Laura Ingraham becoming unhinged

[mike from ri]

I tuned in to monitor this right-wing talk jock's (jockette's?) radio show on fri night only to hear her rudely rant at even pro-b*sh callers: there was a panic in her voice which reveals what the right-wing political professionals must now know: things are going badly for b*sh-cheney.

[Roland99]

1. She's just a bitter Ann Coulter wannabe

But, good for some laughs!

[Mr_Spock]

17. Yes, I call here "Annthrax Coulter Lite". Another blond right-wing whore

I would spit directly into her face if I ever met her. She is a vile and despicable human being with no possiblilty for salvation.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. becoming?

did you read David Brock's book?

she's a pistol packin' mama, who talked about going after some guy who was stupid enough to get involved with her

she's never been HINGED, far as I can tell

[City Lights]

21. Your assessment of her is spot on.

She's been foaming at the mouth for years.

[izzie]

3. I think it has something to do with the hair?

I want to know where they all get the same hair?

[snippy]

6. Probably from the Eva Braun Hair Salon. n/t

[arewenotdemo]

29. lol good one

[belle]

28. too many peroxide fumes.

Maybe they take a quick huff from it after they've finished using it to turn their hair that lovely shade of brassy-green.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

4. the barbie doll look?

it matches their personality, like barbie, Fake.

[redstateblues]

5. probably another nasty hangover- always makes me grouchy

[Jon8503]

7. Where will those idiots go after Kerry is elected and Bush

supporters start hearing the truth as people such as Matthews & others start kissing Kerry's ass wanting to be in on the breaking and all the White House news so they will start telling the truth and the real George Bush will emerge.

[librechik]

14. don't kid yourself--they ain't going anywhere

they'll continue what they're doing right now, except with more fervor. Prepare yourself. It's going to be a long war.

[patricia92243]

8. The Republican party has more than its fair share of mental illness.

They tolarate any kind of obvious mental impairment - as a long as it is positive for their platform. The most obvious exmple of this is Zell Miller. He is about two steps away from needing to be hospitilized - and what do the The Republicans do - let him speak at their convention.

The Republicans are a party of hate and mental illness-dangerous combination.

[tblue37]

9. Jim Bunning now.

Strom Thurmond when he wasn't able to do anything at all because he was basically a barely breathing near-corpse. Anyone who will support the Republican "leaders" is acceptable to them, no matter how bizarre or nonfunctional.

[kskiska]

19. They liked James Traficante, too

and he was nutty as a fruitcake.

[tblue37]

24. Hmm--

my memory must be going. I thought he was a Democrat. In NJ all the politicians are so corrupt it probably doesn't matter which party he was in.

[tishaLA]

34. But he was from OH, not NJ

[Bossy Monkey]

35. Traficant is a Democrat, from Youngstown OH n/t

[kskiska]

38. Traficante WAS Dem, though he voted Repug.

They like the nutty ones, like Zell.

[tblue37]

42. Ahhh--

I wonder why I thought he was from New Jersey. It's been a while since he was in the news, though, so things have started to blend together in my mind. Still, I was pretty sure he was a Democrat, so I am glad that the old mind hasn't completely deteriorated.

[puddycat]

13. I'm sick to death of people on both sides dissing the mentally ill

One in four people in the USA are labelled with some kind of mental illness, from depression to personality disorders to bulimia to alcoholism. The DSM is a political document, meant to control people, and people who have these problems are betrayed by the very people they seek help from and from society at large. Once upon a time gays were considered to be mentally ill, and they fought a long battle to be recognized as human beings. Other people labelled by the DSM are still fighting this.

One day, I envision a USA where neither Dems nor Pubs use the mentally ill as mudballs, to sling back and forth to each other.

Stop this intolerance and hatred of people with these kinds of problems.

Rant over. For now.

[w4rma]

18. Mentally ill people don't belong in Congress, puddycat.

And I frankly don't care if you consider dissing a mentally ill candidate in Congress or who is running for Congress (or another office) "intolerant".

[puddycat]

20. Stop the bigotry! You want to paint 1/4 of the USA as beneath you!

Did you realize that alcoholics are considered mentally ill? Did you realize that gays used to be considered mentally ill? Did you realize that bulimics are also cconsidered mentally ill under the current DSM?

Do you realize that * is pushing for a mental health initiative that tests every person in the USA for mental illness? Do you want to be labelled as mentally ill one day because you hold different views from the norm? That's what this country is coming to. Do you realize that every totalitarian government (left or right) used mental illness as a reason to imprison and kill highly intelligent people?

Fighting any kind of bigotry is difficult, especially when the people who are so bigoted have pretenses of tolerance.

Back to the point of Zell Miller: He is not a creep because of possible mental illness, but he's a creep because of what he has done and how he has acted.

