In e-mail blast, Ingraham calls Meghan McCain a ‘useful idiot.’
In e-mail blast, Ingraham calls Meghan McCain a ‘useful idiot.’
In an e-mail message today titled “useful idiot watch,” right-wing talker Laura Ingraham sends a “Memo to Meghan McCain,” claiming that her “plus-sized” attack was just “one satirical line” that the left is now using “to malign outspoken conservatives.” Ingraham claims that “indignation” over her “off-the-cuff remark” is “manufactured and totally phony“:
The left’s indignation in this instance is manufactured and totally phony. If any off-the-cuff remark about a woman’s size was condemnable, then where was the outrage when President Obama made a passing reference to Jessica Simpson’s “weight battle” during his Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer? And of course they look the other way when obvious personal attacks are levied against conservatives. Remember when Al Franken was the toast of all media for his book “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”? Last month The View’s Joy Behar called him a “fat guy”; and when I was a guest on The View a few years back she ridiculed Ann Coulter and me as “peroxide” blondes on Fox. I laughed it off. If you can’t stand the heat…get out of the punditry business.
In a nod to ThinkProgress, Ingraham closes her e-mail by encouraging her readers to “click here to listen to the entire segment from March 13th, instead of the version that was edited and sent around by left wing smearmongers.”
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March 16th, 2009 at 9:38 pmShut up you stupid b itch. Blonds are dumb c—- anyway.
Oops seems I made an off the cuff remark…
March 16th, 2009 at 9:38 pmUm Laura sweety. You need to stop swapping purging tips with ManCoulter.
Jez sayin
March 16th, 2009 at 9:40 pmThe left’s indignation in this instance is manufactured and totally phony…
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Huh? Are these mindless, chattering idiots ever responsible for anything they do or say? This is getting hysterically funny. The wingnutters are turning on each other w/ an increasingly rabid ferocity… and yet ,somehow… it’s…
All The Liberals’ Fault™…!!!
Just… amazing… and incredibly entertaining.
You go, Laura!!! At least 23% of the country will follow you and Rush and OBillo right thru the Gates of Hell!!!
March 16th, 2009 at 9:41 pmAnd Laura Ingraham is a USELESS idiot, plain and simple.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:42 pmWell, she can keep trying, but there really is no defending yourself when you have no class and no substance.
When anyone who doesn’t endlessly repeat talking points from your ideoligical perspective, just telling them to shut up or calling them names is not debate. It just shows that you are indefensible.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pmShorter Lauraperoxide:
I was just joking.
Hmmmmm, where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah, ManCOulter.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:44 pmLaura is another out of control republican heading for that cliff. Watch her put the pedal to the metal.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:45 pmUh… correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t much of the criticism directed at the fact that Laura’s “plus-sized” line had nothing whatsoever to do with what Meghan McCain had said? that it was simply a gratuitous personal insult, juvenile and classless?
Isn’t that a valid criticism of a pundit?
March 16th, 2009 at 9:46 pmThis entire thing is stupid, it doesn’t provide anything but entertainment. You need to stop covering this shit, this is what’s wrong with the TV box, this is why we need the internet to transcend this.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:48 pmtranscend entertainment?
March 16th, 2009 at 9:51 pmThis is the most attention Laura’s gotten in a long time. Bet she feels special.
(i think the whole thing’s a put-on)
Laura owes Meghan a little thank you note for raising her profile for a week.
Meghan probably owes Sarah P. a similar note, come to think of it.
“Next week, on Bad Girls….”
March 16th, 2009 at 9:51 pmThe left’s indignation in this instance is manufactured and totally phony.
Wrong – Ingraham is such a phony and superficial byatch. She couldn’t come up with anything significant or mature to say. The only thing Ingraham and Coulter can do is attack and offer zero solutions. They’re both useless.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:52 pmShe sure is showing a lot of biceps.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:57 pm(wildland firefighters) Watchout situation #5
Uninformed on strategy, tactics, and local hazards.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:58 pmI’m sure she understands when I call her a horse-faced cow.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pmSomeone help me out here… is Laura saying that personal attacks based on appearance are totally cool?
