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Laura Ingraham vs. Meghan McCain | 03/19/2009 12:15 pm

Laura Ingraham Defends McCain Remarks (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
© Getty Images

Laura Ingraham has received a lot of flack for her recent remarks about Meghan McCain.

Of course, there was yesterday’s "useful idiot" remark, but most people point to her "plus-sized" comment as the most egregious. And apparently Ingraham’s a bit sensitive about it, because she took some time last night to defend herself while guest-hosting Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show.

Let the record show: I never called Meghan McCain fat! She isn’t!

And as I have repeatedly said on my radio show and on Fox, she is an attractive young woman. If that throwaway comic line highlighted anything, it was Hollywood’s obsession with stick-figure women!

Ingraham later said that the controversy distracts from her main point: McCain’s not a politician and doesn’t have the experience necessary to be an effective commentator. The left wing, she insists, is simply using McCain to smear the right. She is a "willing accomplice," said Ingraham. Do you agree?

Here’s video of Ingraham on last night’s program:

22 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

caj p

Meghan isn’t allowed to speak for herself where any of the Fox folks are concerned she must keep up the same old spin they have been using for years.  She has never professed to be a politician but is interested in it and therefore she is within her rights to speak as she truly feels, if it doesn’t go down with the party that’s too bad.  God forbid there should be someone who actually has a new and different outlook for the party going forward…she is not from the same outdated playbook as them and it does not sit well.  The more they try and downplay this young lady the more she will fight back and stand up for herself against them and their old ideologies that need a revamp like yesterday.

By caj p on 03/19/2009 12:40 pm
Libra Lady

Wow should have shown the other clip of the woman she had on, I think from huffpo and how she ate her lunch….she couldn’t defend herself when Laura asked her about the where was the outrage when Gov. Palin was being trashed and called names or about calling Rush "fat"….no double standard there….she explained that she was just repeating what Meghan had said about her self about her weight…so I guess you are not allowed to imitate and repeat what someone says about them-self.

Where is the outrage where Laura was wished a brain tumor….knowing she is a cancer survivor…and bashing her 3 yr old child….oh…wait…that’s ok…I get it now!!!

By Libra Lady on 03/19/2009 12:40 pm
Libra Lady
Haven’t heard from Meghan for a few days…guess she already made her spot light rounds in the media…I bet she is spending the day with Ashley Judd!!! 
By Libra Lady on 03/19/2009 12:42 pm
S.J. Morgan

She didn’t IF you listened to the broadcast….she used Meghan’s recorded comments and interjected her own in between as if it was two valley girls conversing in a parody which she often does for humor on her three hour radio show!

She has been a strong advocate for young women exploited by Hollywood and if you knew anything about her you would know that!

Her comment was condeming Hollywood for using anexoric woman! and adding Meghan’s own case for normal plus sized woman.  Unlike Meghan Laura took the time to research Meghan and her stand on issues..and they were light on politics and heavy of fluff of tattoos and dating. 

She did admonish Meghan for being used because Racheal Maddow or the View would not likely have booked her except for her comments about how the Republicans should be more Moderate to attract young people.  And also bad mouthed Ann Coulter also without knowing her stand on the issues taking only the Liberal soudbites that have been used against her.

It exposed Meghan’s ingnorance on the issues of BOTH Ann and Laura and the Liberal media jumped on it to deflect their own problems.

As John Gibson said… it is a Liberal plan right out of their play book..he said …. "If a Dem has a Bad day…another Conservative Talk show host or REpresentaive  will have a worse one"..that is their goal!

By S.J. Morgan on 03/19/2009 12:52 pm
DeBúrca obj

This woman represents the Right Wing very well… Ingraham, Coulter, Limbaugh… the soul of the Republican Party.

But the point remains, all this woman is after is that Right Wing Hack cash cow… the more reprehensible the comments, the more attention from the ‘fans’. 

By DeBúrca obj on 03/19/2009 12:59 pm
S.J. Morgan
Deb..do you feel the same contempt for those on the Liberal side who do the same?  Olberman, Maddow,stewart, Mahar….
By S.J. Morgan on 03/19/2009 1:20 pm
DeBúrca obj
They don’t do the same, not even in the same category. You should try watching them. But you would probably think they were boring, too much intelligence and information, not enough vitriolic bullet points and yelling.
By DeBúrca obj on 03/19/2009 1:23 pm
S.J. Morgan

Have you ever listened to Laura’s show?  " not enough vitriolic bullet points and yelling"…now that would be Keith’s show!..he spends most of his time putting down FOX ( jealous of ratings no doubt).

 

By S.J. Morgan on 03/19/2009 2:04 pm
Libra Lady
SJ…He should be jealous…him and rachel are at the bottom….just a total waste of air time if you ask me!!
By Libra Lady on 03/19/2009 2:29 pm
S.J. Morgan

meghans’s twitter comments…

"Don’t worry about Ms. Ingraham hosting O’Reilley, on my end this fight is over. Moving on to my next super exciting piece for the beast!"

By S.J. Morgan on 03/19/2009 1:17 pm
Rachel F
Again, we have another charming picture. Ingraham is pretty here, but notice that her nose is wrinkled as though she’s responding to a distasteful comment or something like that…it’s not a friendly expression, rather the opposite. Images convey a lot. When you have an "unfriendly" image like this, you convey an "unfriendly" picture of the person. Bias, wowOwow? Or are pictures like this, and that of President Bush, just "accidental"?
By Rachel F on 03/19/2009 3:05 pm
Helen O'Reilly

Who or what is a Laura Ingraham?

The words "tempest" and "teabag" spring to mind.

By Helen O'Reilly on 03/19/2009 3:28 pm
Deborah Kramer
Oh My Gosh, how could anybody say that they donot behave horribly  on MSNBC and that they don’t do the same????  That is why I have quit trying to be informed by that awful station.  It is terrible, terrible, terrible!  They name call, yell, call previous Presidents names and call him a criminal.  I Don’t understand, are we watching a different cable station and not realizing it?  Just the other night I thought okay I need to get information from all sources, so I turn it over to the Big Eyed Monster-Keith that is and he is calling women names!  Coultergeist!  Is that not even worse?  What they did to Sarah Palin is unforgivable.  Fine if you didn’t and still don’t like her but my gosh we are women.  I don’t care who you are, if you are a women I will not bash you regardless!  How does one explain that they aren’t horrible and sickening!  Make me understand.  Laura Ingraham is definitely not a tempest if you listen to her at all.  Now I now why this site is called WOW!—WOWUNBELIEVABLE!
By Deborah Kramer on 03/19/2009 6:00 pm
Libra Lady
The only time I listen to msnbc is the "morning Joe" show…they are finally starting to report some truths about obama and the dems….I bet Joe won’t last long if he keeps that up…msnbc is in the tank with obama and they can’t have that happen.
By Libra Lady on 03/19/2009 7:54 pm
Deborah Kramer
Libra Lady (love your name)!  You must have been reading my mind, I was really thinking the same thing earlier this week.  But then I think without him they would absolutely not have anyone to represent any of the Republican/Conservative views.  I believe that would be a death wish for MSNBC.  Afterall, as you already know they are last in cable news ratings and I think it is because all day and all night it is the same mean, hateful, Obama Kool-aide drinkers except for 3 hours in the morning with Joe!  Have a good night-what is left of it. 
By Deborah Kramer on 03/19/2009 8:11 pm