NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch has been threatened and called all kinds of repugnant things for years. The people now telling Loesch she’s a child murderer aren’t as creative as they might think.
Recently, Bill Maher repeated a false claim that Loesch was a show business wannabe who failed.
“What you may not know about Dana Loesch is that before her job as NRA spokesmodel,” Maher said — using a misogynistic description to minimize her expertise in firearms and successful career in writing, punditry, and debate — “she was a show business wannabe, a homemaker in St. Louis with a mommy-blog and a radio show and dreams of TV stardom.”
His source was NCIS producer Paul Guyot:
Dana Loesch came to me 10yrs ago pitching a sitcom starring herself: “A hot young mom who does far right radio show.” Said her age & looks would make 1 side hate her & 1 love her so everyone would watch. Was obsessed w the potential fame & money. I turned her down.
— Paul Guyot (@Fizzhogg) February 22, 2018
My memory is she was consumed with the idea that she was super hot & right wing, so that rare combo (her words) HAD to mean she could get rich & famous. Guess she found another way to her goal.
— Paul Guyot (@Fizzhogg) February 22, 2018
As I’ve watched her career ascent, I believe she realized that the more out there she goes, the more fame and money she gets. And I guarantee you she’s more about that than she is guns. Which is kinda worse, actually.
— Paul Guyot (@Fizzhogg) February 22, 2018
Loesch fired back, claiming Guyot is lying:
Also, I’ve had an agent handle my business for years. Why would I cold call some strange rando? Bizarre skeezeball trying to hitch his name to mine for press needs to take a hike. I’ve never had an interest in tv beyond what I do now.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 24, 2018
In reality, a decade ago Guyot had only a handful of credits to his name. Meanwhile, Dana had a radio show which kicked off in 2008. And that “mommy blog?” It was actually Loesch’s weekly column for the St. Louis Dispatch.
In 2007, she won an award for best columnist in St. Louis.
Her career in journalism was doing quite well — and she was already a hell of a lot more famous than Paul Guyot was or is now.
Yet he frames it as if she was desperately begging a guy who had, as of 2008 … produced 22 episodes of Judging Amy. Literally a “rando.”
It’s not likely that he would be anyone’s first choice at that point in his career — or now — so how does he explain her finding him?
The Daily Wire’s Frank Camp writes: “According to Loesch, the pitch alleged by Guyot never happened, making this a he said/she said issue unless and until Guyot can produce some kind of corroborating evidence to back up his claims.”
I think Guyot is full of it. As for Maher, he should have known better. He’s been doing this long enough to know how to check his sources.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member