COULTER: Oh, something new and different.
MATTHEWS: Well, we`ve had them on the program. We like them.
COULTER: Of course you have.
MATTHEWS: "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren`t planning to divorce these harpies?"
COULTER: Right, yes.
MATTHEWS: How do -- why would we think they were ready to divorce them? Why would you suggest that?
COULTER: That`s not the point. I will answer your question. I would suggest that because their sole platform for demanding that we have a 9/11 Commission for cutting campaign commercials for Kerry, for having an opinion on this, is that their husbands died. If that`s your sole basis for your expertise, well then that becomes a relevant question, now, doesn`t it.
MATTHEWS: Why -- why do you raise the possibilities that they were planning to be --
COULTER: It shows the absurdity -- I`ve just explained it. It shows the absurdity of their expertise.
MATTHEWS: Their husbands can`t speak anymore, they`re dead. They`re victims. But you`re speaking for them.
COULTER: Yes, and this illustrates the absurdity of their expertise. Their expertise is based on having a relative who died.
MATTHEWS: What expertise do you have about the condition of those marriages?
COULTER: That`s not the point.
MATTHEWS: It is here -- I`m reading from it. You said don`t quote your words. I`m reading whole sentences.
COULTER: I think everyone else understands my point here.
MATTHEWS: Are you appealing to the jury here?
COULTER: Yes, because I`m going to keep saying the same thing to you and you`re going to keep pretending not to understand.
MATTHEWS: Are there any midget Greeks here? Any swarthy people that want to defend themselves?
COULTER: If the sole basis of your expertise is who you were married to --
MATTHEWS: Your book is beautifully written, but you choose ethnic language.
COULTER: -- then it becomes relevant, doesn`t it, whether or not their husband were going to divorce them. That shows how absurd it is to make yourself an expert or use someone as an expert because her husband died.
What a great exchange! If Matthews had enough sense to understand how foolish he sounds, he'd die of embarrassment. And Ann was flawless. She's wonderful.