ABC's "This Week" to have Ann Coulter on Sunday roundtable

If I were a conservative I'd be offended by the people the media choose to be my representatives.

Whether it's CNN's version of a conservative blogger (and there are sane conservative bloggers CNN could have hired), or inviting Ann Coulter to be on This Week's roundtable, usually reserved for serious people.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't remember anyone this un-serious ever being invited on the roundtable.

At some point, you just have to say no to political and intellectual pornography, regardless of how much it may titillate some viewers.  It's likely to turn off just as many other viewers who don't turn on This Week looking for an upscale version of the Jerry Springer show.

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Bill Maher’s New Rule: "If you’re a working-class American who still votes Republican ... you’re stupid"

Not pretty, this editorial; but pretty damn good. This is from the New Rules segment at the end of the most recent show.

The nervous laugher in the background is Ann Coulter, who as you can see played an uncharacteristic double role — flirty ex-or-current–girlfriend (of Maher) cum right-wing verbal assassin (of Chris Hayes' publicly-employed mother, earlier in the show).

In case you've lived the last few weeks in a box, Casey Anthony is the latest female media obsession. The verdict in her trial for [allegedly, and I mean that] killing her child was announced earlier that day. (God made google so I don't have to link you.)

With that behind us, here's Maher, asking "Just how stupid are Republican voters?" Enjoy:



"The moneyed elite in this country are dragging a bag filled with your future down the steps, and [the Republican base's] reaction is, 'Hold on there, that looks heavy. Let me give you a hand getting it into your trunk.'"

In 2008, with the economic world crashing around us, 46% of everyone who voted, voted for John McCain. Your Republican fellow-citizens, ladies and gentlemen; here until we're all dead.

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Crazy Coulter dropped from crazy right-wing conference after accepting invite to speak at crazy right-wing gays' conference

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Conservative heart throb Ann Coulter canceled in Canada. Told Muslim student to 'take a camel' as alternative to flying.

Canceled. Good riddance.

[T]he contents of Monday’s talk — which included Coulter telling a Muslim student she “take a camel” as an alternative to flying — grabbed headlines on both sides of the border Tuesday.

Coulter made the camel quip when pressed on a question asked by UWO student Fatima Al-Dhaher, who was referencing a previous quote made to the media that Muslims shouldn’t be allowed on airplanes and should take "flying carpets" instead. Al-Dhaher had noted she didn’t own a flying carpet, and asked what Coulter suggested she do instead.

Racism and bigotry, thy name is Republican.

All kidding aside, it is interesting how none of the conservative hearthrobs - Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Beck - are simply nice people. Who do liberals like? Obama? Not nearly enough mean bones in that man's body. Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann? None of them compare to the bile coming from the GOP's fantastic four. Read the rest of this post...

Coulter says it's really liberals comparing Obama to Hitler

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Boehlert: "Militia-style vigilante rhetoric has become a cornerstone of the conservative media movement in America"

Eric Boehlert at Media Matters on O'Reilly's incendiary rhetoric and the abortion doctor murder:

Please note what you did not hear from virtually anyone on the far right who addressed the Tiller story last week. Yes, they tried furiously to distance Bill O'Reilly from the controversy or suggest there was nothing problematic with the "baby killer" rhetoric he used. But what you did not hear was anyone condemn, or even take issue with, O'Reilly's on-air crusade.

Why the silence? Because militia-style vigilante rhetoric has become a cornerstone of the conservative media movement in America, and it's now proudly championed by Fox News on a nearly hourly basis.

Eric raises another point that I've heard mentioned repeatedly:

Noise Machine leaders claimed that liberal commentators do exactly what O'Reilly and Beck have been accused of: using violent political hate language that puts people's lives in danger. That claim has been made over and over, yet conservatives can't actually produce any proof -- can't find any hateful liberal quotes -- to buttress the claim.

That's because both talking points are complete fabrications.

