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."
Good luck with that!
I'm sure there are innocent North Koreans but the serious point is that a show of will against this communist nuclear power might prevent a nuclear strike against Los Angelas.
I'm sure there are innocent people in Los Angelas.
She's phony. She comes off as this ultra hard right-winger in public but in private she's boinks Bill Maher. Yeah, priceless.
Ann dropped the F-bomb? In all her writings and interviews I don't believe I have ever read a profanity nor heard one. Not even on Bill Maher's show on HBO where it would be acceptable.
If you could only film her feeding me a strawberry, life would be perfect...
She probably pronounced it eff you.
"I think it would be fun. Movies such as Trinity and Beyond are excellent. "
I don't see the 'fun' in the scorching deaths of millions of people, sorry.
I do, however, admit to also admiring "Trinity and Beyond" - especially the Russian H-bomb detonations. Pretty intense footage. BUT, those were all footage of test detonations (except the few Nagasaki/Hiroshima footage).
" would have no problem if Pres. Bush laid it on the table and told them, any attack on the US or our allies by NK, regardless of scale or weapons used will result in the use of nuclear weapons in response."
I too would have no problem with nuclear RETALIATION, or the promise of it in the event of an attack on us. But Ann clearly says she's simply in favor of just going ahead and doing it without provocation. I fervently disagree.
The real Mrs David is a big-time enviro-whacko. Maybe Larry's liberalism goes only so far as his wife.
I may be wrong but I think the overwhelming majority of Jewish men Larry David's age are Democrats. Brought up by FDR-loving parents. First favorite politician was JFK.
I cannot believe Ann Coulter boinks that gnome Bill Maher. From what I've heard he hangs out at the Playboy Mansion and takes sloppy seconds from A-list celebs.
"I'm sure there are innocent North Koreans but the serious point is that a show of will against this communist nuclear power might prevent a nuclear strike against Los Angelas.
I'm sure there are innocent people in Los Angelas."
Yeah, and I'd have no problems if Bush threatened the NoKos with a nuke retaliation. That's pretty much how the whole Cold War was fought, with success. But I am not in favor of just nuking someone for the "fun" of it.
Also, just going ahead and nuking North Korea would only guarantee a similar response to some west coast city instead of preventing it.
Theres no doubt that shes witty and intelligent. But what is her background? Shes an attorney by nature, what has she done of significance? No flaming, I honestly don't know.
That must look like a boa constrictor swallowing a pig.
Thats the danger. I see her as humorist, a satirist etc. In contrast, many believe everything she says as manna from heaven.
Sure shes entertaining, but she isnt a serious political analyst IMO.
Mary Matalin advises VP Cheney and then goes home and boinks James Carville.
Your point?
And Ann has denied every boinking Maher.
Believe it. He alluded to the "act" on his show and she just batted her eyes and swooned. Just watch the two of them on his show (she used to be on about every other week)and it is more than painfully obvious. She's admitted to hanging out and dating him. It's not a secret.
Is that right? Does she "boink" that hair plug wearing troll? Gross....
I'd like to see and hear Miss Coulter tear Ed Schultz a new one...
Of course I'd imagine him red-faced, smoke shooting out of his ears like a cartoon charactor, and inaffectively shouting inanities at the top of his lungs.
A couple of things I can think of off the top of my head. Founded the Federalist Society at Cornell and clerked at the Supreme Court.
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