“Cause if so, I’m down with that.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pmThat was just for entertainment purposes.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pmShe’s Ann Coulter without the “yeeeeeeeeeessssss!” they’re all alike the white wretched right wing hags. Hateful and mean spirited with nothing to contribute but rage and dysfunction.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:00 pmHmmm…Laura says something degrading about Meghan. Meghan fires back. Laura says it’s the Left’s fault.
Cheney says the economy isn’t Bush’s fault. Many GOP blame Clinton. Also 9/11 happens on Bush’s watch, but still Clinton’s fault, GOP says.
GOP/media now saying Obama owns economy and apparently it’ll be his fault if he doesn’t fix it.
Apparently the GOP are blameless for everything wrong that has ever happened under the sun.
So how does mass delusion work? There’s a book in here somewhere.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pmI think you’ve identified a pattern, Vincennes. I suggest studying it further.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:05 pm“Useful Idiot”
Pot calls Kettle Black.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:05 pmwhere was the outrage when President Obama made a passing reference to Jessica Simpson’s “weight battle” during his Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer?
I don’t recall the remark, but is a “passing reference to a weight battle” the equivalent of a persona; attack making fun of someone’s weight?
Dayum, those wingnuts love them some flexible moral equivalencies, don’t they?
March 16th, 2009 at 10:08 pmGet over it, Laura. You’re just not that important. Meghan wasn’t personally offended by your classless remark as much as she condemned you using an irrelevant weight slam to make your point (did you really have nothing better to criticize?). And Meghan even explained why, but you were probably too busy wallowing in self-righteous indignation to listen.
We live in a society where women are taught to hate their bodies. The body must always be thinner, the boobs must always be bigger — we are taught to find imperfections and obsess over them. Anorexia and bulimia are killing our young women as they strive for an impossible ideal. And here you are — the most effective way you can cut another woman off at the knees is to make a slam about her weight.
Meghan looks perfectly fine the way she is. But you should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating one of the most toxic aspects of our culture — the idea that a person’s worth (especially a woman) rests in her size.
Oh, and for what it’s worth, I was never a fan of Al Franken’s book title. Yes, Rush is fat, but that’s not what makes him a loathsome person.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:09 pmSpot on, as usual missmolly.
I find the contemporary “ideal” ridiculous, myself. Big breasts and small butts just don’t occur naturally together.
Al Franken’s book title, I believe was originally supposed to be “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Liar” which is arguably more defensible as a funny title, since “big fat liar” is a familiar childhood phrase (and was used as the title of a decent little Frankie Munoz movie), and rather funny when applied to a more-or-less grownup human. The fact that Rush is and always has been fat complicates the joke, admittedly. But Al Franken IS a comedian by trade (or is, at least, until he takes his seat in the US Senate).
March 16th, 2009 at 10:15 pmI don’t know about coordinated mass delusion. That might require more planning and organization than these morons appear capable of.
At least for me, their strategy is quite effective at sapping my energy. With the constant deluge of stupidity, I barely can muster the strength to laugh, cry, protest, or otherwise respond to the inanity. Any more of this, and I may succumb to nonsense overload.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:15 pmIngraham’s a skank, I wouldn’t touch her with rushs’.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:17 pmWell said, misshusseinmolly.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:18 pmOMG. Does Ingraham want to go there? Insulting American women? Dear Lord! We have finally reached Oz.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:24 pmA recommend to you misshusseinmolly!
March 16th, 2009 at 10:25 pmMissMolly@24, Ditto.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:25 pm.
Laura Ingrate sinks to her usual shallow depth.
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:26 pmI call dibs on the Laura’s ruby slippers P.D. ;]
March 16th, 2009 at 10:26 pm.
What?!?!?!
Does Laura Ingrate not have a substantive thing to say that she has to resort to personal slams?
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:27 pmAnd in defense of Franken’s book, which I read and “useless idiot” obviously did not, the insult on the cover of the book is a retort to the fact that Limbaugh made fun of Chelsea Clinton, then an awkward teenager, by calling her a dog on his national radio show. Al was making a point, rather than making a pointless person attack on another person’s appearance. Laura really is as dumb as she seems.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:29 pm.