Republicans, when pressed about how hateful their intellectual leaders like Limbaugh, Savage, Medved, Beck, and Coulter are, like to respond by claiming that liberals are just as hateful. They then cite Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton. Yes, Jesse Jackson made some pretty hateful statements about Jews... back in the 1980s. He's now never even heard from in Democratic circles. He's hardly a leader of the party. Al Sharpton? Funny man, but same as Jackson, irrelevant on the national scene. Which leaves us Michael Moore. First off, Moore doesn't keynote Democratic party events across the country. He's hardly the intellectual leader of the party that Limbaugh is to Republicans. (You won't be seeing the chair of the Democratic party reflexively apologizing to Michael Moore any time soon.) Second, when has Michael Moore said anything hateful? Sure, you may not like his criticism of Republicans, but we're not talking simple criticism. We're talking the sexism, racism, homophobia, and overall hate and rage that pours forth from Republican intellectual leaders on a daily basis. There simply is no one on the Democratic side to compare. Read the rest of this post...

NBC's anti-Semitism

Leave it to NBC, the Nothing But Coulter propaganda network, to again give Republican leader Ann Coulter a space to air her bigoted views. NBC always does this, they always have her on, regardless of who she attacks, who she insults, regardless of how bigoted she gets. NBC doesn't care, they want to help Coulter sell books and get ratings, so they always have her back to spew her hate every time she gets a new book deal. They know what she's going to say, but they put her on anyway - that means they endorse it, or at least have no problem with it. Well, this time Coulter says America would be a better place if we could just "fix" those pesky Jews and convert them all to Christianity.

From Editor & Publisher:

Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into -- Christians.

It led Deutsch to suggest that surely he couldn't mean that, and when she insisted she did, he said this sounded "anti-Semitic."

Asked by Deutsch regarding whether she wanted to be like "the head of Iran" and "wipe Israel off the Earth," Coulter stated: "No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. ... That's what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament."

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Countering Ann Coulter at Xavier University

Some of the progressive students at Xavier University in Ohio aren't too happy that the nasty, bigoted homophobe Ann Coulter is appearing on their campus. But, they've turned their anger into action at their blog, Counter Ann Coulter. They're raising money -- in $5.00 increments -- to bring progressive speakers to campus:

She has every right to speak her mind (and she's paid well to do it, her $20,000+ speaking fee equals about $5 for every Xavier student). But we speak our minds, too; for values like compassion, equality, and diversity. The same values Xavier students work to uphold with groups like Xavier's Gay-Straight Alliance, Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity, and Earthcare.

Here’s where you come in: While Coulter pollutes the air with her divisive message on one side of Xavier’s campus on September 6, on the other side we’ll be presenting a check to Xavier student organizations working to make their campus – and Ohio – a place where everyone feels at home.

Can you spare just $5 – an Abe Lincoln – to support the same communities Coulter regularly bashes for pay?

We’ll also send her a ‘thank you’ card signed with your name, and let her know how much money we raised.

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NBC's David Gregory thinks we just need to "strip away" Ann Coulter's inflammatory rhetoric to listen to her points

Not kidding. According to NBC's David Gregory we're all missing the very important points that Ann Coulter makes because we get caught up in her hate speech. He just said to Elizabeth Edwards "if you strip away some of the inflammatory rhetoric against your husband and other Democrats, the point she's trying to make about your husband, Senator Edwards, running for the White House is in effect that he's disingenuous..."

Okay, so much wrong with the way Gregory defends Coulter. Her hateful, inflammatory rhetoric can't be stripped away -- and let's be honest, that's why NBC and ABC put her on their t.v. shows. In typical fashion, he also tries to paint everyone with the same kind of hate speech. So, instead of putting Coulter on, NBC now has one of their top reporters defending her approach. Because, you know, if you strip away the fact that Coulter advocated the assassination of a leading presidential candidate, and mocked his dead son, there's really such an important message buried inside.

Huh? Says so much.

Elizabeth Edwards handled it well, pretty much laughing at him -- and made the key point -- this is not about stripping away hateful rhetoric. The hate speech is the issue:

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The traditional media has created Ann Coulter. They feed the beast. They enable her and her hate speech. And, we're just all really stupid because we think the hate rhetoric matters. Read the rest of this post...

