Video: Coulter appearance on “The View” goes exactly as you’d expect
posted at 5:41 pm on January 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Eight and a half minutes of contentious cross-talk, most of it dwelling on a proposition that even the left is grudgingly coming around on. Do note Sherri’s admonition towards the end about tone. Whoopi didn’t seem too worried about that recently when she wondered aloud vis-a-vis Coulter whether the carpet matches the drapes. Behar called her a “bitch” at the same event, a slight Coulter really shouldn’t take personally: Joy dropped the same insult on Michelle in 2007. And then took John McCain to task for not objecting to it when someone dropped it on Hillary soon after. Of course.
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I think Hasselbeck is beautiful and probably smart, but I don’t like her cowardliness. Lack of courage is what’s wrong with this country. Say what you will about Coulter, but at least she has the courage to say what she believes.
americanpatriot on January 12, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Dear Sir,
I’m intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter (is it illustrated?!)
quikstrike98 on January 12, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Darn straight…I personally loved how Reagan forced the Detroit carmakers to embrace mediocrity while imports stole market share. Why, I certainly don’t understand why there hasn’t been a 100-foot monument made of the K Car, or why more people weren’t singing the praises of the Ford Festiva or the Chevy Sprint.
That, and forcing all those states to embrace “closed shop”.
Please.
Snowed In on January 12, 2009 at 7:03 PM
It seemed like the more irrelevant the comment made by one of these view women, the louder the audience clapped. It’s like a conditioned Pavlovian response towards logical fallacy.
Women are dependent by nature. They will vote for the surrogate husband, father or mother every time. The exception would be those rare independent women like Coulter and women whose non-governmental provider is threatened by the government surrogate. Liberals promote single motherhood to create more Democrat voters and more government dependency.
Buddahpundit on January 12, 2009 at 7:03 PM
All I heard was cackle, cackle cackle. If the witches of leftwick have such good points why do they have to shout down any opposing views?
imshocked on January 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Scratch a conservative,find a snake….
sethstorm on Jan 12,2009 at 6:48PM.
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and for the love of gawd man,you shouldn’t
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commenting!
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down,under the ‘Fairness doctrine’of comment
ing while in a Liberally Kool-Aided stuper!!
And besmirching and debaucherizing the great
Ronald Reagan,Sethstrom,thats not nice!!!
canopfor on January 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Yawn.
nazo311 on January 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Here’s what I’d like to know: if men and women are “equal”, and women don’t need any help from men (according to the feminists), then why all the fuss about single mothers? Aren’t they as capable as men? If feminists are such egalitarians, then maybe they should start by staying consistent with their own supposed beliefs of equality.
Send_Me on January 12, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I’m not opposed to her at all. Every cause needs an attention getter, even if that person is using the cause primarily for personal enrichment. No different than George Will, Rush, or Bill Bennett, other than sales techniques. Number one rule- follow the money.
a capella on January 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Whoopi’s criticisms make zero sense.
-She wants to know, first and foremost “what do you have against single mothers” and then proceeds to read the statistics Ann cites of why single motherhood is something not to be encouraged, but still asks the question anyway as if she didn’t just answer it.
-If Ann had children then she would know more about the studies she cites on single mothers? uh. how?
-She takes offense at criticism of the current single-mom trend because she became a single mom long before the trend. huh?
Even Hasselback’s one question was a criticism, unfortunately for her based on a false presumption about Anns book (oops. show prep anyone?).
Sherri and Joy kept consistent “i just smelled poop” faces of disgust the whole time. Sherri said “don’t criticize Barbara for reading an excerpt of your book in an ominous tone when you weren’t here to talk about it” when that time could have been better spent letting Ann actually respond to Barbara’s question that actually did a service to the guest by asking for insight on a relevant current event, using a quote from the book to segway into it.
Drunk Report on January 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Thats no lions den. Its a nest of squawking hens. Keep squawking ladies – but Ann still has more class, more smarts, and more grace than any of you.
And what’s with Behar always looking like she just sucked a lemon every time a conservative comes on?
