{"id":51255,"date":"2021-11-16T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51255"},"modified":"2021-11-16T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:46:55","slug":"laura-ingrahams-hysterical-dumbassery-shows-why-fox-news-cant-ever-be-taken-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51255","title":{"rendered":"Laura Ingraham&#8217;s Hysterical Dumbassery Shows Why Fox News Can&#8217;t Ever Be Taken Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that Fox News has always failed at miserably, it&#8217;s comedy. Well, intentional comedy. They have actually been a fairly reliable source of unintentional laughs. That&#8217;s pretty easy with such mockable figures as Tucker Carlson (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51151\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitting that he doesn&#8217;t know WTF he&#8217;s talking about<\/a><\/strong>), or <em>&#8220;Judge&#8221;<\/em> Jeanine Pirro (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41027\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">competing with SNL for humor<\/a><\/strong>), or Peter Doocy (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51146\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">routinely humiliating himself)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Ingraham, Fox News, Goofy\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48956\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now Laura Ingraham has elevated herself to the top of the spit(take) pile with a segment wherein she demonstrated how cognitively vacuous she is. Ingraham was hosting her frequent sidekick\/guest, Raymond Arroyo, who is the <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> anchor of the Eternal Word Television Network. So right away you can expect a laugh riot. The subject was COVID vaccine mandates and Arroyo sought to make a point using a popular television program when hilarity ensued. Here is both the transcript and the video, but you&#8217;ve got to watch the video:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> &#8220;I was watching an episode of &#8220;You&#8221; where measles came up.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> Wait, when did I mention measles?<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> I don&#8217;t know. It was on &#8220;You.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> What was on me? What are you talking about?<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> The measles and the vaccine episode was on &#8220;You.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> We never did a measles and the vaccine episode. Is this a joke?<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> I know. It was on &#8220;You.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never had measles. What are you talking about?<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> It was an episode of a show.<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> What&#8217;s it called?<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> &#8220;You.&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;You.&#8221; It&#8217;s called &#8220;You.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never had measles. I just completely give up.<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> It&#8217;s a show called &#8220;You&#8221; on Netflix.<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham:<\/strong> There&#8217;s a show called Laura Ingraham on Netflix?<br \/>\n<strong>Arroyo:<\/strong> Never mind. I&#8217;m moving on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">what in the hell <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IPpwMJRMjv\">pic.twitter.com\/IPpwMJRMjv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1460614791106600960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Is this Ingraham and Arroyo&#8217;s version of <em>&#8220;Who&#8217;s on First&#8221;<\/em>? Abbott and Costello must be rolling over in their graves &#8211; in hysterics.<\/p>\n<p>While this video is comedy gold, it is also a reminder that Fox News should never be taken seriously. After all, if Ingraham is incapable of grasping the simple notion of a television show called <em>&#8220;You,&#8221;<\/em> how can she possibly be trusted to give a worthwhile analysis of epidemiology, or critical race theory, or economics, or foreign affairs, or climate change, or anything else?<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, Ingraham&#8217;s capacity to understand in this clip isn&#8217;t any worse than her understanding of any other subject she&#8217;s discussed on her show. And the same is true of Carlson, Sean Hannity, and the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends. They all have the intellectual depth of Fox&#8217;s designated clown, Greg Gutfeld, and he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49161\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t exactly a candidate for Mensa membership<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for Fox, their viewers are even lower on the scale of comprehension. That explains why they vote for Trump and Republicans <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51240\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like wannabe comedian Ted Cruz<\/a><\/strong>. It also explains why they are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51186\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dying from COVID in far higher numbers<\/a><\/strong> than Democrats. So while there is humor in all of of this, there is also tragedy. What Fox News is doing to America isn&#8217;t really funny at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that Fox News has always failed at miserably, it&#8217;s comedy. Well, intentional comedy. They have actually been a fairly reliable source of unintentional laughs. That&#8217;s pretty easy with such mockable figures as Tucker Carlson (admitting that he doesn&#8217;t know WTF he&#8217;s talking about), or &#8220;Judge&#8221; Jeanine Pirro (competing with SNL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,15,684,16],"tags":[33,43],"class_list":["post-51255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-humor","category-media-bias","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-laura-ingraham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ingraham-goofy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dkH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36022,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36022","url_meta":{"origin":51255,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Launch Party for Laura Ingraham Show Draws Ivanka Trump and Lots of GOP Suck-Ups","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/30\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Monday night Fox News will premiere a new primetime program featuring ultra-rightist pundit, and radio talker, Laura Ingraham. 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