Video: Limbaugh and Coulter on the media
posted at 7:20 pm on January 16, 2009 by Allahpundit
Normally I’d just give you the transcript, but on a cold, slow Friday night I figured you might be looking for something to watch. As always with Coulter, good points are interspersed with … less than good ones:
COULTER: …What I think is interesting about Soros; and Marcos, whatever his name is, of Daily Kos; and Arianna Huffington are, you know, basically the three unofficial spokesmen of the Democratic Party and they all speak in foreign accents of their foreign upbringings. Can’t you wait a few generations? Let your grandkids do the America bashing, you know, not right away. You can barely understand them.
RUSH: Arianna, you need a translator.
COULTER: And George Soros!
RUSH: Yeah, him, too. I’ve never heard the Daily Kos guy speak.
COULTER: Yeah, he was brought up in someplace in Latin America. You can’t understand them. They speak in foreign accents. They represent the Democratic Party.
Eh, cheap shot. Kos doesn’t have an accent; he’s perfectly intelligible. All she’s doing is playing a cruder version of Tom Hanks’s new favorite game. But dive in; 30 minutes of vid awaits.
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Wow.
No joke, I was JUST listening to this as you posted it.
Ka-raaazy.
Hawkins1701 on January 16, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Oh, and you’re right to note cheap shots, but pardon me if I don’t shed a tear for Kos.
Hawkins1701 on January 16, 2009 at 7:24 PM
“Cheap shot” . . . maybe, but who cares. Get them any way you can Coulter.
rplat on January 16, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I’m not a fan of Coulter, but I do like that she drives the libs like keithO crazy….
originalpechanga on January 16, 2009 at 7:25 PM
the both of them understand the need to be immune to the selective outrage of the media and the left.
rob verdi on January 16, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Does Andy Sully have an accent? I have no clue but maybe Ann was talking about him.
upinak on January 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM
That’s right AP, you must spring to the defense of these helpless victims on the left. Cheap shot? Please. The libs are expert at cheap shots. F ‘em.
echosyst on January 16, 2009 at 7:29 PM
I really enjoyed this today. The two respective giants of their fields – both intelligent and endowed with good senses of humor.
Spirit of 1776 on January 16, 2009 at 7:31 PM
No wonder we don’t have the moral high ground anymore.
jgapinoy on January 16, 2009 at 7:33 PM
And of course Allah never takes any cheap shots. :)
True_King on January 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM
I actually thought that George could have overcome this episode if he had not started pointing out crazy passages from Webb’s novels. It seemed sort of desperate even to me and I like George. I wasn’t aware of the pictures she talks about, if true then the media has scored…..again.
Cindy Munford on January 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM
No, he doesn’t an accent but that doesn’t exclude the fact that he still sounds like a crackhead..
An Era of Hate on January 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM
have ^
An Era of Hate on January 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM
You’re goin’ all McCain now.
S/
Itchee Dryback on January 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM
So,excellent,the Dynamic Dou in action,
and rare for Rush to have a quest!:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Ann Coulter has more intellegence and can synthesize the issues far more clearly than you can with your unlimited ability to introduce topics in the blogosphere. You’re just jealous.
highhopes on January 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM
You have an accent and are barely intelligible, so how can you tell?
Blake on January 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Everyone north of the Mason Dixon line has an accent, but I try to be tolerant of them.
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I am so far north I sound like a polar bear.
upinak on January 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM
I heard them this morning, and I have to say- Very entertaining. Both of them are incredibly quick, and know what they’re talking about. Doesn’t bother me in the least if they take cheap shots at KOS, Ariana, Olberdork, etc. The MSM is nasty-hateful ALL the time, so a few jabs from Rush and Ann is nothing.
anniekc on January 16, 2009 at 7:45 PM
The left has always been jealous that they don’t have an Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaughon their side. Sometimes Ann makes me cringe, but she ALWAYS makes sense. And she NEVER apologizes! Go Ann!
ctmom on January 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM
upinak on January 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Andrew Sullivan is British.
kcewa on January 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Then I am going to assume she meant gooy o’ Andy.
upinak on January 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I am so far north I sound like a polar bear.
upinak on Jan 16,2009 at 7:41PM.
upinak:I do hope,your staying nice and toasty!
