#The Ingraham Angle

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Lis Power at MMFA:

Since the beginning of former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial, Fox News figures and guests have repeatedly challenged the integrity of the judge presiding over the case, Juan Merchan. Throughout the duration of the trial, figures on Fox News have lobbed at least 220 such attacks at Merchan, suggesting that the judge has an anti-Trump bias so the “fix is in,” attacking his handling of the case as “supremely biased” and “severely compromised,” and claiming the judge should have recused himself.

The figures who launched the most attacks on the judge on the network were Hannity, followed distantly by host Laura Ingraham (12 claims), host Jeanine Pirro (11 claims), legal analyst Gregg Jarrett (10 claims), and host Mark Levin and contributor Leo Terrell (9 claims each). Notably, most of those figures host shows, and five out of the six have legal degrees.  The programs that pushed the most attacks on Merchan were opinion shows Hannity (52), The Ingraham Angle (26), and the network's weekday morning show, Fox & Friends (20). They were followed by so-called news-side show The Faulkner Focus (18) as well as weekend show Life, Liberty & Levin (13). While Fox personalities and guests issued the majority of attacks on opinion shows (150), they also impugned Merchan's impartiality 70 times on Fox’s so-called news shows. 

Media Matters For America details Fox “News”’s war on Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s business records falsification trial.

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Walter Einenkel at Daily Kos:

Right-wing wraith Laura Ingraham took some time away from attacking teachers to beg pop star Taylor Swift to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration.   “Call Trump and offer to perform at the inauguration,” Ingraham said during her Fox News show Thursday night, in “advice” directed toward Swift. “It'd be smart for Taylor Swift—and another great moment of unity for the country.” Ingraham didn’t elaborate on what she meant by “smart.” It could be read either as a threat or as a smart business move for Swift, whose Eras Tour just completed its historically successful run. Ingraham, who has mocked Swift’s political affiliations in the past, seems thirsty to have an inaugural performer more exciting than GOP mainstay and overpriced-Bible salesman Lee Greenwood or post-grunge afterthought 3 Doors Down.  Trump’s anemic 2017 inaugural lineup was … lackluster, to say the least. But maybe Ingraham has forgotten those big acts, like Utah’s The Piano Guys and ‘90s country group The Frontmen of Country. Toby Keith, who also performed at the 2017 inauguration, died earlier this year. 

Cry more, Laura Ingraham!

From the 12.12.2024 edition of FNC's The Ingraham Angle:

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Laura Ingraham: A Peek into Her Life Off-camera

Get a closer look at the personal and professional life of Laura Ingraham, the host of 'The Ingraham Angle' on Fox News. Discover her passions, favorite books, and valuable life lessons.

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Trump speaks about heaven and prayer following assassination attempt | Fox News

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By Peter Barry Chowka

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s designated border czar, the indefatigable Tom Homan, has already started planning to solve the country’s myriad problems caused by the Biden-Harris open borders policy.

Yesterday, Homan traveled to the border in Texas with the state’s governor, Greg Abbott. Just back from his trip, Homan appeared on Laura Ingraham’s Ingraham Angle on FOX News at 7:36 p.m. ET for his third live interview on the channel in 24 hours. Homan’s mood was upbeat as he reported that the morale of the Border Patrol officers he had encountered – which had previously been “in the toilet” in response to the policies of Biden and Harris – had completely turned around. This was Homan’s most concise interview in recent days as he outlined President-elect Trump’s plans to solve the crises arising from the open border and the waves of illegal immigrants who have invaded the country since Jan. 20, 2021. Actions that will start on start on day one of the new Trump administration. In describing what’s ahead starting next Jan. 20, Homan warned sanctuary city mayors who have promised to frustrate Trump’s plans to “get the hell out of the way because we’re going to do the job.”

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Breaking News: Wednesday night Fox News reported in a Fox Poll Biden was up by 3 points over Trump.

Thursday morning on Morning with Maria she said the same thing that Joe Biden was up by 3.

Last night on the Ingraham Angle, Laura said Biden was up by 6 points on President Trump and just 5 minutes ago on Fox they're claiming Biden is up by 8 points over Trump.

Fox is setting the table for the 2024 cheat.

They have to fudge the numbers to make the steal appear legit.

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Columbia, a year ago : "Punch a nazi ! Never again means now !"

Columbia now : "We're not sure how to do our protest against the Jews so we've asked this old lady with a history of antisemitism to help us"

That's actually her job

Fithian is a professional "protest consultant" who has been arrested over 80 times, Laura Ingraham of "The Ingraham Angle" said on her show Tuesday night.  Fithian has reportedly participated in protests on climate change, Occupy Wall Street, and now, the Free Palestine movement. After midnight Tuesday, Fithian was seen on video instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over an academic building at Columbia University. In one video clip, protesters were seen carrying a table, while in the background, Fithian could be heard saying, "I can’t help with that. You guys can help with that."

