Awful human being Laura Ingraham
CBS News reported on Tuesday that a man who jumped the White House fence made it all the way into the East Room after overpowering a female Secret Service agent.
Speaking to Fox News and on her radio show on Tuesday, Ingraham asserted that officials had hired a female Secret Service director and female agents because of "political correctness."
"They brought in a woman, first female director - remember the Obama administration loves firsts," Ingraham said on her radio show, according to a transcript provided by Media Matters. "You get the sense at some point that it's the first that's more important than the common sense."
"What works - let's do what works best, ok?" she continued. "Is it to have a woman there or is it just to have a really strong person there? A big, hulking person. Female, male, I don't care."
"They want to be historic. They want it to be an historic appointment, instead of thinking, 'gee, maybe we just need the best people.'"
Comment: There's no indication that the recent breach was caused by having "the wrong people." She implies that a "strong person" would have prevented the breach, but that's just speculation on Ingraham's part. This is less about her being upset about the breach and more about capitalizing on the situation to castigate the Obama administration. It's strictly about political maneuvering.
During an interview on Fox & Friends earlier in the morning, Ingraham acknowledged that some female agents could be "really strong and large," but she speculated that gender had been more important in the hiring process than who was the best person for the job.
"I mean, you do get the sense at some point that political correctness could have been a factor here, right?" she said. "Because the new female director, who's going to be questioned today, Julia Pierson, came in after that Colombia prostitute scandal with the Secret Service... She was a proud career civil servant - 30 years with the Secret Service. But you do get the sense that with this administration that all these decisions about who gets what position and where they're stationed - political correctness comes into the decision-making, and this is no place for political correctness."
Comment: Where is her proof that the Secret Service director was not the best person for the job? She even admits that Pierson had spent 30 years in the Secret Service. There is no logical connection between the breach and the Secret Service director's proficiency doing her job, yet Ingraham somehow connects the two. In her mind, logic does not matter.
"The strongest, biggest, best people have to be at the front of the White House always," the radio host concluded.
Watch the video below from Fox News' Fox & Friends, broadcast Sept. 30, 2014.
There are some really butch type women whom I'm sure would have done a fine job.