...her interview on the "Today Show" -- with Katie Couric...You can still view part of that classic the "Coulter/Couric catfight" HERE:
Katie Couric/Ann Coulter
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Posted on 05/19/2005 9:48:55 PM PDT by RonDog
From www.interbridge.com/lineups.html:
LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON, CBS
Mo 5/16: Marlee Matlin, Gov. Mike Huckabee, John Butler Trio
Tu 5/17: George Eads, Joe Walsh, J.R. Brow
We 5/18: Sela Ward, Michael Tucker, Acceptance
Su 5/29: Dr. Phil McGraw, Ringside
Fr 5/20: Randy Jackson, Bai Ling, Gary Greff
Mo 5/23: Ann Coulter, Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich, Charles Ross
If Ferguson really is a hard-core lefty, no amount of charm will win him over. He could be having Ann on to try to make her look like she's a cross between Betty Boop & Hitler (Ann's line). That's why it's so important to pack the audience w/Ann supporters.
As for her appearances on O'Reilly-I lovvve them. It's so obvious that he can't figure her out & that he's finally given up trying to beat her in an argument (in her Treason interview w/him, he looked like an idiot blaming McCarthy for Dalton Trumbo). I also like them, b/c they are interviews, not debates. I'm sick of Ann being treated like she's just the righty pitbull to be thrown into the pit w/the lefty pitbull. She's a serious thinker (& damn funny) & deserves to be treated as one.
Oh, & thank you RonDog for posting that Ann clip. It's great!
"In addition, some Hollywood floozies who kiss-and-tell suggested in an infamous video using lookalikes that being with Maher was practically just being an up-close witness to a guy doing himself."
This reminded me of the Woody Allen line: "Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love".
That's certainly true in Maher's case.
Btw, does anyone know where Ferguson's show is taped?Not to worry.There should be a LOT of Coulter fans in the audience to support her, otherwise this could get really ugly.
A few members of the L.A. Chapter [plus a few of OTHER "FRiends of Ann"] intend to be in the studio audience tomorrow night. :o)
See also, from www.satelliteguys.us:Hey, hey. I saw RonDog in the front section in his red shirt. - doug from uplandThanks, Doug! (That was the idea behind our wearing RED.)Apparently, the folks at home could HEAR us, too!
...Even Jay Leno has gone right-wing, judging from the crowd he attracts:FWIW, I intend to wear a PURPLE shirt this time -- with an orange tie. ;)Ann Coulter got more applause than the Pope last night...
"I am not as big a fan of Ann since her irresponsible and unnecessarily inflammatory suggestion in 2001 that Muslims forceably be converted to Christianity." -See also, from this transcript of her appearance on the "Today Show" -- with Katie Couric:
Ann's constantly misquoted/misunderstood on this. Ann NEVER said anything about force. "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Ann's talked extensively about this quote in interviews...
Katie Couric: You were also fired, I guess, because you wrote in the National Review that we should -- when it came to fighting terrorism, we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. Do you still believe that that's the best way to combat terrorism worldwide?
Ann Coulter: Well, that's a somewhat dishonest quote. I was referring to the people in the previous sentence of that column, cheering and dancing in the streets right now, and, in fact, this -- the way that was so widely misquoted is an example of what I described in my book, which is the constant mischaracterizations, which is a small word, picking out the word of parents. It makes a big difference. And these subtle differences that are then glossed over as if there's absolutely no difference.
To try to portray conservatives as crazy people, as Nazis, slave owners, (unintelligible), homophobic, how about dealing with our ideas? I mean I've written two books now, I've written hundreds of columns, I've been on TV hundreds of times.
The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me just dismiss her ideas, read no more, read no further, this person is crazy --
Katie Couric: Well, obviously --
Ann Coulter: -- is precisely what liberals do all the time.
Katie Couric: But obviously the National Review had a problem with these articles and some of the pieces you did because you were fired from that job. Can you elaborate or at least tell us what you exactly meant?
Ann Coulter: That also isn't quite true. I mean I write a syndicated column, I write for Human Events. That's the newspaper that hires me. People buy a syndicated column, and they dropped the column. But a lot of people don't like me for a lot of different reasons, including --
Katie Couric: Why don't you explain what you meant, then.
Ann Coulter: -- that they're my competitors.
Katie Couric: What do you think is the best way to battle terrorism?
Ann Coulter: Point one and point two [We should invade their countries, kill their leaders] by the end of the week had become official government policy.
As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like that Christianity.
...her interview on the "Today Show" -- with Katie Couric...You can still view part of that classic the "Coulter/Couric catfight" HERE:
Katie Couric/Ann Coulter
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
A couple of weeks back, Fergie did an entire monologue about the reasons why he will rarely -- if ever -- wear a tie on the show again...See also this MARVELOUS extended transcript from the day that Johhny Carson died:
... Meanwhile, here's late night's newbie, Craig Ferguson:I'm your host, Craig Ferguson. You May know us a -- it's a little bit different. Normally, I come on and I stand over there and I attempt a few jokes and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. It's called the monologue. It was made famous by of course the famous now the late and great Johnny Carson who died this weekend. And I thought tonight, it would be inappropriate for me to come out and tell some jokes about celebrities and their haircuts or whatever.