That last bit, she knows how to not get arrested by staying hands off

In another clip, the mob was seen attaching a piece of furniture to the door of a building, while Fithian tells people with cameras to move back. During "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday evening, Ingraham spoke with Ira Stoll, the founder and editor of theeditors.com, about Fithian and what she gets out of helping to train the new generation of activists. "Some of the people involved are being paid money," Stoll said, explaining he authored an article for The Wall Street Journal recently about how these groups are advertising for fellows to be paid $3,000 to work eight hours a week for three months, on campuses across the U.S. "Some of the people who have been quite prominently in these protests have been paid fellows with hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Soros Open Society Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. "So, there’s big money behind these protests," Stoll added.

Never Again has been appropriated and is being used to attempt to shield people that have what Never Again is actually about in their founding charter.

These are people that have openly stated they'd like to get rid of every Jew everywhere and from what I've been seeing it seems that's not a uncommon viewpoint with several corners of the Islamic community

Not that the professional protestors actually care about the causes they push, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing people that screamed about a horn in a video game actually committing legitimate blood libel.

Professional protest coordinator I can actually get behind if they go in and make sure everything is done safe and legal, instructing on how to build barricades is not.

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By: Christina Buttons

Published: Feb 17, 2023

A young detransitioned woman is seeking justice from the medical group and hospital that facilitated her medical transition between the ages of 12 to 17, which included puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy at just 13 years old. 

The plaintiff, Layla Jane, is represented by the Dhillon Law Group and LiMandri & Jonna LLP in conjunction with the Center for American Liberty. On Wednesday, a letter of intent to sue was sent to the Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals alleging “gross negligence” on behalf of their client, and accusing Kaiser of allowing “radical, inadequately studied, off-label, and essentially experimental treatment to occur on minors.”

The Intent to Sue further alleges that Layla’s doctors medically “affirmed” her without meaningful evaluation, failed to adequately disclose the health risks associated with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment, and emotionally manipulated her parents by proposing the false dilemma: “would you rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?” 

When Layla was a child, she experienced significant mental health and behavioral challenges. At the age of 11, she started to believe that her unhappiness was due to being "born in the wrong body," which she discovered through online research, and she began identifying as transgender. She was only 12 when she was prescribed puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and was evaluated for surgery. She underwent a double mastectomy to remove her breasts shortly after her 13th birthday. However, Layla eventually came to the realization that she was not, in fact, transgender. She stopped receiving testosterone injections and instead sought proper mental health treatment for her anxiety and mood-related issues.

Layla's transition story bears striking similarities to that of Chloe Cole. Both of them are now 18 years old and are taking legal action against Kaiser Permanente and the doctors who facilitated their chemical and surgical transitions as minors, two of whom they shared.

Layla Jane stated:

Many people have already seen Chloe Cole’s story and the emotional and physical damage she had to go through at the hands of “medical professionals.” I’m ready to announce that these so-called professionals did the exact same thing to me, but at an even younger age. At 12-years-old I began testosterone and puberty blockers and at age 13, I had a double mastectomy. These are decisions I will have to live with for the rest of my life. I’m ready to join the growing group of detransitioners so that no other child has to go through the torment I went through at the hands of doctors I should have been able to trust.

Layla Jane and her lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, appeared on the Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle” last night to make the announcement. Dhillon stated that she has been contacted by many detransitioners who are seeking justice but, due to the short statute of limitations, she can only represent clients who fall within the specified time period. Experts believe that it may take 5-10 years for young people who have undergone a gender transition to realize that they may have made a mistake.

The Intent to Sue cites a 30-year follow up study conducted in Sweden that found post-operative transgender patients were 19 times more likely to commit suicide as evidence that “gender-affirming care” does not necessarily improve the mental health of recipients. Also cited are 11 studies that found gender dysphoria appears to resolve on its own when children are not socially and medically transitioned between 60-90 percent of the time.

Layla Jane is now the 8th detransitioner worldwide to have brought legal action against the medical providers that facilitated her chemical and surgical transition. She will be seeking punitive damages, the extent of which is currently “being investigated and is not fully known at this time.” The Notice of Intent to Sue will allow the defendants 90 days to respond before an official lawsuit is filed. 

A representative from Kaiser responded to a request for comment with the same boilerplate message they gave regarding Cole’s lawsuit, which was to claim that they are following “evidence-based medicine founded on sound research,” despite the fact that no empirical evidence to date supports a biological basis for “gender identity.”

While the exact number of detransitioners is unknown, and more research is needed, cases appear to be steadily rising. A forum created in 2017 for detransitioners on Reddit is adding over 1,000 members a month, and as of this writing has over 45,000 members. 

Studies that have shown a small rate of transition regret are frequently used by activists to dismiss or diminish the experience of detransitioners. However, the studies finding that 2 percent or less regret their transition surveyed only adults, not the new cohort that most are concerned about: adolescents.

