Laura Ingraham on Imus yesterday...


What do the delirium tremens sound like at 7:45am on a Wednesday morning?
A lot like Laura Ingraham I think.
Oh poor Laura was fairly frantic yesterday on Imus, usually she gets a free pass from the I-Zombie....not this time though he started calling the President a "liar" which made Ingraham go laughably ballistic.
She started screeching incoherently about Kerry voting against the "Tomahawk missile" and then tried to launch into a litany of his other sins before Imus snorted and cut her off.
Apparently even He finds Laura boring these days.
The funny thing about Laura Ingraham is how tenuous her sarcastic-hipster demeanor is when it encounters the slightest challenge.
She is a true believer in the Eric Hoffer sense of the term....the slightest contradiction and the bonhomie is replaced by homicidal dementia.
Frankly after listening to this performance I'm beginning to think Laura is bipolar. Maybe she drinks in order to obscure that....who knows?
Whatever it is, it makes for thrilling if unintentionally hilarious radio.
Laura really still believes that any day now the 82nd Airborne Division is going to dig up a real bona fide doomsday machine in Tikrit with the words "Property of Saddam Hussein" stenciled on the side in bright red paint.
Case in point, Imus accuses the admin of hyping the WMD evidence which induced Laura to howl with Lear-like agony "George Bush DIDN'T ignore the screams of Iraqi women and children in the torture chambers!!!!"
I burst out laughing right in the middle of traffic...pity Saddam's former victims that they have so crude and melodramatic an advocate fighting the lonely fight on AM radio.
On the subject of truck bombs and the like, Miss Ingraham maintains a decorous silence.
Still, I have to give her credit. The release of the President's incomplete and contradictory National Guard records caused her to shout "vindication" like a well trained parrot.
I however played a little private joke on Ingraham. When Imus announced her as the next guest, I wrote down in my notes "The release of GWB's NG records=vindication"...Laura came on and with ten minutes I was able to simple put a check mark next to the above sentence.
She is that predictable and reliable, Karl Rove must be in love with her...assuming he has anything left after worshipping Bush Junior for so long.
I dunno, I think all that Jack Daniels has started to back up on Laura, she might not be a good long term prospect in the Brave New America.
Still she is fighting the good fight on behalf of phantom doomsday machines, the future victims of Baathist car bombs, and poor helpless tomahawk missiles everywhere.
It is inspiring.

Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Congressionally licensed airwaves
and Elsewhere.
2-11-02
7:50am EST
God Save the Republic.