Pity Poor Laura Ingraham

For someone who believes her First Amendment freedom is speech is being curtailed by the “Stalinist” left, Laura Ingraham sure does a lot of yapping.

Ingraham played herself a tiny violin the other night because libruls have been so mean to her, boycotting her just because she mocked a minor for not getting into college. She complained about the “left-wing retaliatory hit squads” on her nationally televised show, telling millions that she’s being stifled. You know us liberals: Once we disagree with your opinion, it’s the gulag for you. Nobody will ever hear from you again and your opinions go into the dustbin of history.

When Ingraham calls today’s atmosphere Stalinist, I imagine this is what the USSR was like under Joe Stalin. The two eras are indistinguishable. The Soviet Union back then must have been full of oppressed people, blabbing on their nationally-broadcast radio shows about how Russian dog food brands and Russian travel companies boycotted them because those state-controlled companies are so mean. Everyone would hear about how silenced and oppressed they were. It’s like someone put tape over their mouths while simultaneously giving them a huge megaphone.

Excuse me, Laura, but didn’t you just recently tell LeBron James to “shut up and dribble” when he expressed an opinion about politics? James was able to handle your criticism like an adult without nailing himself to a cross, so maybe you can, too. You did something dumb by calling out a minor by name and the free market decided it didn’t like that so they called you on your shit. This is your own fault and you should have known better than to say something stupid and bullying to a teenager. For Christ’s sake, you’re a grown woman.

But the government is not shutting down Ingraham’s show. Nobody is arresting her. She’s free to say what she wants every night, and we are free to disagree or not watch her or challenge her or not advertise on her show. A lot of people like her who scream “First Amendment!” may actually want to do some cursory research on what the amendment means.

Pity poor Laura Ingraham, working for America’s most popular news outlet, which has a direct line to the ear of the president of the United States, whose party controls all three branches of government. They’re all being silenced.