Don't forget that Ingraham is among THE funniest of the conservative talk radio hosts when she gets rolling. I laugh out loud at her humor more often than just about anyone else's.
Here's the thing I don't get about her chastising of Alford. He's clearly a capitalist Black man representing a capitalist Black organization, and that man and organization have now run up against the brick wall of Leftist policy and race politics. He's one of these "newly enlightened" Democrats or apolitical folks that we hear anecdotally are turning against Obama in droves. They're finding themselves on our side, against everything they thought they knew about themselves and politics.
We NEED them. We don't need the GOP to conform to them, but we need them to identify with their conservative values and lead them to understand that a conservative GOP is their natural political home.
So why on earth invite the guy on your radio program and bust his chops about his speaker phone, and tell him it's a great sign of disrespect? Why does she feel the need to put this man in his place? Barbara Boxer tried that, and it didn't work out too well for her.
Why not make a place at the table for this man, and make him feel welcome, and among friends? Why start things off this way?
