Posted on 06/06/2006 5:13:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 6, 2006
While considerable attention focuses on Ann Coulter's more superficial charms, from a conservative perspective Ann's real beauty is her absolute refusal to buy into liberal logic, no matter how pervasive. That independence of mind was on display this morning during her interview with Matt Lauer. Ann was on to tout her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, released today on . . . 6/6/6 - sign of the devil and all that.
The first example came in the the context of President Bush's current push for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit gay marriage. The liberal mantra on his initiative, as exemplified by Ann Curry's performance on yesterday's Today, is that this is a cynical political ploy and a waste of time when there are myriad 'real' issues out there to be addressed.
Right out of the box, Lauer invited her to buy into that logic. Lauer:
"David Gregory said if you ask people what they care abou they say Iraq and gas prices. Gay marriages are way down on the list, but that's what the president is talking about and what the Senate is taking up. Why?"
Coulter would have none of it:
"I don't know what people are talking about or how David Gregory knows that. But I do know that gay marriage amendments have been put on the ballots in about 20 states now and passed by far larger numbers than Bush won the election by."
Lauer then hit Ann with a classic bit of perceived liberal truth: "Here's how E.J. Dionne puts it in the Washington Post:'The Republican party thinks its base of social conservatives is a nest of dummies who have no memories and respond like bulls whenever red flags are waved in their faces.' Do you agree with that?
Coulter: "That the base are dummies or that Bush thinks that?"
Lauer: "That he can wave a red flag and they will run to the polls to respond to him?"
Coulter: "They don't need to respond to him. He's not running again."
Lauer: "They want the voters to turnout in the mid-term elections. They don't want to lose control of the congress."
Coulter: "Maybe they want to do what the voters want. Whatever you can say about whether or not Bush has a mandate, the mandate against gay marriage is pretty strong. It passed by like 85 percent in Mississippi. Even in Oregon, and that was the state that the groups supporting gay marriage fixated on and outspent their opponents by like 40:1, it passed even there. There is a mandate against gay marriage."
Lauer: "Do you think George Bush in his heart really cares strongly about that issue?"
Coulter: "I don't know what anybody cares in his heart."
Lauer: "Would you take a guess?"
Coulter: "I know what Americans think because they keep voting, over and over and over again overwhelmingly they reject gay marriage. So why is that a bad thing for politicians to respond to what is overwhelmingly a mandate?"
Ann's rejection of Lauer's liberal logic was again on stunning display a bit later in the interview. Lauer suggested that Pres. Bush's low approval ratings are attributable to Iraq. That in turn engendered the following exchange.
Coulter: "I don't think so. That's the one thing he is doing right and that the Democrats are incapable of doing. That is fighting the war on terror."
Lauer: "But I am talking about the war with Iraq, not the war on terror."
Coulter: "I consider them the same thing. We didn't invade Guatemala."
Cue the rim shot!
Thanks for a great report! Hopefully, Matt won't be so humiliated that Ann mopped the floor with him, yet again, that he'll have her banned from appearing again. But then again, Today probably has a ratings spike everytime Ann appears!
Why would Ann go on the Today Show? One of the following three reasons:
(1) Believe it or not, a lot of people actually watch the Today Show. I'm not sure why, but they do.
(2) She enjoys smacking Matt Lauer around.
(3) Both (1) and (2).
Ummmmm. Red meat. Rib eye. Ann Coulter. Uh, what was the subject?
Your post was like the drowning person that, in the attempt to save their own life, pulls their rescuer down so that they can come out on top.
She is OUT THERE fighting the good fight on a daily basis, and you nitpick because she used the wrong word?
Then you have the temerity to call those supporters of hers "the Cult of Ann?"
Are you the kind that goes through life looking for crap to complain about? Sheesh.
Not all of her supporters, only those who have emotional meltdowns when someone points out that she could have made a stronger point. Reading the tenor of your posts, "cult" is not too strong a word at all.
BTW, who are you speaking of in your tag line? Oops, sorry, I meant "tag-line." Don't want to cross Pet and leave out the hyphen. Anyway, I'm guessing Hillary or Cindy Sheehan are the subject of your tag-line.
This is David Horowitz on 'Treason'. And however shallow Coulter's knowledge of history, her attempts at writing about science are just laughable.
She's an embarrassment to conservatives everywhere.
I'm sorry, 'ski, you stopped applauding too soon. Turn in your freeper card on the way out. :(
Yep, anyone who dares speak a criticism of Ann (even one more slight than mine) can expect sniping personal attacks.
However, you will find (if you check) that cyborg has a reciprocal tagline. We're to be married Sunday.
Sorry to lay waste to your petty purity test.
I wish we had a dozen more like her to shred the opposition in interviews like this.
Will you come to my show trial?
;O)
Thanks, Pisano. Hopefully other conservatives will take her example of fearlessness to heart.
You probably admire Coulter's 'intellect' too, huh?
No more creepy than your cult of the "Boo-Bird".
(4) She's hawking a silly book.
Unfortunately, to save my own skin, I must now denounce you. Excuse me while I read, in an especially wooden fashion, from this prepared script praising the virtues of Queen Ann.
I'll never forget, when Katie got offended about that Ann said "What's her problem? I SAID she was Affable."
LOL Right.
Thanks for helping to make my point.
Lauer's hair never grow back......all the way...must be because he has such a BIG HEAD.
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