Matt Lauer Debates Ann Coulter, Loses
There are two reason Lauer lost the debate with Coulter over her stomach-churning statement about the 9/11 widows. First, as I argued recently, the mere granting of a platform to someone as obviously disturbed as Coulter is already a stain on the media outlet:
"When Coulter is invited to spout her putrescence on Larry King Live, the legitimacy granted to her is CNN's fault, not Coulter's. After all, there's no shortage of desperate attention seekers willing to say and do outlandish things to get noticed. The question is, why does CNN grant an open forum to this particular whack-job and not others?"Second, Lauer failed to stay focused on Coulter's words: "I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much." Lauer should have said the following:
"There are two possible explanations for your statement. Either you believe it, in which case you're deranged. You don't believe it but said it for shock value, in which case you don't belong within a thousand miles of this network. Choose one."
posted by Peter Daou at 6/06/2006 12:21:00 PM
759 Comments:
Ann Coulter is sick, sick, sick. I doubt that she has ever been married - who would want that lunatic as a mate? Ms. Coulter - what goes around, comes around! Why don't you join the human race?
She has never been married, but she did live with Bob Guccione III several years ago. He is on record as saying that her public persona and writings are just shtick.
Scary person, she is! I agree that the media should minimize her exposure as she is nothing but a nut case.
Matt closed with something like, "Ann Coulter, always fun having you here."
We are not amused.
Victoria
I was once a REAL network TV anchor, so when Ann Coulter let off that bombshell "We didn't invade Guatemala", I would have said "No, that was Reagan!"
Medic!!!
Ann's bleeding bad!
I would love to meet Ann the man Coulter on a street corner in nyc any day of the week. I know for a fact that in public, without her security guards, she wouldn't get away with her attack on the 911 families, who lost so much on that horrible day. I didn't lose my husband on 911 but i did lose a couple of friends of our family. I also lost all respect and trust i had for this nation to keep my family and friends safe. I think Ann has lost what little was left of her mind. I would take great pleasure in taking that little twit to the house of my neighbor who lost her son on 911. Her son sound-proofed the basement so he wouldn't bother the neighbors when he played his music. I think we can test just how sound-proof it really is.
Pay attention...I think I love her.
What she is saying strikes home with alot of people in this nation.
We all grieve for the losses incurred on 9/11. It affected the nation, not just NY. How much did the victims get in donations from across this country? WE CARE! If you really cared about the widows you would find out what happened to the Millions of dollars sent to NY by citizens and the BILLIONS of dollars in fedral funds that cannot be accounted for to this day.
As for Marriage between one man and one woman, you better believe the majority of citizens support this amendment and have voted overwhelmingly to support this constitutional amendment in state elections across this country.
Hey anonymous --
What the heck are you talking about? What unaccounted-for billions? And what does this have to do with the people left widowed by the attacks on the World Trade Center?
You seem to be recycling some right-wing talking points in an attempt to turn this thread addressing Ann Coulter's comments into a general attack on New York City and ... then ... gay marriage?
Total non sequitur, dude. Your thinking appears to have gotten warped somehow. You need to stop listening to so much talk radio, and give your logical processes a chance to recover.
-- Bokonon
We are all the losers when that hateful creature sucks up valuable air time. Why should we listen to any of her lies, "marinated" in bullshit? If it's all just shtick, for the sake of a buck, that makes her even more depraved.
ann colder is a cia asset. or maybe just ass.
Disagree strongly: to dispel hate-mongers like Coulter you have to turn over a few rocks. It's a fact that Coulter gets lots of winger airtime, and a serious airing of her hate literature on PBS isn't going to effectively counter her bile. Do you seriously think that she and all her allied demons will simply disappear if they aren't displayed in the MSM? Wrong.
Those gasps and appalled sounds from the studio audience were music...
um, 11 states is not overwhelming.
unless you use GOP math skills.
kind of like 52% is a mandate, right?
heck i love you smart republicans.
Somebody's been making the point that Democrats and whatever represents the left in America are in need of shaking themselves awake. This latest Coulter ridiculousness only emphasises the point. Stop questioning the womans sanity and fight her on her own turf. She's just trying to sell books remember.
"Pay attention..." strikes me as the kind of lost soul who needs to be given a clear alternative to this pathetic (and sadly common) line of attack on ordinary people who are constitutionally entitled to express how they feel about their government, whether they be widowed or otherwise.
Ann Coulter likes to throw around phrases like "liberal infallibilty doctrine," as if this is a substantive concept that she will discuss using actual logic. But she doesn't... she engages in personal attacks, like questioning the sincerity of the grief felt by the 9/11 widows. She also disproves the very notion that these people (Joe Wilson, Cindy Sheehan, 9/11 widows) "can't be attacked," because she does--and she's not the only one. Right wing radio and talk shows have bashed all of the people she mentioned.
Poor Anonymous . . .
I am guessing you are a child. You follow Ann Coulter - the ultimate spoiled child throwing a tantrum - and your line of reasoning clearly indicates either heavy drug use or an inability to think critically in conjunction with multiple logic issues, ADD, and a Bill O'Reilly-like ability to make up vague statistics on call. Let me guess: you're also being persecuted for being a Christian.
Go back to grade school kiddo; it's a school day.
Colier Rannd is right. Coulter, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. (Bush/Cheney included) enjoy the deaths that occurred in 2001 to no end. They can't stop talking about it; they can't stop profiting from it; they can't stop gaining politically from it.
Really, the sad issue is that we don't hear from 'Katrina widows/widowers' and that the MSM hasn't completely discredited poor Miss Coulter.
Ann Coulter is a jackass, but we all know that. She is shameless and would do or say anything just to hock her latest book. She adds nothing to society, and spews her anti-liberal hatred to the point where it just becomes mundane. Does she ever say anything revolutionary or offer an alternative to liberal thinking that isn't in the GOP talking points? Nope, she just drones on and on with the same useless bullshit.
Unfortunately, this time, her target are the 9/11 widows who have been through enough. I don't know where Miss Ann is seeing non-stop coverage of these widows, because I really haven't heard much from them since the completion of the 9/11 Commission report. I don't fault any major magazine for doing a "9/11: 5 Years Later" update about these families, because I think the majority of Americans are still concerned about the victims and their families and would genuinely like to know if they are doing okay.
Maybe, like the grade school bully, if we ignore Miss Ann, she will just go away.
I wouldn't waste my spit on Ann Coulter if she were on fire! I literally felt like vomiting listening to her outrageous,hateful spewing forth from that gutter mouth of hers.
It is good for these people to show their stripes. Talk like that upsets anyone who is still sane. I say let them feed on themselves...It is fun to watch.
I watched the Today show this morning and what dismayed me the most was Lauer's lack of aggression. Ms. Coulter is an idiot who should not be given the time of day and Matt could have destroyed any "credibility" i.e. law degree, she has if he hadn't been so reticient, read gentlemanly. I hope the next reasonable person who interviews her regarding her latest money-making book venture will skewer her completely so that there is no doubt as to her intelligence level.
