LAURA INGRAHAM COACHES LeBRON JAMES WIN

 

 

By now the news on Laura Ingraham telling LeBron James to ‘shut up and dribble’ ought to be cooked to perfection. The Fox News superstar, by including The King in her act, broadened the platform…

 

For LeBron.

 

Laura Ingraham fouled LeBron, a hard foul, and he responded with, “Laura who?” She knows LeBron, but he doesn’t know her.

 

Should he? More important, should I know who Laura Ingraham is?

 

I know more today.

The basics: Dartmouth College grad, Virginia Law School grad, so she’s got that working in her favor. Education must be important to her, and as every educated person knows, it’s important to encourage others to further their own education.

 

But she takes another path by telling LeBron to shut up and dribble, insisting that she owns the phrase since she wrote a book fifteen years ago about shutting someone else up.

 

Like her colleague, former Fox News superstar Bill O’Reilly, owning ‘Killing (insert name of famous person’s name like Jesus, JFK, Lincoln, Patton), Laura Ingraham took it a little too far.

 

Fox News fans enjoy the network’s ability to deliver hard hitting facts and figures out of respected anchors, but when they go too far, what happens? They find a new way to keep their brand relevant.

 

Taking shots at LeBron James might be the new tactic for LI, but the recoil is a problem.

 

From NPR:

 

Journalist Laura Ingraham sought to rebuke the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James for “talking politics” during a recent interview — something the Fox News host believes is out of bounds for an athlete.

Ingraham said she was not interested in the political advice from “someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball.”

 

From the looks of the story unfolding, Laura Ingraham doesn’t like political advice from a man who must pay huge income taxes on his yearly haul. Fair enough. And LeBron answers with, “Laura who?”

 

During a 17-minute interview with ESPN broadcaster Cari Champion alongside Golden State’s Kevin Durant last week, James discussed family, personal growth and the challenges that come with being black and a public figure in America — including his reaction to the racial slur that was graffitied on his Los Angeles home last May. He also discussed politics and President Trump.

“The No. 1 job in America, the appointed person is someone who doesn’t understand the people,” the athlete said at one point during the interview, adding that some of the president’s comments are “laughable and scary.”

Ingraham responded to his comments Thursday, calling them “barely intelligible” and “ungrammatical” on her Fox News program The Ingraham Angle.

 

I watched the clip of two guys sitting in the back of a car riffing on current affairs. If that qualifies as an interview, then so does former Fox News Chief Roger Ailes’ recommendations to his news ladies when he explains how they can navigate their way up the organization.

 

Then she moves on with a dog whistle reference. Dog whistle? Like something for dogs only they can hear? Something she puts in her mouth and blows on?

 

Maybe you’ve noticed something about the Fox News women compared to the NPR news women? What is the difference? Apparently one comes with with a practice dog whistle that once mastered meant more air time, or their own show. With her own show, Laura Ingraham deserves credit for upping her game to fit the format.

 

Around here we like LeBron James just fine. Articulate and understandable, but maybe not to an Ivy Leaguer who raises the bar with learning requirements before listening. His language, spoken off the cuff, is grammatical enough for this Portland Stater.

 

On occasions boomerpdx reflects current culture but mostly plays the long game with long tail tags. When LeBron said, “He doesn’t give a fuck about the people,” he’s not blowing a dog whistle, just expressing himself the way no one tabbed the ‘Greatest Basketball Player On The Planet’ ever has.

 

Looking at you, Michael Jordan. There’s the rolling donut of Laura Ingraham. Take a flier. Show you’re more than a great champion with a great brand building toward more championships as an NBA team owner. Maybe take a break from selling shoes and join Team LeBron.

 

From cbsnews.com:

 

“It’d been the same as telling Jackie Robinson to shut up and slide into home base, or Jesse Owens to shut up and just go triple jump,” James said. “I can’t do that, because of so many people that’s looking up to me, and so many that’s going to come after me.”

 

Or telling Arthur Ashe to shut up and play tennis, or Tiger Woods to shut up and swing his club?

 

Or telling Michael Jordan to shut up and smoke a stogie? Who’s going to say that?

 

Dear Ms Ingraham, this is not My Fair Lady, you are not phonetics Professor Henry Higgins, and LeBron isn’t Eliza Dolittle, but he could carry the part.