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."
"Tell that to the families of the 3000 dead in New York"
Yeah, but Ann is for nuking North Koreans (who had nothing to do with 9-11) and she's in favor of doing it just to do it, not as a retaliation.
If Bush wanted to make a point, he should've carpet-bombed Mecca on 9-12-01, which I would've been in favor of.
"They did. In many Arab and Muslim countries. Demonstrating in the streets and handing out candy."
Exactly. Which is NOT the behavior that a leading conservative mouthpiece should be espousing while claiming to be a Christian with values.
Ya think God would think it 'fun' to nuke a bunch of people?
That would be nice, but we need kill off all of his cadre as well. We'd need several hundred bullets... There are a LOT of people around Kim Jong Il who need to be dead. A nuke makes sure...
Couldn't agree more. Burp and cough all you want, eat all the cheetos you can.
Just don't kill the baby, who is -- brand new complex concept coming here -- NOT YOUR BODY.
Not your call.
For now.
It's quite magical, actually, since it transubstantiates the guilt of murder into the blithe comfort of "my body, my concern."
Well, I see this debate is still going on...sorry to turn the Ann Coulter thread into an abortion issue, everyone.
I was trying to draw peacebody into a discussion during wqhich she might have discovered a few of the contradictions to logic and science fundamental to her defending 'choice to hire a serial killer' in the first trimester. But you probably anticipated the waste of time ... indeed, it takes 'magic thinking' to defend serial killing as 'choice'.
Did you support the liberal woman who aborted two of her tripletts in the first trimester?
Its not a choice, its murder. And your pov contradicts your nic.
And Ann should be a little more hardcore imo.
give it up, guys.
I don't know the history of the woman who aborted two of her tripletts. How many weeks was she?
Not in your lifetime. We are speaking out for those who have no voice to defend themselves from the inanity of such as you represent and stubbornly cling too ... dehumanization of the little ones in order to authorize the slaughter. You will not be left to such foolishness as defending the first trimester slaughter, while a poster at FR, trust me! I would merely like to examine a few of your assumptions that underlie such a position.
You get a pass on this, because you're only half paisan: Giuliani. In Italian, an i before a u makes it a soft g. Otherwise it would be Ghoul-iani.
Usually rational people become irrational on the Christmas "issue."
I think your toupee is on a little tight there Longs.
You completely reveal yourself to be clueless with the "if it turned to a serious debate about the issues involving policy, Hillary would smoke her" comment.
First of all, how do you know Hillary would "smoke her", she's NEVER debated anyone in her life?
You obviously have a problem with Ann you're not disclosing as evidenced by your tagline. Are you by any chance carrying a few extra pounds Longs?
You are an angry person. While I might debate you on this issue, I'll not take part in name calling and threats. I'm just not interested in sparing with you. Peace.
Oh, so now you're admitting you don't know what the hell you're talking about? Alrighty then.
You haven't been here very long. After a while, you might realize that it's a rather weak response to tell people to "give it up" when you're losing the argument, with no further ammunition.
Angry?.... bwahaha. If I were angry, I would bother posting to you ... but any excuse will do when you don't want to examine your underlying assumptions. I'll leave you alone now. Wouldn't want to be accused of badgering ...
I've not taken part in an argument, so how can I lose?
So you are willing to see millions of Americans die in a NK nuke attack before you would retaliate? I'm not. Preemptive strikes against such a threat are what we do now (please note what we did in Iraq) and should do if the Koreans even look like they are going to attack us or our allies. Also, I never said I was in favor of "fun" or "happily nuking" anyone. As for "getting a life"- I want to preserve my life and not lose it to madmen in North Korea.
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