What I wanted do is just tell you there will be a lot of stuff in the media over the next couple of days about who knew Johnny and people's recollections of Johnny and obviously, I didn't grow up in America but I do have a couple of stories to tell and when I -- where I grew up, where I come from, I come from Scotland, and when a beloved figure in a neighborhood dies, we have a wake. And we tell our stories, whatever stories we have about the person who's passed on, wherever we knew the person well or not, we tell however they touch their lives.
I'm a rookie at this game. Johnny Carson is the King of late night. You get to play in the majors and you hear that babe Ruth has passed on. He is the man who defined this field. So I'll tell you what happened in 1976.
It was the first time I came to America, and I came here with my father. I was 13 years old. America was celebrating her 200th birthday. And a man called Freddy laker gave cheap airfares from the U.K. I think it was like 25 bucks or something. And that was the only way my father would pay for that. Just my father and I, no one else from my family.
And we stayed with my father's young Ker brother and his wife, my Uncle James and my aunt Susan. They lived in up state new York. My Uncle James worked in a rich person's estate. And when we came over, at that time, there wasn't a loft travel over the Atlantic, so my father hadn't seen my brother for a long times and I was 13 and I hung around with my cousins, Steven and Jamie and Leslie and Carter and they were Americans. I've never met Americans before, ever. And at night, the adults, at 11:30, we would sit down and they would watch Johnny Carson on television. And they would have a couple of glasses of whiskey and we would watch those guys. Weren't allowed to watch those guys. But we would watch through the stairs as my father and my Uncle James laughed at this Fellow on TV.Now I don't know If you know a lot of scottish men, but they don't laugh a lot. They would sit with their glasses of whiskey and they would laugh their asses off on TV to a man I didn't know. So that was my first introduction to who Johnny Carson was. I went home after that Summer. It was a great Summer. That was the Summer that I Fell in love with America.
No one asked me If I was a catholic or a protestant. I came back when I was 22. I drank a lot. I did whatever else was going around for legal reasons, we don't need to talk about it. I did a bit of that. And once or twice a week, when I get home early, I would see "tonight show," with Johnny Carson.
And he did something for me that I'm very grateful for and it's this. I came from a very small Town in a small country and however much bravado I had, America terrified me. It was an enormous place. It had so many different people. There were African-Americans, there were russians, there were Spanish-speaking people. There were people of all different hues and colors and I was scared.
I was 22 and fool of a drink and I was scared and something that Johnny Carson did then was that everybody watched. Everybody knew what he was saying. Johnny Carson made America, for me, a small Town and just a wee bit less frightening. It seemed at that point in life, everybody knew. A country of this size, everybody knew this man.It came a small Town and a slightly less intimidating Blaise for me. Now, of course -- place for me. There's the internet, 24-hour news, channels. There's a whole Bunch of news that make America smaller and easier. But then, that man did that for me, and so James joist -- Joyce says that sentimentality is unearned emotion.
These are the stories of how that man touched my life and the medium which he worked in which was television and he redefined it and he was a master at it and So for that, I say and you would have to be an idiot in the game that I'm in not to recognize that in Mr. Carson. I say thank you, Mr. Carson. Good night to you, Sir, and we'll see you in the by-and-by.
The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me just dismiss her ideas, read no more, read no further, this person is crazy -- is precisely what liberals do all the time.
This is exactly my problem with Ann nowadays. She simultaneously complains about being taken out of context, but makes cartoonishly outrageous statements that beg to be misinterpreted by her opponents.
Ann Coulter: Point one and point two [We should invade their countries, kill their leaders] by the end of the week had become official government policy.
As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like that Christianity.
Point one and point two weren't the controversial parts of that quote, and she knows it. Referring to Christianity as "some sort of hobby" is a remark too frivolous to be called silly, and is an inkling of how seriously she takes it herself. She asked Couric seconds before, "How about dealing with our ideas?" What kind of idea is treating Christianity as if it is Midnight Basketball?
If Coulter wants to parlay her new infamy into greater respect, she's going to have to learn not to shoot off her mouth. Then she won't have to answer these questions later.
Maybe we need profiling.
What do you think of this one? "To ensure that we Americans never offend anyone -- particularly fanatics intent on killing us -- airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor-winning former Governors.
Let's pause a moment and take the following test:
In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
(a) Olga Corbutt
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Arnold Schwarzenneger
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
During the 1980's, a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) John Dillinger
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70-year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Davy Jones
(c) The Little Mermaid
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kid
(b) Charles Lindbergh
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train job.
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses
(c) Michael Jordan
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers (b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
(c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless"
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and thousands of people were killed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
(b) The Supreme Court of Florida
(c) Mr. Bean (d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Enron
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonny and Clyde
(b) Captain Kangaroo
(c) Billy Graham
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
Hmmm . . . nope, no patterns anywhere to justify profiling..."
fwiw, all muslims will be invaded and made to realize the truth of christianity whether it's now...or later at the final judgement.
