Spanish and Russian.<ref>{{cite news |title=Laura Ingraham welcomes daughter Maria Caroline |url=https://people.com/parents/laura-ingraham/ |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=May 27, 2008 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830095025/https://people.com/parents/laura-ingraham/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://russianlife.com/stories/online-archive/famous-people-who-studied-russian/|title=Famous People Who Studied Russian|last=Rydjeski|first=Letitia|website=Russian Life|language=en|access-date=July 13, 2017|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808193342/https://russianlife.com/stories/online-archive/famous-people-who-studied-russian/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ingraham has dated [[George Conway]]<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Conason |first1=Joe |last2=Lyons |first2=Gene |date=March 4, 2000 |title=Impeachment's little elves |language=en |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |url=https://www.salon.com/2000/03/04/willey/ |access-date=October 22, 2021}}</ref> and [[Dinesh D'Souza]],<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Peretz|first=Evgenia|date=April 9, 2015|title=Get a Rare Glimpse of Dinesh D'Souza's Life After Conviction|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction|access-date=August 12, 2021|magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|language=en-US}}</ref> fellow conservatives. In April 2005, Ingraham announced that she had undergone treatment for [[breast cancer]].<ref>[http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/04/laura_ingraham_recovering_from_cancer_surgery "Laura Ingraham Recovering from Cancer Surgery", Outsidethebeltway.com (April 2005)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210220456/http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/04/laura_ingraham_recovering_from_cancer_surgery/ |date=February 10, 2008 }}; accessed April 28, 2014.</ref> She is a single parent of three children: a girl, Maria, from [[Guatemala]] adopted in 2008; a boy, Michael Dmitri, from Russia adopted in 2009;<ref>{{cite news |title=Love, Etc |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/07/love_etc_67.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=July 30, 2009 |access-date=April 12, 2010 |archive-date=September 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926011236/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/07/love_etc_67.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a second boy, Nikolai Peter, adopted from Russia in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-16 |title=Meet Michael Dmitri Ingraham – Photos Of Laura Ingraham's Son |url=https://ecelebritymirror.com/celebrity-babies/michael-dmitri-ingraham-laura-ingraham-son/ |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=Ecelebritymirror |language=en-US}}</ref> ==See also== {{portal|Conservatism}} * [[List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10)]] – Clarence Thomas {{Clear}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} * {{Official website}} *[https://x.com/IngrahamAngle Laura Ingraham] on [[Twitter|X]] * {{IMDb name|1635032}} * {{C-SPAN|39491}} * {{NYTtopic|people/i/laura_ingraham}} * [http://www.politifact.com/personalities/laura-ingraham/ Fact-checking] at [[PolitiFact]] {{authority control|state=expanded}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingraham, Laura}} [[Category:1963 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:21st-century American women journalists]] [[Category:21st-century American women lawyers]] [[Category:21st-century American women writers]] [[Category:21st-century Roman Catholics]] [[Category:American conservative talk radio hosts]] [[Category:American nationalists]] [[Category:American people of English descent]] [[Category:American people of Irish descent]] [[Category:American people of Polish descent]] [[Category:American political commentators]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:American Roman Catholic writers]] [[Category:American speechwriters]] [[Category:American women non-fiction writers]] [[Category:American women radio hosts]] [[Category:Catholics from Connecticut]] [[Category:Connecticut Republicans]] [[Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from Baptist denominations]] [[Category:Dartmouth College alumni]] [[Category:Female critics of feminism]] [[Category:Fox News people]] [[Category:Glastonbury High School alumni]] [[Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States]] [[Category:Lawyers from New York City]] [[Category:People from Glastonbury, Connecticut]] [[Category:Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom people]] [[Category:University of Virginia School of Law alumni]] [[Category:Writers from Connecticut]]
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