Laura Ingraham

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Laura Ingraham (2018)

Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1963 in Glastonbury , Connecticut ) is an American television and radio presenter, non-fiction author and conservative commentator. She is best known as the presenter of the radio show named after her, The Laura Ingraham Show .

Laura Ingraham (2015)

Since October 2017 she has her own show, The Ingraham Angle, on the Fox News Channel .

Life and work

Training and career beginnings

Ingraham comes from a middle-class Connecticut family. After attending Glastonbury High School, which she graduated in 1981, she studied at Dartmouth College , which she left with a bachelor's degree in 1985. While studying in Dartmouth, she was on the editorial board of the conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review , of which she became the first female editor in her senior year at Dartmouth. Already at that time she attracted attention through controversial positions on social and political issues, for example through the thesis expressed in an article that the activists for gay rights who appeared very committed at the American universities at that time were basically nothing more than “cheerleaders for the sodomists Underground communities ”at universities.

In the late 1980s, Ingraham was a speechwriter for the Reagan administration's home affairs advisor . She then briefly served as editor for The Prospect , a conservative magazine published by the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group .

Ingraham graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law with a law degree in 1991 . She then worked in succession with Ralph K. Winter Jr, judge on the US Court of Appeals, 2nd District, and Clarence Thomas , judge on the Supreme Court in Washington. She later moved to New York City as a private defense attorney for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom .

In the late 1990s, Ingraham hosted the Watch It! in the program of the news channel MSNBC .

Career as a radio and television presenter

In April 2001, Ingraham began hosting the radio talk show named after her, The Laura Ingraham Show , which is broadcast on weekdays by the Talk Radio Network . The show is the eighth highest rated radio show in the United States, with an average weekly audience of 5.5 million. She was ranked 20th most influential talk host by Talkers Magazine in 2016, making her the most successful presenter in the industry.

Ingraham is a regular television commentator on programs on the conservative US news broadcaster Fox News Channel . In the show The O'Reilly Factor , hosted by Bill O'Reilly , which was considered the most successful political program on US cable television with more than three million viewers daily, she appeared once a week with a column called "Ingraham Angle", in which she gave the viewers her views on current events and their protagonists. Since 2008, Ingraham has also routinely acted as deputy moderator for the O'Reilly Factor .

In her capacity as a radio and television personality, Ingraham repeatedly attracts attention through controversial statements of political opinion, provocative theses and comparisons. In 2009, during the general political debate about the American health care reform, she modified a poem by Martin Niemöller , in which he complained about the lack of moral courage of himself against the methods of repression of the Nazi regime, to the, in her opinion, repressive and anti-freedom character of the plans of the To make the Obama administration aware of American society in general, and the tax system, gun law, and health system in particular:

“First they came for the rich, and I did not speak out because I was not rich. Then they came for the property owners, and I did not speak out because I did not own property. Then they came for the right to bear arms, and I did not speak out because I was not armed. Then they came for me and denied me my medical care, and there was no one left to speak for me .... "

“First they came to fetch the rich, but I kept quiet, I wasn't a rich man. Then they came to fetch the landowners, I kept quiet, I wasn't a landowner. Then they came to abolish the right to bear arms, I kept quiet, I wasn't armed. Then they came because of me, to take away my right to medical care, and there was no one left to speak for me ... "

Book publications

Ingraham has also published various books. In The Hillary Trap , she analyzes Hillary Clinton from a feminist point of view and reinterprets the perception of Clinton as a feminist icon as a misconception, since it supported a liberal feminism that fosters a culture in which dependence on women is rewarded, the family disintegrates as an institution and the role of women as victims is celebrated. The book Shut Up & Sing is a broadside against liberal elites who dominated the entertainment industry, media, politics, arts and international organizations ( UN ) and would use them to undermine the United States while the American middle class as that the real lifeblood of any democratic society would be marginalized. The pamphlet Power to the People , which reached 1st place on the New York Times bestseller list, criticized the alleged pornification of the United States and encourages conservative readers to take an active part in cultural life, including conservative values ​​in upbringing and family life to strengthen. In The Obama Diaries , a 2010 bestseller, she targets President Barack Obama . Here, Ingraham uses fantasy diary entries to depict Obama, his family and his administration as incompetent, malicious and weak idiots. In the book Of Thee I Zing , also a bestseller, Ingraham depicts the decline of American culture.

Private life

In 2003 she converted to Catholicism . In April 2005, Ingraham announced her engagement to businessman James V. Reyes, which was eventually broken up. In previous years she had relationships with Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli and Liberal presenter Keith Olbermann . Also in 2005, Ingraham declared that he had had breast cancer surgery and survived well.

criticism

In 2019, Ingraham made fun of the recently deceased rapper Nipsey Hussle on her show on Fox News by discrediting him and recording the song Fuck Donald Trump , which was supposed to prove the production of Hussle as bad. The fact that Hussle only appeared as a featured artist was omitted. In addition, Hussle's other activities, such as B. his attempt to mediate between the Bloods and Crips is not mentioned. This segment of their show led to some fierce criticism from parts of the American population; u. a. Snoop Dogg and The Game (rapper) called on Fox to fire Ingraham and shared the clip on Instagram.

Fonts

  • The Hillary Trap. Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places , 2000. (Extended new edition 2005)
  • Shut Up & Sing. How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Suverting America , 2003.
  • Power to the People , Regnery Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59698-516-2 .

Web links

Commons : Laura Ingraham  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OLIVIA BEAVERS: Laura Ingraham to host Fox News show - The Hill , Sep 18. 2017
  2. ↑ Talker.com. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jennifer Schuessler: Hardcover Nonfiction . In: The New York Times , August 1, 2010. 
  4. ↑ Laura Ingraham takes aim in 'The Obama Diaries' . MSNBC News. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Schuessler: Hardcover Nonfiction . In: The New York Times , July 31, 2011. 
  6. ↑ Laura Ingraham's Of Thee I Zing . Daily Caller. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  7. ↑ Religion News : 10 minutes with Laura Ingraham, February 20, 2008 (accessed December 1, 2011)
  8. ↑ The Hill: Snoop Dogg, The Game call for Ingraham's firing after she appeared to mock Nipsey Hussle on April 16, 2019 (accessed August 19, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Ingraham, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingraham, Laura Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television and radio presenter, non-fiction author, and conservative commentator
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Glastonbury , Connecticut