Posted on 07/13/2007 9:51:52 AM PDT by PolishProud
What's with Laura Ingraham? This morning Peggy Noonan wrote an op ed which included the following criticism of President Bush:
"Every major domestic initiative of his second term has been ill thought through and ended in failure. His Iraq leadership has failed. His standing is lower than any previous president's since polling began.",
Laura loved Noonan's op ed. Go gal, kick him when he's down.
Ingraham is taking herself too seriously. Yesterday she was aghast over security chief Chertoff's "gut feeling." I don't know why. I would appreciate any source regarding security even Chertoff's gut. She also found Chertoff less than handsome. What a cheap shot.
Ingraham lost me when she went over to the dark side on the Foley scandal. She thought Hastert should have resigned for not protecting male pages from gay congressmen.
Bill Kristol,yesterday on her show, suggested that now is the time that talk show hosts should support the president. His comment went right over her head.
Sorry, I don’t agree with you. Which is fine, we are 2 different people with 2 different viewpoints.
However, back in the days of Reagan they (the enemy, meaning the Leftists) were not as openly hostile to conservatives, America, and what she stands for.
Today they openly advocate the destruction of the family.
Today they openly advocate surrender to the murderers of our people.
Today they openly advocate the destruction of our culture.
Today they openly advocate removing our borders and nestling into a world community.
None of these things do I support and all of these things do my enemies support.
Do I hate them? No, I don’t hate them. That requires far more emotion than I am willing to spend on them.
However I do, advocate their complete and utter defeat and removal from this country.
If this is what the man I voted for wishes to saddle up and ride with.
Well.. there’s an old cowboy saying.
Ride with an Outlaw, Die with an Outlaw.
President Bush, god bless him, has done some things right. But unfortunately he has an agenda that is in line with those on the left and I for one will not support him in it, and it will also make me wonder even about the things he does that I do support.
That’s what lying politicians have done to me in the last 32 years.
Semper Fi
Ronald Reagan was The Great Communicator. George W. Bush is The Grating Communicator. I have said in the past he is the most inarticulate President in the history of recorded sound, and I dare anyone to prove otherwise.
Given enough time to prepare, he can occasionally give an acceptable speech, but he rarely conducts press conferences, and it's clear why -- he has an inability to express his positions in expansive terms, something every other President in my lifetime -- right or wrong -- has been able to do. And he falls back on the same phrases; I will scream the next time I hear "It's hard work" or "folks who want to do us harm."
The smartest thing Bush has done lately is to hire Tony Snow, who, unlike Ari Fleischer or the inept Scott McClellan, can give as good as he gets from the WH press corps, even Helen Thomas. Bush isn't up to the task on his own. Everyone with a brain knows the news media isn't on conservatives' side. When you're the conservative in charge, you deal with it, not just throw up your hands and say "they won't listen."
Now that there is more than one person to choose from next Presidential election, I hope Republicans will have the good sense to nominate someone who sounds like he was able to earn a certificate from Toastmasters.
you’re right. I was disappointed in Laura.
Many, including me, are upset with Bush for some of the missteps, like immigration. But I still like Bush the man, and I am with him on the War.
Holy cow! I was listening to that song (your tagline) on the way in to work yesterday) Love the mats.
Laura Ingrate has been a one issue pony for over a year. Not happy unless she’s bashing the CIC and supporting the troops.
Ironic that a Mexican salsa program replaced her tirades.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I'm not among those numbers anymore. When I discovered her about three or four years ago, I just loved the show. She was funny, quick, and on-target. The vitriol she exhibited in her short-sighted take on the Dubai Ports deal, plus the sheer catty nastiness she revealed in chastizing the Harriet Miers issue, were ugly at best, but I kept listening.
But after awhile, she was such a downer, so damned CLICHE and predictable, that I found myself turning her off after one or two minutes -- that's all it took.
So a few days ago, I'm in my truck radio-surfing to skip adds, and listened to her show for a bit .. and sure enough, the old worn-out template, familiar and stupid and easy talk-show host fodder: that today's movie stars are all crap compared to the Gregory Pecks, John Waynes, Humphrey Bogarts, etc., of yesteryear. GAWD, that's so CLICHE!!!
