Last night, Laura Ingraham returned to the airwaves and pilloried The Left for trying to silence her and other conservatives citing the recent examples of Facebook censoring African-American Trump supporters Diamond & Silk as well as the cowardly firing of Kevin Williamson by The Atlantic not to mention the recent efforts to boycott her program after her criticism of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg:
We are indeed reaching a crisis point where cultural walls are being erected to constrict and still free speech in America. But we cannot let this continue. At the end of tonight's show I'm going to be announcing my response to this dangerous epidemic and what this show will do in the coming weeks to expose the perpetrators, their tactics, their major players and their funders. Their efforts are Stalinist pure and simple.
Laura Ingraham knows nothing of Stalinism. If we were in a state of Stalinism not having a TV program would be the least of Ingraham's problems. She would be in jail or she would be dead. Even if you disagree with the boycott of her show it doesn't rise to the level of Stalinism. From where I sit, this trivializes Stalinism as much as when The Left trivialized Nazism when they would compare George W. Bush to Hitler.
It's hard for me to take Ingraham seriously when she has enthusiastically supported boycotts of Dick's Sporting Goods for their decision to restrict gun sales and Keurig after they withdrew their advertising from fellow Fox cohort Sean Hannity. Let us also not forget she recently told LeBron James to "shut up and dribble".
Laura Ingraham is in favor of free speech as long as that speech doesn't express views contrary to her own. In this regard, she is no better than The Left, the so-called Stalinists she claims to deplore.
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