Loesch Biography
Dana Loesch is an American radio and television broadcaster, former NRA spokesman, and Breitbart News writer and editor. She hosted the Dana show on TheBlaze TV from 2014 to 2017 and has been on other television networks.
Loesch Age
Dana is 46 years old as of 28 September 2024. She was born on 28 September 1978 in Missouri, United States.
Loesch Husband
Dana married Chris Loesch, a music producer, in 2000. Chris took over as manager of Loesch. For eight years, the Loesches homeschooled their two kids.
Loesch Family
Loesch was brought up in a Southern Baptist extended family by her mother, Gale. According to her, she is descended from Georgia Cherokees who were “moved on the Trail of Genocide” and subsequently included on the Dawes Rolls. Her paternal grandmother also gave her Irish ancestry.
Loesch Health and Illness
Loesch’s career has been significantly impacted by her health issues. She has occasionally needed to take time off from work to attend to her general and mental health. The public’s response to her move has been divided; although some applaud her decision to put her health first, others have questioned her dedication to her job.
Responses to Dana Loesch’s health problems have been mixed. Numerous admirers have offered their sympathy and support, valuing her candor about her difficulties. Social networking sites have been a double-edged sword, offering her a forum for support but also subjecting her to scrutiny and criticism.
Loesch Career
In 2007, Loesch launched her website “Mamalogues” and started writing for St. Louis Magazine. Later, from KFTK-FM in St. Louis, she hosted The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative on Radio America. She was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers by Nielsen ratings in 2008 and one of the St. Louis Business Journal’s Top 30 Under 30.
Andrew Breitbart founded the conservative website Big Journalism in 2010, and Loesch was appointed editor-in-chief. She won the 2012 Grassroots Journalism award from Accuracy In Media and was hired as a political analyst in advance of its coverage of the 2012 election. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was held in Loesch in 2013.
Loesch filed a lawsuit against Breitbart LLC in May 2013, alleging that she was obligated to “what amounts to indentured servitude in limbo” after being forced to end her employment because of a toxic work environment. In 2013, she and Breitbart came to a non-monetary settlement.
Dana, Loesch’s daily TV program, made its premiere on Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze TV in 2014. She left KFTK-FM in St. Louis in November 2017, but WSDZ quickly took over the show.
Loesch attacked Donald J. Trump throughout the 2016 Republican presidential primaries and supported Ted Cruz. She has emerged as one of the Trump administration’s most well-known “passionate defenders” since his win.
In 2016, Loesch called the mainstream media “the rat bastards of the Earth” and declared her desire to stop some news reports from inciting violence against journalists. A number of Audacy, Inc.-owned stations began airing Loesch’s radio show in June 2021.
In a guest appearance on FOX News after the August 8, 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Loesch called the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home “stunts” and claimed that President Biden is too ashamed to represent the Democratic Party in the 2024 US elections.
Additionally, Loesch was featured in NRATV commercials and served as the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) special assistant to the executive vice president for public relations from 2017 until June 2019. She has received death threats as a result of the issue over her remarks supporting the NRA.
In 2017, the National Rifle Association launched a contentious advertisement that sparked an uproar by urging Americans to equip themselves to against liberals. Conservative commentator Anne Applebaum attacked the advertisement, saying it framed Americans against each other and promoted a “us-vs-them” mentality. Loesch, an NRA spokesperson, defended the advertisement, saying it did not support violence but rather denounced it.
The New York Times was referred to as a “old gray hag” and an unreliable rag by Loesch in a second video that the NRA published in April 2017. In August 2017, NewYorker.com editor Michael Luo gave the video further attention, calling it “strikingly bellicose even by the norms of the group.”
Loesch asserted that the FBI had become politicized in 2018 after criticizing the agency’s handling of warnings prior to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. She subsequently said that reducing gun violence was not the NRA’s job.
In a March 2018 NRA film, Loesch turned an hourglass and told media personalities, politicians, and celebrities, “Your time is running out.” The clock has begun to tick. She defended Philando Castile’s shooting by police in September 2018.
A lawsuit brought by artist Anish Kapoor against the NRA for the 2017 video “The Violence of Lies,” which included Loesch, was settled in December 2018. Loesch was no longer employed by the NRA as a paid spokesperson when the organization severed its relationship with Ackerman McQueen, the advertising firm in charge of creating NRA TV, in June 2019.
Loesch Net Worth
Dana has an estimated net worth of $3 million.