Post-op recovery always better with dogs! Thanks for all the well wishes and to my phenomenal surgeons. Blessed!
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— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 27, 2023
Posted on 01/29/2023 9:31:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Fox News has been flying high in the ratings for some time. With the most popular shows and hosts, the network seems to be doing everything right. But one host has had some bad luck outside her job. Laura Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News Channel since 2017, is also the editor-in-chief of LifeZette. She joined the network in 2007 and has soared as a host since.
It seems Ingraham was on a skiing holiday with her family in Colorado when an old injury reared its head, putting her physically out of commission. The popular Fox News host had sad news to announce to those who watch her show.
Ingraham said she was involved in a skiing accident and is taking some days off of work to recover. “The weekend before last, I decided to take my boys skiing in Colorado,” she said. “I didn’t wipe out once — until I took the bait.” She said that her son challenged her to a race. “I took off after my 14-year-old. Well, suffice it to say, it was all downhill from there,” the host said. She said that on the “last run of the day, about a quarter mile from the bottom, at Aspen Highlands” she slid on the ice and “heard a snap.”
“I immediately knew it was my ACL because I had done my other knee at the same resort 20 years ago,” the host said. “I’m going to try to be back early next week,” she said.
Ingraham posted her recovery situation with her beloved pets.
Post-op recovery always better with dogs! Thanks for all the well wishes and to my phenomenal surgeons. Blessed!
pic.twitter.com/EAaGsHckwV— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 27, 2023
The family week-long vacay to Colorado has turned into an extended absence for Ingraham due to the injury and resulting surgery. will miss you these next few days, she posted Wednesday. “Thank you for your kind thought and prayers. I’ll be back as soon as I can!”
While Ingraham convalesces, in the meantime Fox News just got fantastic news about one of its flagship shows, “The Five.”
Conservative Brief reports:
The show has become the most watched show in cable news, averaging a total audience of 3.332 million viewers for the week that ended January 22nd, Nielsen ratings showed, Forbes reported.
“After The Five, the highest-rated shows of the week were Tucker Carlson Tonight (3.086 million viewers), Jesse Watters Primetime (2.647 million viewers), Hannity (2.386 million viewers), and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.367 million viewers)—all airing on the Fox News Channel,” the report said.
Forbes reported: “In prime time, Fox News led the cable news networks with an average total audience of 1.996 million viewers—beating CNN and MSNBC combined. Overall, Fox had fully 92 of the 100 highest-rated cable news telecasts for the week. Among viewers 25-54, the demographic group most valued by advertisers, Tucker Carlson Tonight was first with 442,000 viewers, followed by The Five (374,000 viewers), Hannity (303,000 viewers), Jesse Watters Primetime (266,000 viewers) and Special Report with Bret Baier (256,000 viewers).”
And its morning show, “Fox & Friends” crushed its competitors with a total audience of 1.260 million viewers as the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” averaged 760,000 viewers and “CNN This Morning” had its worst week with 331,000 viewers.
Conservative Brief continues:
The Fox News show “Gutfeld” continued to crush its competition with 2.010 million viewers, ahead of the ABC show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” which averaged 1.819 million viewers and “The Tonight Show” on NBC hosted by Jimmy Fallon which averaged 1.278 million viewers. “Gutfeld!” has ruled late-night television, averaging 2.1 million viewers through 2022, Nielsen Media Research showed, the Washington Times reported. Vox, known to be more of a liberal news organization, opined that “The biggest comedy show on late-night right now is not on ABC or NBC or CBS or Fox. It’s not on Comedy Central. It’s certainly not streaming. It’s on Fox News, and its name is ‘Gutfeld!’”
CNN, who has been doing a sweep of talent and programming, is reportedly working on its own late-night show to compete with Gutfeld, examining more progressive candidates for the job. “Brass at the famously progressive news network have reportedly floated names such as Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, Arsenio Hall, and Jon Stewart, as candidates, to offer a nontraditional, late-night-esque take on the day’s news. Fox News has found success with ‘Gutfeld!,’ the late-night comedy show hosted by Greg Gutfeld,” the Daily Mail said.
