Weekly Jackass Number 41: Ann Coulter
For the second straight week, I feel compelled to give the award to someone on the right. Here’s Ann Coulter on the flypaper strategy:
As Republicans were saying repeatedly – captured on Lexis-Nexis for a year before it showed up in a Frank Luntz talking-points memo in 2004 – the savages have declared war, and it’s far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender).
In case you thought she somehow wrote her own column out of context, Ann was kind enough to repeat the slander:
COLMES: And I want to ask you about something, Ann, that you wrote in your most recent column. You had a very funny line, actually, that it is hard to find a parking spot in New York City. There’s no question about it. You’ve had a pretty good day if you can do that. But then you said, “It’s far preferable to fight them on the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender).” Now, some New Yorkers felt that you were calling them cowards by making that statement.
COULTER: No, I think I was calling them supporters of Cindy Sheehan.
COLMES: Is that what that is? You certainly don’t feel that New Yorkers are cowards?
COULTER: I think they would immediately surrender.
My answer to Ann:
And that’s that…
She may be a jackass, but she’s a FUNNY jackass. Unlike a certain Rockefeller Republican (boy, does THAT phrase date me) Senator from PA whose initials are Snarlin’ Arlen Specter, or SAP.
Hey, I like Ann, about 87% of the time – but that other 13% – whoaa….
But the Bull Goose Rockefeller Rep., aka Rudy Gee, is really the best refutation of her asinine statement.
She founded the conservative paper at My Old School, and she can be funny lots of the time, but she’s Bad for the Party, Bad for the Country.
Sorry for the capitilitis. Thinking of Hunter.
The Bull Goose Rockefeller Republican, eh? Rudy Can’t Fail….
She is still right. Yes, about 50,000 cops and firefighters did their job heroically. The rest of New Yorkers would cave.
Hope this doesn’t offend anyone: when I was in college, Frank Zappa played at nearby Smith College. He told the Smith students they were “only five per cent better than a convent.” and in order to rectify the situation, they should all “go out and get reamed.” I think of that every time I see Ann Coulter on TV.
Dan, ridiculous…we are all Americans first…Ann is way out of line, and when push comes to shove, I suspect New Yorkers are as tough as any of my fellow Texans…I suggest you read up on 9/11, about the heroics of ordinary New Yorkers, about the office workers in the World Trade Center who were last seen going floor to floor saving as many people as they possibly could…this sort of attitude is, frankly, idiotic…
I was thinking Chuck Hagel, Pat Robertson or Jesse Jackson (who’s in Caracas meeting with Chavez, the helpful soul) but this is a nice pick. It does not enhance your patriotism to belittle that of others, and Coulter should know better than to feed the whole liberal “how dare you question my patriotism” fire. Such statements make an illegitimate position legitimate.
Not to mention, she’s just plain wrong…it’s a mistake to assume that all Democrats share the sentiments of the progressive, Radical Left…
Ann Coulter as the Don Rickels of the conservative movement?
I find Rickles to be more sophisticated…
Some of Coulter’s post-9/11 writing was so strident that National Review dropped her column. National Review is based in NYC.
Coincidence?
The inanity in Coulter’s statement is primarily the fact that there will never be a war against terrorism on U.S. soil. Perhaps there will be terrorist attacks, but even then they would be sporadic and nothing to the effect that she seems to imply. But let’s say, for the sake of argument, there was a major ongoing threat to NYC from terrorism: the civilians wouldn’t fight. Are you kidding me? They’re CIVILIANS; no matter how many post-9/11 pictures you post, it will not negate the fact that New Yorkers do not equal soldiers. What do you expect – people throwing garbage at the terrorists like in the Spiderman movie? (“This is New York! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!” Give me a break.)
So yes, Coulter’s statement, as always, is absurd. But the reason you take offense is also pretty laughable.