Laura Ingraham – now we know why the talkshow host has never been married

In 2001, she launched the radio program The Laura Ingraham Show. It was heard on more than 300 stations as well as on XM Satellite Radio. The show was recorded in Washington, D.C, featuring Ingraham’s views on a wide range of political topics.

She also appeared as a frequent guest host of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, a network she later would return to.

Becoming a “pundette”

For Ingraham, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was a big thing since it was the start of young conservative women getting airtime as political pundits, known as “pundettes”, according to the .

She had talents older pundits didn’t like and were afraid of. Unlike others, she didn’t come from a job in journalism.

“She is ,” journalist Eric Alterman

“She argues politics the way lawyers argue cases, as if there can be no possible interpretation other than her own, and what can possibly be the matter with her pathetically out-to-lunch opponent?”

In 2004 The Laura Ingraham Show moved to Talk Radio Network and continued growing. She was rated the No. 5 radio show in the US by Talkers Magazine in 2012.

Ingraham also got herself featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in 1995 for a story on young conservatives.

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