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Laura Ingraham
Born	(1964-06-19) June 19, 1964 (age 60) Glastonbury, Connecticut

Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19 1964) is an American conservative talk radio host and author. Her show is called The Laura Ingraham Show.

Career

In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Ronald Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy advisor. She also briefly served as editor of The Prospect, the magazine issued by Concerned Alumni of Princeton. After receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991, she served as a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York and subsequently clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She then worked as a private defense attorney at the New York-based law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted the MSNBC program Watch It!, which she jokingly says should have been called Watch It Get Canceled! She appeared on a 1995 cover of The New York Times Magazine in a leopardskin miniskirt — which, she joked, is displayed in the Smithsonian — for an article about rising young conservatives. She is the author of three books: The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places (2002), which presents Hillary Clinton as an example of the 'traps' women can encounter; Shut Up & Sing (2003), which decries the elitist views Ingraham attributes to liberals working primarily in entertainment, academia, and the media; and Power to the People (2007), in which she discusses conservative values concerning family life, education and patriotism.

Radio show host

Ingraham launched The Laura Ingraham Show in April 2001, which is heard on 306 stations and on SIRIUS Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. The show was originally syndicated by Infinity's (now CBS') Westwood One, but is now syndicated by Talk Radio Network. Ingraham is also the official guest host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel and a weekly contributor with her segment "The Ingraham Angle."

As of 2008, Laura Ingraham is rated as the number 6 radio show host in America by Talkers Magazine (a publication that claims to be the industry's Bible). She was as high as number 5 in the past according to the same publication.

Books

While still a talk show host on MSNBC, The Hillary Trap—Ingraham's first book—was released on December 25, 2002.

Ingraham's second book was published October 25, 2003. It is titled Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the U.N. are Subverting America. Later editions have a slightly altered title, changing "U.N." to "Media."

Ingraham's most recent book, Power to the People, was released on September 11, 2007. In this book, Ingraham focuses on what she calls the "pornification" of America. Power to the People stresses the importance of getting involved in the culture:

Personal

Ingraham received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1985 and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991.

Controversy

On her national radio show Ingraham made several controversial comments in regards to the retirement of Brett Favre.

"All these years, and I didn't know there was a woman quarterback in the NFL," said Ingraham to start her show.

"Brett Favre...we're watching this in the studio, obviously retiring from the NFL, great quarterback, handsome 38-year-old man, he gets up there and he does this press conference that was frankly one of the most embarassing things I have ever seen. "That's a great message for young boys. 'Get up there and act like a girl and start blubbering like a baby."

Then, in her best impersonation of a crying toddler with its favorite toy taken away, she wah-wah-wah's while uttering in a mocking tone, "It's about me, it was never about me, but it is about me, bla, bla, bla" before returning to her regular voice and stating, "I could not believe what I was seeing."

External links

• Laura Ingraham Official Web Site
• Laura Ingraham at NNDB
• Photos of Ingraham in Iraq, February 2006, at LauraIngraham.com

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