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Laura Ingraham is the conservative talk radio host of the nationally syndicated Laura Ingraham Show. Ingraham has also authored three books and is a frequent contributor to various Fox News programs.
On Ingraham's show of March 12, 2008, she mocked John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain, who has recently criticized the extremism of some Republican pundits, especially Ann Coulter. Using a faux Valley Girl accident, Ingraham referred to McCain as "plus-sized".Think Progress: Laura Ingraham mocks Meghan McCain as being ‘plus-sized.’ (March 12, 2009) Huffington Post: Meghan McCain Responds To Laura Ingraham's "Plus-Size" Insult (March 13, 2009)
Fast Facts:
- Born: June 19, 1963 in Glastonbury, Connecticut
- Alma Mater: Dartmouth College
- Former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review
- Earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia
- Former law clerk for Clarence Thomas and Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Converted to Roman Catholicism
- Worked as a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan
- Hosted MSNBC program [[Watch It!]]
- Fellow at the Hoover Institution
- Underwent breast cancer surgery in 2005
- Authored: Shut Up & Sing, Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places and Power to the People