CarolynM on January 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I’ll never understand why conservatives go on that show to be shouted down by four loud women who then complain, “I listened to you when you were talking, now listen to me!”
Maybe it’s a baptism of fire thing. I think it’s stupid.
PurpleWombats on January 12, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I voted twice for G W Bush. I have to say however if He had half the nerve to say and do what should be said and done as Coulter . We just may have a secure border, and Bin Ladins head by now .
Conservative Ivan on January 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Total b*tches, all of them.
Give ‘em hell, Coulter.
madmonkphotog on January 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM
For those looking for a documentary concerning the effects of feminism on women, and society in general, you may wish to try this one, named after John Knox’s 1558 essay: The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
Send_Me on January 12, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Ann Coulter is a puerile and hateful individual. Christianity teaches that we should try to love one another despite our differences. Effective communication requires a modicum of sympathy from those engaged in dialogue and good writing requires a degree of self-reflection – not ideological fanaticism.
If you can’t have a civil, academic, respectful dialogue with someone you’re probably simple. I believe it was Aristotle who said that the mark of an intelligent man is that they can entertain an idea with accepting it.
At the end of day, what is she accomplishing except pleasing those with similarly unexamined prejudices and lining her pockets? Oh that’s right, never mind.
alex342 on January 12, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Whoopi is a single mother. So of course she is going to take offense at this. If she wasn’t offended she would have to take responsibility for her actions and admit that she is part of the problem.
Buford on January 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Let me get this straight. Liberals used to hate conservative women because we’re all a bunch of crazy breeders who don’t understand career-oriented womyn. Now, when we don’t want kids, we’re a bunch of heartless, compassion-free shrews who are ruining the lives of strong, capable women who really want to be mothers but just can’t find good men.
Roxeanne de Luca on January 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
And the same, of course, can be said for the members of The View.
alex342 on January 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
You simply cannot have a decent interview on that show. It is just impossible. They cut her off in every sentence. Sorry Anne, so sorry.
cabbageheat on January 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Okay, how about Ann Coulter and Anne Hathaway in a cat fight, and then Hathaway and Hasselbeck make out…Whoaaa!!! What is going on, that Joe Biden Demon is back again. What am I takin’ about.
Mr. Joe on January 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Anne Hathaway has principals!
Mr. Joe on January 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Interesting video guys. I find it interesting that Coulter cites facts about how many single motherhood households (Notice she never said all single mother households are bad) puts society at risk, and the only counter argument the girls can think of is, “How dare you criticize single mothers?” and “You can’t criticize single motherhood if you’re not married or have any children.”
Frank T.J Mackey on January 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM
These women are everything they accuse Ann of being; mean spirited and uncivil. At least Ann is correct on the issues.
Rose on January 12, 2009 at 7:43 PM
After watching this I can only say: I wish I were gay.
Whew.
SteveMG on January 12, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Hypocrite.
JohnJ on January 12, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Yep. Notice that the girls insist over and over again that they were not attacking her, but they were. Debunking her point by going after her personal counts as an attack.
Frank T.J Mackey on January 12, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Voting towards keeping H1-b loopholes, not securing our borders, and enacting trade laws that make citizenship a penalty – all of those are part of how they threaten to move your job to a third world country.
Their immigration law would prohibit it. They also lack certain regulations that keep us US citizens alive. You are asking me to build the bullet that kills me.
If I wanted to do that, I would join the military. While it might be more satisfying, there are very few countries the US will engage.
Then why is it that the right (save for Buchanan and such) ends up voting for the measures that also harm citizens with no recourse for them? These are the same kind that drive GM, sell our nation to the lowest quality bidder, and call themselves “American”.
sethstorm on January 12, 2009 at 7:51 PM
AP’s idea of punishment for bloggers who say he isn’t optimistic. Cruel and unusual punishment I say.
Come on Coulter, admit it, you just went there for sport and don’t care if a single View watcher buy’s your book…. heh heh heh.
Hog Wild on January 12, 2009 at 7:55 PM
For the first time ever, I feel sympathy for Coulter.
SouthernDem on January 12, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Liberal women are incapable of making a reasoned argument.
They also have a problem with maintaining a feminine appearance -I’m talking about YOU, Whoopie, Behar, and every woman who appears of MSNBC….
CarolynM on January 12, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Why does anyone appear on this Sea Hags’ Show?
gracie on January 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM
The View is the perfect example why so many women are single.
Wade on January 12, 2009 at 8:07 PM
As much as I occasionally enjoy Ann’s ability to make “people” like these foam at the mouth, I would NOT hit that.
However, as an absolutely hideous excuse of a human being, let me posit that there is NO doubt the carpet matches the drapes. Period.
wccawa on January 12, 2009 at 8:07 PM
It must come down to self esteem the ladies of the view don’t have any and when the sore spots of their low self esteem are pointed out to them…..well they react the way they do. When people fear they attack it is a defense mechanism. Okay I didn’t watch anymore of the video then last time. I am just going by their usual pattern, how they treat anyone A Guest that doesn’t echo their self indulgent message? Somebody get me a Liberal Dictionary because they have a different definitions for so many things, Guest, Tolerance, Racism -see Rosie O’Donnell making fun of Chinese folks…oh Harry Reid and Burris Senate Appointment..
Dr Evil on January 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM
The root of the problem including unwed single mothers LOW SELF ESTEEM
Dr Evil on January 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM
What the hell is the “fundamentalist right”? ROFL
True_King on January 12, 2009 at 8:17 PM
True, go look up the definition of the word “fundamentalist”. Doesn’t take much to get you ROFL, huh? Course, you’re the True King and all that, so…
dakine on January 12, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Coming from a woman who hosts a show where the liberal-conservative ratio is 4-1.
Proves one thing: The View makes people dumber and reifies a number of stereotypes re: women.
Richard Romano on January 12, 2009 at 8:23 PM
You’d rather she had aborted the child after she pulled a Bristol?
Noneya on January 12, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I don’t understand why anyone likes her.
Ortzinator on January 12, 2009 at 8:31 PM
The View = crows holding court.
petefrt on January 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I get completely that people don’t like Coulter, but to say she’s simple is to admit you’ve never read her. And it would be completely false to claim she’s never entertained ideas she doesn’t currently believe in.
I respectfully disagree. People like her draw people to their cause. Michael Moore and Whoopi certainly have. Coulter is no worse than they are, and at least she backs up everything she says like a lawyer.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Is there a video of Barbra Walters reading Coulter, that Anne described as Mein Kamph esque?
Micheal on January 12, 2009 at 8:38 PM
JohnJ too funny and right on!
Ann actually is being compassionate by bringing this out, much like Bill Cosby is by citing that the lack of responsibility is ruining lives. Ann’s facts are correct. She is bringing out a politically incorrect point that could bring some improvement to our society were her admonitions taken seriously instead of the knee-jerk reaction of the View “intellegencia.” Who is more compassionate those who try to bury the problem while they bury the family or those who speak the truth to bring positive change? Good for you, Ann. You left them sputtering.
Christian Conservative on January 12, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Isn’t it interesting that the Left embraces their bomb throwers and promote them at every chance. The Right, however, will throw anyone and everyone under the bus if they don’t meet their individual standards. It’s not enough to avoid those whose style we don’t mesh with it, no immediately it is “Poof, be gone”. We will always be a minority.
Cindy Munford on January 12, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Pretty certain, taking responsibility doesn’t mean “have an abortion”. I would think that would be the opposite actually.
Besides, Bristol isn’t really a single parent. Levi is very much in the picture.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM
So, did one of these View idiots acknowledge or legitimately refute Coulter’s point? If they did I must have missed it. All they want to do is make it a personal/political pissing match.
Coulter 1
The View Shrews 0
Metro on January 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM
That awful uninformed Behar woman talks about Sarah Palin “whining”.
People like Behar contributed to the trashing of this very accomplished woman just because she has different opinions to theirs. They never gave her credit for anything, but spat our vile and vindictive accusations about everything they could think of, without any knowledge of her.