Laura Ingrate Said:
So, Meghan’s indignation concerning your comment about her weight means she’s on the left? Or is it that you mean she’s a phony?
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:34 pmI think Laura would find your outrage “manufactured and totally phony”, Max.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:34 pmThis beotch is just like the rest of the (R)ushpunklicans.
IOKIYR
I would hope that gals like Meghan Mcain and other young Republicans are REALLY beginning to see the light.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:35 pmIf there is any hope, it will only come from the XGen(?)youngsters that can understand and actually learn from history that being rabidly neocon is fataly flawed for Everyone.
Laura Ingrahm is a shill. I live here in Phx,Az surrounded by conservative talk radio and I listen to her just to hear her spew her nonsense(what does that say about me? LOL)
She never has anything really insightful to say..never.When it comes to topics that she cannot comment on she will just say…”how disturbing”.or “how tedious”
Some of her other lovely descriptions for those who do not believe in the way she does..
Matt Lauer..”Hair in a can Matt”
Michael Moore..”Two dinners Moore”
Howard Dean..”Deankey”
Clever eh?? And her two assistants who come across like Heckyl and Jeckyl are as nasty as she is.
And one of her truly amazing statements was the fact that she thought The Daily Show with Jon Stewart wasn’t funny.
Yet “Matt hair in a can” is..
And her book “Shut up and sing” who the hell does she think she is? She worked for Clarence Thomas..so she feels that what she says is more pertinent than what Barbara Streisand has to say?? Her being a lawyer makes her more keen to what is going on in the political landscape…and pop culture where she comentates daily on the subject
Someone from the left should write a book entitled . “Shut up and just litigate”
You think a woman who survived breast cancer and has recently converted to catholicism would show her fellow man a little respect and love.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:37 pm23.ralph the wonder llama Says:
I don’t recall the remark, but is a “passing reference to a weight battle” the equivalent of a persona; attack making fun of someone’s weight?
I remember the incident, and it contributes to Laura’s disingenuous-ness. Obama was stripped out of his own family cover-photo on the cover of an ‘Us-Weekly’ magazine in order to include an inset shot of Jessica Simpson with the title, “Inside Jess’ Weight Battle.”
After being kidded about the edit, (Lauer having compared the before-and-after edited photo,) Obama simply repeated the magazine tagline as an understatement regarding editing out the President of the United States.
Laura is a scumbag liar who’s trying to cover her hypocritical gaffe by blaming Obama and liberals.
Seems the bigger the republican guilt, the more liberal cabals were involved….
March 16th, 2009 at 10:40 pmMeghan McCain is one good looking women. I think we know what all the fuss is about, good looking babes are suppose to be airheads period. I don’t think Ms. McCain is an airhead! I believe we are seeing the very very dark of Dittoheadland. Even their females (Ingraham) are caught up in the Rush brain freeze. Must be contagous.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:41 pmLOL Ralph,
March 16th, 2009 at 10:41 pmYep. Manufatured and phony.
Kinda like her extentions and boobs.
Max-1 Says:
LOL Ralph,
Yep. Manufatured and phony.
Kinda like her extentions and boobs.
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ripened or unripened?
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pmClearly, it is essential for these talk show hosts to re-affirm their “street cred” with their audiences by intentionally butting their heads against the boundaries of social decorum. Then, if there is any response, their audience rallies to the flag to defend their martyred hero.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:46 pmO.K. seriously,
Here Meghan was on a political talk show the other day attempting to contribute to a lively discussion. Albeit, she lacks credibility on many topics due to experience, yet she was treated by her host as if her opinion mattered.
Now, here we have Laura Ingrate throwing knives and sharpening her claws and attempting to draw blood from Ms. McCain. Is she jealous or something? I mean, every time I hear people resort to slamming someones persona, it usually is driven by an inner diva dying for attention.
… And the only attention Laura Ingrate should be getting currently, is a line of women throwing their heels at her!
