Couric Slanders Coulter as 'Right-Wing Tele-bimbo' (THE TRANSCRIPT!!!!!!!)

newsmax.com ^ | 6/26/02 | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[paltz]

NBC "Today Show" host Katie Couric wasted no time slandering author Ann Coulter during a Wednesday morning interview about her new book, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right," by introducing the renowned conservative legal scholar as a "right-wing tele-bimbo."

"You've been called everything from a pundit extraordinaire to a right-wing tele-bimbo," began Couric, setting the stage for the contentious encounter.

Within the first few sentences of their exchange, Couric broached the topic of Coulter's recent comparison of her to Hitler's Nazi paramour.

COURIC: I have to bring up a section of the book where you talk specifically about me. And this is not where you call me the "Eva Braun of liberalism," which I'll ask you about.

COULTER: The "affable" [Eva Braun of liberalism].

COURIC: Thanks, that makes me feel so much better. (End of Excerpt)

The encounter grew heated when Couric accused Coulter of taking her description of President Reagan as an "airhead" out of context, saying she was merely quoting Reagan biographer Edmund Morris.

COURIC: You used me as an example of liberal bias against Ronald Reagan and I'm just curious as to why you took it so out of context?

COULTER: Well, I don't think I did. You're taking it out of context.

COURIC: No ...

COULTER: What I said was - which is true - that the "Today Show" opened, I believe that it was three days in a row, with the announcement "Ronald Reagan was an airhead. That's the conclusion of this new book by Edmund Morris." When Edmund Morris came on [the show] with you, he described that as a grossly unfair characterization of his point. (End of Excerpt)

Couric proceeded to read the direct quote from Morris' book, which Coulter then put into context, explaining that the observation was made after Morris' initial encounter with Reagan "and that the entire course of the rest of his book was contradicting that."

The exchange grew heated once again:

COULTER: So, for the "Today Show" to be opening three days in a row [with] "Ronald Reagan was an airhead" - I'm sorry, that's dishonest.

COURIC: And also, just for your information, it was just one day.

COULTER: No, you said it one day. Matt Lauer said it another day.

COURIC: No, it was just one day and we'll get the transcript for you. But anyway ...

COULTER: ... By the way, my book is not only solely about this quote. It is not solely about the "Today Show."

COURIC: Well, let's move on, then.

COULTER: Over Ronald Reagan's (Crosstalk) ...

COURIC: Let's just talk about the religious right, actually, since I'm conducting this interview. (End of Excerpt)

The "Today Show" diva turned to topics like the Rev. Jerry Falwell's controversial comments in the wake of 9-11, and made repeated references to Coulter getting "fired" from NationalReviewOnline for her own controversial 9-11 commentary.

"That also isn't quite true," Coulter fired back. "I mean, I write a syndicated column. I write for Human Events. That's the newspaper that hired me. People buy the syndicated column. [NRO] dropped the column."

At the end of the showdown, both the perpetually smiling Couric and the irrepressible Coulter were still standing.

"Well, Ann Coulter, it's always interesting to talk to you, to say the least," Couric concluded.

[Frapster]

I read this on Drudge (or another site) and I must admit that it appears to me that Ann did a fine job. At least based on what I've read.

[zip]

....that Ann did a fine job.

As always

[homeschool mama]

Couric is a flea bitten poor excuse of a woman.

Sounds like Coulter handled herself quite well, of course. :o)

[LetsRok]

I want Katie Colon to site the source of who called Ann a "right-wing telebimbo". If she can't then that means Katie said it herself.

[yooper]

At the risk of simplifying this exchange into sexist theory, I would argue that Couric, who is Coulter's inferior when it comes to intellect, also realizes that she is also Coulter's inferior when it comes to looks. In short, she is a hound, and we all know how women who are hounds like to demean women who are not.

That said, I would personally be more attracted to Coulter because of her intellect. She just happens to be blessed with beauty AND brains, something rare in a blonde:)

[muawiyah]

Besides all of that, Couric is a left-wing tele-bimbo, eh?!

Actually, she'd be a bimbo even without the "tele" around if she could.

[Fixit]

I dug up and posted the relevant portions of the original transcripts from the Today show back in September, 99 leading up to and including the appearance of Edmund Morris, the author of Dutch.

Follow this link to the transcripts

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Couric Slanders Coulter as 'Right-Wing Tele-bimbo'

[RonDog]

I want Katie Colon to site the source of who called Ann a "right-wing telebimbo".
If she can't then that means Katie said it herself.

Katie's staff may have read Justin Raimondo's hatchet job, from http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j100501.html:

October 5, 2001

KU KLUX COULTER
A spat on the Right reveals a lot

Ann Coulter is a leggy, sassy blonde telebimbo, (and constitutional lawyer) whose career as a TV talking head took off during the Clinton scandals – and, like Clinton, she never really went away. Her column, distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, has been a mainstay of the firebreathing Right...

[BuckeyeForever]

You don't really think that was an off-the-cuff remark by Couric, do you? It was a fair summary of the range of things Coulter has been called by both her admirers and her detractors. Couric also pointed out that Coulter has been called a "pundit extraordinaire," but you don't whine about that, do you? You can bet that Couric's staff has a source for the "telebimbo" reference. She's too smart to make such an obvious slur without being able to back it up.

[LetsRok]

Katie Colon is the "telebimbo". What are her credentials to offer any opinion and not just read from the teleprompter like a good little girl.