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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unless you count his gay lisp, Kos doesn’t have much of an accent..
DaveC on January 16, 2009 at 10:44 PM
AP Thinks Coulter is playing Tom Hanks game? Lay off the pipe. Coulter and Rush are one of the few fighters left on the right who are not afraid to be unabashedly conservative. Coulter’s books are phenomenal and her logic is devastating. I guess AP never heard the term “provocateur”, or “controversialist”. She has done more for the cause than people like AP would ever dream of.
echosyst on January 16, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Maybe a love connection, are both of them single? Could you imagine the children? They could rule the world!..lol..: o )
At the least they could write a book together or maybe a few shows.
christene on January 16, 2009 at 10:56 PM
I have for some time railed against evangelicals for not fighting fire with fire with the Democrats and the loony left. It took Ann Coulter to express it in terms which I would wish I would have thought of. Ann talked about Americans being ‘charitable’ and being ‘the most charitable people in the universe’ and that this trait allows them to be taken advantage of by groups who feign ‘crocodile tears’ and that these groups used their victimhood as a political ploy. Ann says that Americans (evangelicals) must be made aware of this so that do not buy into it and cause them to lose their moral high ground in attacking Obama.
technopeasant on January 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM
These are stupid points.
Speaking with a foreign accent doesn’t make one less of an american.
Reverse the situation and find some foreign-born conservatives or conservatives whose native language is not english and make it a liberal attacking them. Who would you be defending.
This is a total non-issue. People need to be judged solely on their views and not their ethnic identity.
Seven Seas on January 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM
…..hear hear to that!
John The Baptist on January 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM
technopeasants remarks that is….
John The Baptist on January 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Comedy Gold.
Tinian on January 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM
In the first clip around the 7:50 min. mark, Coulter talks about what she refers to in her book as the “imaginary” Republican attack machine, to which Rush replies, “There isn’t one though!!” Coulter: “Yes, that’s the point of the chapter.” This is me talking now. Seriously, uh, these two over-indulgents must think their listeners are idiots. Hello! Republican establishment elites like Rush Limbo, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, (and other radio hosts) are the Republican attack machine!! And those just mentioned are joined by Ann Coulter, Drudge, et al! Excuse me, but no Republican attack machine!? Seriously. They must literally believe that those of us who listen to them are mindless zombies. Just so you know, I was one of Coulter’s biggest fans. Rush too. So I’m not some wet-diaper liberal screaming about something one of them said, but I’m taking issue with these statements about there being no Republican attack machine. This was just another effort to lie to grass roots conservatives. Coulter and the corporate-cons on the right are out of control. Republicans like these are what’s wrong with America today. Drunk with a quenchless thirst for the TV lights and million dollar contracts, they have lost touch with the millions of everyday Americans living in medium to small towns who make this country what it is. They are not the voice for conservatives anymore not matter how hard they try to deceive you into believing they are. Just as long as they please their friends in that GOP elite bubble they play in, they’re happy. That’s all that matters. No Republican attack machine. Pfft! Coulter had to devote a chapter to the “myth” of the Republican attack machine because the whole group of them (Rush, Beck, Hannity, Drudge, Coulter, et al) were exposed last election as liars. It was the most biased coverage ever seen in a presidential campaign. Just ask Huckabee. If he did anything in the Republican primaries it was to help show they have helped destroy the conservative movement in America.
apacalyps on January 17, 2009 at 12:27 AM
apacalyps – Coulter, Ingraham, Hannity and Rush are not establishment elites, they rail against the limp wristed Republican party machine all of the time. You are mixing them up with Northeastern, country club Republicans, another group they rail against. What exactly did they lie about in the last election cycle? Huckabee ran into trouble because he claimed to be a conservative but his record indicated otherwise. He would have lost to Obama just as badly or worse.
echosyst on January 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM
They would make a cute couple.
clnurnberg on January 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM
I wrote:
RFA wrote:
Yet there was never a law restricting the title of journalist to the left-leaning rubbish American Universities pump out.
So what is the real story? Why didn’t Conservatives long ago invest in the creation of their own media and become main stream?
FierceGuppy on January 17, 2009 at 12:46 AM
apacalyps on January 17, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Rush is the conservative attack machine. Don’t get confused.
