Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham is the latest news anchor to have footage leaked of an off-air meltdown.
The nine-minute video (right) is a montage of Ingraham berating and snapping at her staff before broadcasts for Fox News, where she was recently guest-hosting a segment called Just In.
The clip surfaced Tuesday as part of actor Harry Shearer’s "Found Objects" series on comedy portal My Damn Channel. Shearer’s web show previously released footage exposing embarrassing off-air moments by Katie Couric, Dan Rather and Ann Coulter.
Though Ingraham’s mouthing off ranks low on an O’Reilly-scale of freak-outs captured on video — she loses points for not shouting expletives, gesticulating furiously or tearing off any articles of clothing — it’s still pretty funny and entertaining to watch.
Among the highlights: Ingraham complains of a strange man in her teleprompter and too many people hovering around her before calling the Fox show a "train wreck." Ingraham’s show ended earlier this month after airing for just three weeks. The cancellation was reportedly unrelated to her pre-show behavior, according to TVNewser.
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