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ABC's Overnight Anchor Jokes About a ‘Skinny Death Match' Between Paris Hilton and Ann Coulter
NewsBusters ^ | 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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To: redpoll
“A skinny death match?” I think that’s funny.

Ann probably will have a field day laughing over it. She's fun-loving lady and isn't above poking a little fun at herself as well as others.

Our Ann is pretty tough. She can dish it out with relish and she can take it too.
41 posted on 06/28/2007 10:41:09 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudi & McVain: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
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To: Hot Tabasco
How stupid is that??? Ann would whip that wimpy wench with one skinny arm tied behind her back!

If she didn't just whip out her favorite handgun for a little target practice instead.
42 posted on 06/28/2007 10:43:00 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudi & McVain: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
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To: Pyro7480
Indexing some of the more recent NASTY articles about Ann -- while we await her NEW column -- in response to Elizabeth Edwards -- VERY SOON:
ABC's Overnight Anchor Jokes About a ‘Skinny Death Match' Between Paris Hilton and Ann Coulter
  Posted by Pyro7480
On News/Activism 06/28/2007 8:58:23 AM PDT · 41 replies · 1,366+ views


NewsBusters ^ | 6/28/2007 | Matthew Balan
 

Andrew Dice Coulter [ExileStreet]
  Posted by ParsifalCA
On News/Activism 06/28/2007 7:25:43 AM PDT · 37 replies · 1,039+ views


ExileStreet ^ | 6/28/07 | Patrick Hurley
 

ABC News Serenades Ann Coulter With "The Bitch Is Back"
  Posted by L.N. Smithee
On News/Activism 06/28/2007 3:15:39 AM PDT · 108 replies · 3,053+ views


ABC World News Now | June 28, 2007 | L.N. Smithee

43 posted on 06/28/2007 11:03:07 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: real saxophonist

Getting offended about what they, or anyone else, say about Ann Coulter, is similar to all of the other ‘professionally offended’ people we on FR tend to disparage.

^^
I agree with you. I have never even heard of these people, but, really, as much as I despise the MSM, I think this is just a stupid joke and nothing malicious.

BTW, I wish all of the news outlets would go on a Paris Hilton blackout, as well as a latest-missing-bimbo outlet.


44 posted on 06/28/2007 11:30:31 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: Pyro7480

Ann vs Paris? That’s like pairing a kitten against a pit-bull.

No offense meant to either one of them...


45 posted on 06/28/2007 11:38:39 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Head Caterer for the FIRM)
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To: Pyro7480
..it would be a typical pay-per-view over in 10 seconds spectacle with AC landing a right cross to the blond covered left temple, causing a mini-explosion in the vacuum occupied brain area,knocking out the blue contacts,causing said competitor to utter “mommie” before crashing to the canvass.
46 posted on 06/28/2007 12:09:28 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: real saxophonist
"get offended"

Let me ask you, have your two network friends ever made jokes about Bill Maher, Michael Moore, etal? Anyone can be made fun of, and I have no problem with that. But these two nitwits, like countless lib tv flacks before, have targeted a conservative speaker without presenting the whole story. Now do you still think that's something to be taken lightly?

47 posted on 06/28/2007 12:51:49 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2
Right you are. How about a Rosie and Moore fat slob death match.?

That being said Ann Coulter is on the skinny side. She needs a few quarter pounders with cheese.

48 posted on 06/28/2007 12:56:24 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Liberals, A terrorists best friend!)
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To: Pyro7480

My money is on Ann!


49 posted on 06/28/2007 12:59:21 PM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: Pyro7480

To be fair, the phrase “death match” doesn’t necessarily mean a literal fight to the death. Some wrestling organizations promote “death matches,” which are matches with violent and often gruesome stipulations. I tend to equate the term with “grudge match” when it’s used in a generic sense.


50 posted on 06/28/2007 1:00:45 PM PDT by Polonius (It's called logic, it'll help you.)
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To: George W. Bush

Paris is a slut, but a benign, gorgeous slut. Out of pure humanity, Ann shouldn’t shoot her. But wrestle with her in mud and olive oil . . .


51 posted on 06/28/2007 1:07:10 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper
Out of pure humanity, Ann shouldn’t shoot her. But wrestle with her in mud and olive oil . . .

Down, boy. Down! LOL.
52 posted on 06/28/2007 1:08:34 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudi & McVain: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
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To: Tanniker Smith

And what does throw her in jail mean to you?

Another phrase out of context?

The Libs would like to have a Gitmo for conservatives.


53 posted on 06/28/2007 1:25:47 PM 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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To: Pyro7480
I used to think libs picked on Coulter because she was a bright and witty Conservative.

But an argument could be made that the libs are sexist -- they won't allow Coulter to make biting remarks, but they will let men do so.

54 posted on 06/28/2007 1:47:13 PM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53).)
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To: Pyro7480
"Paris Hilton blackout"

It's ironic that CNN [Larry King], the news channel we are supposed to take so seriously, was willing to spend so much time with Heiress Piltdown.

55 posted on 06/28/2007 1:50:09 PM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53).)
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To: Pyro7480

Skinny is ok...

Nappy is not...


56 posted on 06/28/2007 1:50:49 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Polonius
 
Rosie O' vs Mikey Mo!!
 
 
       
 
      I'll bring the Mazola!!                                      And I'll get the mayonaise!!
    
 
 
 
              (Only on Pay-Per_view)
 

57 posted on 06/28/2007 2:06:56 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wastedyears
Except Coulter has class.

Yeah, I'll bet Taina Hernandez could give Hilton a run for her money in sleazy, and Ryan Owens prolly cruises the gut after work for $5 good-time darlins'.

58 posted on 06/28/2007 3:32:29 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: driftless2; real saxophonist
Let me ask you, have your two network friends ever made jokes about Bill Maher, Michael Moore, etal? Anyone can be made fun of, and I have no problem with that. But these two nitwits, like countless lib tv flacks before, have targeted a conservative speaker without presenting the whole story. Now do you still think that's something to be taken lightly?

Well, real? What do you have to say? Anything?

59 posted on 06/28/2007 5:25:04 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Has George W. Bush been taking Carter's Little Pills?)
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To: Pyro7480
I expect nothing less from Jake Ass-Tapper and the other slimy newz douches at ABS.
60 posted on 06/28/2007 5:27:59 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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