And innaccurate to boot. She started whining in her "I'm just too hip and clever for myself" voice that there weren't any MEN, masculine macho-type guys in Hollywood anymore ... and I thought, What a maroon she is. I thought of at least half a dozen anti-metro-male stars and character actors (though I sure don't agree with the politics of many) in about 10 seconds, guys like Kurt Russell, Bruce Willis, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Tom Berenger, Dennis Quaid, Michael Biehn, James Woods, John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Ed Harris, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, Joe Pesci, Russel Crowe, Danny Glover, Jeff Bridges, Val Kilmer ... I mean, COME ON! Our generation has a wonderful group of great actors that have contributed to some excellent films.
Laura thinks that being derisive is the same as being witty, when it's not.
LOL
I think you're being gently ironic, but, in cyber space, who can know for sure? I meant to ~compliment~ you! Sure, Maureen is a super b_tch, but as a matter of pure craft, you've got to admire her ability to scratch someone's eyes out. Ditto Peggy, although we love her for being ~our~ b_tch!
Yea...it's nice music, although I picked the name rather carelessly. There are lots of spelling variations. I think it is something about the Cyrillic alaphabet just not having a one-to-one relationship to our own.
I heard it as well, and I think its frustration at how the President has managed his second term as much as anything else.
Noonan has been on a political jihad against the President beginning the day after his second inaugural, whining about the speech for an entire column. I thought at the time she was annoyed she wasn’t invited to help out in the Administration. Nothing she’s written has changed my view on that one, this latest column included.
That said, lets be brutally honest. I voted for Bush twice. If the candidates running against him were the same, I’d vote for him again.
No choice given its Gore or Kerry we’re talking about here.
But he’s insulted me for believing we should secure the border before doing anything else on immigration - using some rather vile terms such as ‘bigot’ (I’m not) or ‘racist’ (I’m not that either) or ‘vigilante’ (Nope, but we’re getting to that point).
But he doesn’t say a thing towards the Democrats that call him a liar daily, stupid, ignorant, etc etc etc.k
I’m tired of it, as is Ingraham and Noonan, and everybody else the President and this Administration has gone out of their way to insult and belittle.
Hell, all we did was hire Mr Bush and his ‘team’.
The above insults are the thanks we get?
And now its ‘rally round the President’?
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan....I didn’t leave this Administration, it LEFT ME.
My favorite 80s band, bar none. Thanks for noticing!
‘This is not the Laura Ingraham I saw on Bill O’Reilly earlier this week.’
Perhaps.
This is not the guy I voted twice for in 2000, and 2004.
Points well taken. The Miers nomination was like just picking out someone from some Junior League meeting. Plus, she is a liberal.
But it is easier to fight illegal Mexicans than headchoppers.
‘I don’t like Noonan either. I find her pretentious, supercilious, and vindictive. She loved Bush until he turned down her offer to become a speech writer for him. She quit her job at the WSJ to offer her services and he turned her down. She has been criticizing his communication skills ever since.’
Do you have a link to the info about Noonan being turned down by the administration?
I don’t doubt you, I’ve thought since I read her column lambasting his second Inaugural speech she might be upset she’s not ‘in the mix’ at the Whitehouse. I’ve just never seen anyone claim thats the reason I’ve long suspected.
‘Bush’s leadership on the war has been fine.’
Overall, perhaps.
But he began playing ‘not to lose’ in Iraq since the 2004 campaign heated up.
Which is why that idiot Al Sadr is still alive, btw.
I agree with all of your points....but on the second one - it really scares me...
>> Yesterday she was aghast over security chief Chertoff’s “gut feeling.”
And you’re ok with that ?
Laura knocks everybody. Get over it.
You bet giraffe, and rightly so. Forget Iraq, which will be someone else's problem come January 2009 -- Supreme Court Justice Harriet Miers would have been an annual tragic reminder of Bush's penchant for cronyism. Alberto Gonzales and Miers have both served as personal attorneys to Bush, and they've both been embarrassments in their national roles.
Ingraham respects the Supreme Court having been a clerk for Clarence Thomas, and could not fathom the selection of the totally inexperienced Miers over seasoned, respected jurists who were eminently qualified. Bush loyalists pretended that merit wasn't the issue, suggesting that people from Ivy League colleges (Ingraham went to Dartmouth) couldn't stand the idea that someone with a Texas A&M law degree could be on the high Court.
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