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 pro-choice through the first trimester.
Why?.... 'splain the difference to me of when you think life as an individual begins. I'm real curious to other people's concept of "life" and who should control it.
FMCDH(BITS)
Even I can appreciate that the Right has all the good looking chicks, have you noticed?
We have Ann Coulter
They have Susan Estrich
Oh, no BS here, sir. My conscience is clear. I'm not being flippant or insensitive when I say that in the first trimester, I have control over my own body, my bodily functions. That's not your call.
OK, this isn't an abortion thread, but - hmmm. No baby can live outside the womb, prosper, and live a healthy, normal life without a tremendous amount of physical and emotional support. Some need more than others, but all need support. It's hell on the mother. If they leave the womb try to exist on their own, they die.
My opinion: my choice.
If it's murder, it's murder. If it's not, it's not. Opinions won't change that.
Shalom.
Someday it will be, just as slavery disappeared. George Washington was totally numb to the moral issue of slavery until he became a military leader and traveled around and listened to views that were the truth. May the Lord see fit to enlighten you. God bless.
Thank you.
I don't know if you've been pregnant yet, but in the first trimester you don't have control over your own body, your baby does. That's what makes it such a pain.
And your baby is not part of your own body. Every part of your own body has your DNA and could be used to identify you positively as the individual you are. Your baby has a different DNA which identifies him/her as an individual as well. It is not your body or your bodily function.
You may still assert your right to terminate its life, but don't pretend abortion is the same as taking a crap or having breast implants.
Shalom.
still a lesbo but definitely a cultural conservative
What!?!
One nuke. Wherever the @$$hat dictator happens to be. Preferably while he's addressing his fawning buttboys in Pyongang.
Killing Kim and a few 100K N. Koreans would be a net gain - we could end the "famine" of collectivization in NK and save millions.
And it would send a heck of a mess to the PRC...
Here in politically correct blue NJ,near NYC, it is anathema to say the dreaded phrase "Merry Christmas".
It is just not done.
So when you do say it, you get two reactions:
1. A shocked look, and a weak "Happy Holidays" in response.
or
2. A shocked look, a smile, and a "Merry Christmas" in return.
Like Ann says, it is like saying the 'F" bomb out loud in public, it is that unconventional and shocking.
I said Merry Christmas to more people this year than ever before. I figured it was MY holiday that I celebrate, so unless I knew that a person was Jewish, to which I would wish them a Happy Chanukah, I would say Merry Christmas.
The look on some folks' faces were priceless, but many felt they had the freedom to respond in kind and not be regarded as politcally incorrect.
As far as North Korea, we should nuke their nuclear facilities and military facilities without delay, to free 22 million people from starvation and tyranny, remove ourselves from the threat of a meglomaniac who has threatened our destruction many times over, and who will, if time passes, be found to be the supplier of the nuclear weapon that takes out one of our cities, and it would be the most efficient way to convey to the rest of the world what happens to those that would like to destroy us.
First of all, I doubt Ms. Coulter "boinks," as you so eloquently put it, Bill Maher. Secondly, her private life is her own business, and her choices in who she spends time with have nothing to do with her sincerity regarding her political beliefs.
Please explain 'pro-choice through the first trimester' ... the embryo age ended at eight weeks for you or me in our lifetime begun at conception. What's magical about the thirteenth week, please?
Well, you know as well as I do that we conservatives are plenty "diverse". We're just "differently diversified".
Bruce promotes Judeo-Christian values in many areas and roundly condemns the way homosexuals have hijacked the culture and mainstreamed themselves. How she squares supporting traditional Judeo-Christian culture with batting for the other team, I don't know.
She's on our side, though. Just read her books!
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I agree! If I were president. I would have immediately nuked both mecca and medina in retaliation for 9/11.
What do you do when "nature" calls?
BTTT
You can't be serious. Have you seen Coulter's resume? Have you seen Coulter debate any liberal? And Hillary certainly isn't among the smartest of liberals.
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! Coulter was being subtle. You should read her stuff more often.
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