Coulter accidentally tells the truth
By Steve Benen Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 7:20amRick Perlstein catches Ann Coulter accidentally telling the truth about the Republican Party's "news" network.
Ann Coulter's latest column claims that "New York cabbies' compliance rate on daily bathing" is less than 48 percent; dilates upon the reporting in the "Treason Times"; and reflects, "Fox News ought to buy a copy of Monday's Democrat [sic] debate on CNN to play over and over during the general election campaign," because the only people it could possibly convince to vote for a Democrat are "losers blogging from their mother's basements."
Really? Why would a fair and impartial news network, with no interest in helping one political party or another, want to do that? Or, as Rick put it, "[W]hy ever would Fox care about electing Republicans, given that they're a news organization in the business of 'fair and balanced'?"
A "Michael Kinsley Moment" is when a political figure makes a mistake by accidentally telling the truth. I think Coulter's quip qualifies.
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So, what did Michael Kinsley originally say to garner this distinction?
Thanks to anyone who can point me to the quote :)
Whoda thunk that FOX veiwers are “losers blogging from their mother’s basements?”
Well, you have to give Mann Coulter her/his/it's credit: she/he/it knows her/his/it's audience.
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Ann had an :oops: moment.
Red-X @ 1:
He is quoted as saying, "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kinsley#Quotes
What the hell is that even supposed to mean? Like, if FOX viewers are never on the internet and are always out shooting up abandoned refrigerators or attending the Gathering of Eagles or sleeping with prostitutes or whatever the hell it is FOX viewers do, what's the point of showing the debates on FOX? Or is it intended to convince (or unconvince) the vaste hordes of Democrat or undecided viewers who watch FOX? Or... what, exactly?
What planet/drugs is this cretinous creature on?
This woman's maniacal arrogance has lulled her into a false (maybe?) security that she can say anything she wants and get away with it. I'm sure she'll come up with some scathing insult for everyone holding her accountable for this 'slip'. "It wasnt me exposing the truth about my darling FOX News, it was those ______ creeps and basastards trying to _____ poor little me"
Crazy, evil, biatch!
wish I knew where the original quote was... I'll search for it. :)
Truth is such an alien concept to Coulter that even when it slips out, she'll be genetically incapable of recognizing it. Faux "News" and their fair and balanced advocacy of all things Republic is common knowledge. Glad Coulter could reconfirm it.
I don't think this latest transmission from Planet Coulter has been properly demodulated. What about the cretin who held up his AK47 and referred to it as his "baby"? Is that a "liberal", blogging from his parents' basement? Joe Biden had perfectly reasonable response to this jerk, which Michelle Malkin fell all over herself trying to make it into something it wasn't and therein lies the key to Coulter. She is a rather more than a mere liar who loves to hear herself talk, who has a diminished capacity for self-observation, and is not worth the spittle expended working up a froth over her. We have reached a point where an inability to think critically- Coulter, Carlson, Malkin, Savage, Limbaugh, O'Reilly- if not outright mental illness, seems to be a prerequisite for garnering a large audience in the mass media. Kill Your TV.
The full quote seems to be:
Which still infers that Fox News viewers--"mother's basement" bloggers--can be convinced of anything by watching a tape over & over again.
Ann Coulter is such a stupid loser. Why do people keep putting her on T.V.? I could go down to the local strip club, find someone hotter, talk to her about politics for about 60 seconds, throw her on T.V. and she would run circles around Ann Coulter. Seriously this crap where she is supposedly 'pretty' has really run it's course. Lots of anchors and personalities are pretty but you don't see them getting away with advocating genocide and being a total racist all the time.
Note that she also implies (in the full version of the quote) that Democrats eventually will have to appeal to another nut-base, not only their own.
Put the shoe on the other foot. Would it be okay for CNN to play the Democratic debate over and over again?
One thing we know from that debate and its aftermath is that the two leading Democratic candidates for president both sincerely think the other "guy" is naive, which makes the two of them in agreement with what Republicans have been saying about them all along--so, yes, the truth did inadvertently win out.
oh...you caught her steve...good work Sherlock
That b**ch is past due for her rabies and distemper shots.
