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And the lie Coulter told was???

It would take a book to cover them all, but here's my personal favorite:

Giving slapdash, conservative polemic a bad name
Ann Coulter is the conservative babe whose modus vivendi, says Andrew Sullivan, is to "look amazing and ratchet up the rhetoric against the Left until it has the subtlety and nuance of a car alarm." Her latest book, "Treason" (2003), is one long accusation of disloyalty, and includes one paragraph about me.
As part of a chapter on media types being apologists for Reds, she attacks a newspaper book review I wrote on "The Spy Who Seduced America." The spy was Judith Coplon, convicted in 1950 after a public trial in which she was defended in the press by the liberals of the day. The two words Coulter quoted from my review said that the government's case against Coplon was "entirely circumstantial." Coulter replied:

"The circumstance was this: in March 1949, she was arrested while handing secret government documents to a Russian agent. I suppose you could call that a "circumstance." Needless to say, Soviet cables confirmed that Coplon was a Soviet agent. Liberal refusal to accept any evidence that any person ever spied for the Soviet Union would be exasperating if it weren't so comical."

I read this paragraph over a few times, hardly believing it. The book in question, written by FBI agent Thomas Mitchell and wife Marcia, had concluded that Coplon was guilty. I had agreed: Coplon was a communist spy. Indeed, the title of my review, which is accurately listed in Coulter's footnote, includes the words, "a True Tale of Espionage."
Further, I had said in the review that the labeling of the postwar spy cases as "witch hunts" and "McCarthyism" is a falsification, because there were communist employees in the government spying for the Soviet Union.
As for the "entirely circumstantial" evidence, Coplon, a federal employee, was arrested while meeting with a Russian agent. Coplon had not taken the classified documents from her purse, and was not handing them to him. In another five minutes she probably would have, and of course the meeting itself was damning (but circumstantial) evidence. Yes, Soviet cables confirmed that Coplon was a Soviet agent — but for security reasons, the government had not used those cables as evidence.
So here I was, a non-liberal favorably reviewing a book that exposes a communist spy, and I am accused of "refusal to accept any evidence that any person ever spied for the Soviet Union."
Well, I stopped reading her book. I couldn't believe a thing in it. — Bruce Ramsey

>> And the lie Coulter told was??? <<

To paraphrase Ann's rant: ROBERTS IS ANOTHER SOUTER I TELL YOU!! HE'S A STEALTH LIBERAL AND BUSH KNOWS IT!!! BUSH ONLY NOMINATED ROBERTS BECAUSE HE HATES CONSERATIVES!!!

How's that for starters?

Here are some exact Coulter quotes that have been proven false, BTW:

* "Want an great example of liberal bias? Katie Couric once called Ronald Reagan 'an airhead.' while hosting the Today show" [No such incident ever occured. Coulter later retracted this statement in a later edition of her book]

* "Canada needs us. They'd better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them Canada used to be our good ally because they did everything we wanted them to do, specifically sending their people to fight our wars. Canada sent troops to Vietnam." [False]

* "New York Times columnist Frank Rich, in the wake of 9/11, wrote a column that demanded that Attorney General John Ashcroft "stop monkeying around with Muslim terrorists and concentrate on anti-abortion extremists." [Completely made up by Coulter. Rich did no such thing.]

* "The Confederacy had nothing to do with race. It stands for a romantic image of a chivalric, honor-based culture that was driven down by the brute force of crass Yankee capitalism, which was better at manufacturing weapons than using them, and that shortly thereafter gave us the Grant administration and the Gilded Age." [bear in mind Ann Coulter is allegedly a lifelong resident "of Connecicut" and is other speeches claims she's proud of the GOP for ending slavery. Yet her she claims the civil war had nothing to do with race conditions. Another time she suggested the enamicipation proclaimation should be repealed. Make up your mind, Ann.]

* "Jeffords supported Clinton's tax hike, and opposed the younger Bush's tax cut." [Wrong and wrong. He voted against Clinton's tax hike (as did all Republicans), and he voted for Bush's tax cut right before switching parties.]

* Coulter has stated that women are "not as bright" as men" and "have no capacity to understand how money is earned"

Ann Coulter fans and Michael Moore fans both suffer from personality cult worship so much that they will overlook any idiotic false thing their hero spews since they agree with the "message". The Coulterheads and Moore-ons may be idelogical opposites but they are flip sides of the same coin.