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Ann Coulter Wows Leno Audience (snicker snicker!)
NewsMax ^ | 6/17/06

Posted on 06/15/2006 8:10:31 AM PDT by areafiftyone

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To: doug from upland

Just curious. Were you and your friends the only ones cheering for Ann or were other audience members enjoying her too?


101 posted on 06/15/2006 5:12:29 PM PDT by Samwise (All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
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To: Huck
I watched the highlights on the net somewhere.

I missed the show -- do you have a link?

102 posted on 06/15/2006 5:17:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (In a war of ideas, the best weapon is a powerful, well told truth.)
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To: doug from upland
I think Carlin noted the make up of the audience, and how sharp Ann is and decided to not get in a fight he could not win.

Leno invited Carlin so he could take on Ann. That was what the pre show hype was all about. Who decides what to promote on the Leno Show? LENO!!! That's who. The per show promotion was all about Carlin VS Coulter.

It seems clear to me that Carlin looked at the game and decided to fold his hand.

That was a bright move on his part.

103 posted on 06/15/2006 5:18:43 PM PDT by Common Tator
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To: Samwise

I really don't know. I didn't know most of the people who were at the dinner and really didn't know who was clapping and yelling other than a few people. The family reunion gang from Massachusetts sitting next to me were not cheering for her.


104 posted on 06/15/2006 5:56:12 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: areafiftyone

View Ann Coulter guest on Tonight Show (On NBC)

watch here

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M56HQRovUqA&search=jay%20leno

On the sidebar to the lower right of the video window, there are a couple of other clips of her, the one with Matt Lauer is priceless.

105 posted on 06/15/2006 6:22:58 PM PDT by antonia (Build the Wall Now!)
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To: doug from upland

Well, you and your friends did a great job of cheering on Leno. Thanks for letting us enjoy it vicariously.


106 posted on 06/15/2006 6:37:36 PM PDT by Samwise (All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
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To: GOPJ

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649917/posts


107 posted on 06/15/2006 8:42:08 PM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
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To: areafiftyone
Anybody have the transcript?
From mediamatters.org:

From the June 14 edition of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on which Coulter appeared with comedian George Carlin:

LENO: All righty. My next guest is a best-selling author. Her latest book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, has debuted at Number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Also started a huge controversy, which we'll talk about. Please welcome Ann Coulter.

OK. Thanks for coming. Do you know George? You haven't met him.

COULTER: No, but he was just very funny. I like "the Catholics don't have the nuke."

CARLIN: I never thought when Ann Coulter came out I would have to move to the right.

LENO: Now, news junkies know this story. A lot of people don't. Explain. You're on the Today show. I think this is where this all sort of started. Explain what happened.

COULTER: Well, I wrote a book, and liberals were hysterical. It's getting to be kind of kabuki theater. I write a book, they're hysterical. It happens all the time.

LENO: All right.

COULTER: My perspective on it is -- I understand you had an Ann Coulter joke last night, Jay.

LENO: Oh, I have a bunch of Ann Coulter jokes all the time.

COULTER: That I was worried about Dorothy's house falling on me.

LENO: I think that was the joke, yeah. And then, I had the -- the other joke was I liked you fighting Sigourney Weaver in the Alien. I think that was the other movie I did.

COULTER: Well, see, in my perspective I'm Dorothy --

LENO: Really?

COULTER: -- and I've just dropped my house on the mainstream media.

LENO: I think probably -- probably the most controversial remark, and this is the quote from the book, I think this is the one that's got everyone upset. Do you want me to read it? Would you rather read it?

COULTER: Oh, you go ahead. I love to hear my words.

LENO: This is talking about the 9-11 widows. Correct?

COULTER: Yeah.

LENO: It says, "These broads are millionaires lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." It seems harsh to me.

COULTER: Yes, well, I was wrong about one thing. This is the infallibility chapter: How liberals send out victims to make their points for them so that we can't respond. And I said, you know, you can't respond to these four women because everyone will get mad at you. But I went on the Today show and criticized them, and there hasn't been a peep about it as far as I can tell.

LENO: Do you have any regrets about it?

COULTER: So apparently, you can attack them.

LENO: See, you know -- this is what fascinates me, because you're a very good writer.

COULTER: Thank you.

LENO: It's so different than the way I work. Maybe because I'm a comic. See, my thing is, it's sort of more flies with honey. You make your point even if you get a couple of digs in, you make your point. Whereas it seems to me, the words you've used have overshadowed the point what you were trying to make, to the point where people are upset about you attacking the widows, they don't understand the point you were trying to make. And I think most people still don't understand the point you were trying to make.

COULTER: Well, I suppose I'm not really trying to attract people. If I wanted to attract people, you know, I'd wear sexy dresses, grow my hair long.

LENO: No, I got you.

COULTER: Oh, wait, no. No, I think that is not true, actually. I mean, other people have written acerbic little remarks about Democrats sending out victims, Cindy Sheehan, Max Cleland, these four women from New Jersey, making the exact same points Howard Dean could be making, but we can attack Howard Dean. But in this case, their husbands died, their son died, we can't respond. And I don't think the nation's attention has ever been riveted on this victim as spokesman as it has in the last week. I don't think that trick's going to work anymore.

LENO: I mean, why use the term -- because I noticed, I saw you on a show the other day. You said "these women." Yet in the book you use the word "these broads." I mean, why --

COULTER: Men use the word broads all the time to talk about women. If we're getting to that level of parsing my language, there will be no end to this.