One of the funniest things she ever stated during an interview was that RFK was one of the first victims of "Islamic terrorism." The interviewer pointed out that Sirhan Sirhan is actually a Christian.
She seems to think that if it comes out of her mouth, it must be true (or true to those who listen to her). I've seen that same quote from Guccione - she's simply a sick woman. Colbert is shtick, Coulter is mentally ill.
I look at Ann Coulter and i feel pretty sure that she's on meth. I used to be a crystal addict and she reminds me a lot of myself....back then.
Honesltly, you could watch her with the mute button on and it's still obvious she's using.
And to hear what she says? Lord have mercy, if that ain't Crystal talking, then i dunno what......
Coulter is the Eva Braun of the far right. There is nothing she won't say to garner the attentions of the powerful. A whore by any name smells as sweet.
...you mean smells as rank or noxious.
Actually, what he should have done was ask her for evidence to back up her assertion that they are "enjoying" their husbands' death.
That would have been the end of the interview.
Ann Coulter was definitely coked or methed out. It was also obvious by her attire that she had been partying all night and just showed up for the interview wearing what she had on.
Typical Lefties.
Neither Lauer, nor any other Leftist Talking Head can hold a candle to Ann. Once again, she is right on the money.
Ann is so far out of Matt's league in intellect, it isn't even funny.
Matt Lauer lost because Liberals never have any arguement except name-calling . Think critically about her argument, first, post a valid rebuttal and leave the cocktail dress comments to Joan Rivers. I dare you.
52% is a higher percentage of votes than Bill Clinton ever received.
What people fail to understand it that Ann Coulter is an entertainer. To create an audience she must shock and say shocking things. People who fight for the public subsidies of "art" that features such things as feces thrown on the Virgin Mary or the Crucifix dipped in urine must understand these things.
Whatever your political views are, do you realize that when you launch a personal attack on Anne Coulter you make her point for her? The point she made was that anyone who dared to speak ill about a widow (i.e. Anne Coulter) would be attacked personally, and that's why the 9/11 widows are used for propaganda. Many of you lack the vision to see past that and play right into her hands. Losing a relative on 9/11, or the Iraq war doesn't make you an expert on foreign policy.
Ann Coulter is part of the religious rights who preach Republican moral values and are anti-abortion.
Ann Coulter said she sleeps around with many men and it is OK because she is not married ... She has been having sex with many men and she never had a baby ... GUESS WHY?
If you read the posts on this site, few, if any, post any real argument against Ann's arguments. Just name calling.
I hate to say it but it's a sad state of affairs for you lost souls. Ann Coulter is a hot babe, she speaks her mind and she makes beau coup bucks! Eat your hearts out!
You are all nuts. What she said about the 911 families is exactly right. What makes their loss anymore important than the loss of a father, mother or any other family member everyday. Should the government compensate everyone. There have been a number of bizarre statements out of the 911 families but you cannot challenge these statements or you will be crucified by the mainstream press. I feel for anyone who loses someone they love. Compensation - there should have been none. Just another way for our politicians to suck up - Democrats and Republicans alike. They are all slithering snakes.
You are all nuts. What she said about the 911 families is exactly right. What makes their loss anymore important than the loss of a father, mother or any other family member everyday. Should the government compensate everyone. There have been a number of bizarre statements out of the 911 families but you cannot challenge these statements or you will be crucified by the mainstream press. I feel for anyone who loses someone they love. Compensation - there should have been none. Just another way for our politicians to suck up - Democrats and Republicans alike. They are all slithering snakes.
Oh true Oh true Art. these morons are proving her point without actually even realising it. Go Ann! I am going to buy your book today!
The Democrats are the party of free speech...unless you say something they don't like. Go into a group of liberals and say "Humans don't cause Global Warming, HIV doesn't cause AIDS, DDT is a good thing" and you will be treated as a lamb to the slaughter.
She had the same cocktail dress on in her 2005 interview with Lauer.
Yes, let's here Cindy Sheehan more often!!! Dumbasses.
Ann Coulter is a godess! I bow to her superior intellect. I thank her for sharing her inciteful and well thought out view points. Rock on Ann!
You have much to learn young Liberals!!! Methinks thou doest protest tooooooo much!!!
She's smarter than all of them put together.
ANN IS HOT!!!
Ann is right on the mark.
Every huge lie is spun from a nugget of truth. 911 Widows are neither the grief divas she characterizes them as, nor the anti-terrorism experts they occasionally imply themselves to be.
Being in the middle of a story may indeed not provide the perfect perspective to understand it.
Coulter is bringing to light, in her own typical sarcastic way, what I have been wondering for years: Why do the 9/11 widows have any say in post 9/11 policy? We certainly sympathize with them but why do we have to listen to them talk politics about the future of our country at this critical point in our history? 9/11 is about the future of the USA, not about the opinions of a group of widows. You all don't get Ann. You always nitpick her "outrageous" statements she uses to bait you guys but miss the bigger picture she paints, which is usually right on the money. What she's doing in her statement about the 9/11 widows is condemning the politically correct media for propping up these women, as if their opinion means diddly squat, and woe to the one who dares refute the poor grieving widows.
But you all choose to miss the boat, calling her sick. That's great debating. I guess I'm sick too, along with half of America.
I don't think liberals are sick, just very, very wrong
It's interesting reading these comments. It seems that in the world of blogs, anyone you don't agree with is not only a hate-monger, but mentally ill, and on meth. Ms. Coulter says some very controversial (and sometimes stupid) things, but so do some Democrats (i.e. Howard Dean). Calling someone a nasty name doesn't refute their argument. If it's a bad arguement then explain why! Isn't it a bit hypocritical to say that she shouldn't be listened to because she resorts to personal attacks then call her mentally ill? I'm not asking anyone to agree with her, but for god's sake, don't dismiss her comments off hand simply because you don't like what she said.
This is the first time I have seen this blog "The Grit." Looks like a typo to me. Store High In Transit makes more sense. Knee jerkers attack Ann Coulter's dress-gee that's provacative. He past relationships-uh okay that's relevant, attack the concept the widows are riding the ticket as long as they can but where is the time spent considering she may be right? Heaven forbid thinking, let's talk about her dress. I would rather sit at a dinner table with Ann Coulter than some woman who is still professing herself as a grieving widow but just when she has an audience.
Ann Coulter is bombastic and an iconoclast because it gets her attention and thus pays the bills, but at the root of her comments is the truth, regardless of how much it pains you noodle-headed liberals.
I have never seen a larger bunch of mindless, left wing democrats anywhere than those who inhabit this site. Get a life sickos!
Bad language, silly prose and a serious overdose of adjectives. Ohmygosh, Ann must have hit squarely on the collective wounded schnoz of her intended target. Hey! If the punch fits, wear it!
Darkly amusing, how many so called liberals want to limit speech. Others worry about her marital status. Why? Hillary Clinton has never been married either.
Ann is exactly right. She says the things many, many people think and is articulate enough to express them well. She can also be very amusing and definitely has a heart--though it may not lean leftward.
Hey pinko's the truth hurts don't it.
Morons!! Demorats do sell their souls and deserve what ever pinko commies like most of you get.
