There’s one place in Washington where you will absolutely, positively never find conservative radio host Laura Ingraham — in line at Georgetown Cupcake.
The author and pundit called out the chic store and the cupcake craze in general in her upcoming book “Of Thee I Zing.”
“I just don’t understand what’s so fascinating or unique about cupcakes,” she writes in the book, a 305-page rant that examines “America’s cultural decline from muffin tops to body shots.”
Almost two pages are devoted to the cupcake tirade.
“Absolutely nothing could induce me to stand in line, in D.C.’s freezing cold or blazing heat, to buy high priced small cakes,” she writes. “Unless you are doing breast and lung cancer breakthroughs with that coconut mocha creme, I’m not interested,” she continues, though admits that she has sampled the Georgetown variety, and, yes, they are delicious. “But so are Little Debbies.”
Ingraham credits Georgetown Cupcake and the TLC show “DC Cupcakes,” which follows the “intensely boring lives” of owners Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis, with helping start the national cupcakery-on-every-corner trend. (It’s more likely New York City’s Magnolia Bakery and the show “Sex and the City,” but we’ll give her a pass). “This is one of those reality shows capable of glazing not only cupcakes, but also your eyes,” she says of “DC Cupcakes.”
Speaking of D.C., Ingraham’s really not a fan of celebrities coming into the capital city to promote their causes either. “From the looks on the senators’ faces when the stars walk in, you’d swear that John Adams had come back from the dead,” she writes, mentioning Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo‘s recent trips to the District. “What makes these people experts in anything other than acting?” Ingraham argues.
“Of Thee I Zing,” goes on sale Tuesday.
