Ooo! - Laura Ingraham gets testy

Hat tip to Crooks & Liars for finding this one on the Web.

It's of conservative personality Laura Ingraham trying to rein in her frustration during the early days of her ill-fated show on Faux News Channel, Just In With Laura Ingraham. Okay, I'll admit, it's only mildly amusing, and nothing compared to Bill O'Reilly's now infamous, "We'll do it live!" expletive-laden temper tantrum. And I guess I have to give her credit for "Jesus God in Heaven!" line - I know I would have been much more, ahem, "colorful."

Anyway, just guessing, but perhaps this is why her show on Fox lasted about as long as The Half Hour News Hour the blue M&Ms at Rush Limbaugh's house.

Anything about Ingraham grabs my attention because of her past misdeeds, specifically urging her largely Republican listeners to clog a Democratic Party hotline during the '04 election, which was set up for voters to voice complaints about voter suppression and irregularities. This is also the same Ingraham who regularly boasts about having "gone to Iraq," which consisted of about seven days in the comfy confines of the Green Zone and being spoon-fed reports from the military about how great things were. I guess that's her definition of "progress" in that godforsaken country. (Yet another example of how our "free press" has failed us - real, genuine reporting from Iraq that isn't spun to death by the Pentagon is a rare animal indeed; we hear, read and see what they want us to, and little more, at least from the American press.)

Anyway, much, much more in a bit - I'm gathering up plenty of video and articles from the past few days - I've got plenty on my mind. Back in a bit.