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:47 pmLet’s just bring it on down here to the real. It’s time for Laura and Meghan to enter the mud pit and fight it out like real women. You know what I’m sayin?
March 16th, 2009 at 10:47 pmManbrake66,
Not sure what it makes you, but I laughed too.:]
I wont bother to ask you about the BC facts, I will use the Google:}
As a State Az is cool, don’t let the wingnuts there push you to the wall;] My folks are in Mesa and Sierra Vista, like true republicans, they are snatching up “forclosures” all over. Kinda makes me ill when I think about it.
Anyhoo..
March 16th, 2009 at 10:47 pmOnce again Ingraham has put her narcissistic foot in her mouth. She typically blames a liberal media conspiracy when her shallow observations are pointed out. She often spearheads an attack with a physical description of her victim but lacks the intellectual power to follow up with anything meaningful.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm.
Laura Ingrate sure does exemplify the (R)ushpublickin’ division Meghan McCain was addressing…
… I guess Laura’s busy proving Meghan’s point for her, NO?
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:58 pmjoe cantwell,
March 16th, 2009 at 10:59 pmWhen it’s silicone, does it matter?
Ingraham is ridiculous. She picking on a woman half her age.
repugs are fighting everywhere. They can’t get the basics straight. This is a slow meltdown.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:00 pmIngraham is pathetic, losing a fight with Meghan McCain. Losing badly. Meghan seems like a nice enough young woman (not that bright and her politics are silly, but she is John’s daughter) and is correct not to be ashamed of her weight (it’s not like she’s even fat, but I guess being over 95 pounds is fat to the anorexics like Ingraham and Coulter).
It is funny (and fun) to see the GOP eat their own with these petty 4th grade fights. At this rate, by 2012 the Whigs will have a better chance to get elected
March 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pmWhat I find gratifying about all the GOP infighting (and, I suspect the reason TP posts so much of it,) is that it showcases republicans’ inbred/innate and consistent childishness, particularly when any real world pressure is applied.
As one motivational speaker once posited, ‘When you put pressure on an orange, what comes out is what’s inside: orange juice.”
When you put pressure on a republican, what comes out is what’s inside: bile.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:10 pmlaurie don’t go out like an evil, useless, immature repug bytche.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:11 pmWhy are progressives coming to Meghan McCain’s defence is beyond me:Meghan stood on the same stage with some of these regressives souls when they mocked & lied about Obama during the campaign ,calling Obama a terrorist & un-American.Now Meghan suddenly has a “come to jesus” moment.Good I say let ‘em eat their own.Because the next campaign Meghan will be out there campaigning for another soulless Repuke & calling us un-american.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:12 pmRoket Says:
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Let’s just bring it on down here to the real. It’s time for Laura and Meghan to enter the mud pit and fight it out like real women. You know what I’m sayin?
Hey Roket, I like your idea. Lets sell tickets.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:13 pmThis link actually WORKS!
March 16th, 2009 at 11:17 pmWarning: it does link to the beotches site. If you can’t make yourself go, just hover to see the URL. No need to click;-]
i think i know what we’re all saying here;
we’d like to see meghan and laura go on
“dancing with the stars” and compete against
each other. isn’t that we’re all saying here?
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March 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pmThe fact that Meghan went on the view and whined to garner the left wing feline support shows her true colors.
Libs, you can have her because she is obviously seeking the attention of other useful idiots.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:21 pmoh tee f’in hee Tim…
the thing is, you don’t have any choices at this point, tough guy…
just pray you can keep treading water, and grab on tight anything that floats
you and Meghan and Joe and Sarah have a great time out there, k?
March 16th, 2009 at 11:23 pmVincennes – how could you forget Dana Purina giving Bushie by credit for the mild stack market rally last week. This gets funnier by the day.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:23 pmOh lawd, President Obama was referring to simpson’s article in the mag.
And search: j.simpsonobama
This old repug lie has been proved to be a lie, of course.
shoo troll shoo.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:26 pmOh my God, Meghan went on a Femnist program.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:28 pmWhere are the Pitchforks and Torches?
