That Ann Coulter, what a kidder

January 28, 2006

I generally just ignore Ann Coulter’s lunacy because it’s so terribly irrelevant. When circus clowns go on some tirades about liberals, it’s hard to get too worked up about it.

But I nevertheless thought yesterday’s Coulter flap was a little more interesting than most.

Speaking at a Little Rock college, conservative commentator Ann Coulter joked that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned.

Coulter told the Philander Smith College audience that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law on abortion. Stevens is one of the court’s more liberal members.

“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said. “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”

I consider myself someone with a fairly good sense of humor, but joking about assassinating 85-year-old justices on the Supreme Court strikes me as a little over the top. Maybe more than a little.

What’s more, as Paul Waldman noted, Coulter seems to call for the deaths of people she doesn’t all the time.

[T]he point is, the next time somebody on the left – and I’m not talking about some commenter on Kos, but someone equivalent to Coulter, who gets put on the cover of Time magazine, has a syndicated column, and gets on a cable chat show nearly every day – the next time somebody on the left with one tenth the prominence of Coulter starts advocating the murder of his or her political opponents, you can tell me how “angry” liberals are.

Last week, Tim Russert asked Barack Obama to comment on the recent remarks of Harry Belafonte, whose political significance is practically non-existent. Bill Frist will be on Meet the Press tomorrow. Any chance Russert will ask him for his thoughts on Coulter?

I can’t even to begin to imagine the sh*tstorm that would ensue if Paul Krugman suggested Karl Rove should be killed. I bet he’d get a quick visit from the FBI, while the right wing noise machine would call for jailtime.

  • Any chance Russert will ask him for his thoughts on Coulter?

    About the same as the chance that Russert will strip down to his Dubya underoos and start singing God Bless King George.

  • I wonder how much she get’s paid to speak at these things. She insults. People cringe. Someone mails a check.

    I guess politics has always been show and modern media just amplifies the effect but somehow it would be nice to figure out how to Gong this warped princess of poison and spotlight her for the joke she is.

  • I have a problem with her immediate disclaimer; “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”

    Where is the joke? Enlighten me on the humor in dying from ingesting rat poison.

    Some individual should produce a scripted act of an aged individual grotesquely dying from rat poisoning, and
    show it during one of her appearances.

    Will she laugh?

  • Coulter is a serious nut case (brought on by an overuse of peroxide
    for all that blonde hair she has?)
    But this is beyond the pale even for her.
    But there could be a silver lining to this. If she keeps up her
    tirades bordering into outright lunacy it could make the public
    more critical of right-wing commentators in general.
    They are starting to sound repetitive in any case. How much longer
    are they going to be able to yell “Treason!” before more sensible
    people start to ignore them?
    Maybe George and Karl should be monitoring HER phone calls?

  • I read that after she made that alleged “joke”, some people started booing and she shouted at them, “I will not be lectured to!”

    Well, maybe that’s what she so desperately needs. I doubt she got many verbal spankings when she was a kid. If only she had, she might not have become the trainwreck of an alleged human being she has become.

  • Ann Coulter shows all of the symptoms of someone who was verbally abused as a child. In typical fashion, children who are verbally abused tend to become verbal abusers themselves. One of the ways verbal abusers tend to go after people (in order to make themselves feel better, mind) is to insult or attack a person and then follow it up with, “I was just joking” or “that was just a joke”. From Patricia Evans book Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out:

    “Joking,” “Teasing”

    “By telling his partner that the abuse is only a joke, the verbal abuser is saying, I feel so up putting you down that I never want to give it up, so I decree that my comments are humorous – I’m in control. I can say what I want.”

    Ann, to get more info on help for verbal abusers read this book:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558503048/ref=pd_sim_b_5/102-2664877-9412124?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

  • Why is it morally acceptable for anybody, especially the RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN right to make jokes or suggest that people kill other people for the religious right “convenience”.

    Isn’t it odd that they have no problem with this? But if one democrat questions the president’s judgement, they go ballistic.

