Gotcha Matt!
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!
WOW! This report is fabulous...Ann at her best. But I wish I'd seen it live, just to see Lauer's reaction to Bitchslap 101.
> Sure, Ann has that flowing, golden hair and those sexy, slinky legs, but what really makes her attractive is her piercing intelligence. Plus, her flowing hair and long legs.
Plus, her golden hair and those sexy, slinky legs.
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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."
Home Run Ann! Thanks for making that point. Iraq is part of the War on Terror. The Administartion should be making that point every day in every press conference.
LOL! So true. I already have her book on order, and I will get the audio version, too.
They're so smug, so amazingly stupid.
Battle of Wits? And Lauer is unarmed! Too bad Katie left last week - Ann could have given a proper send-off to the Affable Eva Braun of Morning TV!
Gotcha Matt!
An Ann Coulter send-off for k-k-Katie would have been, among other things, poetic justice.
It's simply divine, really, to know that Lauer is still convinced he "won" this little debate.
He really is that much of a drooling idiot.
Too bad they don't make Ann the new CBS Evening New Anchor.
And herein lies the rub.
The 'liberals' in the MSM(they're actually pacifist-socialists) have never thought of Iraq as part of the 'war on terror'. That term is solely confined to the friends & coworkers of the 19 fazools who pulled off 9/11... who (in their confused minds) should be tracked down by Interpol and brought to the Hague for trial.
A perfect example is the way they're describing the would-be, terrorist 'youths' up in Toronto as... disaffected, Canadian citizens.
The range marshall is going to be pissed about this photo . .
GODLESS, already # 36 on Amazon. It will be fun to watch it climb the bestseller lists.
On Today's part, it's all about ratings. Ann's books sell! And for Ann, she's trying to sell a book, and she gets a very large forum to do so.
Liberal boy ditz vs. conservative girl ditz. Clash of the Titans!
Most conservative men find Ms Coulter to be quite the attractive lady, but the truth is, it's not because of her looks (don't get me wrong though, she does pretty good in this department). It's her brilliance, moral courage, and blow torch delivery that we all love.
Apparently lauer and Ann matched wits,
Ann won by .5 wit
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