It's funny, the initial comments actually do what she claims liberals do...personal attacks. They don't want to hear alternative points of view and debate on the merits. Liberals only accept people who say Amen to their own views (and in their echo chamber they call the media).
Dido
Annie kicks another liberal weenie! Now you know why Democrats never get more than 50% in a national election.
Coulter isn't sick, deranged or even particularly fascistic. She's just a carny act -- the sideshow geek who bites the heads off chickens. It's a shtick, as someone upthread said, and a damned profitable one. And she's very, very good at it.
The REAL sick, deranged, paranoid fascists are the millions of "conservatives" out there in wingnutland who buy Coulter's books, worship her bony legs and enormous Adam's apple, and actually believe the ridiculous tripe she peddles.
And REALLY evil ones are the corporate drones at NBC who are perfectly willing to let fake Nazis do their bit on camera as long as they think it might boost their ratings a little bit.
A bullet in the back of the skull would be too good for them.
Coulter often overstates her case, and that's what makes her an easy target. But she's usually right nonetheless. The fact that they're widows doesn't make them infallible and beyond questioning. That's all Coulter really meant, even if she didn't say it in exactly that way. She's a bit of a fool, but by no means deranged.
You folks who hate Coulter so much crack me up. So far, you've called her a Nazi, mentally disturbed, sick, inhuman, and implied how you would like to commit acts of violence against her.
If none of what she said was true, she wouldn't get under your skin so easily.
Truth be told, you folks on the Left remind me of Old Major in George Orwell's "Animal Farm".
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Ann Coulter for President!!
I love Ann because she drives you lefties crazy! BTW, this link is on Drudge Report, so libs be prepared for more right thinkers to ruin your little party.
Savage said it best....
...Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
It's tough for the media to "minimize her exposure" when she is writing New York Times best selling books. Pretty sure all three of her books have hit the top spot on the bestseller list. People believe her, she is the diva of the neoconservative movement. Highly educated (Cornell for undergrad and U of Michigan for law degree, where she was editor of the law review) and she makes liberals tremble.
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Ann Coulter is the greatest living American satirist, but you guys don't get it. Very amusing to watch your silly rants.
Since homosexuality was brought up, let's see how Republicans do with gay sex.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for raping a 5-year old boy.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr of St. Louis was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Ann is great. She is unafraid to say and think how she feels. She is absoulutely right on everything she said. The left always wants a onesided debate where all the little sheep fall into line without so much as a murmur of independant thought. The leftist controled media is losing ground and tends to make up facts and demands we accept them as true.
Go Ann the majority support ya girl.
Ann Coulter makes an extremely good living writing quick witted nonsense. I know it, she knows it and if you think for a moment, you know it too. So why get upset? If it pleases you, buy her books; if it doesn't, write nasty things about her. Either way, she wins. As a topic, she reminds me of the brohaha concerning the "issue" of gay marriage - it's all really marginal, to most, kind of silly and certainly not anywhere near as important as the real issues facing our world. Ann makes me laugh, I guess I have to give her that.
Not a single Coulter-Hater has yet bothered to discuss the subject Ann wrote about. You can disparage her gender identity, intellect, sanity... but you are incapable of debating the substance of her case. The fact of the matter, is that she is correct, and thus your only defense is to vomit in her direction. Gee Whiz.
You gotta love the 'Open minded' liberal closed mind.
Can't debate the topic, have to trash the person to get anywhere.
Man! It just feels like the responses here are ALL missing the point of her statement. How can there be a reasonable debate with someone who is in the widow's position? Why do you think that the widow has a superior moral position upon which to stand in discussing terrorism or what we as a country, or the Bush Administration as our government should do in response to the problem. I would suggest that the widow probably had very little knowledge in the field prior to 9-11. One of the reasons I love Ann Coulter is that she often says things that are painfully obvious, but can't be said for political reasons. Keep on going Ann!
frenchlaw
Coulter's book Treason is a masterwork. I will read Godless with much interest. Anyone with a brain and eyes to see knows what Coulter means by the liberal infallibility doctrine--society's "victims"(i.e. women, ethnics, poor, war widows, children, etc.) are put forward as spokesmen for their grievance. Who wants to take a head shot at a grieving woman, or sincerely whining child? Reminds me of Islamic terrorists hiding among their women and children, daring our soldiers to shoot. Coulter has the balls to shoot. Thank God she, and our soldiers, do.
Let us see how moral Republicans are:
Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.
Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
you guys miissed the forest for the trees on this one. She was referring not to the wives of husbands lost in 911, but to the wives of husbands lost on 911 and using that to make a political statement. Of course everyone feels for those lost and the loved ones lost, but how do you disagree with someone stating something on the back of a loss, with no real knowledge, stating facts? You are (apply any adjective you would like) insensitive if you question the premise of their arguement because they lost someone.
I'm confused...
She shouldn't get air time because she says some things you don't like, yet you are the same people that get really upset when someone on your side is pushed away because their freedom of speech is impeded upon.
You call her names but get upset when she calls your crowd names. Like she calls you a left wing nujob and you retaliate by calling her a right wing nutjob.
The only difference between her and Al Franken is Al's 1000 times funnier and Ann knows 1000 times more about American History.
What's wrong with this country isn't people like her, it's people like yourselves who are hypocrites.
Toni wrote: "I also lost all respect and trust i had for this nation to keep my family and friends safe."
Wow. You're focusing your anger on our country instead of the terrorists.
This is so funny, Ann is so right so often. Arguing on the internet is like winning the 100 yard dash in the Special Olympics. Your the winner but your still retarded.
Um so this is somehow wrong but yet it's perfectly fine to support the ACLU that defends sexual molestors and nambla.....
liberal policies kill the people they are working for. abortion doesn't benifit anyone in the long term and clinics have been found to have links to anti black extreamist groups (see klanparenthood.org) same with affirmative action, same with immigration etc.
If liberals keep to their word technically they'd be more apt to abort vs conservatives who generally wont. Since kids take after their parents politically just by the numbers they are losing
We also have a growing Catholic hispanic population and abortion doesn't fit in there....it also makes it a target of every other major religion...
Thank You Matt Drudge for posting this on your site! Had never heard of The Grit before and don't intend to read again. These inane comments about a conservative who appears on the left wing media that only people in those little blue islands in this wonderful red country are the stuff that comes from the East end of a horse standing West. They don't like a 52% MANDATE? What do you call 43% (Clinton 1992) or 49% (Clinton 1996)How do you think we (nascar fans, gun owners church attendees and others you stereo type as in the vast right wing conspiracy) felt? If you can't understand Ann Coulter, let alone debate her you deserve a longer trek in the wilderness of NO POLITICAL POWER in Washington stewing in your high tax blue islands of incivility.
lol - these comments are too revealing. ARGUE THE ISSUE. because you grieve the loss of a loved one doesn't make make you untouchable. when you throw your political opinion into the public forum, no matter who you are, don't whine and yell bloody murder when your opinions are criticized. anyway, i thought liberals considered the 911 victims as 'little eichmans'?? lol. too funny
to the moron who posted Republicans did this or that, it happens on both side of the political isle, and thank god it is a tiny percentage of both parties. Anyone/everyone caught and convicted of any of those crimes should be caught and punished.
