Coulter called Gore a "total fag"; Tweety: "we'd love to have her back"

[dajoki]

SORRY FOR THE LINES BUT I CAN'T SEEM TO FIX IT!!

http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200607280001

On MSNBC, Coulter called Gore a "total fag," while Matthews said "we'd love to have her back"

Summary: Chris Matthews asked pundit Ann Coulter, "How do you know that Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea that Clinton "show some level of latent homosexuality." Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag." In concluding the interview, Matthews said of Coulter, "We'd love to have her back."

On the July 27 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, "How do you know that Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that Clinton "show some level of latent homosexuality." Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag." She went on to defend her theory about Clinton's sexuality by stating that "everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them." Coulter claimed she was "just kidding" about Gore, but said of her theory about Clinton, "It's not only not a joke, it's not even surprising."

Further, Coulter remarked that when "most Americans" heard that an Israeli airstrike had hit a United Nations observer post in south Lebanon on July 25, killing four U.N. observers, they hoped to hear similar news about "the installation on 42nd Street" -- presumably a reference to the U.N. headquarters in New York City.


Earlier in the interview, Coulter had said she would "not be averse to taking military action against Iran," adding that "we can take care of Iran so that they couldn't build a transistor radio." Matthews went on to ask her," So you would bomb them into the Stone Age?" Coulter responded, "It's either that or have a lunatic sitting on top of nukes. If that's what my choice is -- yes."

At the beginning of the interview, Matthews had remarked that Coulter reminded him of "the young George Will." In concluding the interview, he said of Coulter, "We'd love to have her back."

[graywarrior]

1. Or her front...if you can figure out which is which.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Hard to read through the overstriking

Or was that intentional?

At any rate, the scum of the Earth thinks Ann Coulter is the scum of the earth. :grr:

[dajoki]

6. No, I will try to fix n/t

[dajoki]

10. I can't get rid of it, sorry n/t

[MadMaddie]

3. So is Tweety going to get fined for the FCC?

Any liberal leaning organization would...

Do we have to file a complaint to the FCC....cause if that's what it takes lets do it....this shit is getting old...

[wtmusic]

4. The neopundits are getting testier by the day

as their agenda, by the day, proves to be nightmarish failure

[Mz Pip]

5. Poor Tweety

He's probably sucking up to Ann so she won't call him gay.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[TomInTib]

7. He can fucking have her back/front/Adam's Apple/size 13 feet...

just don't ask us to watch, Tweety.

You fucking twit.

[RethugAssKicker]

8. What was the purpose of having a special with her like that?

I only watched maybe 3 minutes of it... I was bouncing around...

But I noticed the SOB had her on for a long time in a special interview....

Tweety and his masters are a fucking joke !

[madmusic]

9. He also said, "Back by popular demand."

Probably a wingnut email campaign. We can't blame him if they do that better than we do.

[NativeTexan]

11. I turned it off when my stomach turned.......

.....and that is when I saw her walk in front of the camera. She is satanical evil personified!!!

[rocktivity]

12. The story uses brackets instead of parentheses

Which screws with the way you code on DU:

Summary: Chris Matthews asked pundit Ann Coulter, "How do you know that Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea that Clinton "show(s) some level of latent homosexuality." Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag." In concluding the interview, Matthews said of Coulter, "We'd love to have her back."

On the July 27 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, "How do you know that (former President) Bill Clinton is gay?" -- referring to her comment the night before on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that Clinton "show some level of latent homosexuality." Coulter responded, "I don't know if he's gay. But (former Vice President) Al Gore -- total fag." She went on to defend her theory about Clinton's sexuality by stating that "everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them." Coulter claimed she was "just kidding" about Gore, but said of her theory about Clinton, "It's not only not a joke, it's not even surprising."

Further, Coulter remarked that when "most Americans" heard that an Israeli airstrike had hit a United Nations observer post in south Lebanon on July 25, killing four U.N. observers, they hoped to hear similar news about "the installation on 42nd Street" -- presumably a reference to the U.N. headquarters in New York City.

