Laura Ingraham Tells Oprah and the Dixie Chicks to Go Pound Sand

From FreeRepublic:

Radio talk show host and bestselling author Laura Ingraham shot back publicly Monday at an Oprah Winfrey show producer who invited her to make pre-recorded comments on videotape regarding the Dixie Chicks on the popular daytime talk show.

Ingraham is the author of the 2003 New York Times bestseller Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America, which has just come out in paperback. The title of Ingraham's book is aimed primarily at the we're-not-country-anymore country trio the Dixie Chicks, who are among the bestselling female groups of all time. However, the Chicks lost broad support across the nation and a sizeable chunk of its audience among country music fans in 2003 after singer Natalie Maines made a disparaging remark about President George W. Bush in a London concert. Maines made her comment just prior to the beginning of the Iraq War.

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The Chicks had a documentary film crew follow them on the 2003 world tour recording the events of the aftermath of Maines’ remark, and the resulting film, Shut Up & Sing (appropriating, without permission, the title of Ingraham’s book right down to the ampersand) will be released to limited theaters in the United States October 27th. In yet another PR blitz, the Dixie Chicks are going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show in support of the film. Apparently, Ingraham will be spoken of as a target of wrath by the Dixie Chicks, which is probably why she was asked to give comments to be used in the Oprah show. But the author of the film’s title was not invited to make an appearance on the program along with the Chicks. On Ingraham's program Monday, she played a voice mail message left by a man identifying himself as an Oprah producer:

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"Hi Laura, my name is [deleted] with the Oprah Winfrey show, and I am working on a show about the Dixie Chicks. And I would like [you] to check your schedule to see if you were possibly available to do something on tape for us to roll in as part of that show..."
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Could Laura Ingraham -- the queen of political talk radio, with over five million listeners nationwide every morning -- turn down an invitation from Oprah Winfrey, the queen of television, with at least twice that many daily viewers? This is what she told her audience about when she would be taped for Oprah under those conditions: "[When] cows fly!" She continued: "I am not going to be in any taped piece about the Dixie Chicks so [Oprah's editors] can cut and splice and do what they do on shows that are more oriented toward a liberal viewpoint. If you want to put me on Oprah Winfrey's show live to talk about a certain issue, I will consider it. You didn't have me on when Shut Up & Sing came out, but now you want me on in a taped piece? Uh...lemme see, lemme check my calendar -- how does NEVER sound to you?"