More h**e and fear pablum from Lalaland Fox News: Prime Dingbat Laura Ingraham and the Right's paranoia "unmasked"
May 2, 2020 07:53:57 #
Back in March, with Americans just a week into quarantine, Fox News host Laura Ingraham envisioned a way that the economy could reopen. Her plan relied on lots of masks.
“Going back to most jobs after 15 days will require new protocols until this v***s burns out—everyone within 6 feet of others MUST wear masks,” Ingraham tweeted.
As part of her pro-mask campaign, Ingraham tweeted instructions for Do It Yourself (DIY) masks, even urging her followers to make homemade masks out of their sheets.
“Literally you can make these with cotton sheets,” Ingraham wrote. “Again, we can be resourceful when necessary!”
A month later, Ingraham has done a 180, becoming one of the right-wing media’s most outspoken mask-h**ers. She’s tweeted that widespread mask wearing would make everyone “like A****a,” the left-wing a****ascist activists reviled on Fox. On Wednesday, she suggested on her show that widespread mask usage is some sort of plot to scare people.
“The masks, they’re kind of a constant reminder,” Ingraham said. “You see the mask and you think you’re not safe, you are not back to normal — not even close.”
Such a conversion may seem peculiar on the surface. Who, after all, has an actual problem with face masks, especially in the midst of a p******c. But Ingraham’s conversion reflects something deeper about the nature of our current politics, in which social safety measures themselves can become emblems of partisan leanings. Once the potential tools of liberation from stay-at-home orders, Trump supporters now see masks as a h**ed carryover from those same orders.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, the recent recipient of a P**********l Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump, was an early mask paranoiac. On April 20, he promoted the idea, later picked up by Ingraham, that masks are totems of control.
“It is clear that the mask is a symbol of fear, and when you see various people suggesting that we may now have masks as part of our public lives for the rest of our lives?” Limbaugh said. “Uh, why?”
For some conservatives, refusing to wear a mask has become just the latest way to thumb their noses at social distancing mandates. Talk radio host Dennis Prager said in a video that he refused to don one—and compared himself to Rosa Parks or dissident Germans in the N**i era for his defiance.
Anti-mask feelings in the GOP comes from the top, with Vice President Mike Pence flouting a Mayo Clinic rule this week mandating mask usage in a visit there. In early April, Trump said he was “choosing not to” wear a mask even as his health officials advised people to do so. (Trump’s personal preferences, however, haven’t stopped his campaign from a reported plan to sell Trump-branded masks).
But the mask backlash has also spread to the party's rank-and-file at the anti-stay-at-home protests popping up across the country. After a Houston judge issued an order requiring mask usage in public, protesters rallied with signs bearing messages like “Don’t Mask the T***h” and “Just Say No,” illustrated with the crossed-out image of a mask.
After a protest in Lansing, Michigan, on Thursday where armed protesters tried to force their way into the legislative chambers, organizer Jason Howland defended protesters who refused to wear masks, identifying mask usage as one of the issues they were rallying against.
“If I’m gonna protest somebody, and I do it by the rules that they’re laying down on me, I’m going to look pretty stupid by the end of the day,” Howland told The Daily Beast.
The c****av***s has sparked an explosion in conspiracy theories, from claims that Bill Gates is cooking up a dangerous v*****e to allegations that 5G towers are causing the v***s. With masks, however, there doesn’t appear to be a larger conspiracy theory driving the opposition. Instead, much of it appears to be based on the same desire to buck public health mandates that has driven people to rally with each other while standing much closer than the medically-advised distance of six feet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-world-turns-true-c***d-231901344.html
“Going back to most jobs after 15 days will require new protocols until this v***s burns out—everyone within 6 feet of others MUST wear masks,” Ingraham tweeted.
As part of her pro-mask campaign, Ingraham tweeted instructions for Do It Yourself (DIY) masks, even urging her followers to make homemade masks out of their sheets.