Ya know,that accent sounds familiar,that
sounds like a bit Icelandic,has your Polar
bear immigrated across the ice floes!!
(I’m kidding ya,its Friday,haha:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM
I can’t stomach to listen to Coulter, and I’m a full-blooded conservative. She is not the best person to be out there preaching conservative values, she just turns off everybody she speaks to. Comes off very bitchy and arrogant. Just being honest here.
justinok on January 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Well I do not under “commie speak”. It that like Russian or North Korean?
Johan Klaus on January 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Could have. At least the people she mentioned bothered to become american citizens before they hated us, not Andy – he’s still a subject of her majesty.
kcewa on January 16, 2009 at 7:52 PM
It is 45 and winds are gusting at 50 and up MPH.
Like an ice rink.
upinak on January 16, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Hey, if you sound like Sarah that’s AOK with me!
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Apparently I do not understand English very well either. It is not is.
Johan Klaus on January 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I’d bet that Rush, Ann and Michelle would go for a pee test if George, Markos and Arianna would.
It’d be fun we could put a pool.
Speakup on January 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM
What a disappointment Rush has turned out to be the past few years. A total Republican shill all through the Bush years up until 2006 where he proclaimed himself “free” after the Republicans imploded. Dude totally defended these Pubs, because as he said “the stakes were too high.” Yet the Pubs were pushing socialist policy as well as becoming totally corrupted by DC. He could have taken a stand then, but no, “the stakes were too high” while his party imposed more and more government and spent like crazy.
It’s hard to take him seriously now when he proclaims to not be a Republican. Unfortunately, at least to me, he damaged himself to a great degree by not holding Pubs accountable.
I still love him for what he’s done for conservatism/libertarianism/individualism, but the last few years are hard to forget about.
True_King on January 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Call them ‘cheap shots’ as you wish. But Coulter is one of the few on our side who understands leftist debate methodology and who’s adept at playing the lefty’s game against them. Lefties win not on the issues usually, but by cheap shots, emotionalism and semantic deceit. Coulter throws it back against them… with poetic finesse.
The left has been succeeding lately in making it fashionable for country club Republicans to distance themselves from her, so Rush’s show today was a timely reaffirmation of David Horowitz’s (and probably Mark Levin’s too) assertion: Ann Coulter is our national treasure.
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Kinda… but I am not Sarah.
upinak on January 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Well I do not under “commie speak”.It that like Russian or
North Korean?
Johan Klaus on Jan 16,2009 at 7:51PM.
Johan Klaus: JK,When the Chinese President last visited
America,which was a while back,he spoke
to the American people in Chinese,and I
was listening to Rush!
And Rush translated the President,in which
Rush translated the commie speak,kinda
funny,as Rush always said at the very end
of the translations,”We will bury you”!
So,I did enjoy Rush’s translation of said
‘commie speak’!Haha
I’m sure its in one of Rush’s vault 24/7:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I agree 100%. Rush and Ann understand that the left does not want to debate or work with us, they want to destroy us. Playing nice gets us nowhere, if we believe we are right we need to come at ‘em strong with both barrels. McCain took the high road and got crushed.
echosyst on January 16, 2009 at 8:03 PM
2012 Palin/Coulter
the_nile on January 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM
The Republicans want to destroy us as well.
True_King on January 16, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Yes, and they understand this is a war for the soul of America… that the left’s emotional appeals are defeating our polite rationalism, and that we must develop successful emotional appeals of our own.
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Say what you will,
Anne Coulter is a Republican Political Trooper
in the political trenches,and if it disturbs
and irratates the Left!
That means shes affective!
Just like Governor Sarah Palin,aka,SarahCuda!
Accept,SarahCuda was too affective,the entire
Left went out on Search and Destroy missions!!
