Laura Ingraham's podcast was bigoted, propagandistic, and a grift. If it's finished, it won't be missed.

After less than a year, Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s podcast has seemingly come to an unceremonious and quiet end. The Daily Beast reported on December 3 that despite PodcastOne’s intention to bring back the podcast after a lull in early October (and the fact that subscribers are still being charged), no new episode has been released in two months.

Ingraham’s podcast began in January 2019 after she ended her daily radio show. During the next nine months, her podcast frequently succumbed to chaotic release dates and poor editing. Additionally, one episode featured Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Committee as a sponsor of the show, apparently “running afoul of Fox’s unenforced rule that the network ‘does not condone any talent participating in campaign events,’” as the Daily Beast reported.

Ingraham’s podcast created a disastrous record as a platform for hatred and bigotry, paralleled only by her appalling Fox News show. And with the podcast over by all indications, it seemed appropriate to compile the top 10 worst moments from its brief run.

Ingraham asked if the cast of the musical Hamilton is guilty of cultural appropriation for portraying white people.

From the February 7, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Oh my god, we have gotten into knock-down, drag-outs on that show The View over the years. You were there I think for one of them. Huge fights. I will say to my last breath that Joy Behar in, as represented in a Halloween costume, a costume about an African woman is not a racist. OK? She's not a racist. And to say that she is now or two-and-a-half years ago because she dressed -- is absurd. We can't have any -- now we can't even celebrate someone in costume. We can't celebrate someone.

ARROYO: One of my favorite Shakespeare films, and it's very, its kind of crude by today's standards but in the 60s, Lawrence Olivier recorded opposite Maggie Smith Othello and he plays Othello and he's completely in blackface. He does it from head to toe in black grease paint. Now is that a racist depiction?

INGRAHAM: They wouldn't be able to do that today. They would say you would have to have an African American doing it. But what about when they did Hamilton and when they made white people Nlack people?

ARROYO: Right, or exactly. George Washington as a black man.

INGRAHAM: Is that not that culturally appropriating the other race? Like if its, if its just about cultural appropriation, does it only go one way? That's interesting. I didn't think about that Hamilton thing until just now. I love Hamilton. See I think it's fine, I think it's all cool. Switch it up. I think that art and theater--

ARROYO: I don't like the idea that only an actor who is that race, that creed, that lifestyle can portray that character. That's absurd. That we don't need theater, we don't need film, we don't need imagination if you can't play act anymore. I mean, Olivier is unbelievable as Othello.

Frequent guest Joe diGenova said “we are in a civil war” and recommended that everyone buy guns.

From the February 21, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

JOE DIGENOVA (GUEST): We are in a civil war in this country. There's two standards of justice, one for Democrats one for Republicans. The press is all Democrat, all liberal, all progressive, all left - they hate Republicans, they hate Trump. So the suggestion that there's ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future in this country is over. It's not going to be. It's going to be total war. And as I say to my friends, I do two things - I vote and I buy guns.

Ingraham claimed that America is plagued by “white-aphobia.”

From the February 28, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Well, back to the collectivism mindset. But she forgot Christophobia and I guess white-aphobia -- we're running out of phobias and isms here Dr. Steele. I'll let you take a swing at that one. So you can't talk about identity politics - another way for them to shut conservatives up.

SHELBY STEELE (GUEST): They're on the defensive because identity politics are inherently racist. They divide us up by color, by ethnicity, by gender and so we're automatically set at odds. I mean identity politics is every bit as divisive as segregation was, as racism of old was.

Ingraham and sometimes podcast co-host Raymond Arroyo complained that “Galentines Day” is just about “male-bashing.” Arroyo recommended that men established “Malentines Day” to counter the day.

From the February 12, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

RAYMOND ARROYO (GUEST): There is a kind of implicit male bias --

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): It is male bashing.

ARROYO: It is. It's women's friendship on the rebound from a bad relationship. That's what it sounds like. 'We're going to get together and commiserate about the men who've done us wrong.'