VolMagic on January 17, 2009 at 12:55 AM
They are not the voice for conservatives anymore not matter how hard they try to deceive you into believing they are. Just as long as they please their friends in that GOP elite bubble they play in, they’re happy. That’s all that matters. No Republican attack machine. Pfft! Coulter had to
“It was the most biased coverage ever seen in a presidential campaign”. Your are talking about the MSM of course? I could be wrong but, you do not sound like a conservative to me.
Johan Klaus on January 17, 2009 at 1:11 AM
LOL. I didn’t even get that far in apacy’s little message.
Of course he loves the Huckmiester.
If Huck-y is conservative in apacy’s view, no wonder he doesn’t like the Dynmaic Duo.
VolMagic on January 17, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Allahuakbar,
Shut Up and Post Video. I really appreciate the links, not your insipid commentary about how Ann is mean and nasty.
Those who criticize her don’t understand the reason she writes. To paraphrase The Fountainhead, “she does not write in order to have fans, she has fans in order to write.” She writes with the vocabulary of Edgar Allen Poe and a comedic talent superior to Dave Barry’s, not to mention her often underestimated political analysis (e.g. She was the first to call out Huckabee as a snake oil salesman, to say Fred Thompson was a non-starter, to say McCain would lose, and to say that Hillary was a better alternative than Obama). I’m sure she was joking about whatever “cheap shots” she took to hurt little bloggers’ feelings.
ashleymatt on January 17, 2009 at 1:23 AM
Good question. Most universities started out rather conservative and were established by religious institutions. They were gradually taken over by leftist, which was one of the goals of the communist. The left has done everything possible to silence the right. The fairness doctrine, hollywood movies making vilians of the right, Christian bashing, among many others.
Johan Klaus on January 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM
I agree with AP. My parents both speak with heavy Russian accents and you won’t find more pro-American, conservative, free market, unabashedly patriotic people around. Ann forgets, many of us came here to escape the kinds of places Arianna, “screw them”, and self-hating Jew extraordinaire Soros want America to be. She does more to alienate centrists and undecideds than she does to bring them into the camp and in today’s America, you need the latter.
AlexK on January 17, 2009 at 1:34 AM
Sorry, apacalyps, but you sound like a seminar caller. “I’m a real conservative, but I’m voting for Obama!” If you listen to Rush, you know that he goes after non-conservatives in the Republican party almost as much as Democrats. No one can accuse Rush of being a Republican attack machine. But he will attack both Republicans and Democrats in the name of conservatism (and Ronaldus Maximus).
Christian Conservative on January 17, 2009 at 1:35 AM
Look, I’m not saying she doesn’t have good points, but I found it funny that someone could attribute an Ayn Rand quote to a woman Ayn Rand would loathe.
AlexK on January 17, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Thanks, Johan. I think it is a good question, too.
FierceGuppy on January 17, 2009 at 2:03 AM
The term you are looking for is “bomb-thrower”. It is Coulter’s role and she does it well. When actually talking issues, her logic is damned good. When attacing the other side, she occasionally drop a couple on her foot. It is more rare than the MSM screaming about it, but it happens.
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on January 17, 2009 at 2:07 AM
Interview gold by two of my favorite conservatives — humor and substance all the way through
onlineanalyst on January 17, 2009 at 2:27 AM
I don’t think they are part of a republican attack machine as much as they are part of a conservative attack machine. Rush Limbaugh was never a John McCain supporter and lobbied against his nomination for President. He makes fun of McCain all the time on his program as much as any liberal from the Democratic Party. Ann Coulter refused to even endorse McCain and actually called Hillary Clinton more conservative than him. She actually endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primaries after Republicans had picked McCain. These are not Republican Party operatives and they are not Republican Party hacks. They are conservatives who attack liberals anywhere they find them.
Dollayo on January 17, 2009 at 2:28 AM
I think you missed Ann’s point about the accents. Immigrants praising America, it’s history and culture, are the exact opposite of immigrants trashing America.
It really is more pathetic to hear an immigrant trash America, even more so than when long established liberals trash America. It is also more encouraging, heartwarming, or whatever, to hear an immigrant praising America, even more so than long established conservatives praising America.
