She lost her fiance when she had a cancer diagnosis. Then she lost her major show sidekick, Habib, for whatever reason, and then she just went shrill over the Dubai Ports deal and Harriet Miers. She seems to have anger as a major motivation for her show prep.
She could just as easily trade places with Randi Rhodes these days. They are on the same page. I wonder what Laura’s listenership numbers are?
True.
Then she lost her major show sidekick, Habib, for whatever reason,
He got a much better offer with more responsibilities, elsewhere in radio...major promotion.
...and then she just went shrill over the Dubai Ports deal and Harriet Miers.
She was right on both counts.
She seems to have anger as a major motivation for her show prep.
There's plenty of cause for anger in the news.
She could just as easily trade places with Randi Rhodes these days. They are on the same page.
Mulefritters. You just lost your friggin' mind, or what?
I wonder what Laura’s listenership numbers are?
She's doing great. She and Levin each did more to stop amnesty than Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity put together.
All good points, and right on the money IMO. I used to listen to LI several days/week because she was sharp and FUNNY. Not so much now. It would be interesting to see how her ratings are doing over the past several months.
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.