But Gutfeld has been a ratings champion for Fox News with “The Five,” a show he cohosts, as the top show in cable news, Nielsen said. During a segment on the popular Fox News program “The Five,” the panel discussed a video that went viral on social media last week showing an antique dealer spraying a woman with a water hose outside of his business. A bystander caught part of the incident on video and uploaded it to social media, which generated a lot of attention. Gutfeld said people are tired of “human sh*t” on their porches after a video went viral last week of a man spraying a homeless woman with a water hose in San Francisco, California, Conservative Brief reports.
Down at the bottom of the article...hahahahahahahahaha! CNN plans to create a show to go up against Gutfeld, candidates in mind so far are Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, Arsenio Hall, and Jon Stewart. Hey CNN, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, HAH!!!
Very misleading headline. She told us the other day she was taking a few days off for medical reasons. Headline makes it sounds like something went wrong and she’d be gone indefinitely. But then the article finally states it is only a couple of days.
Exactly. These elites are just plain stupid. They think they can sit on their asses 51 weeks a year and all of a sudden become a skier. Skiing is for folks who live in ski country all season.
pretty much everyone i know who has skied in colorado has F-d up their knees and/or ankles at one time or another ... long ago, i decided i didn’t want to do that, so have never skied ... i never hang-glided either, a brief but deadly “sport” in colorado some decades ago ...
isn’t it always the “last” run BECAUSE that’s the one you F-d up on?
After working out since I was 16, once I turned 50 I turned to glass. The workouts had to be totally changed or I’d be like Laura.
I can’t believe that many people are watching Fox News.
They are the most vile network. Wolves in sheep’s clothing.
The five use kind of reminded me of the view even though nevet watched the view but if I had I would have been repulsed, and I don’t watch the 5 since fox went in on the STEAL or fox at all
Period.
What was she thinking?
I’ll be 60 next month and I still ski (though admittedly not very often these days). One thing that I think has made it much easier to keep skiing at an older age is the advent years ago of shaped skis. I learned to ski in the late-70s on what they call “straight skis” today (I know there’s an obvious joke there, but I’ll be good for now). Those older skis had to be flexed to create the radius needed to make turns. That required the skier to put pressure on the ski to make it turn. Those skis were also quite a bit longer on average than today’s shaped skis as well, which made them faster and contributed to the effort needed to make them turn. It took more skill and physical effort to ski on those older skis.
But today’s shaped skis are narrow near the center and are much wider at the tip and tail. That shape creates a built-in turning radius, and only requires the skier to tip them up on edge to initiate a turn. It takes much less pressure and physical effort to turn the newer skis and I think that helps keep skiing viable for older skiers. It also helps beginners learn faster as well.
I remember when I transitioned from the traditional ski design to the new shaped skis. I had heard how much easier they were to turn, and I was going from 195 cm Atomic Arcs to a shaped 176 cm ski. Being so much shorter I figured it would be quicker to turn, but when I instinctively applied my old technique to the shapes skis they turned so quickly that they instantly wrapped around and I about wiped out. I was still putting pressure into them to try to get them to flex, without even thinking about it, and that just wasn’t necessary. I eventually figured them out and have had some of the most rewarding runs just getting into the groove on those skis by tipping them on edge and just feeling the initiation and release of the very slight pressure that is needed to make them carve instead of skid. When it’s working right it takes amazingly little effort, and you can feel a slight spring sensation as you go from one turn to the next. On shaped skis if you’re working hard then you’re not doing it right. Anyone who has made a perfect series of turns on them knows what I mean when I mention that slight springing sensation as you let the edge of the ski do it’s job and apply and release just the right amount of pressure to transition between turns. It’s very subtle.
My circle of friends are all senior softball players. We're talking knee replacements, hip replacements, torn ACL's, rotator cuff surgeries (me, two years ago), and the list goes on...
I guess playing softball and risking injury at our age is better than vegetating at home and baby sitting the grand kids........LOL!
I’m loving that attitude. Never say die!👏👏
Get well soon Laura. Have met her a couple of times - very nice woman.
Thinking she wanted to go skiing I guess.
Time flies.
Then it dons on you that you put it there so you wouldn't lose it.
Just like whatever you are looking for is in the last place you look. Who keeps looking after they find it?
“ 60? I figured she was in her 40s. She looks great.…”
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Kids keep you young. Unless they rapidly age you.
That’s pretty much the definition of insanity.
I tore my ACL 14 years ago....finally getting it fixed in a couple of hours. I will be out at least 6 weeks, with full recovery 9 months to a year. I’m only 55...Laura won’t be back next week.
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