I choose not to address whether reductio ad absurdum is an appropriate way to describe what Coulter is most famous for, and focus on my highlighting of her post-9/11 column.
It certainly is her fault if she continues in that same vein and then complains about them judging her because they don't get it. She's got to make up her mind what she wants: to be understood, and have her ideas judged on their merit without emotionalism, or to deliberately speak a language they don't understand and then look silly asking, "Why don't you get it?"
The CEO of Pepsico made an ass of herself a couple of weeks ago by referring to the United States as the world's middle finger. Now the company's doing the best they can to spin that into an unquestionably pro-American statement. Ann's been doing too much of that lately. And she has no one to blame but herself.
The FULL TIME COVER ARTICLE on ANN COULTER -- Ms. Right -- Available at Time Canada
Time Canada ^ | April 18, 2005 | John Cloud
Posted on 04/20/2005 11:52:18 AM PDT by hinterlander
Anne Coulter and I were well into a bottle of white Bordeaux—and I believe she was chewing her fourth piece of Nicorette—when it happened. From what little I knew of her—mainly her propensity for declamations such as “liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole”—I thought it impossible for Coulter to blush. Many of her fans would later tell me it was her fearlessness they admired, her fully unburdened sense of outrage against liberalism, against anyone left of Joseph McCarthy (whom Coulter flattered in her best-selling book Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism).
But in person, Coulter is more likely to offer jokes than fury. For instance, you might ask her to name her historical antecedents in the conservative movement, and she’ll burst forth, “I’m Attila the Hun,” and then break into gales of laughter so forceful you smell the Nicorette. “Genghis Khan!”
So finally, I asked that she be serious. I wanted to see the rancor that allegedly is her sole contribution to public discourse (that and being a “lying liar,” in Al Franken’s estimation, as well as a “telebimbo” [Salon] and a “skank,” according to a blog kept by Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott). Why, I asked, did she enjoy attacking others and being attacked?
She composed herself and offered a very Ann Coulter answer. “They’re terrible people, liberals. They believe—this can really summarize it all—these are people who believe,” she said, now raising her voice, “you can deliver a baby entirely except for the head, puncture the skull, suck the brains out and pronounce that a constitutional right has just been exercised. That really says it all. You don’t want such people to like you!”
-- snip --
...Coulter is more like Clare Boothe Luce, the wife of this magazine’s co-founder, who rankled the Roosevelt establishment in the ’40s with her take-no-prisoners opposition to the New Deal and communism. In her first House floor speech as a Congresswoman representing the Connecticut district where Coulter later grew up, Luce called Vice President Henry Wallace’s liberal approach to postwar foreign policy “globaloney,” a proto-Coulterism that shocked many in Washington. Today Coulter often speaks under the auspices of a conservative group called the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute that was founded by Luce admirers in 1993.
Vanity Fair once said of Luce, who edited that magazine in the ’30s, “She combines a fragile blondness with a will of steel.” Similarly, one is astounded to hear from Coulter something like, “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity,” as she famously wrote of Muslims who were cheering after the Sept. 11 attacks, not least because Coulter might be shrink-wrapped in a black-leather mini as she says it. The combination of hard-charging righteousness and willowy, sex-kitten pulchritude is vertiginous and—for her many young male fans—intoxicating...
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To: killjoy
As a photographer, I like the shot a lot.I don't see anything wrong with the picture other than I think they could have used warmer lighting.
94 posted on 04/18/2005 10:04:59 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
COULTER TV -MONDAY, MAY 23: THE LATE, LATE SHOW ON CBS WITH CRAIG FERGUSONWEDNESDAY: MAY 25, CNN'S LOU DOBBS
THURSDAY, MAY 26: HANNITY AND COLMES
THURSDAY MAY 26: SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY
FYI, members of the L.A. Chapter [and a few of our FRiends] will be in the studio audience this evening -- IN FORCE. :o)
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Weeknights 12:35AM ET/PT
Tonight's Guests:Rob & Amber, Ann Coulter, Charles Ross.
Thanks for the flag, I'll check this out..........closely.
Thanks for the update, Ron.
i agree with her post 9/11 statement. no apology neessary on her part.
It certainly is her fault if she continues in that same vein and then complains about them judging her because they don't get it.
That's not a fault on her part. it's obtuse (or at least ignorant) on the part of those who have a problem understanding her.
She's got to make up her mind what she wants: to be understood, and have her ideas judged on their merit without emotionalism, or to deliberately speak a language they don't understand and then look silly asking, "Why don't you get it?"
There's nothing difficult to understand about ann. unless someone purposely WANTS to misunderstand her. she's to the point.
The CEO of Pepsico made an ass of herself a couple of weeks ago by referring to the United States as the world's middle finger. Now the company's doing the best they can to spin that into an unquestionably pro-American statement. Ann's been doing too much of that lately.
to the contrary. ann speaks the patriotic truth, while the pepsi polk blabbered leftist tripe.
To compare ann to the pepsi spokesman is like comparing Reagan to Hans Blix.
And she has no one to blame but herself.
She has no one to thank but herself...and God.
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