I would expect that a pro-American immigrant would hold the most disdain for anti-American immigrants. I’d expect them to make the exact same points that Ann made. Would it have been alright if Mark Steyn made the observation instead?
Buddahpundit on January 17, 2009 at 3:12 AM
I guess it depends. One, she didn’t say anything about foreign speakers supporting the party, her critique was about 3 English-challenged forein speakers being spokespeople for the party. This is America….would it be too hard to actually find someone from this country to speak for you instead of foreigners who likely don’t have America’s best interests in mind?
Two, if it was a liberal attacking an English-challenged foreign-born Conservative who hates this country, I would be ok with it. But that’s not going to happen, because any Conservative who hates this country will be applauded by like-minded liberals.
xblade on January 17, 2009 at 3:20 AM
forein=foreign
Yes,I can spell, it’s the typing I struggle with, lol.
xblade on January 17, 2009 at 3:22 AM
I like Ann, she purposely attempts to piss people (liberals) off with controversial and provoking rhetoric… this is another brilliant example of her signature style.
Cr4sh Dummy on January 17, 2009 at 3:47 AM
AlexK wrote:
I reckon you’d be right. Ayn Rand’s stance on Conservatives
can best be summed up as ‘Faith sodden clods who are as useless as tits on a bull when it comes to defending Capitalism and Individual Rights.’ Actually, in promoting Objectivism she was ~the~ best attack machine against the Marxist Left ~and~ the Religious Right the U.S. ever had. But Coulter and Limbaugh do have their own way of hitting the Left which I just find very entertaining if not philosophically stimulating.
Tony.
FierceGuppy on January 17, 2009 at 4:14 AM
AlexK wrote:
I reckon you’d be right. Ayn Rand’s stance on Conservatives
can best be summed up as ‘Faith sodden clods who are as useless as tits on a bull when it comes to defending Capitalism and Individual Rights.’ Actually, in promoting Objectivism she was ~the~ best attack machine against the Marxist Left ~and~ the Religious Right the U.S. ever had. But Coulter and Limbaugh do have their own way of hitting the Left which I just find very entertaining if not philosophically stimulating.
FierceGuppy on January 17, 2009 at 4:24 AM
When Rush said, “politicization,” I thought of you Ed.
- The Cat
P.S. But what was disturbing was I reflexively repeated it all Thurston Howell.
MirCat on January 17, 2009 at 4:25 AM
I remember Rush saying something a while back about how he didn’t like to date women who are as conservative as he is; that it always involved an element of competition and nitpicking over what did or didn’t make it into his show, or if he ever got ideas from their conversations.
Obviously I have no proof and none of us can ever know for sure, but when I heard him say that, I must admit she was the first person who sprang to mind.
Cylor on January 17, 2009 at 5:15 AM
soundingboard on January 17, 2009 at 5:18 AM
Wasn’t he in the military briefly? I must admit I know nothing about him personally aside from the part about him being a worthless bag of excrement. So are you saying they didn’t ask, and he didn’t tell?
Cylor on January 17, 2009 at 5:19 AM
I agree with this point.
Ann’s like a great offense that puts together a brilliant eighty-five yard drive, only to fumble at the goal line.
soundingboard on January 17, 2009 at 5:31 AM
How to tell when an Ass Hat is in your midst.
They post a fifty line diatribe and never answer any of the challenges.
Eat it Dork Boy.
BigWyo on January 17, 2009 at 7:40 AM
Ann Coulter is fantastic. She is for God, she is a patriot, she is for the Constitution of the United States, she is for decency, she rejects elevating perversion, she is a world class author and satirist and she fights for human life. She has also been awarded for her extraordinary intelligence and she is highly regarded, as a brilliant legal mind.
Her mistakes are far and few between and she is admired by many.
There would be a Republican President and Congress right now, if more Republican politicians would reject political correctness and stand firmly for the standards, values, morals and principles of conservative Americans.
Markos Moulitsas (Kos) and his site posters spew hate and appear to stand for nothing. He is a typical leftist who builds nothing beautiful and works tirelessly to desecrate and destroy all that others have built. He may not have an apparent foreign accent, along with his foreign views, but he, Soros and Huffington appear to be like-minded thinkers.
