Reply #13: Further Portrait of INGRAHAM from BROCK, pp 253-257 [View All]

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....that iconic leopard miniskirt, we often joked, launched Laura Ingraham's career. ....True to form...Laura had shown up in a frumpy, Lane Bryant-type peach polyester suit, at least two sizes too big. She had brought the lepard-print skirt along, which a friend had left behind in her closet, and which i often dared her to wear, as a gag. I told her either she was wearing the skirt or I was. .... ...her adventures in the mid-1980s ... in support of El Salvador's right-wing military regime---she was 'murdering nuns,' as she flippantly put it. .... ...her one desire in life was to leave her law firm and get herself on television as a political pundit, despite the fact that she was the only person I knew who didn't appear to own a book or regularly read a newspaper. .... After signing the mid-six figure contract, she quietly struck a deal with the talented New Republic writer Ruth Shalit to essentially draft the book for her. When Shalit wisely backed out, Laura was left with a lame manuscript whose sole purpose was to hold the Clintons' marriage up to moral scrutiny and ridicule. .... ...she was also a wicked gossip, befriending the likes of Rush Limbaugh and George Will, then repeating their often creepy confidences to me. .... In candid moments, she confided she didn't believe much of what she was saying on the airwaves. Channeling our emotional problems (in Laura's case, the pain of a difficult childhood, and her tortured relations with men, whether married or not),... .... ...Laura's antigay past at Dartmouth, where along with her then-boyfriend Dinesh D'Souza, she had participated in the infamous outing of gay students, who were branded 'sodomites,' ... .... '...how she pulled a gun on a boyfriend after he broke up with her?' ....
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