Or Ted Kennedy?
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. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid. They’re so pathetic and sad. They can’t come up with a fight. I mean, if the best you’re going to give me to argue about is Rumsfeld’s 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 prison—enjoying the benefits of gay marriage. Let ’em try it again, they’ll 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 — that’ll do the trick!"
"Democrats always have these open public discussions on how they can fake out the American people, so that’s one wing — 'Let’s not tell them what we believe' — and the other wing is, 'Our message is perfect.'"
On why 2004 was a great year - "I’m 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 won’t mention them. They’ve had elections and women vote, and they didn’t vote for some crazy, lunatic mullahs. So that’s a pretty good year."
On Iraq, where Christmas wasn't very merry - "We’re 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. They’re 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 that’s 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, she’s 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 don’t admire people who get ahead on somebody else’s coattails. She’s like the anti-feminist. No, except she isn’t — because all feminists behave that way and pretend to be, ‘Oh, I’m a strong woman.’ They’re all weak and pathetic ... "
On a possible TV show - With Al Franken? "No, he’s 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, we’ve basically given up. There is no liberal worthy of debating me, and I won’t do a TV show unless I have a liberal counterpart." With Maureen Dowd? "No. I promise you, she wouldn’t do it — she’s whiny, she’s not funny. What we’re looking for is good-looking, male, liberal, half a brain. They don’t even have to be smart.
Who, then? "The one person I really want to sit down with and figure out why he thinks he’s a liberal is Larry David [co-creator of "Seinfeld," star of HBO's hilariously nasty "Curb Your Enthusiasm"] ... that’s the most brilliant TV show — it is conservative humor, and you can’t tell me it’s not. It’s all politically incorrect. And people I know who’ve worked with him say he’s 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 can’t 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 don’t think it’s 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 didn’t mind that — but they’re 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. We’re a pro-life party. And I don’t think half the country realizes he claims to be pro-choice. These New York Republicans, they don’t 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, they’ll vote for us anyway.’ No, they won’t!"
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!’ I’ve 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 dubious of that claim, also.
That's also an interesting sideline perfectly suitable for a woman ... light, agile.
Do you think women in the military ought to be in a position to protect themselves from their own fellow military?
The reason I ask is because I have little patience -- particularly after seeing party pics from Desert Storm (and hearing about those of others in our return to Iraq) -- for female "equals" allegedly trained to kill who can't defend themselves from rape by their own.
good observation.
Am I the only one on this forum who find the idea repugnant that someone would gleefully use "Merry Christmas" as a "F&k You"?
I can imagine thinking such a thing ... realizing, after the fact, that your sincere and joyful greeting of the season has had that effect.
But the idea of prattling in public about you love to fling "Merry Christmas" in the faces of those you're sure it will offend does not strike me as rational, much less Christian.
MORE PICS, PLEASE ... we sure as hell don't need her fans thinking too hard about this one.
That boy needs a manzeer.
You know he has plenty of money... why doesn't he just get lipo surgery done?
My what would be "way" over the top? The beast woman must have been one of Saddam's favorite advisor's
Good Grief, I didn't mean to blow yer skirt up that High...
You bumbled a reply, and then replied to yourself?
You seem to love that word, she used it once and you have used it 3 times.
But I think I have seen steamier comments coming from your intense mind.
I simply would have more respect for Coulter if she didn't dumb herself down...
Well, maybe she just wanted to reach out to you, and did it the only way possible.
I'm sure Ms. Coulter would be dismayed if you respected her, I have more respect for her because of your disdain.
=== You seem to love that word, she used it once and you have used it 3 times.
But I'm just a Nobody ... I'm certainly not holding myself out as some darling of the Conservative Movement ... that party of Morals who voted for Virtue two months ago.
F&ck that.
I got the Seinfeld DVD's for Christmas and in one episode, a deleted scene has Jerry ripping the National Organization for Women. It didn't quite fit, so I can see why it was cut from the show, but it was a pretty good comment.
Oh forgive her for associating with a liberal.
After all, you can only have conservative friends to be a true conservative.
it is time for the "bro" Ted
You want to know what's weird about that analysis? I'll bet Scoop Jackson would have agreed with me.
So sick to see what happened to the Democrat party.
Giuliani
"What response would you suggest if the crazy North Koreans nuked Honolulu or Seattle? Send Mad Maddie or the Georgia Idiot Carter to placate them? Get a life! "
You are the one who needs to get a life, as I explicitly stated several times in this thread that I am 100% in favor of a nuclear retaliation. Hell, I was in favor of carpet-bombing Mecca after 9-11.
Both of these are AFTER an attack, not before one. I'm not in favor of happily nuking someone for "fun" or to make a point, unless the point is retaliation.
"One nuke. Wherever the @$$hat dictator happens to be. "
Yeah, but for that, we don't need to drop a nuke and tell the whole world that it was us. One good sniper's bullet would do the trick.
"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"
Wow - so all those North Korean citizens who are simply trying to survive and provide for their families are just "inconsequential expenses" to you? Are these the "Christian values" that I'm supposed to espouse now - that a group of people can be slaughtered inconsequentially? Oh well - I'm sure they -- and millions of Muslims -- probably feel that you & your family dying a horrible, painful burning radioactive death is 'inconsequential' too and would probably be 'fun' for them too. It must be nice to lower one's values to those of the Muslime.
"Dumbass, twisted sadist."
You forgot "anorexic/bulemic chain-smoking opportunist". I'm in full agreement that a few of her statements, esp how much 'fun' it would be to annihilate a few million people, are completely bat$hit. I'm sure that the Muslim terrorists would experience great fun if Ann got nuked. Good to know she thinks like a Muslim in her blatant disregard for human life.
"But hey, she's one of US!! So it's ok.""
You know it! Hey - these must be part of those "Christian values" I've been hearing about! God must be pleased! </sarcasm
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