Posted on 03/11/2009 7:49:03 AM PDT by edzo4
I heard Curt Schilling mention it briefly on WEEI this morning.
Ping for later.
I’d pay good money to watch that.
I wouldn’t go see Maher if Moses showed up to debate him! ...now Elvis?...well that might be different! LOL
I went to an Ann Coulter vs. Al Sharpton smackdown at Vanderbilt University a few years back. It was great.
The headline at your link:
“Bill Maher, Ann Coulter face off at Wang”
BWAAAAAAA!
There are rules!
Mahar actually takes a swipe at his good buddy Larry King who continued to fawn over him. Wonder if Larry is amused.
Well that was worthless. I wonder why the Herald even bothered to report it?
Talk about a battle of wits with an unarmed man...poor guy.
Colonel, USAFR
well unless I hear otherwise I will assume it was similar to the event event in NY the night before
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203492/posts
In an event billed as a “distinguished speaker series” event, Ann Coulter faced off against Bill Maher last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. In front of 6,000 hissing New York City liberals — alternately absorbing and answering vulgar, sexist and racist insults from “comedian” Bill Maher — Coulter battled back against audience shriekers, an unfunny Maher and “moderator” Mark Halperin of Time Magazine in a “debate” that would have been more accurately billed as a cage match and shown on Pay-per-View tv.
The tone was set at the very start. The audience was asked whether they thought President Obama was doing a great job — or if they “agreed with Rush Limbaugh,” which is of course the natural counterpoint. Not exactly a fair question, and the response was predictable.
Ann began her 15-minute opening address by acknowledging that her match up against Bill Maher was kind of like the meeting of Sid and Nancy. We all know how that worked out for Nancy.
Less than 5 minutes into Ann’s short speech and the audience had already thrown all decorum out the window. Demonstrating their penchant for suppressing speech they disagree with, audience members yelled obscenities at Coulter, the mildest of which was “go to hell.” One gentleman ran up the aisle yelling “We’ve got a real slut on our hands.” This prompted an unfazed Coulter to say, “Aren’t liberals polite?” Tonight, anyway, the answer was a resounding “no.”
When she had concluded her opening remarks, Maher walked smugly onto the stage to a standing ovation and the kind of adoration usually reserved for feather-haired teen idols who spend weeks on the cover of Tiger Beat. He talked about how racist, greedy, hypocritical and stupid Republicans are, to uproarious laughs and multiple bursts of applause.
Then Maher and Coulter were united by Halperin in the center of the stage for what was supposed to be some rigorous intellectual debate.
It wasn’t — here’s a brief recap: They argue about evolution — Ann says she doesn’t believe in it; Bill insults the world’s Christians.
They talk about Sarah Palin. Ann thinks she’s got a shot at the presidency eventually; Bill calls Palin “Cruella Deville,” a “Spokesmodel from the car show” and “dumber [than Bush]” with boobs, only he used a four letter word of course.
They talk about stem cell research — Ann quotes statistics from Godless; Bill calls embryos “microscopic goo.”
They talk about the economy — Ann says Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are to blame; Bill says the stimulus is “a big package, even for a black guy.”
They talk about Bush — Ann says he kept us safe; Bill says he “spent money like a pimp with a week to live.”
And they talk about religion — Ann says Christians are very tolerant (to loud boos); Bill says that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal performed an exorcism in college. And means it.
Bill is momentarily heckled, and promptly calls the heckler a seven-letter obscenity beginning with “a” and ending in “e.”
Maher takes potshots at the American public, calling the country stupid with an adroit use of multiple and varied literary devices meant to show how much smarter than the average American he really is.
But the substance — if you can call it that — of the discussion took a backseat to the carnage, the uncomfortable back-and-forth between Maher and Coulter, and the infuriating uselessness of Halperin, who practically egged Maher on as he leered and patronized Ann throughout the night, condescendingly calling her “sweetness,” and “my darling in the little black dress.”
As Coulter fought vainly to stick to a topic, Maher would feign exhaustion over her uncanny penchant for logic and reason, calling her “dunk tank clown,” and overseer of the “institute of rectum-derived statistics.” At one point, forced to point out his petulance, she said, “Now see, I’m citing facts and you’re calling me names,” eliciting a throw-away apology and a shudder-inducing pat on the shoulder.
Adding to Maher’s total disrespect for, well, everyone, and the audience’s total disrespect for Ann, was the overwhelming feeling that this whole charade was rigged. Halperin would cut Ann off to move onto another searing “question,” cheered on by the audience every time, but let Maher rattle off 17 off-topic jokes about Ann’s genitals or Bush doing drugs.
At one point, while bickering over Obama’s campaign promise to pull out of Iraq immediately, Maher successfully goads Halperin into confirming one of his points — which Halperin does. What kind of “moderator” actually joins in the debate?
A liberal one.
In the end the result was clear: Bill got the most applause in a rigged fight, Ann held her own and liberals have no class. But we already knew that.
This thing belonged in a boxing ring in Atlantic City or Vegas with Jerry Springer as referee.
From the Herald article: “Coulter noted Obama’s admitted cocaine use; Maher said, “George Bush did a lot more blow than Barack Obama.” Coulter saluted Bush for keeping “the country safe for seven-plus years,” and Maher assailed him for keeping silent for seven minutes after hearing about the 9/11 attack.”
So, Coulter attacked on substance and Maher lied.
That 7 minutes argument always kills me. What exactly did they expect the President to do in that 7 minutes? How do they know that during that 7 minutes he wasn’t gathering his thoughts and thinking of all the things he had to put into motion?
That’s the difference between conservatives and liberals...
Conservatives: action - think - reaction.
Liberals: action - total meltdown. (No thinking involved.)
I think the libs expected President Bush to don a Superman costume and fly around the world real fast to turn back time. Leftists are as stupid as they come. What’s scary is some are in positions with life or death responsibilities.
My review of Bill and his audience:
In a democracy, you not only get the government you want. You get the government you diserve.
My but this is gonna be ugly.
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