Earlier in the interview, Coulter had said she would "not be averse to taking military action against Iran," adding that "we can take care of Iran so that they couldn't build a transistor radio." Matthews went on to ask her," So you would bomb them into the Stone Age?" Coulter responded, "It's either that or have a lunatic sitting on top of nukes. If that's what my choice is -- yes."

At the beginning of the interview, Matthews had remarked that Coulter reminded him of "the young George Will." In concluding the interview, he said of Coulter, "We'd love to have her back."

You're welcome. And by the way, Ann, is your new book selling THAT badly?

:headbang:
rocknation

[MarkDevin]

13. "A total fag?" WTF grade is Ann Coulter in?

The last time I encountered people who spoke like that, I was about 17 years old.

Not that this should surprise me. After all, emotional maturity is in short supply among right-wing pundits.

[opihimoimoi]

14. She is dying from some kind of deadly disease and wants company

The poor ting is so skinny she is in danger of being Mary Poppins should she venture out in 5 MPH wind and open the umbrella.

[MGD]

15. She is clearly repressing her inner ambivalence towards lesbianism

One has to wonder why Anne has failed to find "Mr. Right" in her 45 years of life. Perhaps it's because she has been so wrapped up in her career but, as often as not, workaholics are hiding from uncomfortable realities as much as alcoholics. I suspect that her fight with her "demons of the outside world" is merely a projection of her inner "demonic" conflict.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. LOL!!! I've gotta love your OP, MGD! excellent analysis!

your little conclusion is pretty funny too!

[calico1]

17. See, this is why when someone starts a

thread about how great Matthews was I just roll my eyes. I have not watched his show in a very long time and won't because he is just a whore. He will suck up to the lowliest scum if he thinks it can get him good ratings. And its also why even when he makes a good point like he did on Imus I just think, "yeah right. How long will this last until you suck up to some other scumbag?" He has no credibility as far as I'm concerned. He's just a cheap, shilling media whore.

[AtomicKitten]

18. Tweety panders to the foulest of the anti-Dems.

His true nature reveals itself in instances like this.

[dsc]

19. This is the letter I sent

I never knew what to expect when I heard fag. There
wasn't a single day in middle school I wasn't called
fag. Not one. Some days it would be accompanied by a
shove, some days by a punch, some days by laughter,
some days by being pantsed, some days by being dragged
to the toilets, and some days by nothing. I left
middle school hating myself and most other people.
Fortunately my high school experience was better. The
open hatred of my middle school years was replaced by
a sub rosa snicker campaign. As much as I hated
school I survived because I knew that without an
education I would be around the likes of those people
for my entire life. I was determined not to have that
happen. I also wanted to wash the 'stink' of being
gay off by being good.

It took me years to overcome the self hatred that was
instilled in me during my middle school years. The
message you sent last night to anyone who is in a
similar position to that I was in was that the name
callers are right, or brilliant as you said of Ms.
Coulter. The message you sent to the name callers is
that gays are less than human. That we are dirt under
their feet.

There are thousands if not millions of young gays and
lesbians who are getting bullied in their schools.
They don't deserve to see bigotted crack pots being
honored on TV. Every day some of those kids have
enough. They deside that life will never get better
and take their own lives. When they do so, you will
be partially at fault. Promoters of haters are no
better than the haters themselvs. No amount of money
or increase in ratings should be worth that.

end of quote

No response yet except the automated kind.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. "No response yet except the automated kind."

You expected more?

They take no responsibility for their actions. Ever.

[dsc]

21. expected, no

Hope for, yes.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. I'm an inveterate letter writer to the electronic media

local and national. In all the time I've been writing, I have gotten exactly two meaningful, sentient, on topic replies. One was from the news director of our local CBS teevee affilliate and one was from Allison Stewart. In both cases it was clear the response was written by the person to whom it was adressed and in both cases, there was a second, followup e-mail exchange.

That's it.

Automated responses, to me, are just craftily written versions of this: