Posted on 06/29/2011 8:24:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The media treatment of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s several gaffes this week have raised eyebrows on the right from those that have followed President Barack Obama’s supposed gaffes. Among them in particular is Sean Hannity, who put together a montage of Obama gaffes in preparation for his guest, Ann Coulter, tonight. Coulter argued there was a double standard for conservatives, and blamed “sexism” on the left for rumors that Rep. Bachmann and Sarah Palin are feuding.
“Let’s hear what she said and reason backwards,” Coulter explained the logic of liberal commentators trying to evaluate Rep. Bachmann’s statements. The recent mini-controversy involving the hometowns of John Wayne and John Wayne Gacy were, according to Coulter, a “perfect example of the elitism or illiteracy of the left,” as in small towns, she explained, even the most tenuous link to a famous person is celebrated. “I went to Joe McCarthy’s birthplace in Appleton, Wisconsin,” she narrated, where she found “they have a whole museum to Harry Houdini, even though he barely lived there.” That phenomenon, she argued, was also present in Iowa.
Coulter also addressed rumors that Rep. Bachmann and Palin didn’t get along– “they like one another!” These she attributed to sexism: “liberals are just so shocked that there are so many conservative women politicians,” she argued, and assume “there are two girls in the race; they must hate each other.” Despite her disagreements with the left, Coulter went as far as to compliment the President today as “articulate” and “bright, but even articulate bring people are going to stumble now and then.” This in response to several clips of President Obama misspeaking that Hannity compiled, which Coulter had no problem with. Her problem, she explained, was with the double-standard. “It’s only in the case of conservatives where this is taken as a reading as to what their intelligence is.”
The segment via Fox News below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Nobody ever accuses male candidates of catfights.
Then again, Lindsey Graham hasn’t run for president yet.
Of course he is: you don't get as far as he has by being an inarticulate bumbler.
You underestimate him at your peril.
It should be sufficient to say that his ideas, ideals, and ideology are at odds with American ideals, and are destructive of this great nation.
There is no need to to try to minimize, as liberals love to do of their opponents, his intelligence.
They are after all, the party of name-calling; let us be the party of ideas.
When you're a liberal you do. I've never witnessed any evidence of Obama’s
intelligence.
Rumors of Øbama’s intelligence have been greatly exaggerated.
That was supposed to be, “Bumbler in Chief”.
Hi Lara - as usual, Ann is having fun with the liberals by recalling then Presidential candidate Joe Biden, on Jan. 28, 2007, said about his rivals: “”I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
If a conservative had said that, the media would have labeled him a racist and demanded him to quit the race. But the Democrats and media gave Biden a pass and now he’s VP.
The media always forgets liberal faults so Ann likes to help the liberals remember.
What the hell was Ann watching? Articulate?? *roll eyes*
True, Bachmann introduced this, I wonder what her campaign has in mind for how to use it.
Although he didn't do it alone, he became the most powerful man in the world and oversaw one of the fastest and most sweeping series of changes to the United States in it's history. If 5 years ago you were told that a man would virtually convert the U.S. into a socialist society in only two years, you would have said that was crazy talk. Obama accomplished it.
Wait until the presidential debates — the “intelligent and articulate” OBastard will get his head handed to him by Pubbie nominee Sarah Palin, and be shown to be the shallow intellectual lightweight that he really is.
She obviously doesn’t read FR or she’d see the roving bands of political assassins still attacking Palin “backstabber Bachmann.”
Ann forgot to mention, Lara, that Obama is “clean”.
Coulter thinks Obama and Milt Romney are
“articulate” and “bright”.
If THAT is what goes for conservatism, then
America is finished.
WRONG. Coulter is a ROMNEY-RINO.
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