[...]

ARROYO: Do we get to have a 'Malentines Day'? Because they have a 'Galentines Day' do we get a 'Malentines Day' where we can, like, watch football and I guess, you know, hit the clubs. I mean, is there a male counterpart?

Episode guest Pat Buchanan claimed that reparations were unnecessary because more people died in the Civil War than the number of slaves brought to America. In a later episode, Buchanan said the United States has not “fully assimilated African American citizens.”

From the March 28, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): We give 1.3 million green cards, which I think is way too many, every year in the United States. Most Americans polled say -- think it's either -- keep it the same, or lower the number.

PAT BUCHANAN: Well, the point is, in these -- 90 percent of these are folks coming from what you might call the second or the third world. And people are, you know, people are fundamentally, basically good, but there's no doubt there's a greater difficulty in assimilating people from different civilizations and cultures and ethnicities and races in the United State, than there -- than other folks.

And we know this is true, African-Americans have been here since 1619. They've helped build and create the nation. They're part of its culture and history, and yet we haven't fully assimilated African-American citizens.

At the same time, we're bringing in millions and millions of people. We're conducting an experiment, which, you know, it -- to me, I'm a pessimist. I just -- it's not working, it seems to me.

But Ms. Harris, what is she saying, I mean -- she's -- virtually, in the first part of it, the comment she made, she's calling for open borders. That's the end of countries. I mean, the world, the United States becomes a giant Mall of America.

INGRAHAM: [LAUGHS] Well, here's what we know for sure. We know that at this clip, America as we know her today will be completely transformed, which is, I think, their goal.

BUCHANAN: The Republican Party will be finished.

INGRAHAM: Yeah, the Republican Party will be done. So, most of Central America will have moved to the United States, and Mexico, people will just come and go, but -- although, it's easier to deport people to Mexico.

But once you have that critical mass in the country, and with this birthright citizenship thing, which also Trump said he was going to deal with, then you -- then you're off to the races. And I don't think that that -- and when I say “races,” I mean, like, running races or horse races.

I don't see how that is going to end up with more freedom, more peace, and more prosperity, and more -- I don't. That's what I'm concerned about. Forget the English language.

Buchanan recommended that President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” be recreated so undocumented immigrants can be deported.

From the February 6, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): 72 percent approved of the immigration position in the speech. Thats -- what did we say. We always said--

PAT BUCHANAN: I think the way he describes it, if you talk about border security and keeping out folks who are walking in illegal and who are basically getting in and piling into the welfare state and bankrupting the country and keeping the criminals out, I think that is a winning position.

...

INGRAHAM: There was no debate about Operation Gatekeeper. It was just a bipartisan thing. Of course you got to enforce the border. That's how crazy things are today.

BUCHANAN: I think, I believe and I may be mistaken, but I believe that there was a time when Walter Mondale and Cesar Chavez went down to look at the border and said we got to stop folks from coming in and taking the jobs of our farmworkers here. And when Ike [President Dwight Eisenhower] did it back in 1952/53, it was called “Operation Wetback,” but he sent those folks back and they were not wildly controversial. Everybody felt, look it's our home and we got an immigration policy, and these folks are breaking the laws and breaking in and we are going to send them back.

INGRAHAM: Eisenhower deported 80,000 people.

BUCHANAN: Yeah Ike eventually got a million -- a million went home, and they were sending them back on buses and ships and everywhere back there to Mexico.

Ingraham commented on the reparations debate by saying, “It's called conquest. ... We won, you lost, that's that.”

From the June 20, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): People would argue that the whole world, and I would, that the whole world has been reshaped by people taking other people's land. I mean, it's called conquest.

...

They want to live in a fake world. As Trump always says, “You don't get do-overs.” No do-overs, that's it. There was an argument, sometime -- I think it was the 1980s. There was a quote, you won, we lost, that's that. Describing world politics, we won, you lost, that's that. That's just the way it is.

