Laura Ingraham's opinion on the merits of a protest movement seem to vary considerably from month to month. Ingraham recently characterized protestors in Ferguson, Missouri as a "lynch mob" and downplayed the story as a "local, criminal" story, but in April the radio host helped to elevate the standoff between scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy and federal law enforcement agents while suggesting his supporters' violent threats against the government constituted a mere "act of civil disobedience."
On August 14, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham complained that the events were receiving too much attention and suggested Brown's death was nothing more than a "local, criminal" story. Ingraham, a nationally syndicated radio host and contributor for both ABC and Fox News, blamed the media for sensationalizing and nationalizing the story, claiming the media presence "perpetuates the unrest and the discontent on the ground."
"You bring in the satellite trucks," Ingraham said, "And then people start playing to the cameras on scene."people like her are what gets those same trucks out there and twist whatever they are told
Ingraham's disdain extended to the protestors, whom she grotesquely equated to a "lynch mob."
Conservative media outlets hyped the situation at the time, and gun-toting, (mostly white) militia members subsequently streamed into Nevada from across the country to confront federal agents of the Bureau of Land Management with threats of violence. As some protestors set up sniper positions with guns aimed at federal officers, and others warned that enforcement efforts against Bundy would be met with violence,
Ingraham appeared on Fox News to help nationalize the story and suggest the NV protestors were merely engaged in "an act of civil disobedience." The Bundy Ranch confrontation, according to Ingraham, was the front lines of a larger, national battle against federal government land grabs, and she characterized the use of 200 agents needed to enforce the law as "a ridiculously disproportionate response."
On her radio show at the time, Ingraham even characterized Bundy's supporters as "new Freedom Riders," likening them to a renowned group of civil rights activists who protested segregation in the 1960s.
wonder what she called the true freedom riders. that is an insult to the movement and using that reference in comparison to a racist lawless group of republican armed and carry lunatics is unforgiveable, will ABC pay for their collaboration with such a hateful person? these persons are not what the new America considers as patriots but more so as fringe crazy's we let the right wing arm and carry and scare Americans and they love it to them it's power over others, live by it die by it even if you don't carry it.
