Flashback: Laura Ingraham's Last Scrum on The View Over Hillary

Published: November 12, 2007, 10:44 pm

Tags: barbara walters, hillary clinton, joy behar, laura ingraham, star jones

Laura Ingraham was in a groove on Monday's The View, spurring protest from Barbara Walters by asking if the talk-show gang there really wanted America to win in Iraq. (Walters protested probably not only for her colleagues on the chat show, but her colleagues at flag-pins-are-verboten ABC News). On what I'm guessing was her last appearance on The View, on January 22, 2003, our Jessica Anderson captured how Ingraham handled a cast of putative feminists who defined feminism as offering women the choice to have a completely elastic and plastic marriage for political gain: Meredith Vieira: "I know that you wrote this book called The Hillary Trap, Laura, and in it you sort of blast Hillary or not even sort of, you do for the way she handled her husband's infidelities, and basically make the point that she is not a good role model." Laura Ingraham: "Well, Hillary is sort of the liberal archetype for today. I mean, she really is this great symbol of today's

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