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Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Some People Never Change

They just pick new targets. Remember her? Well she has a history:

Fox News' Laura Ingraham is in the headlines for just the kind of thing she has always loved: being a troll. Back in 1984, when we were both enrolled at Dartmouth College, she secretly recorded a confidential support group for gay students, and published a transcript in The Dartmouth Review — complete with the names of the students at the meeting, students who were in the closet, back in the day when being outed could mean getting rejected for jobs and attacked by drunken frat boys.

Apparently, she's evolved. (Hide your irony meter.)

She also wrote an article in 1997 for the Washington Post about her gay brother's boyfriend and her evolution on gay issues. But she doesn't come clean about the 1984 Review article, which did in fact publish names of all the students at the support group meeting. However, she did say, "I now regret that at Dartmouth we didn't consider how callous rhetoric can wound—how someone like Barney Frank must have felt—not to mention how it undermined our political point."

Not to mention what it can do to your advertising revenue.

Like I said -- she's just picked new targets.

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