I am blown away with the sterotypical liberal responses. What is with the name calling? Does that really support any kind of dialog?
Yes Ann can be "over-the-top" but no more so then The Other Side. It seems to take thatlevel of statement to catch the attention of the public.
Ann certainly brings out the porblems that are killing the country -> litigation at all costs as a why to make money.
To many times we listen to wacko's who only by virtue of their personal "loss" are injecting themselves into politics as some kind of expert. Widows lost their spouses that's all.
Ann is right on. Might be painful to hear but then agian, many need to wake up and deal with reality.
Ann Coulter hateful???? Some of the comments by you open-minded, progressive liberals are the very definition of hateful. Not one of you thoughtful people argued any facts. Instead, you seek to belittle the person with whom you disagree with inane personnal attacks, or by chastising the network for giving her a platform. The problem seems to be that Ann speaks her mind, whether or not it is politically correct, and most of you feel that she shouldn't be allowed to do that. Hmmmmmm.
Sometimes The Truth Hurts. We Are talking about 3 Widows Making money off there dead husbands. That is truly sick !
What in the heck does that comment about "Let's see how moral Republicans are" have to do with the conversation?
it's not obvious or anything that you have big time problems.
Senator Byrd was in the KKK and he's one of the leaders of the Democrats. FDR put 150,000 Japanese in prison camps because they had slanted eyes. Woodrow Wilson made segregation legal. But you didn't know that and you don't care because IT'S NOT PART OF THE CONVERSATION!
Ann's right. Grieving widows are the LAST people we need to hear from when discussing matters of policy.
Matt Lauer is a lightweight when it comes to debating anything of substance with the likes of Ann
Coulter. The show's format and his staccato drive by mantra attack is boring and inappropriate.
He would have been better off talking about a couple issues; instead, he went too quickly in his approach and seemed to ignore
her answers. That is why I do not
watch that kind of show. It is
cookie cutter crap and rarely is
fair and balanced
Keeping in the spirit of communication, let's bring up a hypothetical situation. What if the widows had advocated the detention of every Muslim in the nation? Would you have held the same regard for their opionions then? I think Ann wasn't angry that that they disagreed with Bush, but rather that the press validated their opinion because of the personal tragedy they suffered.
Peter, how can organizations like CNN and NBC with no legitimacy of their own, veritable mouthpieces for the DNC that they are, grant anyone legitimacy by giving them a platform?
Coulters is dead on the mark. The minute I saw those Jersey whores out trying to profit and make an name for themselves on their husbands' death i regretted having made any contributions to 911 charities and vowed never to do make that mistake again.
Republicans are always preaching moral values. How moral are Republicans?
Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of La Paz County, Arizona pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs, Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of raping a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
hmmm .... I have read this entire blog ..... I can tell no difference between Ann's vitrol and the vitrol I am reading here!
to the moron who posted Republicans did this or that, it happens on both side of the political isle, and thank god it is a tiny percentage of both parties. Anyone/everyone caught and convicted of any of those crimes should be tried and punished.
Many of you seem to forget that we all are entitled to have a viewpoint and opinion. It is OK to disagree. Vulgar words and name calling only expose ignorance and intolerance. Why is it that when people disagree with your viewpoint that they are labeled as "sick", "hate mongerers", "nut cases" etc. What happened to tolerance and freedom of speech? Coulter is entitled to her opinion and has the freedom to express it.
>>>Republicans are always preaching moral values. How moral are Republicans?
The list of immoral democrat pedophiles is twice as long. The difference is we don't go around collecting their names and putting them into a little black book like you do.
To the genius defending Coulter:
Perhaps you missed (or chose to ignore) the little F-A-C-T about her that I referenced. This woman said RFK was the first victim of "Islamic terrorism." She LIED. There's no debate - she LIED.
This is the problem with people like you. The woman LIVES on namecalling, and you act like it's merely those who disagree with your/her viewpoint that start the namecalling. I've got news for you: that's all she's worthy of - namecalling.
She is a lowlife, and continues to prove it. She loves you guys so much that she LIVES in the most "liberal" cities, yet goes to dumbf*ck, USA only when she needs to make a few shekels off of you rubes. Namecalling is universal - get use to it. The only difference is that when I do it, at least my post features an ACTUAL (and factual) example of her bullsh*t. Can you do the same?
Instead of merely giving your opinion on why we feel the way we do about her, give us a damn example of one of her F-A-C-T-S. I'm sick of generalizations. Give SPECIFICS.
Yes, I'm sure the widows are having a great time explaining to their kids why daddy will never come home. I'm sure Father's Day will be a great time for the whole family!
THANK YOU (regarding the little black book)
Did someone just call the Today dumbf**k USA?
What you numbskulls are missing is that she is not so much questioning the sincerity of their grief, but rather the way they use it to further the liberal agenda... yea that's right, you communists have an agenda. They (obviously) miss the love they've lost, for which we all are sympathetic, but they are blinded by their hatred for conservative ideals (like "peace through strength" or "you get what you earn"). You liberals are walking contradictions, complete hypocrites! It is okay to kill an innocent child, but don't dare think of killing a serial killer... You want "peace" and "human rights", but don't stop Saddam Hussein from funding the killing of innocent Jews in Israel or gassing his own citizens, throwing them into meat grinders or raping his own women. And you have the nerve to say that Ann is sick? You people take sick to a level far beyond the confines of the english language... There are not words to define your Machiavellian way of thinking.
Amazing..! The first leftie blog/forum where you aren't kicked off immediately when voicing an opinion or view outside the leftie norm..
LOL..liberals have no clue. Check out the whiny poster who "doubts Ann has ever been married...who would want that lunatic for a mate?"..LOL..I guess all the single people of the world are sick, sick, sick, huh?
All you libs can come up with is attacks and what bad Republicans have done. That's why you can't win elections b/c you don't argue the issue! What does Republican morals have to do with this anyway??
NAMBLA is a self proclaimed liberal/leftist organization and is protected by democrats and this guy/girl posts some "activists" who molested someone? Holy cow!
and for the people who think others on here love Coulter...they defend her like they defend lefties for their opinions. There is no difference.
I read the majority of posts here and watched the interview w/ Ann. My response to the majority of posts is that they are based on emotion not fact. Many here appear to hate Ann Coulter because she dose not sugar coat her opinion. She does this for a variety of reasons that are not important to this discussion. Regardless of the delivery, her statements were all true and her form (although not appreciated) was valid. To any of you that use logic as the means to form opinion, you know the undeniable outcome; she is right. Ann coulter made Matt Lauer look like a fool on several issues including the Presidents focus on gay marriage as a re-election ploy. Mr. Lauer's arguments on the Presidents politically motivated attention to gay marriage and Ann Coulters comments on the 911 widows were obviously not thought out. The fact that he was grilling her and clearly upset at her criticism of the 911 widows, was a clear contradiction his point that they are not an infallible voice. Ann Couter needed no help maikng Mr. Lauer look stuipd. He made it there all on his own.