Tim, the typical right wing fascist, ready and of so willing to throw someone overboard who does not goose-step to the destructive and failed party line. Party before country, Tim’s American hating motto
You are the pathetic loser, get used to the trash heap of history where garbage like you belongs Maybe Rush will give you a reach around there to comfort you.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:28 pmTim43 Says:
The fact that Meghan went on the view and whined to garner the left wing feline support shows her true colors.
Libs, you can have her because she is obviously seeking the attention of other useful idiots.
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she got your attention.
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March 16th, 2009 at 11:28 pmTimmeh 2 Just as stupid, just as pointless. As Timmeh 1. A trolls, troll. Ignorant and insulting. So this is how you spend your time. Chanelling Bozo the Clown. What a punk you are. Do you ONLY come in here to prove how abjectly stupid you are?
March 16th, 2009 at 11:28 pmTim43,
March 16th, 2009 at 11:29 pmDoes this mean Elizabeth is manufactured and a totally phony?
gene,
timmeh 1 is timmeh 2.
with plenty of number 2
to spread around.
:)
March 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pmOh, and Tim,
March 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pmI’m gonna use Troll43 logic…
… You coming on this blog proves just what, then?
60. tombaker Says: just pray you can keep treading water, and grab on tight anything that floats
you and Meghan and Joe and Sarah have a great time out there, k?
Heh…
March 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pmwatchout5, aren’t you missing American Idle?
Let’s get ready to RRRUUMMMMBBBBLLLLEEEE!!!
In this corner, we have Ingrahambone weighing in at at a minus 80 IQ against her “plus sized” opponent, Meghan McCain. Where does Delta Burke fall (look out!) on the political spectrum. That’s what I’m waiting for, the heavyweights. Flush Lemmingbaugh versus the entire island of Cuba. Between rounds, maybe Chuck Norass can break boulders with his head when he’s not running for president of Texas.
When these retards, though Meghan McCain seems more ignorant of facts than actually retarded as her current opponent is, start to sling anthrax, then it will cease to be amusing. Until then, pass the popcorn.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:42 pmA friend told me that Meghan is a size 8. That hardly is plus sized. Laura is an a$$.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:44 pmSomewhere theres a person backed up to a wall because of this politically incorrect cat fight…
March 17th, 2009 at 12:15 amAfter the 2004 election I slipped into despair. It was a bad Thanksgiving and Christmas. I thought about moving to Amsterdam or Vancouver.
Who would have thought that in 5 short years it would come to this? A black man with a middle name of Hussein getting elected president with the help of millions of small donations. Big majorities in both houses. Senator Al Franken! Bush leaving at 25% approval, Cheney @ 6%. Cat fights between RNC chairman and Boss Rush Limbaugh. Between Newt and Boss Limbaugh. Between Frum and Boss Limbaugh. Between Laura Ingraham and Meghan McCain. The rise of Joe the Plumber. Of Fancy Pants Palin.
Not even in my wildest DMT trip could I have conceived it!
Er, I mean dreams…
March 17th, 2009 at 12:17 amYou would, I wager, be defending her had John McCain won his bid for president.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:19 amThis is just sooooo typical of Reichwingers…
…spew hate from every direction no matter where it came from…
…cat fight….and these don’t go down well…
…oh, goody.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:25 amLaura sweetie,
All this time you thought the cancer that ate your tits and made you the bitter b*tch you are was in remission, but it appears that it is eating away at the brain cells. Sure sorry to hear that you don’t have long to live.
So sorry. Was that inconsiderate? Rude? Insensitive? I guess if you can’t stand the heat stay the fck out if the kitchen.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:25 amAnd while we’re at it, damn QWERTY all to hell for putting the i next to the o.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:29 amUmm… maybe because progressives aren’t necessarily the vindictive, hate-filled, party-over-country Borg colony that the “loyal opposition” is proving itself to be.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:32 amLaura Ingraham is no Ann Coulter. Coulter is nothing more than a shock jock, much like Don Imus. Ingraham at least has a head on her shoulders even though she is nearly always wrong-headed and mixed up as she is here in taking on Meghan McCain for being “fat”. It’s fun to watch.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:32 amActually, Ingraham calling McCain a “useful idiot” is a complement, given that Ingraham is a “useless idiot”.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:37 amWait, did Laura just call Limbaugh “fat”?