Coulter's hate has been a financial windfall for John Edwards

The woman should be in prison. Has the Secret Service investigated Coulter yet for wishing John Edwards assassinated? Oh that's right, George Bush's Secret Service only investigates liberals, while conservative man-whores are given free rein of the White House without even getting the basic background checks required of other frequent White House visitors. Why should we expect the Secret Service to investigate death threats against a Democratic presidential candidate? That would require them to do their job in an impartial manner. Just like they didn't care when Pat Robertson suggested that terrorists nuke the State Department. It's not their job to care, it's their job to protect Republicans. More from AP. Read the rest of this post...

Ann Coulter wishes John Edwards were assassinated

If you or I said this, we'd be arrested. And we certainly wouldn't be given TV time on ABC, NBC or any other show than FOX. Why did NBC let her on the show after this? Why would anyone? This woman is the biggest book seller, biggest TV personality, and biggest public speaker of the Republican party. She represents everything that has gone wrong with that party, and the reason why so many of us have left it.

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Elizabeth Edwards challenges Ann Coulter on Hardball

Mrs. Edwards is really starting to make me happy. She just phoned in to Hardball and asked Ann Coulter to stop the "language of hate." I missed the first part of Edwards' call, and will tape it all later, but here is Coulter and Edwards replying to her. And Chris Matthews did his usual "ask a hard question, then when she doesn't answer, move on to the next hard question."

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And don't miss the nipple on the woman to the right of Coulter - it's simply bizarre that any human being would dress in public like that. You really have to see it live on TV, it's inappropriate as hell, and actually quite apropos of the entire broadcast (and typical of a Republican Coulter fan - no marriage for me, but feel free to flaunt your nipples in public).



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Ann Coulter makes me laugh

Not really. But these guys do.

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8th paper dumps Coulter

The Human Rights Campaign and Media Matters launched campaigns last week to have people contact the newspapers that syndicate Ann Coulter's columns (after she called John Edwards a "faggot," and then repeated the comment the next day). The 8th newspaper has just dropped her. This is good. This is really good. More from E&P. Read the rest of this post...

Two more papers drop Coulter

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White House Web site still proudly showing Cheney at CPAC, no denunciation of Ann Coulter or CPAC

Dick, your daughter Mary Cheney is one of those "faggots" Ann Coulter smeared at the very conference you chose to attend. Giuliani and Romney (who also spoke there) and McCain (who didn't even attend) have all denounced Ann Coulter's hateful homophobia, yet you, the father of a very pregnant lesbian daughter, have nothing to say about lending your good name to this hate-filled forum. And it's even worse now that CPAC has refused to condemn Coulter and has left the door open to having her back next year. Will you be speaking at CPAC next year too, Dick, alongside the woman who viciously attacked your daughter and her soon to be out-of-wedlock two-mommied child? Read the rest of this post...

Media Matters joins Human Rights Campaign in taking on Ann Coulter's newspapers

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GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) says Ann Coulter is her "hero"

Does she still think that? From the Star-Tribune:

Ann Coulter should be slightly less adorable today for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

"In the terms of modern presidency, Ronald Reagan has been a tremendous hero of mine, as has Ann Coulter. I just adore Ann Coulter," Bachmann said in an April 2006 interview with thewindbe-neathmyright-wing.blogspot.com.

If the political provocateur has declined on Bachmann's idolatry-meter since Coulter lobbed a slur in John Edwards' direction, the Minnesota Republican was not confirming it.

The truly revealing and unfortunate thing about this is that Coulter's slur drew laughter and applause above any gasps.

Dumpbachmann.blogspot.-com contributor Karl Bremer e-mailed me about the congresswoman's quote of adoration.

Coulter's comment brought condemnation from the left and the right. She's not having it. In an appearance on "Hannity & Colmes," Coulter said that the f-word "isn't offensive to gays. ... It's a schoolyard taunt. ..."

Why, I wonder, is an adult resorting to childish behavior?

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4th newspaper drops Ann Coulter over "faggot" remark

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