Dana Loesch

Loesch at the CPAC conference, 2018

Dana Loesch [ læʃ ] (born September 28, 1978 , as Dana Eaton ) is a conservative American talk radio host and gun lobby activist. She co-founded the tea party in St. Louis . Her daily radio show, The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative from Dallas, Texas , is syndicated US-wide by Radio America . She has been a press officer for the National Rifle Association since 2017 .

Origin and education

Loesch comes from Missouri . Her ancestors were Cherokee and Irish . Her family belongs to the Southern Baptists and was democratic . She herself was active in the 1996 election campaign for Bill Clinton's campaign. However, the Lewinsky affair and the events of September 11th later alienated her from the party.

Loesch went to Fox High School in Arnold and then studied at St. Louis Community College in Meramec before going to Webster University and receiving a journalism scholarship. When she became pregnant at the age of 21, she left university and married her current husband.

Career

Loesch worked for the Breitbart News Network but left it in 2012 when Stephen Bannon took over. From February 2011 she also worked as a commentator for CNN .

She produced her radio show from 2009 to 2016 at KFTK-FM in St. Louis . She is a senior talk show host on Syndicate's Radio America service .

Loesch is a member of the National Rifle Association and has been Wayne LaPierre's spokesperson since February 2017 . Sean Hannity praised her book, Hands Off My Gun, and recommended buying it before someone "tries to ban it".

The contract for the TV show Dana on The Blaze Television Network by Glenn Beck expired at the end 2017th

Political views and controversies

Loesch was one of the co-founders of the tea party movement in St. Louis in 2009 . In December 2011 she left the organization.

In January 2012 she came under fire for defending US Marines who urinated on corpses in Afghanistan on her radio show . She also said that she would have done the same in the situation.

In the 2016 presidential primaries , she supported Ted Cruz because, in her opinion, he was the most conservative of the candidates available. She also questioned whether Donald Trump was a real conservative. Since the election of Trump, however, according to the American magazine The Atlantic, she has been one of the most passionate supporters of Trump.

In 2016 Loesch again attracted attention when she described the American "mainstream media" as rats and bastards. She added that she was honestly pleased to see her kicked over the curb . The video with her statements was rediscovered after the mass shooting in the editorial office of the Capital Gazette , whereupon Loesch had to distance himself from her previous comments.

Loesch has spoken out against more restrictive gun laws several times after mass shootings. While working for the NRA, she published video messages that opponents and critics of the gun lobby interpreted as calling for violence against journalists and liberals.

In September 2018, she justified the killing of Philando Castile. The African-American was shot dead by a police officer in Falcon Heights in July 2016 .

In the affair surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's appointment as Supreme Court Justice , she defended Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual abuse by Christine Blasey Ford .

Private life

Loesch has been married to music producer Chris Loesch since 2000. Her husband's conservative views had a decisive influence on Loesch's own political views. The couple have two sons who were homeschooled . Loesch lives with her family in Dallas .

Publications

• Hands Off My Gun , 2014. ISBN 9781455584345

Web links

Commons : Dana Loesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dana Loesch: Flyover Nation . Penguin Books , 2016, ISBN 9780399563898 , p. 176.
2. ^ Dana Loesch: My paternal grandmother was of Irish descent. She was not offended by the Fighting Irish. ( en ) October 18, 2013.
3. ^ Dana Loesch's Political Views Show The NRA Spokesperson Wasn't Always A Conservative . Bustle.com. February 26, 2018.
4. ↑ Bethany Mandel: The monster Steve Bannon created at Breitbart.com was not what Andrew Breitbart wanted , nbcnews.com, January 10, 2018
5. ↑ CNN Looks Ahead to 2012 Election Season , press release, February 11, 2011
6. ↑ Joe Holleman: Marc Cox replacing Dana Loesch on KFTK radio . In: stltoday.com . ( stltoday.com [accessed November 3, 2017]).
7. ↑ NRA press release , February 21, 2017
8. ↑ About | Dana Loesch radio. In: danaloeschradio.com. Retrieved December 6, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Dana Loesch Departs St. Louis Tea Party . In: Riverfront Times , June 6, 2011. Archived from the original on October 1, 2012 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 2, 2018.  
10. ↑ Jeremy Holden: CNN's Dana Loesch: Too Extreme For Rush Limbaugh , Mediamatters.org, Jan. 13, 2012
11. ^ Nolan D. McCaskill: Dana Loesch endorses Ted Cruz , Politico.com, January 26, 2016
12. ^ Dana Loesch: Donald Trump - Dana Loesch: Question Trump's Conservative Conversion . National Review. January 25, 2016.
13. ↑ Conservatism Can't Survive Donald Trump Intact . In: The Atlantic . 19th December 2017.
14. ↑ Maya Oppenheim: Maryland shooting: NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said journalists 'need to be curb-stomped', in resurfaced footage . The Independent . June 29, 2018.
15. ^ Jonah Engel Bromwich: NRA Ad Condemning Protests Against Trump Raises Partisan Anger . In: The New York Times , June 29, 2017. 
16. ↑ Alina Polianskaya: NRA issues threatening video warning journalists 'your time is running out' . In: The Independent . 4th August 2018.
17. ↑ Adam Serwer: The NRA's Catch-22 for Black Men Shot by Police . In: The Atlantic , September 13, 2018. 
18. ↑ 'I'm on the brink of tears': how rightwing women reacted to Kavanaugh . In: The Guardian , September 28, 2018.