A conservative talk radio host brought the Republican National Convention to its feet – and earned the week's loudest and longest sustained applause – by chastising the hundreds of reporters gathered in Cleveland to hear a night of speeches.

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has made press-bashing a regular feature of his campaign rallies, but Laura Ingraham's clobbering was the week's first sign of conservatives' open warfare' against media bias.

She yelled at journalists for failing to uncover corruption in the Obama administration, saying part of Trump's rise can be traced back to his willingness to say what their editors won't print.

The cheers were deafening.

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ROCK STAR: Talk radio host Laura Ingraham blasted reporters as much as she clobbered Hillary Clinton in her Republican convention speech Wednesday, drawing deafening applause

CROWD PLEASER: Ingraham's radio show is solidly conservative and she frequently guest hosts for Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel

WILD: Convention-goers stood and applauded for 45 seconds uninterrupted when Ingraham clobbered reporters for what right-wingers see as liberal bias

After a speech that focused on the loss of American greatness and the evils of runaway government power, the frequent Fox News Channel guest host and Sunday-morning ABC News contributor looked up to the balcony where journalists' eyes glared down.

'To all my friends – they're way up there – in the press. I see you! Hello! Hello!' she taunted.

'To all my friends up there in the press: You all know why, in your heart, Donald Trump won the nomination. You know it. You know why he won it?' she asked.

'Because he dared to call out the phonies, the frauds, and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for far too long. Too long! Do your job!'

With the Quicken Loans Arena more packed than on Monday night, when Donald trump made a surprise appearance, the swell of standing applause was louder than his.

'DISHONEST MEDIA': Donald Trump has made yelling at reporters – whom he calls some of the nation's biggest liars – a regular feature of his campaign rallies

POINTED SPEECH: Ingraham pointed to the balcony where journalists were seated and called them out as biased and lazy

It lasted a full 45 seconds, but Ingraham wasn't done.

'And by the way, people on another cable network were talking about how there was no energy in the room last night!' she vented.

'Why don't you sit here with the people? What a joke! America is on to you!' she boomed.

The Media Research Center, a right-wing research organization, set the tone in Cleveland this week by renting digital billboards downtown that read: 'Don't believe the liberal media.'

'DON'T BELIEVE THE LIBERAL MEDIA': Digital billboards like this one dotted Cleveland neighborhoods this week