Back in December I was switching through channels and let FOX News stay on for a couple of seconds - long enough to hear Laura Ingraham snarl how “The Left hates it when Americans celebrate a traditional Christmas…” so I said Jesus Fucking Christ! and turned the channel, marveling at how within just five seconds they’d managed to spew out such a divisive, disgusting lie. And then shrugged it off the way I always do. Just like we’ve all been doing for years.
And then I did something I almost never do… I thought about it.
I’m a leftist, and I don’t give a damn how other people choose to celebrate their holidays, and all my friends and family are also leftists and I know for a fact they don’t give a damn either. The whole notion that we would is utterly absurd, and furthermore Laura Ingraham damn well knew it. So the obvious question is “Why? Why did she say it?”
And you know what? It’s been over two months since then and I still can’t find an innocent answer to that question. Every possible explanation I’ve come up with has not only been ugly and deeply disturbing but historically led to no logical conclusions that didn’t involve people getting herded into boxcars and gas-chambers. Simply put, Laura Ingraham wanted the people watching her show to hate me and my family and my friends. She wanted them to hate us for things we were in no way guilty of, and to do it on a deep, visceral level. In fact, I’ll even go so far as to say she was priming her audience to kill us.
A sizable portion of America now hates liberals with a passion, and it’s not because they got their asses handed to them in bar fights with an intersectional feminist yoga instructors from Marin or that their mothers abandoned them as children in order to follow the Grateful Dead with Marxist sociology professors. It’s because for the last 30 years they’ve been groomed to hate us by FOX News and a handful of demagogues on AM Radio, and we’ve been ignoring this fact very much to our peril.
To their credit, FOX tried to distance themselves from Trump in the primaries, but since then they’ve been riding that ugly, orange syphilitic tiger to a point where they have now literally become a mouthpiece for treason. Laura Ingraham, Tomi Lahren and Judge Jeannine are nothing but a traitorous bouquet of Tokyo Roses and Colonel Mustard here isn’t funny anymore either.
Having allowed this crap to go on for so long I’m not sure what we can do about it now, but I sure wish someone would ask Rupert Murdoch and the executives at FOX what the hell their endgame is. And where the fuck Laura Ingraham gets her ideas about Christmas.