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 would bet that Leno might have prepped the audience and Carlin to be respectful. Say what you want about Jay - but he does not go for the cheap laughs or approval. How snarky would Letterman have been?
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Carlin is what? 60 or 61?? But he did drugs and went into rehab - that will put 10 years on your face.
And the whole exchange at the beginning was: Ann mentioned Leno's jokes about her the night before; Leno said, yes, I mentioned that you might want to be careful or Dorothy might drop a house on you; Ann said, "I think I'm Dorothy, and I just dropped a big old house on the mainstream nedia."
We live in interesting times :)
Thank you guys for providing support for Ann so that she did not have the usual pie throwers.
I'm betting Carlin was quiet because Pixar told him to keep it zipped and not embarrass them.
Carlin is 69.
Thanks, as always, for your faithful representation, Doug.
He was polite. It's not impossible for liberals to be polite, just exceedingly rare.
Yes we do.
In fact, "InterestingTimes" is one of my former handles here on FR.
I'm getting the impression Carlin simply just doesn't care anymore.
He's always been a liberal guy who just didn't like other liberals, and he's older now, promoting a movie (a kids movie no less).
He wants a paycheck, not a fight.
Goes to show you how much Disney has changed...'cause Carlin sure as hell hasn't.
I recently unloaded my lousy 100 shares of Disney stock...I could no longer stomach having any vested interest in that corporation.
"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 "
Great.
Just simply great.
He just turned 70
Awesome and a big thanks.
The viewing audience needs to know that Ann is not the wicked witch.
That title belongs to the jersey girls.
No, all I did was show up and was given a ticket. All of the credit goes to RonDog and those who were able to get tickets.
WOW! Didn't know that! thanks
'Loved her on the show...Love her on ANY show!
However, one small preference (Mebbe it's my taste in women.)
Could Ann be persuaded to eat at Wendy's, Burger King and McDonald's a bit more often? I would like to see her sexy look enhanced with just a few more calories consumed!
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