Ann should be sold into white slavery.
We can sit back and laugh, laugh, laugh at her predicament.
Interesting to watch Coulter's habitual mental habits show so physically. Is that an adam's apple? Is that a whiskey grimace?
Coulter:
No, mAnn, we've given up trying to reach out to your 25% ers. We'll let you and the Freeper stay in your mothers' basements, where you can concoct your little fake anthrax scares in peace.
I don't know Coulter's middle name. No matter, since she makes up stuff all the time so will I. From now on she will be known as A. Scumbucket Coulter.
I've seen better dogs at the pound. FLEABAG!!!!
That's the only way that sociopaths ever do tell the truth: by accident.
There are no Democrat debates just as there are no Republic debates.
Those who persist in trying to rename the Democratic Party are morons who go out shooting up refrigerators, sleeping with hookers and drooling uncontrollably. In short, Fox watching Rovians.
I've seen better fleas at the dog pound! :-)
So I'm glad Coulter has finally realized that the only ones left in the Repub party are the mothers' basement dwellers. But I'm a little less optimistic about their prognosis for entering reality than Coulter is.
Actually in recent years I've found New York cabbies (who are now overwhelmingly Pakistani or East Indian, with a sprinkling of Russians) to be a startlingly well scrubbed and competent bunch. I guess Ann is to young to remember the "fat smelly white guy stuffing his pie hole with crullers while driving with one hand" era of the 60s and 70s.
In any other country but America, people like Coulter are reduced to standing in the park on soapboxes, shouting at passersby. Seriously, just try to come up with a 'public intellectual' in Britain, Canada or Australia who is even close to Coulter or Limbaugh. Those countries don't embarrass the insane by giving them a public forum.
much as it kills me to say it... Ann Coulter is right. That debate was awful. These things aren't debates, they are vomiting platforms for candidates to practice their "populist" shtick. If anyone is convinced to vote one way or another because of these stump speeches posing as debates, you either aren't paying attention or you're a dolt.
All that being said, I expect the Republican YouTube debate to make me want to gouge out my eyeballs and throw myself out a window. Pick your poison.
Coulter freaks out when you mention her union busting father. Bob Beckel made her freeze in the headlights when he mentioned it one time
I still fail to understand why anyone pays attention to the nut. Ann Coulter will say anything for attention.
Revulver @ 14:
...for real... how is this news?
She's probably an expert on unbathed cab drivers since she has to blow them so often.
Actually that sounds more like the Fox News demographic.
I REALLY would like to see mAnn Coulter raked over the coals for her 'facts' as Mike Moore was for his latest movie by CNN. The Repukes can make up all sorts of sh*t and never be called on it. What's it going to take? How outrageous does it have to be?!
mAnn Coulter thinks Saddam was involved in 9/11. She's a crack pot. Enough said.
That was in Coulter's column? So, what, fifteen people read it?
A comment that followed Ann Coulter's column:
Who is Ann Coulter? Just the best writer/commentator extant today, and one of the best America has ever produced! Who is in second place? A brilliant young woman named Michelle Malkin! I thank God for them both!
Lee Pemberton, Sarasota, Florida
OK sorry about that ( comment # 35 ). I have to learn how to b-quote better. But you get the message.
Ann Coulter is on TV for the same reason Morton Downy Jr. got a show. Or Jerry Springer. Or The Gong Show found an audience ... or America's Got Talent. For the same reason Danielle Steele has a publisher.For the same reason Captivity found a studio willing to release it.
America produced PT Barnum ... not George Orwell.
Ann Coulter= broomstick with teeth and an adams apple!
Michelle Malkin= a prude of a woman who tries to smear war hero's! A phillipino with an extensive brain washing, or shall i say labotamy....you be the judge!
