Ever heard of Laura Ingraham? Me neither. So in an apparent attempt to garner some attention, the conservative radio host decided to go after Brett Favre by calling the recently retired QB a “woman.”
WTMJ in Milwaukee reports that Ingraham started off her show on Friday by berating Brett for bawling at his retirement press conference.
After playing a clip from the conference, Ingraham responded:
All these years, and I didn’t know there was a woman quarterback in the NFL.
Brett Favre .. .we’re watching this in the studio, obviously retiring from the NFL, great quarterback, handsome 38-year-old man, he gets up there and he does this press conference that was frankly one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen.
That’s a great message for young boys. Get up there and act like a a girl and start blubbering like a baby.
Looks like someone’s about to lose all their Wisconsin affiliates. But maybe she has a point. As Jay Sorgi of WTMJ points out, Favre has teared up in public before.
Like after a Monday Night game in 2003, where he threw for 399 yards & four touchdowns - a day after his father died of a heart attack. And just this past December, when he received a Make-A-Wish national award, Favre choked up while talking about Anna Walentowski, a 9-year-old girl with a degenerative brain disorder. Luckily, Anna was there at the podium to give Brett a hug.
Crying after your dad dies? Crying while discussing a little girl with an incurable brain disease? Yeah, this guy must be a wuss.
Good thing Laura’s here to tell it like it is, such as blaming the troops for problems in Iraq.
4:55 pm on March 11th, 2008
Can we still make fun of Dick Vermeil and TO crying on our blog or will that bring us a world of hurt with backlash?
6:19 pm on March 11th, 2008
What is up with right wing radio hosts and their apparent anger at professional athletes? It’s sort of weird. The insults flying out of these people’s mouths are just in amazingly poor taste. I guess you have to speak to your audience, but come on….
6:46 pm on March 11th, 2008
Question. Aren’t those “only woman are allowed to cry” for any reason out of date gender roles on par with “woman are to be seen and not heard” and “a womans place is in the home”?
Can’t this lady just abide by all of her antiquated social ideals and not just pick and choose as she pleases?
7:57 pm on March 11th, 2008
Hilarious Photoshop, Jason! I liked the way you put fangs in her ..
[squints]
…Oh, those are actually hers.
7:58 pm on March 11th, 2008
But then we wouldn’t all be talking about her. There is a certain segment of the journalism profession that would do anything and everything to get some pub. They know no bounds. Sure everybody loves publicity, but I think there are a lot of folks who are still angry at their parents and can’t tell the difference between positive and negative attention.
Maybe we should send them back to kindergarten.
7:43 am on March 12th, 2008
So you call Favre a wimp? You may want to call the NFL’s founding father, George Halas, and the ultimate old-school tough guy, Vince Lombardi, wimps, too, for how they teared up often.
Read the full analysis: http://www.620wtmj.com/sports/16518616.html
TO? Notice how he had sunglasses on when he cried after the Cowboys’ playoff loss. Scientists probably would have discovered no liquid in or coming out of Owens’ eyes had they run a test.
5:49 am on March 13th, 2008
http://www.620wtmj.com/sports/16618901.html
An “apology” from Laura.