"liberal infallibilty doctrine" is not a throw away phrase. It's spot on. Liberals are never wrong and can't ever be challenged. And they can throw out anything they want without evidence. When the right challenges a liberal, they're accused of being racist or a bigot or a lier. Just like you're all challenging Ann. Her point on the widows was simply that the left throws them out to deliver the talking points, knowing that to challenge them is ruinous for the right.
"I drank tea for a week and wrote a discredited partisan report full of lies to undermine Bush...but you outed my wife! (even though she already told all our neighbors)" Joe Wilson
"I didn't need to pay for those boxing tickets" Harry Reid
"Bush lied" Michael Moore, Al Gore, take your pick
"Bush killed my son" Cindy Sheehan
If someone is calling the Today Show "dumbf--k USA", what does that say about its audience?
next time a soldier's funeral is protested and you say it's freedom of speech, I hope you lose a leg to an alligator soon afterward.
Amen
Perhaps Lauer should invite Sean Penn, Barbara Sreisand or Michael Moore for discussion. Neither of these jackoffs ever graduated from high school and are more on Matt's level.
Coulter debating Matt Lauer is equal to clubbing baby seals. When you have Ann on your show you had better be prepared to respond to some hard facts and the truth. I'm afraid Matt wasn't much up to the job. Is he ever?
Republicans CHEATED TWICE, Bush WON TWICE.
Republicans have PERFECTED CHEATING ELECTIONS.
NBC, by having her on the show, is after the same thing she is after...publicity. NBC wants viewers and Ann wants to sell books. To think that this argument is going to be resolved or even discussed intellectually in the few moments that interview lasted is ridiculous. Left, right, middle...in this case it's all about the money.
Get over it you lost in 2000 and 2004- MOVE ON!!.org
Actually, republicans knocked down the WTC to cover up that they have been stealing gold from the bottom of it.
Republicans cheat? What?
a Supreme Court with more liberals than Repubs somehow cheated a Repub into the White House??? What????
if Gore got elected you'd be on my side.
I'm sure a Democrat will try and sue her now. It's what Dems do really, really, really, really well.
What is really sad, is that you people actually watch the Today Show. It is a sad commentary of this country, that they can slant the reporting of the news the way they do, and that their cute little commie will be the anchor over at the Communist Broadcasting System.
billmon said...
"The REAL sick, deranged, paranoid fascists are the millions of "conservatives" out there in wingnutland..."
And you want to present yourself as a normal thinking American? Ann's points could not be more true...as shown by the previous statement...and the many others like it on this blog. So yeah...thanks for playing.
this had been very entertaining reading.. reading the whining, belly-aching whimpers from you liberals. My god people - Ann is, as another poster put it.. 'over the top' yes, but listen to the real meaning of what she says. You're so used to the hot, non-sensical air that spews from the likes of Dean, Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton(s), Pelosi, Murtha, Biden, Gore.... good lord, I could go on and on and on..there are so many lunatics on the left. The reason you don't like Coulter, and Limbaugh, and Hannity...etc... is because you can't stand to hear it as it is... one of you actually had the audacity to use the term 'liberal thinking'.. what an oxy moron - liberals don't think, don't offer policy, don't have a positive agenda...they attack and react..... and thats it for me... Im going back to being a productive member of this BOOMING ECONOMY!!!
Where's Jesse Jackson in all of this? Oh yeah, Ann's making opinions about white people.
Apart from the inflammatory nature of the comment, isn’t her point justified?
I find it so odd that people like Ms. Coulter get blasted for making crazy comments about widows but Democrats find it acceptable to blast someone because their skin color is white, they are male, or don't want to kill babies..all in the name of...a disagreement.
Oh for the love of God, would you Coulter-defenders stop with the faux gasps of "I can't believe you liberals can be so mean!" She's an idiot and her books have always been shown to be full of holes. Even when you're presented with her b/s, you still choose to defend her. Where is the rationale there?
It's not about the truth for you all, it's about being right despite being shown that 2+2 doesn't =5.
True, no one (including the widows) should be shielded from criticism. I just find it interesting that Coulter doesn't express the same viewpoint when Bush used them (and 9/11) at every single turn. If all of these widows were up Bush's behind, nary a word would've been written by Coulter...and you know it.
If REPUBLICANS CHEATED, why did EVERY DEMOCRAT Senator who JUST VOTED AGAINST providing a PICTURE ID in Federal elections do so. I extend my hand to all those who feel that the Democrats were cheated of the last two elections to JOIN ME in calling your DEMOCRAT Senator in Washington (and a few RINO Republicans) and urge them to vote YES on providing a photo ID in Federal elections in furure! We do NOT want those rascally Republicans to steal elections! NEVER AGAIN!
She's hot, though. I don't mind watching her on TV, hell, you can hit the mute button.
hey 6:46 anonymous: her books are right. Treason proves Alger Hiss a Soviet Spy, and Kerry a lifelong treasonous rat. Pesky things these...books!
From the middle (not conservative, not liberal) I would just like to say that you are all losers. Because of your idiotic fighting our country is going to hell in a handbasket. Libs portray those like Coulter as sub-human neanderthals when they can't fight their message. Conservatives cling to their narrow social agenda even when everyone realizes that virtually none of it is important in the big picture of history. Can you imagine future historians proclaiming "we found out that gays couldn't marry in 2006!" after digging through our ruins?
This is not a game to "win". This is not a debate where scoring points with "gotcha" lines matters. This is the future of a nation at stake. So why don't both sides quit acting like children.
Conservatives annoy me. But liberals, you're just downright dangerous. You threw the baby of common sense out with the bathwater of bigotry and injustice back in the 60's and haven't regained it since.
No wonder I'm a hermit.
Dems protected the men who killed all of those people on 9/11 by allowing them to stay even though illegal. The ACLU has sued their way to allow these measures and made it a racial issue. The ACLU also sued to make sure searching at airports didn't happen to an extent they didn't like.
now they get bent out of shape because Ann Coulter said something about the people who lost a husband by people they protected?
help me out here
Anne Coulter is smart, you all should read her columns online. The nation is sick of people using their grief to try to make a career of being Democrat mouthpeices. Coulter is merely voicing this unspoken opinion of people. Brash, yes. Evil, demon spawn? No.
Amazing ...again! Posters still fretting about the 2000 election. LOL..And look at all the name calling. Tsk,tsk..At the mere mention of Coulter's name, lefties start wetting their panties..
Ann is doing and saying to you what you try to do to conservative all day long and you babies can't take it. Thank you mother for chosing life. And the dems should not use the widows as they do.
What Ann says is correct and we all know it. The opportunists have made a whole lot of money off of 9/11, including the City of New York as well as the victim vultures we see after every tragedy, using their dead loved ones for personal gain, fame and influence. Coulter and Franken serve indispensible functions in our society; I prefer Ann, of course, but I defend your neurotic right to listen to Al Franken.