LENO: See, it's just confusing. Because I say -- is the point -- now I don't say this sarcastically -- is the point of the book to move forth your conservative ideas, what you think, or is it to sell books?

COULTER: Well, it is to make a point, and now that it is the number one book in the country I think that point will be made. I must say. I mean, I had a lot of my friends read the book before it came out, and I gave it to my smartest liberal friends, and I told them you're smarter than any liberal I'm going to be on TV with. I didn't know I was going to be on with you [Carlin]. And I said, I want you to attack this book. You go through it with a fine-toothed comb. And I got to tell you, not my friends, not my editors, not the lawyer, not the liberal pulled out the chapter on the Jersey Girls. I mean, I think if you read that chapter -- I mean, the funny thing about this is I'm calling liberals godless. Oh, they're cool with that. Just don't attack the Jersey Girls.

LENO: Now, you said your liberal friend. Is there only one?

COULTER: Yes.

LENO: Have you ever had sex with a liberal?

COULTER: No.

LENO: Really?

COULTER: No.

LENO: You should try it, see what it's like.

COULTER: I read about it in Esquire, and it does not sound good.

LENO: Have your editors or anybody ever suggested that you that change anything, and would you if they did?

COULTER: A few changes here and there. But not much on this one. This one -- this one was the least edited of my books.

LENO: I mean, does --

COULTER: I didn't say.

LENO: The one thing that sort of bothers me about politics, and I enjoy politics, but I really don't enjoy the civility -- you know, I have friends -- I really do have friends on both sides. Because I'm one of those people --

COULTER: You seem like that.

LENO: I'm fiscally conservative, but I'm probably socially liberal. So, I have friends on both sides, and we have very nice discussions. Lately everything is so nasty. And this would qualify as nasty, wouldn't you think?

COULTER: I think it's not nasty.

LENO: No? You don't think so?

COULTER: And the other thing is, I mean, yeah, we hear this all the time about how civil things were back when there were only three TV stations. Well, they were really civil in the Soviet Union that had only one TV station. I mean, this alleged disruption of civility is conservatives being able to talk back now through talk radio, through the Internet, through Fox News.

Through your audience.

LENO: Have you ever been hurt by something someone said?

COULTER: I was wounded when I wrote my "Attack France" column and even liberals didn't mind that one.

LENO: See, you put up a good front. But you know what I'm saying.

COULTER: Um, no.

LENO: You know what I'm saying, seriously. I mean, have you ever went, "Ooh, that person went a little bit too far attacking me," or whatever?

COULTER: No. I'm -- to quote Dan Quayle, one of your other targets -- I wear their contempt as a badge of honor.

LENO: Now, do you travel, like, with a bodyguard now? Do you find --

COULTER: Well, I travel with conservative men. They're -- they're pretty fearsome. Unlike the liberals you showed the last time I was on when I spoke on a college campus. We got the nuanced liberals throwing food, and they missed. Yeah, unlike them, I think my male friends can take 'em.

LENO: All right. The book's title --

COULTER: Godless. Which liberals don't mind.

LENO: Explain what you mean by that. Explain what you mean --

COULTER: I mean, no one's complained. I think if somebody called me godless, I'd take notice of it. No, they're obsessed with this one section of one chapter. But the point of the book is that liberalism has become like a religion. All the bad things associated with religions, which I don't think you see that much from the God-based religions, by the way.

[Turns to Carlin]

Though I think you do.

[Turns back to Leno]

But the self-righteousness, the intolerance, the refusal to countenance differing beliefs. And by denying that it's a religion, I mean, they have their own cosmology, their own world view, their own belief in miracles. They promote themselves through the schools, through the government, the children are baptized in the religion of global warming, of recycling, of safe sex, but you can't even have a moment of silence. I mean, that is preferring one religion over another, and they advance themselves by denying their religion. And this is describing the religion of liberalism.

LENO: Well, the book is called The Church of Liberalism, godlessness. Ann, thank you. Always fascinating to have you here.

Media Matters staff

Posted to the web on Thursday June 15, 2006 at 7:06 PM EST


108 posted on 06/16/2006 4:47:08 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: Huck

Thanks, Huck.


109 posted on 06/16/2006 6:32:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (In a war of ideas, the best weapon is a powerful, well told truth.)
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To: mewzilla

Ann's observation there is really, really brilliant.


110 posted on 06/16/2006 11:30:19 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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Woo Hoo!

The "after action" PHOTO thread just passed 10,000 "thread views!"

ANN COULTER celebrates DEATH?
Exclusive story, PHOTOS from "Tonight Show" party with L.A. FReepers!

  Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 06/18/2006 9:55:40 AM PDT · 182 replies · 10,198+ views


Ann Coulter on the Tonight Show and Freeper Party: Freeper Report ^ | June 18, 2006 | RonDog [and FRiends]
 
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CLICK HERE to visit the AMAZING "Ann Coulter on the Tonight Show" after action PHOTO thread.
It really isn't that LONG -- yet -- so you can still read through the WHOLE THING rather QUICKLY.

I re-sized most of the MARVELOUS (new!) photos of Ann posted there, so that it loads MUCH FASTER for (those folks on dial-up connections) than it did YESTEDAY. :o)


111 posted on 06/19/2006 12:56:26 PM PDT by RonDog
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