In the United States, a 2022 study found that 29 percent of 68 patients seeking medical transition care changed their requests for hormone treatment, surgery, or both. Another U.S. study from last year found that 30 percent of patients who began cross-sex hormone treatment discontinued it within four years for unknown reasons. Two smaller studies in the U.K. report that between 7 and 10 percent of patients initially assessed for gender-related medical services later detransitioned. 

Layla Jane’s allegations of medical negligence and emotional manipulation by her doctors underscore the importance of meaningful evaluation, informed consent, and comprehensive mental health support for children who believe they are experiencing gender dysphoria.

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When they won't listen to reason, maybe they'll listen to their bottom line.

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Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Fox News primetime hosts have a message for American families as they gather together for Thanksgiving dinner: Be thankful that Donald Trump won the presidential election. On his program on Tuesday night, Sean Hannity—whom some in Trump’s inner circle have described as the incoming president’s “shadow chief of staff”—told his audiences this Thanksgiving would be happy because the Republican leader. “Truth is making a comeback. Common sense is making a comeback,” Hannity said as a graphic with a smiling Trump captioned “Happy Thanksgiving” appeared next to him. 

[...] Fellow Fox host Laura Ingraham, who previously appeared at the 2016 Republican National Convention to express her support for Trump with a cringeworthy salute, had a similar message on “The Ingraham Angle.”

Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, hosts on GOP propaganda organ Fixed News, gave a pre-Thanksgiving message to the viewers: be thankful that Donald Trump won.

From the 11.26.2024 edition of FNC's Hannity:

From the 11.26.2024 edition of FNC's The Ingraham Angle:

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Alyssa Tirrell at MMFA:

In late December, USA Boxing released a new set of guidelines for the inclusion of trans competitors, and right-wing media responded by criticizing the regulations, relying on anti-trans tropes and misinformation in their coverage. GOP members of Congress have since introduced twin legislation that promises to ban all trans competitors from the Olympic and amateur levels in any sport, citing the new regulations as a motivating concern and repeating the anti-trans framing popularized by right-wing media's backlash.  

While the USA Boxing guidelines are a departure from a trend of sports organizations banning trans participation, the requirements are considered stringent. Athletes under the age of 18 must compete “as their birth gender,” and adult competitors are required to obtain genital surgery and regular hormone testing, both in the four years preceding competition and throughout any competitive period. Nevertheless, right-wing media are attacking the rules, which USA Boxing says build on the consensus of several medical groups and international athletic federations.  On January 3, Fox News' America's Newsroom co-host Dana Perino referred to the eligibility requirements for trans female boxers as “nonsense.” Hosts and guests repeatedly referred to trans women as “men” or “guys,” and co-host Bill Hemmer quoted former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines' claim that “it will take a woman getting killed before these misogynistic fools wake up.”   Fox’s Outnumbered also said a woman could die because of the new rules, arguing that the regulations would lead to “one-punch killings.” Co-host Harris Faulkner cited Gaines' campaign against the inclusion of trans swimmers, misgendering Gaines' former competitor Lia Thomas in the process and expanding the panel's criticism to trans inclusion in noncontact athletic competitions as well. 

Despite such concerns over safety, coverage disregarded USA Boxing's medical citations, which include the recommendations of Boston Children’s Hospital Sports Medicine and Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital. Instead, for instance, The Ingraham Angle platformed the perspective of UFC fighter Colby Covington, who argued that “it doesn't matter what their hormone levels or pronouns are,” because “when they dig up their bones in 200 years, their bones won't leave pronouns.” (Actually, archeologists are capable of imputing that a skeleton may have belonged to a transgender person after more than 200 years.) [...] USA Boxing responded to backlash by restating that it is in compliance with federal law. The following day, U.S. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced twin legislation in both the House and the Senate that would “prohibit any governing body recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) from allowing men to participate in any athletic event intended for females.” 

A joint press release cited the USA Boxing guidelines and repeated right-wing media's anti-trans framing. Tuberville's statement claimed that “men should not be competing in women’s sports at any level—and especially not in a sport like boxing. Whether in little league or the Olympics, it’s unsafe, it’s unfair, and it’s just plain wrong. This bill will ensure that the Olympics are fair to American women who train their whole lives to represent our country on the world stage.”   The press release also cited the support of a number of anti-trans organizations, including the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Independent Women's Forum, and the Independent Council on Women’s Sports and quoted several anti-trans figures, including American Principles Project President Terry Schilling and — yet again — Riley Gaines. 

Right-wing media pundits, led by anti-trans grifter Riley Gaines, is leading the backlash against USA Boxing's trans-inclusive policy.

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Stephen Miller: "This Is a Truly Authoritarian Ideology from the Left That We Are Seeing in America Today - They're Laying Out the Template to Criminalize Speech" (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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