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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That's my take to. She's basically baiting them.
I thought it's interesting that in the next sentence she blunted the statement, specifically addressing the media with it and they still publish it with the same headline. Stupid thing to say in any case (at least she could have suggested that he undergo a self-abortion) but the media's reaction is interesting here.
The libs are hypocrites.
I don't think anyone is taking the "joke" seriously as a threat (or at least nobody reasonable should do that). I think the issue is that the joke was in poor taste and/or just not funny. Ann Coulter is trying just a little too hard these days. I don't believe substituting Ted Kennedy in the joke would make it any funnier, either. The deliberate courting of controversy with remarks that are just inflammatory, without being insightful, witty, or cutting, makes Ann Coulter seem like yesterday's news. Her barbs used to be backed up with intelligence and facts. I thought her chapter in "Slander" on the news coverage of the Florida recount, for example, was fantastic. But just throwing out a comment like that purely for media coverage is kind of crass. I liked Ann Coulter's material when she was slicing with a sharp knife, not clubbing with a mallet.
AND you are going to hear her joke repeated by every leftist now. Thanks a lot, Ann Coulter.
Except for Iran's president.
Some black woman said that about Clarence Thomas. MSM thought it was humorous and promptly buried it. Will they bury this? Nope.
Exactly, I quit listening to her and reading her stuff a while back. It seems she is getting shrill and not thinking about what she says anymore. For all the good points she has made in the past it takes one stupid statement, like the rat poison or the crack begin over thing, to undo everything and paint us all as nuts.
She needs to take some time off and cool down and regain her analytical edge and not start sounding like Gore or Dean et. al.
Boy, that contemporaneous disclaimer for the mentally challenged really worked, didn't it Ann?
< /sarc >
That's gotta be a violation of some part of the PATRIOT Act.
I don't like her and never have. Ann Coulter is just a rude little girl making lots of money from conservatives by being rude in their direction. This is why we like her??? Talking about rat poison and an elderly supreme court justice? Like hell. Her comment was flat out wrong and so was she.
In a mentally-challenged and PC-loser-ruled world, absolutely. I love a maverick.
She said it was a joke...
At the same time, she will continue to have the mic.
I love Ann.
Real classy Ann.
Got that right. What's the difference between having said that, and what Sen. Clinton said to those black folk on MLK Day("...and you know what I' talkin' about.").
Ann's standards are higher than that.
Ann keeps pushing the envelope and I think she's lost her sense of judgment."
The "joke" was in it's cartoonish absurdity that was indeed meant to evoke exactly this kind of reaction at FR -- that "Ann's lost it."
Coulter is not only a pundit, but a provocateur, and entertainer.
These are just a FEW of the liberal points of view expressed over the past two or three years--without the immediate disclaimer that it was a joke. (The "comedian" being a possible exception.)
Anyone making an issue out of this while ignoring all of the liberal vitriol--TRUE HATE--is a hypocrite.
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