Laura Ingraham vs. Meghan McCain | 03/19/2009 12:15 pm
Laura Ingraham Defends McCain Remarks (Video)

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:























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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should be someone who actually has a new and different outlook for the party going forward…she is not from the same outdated playbook as them and it does not sit well.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.
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!!!
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!
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’.
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).
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!"
Who or what is a Laura Ingraham?
The words "tempest" and "teabag" spring to mind.