Laura "hollow leg" Ingraham on Imus today...

Normally Laura is as boring as a bill of lading....a booze fueled fembot locked in sarcasm mode and programmed with the latest Rovian talking points no matter how inane and mendacious.
Today though, her vaulted composure cracked a bit.
Maybe it was the timing or maybe she is building up a tolerance to her hangover cure.
Ingraham was pressed into service at the last minute to replace Lesley Stahl, who interviewed Richard Clarke on CBS last night.
For those of you just tuning in, Richard Clarke is a former civil servan with a counter terrorism portfolio who has just published a scathing critique of the Bush Admin's "war" on terrorism.
Surprisingly, Laura got off on the wrong foot, suggesting that Stahl and Clarke were having an illicit sexual affair of some type or another.
I have to give Laura Ingraham credit, given her slanderous utterance, it is clear she fears nothing from the F.C.C.
Nice to see that kind of courage these days.
Boy oh boy when those morning bells start ringing in Laura's booze battered brain watch-out no-one is safe!
But then, Laura has nothing but daggers for her feminine competition no matter how remote they may be...anyone else out there recall her irritating "impression" of Faux Network straw liberal Susan Estrich?
Laura then drew a shuddering breath and went on to call Mr. Clarke "unhinged" and a "drama queen".
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After that it was the usual stuff, boring and repetitive and even less effective than usual owing to the obvious fact that beyond the excerpts published here and there, she hadn't read Clarke's book.
Clearly these revelations scare poor Laura, she sounded frantic and confused hence the heavier than usual character assassination.
When in doubt kill the messenger and all like that.
Poor Laura, her head was pounding and all she could do was blather on about Clarke's mental incapacity and such like.
Couldn't address a single point of fact as she wasn't really familiar with any of the facts at hand.
Nor will she be any time soon.
Then she started ranting and raving insisting that the 9-11 Commission was going to "rehabilitate" Bill Clinton...anything less than a criminal indictment of the former president would be evidence of appeasement and liberal bias to her.
At this point I started to fade out, it is pretty safe to say that when Laura gets to her Clinton fixation during these Imus call ins, the informed listener can safely turn off the radio and listen to the sound track to "Evita" with no fear of missing anything.

Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the congressionally licensed public airwaves
and elsewhere
3-23-04
7:50 am EST
God save the commonwealth