Posted on 06/15/2006 8:10:31 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Liberals may hate Ann Coulter, but the folks in the audience of Jay Leno’s "Tonight Show” roared their approval of the controversial author when she was introduced on Wednesday night.
Asked by Leno to explain all the controversy surrounding her No. 1 bestselling book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," Coulter said: "Well, I wrote a book and liberals were hysterical. Every time I write a book liberals are hysterical. It happens all the time.”
Noting that Leno had joked about her the night before, saying that like the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of Oz” she had a house fall on her as a result of her book, Ann countered: "I just dropped my house on the mainstream media.” The audience cheered.
Ann explained that before the book came out she gave it to her friends, including liberals, and not one of them complained about her remarks about the so-called Jersey Girls.
"Not my friends, not my editors, not the lawyers and not the liberals, pulled out the chapter on the Jersey Girls,” she said. Coulter has drawn fire from some – including Hillary Clinton – for attacking the four New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks that killed their husbands. Coulter accused the women of "reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis.”
Commenting on Leno’s complaint that political discourse nowadays is so nasty, Coulter said: "We hear this all the time, about how civil things were back when there were only three TV stations” and nobody could talk back to the liberals.
Now, she said, there has suddenly been an alleged "disruption of civility” only because conservatives can talk back thanks to talk radio, the Internet and Fox News.
Asked if she is hurt by liberal attacks on her, Coulter said she wears them "as a badge of honor.” She added that she was surprised that liberals have failed to object to being called "Godless,” and have concentrated their fire on one small part of one chapter, when she criticized the Jersey Girls
The much anticipated fireworks between Coulter and acid-tongued comedian George Carlin never came off, with Carlin sitting beside Ann smiling and saying nothing throughout her conversation with Leno except to note that he had to "move to the right” to allow Ann to sit beside her host.
During her 8 1/2 minutes on stage, Ann was interrupted by vigorous applause time and again.
I was wondering if Carlin would actually not want to provide any more controversy (either for the Tonight Show or Coulter) and just hold his tongue. It seems so.
And we were there cheering her on.
You know the rules!
Also, he was on there promoting a family film from Disney.
Congrats to you and the rest of the FReepers who were there in support of Ann. You did us proud!
As for Ann, she didn't talk to fast or get hyper like she sometimes does. She didn't holler. She was gracious to George Carlin. She had snappy comebacks. I have to say, she gave an A+ performance.
Snort. That wasn't civility. That was a monopoly. In any case, anyone who's all bent outta shape about the so-called lack of civility ought to go back and look at some of the nation's history. We don't have a patch on some of them for rudeness, scurrilous attacks, ad hominems, et. cetera. I don't recall reading about anyone having a cow back then.
Maybe he just showed a little class - rare for a lib, I know - but still possible!
That was a great piece of activism there. See my #7 for more on that thought.
I THINK ACID (ON THE TONGUE ) TONGUED might be more appropriate to describe carlin.
Was a fun show from start to finish. Clearly a very conservative audience, they laughed loud at all of Leno's jokes aimed at Democrats and were silent at the Bush jokes. A big cheer went up when Leno started a joke by stating that Karl Rove had been cleared, prompting Leno to say "I see we have our right wing cheering section here tonight."
She went on to say that in the USSR things were REALLY civil when there was only ONE station. She made a great point, one Rush makes all the time, that the left is all out of whack because they don't have a monopoly anymore; they can't dominate the news; they try to quiet the opposition, which is really what that Jersey Girls chapter is about. It's very instructive for me personally, watching all this unfold.
I thought Leno looked ticked off that he had to have Coulter on. Coulter, obviously, ran rings around Leno and easily refuted all of his jabs. She was great.
Carlin looked old.
Another great Coulter line was when she said that she had her liberal friend read the book and comment. Leno asked her if she had more than one liberal friend and she say 'no, just one.'
If anyone has a link to video, please post. I missed the show and would love to see & hear the banter from Annie.
Could you imagine back in 1970 that George Carlin would be doing a Disney flick?
I like where he asks if she ever slept with a lib. She says no. He says, you should try it to see what it's like. She says, " I read about it in Esquire." What a great comeback.
Jay Leno is first and foremost a TV personality with ratings to worry about. He may have hoped that Carlin would show her up, but when Ann dominated and the audience cheered her, you could expect that he would go with the flow.
Carlin was quiet, no doubt, because he knew that Ann would wipe the floor with him and make him look like the bitter loser most liberal "comedians" are.
This is what Bush should have done, after he swept the 2004 elections and the liberals were all cowering in their bunkers and offering to compromise on abortion. Instead, he laid back, played nice, and gave them plenty of time to recuperate and revive their propaganda campaign. Now he's paying the penalty for this political weakness.
How do you fight the reputation that you are mean and nasty, that the liberal press is so anxious to spread. Not by staying quiet, because that lets the press paint whatever picture they like. You fight back by fighting back, and by showing that you are fighting for something people value.
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