https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/nra-dana-loesch-violent-rhetoric-mike-pence/
In a profile published this weekend in the Style section of the New York Times, National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch was dubbed a “telegenic warrior.” Earlier this month, Loesch was joined on her nationally syndicated radio show by Vice President Mike Pence, who lavished her with praise. “I’m a fan,” Pence told her, noting that she has “an awful lot of fans back in my home state of Indiana.” They went on to discuss what Pence called the Trump administration’s “extraordinary” first year and what Loesch described as the media’s “desperate ploy” to undermine it. Pence thanked her for her “great voice all across America.”
But Loesch, who has long been a voice for far-right media outlets, has built her profile over the years on ugly rhetoric. Examples include referring to gun safety advocates as “tragedy dry-humping whores,” and bullying a paralyzed gunshot survivor. She has said that penalizing a gun owner for not storing a weapon properly is akin to “shaming a rape survivor,” and that the the political left is “godless” and responsible for “letting terrorists in” the country. More recently, she aimed to menace the New York Times in a video for the NRA; attacking the Times’ coverage, her sneering monologue evoked “a shot across the bow” and vowed, “We’re coming for you.” (For Sunday’s article, she took the Times reporter to a shooting range, ruminated about her childhood, and spoke of her Christian faith.)
Loesch and her vicious compatriots are the new brown shirts:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-spitting-jennifer-longdon-dana-loesch/
Dana Loesch and other right-wingers react to MoJo’s exposé on gun bullies by attacking an assault victim.
Last week, Mother Jones published an in-depth report exposing vicious, degrading tactics used by gun-rights activists against women, from Arizona to Texas to Indiana. In response, right-wing pundit Dana Loesch and others have claimed that an assault on Jennifer Longdon—a mom, gun owner, and gun violence survivor paralyzed by a bullet—is a hoax. Their attack on Longdon (and Mother Jones) is as inane and illogical as it is wrong.
As I reported in detail last week, a man who recognized Longdon as a gun-reform advocate from a television broadcast approached her in the Indianapolis airport on April 25 and spat in her face. Loesch says that because no video evidence of the attack was presented with the story, it simply could not have happened. “I was in the same airport on April 25th and it was quite busy,” she wrote. “Should be easy to obtain security footage.” Beyond Loesch’s faith in the 24/7 surveillance state as the new standard of fact-finding—nothing is true unless you roll tape!—her comrades say that further proof of a conspiracy rests with CNN supposedly monopolizing all TVs in the Indy airport and having “no record” of the Longdon footage. Got it.
Longdon spoke to me in detail, in multiple interviews, about what she went through in Indianapolis. It was one of several such incidents of harassment and bullying she has endured over several years as an outspoken woman and advocate of gun reform. I confirmed her account of the spitting attack in the airport with other people who she spoke to about it at the time of the incident. The additional harassment and stalking she endured in Phoenix last year, also detailed in my report, was corroborated by a Phoenix police official directly involved in the csse,
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