Michael Gaynor
Laura Ingraham IS the person Troy thinks she is!
By Michael Gaynor
If America's Laura Ingraham was not the person Troy thinks she is before 2006, she certainly is today.
A graduate of Dartmouth College (where she edited the prestigious Dartmouth Review in a hostile atmosphere that illustrates "liberal" hypocrisy), Laura went to Washington, D.C. and worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. She went on to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. She served as a law clerk, first to Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, then to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thereafter, Laura worked as a white-collar criminal defense attorney for one of America's leading law firms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and moved on from the private practice of law to the public presentation of the principles of Republican conservatism as a television and radio personality.
Laura really knows what she talks about. See "Laura Ingraham for SCOTUS! She's got more going for her than Harriet Miers," by Richard Miniter (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miniter200510060731.asp). Mr. Miniter made a sound factual case for the proposition that President Bush should have nominated Laura if he was determined to appoint a female to succeed former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
In 2001 Laura launched "The Laura Ingraham Show" and rose to the top of the talk radio world. More than 5,000,000 people listen daily.
The show's website (www.lauraingraham.com) succinctly summarizes the shows status and history as follows:
"Always articulate and entertaining, 'The Laura Ingraham Show' has been addicting legions of listeners since her launch into national syndication in 2001. Smart, funny, and ahead of the curve in politics and the culture, Laura's busting down the door of the 'boys only' radio club. Now on 340 radio stations, Laura takes listeners on a wild ride through the colliding worlds of politics, the news media, and Hollywood.
"Her legal, political, writing, and television background distinguishes Laura in the field of increasingly homogeneous radio syndication. Whether she's on the watch for evidence of media bias, political hypocrisy or Hollywood inanity, Laura infuses her program with a level of energy and commitment to conservative principles that grabs hold and won't let go.
"In addition to hosting her own syndicated radio program, Laura is an author, frequent columnist, and television commentator. Her latest book, Shut Up & Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics...and the UN are Subverting America, is a bestseller. Her book The Hillary Trap, first released in June 2000, was recently re-released in paperback.
Laura's bio at her website concludes: "She hopes to become the person her dog Troy thinks she is."
Perhaps Laura should not be worrying about living up to the expectations of another, even her dog, but, if Laura had not succeeded before this year, she surely succeeded this year.
Having recuperated from cancer surgery and treatment last year, Laura boldly took her show to Iraq, where she met with American and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi villagers instead of nesting in Baghdad's Green Zone and broadcasting from a secure hotel balcony about whatever went badly. She provided a fair and balanced presentation, distinguishing herself sharply from the biased mainstream media.
Having returned from Iraq, Laura appeared as a guest on "The Today Show" and shone like the sun as she skewered the nasty NBC Washington correspondent David Gregory (hosting that day for Matt Lauer and no match for Laura) and challenged that show to do what she had done. In doing so, Laura brilliantly exposed the mainstream media for reporting only the bad and ignoring the good for political purposes instead of presenting all the news, in context, and became the evening news on all of the leftist alphabet networks as well as Fox.
It was a glorious moment that shook the foundations of the smug news departments that shamelessly shill for President Bush's political opponents and appear to have a vested interest in American failure instead of success in Iraq.
Before that, Laura boldly did what the rest of the media would not do: interview former FEMA director Mike Brown and afford him the opportunity to show that he was scapegoated over Katrina and to warn the American people that FEMA became a victim of the War on Terror and no longer is capable of doing the good work that it did during the Clinton Administration and the Bush II first term.
Troy, Laura IS the person you think she is! Lucky dog!
© Michael Gaynor
If America's Laura Ingraham was not the person Troy thinks she is before 2006, she certainly is today.
A graduate of Dartmouth College (where she edited the prestigious Dartmouth Review in a hostile atmosphere that illustrates "liberal" hypocrisy), Laura went to Washington, D.C. and worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. She went on to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. She served as a law clerk, first to Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, then to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thereafter, Laura worked as a white-collar criminal defense attorney for one of America's leading law firms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and moved on from the private practice of law to the public presentation of the principles of Republican conservatism as a television and radio personality.
Laura really knows what she talks about. See "Laura Ingraham for SCOTUS! She's got more going for her than Harriet Miers," by Richard Miniter (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miniter200510060731.asp). Mr. Miniter made a sound factual case for the proposition that President Bush should have nominated Laura if he was determined to appoint a female to succeed former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
In 2001 Laura launched "The Laura Ingraham Show" and rose to the top of the talk radio world. More than 5,000,000 people listen daily.
The show's website (www.lauraingraham.com) succinctly summarizes the shows status and history as follows:
"Always articulate and entertaining, 'The Laura Ingraham Show' has been addicting legions of listeners since her launch into national syndication in 2001. Smart, funny, and ahead of the curve in politics and the culture, Laura's busting down the door of the 'boys only' radio club. Now on 340 radio stations, Laura takes listeners on a wild ride through the colliding worlds of politics, the news media, and Hollywood.
"Her legal, political, writing, and television background distinguishes Laura in the field of increasingly homogeneous radio syndication. Whether she's on the watch for evidence of media bias, political hypocrisy or Hollywood inanity, Laura infuses her program with a level of energy and commitment to conservative principles that grabs hold and won't let go.
"In addition to hosting her own syndicated radio program, Laura is an author, frequent columnist, and television commentator. Her latest book, Shut Up & Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics...and the UN are Subverting America, is a bestseller. Her book The Hillary Trap, first released in June 2000, was recently re-released in paperback.
Laura's bio at her website concludes: "She hopes to become the person her dog Troy thinks she is."
Perhaps Laura should not be worrying about living up to the expectations of another, even her dog, but, if Laura had not succeeded before this year, she surely succeeded this year.
Having recuperated from cancer surgery and treatment last year, Laura boldly took her show to Iraq, where she met with American and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi villagers instead of nesting in Baghdad's Green Zone and broadcasting from a secure hotel balcony about whatever went badly. She provided a fair and balanced presentation, distinguishing herself sharply from the biased mainstream media.
Having returned from Iraq, Laura appeared as a guest on "The Today Show" and shone like the sun as she skewered the nasty NBC Washington correspondent David Gregory (hosting that day for Matt Lauer and no match for Laura) and challenged that show to do what she had done. In doing so, Laura brilliantly exposed the mainstream media for reporting only the bad and ignoring the good for political purposes instead of presenting all the news, in context, and became the evening news on all of the leftist alphabet networks as well as Fox.
It was a glorious moment that shook the foundations of the smug news departments that shamelessly shill for President Bush's political opponents and appear to have a vested interest in American failure instead of success in Iraq.
Before that, Laura boldly did what the rest of the media would not do: interview former FEMA director Mike Brown and afford him the opportunity to show that he was scapegoated over Katrina and to warn the American people that FEMA became a victim of the War on Terror and no longer is capable of doing the good work that it did during the Clinton Administration and the Bush II first term.
Troy, Laura IS the person you think she is! Lucky dog!
© Michael Gaynor
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