Let’s see…
Remember when Al Franken was the toast of all media for his book “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”?
Why, yes, she did!
Now, if we could only get you to acknowledge George Bush is an idiot…
March 17th, 2009 at 12:41 amIngraham is such an idiot herself. Her comparison of her hateful attack to Obama’s reference is ridiculous. Ingraham deals in hate & insults. McCain was correct, Ingraham just shows women -Republican women in particular- that if you voice a critical opinion, you will be attacked personally and your appearance ridiculed.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:45 amAnd you, Miss Fox-Unnatural-blonde who unfortunately has no husband, has borne no children, and sadly, has NO LIFE, are an USELESS idiot!
March 17th, 2009 at 1:02 am90in6 Says:
God you are stupid. Do you even try to think before posting such outlandishly ignorant tripe?
March 17th, 2009 at 1:12 amStop it your making Glenn Beck cry!!!
March 17th, 2009 at 1:22 amAmazing that Ingraham continues to belabor the point and is just a wee bit defensive. It still appears to me that SHE’s not laughing off the whole situation since she is the one being criticized here in response to a College Student’s perspective. Whereas, Ingraham has the benefit of years to develop her “thick skin” – the college student is still learning her way…
Interesting.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:18 amI hadn’t really noticed before, but does Ingraham have the same Adam’s apple as Coulter?
Let Ingraham and McCain hiss and meow at each other. But can they do it in the inquirer? This is like the Britney Spears and Lindsy Lohan fall out.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:10 amMeghan McLame needs to push herself away from that all-you-can-eat smogasboard a little more often, those trans-fats are going to her head. I have no interest in anything she says, she’s simply trying to retaliate because her daddy got his butt kicked by an inexperienced Dem last November because her daddy ran a Bob Dole campaign. The only reason the elder Mclame was within 20 percentage points was thanks to Sarah Palin — and what did she get except a kick in the chops every chance he got to give her one. Meghan, you drop about 80 pounds, lay off the rum-n-cokes and maybe in 20 years you’ll have something important to say.. maybe. I think you & your running buddy Lindsey Graham need to come out of the closet, admit you’ve been kicking it since last Fall, and take your lumps now. You are, in a word.. pathetic. I voted for Palin by the way, a real shame you daddy got the credit for my selection. Won’t happen again.. thank gawd.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:51 amnickatdabeach Says:
OK dude. We have seen your ignorance explosion. You are stupid and delusional and not only dont have anything rational to add but wouldnt know rational from the Upanishads. Tell the nurse its time to increase your medication and PLEASE run Sara Bimbostien in 2012.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:42 amWelcome to the world of Women!!! This type of cattines goes on a lot, and it’s a great way to keep women looking as silly as they are….and I’m a woman, I know.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:47 amwe must excuse Ingraham…it’s the cancer talking.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:47 amFor the person who posted that Meghan McCain and other young Republicans were seeing the light, you better hope not. Liberals have the most to fear when conservatives coalesce. While GWB and the neocons have done a number on the GOP, there is hope. And lots of it is being supplied by the Democrats daily. For all of the hero worship of the past election cycle on the part of the liberal media and the talk of “hope and change”, there is scant little of it.
Pelosi is acting just like her GOP predecessors in her running of the House. Obama is just as inflexible and arrogant as Bush. That is not the worst part though. Both parties are responsible for the mess we are in right now. The Community Reinvestment Act concerned itself with correcting the abuses of banks in the practice known as red-lining. While this liberal law was well-intentioned it created the environment that gave birth to the subprime mortgage debacle. Bush and the Republicans took advantage of this insanity to keep the economy operating on the fumes of imaginary equity because the stimulative effects of the tax cuts had passed. The Dems took full advantage of this horrible notion to further the possibility of their socialist ideal: everyone owning a home. Private property only has worth stemming from exclusivity of said right. Moreover, homes or anything else only have value based upon on the laws of supply and demand. Everyone can’t have everything or nothing has value. That is a linchpin principle of capitalism.