Immigrant @ 35:
Everytime I see Ann Coulter on the tube I'm reminded of an old joke:
Q: Why don't the cocktail waitresses in San Francisco wear mini-skirts?
A: They don't want their balls to hang out.
Is that an Adam's Apple I see? Maybe that's why "she" is a sex symbol to the sexually repressed deviants on the right.
Mann tells the truth? and it's tongue didn't snap off and run away?
I guess Randi was right that it's the crazy things he is going through from the hormone shots he's taken to become a she-male.
No offense to any she-males out there, I'm just saying...that's all.
If a Coulter-Cheney ticket sought the nomination in 2008, their slogan for winning would be "Nobody Can Lick Our Dicks."
And did she start screaming, "I'm melting...I'm melting...I'm meeltiii...!"?
The smelly Whore, Coulter, is absolutely incapable of telling the truth at any time.The hatefilled whore is still sucking Dick over at Faux Propaganda noise.
Anne Coulter and a dog turd have one thing in common. The older they get, the easier they are to pick up.
ann coulter couldn't get laid by a drunken sailor at a whorf side dive.
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 44:
Two corrections: "She" is not incapable of telling the truth, she chooses not to. But she may still let a real fact queef out once in a while - even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Secondly, Dick is no longer at Faux News, he is at the OVP running the 4th Branch of government.
Dang, "Ann" not "Anne". I'm typing this from "Olde Europe". My bad.
Isn't Coulter aware her party LOST the last election? Democrats won.
So who's the loser? Or perhaps I should say sore loser?
Get ready for President Hillary Clinton in 2008, Annie.
If Ann didn't harbor this private competitive jealousy with Ru Paul, and could accept that her transition is almost as effective as his, even with a penis, she'd be contentedly cabbing-it downtown in the evening and be too content to rag the life out of people who are trying to think.
I know my comment will get lost in the the huge comment blogosphere, but when are all these administration criminals going to pay for their misdeeds? They act like they are home free untill thy are out of office and then they ARE home free. F*ck these b*st*rds. When are the democrats goning to get some spines. and when are the Repuglicans going to act like REAL Americans?
Ivam Quentin @ 51:
Don't know about the Democrats, but as to the Repugnants: When pigs fly.
lol ....
Ann is a bulemic-slut-comedian-entertainer.
It's not as if she's insightful about ANYTHING.
I'm so lost on her sense of "logic". It's so back asswards, I feel like my head might explode.
Just mention the name Ann Coulter and watch the bigotry and venom come bubbling to the surface from our sweet little seething progressives.
OK, boys. We all know that Ann Coulter is a liar and a tool of the right. Can we lay off the misogyny? She's not offensive because she's a woman. She's offensive because she's manipulative, hateful and greedy.
55 Jose Chung
56 BadKitty
As we say in Texas, you don't show up to a gun battle only carrying a spork.
Jose Chung @ 55:
Can we get somebody to spray for trolls in here?
Yep, we talk shit and make fun of hypoclitical liars 'round these parts. But we ain't runnin' fer office or 'spectin nobody to take us serious. We ain't 'riting books calling those who don't agree with us "traitors."
"Seething progressives?"
Yeah, we're seething - with anger. Righteous Anger.
Now get the fuck out of here, buttmunch.
Jose Chung @ 55:
Jose, we've listened and learned from Ann.
One thing you have to admit, Democrats have rolled over and failed to respond in kind to Ann's attacks for years. Payback is a bitch, isn't it?
Still funny in a creepy way: For everyone making transgender comments about her, notice that Ann Coulter is a thinly veiled anagram for No Real C*nt.
Let's see, that's one 'Truth', in the 'Truth' column, and considering how many times she says 'I Think', which is a lie, her ratio of 'Truth' to 'Lies' is somewhere near Bush's approval percentage.
As a Texan veteran I don't cotton to treason like Ann supports.
Why doesn't FOX run a story, "ABC news said there were no names of significance on the DC Madam's list, when they had exclusive control of the list."???
