Posted on 06/26/2003 11:54:18 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The MRC's Jessica Anderson took down a hunk of the gabfest at the beginning of the June 25 The View, ABC's daytime show created by Barbara Walters, for whom Coulter was filling in.
Meredith Vieira explained: “In your last book you said liberals have been wrong about everything in last half century. You ticked us off over that one, alright. And now in this new bok you say that liberals hate freedom...I want to talk about your politics because in Treason you say, yes, that liberals hate America."
Ann Coulter: "Right."
Vieira: "Well, it's stupid. What do you mean liberals hate America?"
Coulter: "Well, for one thing, I mean, part of the point of my book is to get back to asking that question. I mean, I find it interesting that that is the one thing we cannot talk about: which party is more patriotic, the relative patriotism. Liberals, Democrats feel perfectly comfortable saying that Republicans are not as good on civil rights, on civil liberties, they aren't as good on women's issues. Why is the one issue that is simply off the table for debate, the relative patriotism of the two parties? Let's at least get back into that debate again. Surely you can acknowledge that it is possible to be more or less patriotic?"
Vieira: "Based on what?"
Joy Behar: "Yeah, based on what?"
Coulter: "Based on, for example, the burning hatred of the American flag from the left. I mean, that is how liberals describe someone they want to denounce; they cite his affection for the flag, 'flag-waving yahoos.'"
Star Jones: "I love the flag. I'm a card-carrying Democrat." [Audience member yells "Woo!" at this declaration, at which point the audience begins to applaud as Jones continues]
Jones: "My biggest, the biggest, most wonderful thing in my life is my citizenship, so that's one down -- keep going. I love the flag!"
Coulter: "It could well be that you belong to the–" Vieira: "But some people wrap themselves in the flag -- I mean, that's what some liberals are against, to argue their point."
Behar: "Yeah, but they cover up their evil with the flag, and that is a sin."
Vieira: "Just like McCarthy: 'I'm just being patriotic.'"
Behar: "Yeah."
Coulter: "Well, that's why much of my book discusses McCarthy. I mean, this is how liberals have taken this issue off the table."
Behar: "We're not talking about the dummy and the ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy."
Vieira: "Eugene."
Behar: "We're talking about Eugene McCarthy who was a senator.
Coulter: "Joe McCarthy."
Vieira: "Joe McCarthy, Joe McCarthy – sorry, that's what I said."
Coulter: "Eugene was your guy!"
Jones: "Actually, you talk about some of the myths that go along with this whole concept of McCarthyism, which is [trails off]"
Coulter: "Right, is going to be stunning and most people are going to be shocked when they hear that because he is perhaps the most demonized person in American history, but, I mean, that is part of my thesis of how this was taken off the table."
Behar: "No, no, no, Nixon! Nixon! I vote for Nixon."
Coulter: "And I'll give you – you raise an interesting point – I'll give you three more. I think the most reviled men in American history, to the extent they're remembered, are Whitaker Chambers, Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, the five men who did the most to defeat Soviet totalitarianism. I think that's not an accident." Behar: "You see, J. Edgar Hoover, that's an example of somebody who could be construed as a hypocrite: homophobic, and yet wearing ladies clothing."
Vieira: "Exactly."
Behar, continuing: "And wraps himself in the flag."
Vieira: "Absolutely."
Behar: "So that's why people say that he's–"
Coulter: "In fact, I think that is the hypocrisy of the left, constantly gay-baiting people they don't like."
Behar: "What?!" Coulter: "There is no evidence that J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser. I think he was gay."
Behar: "Oh, yes, I saw him in Chico's in 1965! Oh, yeah!"
Vieira, pointing to Coulter: "In fact, he had on your skirt. If I remember correctly, he was wearing that skirt."
Behar: "On his head!"
Vieira: "Let's talk about what's going on right now in the news with the weapons of mass destruction."
Coulter: "I think you were confusing him with Hillary Clinton."
[Audience Oooooooooh's in response]
Vieira, turning to the audience: "Oh, come on! Give her a break!"
Coulter, also to the audience: "Whoa! You guys gay bait everybody you don't like -- I make one shot, and that's over the line."
[for those who argued on another post the actual words:] During a discussion of a study that claims women are as sexually aroused by pornography featuring two women or a man and a woman:
Behar: "Do you like to watch two women getting it on?"
Coulter: "Uh, no. The last time I did was the Katie Couric interview with Hillary Clinton."
[Audience Ooooooooh's, with some applause and laughing]
Coulter: "Other than that, I have no experience with two women having sex."
An appalled Jones: "Are you taking a dig at Katie? Are you taking a dig at Katie?"
Behar: "You notice she didn't say Barbara Walters. She's not that stupid!"
Finally, at the very end of the show, Jones related how she and Coulter were arguing during the just-ended ad break: “She was just taking another dig at Hillary Clinton. Mad because she sold 600,000 books.” Jones then started sing-songing to Coulter, with the syllables stretched out: “Hater. Hater.”
Or, it could have been “hate her, hate her,” but it sounded more like “hate-err,” so “hater.”
Actually, Jones was saying "Waiter, Waiter" - she was getting hungry...
Vieira: "Exactly."
Behar, continuing: "And wraps himself in the flag."
Vieira: "Absolutely."
With intellegent banter such as this its no wonder the View Crew are so popular. What minds.
Note the contrast: Not only does Hillary avoid conservative venues, she won't even let liberals interview her without pre-conditions.
I'd pay to see Hillary have to face Ann in debate.
I thought that was debunked as a Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezaposnosti deception?
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