{"id":52466,"date":"2022-04-02T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52466"},"modified":"2022-04-02T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:34:58","slug":"fox-news-fascism-laura-ingraham-advocates-government-punishing-corporations-they-disagree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52466","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Fascism: Laura Ingraham Advocates Government Punishing Corporations They Disagree With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Republicans have long pretended to champion free market capitalism. It has been among their most frequently promoted political positions. But for the most part it was nothing more than another catch phrase they exploited to deceive the dimwitted rubes who didn&#8217;t bother to dig any deeper than a GOP soundbite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Fascism: Laura Ingraham Advocates Government Punishing Corporations They Disagree With%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52466\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Ingraham, Fox News, Goofy\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48956\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday night Fox News primetime propagandist, Laura Ingraham, made it unambiguously clear that the economic <em>&#8220;principles&#8221;<\/em> espoused by the right were a fraud. They were merely bait to hook the bumpkins and buffoons into believing that by allowing corporations to walk all over them, they too could become billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>Like most of the Fox News roster of bigots, Ingraham was aghast that the Walt Disney Company had <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/ron-desantis\/1011869\/disney-vows-to-push-for-repeal-after-desantis-signs-dont-say-gay-bill\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken a stance against<\/a><\/strong> the censorious <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221;<\/em> bill advanced by Florida governor, and faithful Trump-fluffer, Ron DeSantis. So Ingraham devoted a segment of her program to delivering a monologue attacking Disney in a manner that reeks of rancid totalitarianism. She not only jumped aboard the QAnon train by claiming that Disney is sexualizing children, she had a decidedly anti-democratic way of dealing with it. Ingraham said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You guys have products and services that 74 million Trump voters don\u2019t need to purchase if they don\u2019t want to. And when Republicans get back into power, Apple and Disney need to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table &#8211; your copyright and trademark protection, your special status within certain states, and even your corporate structure itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The antitrust division at [the Department of] Justice needs to begin the process of considering which American companies need to be broken up once and for all for competition\u2019s sake, and ultimately for the good of the consumers who pay the bills.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ingraham: When Republicans get back into power, Apple and Disney have to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table, your copyright\/trademark protection, your special status in certain states, and even your corporate structure itself\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7kKhPH07Rs\">pic.twitter.com\/7kKhPH07Rs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1510078374177169408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?tag=ron-desantis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeSantis just signed a bill to punish social media firms (Facebook, Twitter, etc) that ban users who violate their terms of service.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ingraham begins this harangue by threatening to <em>&#8220;cancel&#8221;<\/em> Disney with a boycott that she mistakenly thinks millions of Americans will embrace. Let&#8217;s just aside the fact that such actions are often criticized by the right. They are nothing if not hypocritical. In fact. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51929\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump is the undisputed King of Cancel Culture<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this tirade even more repugnant is Ingraham proposing that government abuse its power to punish corporations that refuse to fall in line with their partisan goals. She is pushing an oppressive authoritarian agenda. And she isn&#8217;t the least bit subtle about it. In a country where Ingraham&#8217;s Republican confederates are in charge, private businesses will be forced to subjugate themselves to the state or suffer the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham doesn&#8217;t say what constitutional means she would employ to challenge a company&#8217;s copyrights and trademarks. Probably because there aren&#8217;t any. And while antitrust laws can provide a valid protection of consumer rights. Ingraham is explicit that she wouldn&#8217;t be pursuing them on behalf of consumers, but rather only <em>&#8220;when Republicans get back into power.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ingraham is not alone on Fox News fronting for fascism, and making Disney the scapegoat for their despotic dystopia. It&#8217;s a network wide initiative. Media Matter has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/fox-news-has-spent-over-3-hours-melting-down-about-disneys-support-lgbtq-community-week\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">documented<\/a><\/strong> that just within the past week, <em>&#8220;Fox has been laser-focused on the story, mentioning &#8216;Disney&#8217; over 350 times this week, and dedicating over 3 hours of coverage, and at least 53 segments, to it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By contrast, stories such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52429\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump asking Putin for dirt on Hunter Biden<\/a><\/strong>, and Madison Cawthorn&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/28\/politics\/madison-cawthorn-orgy-invite-cocaine-claim\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tales of GOP cocaine fueled orgies<\/a><\/strong>, and Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas&#8217; wife <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52385\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plotting with Trump&#8217;s chief of staff to stage a coup<\/a><\/strong>, received little or no coverage on Fox News. Meanwhile, Fox is busy attacking Disney &#8211; yes, Disney! &#8211; as child pornographers upon whom the government must stomp its fascist boot. That must be part of their <em>&#8220;MAGA movement to Make America Goofy Again.