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ABC's Overnight Anchor Jokes About a ‘Skinny Death Match' Between Paris Hilton and Ann Coulter
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| 6/28/2007
| Matthew Balan
Posted on 06/28/2007 8:58:23 AM PDT by Pyro7480
ABC's "World News Now," a news program that airs at 3:30 am Eastern, when most people in the U.S. are fast asleep, replayed Jake Tapper's earlier "World News" report on the war of words between Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, and Ann Coulter during its broadcast on Thursday.
At the conclusion of the report, hosts Taina Hernandez and Ryan Owens had a brief exchange, in which Owens proposed an "Ann Coulter blackout," similar to a "Paris Hilton blackout" that the program apparently has, and Hernandez, as a counterproposal, joked, "Or we can pit them together in some kind of skinny death match." At the end of Owens and Hernandez's exchange, and as the weather report began, someone in the control room at ABC queued-up Elton John's "The B**ch is Back."
Video (1:11): Real (1.93 MB) or Windows Media (2.18 MB), plus MP3 audio (463 kB).
I guess ABC News isn't above the "politics of hate," or to paraphrase Elizabeth Edwards' words to Ann Coulter, "the debasing of political dialogue."
Below is the transcript of the Hernandez-Owens exchange on Thursday morning's "World News Now:"
RYAN OWENS: "Ok. I have an idea."
TAINA HERNANDEZ: "Ok?"
OWENS: "You know how we have a Paris Hilton blackout? "
HERNANDEZ: (Laughs) "Yes?"
OWENS: "How about an Ann Coulter blackout?"
HERNANDEZ: "Ah, no Coulter cash for us."
OWENS: "No."
HERNANDEZ: "No. All right. Or we can pit them together in some kind of skinny death match?"
OWENS: "Skinny death match?"
(Unidentified person off-camera) "Or go to jail together."
OWENS: "Here's your weather."
HERNANDEZ: "Or go to jail together. That's Peter. Here's your weather."
[Hat-tip to FreeRepublic.com poster L.N. Smithee's thread.]
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; abcdisneynews; abcnews; anncoulter; anncoulterbashing; boycottdisney; coulter; despotism; gulagforconservative; hatespeech; parishilton; thoughtcrime; waltsrotatingcorpse
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:58:29 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
To: L.N. Smithee
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:59:02 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Pyro7480
If a Tree fell in the Forest...
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:02:43 AM PDT
by
bray
(The Surge is Working on both Enemies)
To: Pyro7480
Except Coulter has class.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:03:04 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Cloture is a no-go.)
To: Pyro7480
“A skinny death match?” I think that’s funny. Give the guy a break. Speaking for myself, I’d put Ann and Paris in a pit filled with mud and olive oil and let them go at it - the winner gets the first knockout. I’d say Ann Coulter would win in about 30 seconds. (And about the olive oil... well, my wife’s Italian... we cook with it a lot... LOL... )
I would think that this newsreader is a liberal, but that doesn’t mean that he or she can’t stumble into a good analogy.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:05:11 AM PDT
by
redpoll
(redpoll)
To: Pyro7480
You know, I like Ann, but I think a skinny death match between Paris Hilton and Ann sounds funny.
Doesn’t sound like it’s the kind of joke that would offend her at all. Of course I can’t wait to hear what she has to say about it.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:05:18 AM PDT
by
mhx
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
At the conclusion of the report, hosts Taina Hernandez and Ryan Owens had a brief exchange, in which Owens proposed an "Ann Coulter blackout," similar to a "Paris Hilton blackout" that the program apparently has, and Hernandez, as a counterproposal, joked, "Or we can pit them together in some kind of skinny death match." At the end of Owens and Hernandez's exchange, and as the weather report began, someone in the control room at ABC queued-up Elton John's "The B**ch is Back."ping!
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:07:00 AM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: bray
I pray every day Bush will get a brain....I voted for him twice & gave over 10K (cash) to his campaigns. On a lighter note regarding this article I’ll always say it is better to be “skinny” than to have a “Big Nose”...:)
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:07:36 AM PDT
by
PEACE ENFORCER
(The U.S. Constitution has been Reduced to a Meaningless Document.)
To: Pyro7480
Thanks, Pyro. Thank goodness the NewsBusters people are reactionaries and understood that my slams were for ABC, not Coulter. The loyalty to her every word among some people never ceases to amaze me.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:07:53 AM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(Has George W. Bush been taking Carter's Little Pills?)
To: Pyro7480
That’s HOT!
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:09:04 AM PDT
by
YouPosting2Me
(My Mission: Get 'Millee' to start using a Tagline again...)
To: Pyro7480
What a bunch of jerks.
That said, I'd pay good money to see Ann and Paris jello wrestling.
11
posted on
06/28/2007 9:09:36 AM PDT
by
paddles
To: redpoll
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:09:48 AM PDT
by
RDTF
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: mhx; redpoll
13
posted on
06/28/2007 9:10:37 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Have some hyperbolic rodomontade, and nothing worse will happen for the rest of the day!)
To: Pyro7480
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:14:28 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Pyro7480
This from a man who's livelihood depends on the 1st Amendment
Or go to jail together
15
posted on
06/28/2007 9:23:51 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Pyro7480
What they would get away with if we didn’t have talk radio and the internet.
16
posted on
06/28/2007 9:31:16 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: Pyro7480
I’m outraged and offended! But, just damn, I’d sure like to see that fight too.
To: redpoll
They want to have an Ann Coulter blacklist too. Boycott Disney.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:38:00 AM PDT
by
weegee
(If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will ABC news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
To: Pyro7480
(Unidentified person off-camera) "Or go to jail together." Send Ann Coulter to the gulag.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:38:45 AM PDT
by
weegee
(If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will ABC news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
To: doug from upland
What they would get away with if we didnt have talk radio and the internet. They'd have a return to the "glory" days of Cronkite. Journalists being the most "trusted" people in America. Misplaced trust in liberalism.
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posted on
06/28/2007 9:40:09 AM PDT
by
weegee
(If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will ABC news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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