Because they're ALL "corporate msm", FOX may be more BLATANT
You NEVER see one network having a story about another network, even if it's real news, ever notice that?
Here's a nice comment following Ann Coulter's column;
When's the bounty going to be announced on Democrats, Liberals, "Progressives" and other lower and superfluous forms of life? Out here in the West, we're getting real edgy.
Doc Miller, Wellington, NV
Where's that son of a bitch O'Reilly?
Look fellow liberals, we are making a mistake here --again.
You assume that because the NeoCons call Fox "fair and balanced" that they actually think that.
99% of what Conservatives and NeoCons say is about WINNING. They just want to score points on liberals. It doesn't matter that Anne Coulter knows she is lying when she says; "fox is just an alternative to the Liberal Media." Most of the Fox viewers justify Fox as being slanted THEIR way.
If you read any NeoCon blogs, they say things like; "Hey, let's make up a story about Hillary, so that people don't diminish the importance of her philandering husband." They openly talk to each other, not about what they KNOW to be true, but what will SCORE against their hated Liberals.
They don't hate the sin, or lack of morals -- they just hate the KNOW-IT-ALL Liberals. These are deeply wounded people, and somehow they've bought the Limbaugh myth of Liberals. And whenever WE TRY TO PROVE how they are wrong -- we miss the real reason that NeoCons support Anne Coulter.
She makes it OK to hate. This type of conservative has learned to embrace the abuser -- because they fear. They hate compassion because they see it as weakness and they feel that either you are the Fox or the Rabbit -- so they snarl as well as they can, so that the head dog doesn't mistake them for a Rabbit.
We cannot shame these people in to anything. You either act tougher, embarrass them into silence, or you warmly embrace everything they say and then laugh.
People don't root for their favorite Football team because they are NICE, or Just, or honest -- they root for a team because they win. Liberals look at politics as a way to make life work -- and the Conservatives (these days) look at it as a contact sport. If you enter the field dressed as a cheerleader, in their mind -- you are asking for a pounding.
Danny @ 11:
Yes, but if Goebbels had looked this good in high heels...
The BushCo, with CorpGovMedia, has finally gone beyond merely treating 1984 and Meine Kampf as a playbook, and has finally innovated on their old Straussian propagandists. They have pulled the grasshopper from their master's hands.
It's a dubious distinction... but I'm sure they are proud of making ugly look good.
The only thing I don't like when people discuss Coulter is the suggestion that she is a sex change recipient. It suggests that women can't be that totally evil, that only men can be that vile. Women can be just as mean and nasty as the most repugnant male. If you need an example, look up 'Irma Grese'.
Smack_dab @ 68:
That's "sorta it". Qualities you point out are value judgements about male/female roles.
We're saying she is looking more and more like a GUY in Drag. A visual hit.
I know the truism, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', and Coulter seems to get a hell of a lot more attention than she deserves, which is what she wants.
But if the media comes to it's senses, and her column inches and air time start slipping, she should consider appearing in a crotchless thong, pasties with nipple cut-outs, and a bag over her head.
She could bill herself as 'The Unknown Fox Comedienne'.
Or just as 'Mystery Meat'.
"Michael Kinsley Moment" is okay, but I like Al Gore's term better: She "committed candor".
for your information, eva braun, i'm blogging from my FATHER'S basement! HA!
This is not the first time Coulter has admitted to the conservative media ascendency.
July '05. In a display of intellectual bravura that is the hallmark of the Sean Hannity Show, Coulter informed her host who is in charge: "we have the media now."
Even O'Reilly occasionally rats out:
"One major casualty in the war on terror is the liberal press in the USA. Don't believe the right-wing ideologues when they tell you the left still controls the media agenda. It does not any longer. It's a fact." - July 2005
If she suggests that Fox News buy the video, it must be so that Fox News can play the video. If Fox News plays the video so that "losers blogging from their mothers' basements" can watch it, it must be that Coulter is calling Fox News viewers "losers blogging from their mothers' basements". Therefore, Coulter and I agree. First time for everything, I suppose.
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