Posted on 01/27/2006 9:36:43 AM PST by LouAvul
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, speaking at a traditionally black college, joked that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned.
Coulter had told the Philander Smith College audience Thursday that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law on abortion. Stevens is one of the court's most liberal members.
"We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," Coulter said. "That's just a joke, for you in the media."
Coulter has made a career of writing and lecturing on her strongly conservative views.
At one point during her address, which was part of a lecture series, some audience members booed when she cut off two questioners. "I'm not going to be lectured to," Coulter told one man in a raised voice.
She drew more boos when she said the crack cocaine problem "has pretty much gone away."
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Now that incident of leftist brownshirts threatening Coulter was not funny.
It will certainly get a buzz going in the press and on the net for a few days. Possible PR stunt?
I wonder if she has another book coming out any time soon?
Hurray for Ann!
This thread is even funnier than her comment. I knew all the phony conservatives would come out to attack her. Oh, they are so sad, and outraged that someone would make a joke like that. Get the smelling salts.
And of course, the humor challenged, who dominate FR, are also out in force. Remember, with these folks - You Must Always be Literal.
No, make sure to understand that I like her and have defended her here on this thread... but I posted many pics for the sake of sharing.
I am going to disagree with you there. As any company, management has the right to review and decide what's appropriate and/or quality work. For Ann to fail to concede that she and management had an honest disagreement, or even more basic, that like the rest of us, sometimes you have to go back and fix your work, that's a fundamental problem. And then to wail about it later, hello thank you, so much for her credibility.
She could just as easily have suggested some of them have served long enough, don't reflect the public's thinking on judicial restraint, and should retire so President Bush can appoint someone new. Nothing wrong with that opinion, versus talking about justices dying and rat poison.
If the "phony conservatives" don't like her remark, I'm measuring "phony" at about 90%. I don't have to turn in my conservative membership because Ann Coulter said something I totally disagree with. So only true conservatives like jokes about rat poison and supreme court justices? I'm not buying.
I completely agree.
In this climate, the stakes being what they are, it has crossed my mind that there could be some danger to SCOTUS members.
Such a thing could present a crisis to the republic far beyond the assasination of a president, which, generally, does not upset the balance of power with consequences for decades.
Sadly, you are probably correct.
Good point. I don't think the Justices get as much security as higher profile officials. Shudder.
I would bet that it isn't... I'm sure she goes through the rounds with her circle of what is mentionable and what is off limits.
Also, much protection is only at the highest levels... executive.
Libs can get away with this. We can't. And we know it. So why keep doing it? If you knew a certain part of town was unsafe, would you walk through it anyway?
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" - attrib: Einstein
Such a thing could present a crisis to the republic far beyond the assasination of a president
Nobody's talking assassination, here. It was a joke. Maybe a bad joke, but a joke nonetheless.
She really needs to avoid saying stuff like that. If she wants to call for Stevens to move off the USSC, she should make a joke about buying Stevens a retirement cruise or something.
That's an asinine thing to say.
I want Stevens to leave the bench immediately, and to relax in a comfortable retirement.
Or to quote Zhivago, addressing Strelnikov: "I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it."
Coulter should apologize.
Just another reason for the "shut-in living and in a Ted Kacynski type Montana cabin mostly behind a keyboard searching for hot chicks on the internet" Freepers to come out of the closet and slurp over the micro-mini clad skin and bones body of Ann Coulter who you'd think have brains enough to keep her Constitutional mouth shut once in awhile and think before she spoke. But alas, she's a "hot" conservative chick and she'll get a slide because when she does mess up, it's just one more reason to post a myraid of pictures of her on FreeRepublic so the shut-ins can get wood iin other places than the cord wood pile.
NO.
I was never into the Twiggy look.
"Coulter said it was “the best introduction” she’d ever had."
You gotta' love Ann!
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