Why wasn’t Obama interrogated by the media like Sarah was? As Ann pointed out in various other interviews, the line of questioning for Sarah was “name the last seven kings of Swaziland”, and for Obama “name your favorite yoghurt”.
waterfall on January 12, 2009 at 8:48 PM
“The View” is ridiculous. Anne Coulter did about as well as one can in that kind of nutcase forum.
Ann Coulter makes what is really an undeniable point that single motherhood is a bad thing in terms of its consequences yet is glorified by Hollywood and liberals, and what you hear from the regular members of the “The View” is garbage that avoids the point.
I have at times been critical of Ann Coulter in the past. I thought she went in misguided directions at times during the electoral campaigns last year (e.g., supporting Hillary). But her books are good, and she can play a very productive role in the days ahead because of her willingness to be confrontational with liberals.
Phil Byler on January 12, 2009 at 8:52 PM
seems to me the answer to the problem of all these single mothers would be….. more abortions!
and when’s the wedding for those shining examples of “family values” set for again?
Noneya on January 12, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Once again this proves that the only way a liberal can defeat Ann Coulter in a debate is to not let her talk.
Ann puts the truth so clearly that even the libs can understand it, but it offends them because they are on the wrong side of the truth.
The Rock on January 12, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Levi and Bristol? This coming summer, last I heard. What’s with the vitriol for a couple of young parents?
Jim62sch on January 12, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Or learning to use a cheaper form of birth control, such as the pill. It’s really not that complicated. Take one pill daily at the same time of day.
Shining example for family values? No, and they never claimed to be. Shining examples of pro life views? Yes, quite obviously.
The two are not always the same.
Last I heard, next year. Maybe they won’t get married. I don’t know and don’t really care. She’s a kid who made a stupid mistake. If that’s her last one, she’s better off than most people.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 9:03 PM
If I’d be a young man, and this video was the first introduction to women, I’d have to ‘kill’ a few, or be transported to another planet, or become a hermit for the rest of my life.
Links like these should have a warning “For your mental anguish”.
Entelechy on January 12, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Scratch a liberal/lefty and you find a frustrated capitalist.
Itchee Dryback on January 12, 2009 at 9:11 PM
It’s not for them but rather for you and me. The kids are an easy target.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Behar is the true definition of “bitter”.
Whoopie lost all my respect when she went from “I am woman hear me roar” to “I am BLACK hear me bitch”.
Sherri still needs to find her place.
Barbra WaWa is just a machine.
Elisabeth needs to find it & bring it!
Ann Coulter is the one I would want to watch my back!
christene on January 12, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Heh, in their ‘minds’ business will never trump ideology.
Entelechy on January 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Ann Coulter would stand up to the devil himself and tell him go go to Hell! She wasn’t too far from there in the bitter roundtable atmosphere.
***
At least no one threw hot coffee (or a lemon cream pie) at her there. Doing a book tour and selling them is a tough way to make a living.
***
John Bibb
rocketman on January 12, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is neither smart, witty, nor interesting. She just fills that seat pro forma.
Entelechy on January 12, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Ann Coulter: Here are my statistics, based on scientific data gathered and crunched by scientists.
The Hens: Are you married?
This is the state of debate in the MSM these days.
angryed on January 12, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I just finished reading Guilty. Ann does have a way of destroying sacred cows without apology. I was at first taken aback by the chapter on single mothers. I have often commented to my husband that I didn’t know how a single mother that we are aquainted with does it with three children and I took offense for her when reading Ann’s book. Then as I read her statistics and arguments I re-evaluated the woman’s situtaion. She has three children all out-of-wedlock by at least two different men and her children spend their evenings in daycare while their mother works. I have often expressed my sympathy toward her and have heard others fawn over her with sympathy. Not that I would be judgmental and rude to her now, but Ann does have a point that a lot of single-mothers have been irresponsible and it has done major damage to society yet we glorify their courage and ’sacrifice’.