“Literally you can make these with cotton sheets,” Ingraham wrote. “Again, we can be resourceful when necessary!”
A month later, Ingraham has done a 180, becoming one of the right-wing media’s most outspoken mask-h**ers. She’s tweeted that widespread mask wearing would make everyone “like A****a,” the left-wing a****ascist activists reviled on Fox. On Wednesday, she suggested on her show that widespread mask usage is some sort of plot to scare people.
“The masks, they’re kind of a constant reminder,” Ingraham said. “You see the mask and you think you’re not safe, you are not back to normal — not even close.”
Such a conversion may seem peculiar on the surface. Who, after all, has an actual problem with face masks, especially in the midst of a p******c. But Ingraham’s conversion reflects something deeper about the nature of our current politics, in which social safety measures themselves can become emblems of partisan leanings. Once the potential tools of liberation from stay-at-home orders, Trump supporters now see masks as a h**ed carryover from those same orders.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, the recent recipient of a P**********l Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump, was an early mask paranoiac. On April 20, he promoted the idea, later picked up by Ingraham, that masks are totems of control.
“It is clear that the mask is a symbol of fear, and when you see various people suggesting that we may now have masks as part of our public lives for the rest of our lives?” Limbaugh said. “Uh, why?”
For some conservatives, refusing to wear a mask has become just the latest way to thumb their noses at social distancing mandates. Talk radio host Dennis Prager said in a video that he refused to don one—and compared himself to Rosa Parks or dissident Germans in the N**i era for his defiance.
Anti-mask feelings in the GOP comes from the top, with Vice President Mike Pence flouting a Mayo Clinic rule this week mandating mask usage in a visit there. In early April, Trump said he was “choosing not to” wear a mask even as his health officials advised people to do so. (Trump’s personal preferences, however, haven’t stopped his campaign from a reported plan to sell Trump-branded masks).
But the mask backlash has also spread to the party's rank-and-file at the anti-stay-at-home protests popping up across the country. After a Houston judge issued an order requiring mask usage in public, protesters rallied with signs bearing messages like “Don’t Mask the T***h” and “Just Say No,” illustrated with the crossed-out image of a mask.
After a protest in Lansing, Michigan, on Thursday where armed protesters tried to force their way into the legislative chambers, organizer Jason Howland defended protesters who refused to wear masks, identifying mask usage as one of the issues they were rallying against.
“If I’m gonna protest somebody, and I do it by the rules that they’re laying down on me, I’m going to look pretty stupid by the end of the day,” Howland told The Daily Beast.
The c****av***s has sparked an explosion in conspiracy theories, from claims that Bill Gates is cooking up a dangerous v*****e to allegations that 5G towers are causing the v***s. With masks, however, there doesn’t appear to be a larger conspiracy theory driving the opposition. Instead, much of it appears to be based on the same desire to buck public health mandates that has driven people to rally with each other while standing much closer than the medically-advised distance of six feet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-world-turns-true-c***d-231901344.html
May 2, 2020 07:56:28 #
rumitoid wrote:
Back in March, with Americans just a week into qua... (show quote)
We disagree concerning Tucker... But I'm with you on Laura... Can't stand her...
May 2, 2020 08:00:43 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
We disagree concerning Tucker... But I'm with you on Laura... Can't stand her...
I know, just annoying.
May 2, 2020 08:02:40 #
rumitoid wrote:
I know, just annoying.
She doesn't have a lot of respect for her listeners...
May 2, 2020 09:23:28 #
rumi: Be careful with the word Dingbat....I think you're looking into a mirror?
May 2, 2020 09:43:29 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
She doesn't have a lot of respect for her listeners...
Excellent point.
May 2, 2020 09:44:54 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
rumi: Be careful with the word Dingbat....I think you're looking into a mirror?
Thank you for the caution. I will remember to take down the mirror over my computer.
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