One other thing, you can call Ann a racist bitch, an evil cunt and even a woman compensating for being a woman in a man's world, but please, no transvestite jokes and no Adam's apple jokes. It's not appropriate in this discussion and I will troll rate anyone who make them It hurt some of you fellow kossack feeling and it's time it stopped.
Dear MSM:
It took several days for most of you to even report the hateful, homophobic and monstrous comments of Ann Coulter on John Edwards, but now that you are starting too, why are some of you giving her a platform to repeat them (as opposed to just reporting them and showing the video)? No explanation is necessary and no justification could possibly warrant this kind of attention she no doubt seeks.
Well, for those "journalist’s and television shows/networks who are thinking of having Ann Coulter appear to explain (brag about more likely) her John Edwards "faggot" comment – which would really be nothing more than giving this female David Duke a wider audience – here’s a resume of sorts you might want to review (CNN/Paula Zahn seems to be first in line).
I’m sure your crack staffs have already done this proper background work, but just in case... There are more faggot comments (Clinton, Gore) and how do you feel about death threats, implied or otherwise?
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Coulter has alluded to killing those she disagrees with:
In her August 30 syndicated column on the Rhode Island Senate race: "They Shot the Wrong Lincoln." The headline is a reference to Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), whom she excoriated throughout the piece -- calling him a "half-wit" and a "silver-spooned moron -- while expressing her support for his challenger in the September 12 Republican primary, Stephen Laffey.
Commenting on radio host Melanie Morgan's assertion that if New York Times executive editor Bill Keller were convicted of treason she "would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber," Coulter said, "I prefer a firing sqaud, but I'm open to a debate on the method of execution." She later suggested that Times staff members should be "executed."
A few weeks later, Coulter again suggested that New York Times staff members should be "executed." (Referring to the Times' decision to report on the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program and a Treasury Department program designed to track international financial transactions for terrorist activity, Coulter declared that the Times had done "something that could have gotten them executed, certainly did get the Rosenbergs executed.
Coulter said of the media: "Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists."
Coulter suggested that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) is "the reason soldiers invented fragging," -- military slang meaning the intentional killing of a member of one's own unit.
Coulter argued that the national debate during the Monica Lewinsky controversy should not have focused on whether former President Bill Clinton "did it," but rather "whether to impeach or assassinate" him.
Coulter said of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens's créme brulée.''
Coulter said of The NY Times & Timothy McVeigh: "My only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." [8/26/02].
Coulter said of Arabs: "I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantánamo." A "daisy cutter" is the nickname for a 15,000-pound bomb with a lethal radius of 300 to 900 feet -- the largest conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal.
John Edwards was not the first time she called Democrats `fags’ – Clinton, Gore were not spared:
In a July 26 edition of MSNBC News Live highlighted right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's taped interview with CNBC's The Big Idea host Donny Deutsch, set to air on that day's edition of The Big Idea. MSNBC featured a clip of Coulter's interview, during which she said that former President Bill Clinton exhibits "some level of latent homosexuality." When asked by Deutsch if she was indeed calling Clinton a "latent homosexual," Coulter replied, "Yeah," and mentioned, apparently in support of her claim, "passages" she had "memorized" in the so-called Starr Report -- former independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report to the House of Representatives, resulting from his investigation into the Monica Lewinsky controversy.
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[s] 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."
Coulter On Democratic voters: On the September 29 edition of Fox News' Your World, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter claimed: "Way too many people vote. We should have fewer people voting. There ought to be a poll tax to take the literacy test before voting." Coulter made this claim after suggesting that people who "would vote for Democrats because gas prices were going up" are "risking another terrorist attack."
Coulter On Barack Obama’s Popularity: On the January 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Sean Hannity hosted right-wing pundit Ann Coulter for a discussion of, among other things, prospective Democratic presidential nominees, specifically the qualifications of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). Coulter compared Obama to former President Gerald Ford, saying, "[E]verything they were saying to point out how little qualified Ford was as this accidental president is surely true ... tenfold in the case of Obama." Coulter went on to say: "I do think it does show -- it further confirms my point that Democrats are racist, and they're just stunned to find a black man who can walk and talk. And, you know, not being a racist, I'm not really that impressed with a black man who can walk and talk."
Coulter On Maxine Waters: In her August 9 column, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter wrote of African-American Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA): "Congresswoman Maxine Waters had parachuted into Connecticut earlier in the week to campaign against [Sen. Joseph I.] Lieberman because he once expressed reservations about affirmative action, without which she would not have a job that didn't involve wearing a paper hat. Waters also considers Joe "soft" on the issue of the CIA inventing crack cocaine and AIDS to kill all the black people in America."
Coulter On Carpet-bombing Iran: During the July 21 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, which was broadcast from the "2006 Hannity Freedom Concert," Fox News host Sean Hannity asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter how she would propose to end Iran's nuclear activities if she "were president." Coulter replied: "How about we just ... carpet-bomb them so they can't build a transistor radio?" As Media Matters for America recently noted, Fox News host Neil Cavuto similarly wondered how a "President Ann Coulter" would view certain diplomatic overtures toward Israel from Hezbollah's leadership. Coulter noted that her "first act in office ... would be to deport all liberals" and then "deal with Israel."
