10 Responses to “I Loved…”

1. JamesPh. Says:
   November 22nd, 2006 at 9:27 pm

   Truthfully, Don Imus should be getting royalties from Laura. I’ve always thought her style was ripped off from “the I-Man” (from her years as one of his mostpopular guests).

2. Tim66 Says:
   November 22nd, 2006 at 9:51 pm

   Denied!

   On the one hand you have the joyful bachelorette Miller, with 20 years experience as a stand-up and radio broadcaster, whose voice flows as smooth and melifluous over the airwaves like brandy into a bronze cup. More often than not when she tries to be funny, she is. Miller has the added bonus of not tacking the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” onto the end of each sentence.

   Then there’s Ingraham, the embittered and rageaholic spinster who sounds as if she’s about to burst into tears at any moment. Awful and rude with callers, she is the worst interviewer in the history of broadcasting. When she laughs it sounds like she’s forcing it through her teeth with a crowbar. The worst thing about Ingraham? She doesn’t say goodbye to her audience at the end of her show. It just ends!

3. Mitch Says:
   November 23rd, 2006 at 7:53 am

   On the one hand you have the joyful bachelorette Miller

   Miller’s a “bachelorette”, Ingraham’s a “spinster”?

   How very illiberal of you!

   , with 20 years experience as a stand-up and radio broadcaster,

   You state the two as if they go together. They really, really don’t. Comedians tend to stink as talk hosts (see: The entire Air America lineup).

   whose voice flows as smooth and melifluous over the airwaves like brandy into a bronze cup. More often than not when she tries to be funny, she is.

   As I noted, she IS better than most of the Air America lineup. Unlike the ENTIRE AA lineup, she has some radio chops.

4. pantsdailyon Says:
   November 23rd, 2006 at 9:32 am

   Tim’s got a couple of good points. For a while, Laura was my favorite talk-show host, but she even interupts guests and callers with whom she agrees. It’s really annoying. Next thing you know, she’ll mute callers whenever she talks, like Savage. I also hate it when her show ends, and I’m not paying attention to the time, and suddenly Prager’s on. How ’bout a “See ya tomorrow” or something to announce the end of the show?

   And what ever happened to Lee?

5. Kermit Says:
   November 23rd, 2006 at 9:39 am

   Ingraham IS often rude and brusk with callers. She’s also very passionate in her beliefs and solid in her convictions. Her show has a natural humor, because she has a natural humor (unlike, say, Al Franken, Oy, oy, oy!). She’s a genuine person, and her show is excellent. The way she shared her cancer battle and the loss of her beloved golden retreiver put a very human face on Conservatism.
   She doesn’t say goodbye to her audience? Please.

6. Margaret Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 12:55 am

   I don’t think you can blame her for not saying goodbye to her audience. I think it is intentional because her show is broadcast at different times across the country. For example, Hour 2 might be live and then hour 1 rebroadcast out of order. Hugh Hewitt does this all the time, often repeating hour 1 as a third hour. If she said goodbye, I think it would confuse people listening to the show out of order. I don’t think Medved says goodbye either, probably for the reason. His device is to end each hour with that “…greatest nation on God’s green earth” tagline.

7. Mitch Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

   I think it is intentional because her show is broadcast at different times across the country.

   That is correct. Most mid-level (i.e. not as big as Limbaugh or Hannity) shows are produced as independent, standalone hours, rather than a multi-hour program, for that very reason; some stations only take a few hours, some stations tape-delay the first hour or two and play it after the last hour or two, etc.

8. Tim66 Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

   I don’t think Medved says goodbye either, probably for the reason. His device is to end each hour with that “…greatest nation on God’s green earth” tagline.

   Fine, then that’s what Ingraham should do. Something along the lines of “Thank you for listening to the Laura Ingraham show and I am going to fucking kill you I swear to god.”

9. Doug Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 3:43 pm

   Tim66,

   I can’t be certain but something tells me that might not get past the FCC too many times…

10. Mitch Says:
    November 24th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

    All Salem Broadcasting shows (Medved, Hewitt, Bennett, Prager) are produced as stand-alone hours; they all pretty much begin and end each hour as an independent show of its own (for example, Medved says “Onward and Upward” or “Greatest Nation on God’s Green Earth” every hour).

    I don’t know that TRN (Ingraham and Michael Savage’s network) does that as a matter of policy, but I suspect they do.

    As to Ingraham’s closing; it could work.

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