It may be possible that they were dedicated to the Marxist principles of Saul Alinsky, as Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton were.
If I am correct, Mrs. Clinton dedicated her Wellesley thesis to Saul Alinsky.
sinsing on January 17, 2009 at 7:44 AM
That is the most horrible idea I think I have ever heard, Ann Coulter should NEVER be allowed to reproduce.
Also, I think Limbaugh is dating again.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 7:54 AM
I almost fell out of my chair laughing. Ann Coulter is crass and rude. She is an anathema to decency, not the paragon of it.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Bill Buckley did not speak english as a first language, that is part of the reason he spoke with that mutated CN Prep School accent.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 7:58 AM
You are right, they are just hacks.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Wake up call…
BigWyo on January 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Interview gold by two of my favorite conservatives — humor and substance all the way through
onlineanalyst on January 17, 2009 at 2:27 AM
Very interesting thread, as always when the subject matter involves RL or AC. Both of these people are hugely successful for good reason. AC books are well researched and very well written. RL rails about being correct some 98% of the time, and rightfully so. Both of these people have “lasting” power because their data is accurate and the attack dogs can’t fight them on the data they spew. RL handed the MSM-Liberal party a golden goose with his drug addiction, but the attempts to destroy him with this story failed repeatedly. RL continues to entertain and educate millions of faithful listeners every week, and AC continues to sell millions of books despite the haters. Why is this? Simple as what onlineanalyst states….
The GOP turned on RL and AC in recent years, and it has cost them big time. Conservatism works when applied every time. Running on a Conservative platform works every time, just ask several Democrats who ran & won recently by talking up Conservative values. Pretty smart of them, and really DUMB of Republicans to allow Democrats to run to the RIGHT of them.
Keemo on January 17, 2009 at 8:47 AM
I think that all Coulter was doing was pointing out the irony that the 3 people driving the Democratic party – a party which wants to expedite citizenship and voting rights of illegals, a party which sees America as part of a global society that should be catered to – these 3 people are not even American born, surprise surprise.
I think you can make an argument that a 3rd generation American feels more connection to a land that their grandparents and parents were raised on and have a history with than someone who came over as a young adult.
CarolynM on January 17, 2009 at 8:49 AM
BTW: Did I mention what a complete failure looks like.
For long lasting success, one could look into the careers of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
For long lasting failure, one could look into the political careers of John McCain (McCain Feingold) and John Kerry.
Keemo on January 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM
CarolynM on January 17, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Exactly right Carolyn… It is that simple, but the idiots and haters can’t deal with simple.
Keemo on January 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Ever notice that, other than Limbaugh, the only conservatives with cojones aren’t adult males but females? Excepting El Rushbo (and Hannity now that I think of it) the conservative pundits ask us to hope for The One’s success. Count me out. I want the Marxist swine destroyed. Why? Because he wants to change America. Sorry, but I like the America created by the greatest generation that was severely damaged during the 60s and 70s. I don’t want the U.S. to become Euro-socialist or Canada II. And I’ll fight the liberalist vermin with all my – admittedly miniscule – resources.
So my dream team is:
• President Palin and her running mate Michelle Bachmann
• Jeri Thompson as SecDef
• Ann baby as SecState
• Carol Platt Liebau in Treasury
• MM strongly in charge of DHS
• Gotta find a place for some others like Katherine Jean Lopez, Amanda Carpenter and Laura Ingraham but maybe others have some ideas.
At least these people – as my representatives and statesmen – recognize that there’s a war on against the faith based zealotry of the liberalists. I’ll give these cojoneied-up women much more of my trust than 99% of the GOPers in D.C now.
rocksandbroncs on January 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Another point discussed between these two yesterday, is that G. Soros bought and owns the Democrat Party. Maybe the haters could vent a little about this minor detail. Maybe the haters could explain why they support a man who bet against America the day the stock market re-opened following the events of 9/11.
Keemo on January 17, 2009 at 9:00 AM
rocksandbroncs on January 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Love your thoughts rocksandbroncs!!!!! Compare and contrast your comment with the likes of Squid Shark.