The subprime mortgae mess is a textbook example of why we need a third party in this country. The right too often appears to obsessed with concentrating wealth and ignoring the plight of the truly disadvantaged. The left lives in a space that sees the world through the eyes of class warfare and identity politics. The Democratic Party has never quite thrown on off the Marxist view of society and it shows in how they govern. Obama is a prime example of a liberal who passed the halls of academia and is ensconced in all the nonsense that holds sway there. All the liberal university wackos think they have helped elect the Messiah. He is going to right all the wrongs of history and make all the corporate evildoers pay. He is going to bring peace and love and total happiness to everyone everywhere. And if you disagree you aren’t allowed to speak.
Same people who railed against the Bush administration for trying to quash dissent now act as if you are insulting God if you dare not agree with BHO. At the least you must be a racist. And all of a sudden liberals have respect for the office of president. John King interviewed Dick Cheney over the weekend and actually had the unmitigated gall to ask Cheney if he really wanted to say what he had just said about the president. “You are speaking of the President, you mean to say that about the President of the United States of America?” That was rich indeed. How much of that kind of TLC did good ole George W. get from the lefties at CNN?
In closing, I go back to my original point. When the Republicans stop the internal squabbling and come together the Dems are in trouble. The left is still the left and out of ideas. It is an ideology that lives in the past and derives it strength from dividing people along all kinds of lines. The Republican Party has traditionally best represented America the idea. We are supposed to be one nation and not little fiefdoms based on race, class, ethnicity,sexual preference, etc. If only the GOP would wake up to its natural strengths as the party of thrift and hard work and the guarantors of true liberty as described by our Founding Fathers. They need to find their way out of the extremes and quickly. The damage that is potentially going to visited upon this country by the people in power now truly frightens me. For now, I am an independent, but when the GOP gets its act together I will gladly become a card-carrying Republican again. While I grew up a Dem I could never vote that way again.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:02 amEven as we speak, the Heritage Foundation is preparing a report proving the entire Bush II administration was Bill Clinton’s fault.
Forgiving the Neocons
March 17th, 2009 at 5:26 amThis doesn’t involve the left. Meghan McCain replied to Laura Ingrahm, I listened to her(LI) and no explanation was needed. It seems to me that the two loudest republican women who are really making the party look bad are Ann Coulter and Laura Ingrahm. They are part of the reason that the party is becoming irrelevent. Even when I agree I can’t tolerate that kind of hatred toward people, toward my fellow Americans. They sure seem threatened by McCain, as they should. They say the absolute meanest things about people and then throw in Religion while they are still being really mean.Ingrahm sometimes appears to be wearing a crucifix that she took down from her wall around her neck to make her point. Sisters used to tell us to put Jesus closer to our hearts by covering the chest with clothing. Not that you shouldn’t wear anything that shows your chest just don’t wear your crucifix when it shows. Grace is suppose to come from within. I don’t really think Jesus wants to be involved in politics. He is really above all of this! McCain is reasonable and smart, we need more of both and she seems to be what young republicans are looking for!
March 17th, 2009 at 5:37 amhonestly, do you expect any better than hypocrisy from someone who writes books rallying against elistism yet proudly crows in her bio on the book’s back cover she graduated from dartmouth?
March 17th, 2009 at 5:46 amThis a woman who continues to swallow the “Iraq was involved in 9-11″ bullshit Bush and his neocon handlers sold to this nation has lost a lot of crediability with me.
Laura is a cancer survivor and really not all bad. She has to be loving the outcry…otherwise she couldn’t get arrested.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:57 amOh how funny. Laura Ingraham is a lollipop stick with an evil cannonball lollipop for a head.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:48 amWell, that explains why some Americans remain stupid when we find out they will stay home on a Friday night to watch an Evil Muppet subliminally telling them to form armed militias against the American people.
