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iemanja

(53,032 posts)
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 09:26 PM Aug 2021

Former NRA spokeswoman & RW radio star, doesn't care if you call her a murder

Dana Loesch strides with purpose in chunky black unlaced boots. Past the wrought-iron chandelier and red upholstered dining-table chairs that evoke some medieval castle. Alongside the "predator wall" of horned creatures (mostly fakes), then a leopard-print banquette that seems only slightly smaller than a compact car. She was once the punk-rock chick with her head shaved and a nose ring. She was the Ozarks kid, who hewed to her family’s Democratic Party roots, volunteered for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and voted for Al Gore in 2000.

Two decades later, she is a scourge of the left, operating from a high-end home broadcast studio in this 7,500-square-foot, gated manse appointed in what she likes to call “Goth Liberace” style. Her undisclosed location is so closely held that she’s been known to ask visitors to sign nondisclosure agreements lest she be found by haters from her days not so long ago as the caustic, alternately reviled and adored, face of the gun lobby.


And of course she rails against mask mandates and vaccination. She herself isn't vaccinated. She transphobic and homophobic, at least for her audience.
She supports the soldiers who urinated on Afghan prisoners, and shocks even the NRA with her tactics. Meanwhile, she's grown to be one of the biggest RW radio starts in America.

While so many blue staters hadn’t been paying attention, Loesch had been developing, over the course of the past seven years, into a powerhouse conservative influencer. She is, by far, the highest-ranked woman in a field that has been dominated by older White men whose audiences are inexorably dying off.

“I’m able to talk about issues in ways that men can’t,” Loesch says . . .
Rush Limbaugh’s death created an opportunity and a test for Loesch. Since then, her footprint expanded significantly when she was picked up by the radio and streaming giant Audacy. The deal, which signaled a major bet that she could become an even bigger force nationally, meant she would replace Limbaugh’s show in multiple important markets. She is being introduced to listeners who might know her only as a Second Amendment crusader, rather than the host who has been delving into myriad topics for years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/dana-loesch-radio-right-wing-influencer/2021/08/29/d95692c0-fc4c-11eb-8a67-f14cd1d28e47_story.html

Who knows, she may soon appear on the list of COVID afflicted anti-vaxxers. Has anyone ever heard her show? I myself avoid RW radio.
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Former NRA spokeswoman & RW radio star, doesn't care if you call her a murder (Original Post) iemanja Aug 2021 OP
One fucked up person. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2021 #1
. NewHendoLib Aug 2021 #2
Women who identify as (R) can get a more lucrative grift on than as (D). nt Baked Potato Aug 2021 #3
Yuck. I knew they'd find someone worse to replace him. I wonder how applegrove Aug 2021 #4
"... a scourge of the left.." Meh... until this thread, I'd forgotten that dipshit was Carlitos Brigante Aug 2021 #5
I'd never heard of her iemanja Aug 2021 #6
She's basically Ilse Koch with a microphone. ZZenith Aug 2021 #8
She was doing infomercials hawking a beet-based supplement a year or two ago, and was bullwinkle428 Aug 2021 #7
"rising" as in failing to the top - it's so hard to have WASHINGTON-LINCOLN pics UTUSN Aug 2021 #9
Beet Juice hocker says what? F her. Bristlecone Aug 2021 #10

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
3. Women who identify as (R) can get a more lucrative grift on than as (D). nt
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 09:35 PM
Aug 2021

Opposites of stereotypes draw in ears and eyes. IMO.

applegrove

(118,642 posts)
4. Yuck. I knew they'd find someone worse to replace him. I wonder how
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 09:37 PM
Aug 2021

she is going to pull off the growing misogyny the GOP will use to peel off more black, white and Latino men come election time.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
7. She was doing infomercials hawking a beet-based supplement a year or two ago, and was
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 10:21 PM
Aug 2021

introduced in the presentation without reference to her NRA-related shit. It almost seemed like she knew that career was dead in the water, and she was trying to resurrect herself. I guess Limpballs' death opened a new door for her.

UTUSN

(70,686 posts)
9. "rising" as in failing to the top - it's so hard to have WASHINGTON-LINCOLN pics
Mon Aug 30, 2021, 11:54 PM
Aug 2021

She would join Mary Todd LINCOLN in physically and emotionally abusing Abe.






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