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Did you know this about Laura Ingraham?
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Posted on 10/24/2005 4:41:05 PM PDT by hattend

Visit the official Laura Ingraham website: www.lauraingraham.com

Laura Ingraham believes that most people use these pages as opportunities to embellish their professional experience to lure in the unsuspecting site visitor. In that spirit … Miss Ingraham's path to a career in the media took many unconventional turns. She completed high school in Connecticut at age 13, and at age 15 became the first person to ever win gold medals in both the winter and summer Olympics. After graduating at the top of her class at Dartmouth one year later, she decided to take time off to write her memoirs for which she won the Pulitzer in 1985. Miss Ingraham, recruited by various intelligence branches of the government, eventually signing on with the CIA, rising to the position of Director of the Agency's Middle East operations. Later Miss Ingraham returned to academics at Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. At age 26, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in Biology for her work in isolating the key proteins involved in the breakdown of nerve cells in degenerative diseases.

After her Nobel Prize money ran out, she decided to do some speechwriting in the Reagan Administration, attend the law school at the University of Virginia, clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and practice law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Washington, D.C. In 1996 when she realized that she would rather put pins in her corneas than write another legal memo, she joined MSNBC as a political on-air "friend" (their brilliant name, not hers!). For some bizarre reason, she worked simultaneously for CBS News in Washington, where she contributed on-air commentaries for the weekend evening news. Invariably (and, as it turns out, mercifully), CBS Weekend News broadcasts were regularly preempted by senior PGA tournaments that always seemed to be in sudden death play-offs. When the Ingraham-Eye relationship ended in 1998, the seasoned and always objective CBS reporters in Washington and New York were said to be devastated. "She was an industry pioneer," one Washington producer recalled, "If Ingraham is vulnerable, who's next? Rather? Schieffer?!". In 1998 during impeachment-mania, Miss Ingraham began hosting her own daily MSNBC show "Watch It with Laura Ingraham.” Her on-air colloquies included everyone from Henry Kissinger to the Professor and Mary Anne from Gilligan's Island to "Betty the Booter" (the parking enforcement officer in D.C. who has booted more cars than anyone in her department). After 17 months and three time slots, Miss Ingraham's program garnered the nickname "Watch It Get Cancelled," which it did.

That pretty much brings us up to now-my life in radio and writing. Check out my book The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places (Hyperion), read my columns in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and you'll get to about what I think about politics, fat America, animal rage, and Hollywood's creative nosedive.

After I spent so much time in front of the camera, everyone asks-why radio? Don Imus first invited me on his program during the '96 fall campaign season. Since then I have always had a total blast doing radio as a guest (especially when Imus calls me "hideous" or detonates me before I can finish a sentence).


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KEYWORDS: babealert; ingraham; lauraingraham; sheplayedonmyfear; smartnsexy; talkradio
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To: EGPWS

Her cuteness short circuited my BS meter...hahahah


21 posted on 10/24/2005 4:58:47 PM PDT by hattend (Rum and Coke, please!)
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To: onyx

"If other posters will just read the content and not the comments, I'm sure some will make the same mistake."


I still think she was a runner.


22 posted on 10/24/2005 4:58:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: onyx
It's hilarious!

I don't know if I would go that far, however what do I know, I have been too busy enjoying the posted pictures of Laura!

23 posted on 10/24/2005 5:00:40 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: ValerieUSA
How many more rum and cokes before you buy oceanfront property in the Mojave?

Already bought some in Needles.

What, are you telling me it's not really there?

24 posted on 10/24/2005 5:00:42 PM PDT by hattend (Rum and Coke, please!)
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To: cripplecreek



YOU cheated! :)


25 posted on 10/24/2005 5:00:42 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: hattend
Her cuteness short circuited my BS meter...hahahah

One's gotta' hand it to her.....

(I wish I could personally with gusto! /blushing)

26 posted on 10/24/2005 5:03:13 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: KoRn
To do what she did at such an early age is just brilliant!

I wish I would have done it earlier.

If THATS what gave her the looks and personality she totes!

27 posted on 10/24/2005 5:07:15 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: ValerieUSA; hattend
How many more rum and cokes before you buy oceanfront property in the Mojave?

What's the going price? /snicker

28 posted on 10/24/2005 5:14:40 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: hattend

You are so cute when you're naive.


XO


DD


29 posted on 10/24/2005 6:39:39 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Never lose your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.)
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To: hattend
Skeet and biathlon.
30 posted on 10/24/2005 6:44:26 PM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: hattend
Laura Ingraham is the best! ...Ann..who?...
31 posted on 10/24/2005 6:45:59 PM PDT by Khurkris (Ain't life funny?)
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To: Dashing Dasher

[blush] :-)


32 posted on 10/25/2005 6:31:45 AM PDT by hattend (Rum and Coke, please!)
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To: hattend

The real story is that Laura is madly in love with Exile. However, while I am happily married, I was reported as saying "No woman can tame me. I'm like the wind baby."


33 posted on 10/25/2005 6:34:09 AM PDT by exile (Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
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To: hattend

With that resume, she should be coaching Notre Dame!


34 posted on 10/25/2005 8:05:40 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (Proudly confusing editors and readers since 1981!)
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To: hattend

35 posted on 10/31/2005 8:41:52 AM PST by lotsaguns
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To: lotsaguns

Cool! I admire her even more


36 posted on 10/31/2005 9:00:09 AM PST by hattend (Rum and Coke, please!)
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To: HitmanLV; hattend
gullible

adjective
1. naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" [syn: fleeceable] 
2. easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game" 

37 posted on 06/30/2007 4:25:13 PM PDT by itsahoot (The GOP did nothing about immigration, immigration did something about the GOP (As Predicted))
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To: hattend

Yeah, you hope. ;^)


38 posted on 06/30/2007 4:34:53 PM PDT by tioga (Fred Thompson for President.)
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To: hattend
Another little-known fact about Laura Ingraham...She interned one semester for the show Saturday Night Live as a writer. Laura was responsible for writing the popular Bass-O-Matic skit with Dan Aykroyd as well as several others.
39 posted on 06/30/2007 4:45:50 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 72 days away from outliving Marvin Gaye)
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To: itsahoot

Browsing really old threads I see...heheheheheh


40 posted on 06/30/2007 10:17:57 PM PDT by hattend ("Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne)
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