If anyone is keeping abreast of Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS, you'd know that recently there was a firestorm of previously non-public information that was just shitted upon the media by Rather's attorneys. It includes internal memos, documents, and transcripts that went down during Memogate in 2004, when 60 Minutes put some documents up about George Bush's military service in the Air Force that later turned out to be forgeries.
So that's a lot of stuff to wade through, but what's turned up so far is the revelation that the "independent panel" CBS was forming to review Memogate — and how the Bush story aired on CBS without being thoroughly fact-checked — wasn't so much "independent" as it was "slanted to the right by ridiculous levels." You know, so they could adequately defend themselves from right-y criticism regarding their findings that, hey, maybe CBS was in the clear.
Except, maybe CBS just wanted to insulate itself before throwing Dan Rather under the bus by staffing up on some very conservative names to make up the panel? CONTINUED »
PERTINENT QUESTIONS — Sure, sure, sure. This clip of Fox and Friends where Geraldo Rivera gets totes exasperated with Ann Coulter because she's saying "No one has tried to track down this Rashid Khalidi character" (um, try Columbia University? Where he's a professor of Arabic Studies?) is funny because it's like trying to reason with a very blond brick wall.
But also: Where the hell has Ann Coulter been hiding herself for the last six months?? Why wasn't she on any shows, spouting her rabid right wing political nonsense? Was she on a really long book tour or something?
Because we thought she might have had some sort of divine revelation where she realizes she's a nut bag, but judging from this video, that second coming hasn't happened quite yet. Next year in Jerusalem, perhaps.
Amidst rumors that Elisabeth Hasselbeck might be leaving ABC for more Republican-friendly pastures, the lone dissent on The View cleared up any ideas that she'd be moving to Fox. And she did not enjoy Joy Behar's comparison of herself to another hate-fuckable blond conservative:
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If you're going to create a list of Ann Coulter's craziest moments, is it really fair to stop at … 11? No. That's like saying you're satisfied with only one clip of Bill O'Reilly flipping out in front of the camera, when what you really want is an entire HD channel devoted to the cause. But between almost getting pied on stage to storming off the set of Hannity & Colmes, there's enough in here to keep you entertained for entire moments. Perhaps our favorite on-air Coulter moment, however, is when Elizabeth Edwards schooled the bitch. [SJ]
Ann Coulter relaunched her campaign against John Edwards today.
You’ll recall that the right-wing authoress took a shot at Edwards last year, when she called the politico a “faggot.” Well, Coulter has done it again, this time calling him “faggy” while discussing his alleged affair. Said Coulter:
Ann Coulter is either crazy or so obsessed with notoriety that she says crazy things to get press. Perhaps she’s even a combination of both. Either way, I rarely pay attention to much of anything she says, but on Friday’s Hannity & Colmes, which I find to be one of the most detestable programs on cable television, she speculated that Hillary Clinton would enjoy waterboarding someone (this was a compliment) and compared Barack Obama to Hitler (coming from her, I’m surprised this was not also a compliment) and his book to a “dimestore” version of Mein Kampf. At what point are networks responsible for the hateful and irresponsible drivel their invited pundits spew? Is this crossing a line or on par with what we would expect on Hannity & Colmes?
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, what does that make plagiarism? We don’t know, but Michael Lucas probably does, because his Barack Obama bashing column has more than a few similarities with Ann Coulter’s “Throw Grandma Under A Bus,” which she published on March 19, two days before Lucas’ piece.
Ann Coulter will campaign Hillary Clinton over John McCain. Wow, she's self-promotional to the point of self-destructive.
Despite using all the racist euphemisms at her disposal, Ann Coulter's new book is a bomb, and not in the da' bumb sense:
The latest tome by right-wing scribe Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, hasn’t caught fire with book buyers.
The title spent just four weeks on The New York Times‘ best-seller list—compared with 12 for her previous book—and has sold 97,000 copies in the last 10 weeks, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70% of the market.
Ms. Coulter’s last effort, Godless, sold 233,000 copies over the same time span…
We promised we'd stop reporting Ann Coulter's antics, but her failures are another matter.
It's a shame we're not mentioning a certain blond-haired pundit who thinks "Jews need to be perfected" anymore. Otherwise we'd have a lot to say about this delightful compilation of her greatest hate-remarks, put to music. Instead, we'll just instruct you to watch…and learn!
After losing visitation rights of her children last week, Britney was reunited with her two little mistakes this weekend. At this point, we’d prefer to see Ann Coulter to use racism for publicity than hear another ruling from that judge.
If only ignoring Britney Spears would turn into her talented entertainer and loving mother.
Perhaps inspired by the seething editorial published not hours ago regarding Ann Coulter's most recent self-serving publicity stunt, Coulter herself has written an open letter to her readers. Below, a choice excerpt:
I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. Quite frankly, I'm sick of it. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air. At first, it was quite interesting to see how people would react when I would use twisted logic and poorly masked bigotry. But eleven years is a long time to be living a fake life, and I can no longer tolerate this falsity.
OK, fine, she didn't really write that.* And until she does, we're hereby officially joining forces with our brother Mollygood in an effort to purge Jossip Initiatives of any/all Coulter-related news. Does anyone else taste that? It's journalistic freedom. Been nice knowing you, Ann.
*In actuality, Coulter's precious website was hacked and the aforementioned letter was published by some of her liberal detractors instead.
