Posted on 04/08/2013 9:33:29 PM PDT by Bratch
It’s disturbing that Ann Coulter is so desperate for attention that she would stoop this low on the day Margaret Thatcher died. Just like Politco (as Steve pointed out in another post) Coulter used Thatcher’s passing as an opportunity to take part in some trashy PDS. During an interview with Geraldo Rivera, Coulter starting punching up and didn’t stop until she made a complete fool of herself.
Transcript, courtesy of Real Clear Politics:
COULTER: One thing that I know, because I know people who know her, is when Sarah Palin first burst on the scene, the political scene, she wanted to have a meeting with Palin, because she saw raw political talent, but wanted to teach Sarah Palin to do what she did.
COULTER: To teach her to speak proper English. Palin did not meet with her, and just a year or two ago, when Sarah Palin was promoting some reality show or something, she went to England. And she announced to the press that she was planning on dropping by to see Lady Thatcher, and Lady Thatcher put out the word that she was not available.
COULTER: What, I think, a lot of us saw, that Sarah Palin did have raw political talent. And if she had been willing to put her nose to the grindstone and pursue improving herself, speaking proper English, reading stuff, knowing lots of things, she could have been great. She’s a fine person, but that isn’t what she’s pursuing.
First of all, what business does Ann Coulter have demeaning a highly accomplished former executive like Governor Palin? What has Ann ever done to place herself on such a pedestal? Any noteworthy accomplishments, Ann, besides trashing good conservatives and promoting squishy moderates? At least for the past couple of years anyway, because we all know Coulter used to act and talk much differently than she does today.
Second, I realize Governor Palin does not use the same pretentious snob accent Coulter does, but Governor Palin speaks proper English. Does she use slang from time to time? Sure, and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s called being human and having a sense of humor. Two things I guess Coulter is having trouble identifying with these days.
Third, if Ann Coulter knew anything about Governor Palin, she wouldn’t make those comments about “reading stuff, knowing lots of things…” etc. Perhaps Ann should read some of the “stuff” Governor Palin has written, or maybe take some time to watch some of her speeches. Coulter would certainly learn some “things” about the Governor she clearly doesn’t already know, and considering what business she’s in, she should. Nothing worse than an uninformed opinion writer.
Last but not least, Coulter repeats a debunked story by the left-wing Guardian from 2011. Margaret Thatcher never “put out the word that she was not available” to meet with Governor Palin. As former Thatcher aide, Niles Gardiner wrote (emphasis):
I have spoken to Lady Thatcher’s Private Office regarding the story, and they confirm that the attack on Sarah Palin definitely did not come from her office, and in no way reflects her views. As a former aide to Margaret Thatcher myself, I can attest that this kind of thinking is entirely alien to her, and that such remarks would never be made by her office. She has always warmly welcomed like-minded figures in the United States, and has in the past met with numerous US presidential candidates and political dignitaries when they have visited London. But at the age of 85 she is now able to receive very few visitors at all.
There was never any snub of Sarah Palin by Lady Thatcher’s office. However, there has been a great deal of mischief-making and unpleasantness from sections of the liberal press in a vain and futile attempt to use Margaret Thatcher’s name to smear a major US politician.
Add Coulter to this mix of mischief-makers.
Jim Hoft also reported the Thatcher Foundation’s response when asked by one of his readers if the story was true:
The Guardian, of course, is not a newspaper at all sympathetic to Lady Thatcher (or to Mrs. Palin), so reports on this topic, from that source, have minimal credibility. If nothing else, would Lady Thatcher have ever described a prominent US conservative politician as ‘nuts’, or approved an ‘ally’ who used the description? I would hope that question answers itself.
Of course, sadly, Lady Thatcher’s health is not good these days and such considerations naturally dominate her schedule. That much is true. Someone once said that if you plaster together the true and the false you thereby manufacture the plausible, but in this case I don’t think even that much has been achieved by the Guardian.
So there you have it. Ann Coulter used the day the world lost Iron Lady Thatcher to trash Governor Palin with rehashed, debunked lies and insults to play to the ignorant. Bravo, Ann! You, like Politico, have reached a new low.
She jumped the shark when she was actively supporting Romney EARLY in the primaries!
That’s some good satire writing there .... oh, you’re serious? Hahahahaha! Yeah, if only Gov. Palin had declared her intentions earlier, Mitt Romney would be in the White House right now! LOL
Total BS. There are far to many Palin blind followers on this site. Palin is lacking in areas that Coulter could have helped. Palin was a damn disgrace as a VP candidate. Make no mistake about Palin, and, if you think she is anywhere near Ben Carson-WRONG. Carson is smarter then 90% plus of us.
Ann has become a mixed bag but what can I say. Sometimes I like her sometimes I don’t. She still has a good deal of North Eastern snobbery but she isn’t alone. I worry about Ann. She’s 51 and is not married and has no kids. It has to be humbling for her to see a woman like Palin not only marry a real man, have plenty of kids, and rise to a governorship without any of the hoity-toity merit badges she has. Beyond that I don’t understand her need to criticize Palin so harshly but she seems to have become more bitter with age as her innate inferiority as a women becomes more and more evident.
Actually Coulter lost it about a year before she bit into the Romney apple. Perhaps she heard a rumor that Joe Scarborough may be retiring soon or something.
Total BS.
crow?
looks more like a chicken neck.
Palin ran into a brick wall. Every effort she made failed to launch. Of course I am just guessing, but my impression is that she got rugs pulled out from under her and was not surefooted enough to recover. Something like what happened to Colin Power in 1996. Powell and Palin are both natural politicians and in the end that was held against them.
False! Ann Coulter has become nothing more than a female Joe Scarborough (with a few (very few) conservative stances left just to keep being invited on the "conservative" shows so she can sell her books). Even when she was a conservative she managed to get pies thrown in her face by liberals in the audience. There is NOTHING she could teach Sara Palin unless we want to see our Candidate running off stage looking as if she were just attacked by Snoopy Sales.
No thanks!
Again... How many times is that now? I've lost count in the last four years. She's been off my Real Conservatives list for a long long time.
Powell, Coulter, Palin, Cristie
One of those names just does not belong
Ann’s shark is doing tail stands.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Go to bed. You're embarrassing yourself.
I know what I saw. Palin didn’t read the landscape very well when she started out. I don’t think that McCain was at all happy to be outshown by his #2. One reason why Ryan hid his light under a bushel: If the top of the ticket is a poor campaigner — I have seldom seen worse than McCain or Romney—then the #2 has to be very careful.
Wasn’t one of the last stories about Coulter (before endorsing Cristie and then Romney) something to do with a gay or lesbian group she was involved with?
Ann is GoProud.
She is a conservative Like McCain is a conservative- for cash and prizes.
If you mean Powell, he is now a very bitter man. But imagine him rather than the guy we have now as the first black President. Remember they called him the “Black Ike,” He would not have been a conservative President, but I do know that he would not have been a Barack Obama.
If the number one is vulnerable to being “outshown” by the number 2, then the number one had no business running for President in the first place.
What a load of bull s#$%!
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