What you don’t know is the American people are sick of all of you and it’s YOU who make our nation unsafe!
Down with the Domestic Terrorists!
March 17th, 2009 at 7:52 amLaura wants some publicity. She probably has aspirations for office. Coulter didnt take on Meghan McCain’s challenge, I wonder why this never-heard-of-wanna-be Laura Ingraham is talking a LOT now. She has nothing important to say just like the rest of republican hicks. And let’s face it, McCain was f****ed up the a** by the repugs because he is a decent man just like her daughter. Look how the repugs handled his campaign. Now, who’s running the GOP?? Racist bigot hicks.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:20 amAs a member of the “left”, I’d just like to say that I have no “indignation” (Who is this Ingraham person? From a clip I saw on TV, she’s Ann Coulter’s wannabe sister?) despite the fact that I’m a fat girl myself, but I am amused by the infighting on the right.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:41 amLaura, no one on the left is indignant. The only one who is indignant is Meghan McCain. The rest of us are just enjoying the catfight.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:46 amI object to the phrase “left wing smearmongers.”
Pop Quiz: which American political party gave us the following terms?
Witch hunt
March 17th, 2009 at 8:46 amEnemies list
Dirty tricks
Watergate
Hate radio
Hate crime
Gay bashing
Smear machine
Swiftboating
Vote-flipping
Rovean politics
walruswheedchick Says:
Coulter didnt take on Meghan McCain’s challenge, I wonder why this never-heard-of-wanna-be Laura Ingraham is talking a LOT now.
So Coulter is the Santelli in this scenario, and Ingraham is the Cramer…
March 17th, 2009 at 8:47 amThis is the thing that kills the right-wing pundits. They slip off-base and savage (to coin a phrase) themselves.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:55 amAs long as they’re just fluffing up the far-right-angrycrowd, they’re just fine. Their audience loves them, and most people don’t pay attention. The MSM runs the teeniest bit of interference for them, and the Machine works.
But then Rush goes after Michael J. Fox, mocks his Parkinson’s, demonstrates his complete ignorance of the disease, and, further, that he couldn’t care less.
A lot of people now know Rush for that incident alone.
And now Laura goes after the Republican candidate’s daughter by calling her ‘plus-size’. And when the daughter fights back, Laura won’t back down, and attacks–the liberals.
People know less about Laura than about Rush, so this is going to be 90% of her public image from here on in.
The fact is Laura “she-wolf of the SS” Ingraham is incapable of producing satire or comedy. She uses the fig leaf of satire for her meanness, her hate. Worst yet, she is handicapped by her second rate mind and is incapable of teh funny, except the unintended.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:52 amI love this – Ingraham and her cohort Coulter are contributing to the realization that rightwingers are cruel and meanspirited.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:05 amMcCain writes a column critical of Coulter. Ingraham calls her fat. McCain sez kiss her butt. Ingraham sends out an email blast which begins with… the left?
WTF does this have to do with us? More hypocrisy from the Personal Responsibility crowd blaming everyone else in sight.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:30 amYes, but America has a population of some 300 million which means 299+ million had better things to do than watch Glenn ‘Dr Jack Daniels’ Beck. Besides that, even with all these ratings about some pundit popularity contest people keep spouting, the GOP has been losing since 2006…
March 17th, 2009 at 11:20 amAnd conservatives thought they were so funny when they ridiculed the looks of nine year-old Amy Carter and twelve year-old Chelsea Clinton.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:58 pmIt takes one to know one Laura.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pmGod what a bottom feeding child. You stay classy Laura.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:34 pmI used to listen to Laura Ingraham’s podcasts via iTunes, both because it’s important to “know your enemy” and for pure entertainment value. Since Obama’s election, she has become increasingly MORE shrill and obviously unhinged. I recently deleted her podcasts from my lineup as she now is simply over the top.
May God have mercy upon Maria, her adopted daughter from Guatemala.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:07 pmDear Laura,
Are you now willing to admit…in a court of law…that all Republicans are idiots?
Are you willing to take a lie-detector test?
March 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pm