I also thought Ann did a great job defending herself on the view despite the seething cross-eyed hatred that permeated the room. They tried to debate her factually but were reduced to hurling childishly irrelevant non-points at her. The problem many have with Ann is she is not “nice” in a society where “niceness” has replaced virtue.
Renae on January 12, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I hate, with a passion, the MSM, but still – Barbara Walters hasn’t been objective in a long time. I consider her an old hag who sold her soul a while ago, for shame.
p.s. btw, I apologized to you a couple of days ago for not catching your sarcasm.
Entelechy on January 12, 2009 at 9:32 PM
esthier, “Levi”?, “Bristol”?, “Sarah”?…really? On a first name basis with the Palins are ya? You sound like a lovestruck schoolgirl.
dakine on January 12, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Why would anyone subject themselves to this? The View’s hosts are a bunch of over-emotional twits with no credibility. They don’t “win” arguments so much as they continuously interrupt their guests with drivel and count on their brain-dead audience to cheer for everything they say.
And yeah, I hope they’re reading this. Presuming, that is, they can read English. Lemme try translating for them:
CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK BAWK-AWK
R. Waher on January 12, 2009 at 9:41 PM
No worries, appreciate it though.
angryed on January 12, 2009 at 9:44 PM
GM continues to hold the position of No. 1 selling car.
The unions are the problem with the US being competitive in a world economy. You’re stuck in the past, living in an antiquated mindset. Most liberal/lefties have the same problem.
They live in the past afraid of new technologies and scientific advances.
Itchee Dryback on January 12, 2009 at 9:46 PM
So now it’s okay to use the F word and C word on this site?
I thought we could express ourselves better and with more dignity!
CCRWM on January 12, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Wow, what a group of worthless Liberals. I didn’t hear one single intelligent comment-question-insult coming from these miserable twits. Ann Coulter has some real gumption to go on a set with those rabid vultures. Whoopi, what a loser of a human, and she is brightest of the three Libs.
Wow, I mean Wow!
Keemo on January 12, 2009 at 9:57 PM
You sound obsessed. What, insulting me on the other thread with the same tired lines was getting boring?
Levi isn’t a Palin. Surely you knew that.
I know their first names and suddenly I’m in love. Yes, simplicity is something you know intimately.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Leave Matthews out of this!
Snowed In on January 12, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I’m reading Coulter’s book and she really lays it all out. These freaks on The View can’t handle anything not PC. Ann writes the truth regardless of how brutal it is.
UnEasyRider on January 12, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Please stop reporting on this moronic show. I’m beggin’ here…
mojo on January 12, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Who are the women who watch and go to this show???
It occurs to me they are probbly raising children… The USA is doomed…
CCRWM on January 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
“probably” not probbly
CCRWM on January 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I agree.
Conservatives should never be ashamed or afraid to debate, argue, and fight on the spot anywhere that the left challenges. Take it to them.
I do, even at work, if some moonbat starts it.
Sapwolf on January 12, 2009 at 10:32 PM
If one can’t defend their point without being a total b!tch/@$$hole, then they hurt the cause.
People like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bob Dergin (local conservative talkshow host) can drive the same points without sounding like total d!cks.
Anne Coulter is just Michael Savage with a vagina.
DethMetalCookieMonst on January 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Seems to me that the answer to the single mother problem is education and birth control and most importantly, personal responsibility.
And as for the very sarcastic remark aimed at a teenaged girl who didn’t ask for your opinion or condemnation, shame on you. I have a distinct feeling that Coulter’s book is NOT referring to situations such as Palin’s daughter, whose baby’s father is very much in the picture, and who has the support of her family.
Somehow, Obama and Clinton’s kids are off limits, but Palin’s daughter is not? What hypocrisy.
pullingmyhairout on January 12, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Against my better judgment, I watched the clip. I absolutely felt, to a woman, not one of them read that book. Every time Ann tried to explain her research and statistics, they jumped on her like cats no a three day dead carp, not with questions about her research, but hurling insults in an aggressive and confrontational manner. They were ready for her but not with information and legitimate questions. Oh, and the repeated “are you married” questions, let’s see, Whoopi is thrice divorced, was a single mother and was raised by a single mother, who, in Whoopi, Behar is divorced as is Sherri, as is Barbara Walters, thrice. Elizabeth, the conservative, is the only married one on the panel. So exactly where is the moral higher ground these cretins stand on?