Manly vs. sissy…
Keemo on January 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM
One of the biggest liberal frauds is the history of Martin Luther King. No one ever mentions that King was a Republican. Why was he? Because it was the Democrat Party who were the party of segregation and Jim Crow, which is never mentioned today.
The Democrat Party: Rewriting American history for decades. Now, with the libtard shills in the media, Truth is an orphan. Or better yet, Truth is a unwanted Spartan child left to die on some mountainside thanks to ideology.
RickZ on January 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM
“No wonder we don’t have the moral high ground anymore.”
One should not confuse the term moral high ground (a politically correct term if I ever heard one) with what is right and wrong. Trying to argue with a lib while staying on so called “moral high ground”, is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. Just ain’t going to work. You want to know the problem with the Republican party today. It’s been far too polite, far to dove like and not effective in today’s “in your face” society. The fact that idiots like Olberman get so worked up over folks like Coulter is proof positive that hers is the means by which we must instill our values. Slam it down their throats, call them the names that fit them, and don’t relent until the vote swings our way. Remember, liberalism is a disease, a mental one at that. And liberals are generally much weaker willed than Republicans. Therefore, with incessant beating over the head (used figuretively of course) of issues, they will be persuaded to come over to our side.
rayvet on January 17, 2009 at 9:22 AM
I see Michelle Buchmann,R-MN, (sorry if the spelling is incorrect)coming on strong.
Cindy Munford on January 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I agree that the way politics is played has changed in the last decade or two, like the difference between softball and hardball, and that our apparent reluctance to adapt is costing us, big time.
I used to have confidence that if you were right on the issues, you could win by force of sheer reason, and the rest would take care of itself. Silly me.
petefrt on January 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Not to long ago most people who went to college were almost exclusively from the upper socio/economic sphere. At some point, open to debate, they started feeling guilty about their privileged life so they decided they were going to help the great unwashed. And I mean “helped” by encouraging them not to believe in hard work and self reliance but “helped” as in they are victims. Victims of history, race, gender and mostly of the United States, who’s very make up promotes winners. Before you know it no one wants to excel by hard work and individualism, they want to be catered to as a victim and to pass on these “rights” to all. Obviously a nation of victims, who add nothing but continue to take, cannot last. But this is recent history. In the case of journalism,at our founding and for a long time, the media was divided and even took the name of the party they supported. Later it was attempted that there be a media that just gave the “facts” and now we are going back to where we started. I am not sure humans are capable of being un-biased but I appreciate those who try.
Cindy Munford on January 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
That’s exactly right. I know, as I was in college during part of that period. Folks started going into journalism careers not because they wanted to be good reporters, but because they wanted to become change agents. So now we have generations of agenda-driven reporters, who are more interested in shaping the way you think than reporting the news factually.
petefrt on January 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM
So we darn well better make sure our side gets heard. And if they talk sweetly and gently that won’t happen. I would still prefer that we have accuracy on our side, the heck with the “tone”.
Cindy Munford on January 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Cute,
It takes a real man to try to undermine a duly elected president. Or to sit his fat worthless ass behind a microphone all day.
You can snipe at me all you want Kemo, I did my time defending this country that I love, now I will do what I can to make sure that cowards like Limbaugh and Soros and Harpies like Coulter and Sheehan dont destroy us from within.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I recall an actor named Reagan who won without being “in your face”. He was strong, yes, but he was always polite and dignified. That man brought honor to the party, Limbaugh has been sliding down a very steep hill into the gutter with Coulter and he seems pretty happy wallowing in crap with her.
I seem to recall that Obama won without being “in your face” as well.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 10:16 AM
apacalyps ……why is it when truth gets exposed on Liberals by Rush et all…..its an “attack machine”….but when for example: 100 lies about S. Palin get spread by the ilk of Kos, HuffPo etc its just politics as usual.
sbark on January 17, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Do you remember when we were telling the Liberals to shut up and support your president in a time of war?
Guess what, new, duly elected president.
This place is really turning into Republican Underground.
We should just rename it RU and call it a day.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM
That was a hit job too. No one is saying it is not, you repeatedly make the faulty assumption that people who dont like the harpie and the fat man think that the liberal tank media is ok.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Bullshit. But I guess with you, flipping the bird at Hillary and McaCain, and calling Palin a pig is not in your face.
