Posted on 10/09/2001 12:27:10 PM PDT by lady reaper
After the September 11 attack masterminded by a terrorist hoping to spark a religious war, virtually every official and pundit knew better than to take the bait. Except for conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who wrote in a syndicated column on September 12 that in responding to terrorists "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
The column outraged the public, but conservatives, including National Review editor Richard Lowry, ascribed Coulter's column to grief over the loss of a friend in the attacks. But the following week, Coulter was at it again: "Congress could pass a law tomorrow requiring that all aliens from Arabic countries leave....We should require passports to fly domestically. Passports can be forged, but they can also be checked with the home country in case of any suspicious-looking swarthy males." This time Lowry spiked her column. Coulter responded by calling Lowry and his staff censorious "girly boys." Lowry then dropped her as a contributing editor. Other conservative leaders also condemned her comments.
What's curious is that Coulter's comments aren't all that different, in tone and style, from hundreds of others she's made over the years. But in the past, her ire was directed at her domestic political enemies---for which she drew fulsome praise from conservatives. Last year, the Media Research Center presented Coulter with its "Conservative Journalist of the Year" award. The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute bestowed upon her its annual conservative leadership award "for her unfailing dedication to truth, freedom and conservative values and for being an exemplar, in word and deed, of what a true leader is."
Coulter is spinning her downfall as a new kind of terrorist-war McCarthyism. "People are hysterical about speech right now," she told The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz. "Everyone's comments are being taken out of context and wildly misinterpreted." At the risk of further de-contextualization, here are some of Coulter's past comments:
"[Clinton] masturbates in the sinks."---Rivera Live 8/2/99
"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"---Hannity & Colmes, 6/20/01
The "backbone of the Democratic Party" is a "typical fat, implacable welfare recipient"---syndicated column 10/29/99
To a disabled Vietnam vet: "People like you caused us to lose that war."---MSNBC
"Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores."---Salon.com 11/16/00
Juan Gonzales is "Cuba's answer to Joey Buttafuoco," a "miscreant," "sperm-donor," and a "poor man's Hugh Hefner."---Rivera Live 5/1/00
On Princess Diana's death: "Her children knew she's sleeping with all these men. That just seems to me, it's the definition of 'not a good mother.' ... Is everyone just saying here that it's okay to ostentatiously have premarital sex in front of your children?"..."[Diana is] an ordinary and pathetic and confessional - I've never had bulimia! I've never had an affair! I've never had a divorce! So I don't think she's better than I am."---MSNBC 9/12/97
"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote."---Hannity & Colmes, 8/17/99
"I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote."---Politically Incorrect, 2/26/01
"If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country."---George, 7/99
"We're now at the point that it's beyond whether or not this guy is a horny hick. I really think it's a question of his mental stability. He really could be a lunatic. I think it is a rational question for Americans to ask whether their president is insane."---Equal Time
"It's enough [to be impeached] for the president to be a pervert."---The Case Against Bill Clinton, Coulter's 1998 book.
"Clinton is in love with the erect penis."---This Evening with Judith Regan, Fox News Channel 2/6/00
"I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more." Asked how far back would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start."---Politically Incorrect 5/7/97
"If they have the one innocent person who has ever to be put to death this century out of over 7,000, you probably will get a good movie deal out of it."---MSNBC 7/27/97
"If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one [child] gunman. ... Don't pray. Learn to use guns."---Politically Incorrect, 12/18/97
"The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail."---Hannity & Colmes 8/24/01
"I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly."---MSNBC 3/22/97
"Originally, I was the only female with long blonde hair. Now, they all have long blonde hair."---CapitolHillBlue.com 6/6/00
"I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't."---TV Guide 8/97
"Let's say I go out every night, I meet a guy and have sex with him. Good for me. I'm not married."---Rivera Live 6/7/00
"Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend."---Politically Incorrect 7/21/97
"I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate."---Rivera Live 3/12/99
"My track record is pretty good on predictions."---Rivera Live 12/8/98
"The thing I like about Bush is I think he hates liberals."---Washington Post 8/1/00
On Rep. Christopher Shays (d-CT) in deciding whether to run against him as a Libertarian candidate: "I really want to hurt him. I want him to feel pain."---Hartford Courant 6/25/99
"The swing voters---I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don't have set philosophical principles. You're either a liberal or you're a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster. "---Beyond the News, Fox News Channel, 6/4/00
"My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism."---MSNBC 2/8/97
"You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard."---Washington Post 10/16/98
John Lott was also on the show & he had just done printed a paper on the mass increases in the US budgets & spending since women got the right to vote. Even Mahr chimed in with his theory that alot of women are using government in place of men....instead of husbands, they go to Uncle Sam for support. The show was great.
Ditto that. Now if only she'd put on ten or fifteen pounds....
They will smile and shake your hand, but stab you in the back when the Imam tells them to, as they have been trained to do. Don't take my word for it. Read the Holy Piece of Anti-Bacon Shi%t. And I know these people. They are otherwise the BEST people you have ever met.
I think the bible is very clear about a womans place in the family unit but as I think about it, I wouldn't want a woman not to be able to vote unless the country she lived in was all or maybe 90 percent Christians. Non Christian men have no clue what their part is to be in the family unit.
That's what Rush has been saying but it must not be a new idea. My wife would be glad to give up her vote to take it away from the majority of the women we know including: My mom, My mother in law and almost every neighbor lady on our block, two of which are divorced Unitarians. We only hope that the women at our church are better but there is no guarantee there.
Ann Coulter says what many Americans are thinking and the left assumes that she'll be rejected for simply making sense. No way. The liberals are probably thrilled to believe they have Ann on the run after her 'convert them all to Christianity/swarthy males' flap with New Republic. Sorry girly-boys, it ain't gonna happen.
Ann is a solid presence, a strong, intelligent voice for conservatives in a liberal-dominated media and she is not going away nor will she be abandonded by (most) conservatives, especially this one. Ann: 1 Liberals: 0
I have seldom met a l*b*r*l with a sense of humor.
Does anyone recall the exact circumstances of this quote?
I would guess he had turned "peacenik" and was spouting anti-American garbage.
I saw this after I'd read the first few columns she wrote after Sep. 11. I'd been losing interest in her column, not because I disagreed, but because the quality seemed lessened. Then, when I saw these quotes, my faith was restored! These quotes are hilarious! Many are very true, and the rest are so obviously out of context that it makes them that much more funny.
I don't know who liberals are trying to influence by publishing this, but it's not gonna do any good (besides making liberals angry and offended, which they like being, and conservatives laugh, which they like doing). It's not gonna make any conservative who knows Ann Coulter change his mind about her.
I first saw the list on a message board in The Ann Coulter FAN Club. It didn't change anyone's mind there either. Because those quotes are why we like her. She infuses conservative philosophy with clever wit and satire (satire so good, one dummy liberal in the club took her hilarious satire piece on NOW's support of Andrea Yates seriously).
Liberals never learn . . .
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I predict the Ann Coulter fan club will be swamped with female applicants because of this article.
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