Yeah, Laura Ingraham is great, no doubt about it.
The press corps will whittle down anyone before them. It's what they do. So, actually, it would be a bad experience to see Ingraham irrationally ridiculed as only the press corps can and does. McClellan's doing a good job -- he's fooling people that he isn't steel, but he is, in my view.
But the press would not and could not "whittle down" Laura. Her wit and her intellect (not to mention her good looks) would tower over them.
No, it is time the pretence ended. The press comes in for combat when it's a Republican. They should be, they need to be treated accordingly.