Imus Chats with Laura Ingraham, Christiane Amanpour, and Janet Napolitano

Before she considers a second career as a professional Christiane Amanpour impersonator, Laura Ingraham checked in with Imus to share some important news about CNN’s new "Parker Spitzer" show.

“They think they should shorten it up a little, it’s a little too long,” Ingraham, a nationally syndicated radio host and Fox News contributor, said. “They’re just going to call it “PS: Your Show is Unwatchable.’”

Starring former New York Governor/hooker lover Eliot Spitzer and conservative Columnist Kathleen Parker, the show is” a train wreck,” in Ingraham’s view, and an uncomfortable one at that.

“There are so many awkward moments in that show, there are too many to count,” she said. “The first night, [Parker] said, ‘What’s your guilty pleasure?’”

Ingraham had higher ratings for Christine O’Donnell’s “I am not a witch” campaign ad released this week, commenting only that O’Donnell, the Republican running for Senate against Democrat Chris Coons in Delaware, should have picked up the pace.

“She ends the ad by saying, ‘I’m you,’” Ingraham said. “And I’m telling you, a lot of women who are struggling out there, who maybe couldn’t pay their rent one or two months, maybe they made some mistakes in their life—they’re looking at Christine O’Donnell and saying, ‘Hey, compared to that guy Chris Coons, who jokes around about being a Marxist, and wants to cripple our economy with cap-and-trade, and probably will vote with Obama and Pelosi 98 percent of the time—she’s a lot more like me than they are.’”

Imus thought the ad was genius in a Roger Ailes-Karl Rove sort of way, but stipulated that he agrees with little else O’Donnell has to say. “The masturbation deal concerns me,” he told Ingraham, who would rather watch ‘Parker Spitzer’ reruns on my DVR than talk about masturbation with Imus.

News broke this week that the Obama administration had withheld some environmental information about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, which had Ingraham imagining what would have happened if the Bush administration had acted similarly.

“What do you think the media would have done?” she said. “I hope the reaction is not one big collective yawn coming from Christiane Amanpour and the entire crowd”
 
She spent the next few minutes embodying Amanpour, the host of ABC’s “This Week,” and then transferred effortlessly over to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, noting, “She’s endearing compared to a lot of other people in the administration.”

That’s not saying much.

-Julie Kanfer