Ferguson is also a leftie, and often does a schtick with a guy who does a pretty funny Bush imitation. A sample, in a bit in the aftermath of Laura Bush's standup at the Press Correspondents' dinner (to the best of my memory):
CRAIG FERGUSON: So, what did you think of the First Lady's speech?"GEORGE W. BUSH": Well, Fergie, I thought it bombed!
FERGUSON: You didn't think she was funny?
"BUSH": Yeah, I thought it bombed! You know, I like bombing things!
Last night, with Sela Ward, Ferguson, a Scottish emigre, showed that he hasn't unlearned knee-jerk stereotypes about the South. Ward, who is from Mississippi, was recounting a recent trip to Alabama, and spoke of her days as a U of A cheerleader. She was telling him about Bear Bryant and how college football was like a religion down South, and how the South is all about 'football, family, and...' At this point Ferguson interjected, "Guns?"
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. She seems to want to make liberals angry more than she wants to make a common-sense case for conservatism. Remember her spiked USA Today piece that opened by referring to the DNC Convention in Boston as the "Spawn of Satan" convention? I prefer people who generate more heat than light. Ann is doing just the opposite.
Fair warning: A face-off between Fergie and Ann may not be pretty.
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...That would be THIS column, written the day after one of her best friends was murdered by Muslim fanatics on 9/11, right?
THIS IS WAR ( Ann Coulter tells it like it is ) ***A Must Read***
dailynews.yahoo ^ | 9/12/2001 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 09/13/2001 6:52:52 AM PDT by TLBSHOWTHIS IS WAR
By Ann Coulter
Barbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed him that he had better call the FBI (news - web sites) -- the plane had been hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon (news - web sites).
Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end.
This is not to engage in the media's typical hallucinatory overstatement about anyone who is the victim of a horrible tragedy. The furtive cell phone call was an act of incredible daring and panache. If it were not, we'd be hearing reports of a hundred more cell phone calls. (Even people who swear to hate cell phones carry them for commercial air travel.)
The last time I saw Barbara in person was about three weeks ago. She generously praised one of my recent columns and told me I had really found my niche. Ted, she said, had taken to reading my columns aloud to her over breakfast.
I mention that to say three things about Barbara. First, she was really nice. A lot of people on TV seem nice, but aren't. (And some who don't seem nice, are.) But Barbara was always her charming, graceful, ebullient self. "Nice" is an amazingly rare quality among writers. In the opinion business, bitter, jealous hatred is the norm. Barbara had reason to be secure.
Second, it was actually easy to imagine Ted reading political columns aloud to Barbara at the breakfast table. Theirs was a relationship that could only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary -- the latter being a subject of Barbara's appropriately biting best seller, "Hell to Pay."
Hillary claimed preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy with Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara really did talk politics -- and really did have breakfast together.
It's "Ted and Barbara" just like it's Fred and Ginger, and George and Gracie. They were so perfect together, so obvious, that their friends were as happy they were on their wedding day. This is more than the death of a great person and patriotic American. It's a human amputation.
Third, since Barbara's compliment, I've been writing my columns for Ted and Barbara. I'm always writing to someone in my head. Now I don't know who to write to. Ted and Barbara were a good muse.
Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were dropping in Afghanistan (news - web sites) -- and then updated the report to say they weren't our bombs.
They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.
This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.
We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution condemning the attack this week.
The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory racial or "religious" profiling.
People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from Idaho. This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and work for our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so bloodthirsty.
"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV. Every single time there is a terrorist attack -- or a plane crashes because of pilot error -- Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no purpose whatsoever.
The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about whether passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen mesomorphs ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed hijackers to board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody Tuesday. (Did those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker anyplace in America that day?)
Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians.
That's war. And this is war.CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
"BUSH": Yeah, I thought it bombed! You know, I like bombing things!That would be from THIS (not particularly funny) recent comedy sketch about the President, from www.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/comedy:
Craig Calls Bush
How is W. dealing with Laura stealing
the spotlight with her stand-up comedy?
Craig checks in with the President.
Fair warning: A face-off between Fergie and Ann may not be pretty.Perhaps.
More likely, he will ask her "fluff" questions......like whether she thinks Darth Vader is intended to represent Karl Rove -- or Dick Cheney, etc.
She seems to want to make liberals angry more than she wants to make a common-sense case for conservatism.That would be HERE:Remember her spiked USA Today piece that opened by referring to the DNC Convention in Boston as the "Spawn of Satan" convention?
USA TODAY SPIKES ANN COULTER COLUMN AT CONVENTION
Posted by kattracks
On News/Activism 07/26/2004 8:55:16 AM PDT · 118 replies · 6,428+ views
Drudge Report ^ | 7/26/04
(I apologize in advance for the long post)
"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."
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. She was basically making a reference to what actually was govt policy in post-WW2 Japan & in post-war Korea. Gen MacArthur rejected Hirohito's offer to force the entire country of Japan to convert to Christianity. But MacArthur did request US Christian missionaries to go to both countries, b/c he believed if they converted to Christianity (by choice, not by force) that would make them more likely to fully embrace Democracy. That's what she was referring to. She was saying that our govt policy in this war should be the same as it was in those other wars, b/c it worked. Both countries are still democracies &, though Japan resisted conversion, both have great religious tolerance.
As for the Spawn of Satan remark, her point was really about certain parts of the Democratic platform & many of the speakers & hard-core activists, not all Democrats. Hell, she's dated Democrats. The first person she called when she heard about 9-11 was her friend Democratic strategist Pat Caddell.
I was initially put off by Ann when I first starting seeing her on tv. Eventually, though, when I really started to listen to what she was saying between the inflammatory rhetoric & the sarcastic one-liners, I thought she made a lot of sense.
Btw, does anyone know where Ferguson's show is taped? There should be a LOT of Coulter fans in the audience to support her, otherwise this could get really ugly. Leno's basically a non-confrontationalist & a nice guy. I don't know if Ferguson is, & after her successful appearance on Leno, lefties are really going to want to show up to make her life hell.