I get it: Coulter is a wingnut, but the Air America crowd, Kos and the rest of the Left she so deftly skewers are paragons of sanity and dispassionate analysis? You lefties are way past the bend. Coulter, like it or not, has sold millions of books. Conservatives, by the way, read much more than liberals. Sorry that conflicts with your sense of intellectual superiority, just as Bush's better grades than Al Gore and better verbal SAT than Bill Bradley confounds you still. You guys are pathetic. Keep attacking Ann...as she makes another bestseller list. (How many books did Kos sell.....?
Coulter was on Today? Had I know that, I might have watched it for the first time in years and years.
The Lib Logic on this thread is amazing! If Coulter were a DEM you Libs would be singing a different tune..." Oh my, Freedom of Speech" What were you saying to Ward Churchill comments about 9/11? So let me guess; when the comments are in line with your petty politics it's called Freedom of Speech......when they are not it's all this childish name calling on display in this thread! And you wonder why you clowns remain in a minority status! Oh wait! It's because clear thinking Americans "stole" your status... right! A new class of Americans has developed...Not "Baby Boomers" just "Babies"!
Who would have thought that the most corrupt decision by a Court in World History would come from the United States Supreme Court in the 2000 Presidential Election? ... Thank you Justice Scalia.
Anyone wants a Banana Republic?
You anti-Ann folks just don't get it. Ann is the conservative antidote to the Al Franken, Michael
Moore, and celebrity drivel we on
the Right or in the center are
forced to listen to whenever they
get the notion to write a book.
And, dear anti-Ann folks, look up
the definition of "satire" sometime
when you are not reading up on
global warming: it is deliberately
"over the top." That's what we
have to put up with whenever we
stumble onto Saturday Night Live
sketches, David Letterman's lame
and tired persona, and Keith Ober-
mann. Its satire, boys and girls,
so get over it.
By the way, she would thank you
for all the attention you are
giving her today!
hey ann coulter has some very interesting things to say that just don't conform to what some folks would like to believe
tough sh!t
Democrats have Michael Moore, Repubs have Coulter. I think it's a draw.
Ward Churchill = Freedom of Speech
Ann Coulter = Whack Job.
Einstien would have gotten a headache figuring this one out.
Anonymous two... It appears that the liberals are restless tonight. Would someone like to debate the issue or just continue to throw stones? I wish they had put Katie Couric up with her to debate. That ultraliberal (communist loving) would have had her clock cleaned. I saw Ann in Minnesota when she gave a speech on how liberals can not debate and she made the liberals on campus look like buffoons. When they could not debate her statements on the merits, they called her names, used foul language, and finally started singing a song from the Simpsons to try and drown her out. All the while she was proving her point that liberals could not debate their way out of a paper bag. It really made me fear another liberal in the White House. Speaking of communists, how many of you liberals know that in 1996 the CIA declassified the fact that they had wire tapped and broken the code on the sub-atlantic phone line from the Kremlin to the Soviet Consulate in Washington D.C. in the 1950's? The interesting thing is that the President did not even know it, but guess who did? You did not guess it, Senator McCarthy, and it turns out that everyone he accused of being a communist spy was indeed a communist spy, but he could not prove it in the 1950's without compromising the fact that we had intercepted communications from Moscow naming the very people he later accused! Amazing how communist loving liberals don't mention that little fact when screaming McCartyism.
I'd give that piece of trash a dirty sanchez
Ann Colter is not nuts.
I am guess many don't see these 'select' group of Widows spewing out the same lines in the form of ranting about the Bush administration as though reading from a teleprompter. It is also wrong that these Widows became millionaires from 9/11. And it is the same ones (registered Democrats by chance? Hmmm) who keep re-appearing on all of the news shows saying the same old thing "It was on Bush's watch" Blah blah blah!. And today they get paid like Cindy Sheehan by special interest groups...(many with socialist/communist affiliations) Not long ago it got to where they almost hold out a tin cup, everytime they were seen on TV. Do they enjoy the $$, and media attention? They really seem to. THAT IS THE PROBLEM!!
IF what she said is true, will many of you calling her 'nuts'. What does that really make the truly ignorant out there?
What she says can be shocking and come off incensitive. But telling it like it is isn't always pleasing to the ear or acceptable to the masses.
So shut the F*** up! ;)
I love Ann Coulter's wit, and look forward to her Wednesday piece each week. To clarify for those who obviously have not noticed, she is a satirist -- an old and grand tradition in our English speaking heritage. To spell it out -- for Lauer to take her 911 widow comment literally would have been silly and would have made him (and the producer in his earphone)look weak minded. He had to match her wit -- a tall order for him or anyone else for that matter. Would your view be that Jonathan Swift really meant the Irish should eat their own children in his A Modest Proposal?
I'm chucklin' . What's a dirty sanchez?
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Whoever posted the above is full of it. There is no Wrightsville Borough, in Delaware.
Thank you Matt Drudge for linking to this blog!! Because of you we (conservatives) are bringing some sanity to this discussion and showing why the left can't win.
Einstein would have just shook his head and left with Ann.
Ryan Hinderaker said...
"Colier Rannd is right. Coulter, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. (Bush/Cheney included) enjoy the deaths that occurred in 2001 to no end."
Leftwing extreme hate speech...and this is what passes for liberal thinking? Moveon.org nut case types rule (ruin) the democratic party.
Oh, eat your Modest Proposal. I wanna know what's a dirty sanchez?
Don't waste your time responding tot he republicans did ...
It is a false arguement made only to avoid an honest discussion.
Ann Coulter is 100% correct - lefties cannot stand the fact the USA is the GREATEST country in the world. Lefties are no different from Al-Qaeda or ecoterrorists. They, along with Islamic Jihadists must be eliminated, discredited, and buried.
Ann gets it right once again!
Its amazing how someone with so much common sense gets demonized by so many people with their heads in their asses. She calls it like she sees it and she is usually right.
Thanks.
a touch extreme? maybe?
Wow, a lot of attacks on Ann Coulter for what? Daring to question the motives of family members of those who died in 9/11? Their deaths were indeed a tragedy, as are the senseless deaths that happen across the country every day, from drunk driving, crime, or what have you. The difference is that (1) the 9/11 families get million dollar settlement checks and (2) an untouchable platform from which to air their grievances about the memorial, the rebuilding at the World Trade Center site, the war in Iraq, or whatever they want. Please. Ann might ruffle some feathers by choosing an inflamatory topic, but she is dead on.
You folks are funny. You put Ann Coulter right up there with Limbaugh. Almost a household name.
Fame, fortune, some admiration and prestige. She could not reach to these hights without you. Liberals created her, and now you cant live with your monster. Now thats funny...poetic justice they call it...are we having fun yet???
I see, so if Laur had interviewed Michael Moore, that wouldn't be a stain in NBC?
Michael Moore: “What happened to the search for Osama bin Laden?...You don't think they [the U.S. government] know where he is?”
Bob Costas (astonished): “You think they know where Osama bin Laden is and it's hands off?”
Moore: “Absolutely, absolutely.”
Costas: “Why?”
