A feud has broken out between Never-Trumper and CNN Commentator Ana Navarro and Fox News host Laura Ingraham. The feud first began on Wednesday, when Navarro asked Ingraham on Twitter, “Has Ms. Ingraham told Kanye to ‘shut up and sing’ yet, or does that only apply to anti-Trump black celebrities?”
Navarro's tweet references a book that Ingraham wrote fifteen years ago, arguing that celebrities have no business dabbling in politics; primarily focusing on the liberal political activism of celebrities such as The Dixie Chicks, Barbra Streisand, and Jackson Browne. Navarro’s tweet basically accuses Ingraham of hypocrisy, implying she was not so quick to condemn the pro-Trump activism of Kanye West. Ingraham had more recently attracted the wrath of the left when she suggested that basketball player LeBron James should “shut up and dribble” rather than go off on profane rants about President Trump.
Ingraham responded to Navarro’s tweet on Thursday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle: “I’ll make it clear to you, Ana, it applies to anyone peddling political nonsense while lacking the credentials or experience to do so.” Ingraham added, “I’m not about to cheer the political pronouncements of Kanye West,” stressing that “what Kanye West says or does in the days ahead, it’s less important than the conversation he started.”
Ingraham titled her monologue Thursday evening, which she calls “The Angle,” “The New Counter-Culture,” arguing that West’s decision to make supportive statements of President Trump in the overwhelmingly anti-Trump pop culture may serve as “the catalyst for an honest discussion about the coerced conformity of thought that the celebrity culture has imposed on all of us.”
Navarro continued the feud on Friday, firing off another tweet with a link to a Mediate piece with a video of Ingraham’s response: “Seems my little tweet got under Ms. Ingraham’s skin. She went after me on her show last night. Yawn. At least she’s attacking someone in her own age group, not just a high school kid who survived a mass shooting. Thanks for the airtime, girl.” That particular tweet references the backlash Ingraham received from advertisers after daring to make light of the fact that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and gun control activist David Hogg did not get accepted to several colleges he applied to.
Hoping for another mention on Ingraham’s enormously popular primetime show, Navarro sent out another tweet a few hours later: “Hey guys, this is the original tweet that got Ms. Ingraham’s nose bent out of shape. So, i thought I’d retweet it, so she has something to talk about on her show tonight. You gotta help a sister out. Retweet at will.”
For the record, Ingraham did not need any help finding something to talk about on her show Friday night. Friday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle did not mention Navarro at all, meaning that the feud has come to an end, at least for now.
The Ingraham Angle
04/26/18
10:06 PM
LAURA INGRAHAM: Fifteen years ago, yes, fifteen years ago, I can’t hardly, I can hardly believe it, I wrote a book called Shut Up and Sing, which was, in part, a critique of the political activism of all of these high-paid celebrities like the Dixie Chicks, Barbra Streisand, Jackson Browne, the list went on and on. The upshot is we pay them to entertain, we don’t want to be captive to their political pondering. Someone who, for some ungodly reason, does get paid to pontificate on politics, her name is Ms. Ana Navarro, tweeted at me today the following, she said: “Has Ms. Ingraham told Kanye, to ‘shut up and sing’ yet, or does that only apply to anti-Trump black celebrities?” I’ll make it clear to you, Ana, it applies to anyone peddling political nonsense while lacking the credentials or experience to do so, Ana. Well, I’m not about to cheer the political pronouncements of Kanye West just because he’s saying something nice about Trump. No. The political musings of uninformed celebrities, frankly, isn’t of much interest to me at all. But I’ll tell you what is interesting to me, the over the top reaction to a big star saying something truly counter-cultural today. That’s a great interest to me. Watching the left attack him for daring to break ranks with them, even in the vaguest of terms, talking about love and loving people, that is truly revealing. What Kanye West says or does in the days ahead, it’s less important than the conversation he started. And who would have thought that a bad boy like Kim Kardashian’s husband could be the catalyst for an honest discussion about the coerced conformity of thought that the celebrity culture has imposed on all of us?
