Laura Ingraham lectures people about decency. Lulz.
by digby
So the woman who shot to wingnut stardom by appearing on the cover of New York Magazine in a leopard print mini skirt is now lecturing young women about dressing modestly in public so they don't get raped:
Yes, that's a shockingly revealing dress. It shows the girl's arms and upper chest as well as her legs below the knee. Why she might as well be naked.
Ingraham elaborated on her radio show:
INGRAHAM: These are still girls. There are probably young women, probably 9th or 10th grade. And at the same time we're worried about date rape. At the same time we're worried about misogynistic behavior or making comments about peoples' appearances and bullying and all these other things. How about start with the way we appear in public. The way we treat people. How we speak to them. The language we use. And I'm sure a lot of these girls that dress this way, I'm sure they don't know any better.
"If we are trying to remind people that it's what's inside that counts, your heart, your spirit, the whole person," Ingraham instructed, "let's really ensure that the first thing a young boy sees in a girl is not her cleavage, or, you know, her pubic area because her skirt is so short."
Yeah. Let's have them covered from head to toe like the Dugger girls. Or maybe a burka. No, not that. Burka's are worn by dirty foreigners who are polluting our culture just by existing in this world. A nun's habit.
But perhaps Ingraham should have a chat with some of her friends who might be giving the impression that dressing in a sexy fashion is ok:
Or maybe Ingraham could have a talk with her boss, Roger Ailes:
The number of Fox News upskirt screenshots on Google is mind-boggling. It seems to be an entire industry. And most of them are far more revealing than the one I posted above. I'll bet those women would love to wear pants once in a while, just for comfort's sake. But they're not allowed to. I wonder why?
I do agree with Ingraham about one thing, however:
How about start with the way we appear in public. The way we treat people. How we speak to them. The language we use
Uhm, Pot? This is the kettle calling. You're black.
Here's was one of the most disgusting things anyone has ever done on hate radio and that's saying a lot considering her cohort. It was on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination:
Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham attacked the speakers at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, at one point using the sound of a gunshot to cut off a sound bite of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) -- a man whose skull was infamously fractured by a state trooper on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, AL, in 1965. Ingraham used the speech's anniversary to race-bait about black-on-white crime statistics and hosted Pat Buchanan to bemoan the idea that minorities face any higher level of adversity in America 50 years later.
Actually, now that I think about it, when she said that girls should be mindful of how they treat people and the language they use, she probably meant that they should treat racial and ethnic minorities like dogs and denigrate them as often as possible. Of course.
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