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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.
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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