Coulter On Profiling Muslims: In a November 30 syndicated column about the removal of six imams from an airplane in Minnesota after other passengers saw them praying prior to boarding, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter claimed that racially "profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan" than it is like profiling African-Americans, "because of the history of discrimination against blacks in this country." Coulter added: "What did we do to the Arabs? I believe Americans are the victims in that relationship."
Coulter on Islam: Islam is a car-burning cult. [2/8/06]
Coulter on Muslim Countries: "[w]e should invade their [Muslims'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." [9/12/02]
Coulter On the 9/11 Widows:
From her book, Godless, Coulter writes of the 9-11 widows: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." [p.103] Media Matters has identified several other attacks on the 9-11 widows included in Coulter's book:
"These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them." [p.103]
"[T]hey believed the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was an important part of their closure process." [p.103]
Coulter also declared (on the June 6 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes) that "nobody likes being lectured by a victim" and then asked: "[D]o I have to kill my mother so I can be a victim, too?"
And finally, Ann Coulter’s habit of plagiarism:
Here's the letter Media Matters', David Brock sent to Random House:
July 7, 2006
Peter Olson, Chairman and CEO
Stuart Applebaum, Public Relations
Random House, Inc.
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
Jenny Frost, President and Publisher
Tina Constable, Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity
Crown Publishing Group
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
Dear Mr. Olson, Mr. Applebaum, Ms. Frost, and Ms. Constable:
I am writing to bring to your attention troubling evidence that one of your authors, Ann Coulter, plagiarized portions of her recent Crown Publishing Group book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism.
The New York Post reported on July 2 that John Barrie, who created a "leading plagiarism-recognition system," examined Coulter's book and found three examples of "textbook plagiarism." The Post reported:
Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.
A separate, 24-word string from the chapter "The Creation Myth" appeared about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word change -- "stacked" was changed to "piled."
Another 33-word passage that appears five pages into "Godless" allegedly comes from a 1999 article in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald.
Meanwhile, many of the 344 citations Coulter includes in "Godless" "are very misleading," said Barrie, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he specialized in pattern recognition.
"They're used purely to try and give the book a higher level of credibility -- as if it's an academic work. But her sloppiness in failing to properly attribute many other passages strips it of nearly all its academic merits," he told The Post.
The Post went on to report that Barrie also found that "Coulter's Universal Press [Syndicate] columns from the past 12 months" included "similar patterns of cribbing":
Her Aug. 3, 2005, column, "Read My Lips: No New Liberals," about U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, includes six passages, ranging from 10 to 48 words each, that appeared 15 years earlier in the same order in an L.A. Times article, headlined "Liberals Leery as New Clues Surface on Souter's Views."
But nowhere in that column does she mention the L.A. Times or the story's writer, David G. Savage.
Her June 29, 2005, column, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Religion," incorporates 10 facts on National Endowment for the Arts-funded work that originally appeared in the same order in a 1991 Heritage Foundation report, "The National Endowment for the Arts: Misusing Taxpayers' Money." But again, the Heritage Foundation isn't credited.
I know Random House takes plagiarism very seriously, as it should. When evidence recently surfaced that Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarized from two books by Megan McCafferty, published by Random House subsidiary Crown Publishing Group, the company reportedly pressured Viswanathan's publisher -- Little, Brown & Co. -- to pull her book from stores.
According to USA Today, in April 2006, "McCafferty's publisher, the Crown Publishing Group, labeled Viswanathan's actions 'literary identity theft' and had urged Little, Brown, which initially said her novel would remain on sale, to pull the book."
The Boston Globe reported in May 2006 that Little, Brown would not publish a revised edition of Viswanathan's book, and that the publishing company made the rare decision not to publish a second book by Viswanathan, which was part of the original two-book contract with Little, Brown.
The Associated Press reported in April 2006, "In a statement issued soon after Little, Brown's announcement, Crown said it was 'pleased that this matter has been resolved in an appropriate and timely fashion.' "
Coulter has exhibited a pattern of behavior suggesting that Godless itself may include other examples of plagiarism beyond those Barrie has already identified. Now that the newspaper syndicate that publishes Coulter's column has indicated it will investigate the charges, we urge Random House to undertake a comprehensive review and consider all appropriate action, up to and including pulling the book. Coulter's unethical conduct, as evidenced through the instances of plagiarism identified in her columns, and manifested in the book itself, does not only tarnish Coulter; if immediate action is not taken, it will soon reflect poorly on Random House.
Sincerely,
David Brock
President & CEO
Media Matters for America
NOTE: I only included the entire David Brock letter in this diary because I had included it in my email.
You also might want to let dear Ann know how you feel. ;-) No threats!! LOL
I also have permission to use this picture. The artist gave everyone permission during the 2004 elections. I actually turned it into a 4' x 6' banner and flew it from a flag pole (at the Gay & Lesbian store I was working at at the time) for the Republican National Convention here in NY. The artist, who was marching up 8th avenue during the big protest saw it, loved it! He eventually gave me a signed print (lithograph I think)!
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