It didn't last long -- just three weeks for Laura Ingraham's moment on Fox News Channel.
Just In... her hour long teevee scold-a-palooza was terribly written, and she, as always, was mean as cat shit-- that's a losing combination on the teevee.
What's more -- Ingraham, whose ultra-right, syndicated radio show is heard locally on KKOL (m-f, 6-9a), knew the teevee show sucked and as we reported, you could tell that from watching her face. Not good. But it was fun to watch her wince while she read the lame jokes off the Teleprompter.
(We don't like Laura Ingraham. Unlike so many men we mock her and refuse to cut her slack just because she's so beautiful).
Her apparent embarrassment and disapproval of the show's content came out in snide remarks and berating of staff and Fox News. It's all in “Train Wreck,” a new outtake video, a nine-minute compilation of Ingraham’s off-the-air bitchiness during the short-lived Just In. It's on Harry Shearer's website, mydamnchannel.com where you can find all manner of funny, and irreverent things about unfunny, reverent subjects.
These are no O'Reilly scale meltdowns. With plenty of eye-rolling and sarcastic under-the-breath mutters of "oh God," "Jesus God in heaven," which are exclamatories considered profane in the Christian community she allegedly walks in. Ingraham berates underlings for incompetence; sees a strange Hispanic man in her Teleprompter, and pronounces the show a “train wreck.”
She starts by questioning a script that has her calling a speech by Barack Obama “new tonight.”
“Why is this 'new tonight?'” she demands. “He gave the speech yesterday. That’s the Fox way of doing things?”
She complains about an “intro or a tease” that wasn’t properly edited as a stylist fiddles with her hair.
“ ‘Catch and release may work for fishing . . .’ ” she reads. “Oy . . . Get rid of all of this please. I don’t want to see this. It’s making me nervous.”
Later in the vid, Laura spies someone in a nearby doorway.
“If one more person opens that door I’m gonna nail that door shut during the show,” she says. “Who is that hovering in the hallway? Opening the door and hovering? I don’t want a hoverer. Geez. They’re hovering, opening and closing. Don’t hover at me.”
Laura is also fuming about her shiny forehead, show prep that doesn’t prep her for questioning guests; segments that are poorly timed; and people talking too much in her ear; "Don't come in my ear --just don't!
Then there’s the mysterious Hispanic man in her monitor. "He's an illegal," someone tries to joke.
“There he is!” she shouts. “Did you see him?” But the man got away, perhaps stealing her purse on the way out...
At the end, Laura sums up the show: “Oh my god, this is a train wreck,” and pulls off her microphone, and goes looking for the Hispanic man.
'..just because she's so beautiful).'
IMO: Hardly! ..just don't see it
Posted by: Duffman | July 22, 2008 at 05:12 AM
I really don't think Laura Ingraham is that hot. I mean, she's got a sort of I'm on my period constipated look on her face all the time.
Posted by: Upton | July 22, 2008 at 06:29 AM
Excellent depiction there, Upton!
Posted by: Duffman | July 22, 2008 at 06:36 AM
L'Ingr had a hysterectomy in 1975, so she no longer has periods. She is occasionally constipated, however... She is fabulously hot, beautiful, and an Ivy League grad (Dartmouth) besides. Wow!
That website is a gem, Bla'M! Thanks!
Posted by: fremont | July 22, 2008 at 09:15 AM
Old news. Seen and read it on Radio Equalizer on the 16th.
Posted by: nevets | July 22, 2008 at 09:33 AM
BM- Any idea what the "major on-air announcement" KIRO is going to be broadcasting at noon? Check out mynorthwest.com.
Posted by: Erin | July 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Could it be the Mariners thing...or has that already been firmed up?
Posted by: Duffman | July 22, 2008 at 10:43 AM
I wish I could marry her
Posted by: Andy | November 02, 2010 at 06:21 PM