Posted on 01/05/2005 12:53:33 PM PST by Phantom Lord
New Year, Same Ann Coulter
It's 2005, and Ann Coulter is still Ann Coulter, cuttingly witty, always ready with devastating comments about liberals and Democrats, who she says are pretty much the same, and still capable of inflicting deep wounds in the twisted psyches of both species.
In a recent interview with the New York Observer published in the current issue, Ann displayed her utter contempt for political correctness, firing verbal salvos at the nation's most sacred cows and complimenting Bill Clinton on being "a very good rapist."
The interview was vintage Coulter, and here are some of the highlights:
On liberals - "I sort of like liberals now. Theyre kind of cute when theyre shivering and afraid. Theyre so pathetic and sad. They cant come up with a fight. I mean, if the best youre going to give me to argue about is Rumsfelds auto-pen ..."
On the peace-loving left - "Forget what they say, they are violent. They were slashing tires on Election Day. I was physically attacked this year. It is a funny thing, that they ended up in prisonenjoying the benefits of gay marriage. Let em try it again, theyll end up dead."
On Democrats - She's rooting for the Nancy Pelosi faction of the Democratic Party ("I think this is the dominant faction," she says) taking the position that Democratic ideas are fine - no need to change anything, even though the Dems got stomped on Election Day. Mocking Pelosi, Coulter lampoons, "We just need to advertise RU-486 at NASCAR or something thatll do the trick!"
"Democrats always have these open public discussions on how they can fake out the American people, so thats one wing 'Lets not tell them what we believe' and the other wing is, 'Our message is perfect.'"
On why 2004 was a great year - "Im thinking about putting up a reward on my Web page for any liberal who will mention either Afghanistan or the Kurds. I mean, 85 percent of Iraq is free ... Kurds are free, are happy, are dancing in the streets, and liberals simply wont mention them. Theyve had elections and women vote, and they didnt vote for some crazy, lunatic mullahs. So thats a pretty good year."
On Iraq, where Christmas wasn't very merry - "Were going to transform the Middle East by the time Bush leaves office, or it will be within shouting distance of there. I think Arabs flying planes into our skyscrapers will be as likely as a Japanese kamikaze pilot."
On North Korea - "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning ... despite that wonderful peace deal Madeline Albright negotiated with the North Koreans, six seconds before they feverishly began developing nuclear weapons. Theyre a major threat. I just think it would be fun to nuke them and have it be a warning to the rest of the world."
On another invasion - "Iran. Though thats the beauty part of Iraq: It may well not be necessary."
On President Bush - "We have a President who can do what he thinks is right, whether or not there are a bunch of liberals carping, and no matter what the letter writers to The New York Times have to say about being ashamed for their country."
On Hilary Clinton - If the Dems nominated her for president "it would be a lot of fun. The advantage Hillary has is the crazies which is to say, the base of the Democratic party love her, adore her, no matter what she says or does. She can come out for curbing illegal immigration. She could come out for parental notification and against partial-birth abortion and the crazies will still say, No, shes our gal. She is Madame Hillary."
Asked if she had a perverse admiration for Hillary, Coulter shrieked: "Ewwww, no. As with John Kerry, I generally dont admire people who get ahead on somebody elses coattails. Shes like the anti-feminist. No, except she isnt because all feminists behave that way and pretend to be, Oh, Im a strong woman. Theyre all weak and pathetic ... "
On a possible TV show - With Al Franken? "No, hes physically repulsive. I have friends I trust who are smart who would put together a good TV show, and I can tell you straight out, weve basically given up. There is no liberal worthy of debating me, and I wont do a TV show unless I have a liberal counterpart." With Maureen Dowd? "No. I promise you, she wouldnt do it shes whiny, shes not funny. What were looking for is good-looking, male, liberal, half a brain. They dont even have to be smart.
Who, then? "The one person I really want to sit down with and figure out why he thinks hes a liberal is Larry David [co-creator of "Seinfeld," star of HBO's hilariously nasty "Curb Your Enthusiasm"] ... thats the most brilliant TV show it is conservative humor, and you cant tell me its not. Its all politically incorrect. And people I know whove worked with him say hes really sweet, so there is nothing about him that should make him a liberal and yet he flew from Los Angeles to Boston to sit at the Democratic National Convention. He cant be a liberal! I would bet you anything if Larry David were 20 years old, he would be a right-wing lunatic."
On what to remember about Bill Clinton - "Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten. I dont think its fading.
"Clinton talk[ed] on the phone with Congressmen about sending American troops to the Balkans while being serviced by Monica Lewinsky under the desk. And liberals didnt mind that but theyre upset that George Bush waited 48 hours to fly back from Crawford, Tex." to make any announcements about tsunami relief.
On Rudy Giuliani - "I love Guiliani, but I just think he needs to switch his position on abortion. Were a pro-life party. And I dont think half the country realizes he claims to be pro-choice. These New York Republicans, they dont have a feel for the red states like I do. They say, Oh, now, we could run a pro-choice candidate and that would get moderates in the Northeast to vote for us and those right-wing Christians, theyll vote for us anyway. No, they wont!"