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Soros sold America short…………
………… in every way possible.
Seven Percent Solution on January 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM
I have to admit I am not big on the “high road” but accuracy is always helpful. Kos was born in Chicago, go figure. He doesn’t have an accent but also requires an interpreter.
Cindy Munford on January 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM
The part that thinks you can appease the enemy.
the_nile on January 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM
My feelings about Ann Coulter..
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
TexasJew on January 16, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Soros sold America short……….
……..in every way possible.
Seven Percent Solution on Jan 16,2009 at 8:12PM.
Seven Percent Solution: Just wait till the bill comes
in for Hopey/Changeys
Inauguration!
That alone will bankrupt the
treasury!!:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 8:17 PM
The heck we don’t. I don’t consider us giving up the high ground because of anything that Coulter says.
You go listen to Air America, or Keith O. for any hour of anyday in the last 12 months and then come back and tell me that the right doesn’t have the moral high ground.
I’m not saying the bar is set high at all, or that I am thrilled with all of the rhetoric, BUT, compared to the other side…… please.
JeffinOrlando on January 16, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I’ve never been a huge fan of Ann Coulter, but the fact she totally infuriates the left tells me she must be saying something worth hearing.
Referencing the whole “Macaca” incident in George Allen’s campaign that year: have you noticed how the more conservative a Republican is, the more effort the left invests into attacking him, demeaning him? And the less strong their conservative bona fides (hello Sen McCain) they treat them much more gently…?
Do you think there is a noticeable pattern there?
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 8:18 PM
pretty dang pathetic for you to be defending ANYTHING said about the america hater from daily kos.
ousoonerfan15 on January 16, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I agree with you. I think sometimes Ann says things meant as satire meant to elicit outrage from the Left; she often says exactly the same things they say in reverse, but they don’t recognize it, and go off the deep end condemning her. I think she is very intelliegent and pointing out their hypocrisy, but they (along with many on the right) don’t recognize that she is doing exactly what they do on purpose..
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 8:22 PM
As a fan of yours, I suspect you admire the high road fully as much as I, and that it distresses you too that the days when honor had its own reward seem to have passed.
It’s a tragedy, you and I say. But now we acknowledge reality and play the best with the hand that’s dealt us, right? The way I see it, it’s a matter of survival.
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 8:23 PM
If Ann and Rush got married and had kids, they’d be perfect height / weight.
Loved the interview, two titans.
TheSitRep on January 16, 2009 at 8:24 PM
FITY
I thought the interview was great. Coulter’s wit and wordsmithing makes the case which liberals have no counter argument against. So liberals attack her personality and not her intelligence. Liberals are so obtuse.
Kini on January 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM
enjoyable =)
Drunk Report on January 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM
She’s an artist , and she does it when it gets attention, apparently.She can tone it down when she need to.
the_nile on January 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I think I’ve only seen very brief clips of Kos speaking and that’s enough for me. Don’t know if he has an accent…don’t care.
terryannonline on January 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Liberals are so obtuse.
Kini on Jan 16,2009 at 8:25PM.
Kini: And !!!!!!!!!!!GawdLess as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!A Hem:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Perfectly true. I appreciate the compliment. At 55 I am starting to feel too old to live.
Cindy Munford on January 16, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Bingo!
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 8:33 PM
The Kos Kid reminds me of the Sham Wow dude.
Guardian on January 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Referencing that great commercial, the ShamWow guy says that the “Germans make great stuff”
As we head towards Socialism, I’m trying to remember where Karl Marx hailed from….
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Kos doesn’t have a foreign accent. He has a soft, almost lispy accent. What does Rush call it? Castrati? Before Kos, I never heard such an effeminate voice from someone who served. After you hear it, it makes reading his rants pretty damn funny.
budfox on January 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I have Ann’s book and I know I’m going to enjoy reading it on my ski vacation in 3 weeks in CO! My husband skis I don’t so it’s my time to relax, meet him for lunch, get the apres ski ready for when he gets back and read!
