Coulter v. Coulter
Lately, a barrage of controversy has been surrounding Ann Coulter with the release of her latest book, Guilty, and recent appearances she has had while promoting the book. Ann is the queen of spin so it’s no surprise that a big steaming pile of dung was created…all just to sell more books!
A friend of mine recently sent me an email about an opinion column on Creators.com by a gentleman named L. Brent Bozell. His post entitled Coulter v. The Counter-Coulters is, for the lack of a better word, complete bullshit:
The Drudge Report caused a firestorm when anonymous NBC insiders leaked the word that Coulter had been “banned for life” from that network. CBS featured her on “The Early Show,” and a combative Harry Smith tried to insult her to the extreme. He called her “goofy,” “simplistic,” “sophomoric” and a “whiner.” “You should have a cross,” he said dismissively. “You should put yourself up on a cross.” Why are they so upset?
Uhh…Coulter was never “banned for life” from NBC, CBS, or any other network. Sounds to me like either The Drudge Report or Ann herself made that up. Sure does make for a great story to sell more books, don’t you think? More on that in a sec.
The so-called “objective” media clearly feel threatened because they are the very liberals Coulter is attacking. If they weren’t liberals, none of her mockery of liberals would bother them. Oh, they might not appreciate her style, as some conservatives don’t. But they wouldn’t have pitched debates inside their walls about how they will savage her in interviews — and I defy the networks to deny this — or how they would remove her from their airwaves altogether.
Threatened? Really? If I were part of the so-called “Liberal media” I wouldn’t feel threatened. I highly doubt Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow or anyone else for that matter feels threatened either. After all, why should we feel threatened? There isn’t anything that Ann says that remotely reflects any common sense or anything that can be deemed as an educated argument. If I was running a network, I probably wouldn’t have her on either. Not because she’s a threat to my ideology but rather I simply wouldn’t want to kill more viewer brain cells with a display of idiocracy.
Later, I read Ann’s latest post where she says this right at the very beginning:
After NBC canceled me “for life” on Monday — until seven or eight hours later when the ban was splashed across the top of The Drudge Report, forcing a red-faced NBC to withdraw the ban — an NBC insider told The Drudge Report: “We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” explaining that “it’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”
Here’s what I think about that:
Don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s raining. NBC no more canceled you than you flew. And then you go on to claim that someone at NBC wasn’t interested in you because you’re so critical of Obama? Bullshit, Ann! I’m not even going to comment on the rest of your post, which is nothing more than an excerpt from your book and filled with just as much bullshit as well.
You sat right there on the Today show and agreed with Matt Lauer on the Today show that you didn’t get banned:
Did you say you got rescheduled twice? That happens all the time with talk shows. You didn’t get banned! Why do you continue to insist that somehow you got banned? Just because The Drudge Report said it doesn’t make it so.
And then you claim that you didn’t say that “the liberal mainstream media hates conservatives”. You may not have said those exact words but you sure as hell have implied it time and time and time again.
Then you act all so “I don’t know! Why would I do something like that?”. Yes, you are fanning the fire to sell more books. How else can you sell a book that is so controversial? By creating more controversy! Duh!
And what kind of results prove that Liberals are destroying America? The exultation of single motherhood?
It, it’s promoted in the New York Times and all the glossy women’s magazines and Hollywood movies. And we now know, after 30 years of promoting single motherhood, of the courts destroying the institute of marriage, that children raised without fathers are filling up the prisons, are 70 percent of the teenage runaways, of, of teenage pregnancies, of rapists.
Seriously? Are you out of your ever-loving mind? Ann, what you’re describing is just a part of life and the result of decades of evolution in this country. Single parents are NOT the result of Liberals destroying America. That’s just complete and utter bullshit.
You want to know the thing that really gets me about this? It’s the way you present it. You talk as if you’re an authority on the subject and that everyone else knows the facts. You claim all of these outrageous things and yet you don’t have anything to back them up with. No facts. No hardcore research. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
David Neiwart on Crook And Liars summed it up Ann Coulter quite well:
Yes, we know it’s a schtick. Ann Coulter gets paid millions of dollars to say outrageous things. She has to keep coming up with new ones or she’ll be out of work. And it would be best if we all could just ignore her.
But as I learned long ago, ignoring these people away doesn’t work — especially when, like Coulter, she can team up with her pal Drudge to maumau NBC into putting her back on-air even after they’d come to their senses and realized they were being had. Well, she did it again. More importantly, she can go on all these national talk shows — as she did today, appearing not just on NBC but also CNN with Lou Dobbs and on Fox with Bill O’Reilly.
In other words, Ann Coulter is a joke, a caricature of a right-wing conservative wacko which, if it is indeed an act, is a pretty damn convincing one. But the sad part is that it isn’t an act. It’s Ann being Ann.
What folks like Brent Bozell don’t understand is that the so-called “Liberal media” don’t like, not because she’s a threat, but rather because she’s ignorant. The only enemy Ann Coulter has is…umm…Ann Coulter. She is her own worst enemy. Every gaff that comes out of her mouth and every book she writes does nothing more than just sink her credibility lower and lower and lower.
My advice? Quite while you’re ahead, Ann! Go back to doing something more productive rather than making millions off of telling lies! Hate-mongering and making money off of lies is far more damaging to America than the shit you claim “Liberals” are doing.
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