Moore: “Because he's funded by their friends in Saudi Arabia! He's back living with his sponsors, his benefactors. Do you think that Osama bin Laden planned 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan? I can't get a cell signal from here to Queens! I mean, come on, let's get real about this. The guy has been on dialysis for two years. He's got failing kidneys....I think the United States, I think our government knows where he is and I don't think we're going to be capturing him or killing him any time soon.”
HBO's On the Record with Bob Costas - May 9, 2003
You guys are a bunch of hypocrites.
When Bush ran political ads with images from 9/11, the left cried foul:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3534533.stm
But it's A-OK to use 9/11 widows who happen to be members of the DNC get on TV and bad-mouth the president.
Hypocrites.
Coulter's statement is spot-on. Sheehan and the activist 9/11 widows should be ashamed of themselves by politicizing the deaths of their loved ones -- using their deaths for political gain.
Ann Coulter claims to speak for Christians. By a clue from the Bible, Ms. or Mr. Coulter. Jesus never walked around looking like a sex tart while spewing judgements on anyone or everyone with which He did not agree.
She is obscene in her negative, self-serving crusade. But the obscenity is only compounded by the fact that 1) she is given venue 2) she has supporters.
p.s. Any of these public figures who make their comfortable livings by destructing others give credence that ours is a doomed society. There are so many healthy, talented, gifted people who spend all their waking hours giving of themselves in constructive ways all over the world.
God help us all.
Bush sucks..Clinton sucks...Hillary sucks...Frist sucks...both sides SUCK.
FDR put 150,000 Japanese in prison camps, Truman killed a few million people with 2 bombs, Wilson made segregation legal after a Repub made it illegal 50 years earlier, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and LBJ all illegally spied on Americans. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was sponsored by Repubs, not Democrats.
All politicians suck, but we could at least learn a little about American History and quit being such hypocrites.
Ann Coulter should give birth today to Satan's Concubine. because she's hot. and dumb. plus i'd like to smack her.
Wow, did Matt get his ass kicked by Ann. Go Ann!
did you mean spank or smack?
If you don't agree with someone, then just marginalize them. That is what I see with 99% of the posts in here against Ann Coulter, which certainly doesn't reflect much diversity.
I happen to agree with Ms. Coulter on many of her ideologies which you can investigate for yourself by reading her books. I like to think of her core message as self empowerment and personal responsibility, namely, you have far more power to improve your life, those around you, and ultimately the community by living by a grounded code of living. The 10 commandments are a good start, which have been tested for millenia. Government is not the solution, YOU are the solution.
Looking forward to your marginalizations of me, in the spirit of 'tolerance', I'm sure.
Liberals hate her because she speaks the truth!!
We went into Europe not once, but twice without being attacked. We went into Vietnam without being attacked. Korea..nope, we weren't attacked.
Every one of them was done by a Democrat President and they are seen as heroes.
Hypocrites.
smokin hot !!!
Geee, is this the same liberal crowd that celebrates diversity of opinions?
Ann Coulter isn't "sick sick sick", she's just showing you the flip side of Cindy Sheehan and that fat sloppy dude with the mockumentaries...
Grow up, morons, and take a it like you dish it.
Since nobody will tell me, I'll just conclude that a dirty sanchez is like a brazilian, and picture Ann C. with a very trim, but slanty, scant and black, well, you know
Tell it like it is ANN. You go girl!
Let's take two potential tragedies: a family member is killed on 9-11, or a family member goes off the road in a snowstorm and is killed. Why should the 9-11 victim's family get compensated and the other's not? It is sick that these greedy people prey on the sympathies of Americans and feel that their loss is so much more important. As a person who has suffered the loss of a child, how dare you feel that your grief warrants compensation while mine does not? If anyone should be made millionaires through personal loss, it is the families of the poor servicemen who do the real dirty work. And oh yes, I would rather the government monitor my harmless telephone calls than to look warily at every suspicious person with a backpack. Coulter is abrasive, as are many voices on far right, but have you really listened to the bile coming from the far left. Really disgusting crap. You deserve Coulter!
You forgot that we bombed Serbia for 78 straight days with no vote from Congress or the United Nations. A Democrat president did that, unilaterally, because they claimed there were 100,000 people who were killed because of "genocide".
The official body count from the United Nations is under 3,000, and most of them were killed by our bombings. Where are the mass graves, Mr. Clinton?
Clinton lied to take us to war and we still have troops there.
But the liberals don't care that we killed 3,000-5,000 civilians and bombed roads, bridges, hospitals indiscriminately to take the news away from one of many Clinton scandals.
Hypocrites.
It's kind of funny that when liberals are confronted with real logic they fade into the background
The issue with the 9/11 widows was always that a handful of telegenic Bush haters were presented by the MSM as the representatives for the thousands that lost immediate family in 9/11.
Of course, many that lost family members on 9/11 had different political views. But the MSM wouldn't touch them. Which is par for the course. Just ask the Swift Boat Vets and global warming skeptics.
50 minutes til Savage. Gotta find out about the dirty sanchez. Any help?
....think about it, Ann-the-man was chosen to be on Today: 6-6-6.
-one day,she will have to anwswer for all the hate she spews for $$$.
I laugh !
Lefties hate Ann Coulter because she is smart, correct and HOT !
Does this site have NBC's permission to have that video content?
I remember in the 70's when someone asked the newscasters who were the most influential people in the country and their answer was "we are!". Matt Lauer thinks he no exception. Mebbe Coulter isn't right some of the time, but she's smarter than that guy!
Hillary on one side, Anne on the other....NO DIFFERENCE.
"It's not about the truth for you all, it's about being right despite being shown that 2+2 doesn't =5."
Unless you are doing the liberal "New Math"... Because we can't tell them they are wrong and hurt their self esteem...
This board probably hasn't seen this much action since, well, ever.
I agree Ann goes over the top with how she says things, but that doesn't negate the underlying logic of her conclusions.
And is that first post a liberal implying that only by marriage is a woman's point of view validated. My, you (liberal) people do have a long way to go.
Condi in '08!
Lauer tried to keep her from talking. He asked a loaded question, rhetorical really, and then he'd cut her off as she was making her point.
She had to yell over him about how the U.S. states have voted on gay marriage and gay marriage lost every time, even in liberal California and Oregon.
Matt wasn't interested in that. That right there is the bias we conservatives talk about.
A dirty sanchez is, anonymous, this:
after having anal sex, the man pulls out his penis and wipes it across his partners lip, forming an authentic looking mexican moustache.--from urbandictionary.com
Attention liberals and conservatives!!!
While you/we are arguing the country's been sold...
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf
I'm amazed how black and white every issue has become. Both sides are guilty of this. If you agree with what someone says then they are omnicient, if not they are evil idiots. There are shades of gray in everything. Ann Coulter is an extemely intelligent and thoughtful woman. Some of the ideas she spouts are done with a certain degree of vitriol that may not be necessary, however her general message is in the right direction.
Cindy Sheehan is the best example of what she is trying to say. This woman was a fruitcake but the left got behind her because they thought her to be untouchable. In the long run should prove to be a huge mistake.
PS: Matt Luaer doesn't have a chance in a debate with Ann Coulter. She has a far superior intellect to that man.
Clearly Ann won!