An episode guest claimed that trans people were trying to “create a new species.”

From the March 27, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Their goal ultimately is the destruction or elimination of the traditional family, though, is it not? That's what we really want to get at here. That's really what's going on. If masculinity is bad and men are inherently going to be patriarchal unless somehow we can train them, and beat this out of them - to be protectors and to be courageous, all these things that we impugn upon men - well if you get rid of all that, then the traditional family itself collapses and that's one last bastion of Western Biblically-centered morality that enveloping our, and has helped us prosper, frankly, for millennia and advance in millennia.

PAUL NATHANSON (GUEST): Yes, that's true. I think that the trans people have taken it one step further because by abandoning gender altogther, not simply re-writing it, they're basically trying to use social engineering to create a new species. Which is what, in fact, the transhumanists have been doing for the past half century. Using medical and other technologies to develop a new species. So the goal is really quite radical. We're not talking about people who want to simply do a bit of reform here and there, add a new category. They want, they must, in fact, destroy whatever is in order to replace it with what they think should be. We're talking about revolution, not reform.

INGRAHAM: And the new species will be looking like what? Will be part human part animal? I mean, will be human mostly --

NATHANSON: I think human and part machine.

INGRAHAM: Part machine.

Ingraham accused Democrats of trying to “repopulat[e] the country with new people who don't really have an affinity” for America, saying, “They’ve successfully done that in states like Virginia.”

From the June 19, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

CRAIG SHIRLEY (GUEST): Deconstructionism of the left. I would submit -- all those things I agree with you entirely, and the reason the country has changed and for the worst is because the left in America, and it's the Democratic Party that's changed for the worst because they have adopted a Jacobin view of the world, a deconstructionist view of the world. And instead of the constructive Democratic liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John Kennedy, they've embraced the radical socialism of George McGovern and Jesse Jackson and other leftists whose real goal is -- and Trump was right. Trump was right last night when he said last night that their goal was to destroy America. He's absolutely right. Their ideological goal, like the French Revolution, is to destroy the culture and society of America. Destroy property, destroy money, destroy family, destroy respect for each other, destroy the rule of law in order to re-order society with themselves on top but create a new utopia, so to speak, in which everybody has nothing. We have to all start over in order to create an equal playing field so that we all start out with nothing and the ruling class is on top. That's what this is about.

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Well replace America with a new electorate, 150,000 a month -- you can do a lot with just repopulating the country with new people who don't really have an affinity, because of our public schools and no assimilation, into American history. They're doing it. And they've successfully done that in states like Virginia and they're trying to do it in even rural areas now. And again, Republicans' -- their unholy alliance with the Chamber of Commerce and all these big money people -- they've just kept it all going.

Laura Ingraham called Planned Parenthood “butchers” and her guest said it is responsible for a “Black holocaust.”

From the April 4, 2019, edition of PodcastOne's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): We are calling you on the hypocrisy of saying “Black Lives Matter,” when many in your leadership do not believe that, because they countenance what Planned Parenthood has done, in selling this lie of abortion to the African American community. Selling this, as some type of solution, when it's ended up slaughtering African-Americans who could be leading great lives today.

So, when people say “Black Lives Matter” -- you bet, you bet they matter. So, why allow these -- these butchers into your communities? Why let them do this to you? Of course, why -- white people -- why, any of these people? Big money. It's about big money in politics, and their PACs, their political action groups, all -- they rake in money.

RAYMOND ARROYO: A lot of black pastors will tell you they are incensed by this. There is an awakening in the black community, particularly in the black churches in the inner city, and they are outraged that other leaders in the past have not only been embraced by Planned Parenthood, but embraced them back, and actually supported their work in the community.

And now they realize what -- what many of these black pastors have told me, is a black holocaust. They see this as a black holocaust in their community, a black genocide. And this -- and there's no way you can't see that, these are innocents.

Laura Ingraham's podcast was bigoted, propagandistic, and a grift. If it's finished, it won't be missed.

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