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> How Fox News is framing the Florida vs Disney story, via Media Matters&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox is pouring all their on-air resources into their smear campaign accusing Disney of grooming, indoctrinating, and sexualizing children <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1uTKoZn5M\">pic.twitter.com\/m1uTKoZn5M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Media Matters (@mmfa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmfa\/status\/1509949100724207628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Republicans have long pretended to champion free market capitalism. It has been among their most frequently promoted political positions. But for the most part it was nothing more than another catch phrase they exploited to deceive the dimwitted rubes who didn&#8217;t bother to dig any deeper than a GOP soundbite. Click here to Tweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,33,43,1420,721],"class_list":["post-52466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-ron-desantis","tag-walt-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dEe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51255,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51255","url_meta":{"origin":52466,"position":0},"title":"Laura Ingraham&#8217;s Hysterical Dumbassery Shows Why Fox News Can&#8217;t Ever Be Taken Seriously","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/16\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one thing that Fox News has always failed at miserably, it's comedy. Well, intentional comedy. They have actually been a fairly reliable source of unintentional laughs. That's pretty easy with such mockable figures as Tucker Carlson (admitting that he doesn't know WTF he's talking about), or \"Judge\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Laura Ingraham, Fox News, Goofy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36022,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36022","url_meta":{"origin":52466,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Launch Party for Laura Ingraham Show Draws Ivanka Trump and Lots of GOP Suck-Ups","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/30\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Monday night Fox News will premiere a new primetime program featuring ultra-rightist pundit, and radio talker, Laura Ingraham. She is the latest in Fox's schedule shake up resulting from the terminations of Bill O'Reilly and Eric Bolling. They were jettisoned after multiple allegations of sexual harassment and abuse. Fox News\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Rupert Murdoch Laura Ingraham","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/murdoch-ingraham.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/murdoch-ingraham.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/murdoch-ingraham.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41645,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41645","url_meta":{"origin":52466,"position":2},"title":"Fox News Issues a Ludicrous Defense of Laura Ingraham&#8217;s Support for White Nationalists","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/31\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"On Thursday night, Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News' primetime \"The Ingraham Angle,\" made some nauseating, albeit typical, remarks of the sort that have endeared her to racists, neo-Nazis, and white nationalists everywhere. It's not the first time she's unleashed such repugnant commentaries, but it is one of the most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Laura Ingraham, Fox News","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-trump-baby.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-trump-baby.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-trump-baby.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37133,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37133","url_meta":{"origin":52466,"position":3},"title":"LOL: Fox News Host Thinks Students Should Shut Up, Gets (Fact) Checked By Student","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/23\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"There is no one on Fox News who is more devoted to censorship and averse to free speech than primetime host Laura Ingraham. She wrote a book titled \"Shut Up and Sing,\" an extended diatribe on denying the First Amendment to talented Americans who were smart enough to become successful\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News Laura Ingraham","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-finger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-finger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-finger.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48955,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48955","url_meta":{"origin":52466,"position":4},"title":"Fox News Mocks Life Saving CDC Coronavirus Guidelines as &#8216;Goofy&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/3\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"For virtually all of the the past Year of COVID, Donald Trump and his Ministry of disinformation (aka Fox News) have downplayed the severity of the pandemic, guaranteeing that more people would be harmed and more families would grieve avoidable losses. And since he was evicted from the White House,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Laura Ingraham, Fox News, Goofy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":541,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=541","url_meta":{"origin":52466,"position":5},"title":"CNN&#8217;s Parade Of GOP Pundits: Laura Ingraham Edition","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/1\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In its quest to out-fox Fox News, CNN is handing over its 8:00 pm time slot to conservative shill, Laura Ingraham for a week. Ingraham is the diva that deemed that artists should \"Shut Up and Sing\" (unless, of course, you're Ronald Reagan or Fred Thompson). It was only a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52475,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52466\/revisions\/52475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}