    They are all NUTS!!!!!

  • Coulter, Limbaugh, O’Reily, Hannity, Robertson, et.al., make me feel really stupid. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why I should know who they are — why anyone would would give them a forum to spew forth such venom. The hate that fills these people is obviously destabilizing and beyond anything I would want to live with.

  • the media went nuts when Scalito’s wife cried on cue over the audacity of Democrats asking him about his membership in a sexist organization. the media and even “mainstream” Rs chastised the D’s for being too mean, playing too rough.

    where are all those freakin hypocrical bastards now? why aren’t all of these kindness police running Coulter out of town in tar and feathers, torches and pitchforks at her heels? other than Bill Maher schoolboy crushing on her legs, what is the difference at this point between she and Pat “Total Ranting Nutjob” Robertson? does no one notice when R’s cross every line in the damned book?

    oh yeah, sorry. lost my mind for a minute and forgot. IOKIYAR.

  • The significant thing here is that the media does not hold the Right responsible for Coulter’s vile pronouncements. Image Michael Moore saying the same sort of thing about Rehnquist or Scalia– we would all be tarred with the same broad brush by the corrupt and incompetent established media.

  • Coulter said. “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”

    Ha ha ha We need to poison an elderly justice of opposing views.

    A joke that’s not a joke for the media which is becoming a joke.
    Replace the word joke with what it really is – a coersive threat.
    and her statement becomes…

    “That’s just a warning, for you in the media.”

    These folks are nasty and are working the media with coded threats.
    Cross Ann and her friends and you too will sleep with the fishes.

  • Her disclaimer should have been; “That’s just a joke, for all my psycho-nut job friends and cronies.”

    For the people who take her seriously.

  • Ann Coulter inspires loathing and hatred among all reasonably minded people. Who else do we know that does the same? Why, Osama Bin Laden of course!
    QED, Ann Coulter is a terrorist.

  • Tim Russert has it correct … he ignores Ann Coulter’s existence like the rest of the media and the rest of us should. Her outrageous and childish and hateful comments make her a lot of money … why is that, my friends ? I frankly will not watch any network that invites her on their programs. I did see a funny-sick cartoon about her today on the show “Current” (not sure about the channel… it was on Direct TV in the 350s somewhere but you can check Current.com according to the program). I will go there and check for the cartoon — it was brutal and had her in bed with Hitler. Her ex-husband was Satan, with whom she had a child named “Damien” — it was very cathartic for Ann Coulter-haters. (still can’t believe she was in my sorority at Cornell — how embarrassing – I must have voted against her though :-0)

  • This kills me! Michael Moore makes a reference to an “investigatory article” (which turns out to be an opinion proved false) and the blog-a-media turns a blind eye. Coulter uses words like “He said this about that”, and she’s crucified. If the plagiarism charge is dropped and no reporters are willing to retract their original rumor-spreading, did a tree fall in Massachusets? She makes a joke, sure a juvenile joke every high school kid makes “I’m gonna kill you after school for closing my locker before I was done…what do you mean I’m going to jail?”, and the bloggers go nuts (with bad grammar and spelling to boot…but crucify Coulter because she’s right…in more ways than one). Lefties are hilarious. Have some Kool-Aid…Just kidding for you bloggers.

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  • “…Michael Moore makes a reference to an “investigatory article” (which turns out to be an opinion proved false) and the blog-a-media turns a blind eye…”

    Exactly…liberals put the hippo in hypocrite. How they can even make these comments without seeing their own hypocrisy is beyond me. What an insane group of morons they are.

  • I get the feeling that both liberals and conservatives are becoming way too polarized with the rise of people like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore. Both have been at the center of too many controversies for me to take them seriously anymore, and I’m dissapointed in those promote them and their popularity. I hope that America will soon grow up, and I can go onto a blog without seeing a fuss where liberals and conservatives call each other ‘morons’ and ‘insane’.

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