Although we can’t always shake the nasty habit of writing in the royal we, occasionally one of our editors decides to shake off the cloak of anonymity to write a short, pithy statement long, rambling diatribe about a topic of their choice. Today, Debbie Newman is that editor.
Pot-stirring pundit (and brazen book self-promoter) Ann Coulter is no stranger to causing controversy—in fact, most conscientious observers would agree she's made a fairly lucrative career out of it. And last week was certainly no exception. After dropping by the otherwise irrelevant Donny Deutsch show*, ostensibly to discuss her new book, Coulter had tongues of all races, ethnicities and party affiliations wagging over her calm, methodical and, doubtless, premeditated statement that the Jews need to be "perfected."
Another day, another firestorm started by—and explicitly for—Ann Coulter.
Or, put another way, in the unlikely event that Coulter keeps a journal,** her entry for that day would have read something along the lines of:
"Dear Diary…Jackpot."
No, we think — we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say … I don't think you should take it [as offensive], but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to, you know, live up to all the laws. What Christians believe — this is just a statement of what the New Testament is — is that that's why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don't believe our testament.
–Ann Coulter, offering her controversial views on religion during an appearance on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, The Big Idea [via E&P]
Although she's generally one of President Bush's biggest proponents, self-proclaimed writer Ann Coulter shows she's not above giving the president a few good-natured jabs to prove an important point.
"President George W. Bush is evidently the first mentally retarded person to get a Harvard M.B.A., graduate from the U.S. Air Force Flight School, be elected governor of Texas and then be elected President of the United States twice. I guess this is what they call 'mainstreaming,'" Coulter writes in her new book, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans."
"Admittedly," she adds, "it took Bush two weeks to learn how to pronounce 'Shiite,' but he had higher grades at Yale than John Kerry."
Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that Coulter is not actually questioning the intelligence of George W. Bush (or, for that matter, John Kerry) so much as she's questioning the intelligence of the American people who so faithfully elected him.
Twice.
• The down side of appearing on the cover of Men's Vogue? It kinda makes people think you're an effeminate ass.
• Meanwhile, Elizabeth Edwards is not sorry about politely asking Ann Coulter to shut the fuck up.
• The BBC is terribly sorry that it cut away from Tony Blair's final speech as prime minister to show promos for the television show, Rome.
• Will a jury of Conrad Black's peers sentence the press baron to 20 years in prison? And if so, will 108 year old Larry King still have what it takes to grab the post-prison interview exclusive?
• Julia Allison is more than just another pretty face. She's also a mediocre writer and, as it turns out, a thinker!
• The Associated Press claims to have some sort of prudish objection to an amateur video showing strippers "performing lap dances" at a golf course, but we think they're just Bogie Monsters.
Ann Coulter has been on quite a tear lately. Yesterday, we told you how she sought to turn a lapse in judgment by Rosie O'Donnell into a full frontal assault on same-sex adoption rights, but the crazy doesn't end there.
She also got into a fight with Elizabeth Edwards during an appearance on Hardball.
Coulter, the guest on the show, went into a stuttering, hair-flipping frenzy when Edwards' wife caught her off guard by phoning in and asking Coulter to "politely" refrain from engaging in negative personal attacks—against her husband, and all other candidates—because it "debases political dialogue."
Did Ann agree to back off?
• Remember when we told you that Rosie O'Donnell dressed her kid up in army fatigues, with live ammo strapped to her chest and a caption reading "A picture is worth a thousand posts?"
Well, that's the risk you take when you allow gays to adopt, says Ann Coulter.
Alright, fine, that's not exactly what she said. But she did fail to appreciate the anti-war, anti-gun message inherent in Rosie's admittedly tacky post.
[Ann Coulter] said of the disturbing photo of Rosie's daughter: "I think this picture has set back gay adoption by about 20 years."
"I think this makes people think Rosie's kids should be taken away from her…"
Nono, not people, Ann. Just you.
[via Dlisted]
Her feelings about gays aside, conservative zealot Ann Coulter walked the TV Land Awards red carpet – since she wasn't exactly welcome at the GLAAD Media Awards – with J.J. Walker, launching an aggressive defense to anyone who might assume she thinks the way Don Imus does.
Earlier today, we posted an image depicting a roll of toilet paper made out of money. The graphic was meant to illustrate the never-ending odyssey of three eccentric billionaires, fighting over the privilege of buying Tribune Co., and flushing up to $500 million of their fortunes down the proverbial toilet.
And while we like to think we're generally too mature for such lowbrow sight gags, it turns out we actually have the sense of humor (and writing prowess) of your average 13 year-old. Case in point, the product to your right.
I think I speak for most people (no matter what their politics), when I say that Ann Coulter just needs to shut her pie hole…[She's] not serious enough to be a political commentator and not funny enough to be a comedian…[which is] why it's with great pleasure that I introduce you to X-Wipes' new edition to their printed TP family…Coulter's made a mess of political discourse with her verbal diarrhea, and we the people need to clean it up.
All of which is actually almost insightful.* Plus, it looks as though our enterprising bathroom tissue peddler has a fairly advanced understanding of mass-market capitalism. After all, as any would-be seller knows, when it comes to attracting a buyer, packaging is everything. And as the market-savvy entrepreneur points out, in this case, "the medium is the message."
*In a distastefully immature sort of way…
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