new CNN show host’s history of dirty tricks

This is who CNN feels is acceptable to host programs:

Think Progress » AUDIO: Laura Ingraham Tells Listeners To Jam Voter Protection Hotline:

Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline.

After playing a recording of DNC Chairman Howard Dean promoting the line to voters, Ingraham suggested her listeners call en masse:

Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time.


Starrlets & Scaife Babies:

Ingraham got what she called her “first experience as an activist” at the new right’s flagship campus publication, the Dartmouth Review. Following in the footsteps of her one-time fiance’, Dinesh D’Souza, she served as the paper’s editor-in-chief; in line with the paper’s bigotry-building tradition, Ingraham sent a writer to infiltrate Dartmouth’s new Gay Students’ Association, published transcripts of the meeting and sent secretly recorded tapes to the parents of the members of the group (CounterPunch, 9/95). She also did a stint at Princeton’s Prospect, a magazine founded in 1972 by right-wing college alumni to protest the opening of the university to female students.

Ingraham went from college to the White House, where she was a domestic policy adviser and speechwriter under Reagan. She participated in biweekly meetings of young “Third Wave” conservatives at the Heritage Foundation–which called her a “young conservative leader” to watch in a 1987 report.

Ingraham later clerked for Judge Clarence Thomas in his pre-Supreme Court days. Ingraham, like many IWF members, participated in Women for Judge Thomas, an ad-hoc group that attracted media attention for defense of Thomas against Anita Hill.

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