On what it was like to spend Christmas in New York - "Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying Merry Christmas is like saying F... you! Ive said it to everyone. You know, cab drivers, passing people on the street, whatever. And they come up with the Happy holidays. Merry Christmas, I mean, it really is an aggressive act in New York."
"I'm pro-choice through the first trimester." So does that means you must therefore be pro-infanticide (baby killing) up to the end of the first trimester? Just an innocent question, sorry.
And you know that about her, how? Cite your sources when you make ridiculous statements about her and the village lib idiot Maher.
I think she's on the money most of the time. I've come to think that "phone sex guy" O'Reilly trashes her all the time because she's not interested in him.(sarcasm) I've bought one of her books and enjoy listening to hear. Keep it up Ms. Coulter!
North Korea depends on the US to feed its people on a daily basis - the aid it receives from us to do this - and for them to indoctrinate the country against us, actively prepare for war and feverishly develop ballistic missile technology to do this . . .
Sorry. I have to go with Ann on this one.
Pundits and policy makers keep talking about the 'spectre of assymetrical warfare'.
It's a load. The US could play that game too. Bomb a building and we'll wipe you off the planet with a clean nuke and park our tanks there for a while. That's assymetrical too.
Behead someone and we wipe out a city. Kidnap somebody and we go with a fuel-air munition over a neighborhood.
The US could redefine the word 'assymetrical', but it won't. Bush has tried to lay out pre-emption to assumptively reasonable people, and they don't get it.
So what it will take is something real bad happening. We'll have to quarantine Denver, or have millions of refugees from one of our own major metropolitan centers as an aftermath of some terrorist event to put us in the mind set that two can play the game of assymetrical threats.
Frankly, its the only game that these 7th century despots and kooks seem to respect. God bless Gadhafi, at least he's picked up a couple of lessons along the way and decided that participating in a plot to nuke us could only lead to a less populous North Africa.
I fully concur with Ann here. It would be a pleasure to finally convince people that pursuing free trade with us is better than plotting to kill millions of us, and that North Korea is a small regionally inconsequetial expense in territory and human life to establish that lesson.
It seemed to work pretty well on Japan. They're an ally now.
What do you mean by "hard right" John Kerry believed that life begins at conception.
Kerry Says He Believes Life Starts at Conception
using that logic, you are a liberal.
Why do some people believe in 1st-trimester abortions, is that when you had yours? 24 hours after the sperm penetrates the egg, the genetic code for that human baby is completed and that genetically-distinct human baby begins to grow ON ITS OWN.
And you believe that a blob, goop, Dog, Cat, or genetically distinct human being magically transforms into a human baby at 2 months, 29 days, 59 minutes and 59.999 seconds? And becomes human or viable only then? Do you have proof of this? What exactly happens at this time, magic? Does a psychic hold her hands over the belly and chants? And when, at 10 weeks, where the baby has all it's toes, heart pumping blood and brain sending out nerve impulses, that's considered not viable and not human and will feel NO pain when its arms and legs are twisted off? Sen. Brownback there is no need for your law since the fetus is NOT viable before 3 months of age so you can exempt them I guess.
And, how does one know when it's a 2nd-trimester baby? Is there a sing, does the baby start to kick, the mother's eyes cross? Are ALL children the same height and weight, can an ultrasound pick that up while the non-viable baby is sucking his thumb?
And I bet you thing embryonic stem cell research is ethical too.
Straight to the point:)
I have control over my own body, my bodily functions. That's not your call. >>>
The child has its own body too and has a right to life, we all belong to God and nowhere does it state that you have a "right" to choose.
Too "hard right" for you?Get real ... abortion is a GOP policy.
And it's Republicans like George H. Bush who averred back in 1969 that human reproduction was the gravest threat to humanity: Recommendations of the Task Force on Earth Resources and Population
Besides, you're in good company with "hard right" Barbara Bush, just for starters: Abortions in the First Trimester Only
For all their pride in being the "Stupid Party" ... the truly Stoopid Party are the dysgenic Dems who bought their Big Lie and figure offing their own is the zenith of empowerment.
=== "Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying Merry Christmas is like saying F... you!
She is loathsome.
You are getting to be our very own Maureen Dowd; you have major issues with women AND men, I see.
Here is the thread with pictures.
We had a grand time, and she was quite gracious.
Loathsome you say??
because saying Merry Christmas is like saying F... you!
She didn't mean YOU, personally!
Zing.
All the smart women, doncha know, who realize as soon as they're pregnant, have their abortions in the first trimester. No need to worry about the next six months--only the terminally indecisive and the dummies are still pregnant then. That's exactly why we hear all this self-righteous first-trimester BS.
I'm rather sick and tired of hearing about what a great "constitutional scholar" she is when -- in fact -- she's either ignorant of which party, exactly, it is responsible for the most egregious and lethal of the extra- and un-constitutional decisions, executive orders and legislation of the last 35 years.
She's the poster girl of Moritur et Ridet where the American empire is concerned.
I've met Ann Coulter as well. Perfectly gracious in person. I simply have no respect for her schtick, that's all. She's an infotainer at best and -- given how purposefully superficial and consistently banal are her jabs -- either stunningly ignorant of the facts or just not very bright.
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