RickZ on January 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Bullshit indeed, do you really think he called Palin a pig.
That was one of the dumbest of the many stupid things McCain said on the trail.
“Lipstick on a Pig” is a very common phrase.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Ann called Silky a faggot, oh the outrage. Then silky is caught cheating on his cancer ridden wife (which Ann knew all along)but all they can remeber about him is the name calling.
jed58 on January 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM
So??
Just because Edwards is a scumbag does not make Coulter likewise.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 10:45 AM
So taking Palin’s joke about the difference between a hockey mom and a pig, and referencing lipstick on a pig is not in your face? You must have drank deeply of the kool-aid. In your world, Chicago Jesus can do no wrong, can never be wrong, and anyone who criticizes him is wrong. Gotcha.
RickZ on January 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM
From the post:
Hogwash, ALL demokrats speak with a foreign accent which I can not fathom — it’s an Un-American dialect best described as Carcharhinus Leucas. Ann isn’t taking a ‘cheap shot’ she’s telling the truth. QED
TennDon on January 17, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Rick,
I ask you, honestly, do you even know what he was talking about when he made the pig reference?
He was talking about ECONOMIC POLICY! Kool-aid indeed
Epic Fail once again. I dont think anyone who critisizes Obama is wrong anymore than I thought anyone who critisized Bush was wrong. And since I am Jewish, Obama Jesus means very little to me.
In your world. You are either a bloated asshole hurling cheap shots at the soon to be president or you are one of his followers. Gotcha.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Just curious, do you listen to Rush? Have you in the past?
VolMagic on January 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Of course AP would focus on this rather than Soros selling short on 9/11. It’s unfortunate that Michelle can’t find a couple of competent conservative bloggers to run this site.
I can get anti-Coulter crap anywhere and everywhere in the MSM. To get the truth about Soros you have to dig.
Basilsbest on January 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM
I sort of fall into the former, except my shots aren’t cheap. Why would you even think of giving The Chicago Jesus the benefit of the doubt? Has he earned that at all? I know he hasn’t. But YMMV.
RickZ on January 17, 2009 at 11:09 AM
I did when I was in college. I always enjoyed Boortz more. As time went on I listened to less and less Rush. Now it is only when there is nothing more to read.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I would “think” to give the “Chicago Jesus” the “Benefit of the doubt” because he will be my commander-in-chief soon in a time of war.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Based upon his campaign rhetoric, and his Cabinet appointments, he gets no slack from me. Dissent is patriotic. Or were Dems and progressives lying all these eight years?
RickZ on January 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM
So who was right, the “Dissent is patriotic” crowd or the “Dont criticize the prez in a time of war”
Who would you have had him appoint to his cabinet?
Secretary Gates is the one I care about most and I am more than happy.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 11:19 AM
So do you think have an intelligence neophyte (Panetta) at the helm of the CIA in a time of war is a good thing?
Why would you even think of giving a commie rat-bastard like Obama the benefit of the doubt? And don’t you think it’s abominable that Obama, having no national experience or connections, is using Clintonite retreads because that’s all he has for fresh ideas? Hope n’ che’nge may work for you, but it’s a pretty dismal policy given the state of the world we live in.
RickZ on January 17, 2009 at 11:33 AM
GHW Bush was an intelligence Neophyte and they named a building after him. What is important is who Panetta (if he is approved) keeps as number 2.
I am not jazzed up about Holder or the “Climate Czar” Socialist. I was not really excited about Rumsfeld either, you cant win them all.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM
“I recall an actor named Reagan who won without being “in your face”. He was strong, yes, but he was always polite and dignified. That man brought honor to the party, Limbaugh has been sliding down a very steep hill into the gutter with Coulter and he seems pretty happy wallowing in crap with her.”
Apples and Oranges. Different times require different “weapons” of war. I also remember during that time that Dims/libs/socialists weren’t siding so much with entitities that were out to undermine our country. Can’t say that now though can we.
“I seem to recall that Obama won without being “in your face” as well.”
