I almost posted the actual Fox News interview upon which tonight's Headzup funny is based. The other day Ann Coulter said to Sean Hannity that if McCain is the Republican nominee she will vote for, nay campaign for, Hillary Clinton. Coulter believes Hillary is more conservative that McCain. Ann has finally gone around the bend.
Funny after the break.
Today's campaign video isn't a video. It is an audio clip from Lynn Samuels. For those who have never heard of Samuels she is a mouthy 63 year old Jewish woman from Queens, who some media executive decided must be the left's answer to Ann Coulter. She is on Sirius Radio Monday thru Friday from 1pm - 3pm on channel 146.
In this clip she rifts on a comment made by Barack Obama about what he has learned campaigning in Iowa. Frankly, what I took away from the entire Obama statement is that he is humbled by the depth of knowledge of Iowa voters. What Samuels "takes away" from Obama's comment is that he is an arrogant, self-important elitist--he is in her words "a prick."
All of us who live in fly over country have encountered arrogant, self-important elitists. Many are mouthy 63 year old Jewish women from Queens. For the most part such people are merely ignorant. The good thing about ignorance is that it can be cured by experience. Maybe if Lynn Samuels spent some time outside her little New York neighborhood (Palm Beach doesn't count) she would realize that there are a lot of well informed people in fly over country, nearly all of us are capable of knowing when we have been insulted by some arrogant, self-important elitist. We don't need her telling us who is or isn't a prick.
Folks, let us not forget that any of the three remaining Democratic candidates is much better than any of the Republican candidates. We can fight over their subtle policy differences and their obvious differences in style, but we can't allow ourselves the luxury of engaging in the politics of personal destruction during this primary season. There are plenty of reasons to oppose Obama without calling him a prick. Remember one of these days we are all going to have to come together around our final selection. That candidate is going to need all of our help.
This clip was proudly posted to Youtube by LynnSamuels herself.
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Lynn, for what ever it is worth, I think you are better looking than Ann Coulter. You don't have an Adams apple.
Tonight's funny is just about the hottest video on YouTube--Leah Kauffman's "tribute" to Ann Coulter -- "Perfect Me." I think everybody ought to enjoy this except maybe Ann.
Posted to YouTube by barelypolitical.
Ann Coulter has finally had a Macaca moment that may end her career on television and radio. Earlier this week Ann made the mistake of telling Donny Deutsch on his CNBC show that in her vision of America
"It would look like New York City during the [2004] Republican National Convention. In fact, that's what I think heaven is going to look like."According to Media Matters
She described the convention as follows: "People were happy. They're Christian. They're tolerant. They defend America." Deutsch then asked, "It would be better if we were all Christian?" to which Coulter responded, "Yes." Later in the discussion, Deutsch said to her: "[Y]ou said we should throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians," and Coulter again replied, "Yes." When pressed by Deutsch regarding whether she wanted to be like "the head of Iran" and "wipe Israel off the Earth," Coulter stated: "No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. ... That's what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws."Not only has the National Jewish Democratic Counsel strongly condemned her comments, it has called for "mainstream media outlets to stop inviting Ann Coulter as a guest commentator/pundit." The full NJDC press release can be found after the flip. The story seems to be growing. Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United told Rawstory
it was "particularly dangerous" to be mixing religious conversion with discussions of what it means to be an American, and he said Coulter's comments reminded him of John McCain referring to the US as a "Christian nation."The video runs about 8 minutes, but the guy who captured it didn't cut out the commericals which run a full 4 minutes. Maybe you can fast forward. Except for the commercials the video is worth the watch.
I have just read a comment in one of Kevin Drum's threads that sounds like a lot of people I know. To put the comment in context, earlier today Kevin posted on the nature of the netroots. According to Kevin what is happening now is "powered by a lot of bog ordinary moderate liberals who have been radicalized by George Bush and the Newt Gingrichized Republican Party."
Some comments are just too good to be lost in a comment's thread.
I think a lot of journalists (though I don't mean to include Hertzberg here) don't quite get this because they haven't quite internalized just how far off the rails the modern Republican Party has gone. Kevin Drum at 12:38 PMSnarkySnark, friend you are not alone.
Man, you aint kidding. In saner times, I would have been called a moderate Republican. Now, because I oppose the bat-shit crazies in charge, I have been accused of being a mao-ist loving liberal.
If being liberal means thinking objectively and supporting the spirit of the constitution then I am a liberal.
Proudly so.
The problem for the 27% is they have so demonized every one that doesn't agree with their barking mad worship of authoritarian rule, that we are all liberals now.
Except for the press corpse, who lives in some alternate reality.
Call it the cocktail weenie dimension.
Posted by: SnarkyShark on August 3, 2007 at 12:52 PM
John Edwards was asked by Chris Matthews if he thought people should buy Ann's books. He had a one word answer. "NO."
Now, this clip of Ann Coulter losing her cool on Morning Joe makes me laugh. Apparently she can dish it out, but she can't take it.
You don't have to be an Edwards supporter to agree with him. I am sick of Coulter's hate speech.
You can find Matthews interview with Edwards here.
New Hounds has an interesting piece up involving Ann Coulter. Apparently Ann is accusing Newsweek of faking its latest poll for the benefit of Al Qaeda. That is a serious charge coming from Coulter. After all she is an expert at "faking it." News Hounds suggests viewers gaze at her exposed navel.
Of course, while Geraldo Rivera focused on Barack Obama, all three of the Democratic front runners polled about the same against the top Republicans. John Edwards issued a press release about Coulter's remarks.
"Just when we thought Ann Coulter couldn't take the politics of personal destruction any lower, she proved us wrong. Her outrageous comments are inexcusable and should not be tolerated in the public dialogue.Come on John, its not like a heavy weight said something on a real news show or even a real news network.
"This is the latest example of how the political doctrine of Bush's Global War on Terror has created a climate where people think it's okay to use the threat of terrorism as a guise for hateful political attacks. There is no superior 'Republican' way to fight terrorism. The exercise of raw power alone does not make you a world leader, and will not make us secure. Our capacity to lead requires that we be strong - and that we have the moral authority to do it."