[belle]

30. What does any of this have to do with Bunning?

[tblue37]

43. Bunning is behaving so bizarrely

that he has lost what was a comfortable 20-point lead. He shows all the signs of dementia, and yet the Republicans are propping him up. If they cared about anything other than power, they would have him step aside and then field a candidate who was not suffering from evident dementia.

Strom Thurmond, in the last years of his tenure, was obviously nonfunctional. He usually didn't even know where he was or why. His aides did everything for him, under direction from the party.

[MADem]

25. I have to agree with you

And it isn't "dissing" the mentally ill to say so. You need a brain that is operating on all cylinders, all the time, to represent the people of this nation. It's just too important, and not something you can "work around" when people, as they sometimes do, decide to go off their meds.

Stevie Wonder will never be a great photographer. Stephen Hawking will never be Mr. Universe. Max Cleland can't run the relay in the Olympics, either...it does not make him an evil person, it just makes him 'unsuited to the task.'

But Max did a fine job in the Senate, didn't he. So we need to send Max back to Congress at the earliest opportunity.

[Oak2004]

36. I completely agree with you

I can't read a thread here without seeing someone spitting on some dispossessed group or another. if they're not screaming "b*tch", they're criticizing people for their body type instead of their politics or calling rural Americans "toothless hillbillies" or jumping all over low income workers as "trailer trash". I'm beginning to think that a lot of the people who frequent this board are not liberals, or even centrists -- they're haters, haters of the right wing. Hate, as an agenda, however apparently justifiable, has a way of spilling over and contaminating a person, so that eventually all someone can do is hate.

The commentator above, who doesn't think anyone's opinion but his own counts, appears to carefully treasure his flagrant ignorance of how it is that a personality trait becomes "mental illness". And, for that matter, his ignorance of the research that shows that, for everything other than schizophrenia, psychiatric diagnoses show no more consistency than chance. And the research that shows that the number of people diagnosed with any particular condition directly corrolates with the type of drug most recently released/heavily marketed. The reason most often given by med students for why they aren't going into psychiatry, despite a growing shortage of psychiatrists, is that the field isn't actually based on science. And I could continue.

[Quixote1818]

37. I have suffered from depression and anxiety attacks and I don't have a

problem with the term "mental illness". I know it's just a fugure of speech. Why get so bent out of shape over this?

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. It's the perscription meds

This is the crowd that thinks as long as they have a perscription, they can take anything & everything. I wouldn love to know the cocktails that some of these folks take on a daily basis. Then add that to the heart meds that someone like Cheney is on and you've got some pretty wacky people running around.

[puddycat]

16. also, Patricia, I don't think self-described bible-thumpers should talk!

religious people, people who believe all sorts of myth as being true, are the last ones who should point fingers at anyone else and scream "mental illness"!

Yes, I think Zell Miller is a horrible person, but not because he may or may not be suffering any kind of mental illness or Altheimers.

[patricia92243]

41. Sorry! Didn't mean to antognize anyone.

[calimary]

27. Inbreeding, maybe?

And yes, she's got to do something better with her hair. That slash the ends with a jagged razor blade is a pathetic way to try to look chic. It looks like she took matters into her own hands one day when she was really pissed off - or VERY drunk.

[Skittles]

33. LOL - I hate that ridiculous hair fad too

I can envision their grandchildren saying GRANDMA WHAT WAS WRONG WITH YOUR HAIR ???

[puddycat]

10. She feels the cold breath of defeat on her neck, and its causing panic!

[AlCzervik]

11. I think the rightwing radio lunatic are hoping for a Kerry win

that would be very good for their business.

[johnnyrocket]

12. Ingraham?!? No thanks, I listen to the "nails on the chalkboard show"

It's easier on the ears.

[gulfcoastliberal]

22. Ingraham and Coulter can look to Kate O'Bierne

too see what they will look like after a lifetime of hatred and bitterness.

[bushwakker]

26. ouch - but so true. hate is ugly no matter how you dress it up.

[RetroLounge]

23. She is another media ho who needs a visit from Al Pieda

RL

[foo_bar]

31. you're helping her career

Howard Stern and Limbaugh got rich from free press by offended listeners who just "tuned in to monitor". Best to let them eat their own.

[Skittles]

32. OMG, I heard her read her reasons why Bush must remain president

that woman is totally delusional and is it just me or does she have a REALLY IRRITATING VOICE ???

[bobbieinok]

39. Savage is MUCH easier to listen to .... ie better listening voice

when driving home from work (evening) I had choice of either plus religious right broadcast if I didn't want to listen to music. Each one was listenable only ca 1 minute at a time......but Savage has a much more tolerable voice

[dave502d]

40. Do they bake brick pies.

[GalleryGod]

44. Pie Time for Laura????

My Prediction: In the coming decade the biggest change for our Media Glitteratti-the Chattering Masses:boring: will be the hiring of personal security Body Guards. Much like South America and Mexico,Media Talking Heads will be subjected to kidnapping. IMHO:wow: