Guide Note

A behind-the-scenes video of conservative talk radio host and FOX News contributor Laura Ingraham was leaked by actor Harry Shearer on the MyDamnChannel.com website. The video shows Ingraham between segments of her short-lived FOX television news show, Just In. Ingraham is seen criticizing staff and expressing displeasure over inadequate preparations for the show.

Fast Facts

1. Video leaked on July 15, 2008
2. Clips from several episodes edited together
3. Part of Harry Shearer's "Found Objects" series
4. Shearer has also leaked off-air videos of Katie Couric, Dan Rather and Ann Coulter
5. This Just In aired for three weeks, ending in July 2008¹
6. Insiders from FOX News say the show was never intended to have a long run²

1. '"That's the FOX way of doing things?"
2. "The word 'the' is spelled wrong in the prompter."
3. "If one more person opens that door, I'm gonna nail that door shut during the show. Who is that hovering in the hallway, opening the door and hovering? I don't want a hoverer. Sheesh. They're hovering and opening and closing. Don't hover at me."
4. "Every time you flip the screen from an element to the monitor, I get some Hispanic-looking man on the screen. I don't know who he is, but he's been in my prompter the whole night."
5. "Is makeup coming in to powder me, because I look shiny on my forehead. I mean, somebody's got to look at this stuff except me."
6. "Don't come in my ear. Just don't."
7. "This is a train wreck."