Lara Logan’s life has spiraled into profound insanity. And it is notable because her ‘before’ and ‘after’ are both very well known. When some run-of-the-mill nutter spews their conspiratorial madness, we assume they have always been that way. Many Americans have been intellectually stunted in a culture that celebrates ignorance and is suspicious of expertise. But Logan was once famously sane.
Now she is so far into the long grass that even Newsmax has had enough. They have banned her from their sandbox. It is hard to imagine that Newsmax has a line to cross. But they do. And Logan crossed it. Her rant on immigration, Satan, End Times, and secure borders ended the relationship.
In an interview with Eric Bolling, she warmed up with a commentary on the war between God and Satan.
“People of all faiths have told me this is a spiritual battle. I am a firm and solid and immovable believer in God. And I believe that God wins. I believe that good is greater than evil. And I believe that the fallen angel – otherwise known as Satan – doesn’t get to prevail in this world.
So, if you follow the Bible, or if you follow the Koran, or you follow the Book of Mormon, you know, people talk in various different ways about the End Times. And if you fight for God, God will fight for you.”
Bolling interrupted to ask Logan about God and immigration.“I have to ask you this because my audience is very God-fearing, God-loving, etc.,” he said. “Is God OK with a closed border?” Logan then went off the deep end. She started with God’s support for nationalism and ended with the bizarre claim that the global elites dine on the blood of children.
“God believes in sovereignty, and national identity, and the sanctity of family, and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time. And he knows that the open border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these people who are his stooges and his servants.
And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us. You’ve all known [historian Yuval Noah] Harari and all the rest of them at the World Economic Forum. You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches, and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not gonna win. They’re not going to win.”
Logan came to national attention as an insightful reporter who reached the pinnacle of war journalism. She made her bones reporting from Afghanistan in 2001 after she convinced the Russian Embassy in London to give her a visa. In 2002 she was hired by CBS News and in 2006, was promoted to Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. She continued to cover the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a reporter embedded with the US Military.
(NB: In 2011, Lara Logan was the victim of a gang sexual assault in Cairo. I mention it because it happened, but I am unqualified to discuss how sexual violence might have affected her. And it would be wrong for me to speculate.)
She was at the peak of her powers, but cracks were showing. Accused of losing her objectivity and becoming a shill for the US Army, she launched brickbats against fellow journalists who she thought were too critical of the military. She became a strident critic of Obama and his administration’s foreign policy. And she let this animosity infect her judgment in a flawed piece on Benghazi that CBS had to retract.
CBS forced her to take a leave of absence. And she sued New York Magazine for $25 million for its report on the dispute. The suit was dismissed with prejudice — meaning it was so warrantless that she was forbidden to refile it.
Her tenure with CBS ended in 2018. She landed up with the conservative Sinclair Broadcasting Co. And she provided pieces to Fox News Nation.
At Fox, she offered another piece of reckless insanity so paranoid Fox told her to pack her bags. During a November 2021 "Fox News Primetime" appearance, Logan compared Fauci, America's leading infectious diseases expert, to the Nazi doctor who worked at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
“What you see on Dr. Fauci, this is what people say to me, that he doesn’t represent science to them. He represents Josef Mengele … the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the Second World War and in the concentration camps. And I am talking about people all across the world are saying this. Because the response from COVID, what it has done to countries everywhere, what it has done to civil liberties, the suicide rates, the poverty, it has obliterated economies.”
This is a woman on the edge. And she offers a “tell” that she is lying. People who make things up always have “many people” who agree with the speaker. But they never produce them.
During an interview with conservative radio host Eric Metaxas, she revealed the reason for the schism with Fox.
“No, I was definitely pushed out. I mean, there is no doubt about that. They [Fox] don’t want independent thinkers. They don’t want people who follow the facts regardless of the politics.”
I agree with her that Fox has little use for thinkers and facts. But she has lost the plot if she thinks her screeds are fact-based.
Some might say that Logan is no worse than MT “Gazpacho” Greene. But I think there is a difference. Jewish Space Laser Barbie is a low-information nutter befuddled by the world’s complexities. She does her best to make sense of it all by lashing out at her political opponents, who are anyone to the left of Atila the Hun. Then she discovered she was good at it.
No one can explain how some people can connect with their audience. Cult leaders have the charisma to draw the weak-minded to their cause. Take Trump. He is a product of the coastal elite — a serial failure who has killed every business he has over touched. And he is a man who had to pay $25 million to compensate pensioners and other poor people whom he seduced into paying thousands for useless real estate classes.
But he has convinced rural white conservatives that he cares about them. And I would not be surprised if some of the people he screwed over with Trump University not only voted for him - but also sent him money.
Logan is not that. She is no cynical opportunist playing on weak-minded people’s fear of monsters under the bed. Rather, she is a true believer. She probably sees herself as a 21st-century Paul Revere warning the citizens that “the liberals are coming, the liberals are coming.”
It is so ineffably sad.
Surprising NEWSMAX found their bottom but I guess that's something, thanks Pitt