Glynn on January 12, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Sorry for the typos.
Glynn on January 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM
There was a time not very long ago when people like the hosts of The View were politely, but firmly, ordered to leave the room before politics were discussed.
Now we live in a world where no public discourse can take place without inciting the immediate and incessant caterwauling of the most easily-offended among us.
Freedom of speech and freedom from offense are two utterly incompatible goals. And sometimes I think we made the wrong choice.
logis on January 12, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Yah. The weather in Alaska is so harsh in winter that you almost have to make it Spring or Summer. Tripp is lucky he has two parents.
Those statistics that Coulter goes over have been known for 20 to 30 years. The destruction of the nuclear family, and single-parents struggling alone to raise children is the number one cause driving ALL our social to varying degrees. It’s obvious, and yet very few Americans want to face the truth.
It drives the numbers way up on the people who become dependent on government handouts: Obama voters, Dems.
Destroying the family is the #1 way that the Left breeds dependency to then get people to vote for for expanded government.
Anybody see “Gran Torino”? Ties right into that issue. That movie takes place in the Detroit area. I have a son on 14-mile Road there and I am desparately hoping to land a job in the Joe Wurzelbacher country so I can see my son once or twice a week. There is no way I can look in the mirror if I don’t do everything I can to train him to be a man someday. I’m not gonna let him be just another statistic.
All these leftists can’t stand it when a father tries to be a father for their son by teaching him honesty, stoicism, compassion, courage, tact, a trade, algebra, history, theology, birds and the bees, responsibility, why we don’t hit girls, why dogs are good and cats are a waste of time, selflessness, how to take down a bully (without getting expelled), etc., etc., etc. God, it’s no mystery why boys fail to grow up to manhood when you see the broken families and institutions of boy-to-man dieing out.
Sapwolf on January 12, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I absolutely despise The View and the b’s on that show. If Elisabeth had enough self-respect, she’d quit that show.
I cannot figure out WHY any conservative or even centrist person would go on that show. What’s the point? Do they think they’re going to change minds? Enlighten? Convert a soul? Puh-leeze!!! It does nothing but increase ratings for The View/Snakepit. I wouldn’t watch that show if they filmed it in my garage. I didn’t watch the tape linked to this article either. No point. They’re all the same.
However, if someone told me that Ann went down the line starting with BW and said “Look here Babs, I find you disgusting and disrespectful and let me tell you why,” I’d watch that. But trying to go point-to-point with the idiots… nah. I’ll pass.
Oink on January 12, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Christian Conservative on January 12, 2009 at 8:41 PM
I said I honestly thought she was puerile and full of hate towards others. I didn’t say that I hated her. It was an honest observation.
You think she’s doing a public service by calling people faggots, miserable drug addicts, and saying that they enjoy their husbands’ murder without knowing them? Is that your idea of conservatism? She’s doing a service to herself by raking in millions without doing anything to contribute in a positive way to society.
Do you think Edmund Burke advanced conservative thinking by debating with comedians, calling people faggots and associating with people the likes of the son of the owner of Penthouse and Bill Maher? No, no he did not.
If half of you people who admire so much had any sense you would try to publish your own crap books which I’m sure you could do without too much effort. She’d much rather take your hard-earned money though; she has quite the racket going. Meanwhile, there are people who can barely pay there bills while producing wonderful scholarship that no-one reads.
alex342 on January 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Ann Coulter’s success poses a challenge to the value of democracy in a way that terrorism never could.
alex342 on January 12, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Surely you can see how this is offensive and completely counter to what you claim to want in public discourse.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Point taken. I could have worded that much better. I was merely pointing out that she’s not doing anything a person of average intelligence with ambition couldn’t do and in a saner world wouldn’t receive the attention she does.
alex342 on January 12, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Well, I made it 3 minutes, 30 seconds, that’s a bit longer than the last View link. Those are some crazy-@$$ed women on that show. If that is main-stream thought, we are in deep yogurt.