I love Rush!
CCRWM on January 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
An article from John Stossel, I think, recently reported that today’s 85 year older has health equivalent to a 65 year older in the 1950′s. So, let’s see, by today’s standard, you’re still in your 30′s!
Cheers!
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM
The High Road
————-
Honourable,noble,the right thing to do!
You will be a better person for it!
——————————
——————————
Meanwhile,back at Team Liberal,
Anyway you can,no matter what the cost,or
who gets hurt,the ends justify the means,
its all about power,their are no rules,
lie,cheat,fraud,for the voter is stupid!
And if the Liberal policies fail,then
blame Team Republican,after all they
will take the High-Road,and accept it!
The High Road,needs to be re-visited by
Team Republican,to formulate,new political
‘rules of engagement!!
Since the DNC has no rules!
Jus sayin:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Like those in the MSM, liberals think they are intellegent and well informed. They hated GWB and Palin because they perceived them as being stupid. However, it is their condescending attitudes that demonstrates their deranged hatred towards anyone conservative.
To me, they are petty, mean and ungenerous.
Coulter pointedly makes that so delicious.
Kini on January 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM
I don’t think I have ever been of my era. But I look 30, LOL!!!
Cindy Munford on January 16, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Cheap shot on ol’ ‘Screw Em’ Kos? cry me a river
james23 on January 16, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Coulter pointedly makes that so delicious.
Kini on Jan 16,2009 at 8:43PM.
Kini: And tasty!Hehe:)
canopfor on January 16, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Ann and Rush were so kind as to invite me to the after-party.
We’re heading down to South Beach shortly on EIBOne. It’s a very short flight from the compound, I’m told.
Coulter’s digging me. I think I may be able to close the deal after we hit Mango’s.
JammieWearingFool on January 16, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Moulitsas might have been born in America…he might not have the accent…but he is The Emperor of Toilet Bugs.
He is nothing more than an opportunist douche bag…
He’s an embarrassment to the Army, and an embarrassment to this country…
Plain and simple….
BigWyo on January 16, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Cindy Munford on January 16, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Laughin’ and grinnin’ ear to ear. That cracks me up!
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Ann Coulter for President. Whether Allah likes it or not.
Percy_Peabody on January 16, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Rush Limbaugh has never been a shill for the Republican Party. He is and always has been a Reagan Conservative. He has said time and time again that if you are a Conservative then your best chance of advancing that adgenda with through the Republican Party because there would be no chance with the Dems. He proclaimed himself free after 2006 of having to carry the Republicans’ water after they lost Congress. He does not get his marching orders from the Republican Party. Never has. It isn’t his job to prop up the Republican Party. Especially now that they have gone “limp” and refuse to fight for the American people. Frankly the Republican Party has no soul or direction. They have refused their conservative roots and the ones that are left have been emasculated by trying to cater to every whim of the Democrats’ victims groups. Isn’t that what Ann’s new book is all about?
Rush wasn’t a McCain supporter and I am sure that the only reason that he voted for McCain was because of Sarah. That was what many Conservatives did this election. He wouldn’t even choose anyone in the primaries because none of them were sufficiently Conservative. I am sure he voted for Romney because that was the closest he could get to Conservativism at that point. He would never say who to vote for in the election.
It isn’t Rush’s job to hold Republicans or Democrats accountable. It’s the voter’s job. All he can do is inform you and it is your job to take action. If you are mad at Republicans then don’t vote for them. Millions of people had that option in November and they took advantage of it. This isn’t Rush’s fault.
BetseyRoss on January 16, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Everybody from the mid-west has an accent.
thomasaur on January 16, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Love accents of all kinds, I wish television wasn’t doing away them. Everybody trying to sound like a Berkley or Harvard grad. You know.
Cindy Munford on January 16, 2009 at 9:05 PM
I believe there’s a growing disenchantment among conservatives within the GOP. Our hope is that Rush will lead this movement, until finally we have elected politicians who can regain control of the party and sustain it. Obama may be their hope. But Rush is our hope.