Matt was unable to shut up long enough to let her complete a sentence. He knew if she were allowed to talk the truth would be clearly heard by all.
Good job Ann!
>>>Whoever posted the above is full of it. There is no Wrightsville Borough, in Delaware.
hahaha! Fake but accurate. From the Mary Mapes/Dan Rather school of Leftardism.
Ann Coulter, the Republican Princess and conservative role model, had sex with many men but never had a baby. Is Ann Coulter having abortions? … This woman preaches morals and Republican MORAL VALUES … WOW … TALK ABOUT HYPOCRISY … Republicans have very low standards.
I don't really care about her much, but I do get a kick out of the way the Angry Left contorts themselves over this Coulter chick!
seems to me this needs to be called democrat central blog with all this crying going on.
Matts "random" pickings from the book (random quotes) where from the first few pages.
not like he read past that is it?
while if it was from a democrat or a person the media loves they would of read more than just the first few pages wouldnt they?
how cindy sheenan (misspelled?) is tied to 911 i don't know, except for tie to the iraq war?
she lost her son i believe, who at first was for the war (its in media archives and on tape) but than turned anti-war activist that the media helped create.
but than again to democrats, all they care about is self serving issues.
raising taxes, do nothing about immigration and other important issues.
wasnt it a democrat who;s office was searched with a warrant (signed by a judge) for bribery charges (r. cunningham i believe his name). and arent many democrats also guilty with abramof?
oh sorry just republicans? i think not, harry reid a republican? nope
Anonymous said...
"Ann Coulter, the Republican Princess and conservative role model, had sex with many men but never had a baby. Is Ann Coulter having abortions? … This woman preaches morals and Republican MORAL VALUES … WOW … TALK ABOUT HYPOCRISY … Republicans have very low standards."
were you aborted? We've brought up wars, civil rights, etc...and you bring up this as your hypocrisy statement?
So many personal attacks and ugly things said here that are completely off point make me ashamed to be a liberal. I was hopeful to read something here that was witty and put Ann in her place as Matt should have. Instead I only read rants of hate.
Shame shame shame
Ann's right. I wish all those "grieving widows" who abuse the memories of their dead husbands would just STFU already.
"The bubble-headed bleach-blond comes on at 5,
tells you of the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye,
It's interesting when people die,
give me dirty laundy.."
[It's Bush's fault!]
Think I'll go see what Guatamela Invasion the US was supposedly involved in (must be one of those thousands of Reagan "covert operations" nobody but the left seems to know about, since under Reagan we were shipping military supplies to Guatemala's government. Don't remember hearing that was just "forward staging".)
Anyone want some more kool aid? [Here, have some more kool-aid.. let me get you a paper cup..]
<< but than again to democrats, all they care about is self serving issues.
raising taxes, do nothing about immigration and other important issues.>>
Let's BAN SAME SEX MARRIAGE and fix all our problems ... LMAO.
SAME SEX MARRIAGE is the priority and major issue of the Republicans ... WOW
Just like all the other misguided neocons, Coulter made the assertion during the interview that the Iraq war and the "war on terrorism" are the same thing. Iraq had no WMD's and was not a hotbed of terrorism at any point before Bush and his cronies invaded. But now, after the hawkish administration unjustly invaded Iraq, it is the No. 1 locale for recruiting and breeding terrorism. Where's Bin Laden? I don't remember Saddam Hussein having anything to do with 9/11. This occupation is the No. 1 reason that the US economy has suffered under Bush and that international countries have no respect for America. Bush and Co. just revert back to the same hackneyed issues they know they can depend on when it comes election time (abortion, gay marriage, etc.) because they know that they can mobilize all the rural folks and other non-thinking individuals to the polls. Between Iraq, the CIA spy leak case, NSA wire taps, the unbelievably mismanaged, pathetic and racist response to Hurricane Katrina, gas prices, the economy, Abu Ghraib, etc. it is unbelieveable that Bush hasn't been impeached yet. Coulter - and all other right-wing pundits - are either deranged, evil or more than likely both
I have been monitoring the comments on this blog for the last hour or two. One thing I have noticed is that people from both sides have been generalizing to a staggering degree. "Lefties" are not akin to terrorists and "righties" are not all NASCAR loving gun-nuts. Saying that "republicans have very low standards" is a GROSS generalization. I don't always agree with Coulter and I sometimes agree with Al Franken, but when I DO agree with Ann that doesn't make me any less credible than when I agree with Al Franken. I think everyone here needs to go over their "logical fallacy" handbook. Ann Coulter is not "correct," he has an opinion about 9/11 widows that might deserve some more thought. She is, though, pointing out a fallacy that we cannot disagree with, or criticize someone because they have been through a very horrible tragedy.
Lauer, like many liberals cannot understand polemical speech and that is what Coulter thrives on. It does not take a genius to separate what she says from how she says it.
IGNORE HER AND SHE WILL GO AWAY! SHE ONLY HAS A PLATFORM TO THE EXTENT THAT THOSE ON THE LEFT SHRIEK ABOUT HER, THEREBY PROVIDING HER WITH THE PLATFORM!
Notice how the emotion-based Liberals always trot out the "grieving" widows and moms to try to make their emotion-based arguments. And when someone disagrees with them you start calling them names. Neat trick, you Liberal dopes. So much for you being the "intellectuals".
Rather than be hyperbolic, all you Ann Coulter haters should explain why a widow deserves "expert" status just because his or her spouse died on 9-11. They deserve our sympathy and our prayers but they don't deserve any more air time for influencing public policy than anyone else who has a reasonably good handle on what's happening in the world.
Poor Matt, showed up to a battle of wits unarmed. You Liberals love to spew the hate and inuendo, but not one of you can provide a coherent response to the proposition that the 9-11 widows are out attacking Bush while at the same time claiming that they can't be questioned on their positions because of being a widow.
These postings show why Liberals will NEVER EVER see the whitehouse again!!Despite all the help from the "blue state" newspapers and tv news, ie. cnn,msnbc,abc, cbs, ny and la times,wash post, ect. Most people with common sense (your biggest enemy)see that you have no ideas.Nasty rhetoric and hiding behind political correctness is all you have left! It's really pathetic. Anyone that disagrees with what you learned from Baldwin or moore or striesand is obviously a delusional drug addicted conservative that needs to be killed!! I only wish you could stop and see yourselves for what you have become. Miss Coulter is pretty much correct about 9/11 widows, she puts it a little to harshly for my taste but that is what she does. Question- You call it a debate with Lauer, but if a liberal is on with Matt, it becomes a coffee clutch. Are you sure there is no liberal bias in the media?
Hey, come on sheeple, Matt Lauer is part of the show. If you just ask the left or the right what they really want, we all want basically the same thing right? The government to stick their long arms into someone else's pockets to pay for the special interests that we want. And how come no noise about our boys fighting in Iraq for the 9/11 wives right to freedom of speech? Aritcle 1, section 8, part 16 and Article 4 section 4 of the United States Constitution limit Americans being ORDERED into military action to within the United States. thunkwell
Liberals are playing checkers when a chess game is required.
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