Laura Ingraham Deletes Post Linking to Controversial Anti-Immigration Website

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham again found herself doing damage control Monday night, after she posted a link from a controversial anti-immigration blog on Twitter.

Ingraham tweeted out a link earlier in the day to a VDARE article titled “Jeb Bush Denounces Americans Who Don’t Want To Be ‘Changed’ By Mass Immigration.” Shortly after, it was deleted, but not before the Contemptor’s Justin Baragona got ahold of it.

Looks like she’s deleted the tweet. Here’s a screenshot pic.twitter.com/tPdQDAnVaA

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 24, 2018

Ingraham then issued a mea culpa, saying she “mistakenly tweeted a link to a website that I in no way condone” while trying to highlight a National Review interview with Jeb Bush.

A short while ago I mistakenly tweeted a link to a website that I in no way condone—only wished to highlight NRO podcast intvw w/ Jeb Bush on immigration. Tweet deleted. Thanks for the heads up!

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 24, 2018

VDARE, an anti-immigration and white rights website, has become a hub for white nationalists and the alt-right. The Southern Poverty Law Center defines VDARE as an “anti-immigration hate website.” Peter Brimelow, the website’s founder, has argued that while the website publishes white nationalists, it is not a white nationalist website.

Popular article tags on VDARE include, “Anti-White Hate Crimes,” “Immigrant Mass Murder”, “White Guy Loses Job” and a nod to the favorite book of anti-immigrant white nationalists, “Camp of the Saints”.

The accidental retweet comes a month after Ingraham complained on her Fox News show that “the America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people.”

The comments prompted a swift backlash — as well as an endorsement from David Duke — prompting Ingraham to disavow white nationalists and clarify that her comments were not about race.

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