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 9:05 PM
But do they have chest hairs?
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Man George Allen would have been the man. But he screwed up how he handled the fall out.
And by the way, like i have said before, Michelle and this site did not help any.
Yaw raked him over and over the coals.
Oh well
kara26 on January 16, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Cheap shot at Kos?
No such thing exists….
Hog Wild on January 16, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I didn’t catch the whole thing, but I will savor what Allah has posted like a glass of fine cognac.
I did hear enough to notice how nice it was that she wasn’t interrupted by a squawking parrot every time she was about to make a salient point.
Buy Danish on January 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Just listened to the entire interview while watching the Pens beat up on Anaheim (2-1 at the end of the 2nd period)… she is not our Michelle but she is a conservative. I may buy the book as well.
Zorro on January 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM
even funnier than a Barney Frank rant? Those are my personal favorties.
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Anyone who can reduce the libtard elite into mouth foaming idiots has a warm spot in my heart. Rush and Ann are two of the best.
Zorg on January 16, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I like Rush, but (as someone noted) I’d prefer he give hell to anyone who is out of line with Conservative principles, including Republicans. He is one of a number of voices in new media who can enlighten, but I don’t see him as a ‘leader’ of a ‘movement’. I’m looking for a few GOP ers to cowboy up and start leading us out of the wilderness.
Red State State of Mind on January 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM
……… I’m going surfing that day, and try to think how I will get through the next four years.
Seven Percent Solution on January 16, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Me too. Before the interview about her latest book, I felt I’d read enough of her so there wouldn’t be much new. But after Rush’s show, I decided to buy Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America
Yes, two giants in their fields, with humor to boot.
petefrt on January 16, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Cheap shot at Kos.. it’s an echo by now, but Dude.. No such thing..
hell, People should take random sucker punches to his raisins whenever they get a chance…
and that should be a National Game.
DaveC on January 16, 2009 at 9:51 PM
What a great vid. I love that Ann went around a kissed Rush at the end!!
(PS Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga was brought up, until 1980, in El Salvador per Wikipedia. I don’t know if he has an accent, and I don’t care)
r keller on January 16, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I daresay that ‘conservative’ that tries to defend Kos needs to lose their street cred..
DaveC on January 16, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Whatever you may think about Ann Coulter on radio and the tube, read all of her books before you come to any conclusions. High Crimes and Misdemeanors alone should convince anyone, imo, of her legal and research bona fides. From there on in it just gets funnier; it should be apparent by now that she employs hyperbole as a constant device (she’s self-described as a polemicist) and that one of her main targets is her own self-importance.
She can’t be making much money being on talk shows. Sure, it sells books, but the delight she takes in battle is worth the ticket to me. I’m always surprised to hear how many people presume to judge her without reading her stuff.
The woman’s a genius.
warbaby on January 16, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Thank you so very much for posting this.
mindhacker on January 16, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Agreed. Her books are works of art. She should be required reading by every poster here.
Mojave Mark on January 16, 2009 at 10:19 PM
That was a thoroughly entertaining watch. About halfway through I received a phone call to say the cost of my bicycle repairs will jump from $120 to over $400, and the rest of the interview was ~still~ an entertaining watch, although I did lose focus for a bit.
I have to ask one question and keep in mind that I do not live in the U.S. How did the Democrats manage to become the MSM and not the Conservatives?
FierceGuppy on January 16, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Thanks for putting the video up for us. Good entertainment on a cold Friday night.
It all starts in Journalism 101 at most American Universities. The leftist slant in the teaching has led most writers and producers to lean to the left as well.
We’ll see how well this works out for them as the try to hide the obvious. This Black Messiah has no clothes.
RFA on January 16, 2009 at 10:34 PM
She was out right wrong about Kos having an accent. But cheap shot? Continual reminders that these people are America haters isn’t going to hurt anyone.
snaggletoothie on January 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Yep, I’ll take Ann to have my back in any battle.
christene on January 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM
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