The old Soviet tactic — stack the debate, question your opponent’s humanity and then shout them down with irrelevant insults.
Hasselbeck is pretty, but she’s a tool, she’s the foil for the WAB’s to poke at and show the intellectual superiority of their position while making it look to the low-IQ audience that they are providing both sides of an issue.
Ever notice that conservative women tend to be good looking, or even if not good looking are generally of good cheer while liberal women may be somewhat attractive when young but the puerile hatred inside twists them into shrew-like looking things as they age: exhibits 1 and 2: Whoopi and Behar with Barbara Walters a close third — no joy in any of them.
AZfederalist on January 12, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Que?
Whatever you’re quoting makes no sense whatsoever.
P.S. Actually, Ann seems rather complicated to me, the opposite of simple.
RD on January 12, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Maybe, but if you’ve read her books, you see how well researched and documented they are. That’s something you don’t get from her counterparts on the left like Michael Moore.
Esthier on January 12, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Statistically, that’s not how it works out. Easy access to abortions, counterintuitively, increases the out-of-wedlock birth rate. Some of the reason for this is that teenagers tend to think that birth control is as effective for them as it is for middle-aged, married, middle-class women (who are the basis of the “used consistently and correctly” statistics), when, in fact, it is not. This is underscored when it appears as if none of their peers are ever pregnant, even after having had lots of sex.
As a semi-aside: the only time liberals ever talk about the failure rates of birth control is when they are discussing the “necessity” of abortion. Right up until a girl gets pregnant, they would have you think that condoms and the Pill are so magical that users will never, EVER get pregnant when using them, and will even be protected from heartache and other emotional repercussions. It’s only, in their world, the cruel and repressive conservatives who tout those nasty failure rates in order to control women.
So irrational.
Roxeanne de Luca on January 12, 2009 at 11:39 PM
How so?
Metro on January 13, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Likely because of the subtlety. I’m guessing alex’s point is that Coulter is something of a poison that affects American culture and changes it over time, slowly destroying America in the process.
Maybe because she’s mean spirited, or maybe out of an assumption that she’s bigoted in some form. I’m sure he’ll explain for himself.
Esthier on January 13, 2009 at 12:06 AM
4 to 2. Ann could take them all without Elizabeth and still come out on top. Take out the audience and you might have a fair fight.
Good thing the girls of the View aren’t rocket scientists; we wouldn’t have made it to outer space.
Baba Wawa really should look into doing nightie-night stories on CDs for the kiddies…
Christine on January 13, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I would bet Coulter considers the Dim Four nothing more than useful idiots, to be used to market her books.
Goldberg, Bitchar and Walters on the other hand, were giving off very strong hate vibes. Bitchar’s parents obviously named her Joy as a goof.
Was Walters serious when she asked Coulter about Caroline Kennedy? She teed that one up and Ann never did get in her answer.
PC14 on January 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM
RD on January 12, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Yeah, I meant to say the that mark of an intelligent man was being able to entertain an idea without accepting it as true … which precludes dogmatism.
Metro on January 13, 2009 at 12:01 AM
I’m being semi-facetious. I meant that terrorism seems to be an external threat to democracy whereas the democratisation (or vulgarisation) or culture evidenced by the success of demagogic mediocrities like Coulter is a problem of democracy itself.
alex342 on January 13, 2009 at 12:23 AM
“Likely because of the subtlety. I’m guessing alex’s point is that Coulter is something of a poison that affects American culture and changes it over time, slowly destroying America in the process.”
Bwahahahaha…yes, the very powerful woman, armed with nothing but the truth and a sharp wit, poisons American culture’ more than say one man: Bill Clinton. Bwahahahaha!! You misogynists are so transparent and puerile.
Christine on January 13, 2009 at 12:24 AM
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