Laura Ingraham Wants to Talk About Important Stuff, Imus Wants to Talk About Glenn Beck

Name the embattled politician, and Laura Ingraham can do a spot-on impression of them. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Check. President Barack Obama? Check. She even does a pretty good Imus, which she put to good use this morning in ridiculing him for, among other things, his dislike of the singer Bruce Hornsby.

First, Ingraham, one of America’s most popular nationally syndicated radio hosts, set her sights on Senator Scott Brown, the recently elected Republican from Massachusetts who voted with Democrats this week to pass a jobs bill.  

“What did anyone think, really, we were going to get when we got behind a Massachusetts Republican?” said Ingraham, a Conservative whose family hails from The Bay State. “I know how these people think. It’s a bizarre amalgam of philosophical positions, and the idea that he was going to be cheering on the Family Research Council and all these conservative groups through on various issues—that would have been nice, but he’s not going to do that.”

He also probably won’t do any modeling, as he has in the past, most notably in Cosmo Magazine. But a forthcoming New York Times Magazine story reveals that Brown’s modeling career was more involved, and that he once sported pink leather shorts.

“Imus, those are the types you used to wear down on MacDougal Street in the old days,” said Ingraham of the I-Man’s time in Greenwich Village in the 1970s. “You had the fringe on yours, though.”

Since she’s not much of a television watcher, Imus clued Ingraham in on the joy of watching “Glenn Beck” every day at 5PM on Fox News. “I watched the entire hour the other day, which I had never done,” Imus reported. “And it’s insanity.”

He even keeps the station tuned to Fox during commercials, he said, because “I want to be there when it all goes south.”

Ingraham tried to change the topic to something she thought was more important, like Attorney General Eric Holder hiring at the Justice Department nine attorneys who have, in the past, worked to defend Gitmo detainees, and now might be charged with prosecuting that same group of people.

“I don’t know how you think any nonsense you talk about with Eric Holder is more important than Glenn Beck trying to save humanity and our country,” said Imus, who then asked how his guest’s kids were doing. 

Ingraham told Imus that within her United Nations of a family, stereotypes are really playing out. “The Russian has a very engineering brain, picking things apart, pulling them apart, feeling how wheels move on cars,” she said of her son Dmitri. “My daughter Maria is from Guatemala, and she says, ‘I have a Latina temper.’ She says that!”

Charmed by Ingraham’s story, Imus remarked, “I love kids and old people. And I’m one of them.”

-Julie Kanfer