He didn’t have to. His “unbiased” media did it all for him. Kind of like Coulter, Hannity and Boortz do it/did it for our side during the election. Funny how that kind of thing works, huh?
rayvet on January 17, 2009 at 11:42 AM
We will have to agree to disagree there, I dont want bottom feeders like Coulter anywhere near a microphone. All she does is play into the stereotype.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I feel very sorry for you active duty types. The 1% of the population that’s homosexual is about to be given tremendous power over you. My condolences.
Mojave Mark on January 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM
If you say so. I was never a big fan of “dont ask dont tell”. You cant be half pregnant.
As for the service of gays. I have served with 7 homosexuals that I can recall offhand in my career. Only one would I choose to not serve with again, and that was because he was an assbag.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Ann Coulter may be the only person alive who is right 100% of the time on political issues and idiots trying to destroy our country. Which, for instance, people who supported Prop 8 are NOT trying to do. I know Allahpundit can’t tell the difference. Like Bill O’Reilly – he sees as much contempt on right as there is on the left, and he sees that the VICTIMS of Terrorism are as much to blame for the violence as The Terrorists themselves!
Allahpundit: He’s as helpful as leprosy!
grtflmark on January 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM
While certainly endorsing your right to your opinion, you cross the line when you don’t want Miss Coulter near a microphone. Your decision is not to listen to her or to dispute what she says, not to keep her from speaking. Hopefully you were speaking rhetorically.
Cindy Munford on January 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM
As I commented last night (Mojave Mark kindly seconded), before anyone forms opinions about Ann Coulter, they should read all of her books. She is a mistress of cogent logic and argument, imo, and she writes like a dream. It’s easy to make the mistake of falling into the sound bite mentality if all you get is what you see on TV; at that point you’re playing their game and they win by default.
AC is not a talking head who “writes” books, but a brilliant writer with God’s own gift for self-promotion. Unlike almost any current author, she defines the distinction between sarcasm and irony, perhaps better characterized as the difference between adolescent “humor” and that of an adult.
Of course this is lost on the kind of people currently ascendant in the midstream media. I admit I don’t own a TV because it bores me stiff, and my whole exposure to Ann Coulter in that regard has been in the last 6 months after a hiatus of several years of being offline. I read, however, daily, and I rarely find anybody’s stuff that literally makes me laugh out loud page after page. In combination with the bright colors on her book covers, this annoys the life out of Liberals, which is of course another advantage to literacy.
warbaby on January 17, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Maybe I don’t watch near enough “news” or even tv for that matter but I just now saw a commercial about Glenn Beck going to Fox News. How long has this been known?
Yakko77 on January 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Can I “third” the comment? She does her own research and her footnotes are all there. Her books are truth, documented, clever and funny. And hit liberals between the eyes. Hence the venom.
Christian Conservative on January 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM
I have read her books, all of them in fact. My opinion remains the same.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Oh for goodness sakes madam, Rush himself admitted as much the day after the 2006 elections. He said he felt liberated because he got tired of carrying the water for the Republicans.
As I said, I used to love Rush and was an avid listener for years, a 24/7 member, I still use the “Why Im A Conservative” coffee cup. He’s the reason why I became politically aware and realized that I was born to fish out of the right side of the ship (as Christ instructed in John 21:6). Again, I have a great deal of love for the man, but he pulled Republican water and defended them more than they deserved while they socialized us.
I say this with all due respect ma’am.
True_King on January 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM
You’re entitled. But out of those who have really read her books, I suspect you are in the minority. Her books aren’t best sellers because of detractors, but admirers.
Christian Conservative on January 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Christian Conservative on January 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Here, have some of this:
It’s called “white space.” You can put it between things called “paragraphs.” They are all the rage these days. You could try them.
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RJGatorEsq. on January 17, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Good takes Squid…I agree with just about everything you’ve said here.
dakine on January 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM
With a little help from the press. By the way, did you vote for Obama?
Johan Klaus on January 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM
No, and I dont know what I said which would make you think I did.
Squid Shark on January 17, 2009 at 6:33 PM
And who really cares who has an accent – why is that pertinent?
Again she is very damaging to the GOP.
AprilOrit on January 17, 2009 at 7:01 PM
How does calling Rush ‘fat man’ and Ann C ‘the harpie’ advance your argument?
Red State State of Mind on January 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM
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