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| 2005-01-09 |
| On Jan. 3, I met Ann Coulter at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side. She was glowing, stunning, radiant. Better than ever. She was wearing a powder blue shirt, black pants, black boots and a cross around her neck made of diamonds. I hadn't seen her since the Republican convention. Since then, the President had been decisively re-elected, her book How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) hit the New York Times best-seller list, where it remains, and some dopes threw pies at her during a speech she was giving at the University of Arizona and missed. "I sort of like liberals now," she said, taking a sip of white wine. "They're kind of cute when they're shivering and afraid. They're so pathetic and sad. They can't come up with a fight. I mean, if the best you're going to give me to argue about is Rumsfeld's auto-pen 
. "I'm rooting for the faction of the Democratic Party—like Nancy Pelosi, quoted in yesterday's New York Times, and I think this is the dominant faction—taking the position that our ideas are fine. That's right, class, do not change anything about what we believe. We've just got to package the wine in new bottles. We need a new way of delivering our message, but the message is perfect! We just need to advertise RU-486 at NASCAR or something—that'll do the trick! "I think the trick is, they need to obfuscate their message," she said. "Democrats always have these open public discussions on how they can fake out the American people, so that's one wing—let's not tell them what we believe—and the other wing is, Our message is perfect. Ha-ha-ha-ha!" Why was 2004 a great year? "I'm thinking about putting up a reward on my Web page for any liberal who will mention either Afghanistan or the Kurds," she said. "I mean, 85 percent of Iraq is free, it's beautiful—we have about 300 troops patrolling the entire Kurdish area. These poor beleaguered Kurds are free, are happy, are dancing in the streets, and liberals simply won't mention them. I certainly thought Afghanistan was going to be a tougher nut to crack than Iraq—the Russians couldn't take Afghanistan! They've basically been at war for a hundred years—even when nobody's there, they're at war with one another. We took Afghanistan in a month, and now they've had elections and women vote, and they didn't vote for some crazy lunatic mullahs. So that's a pretty good year." The Iraqi people didn't seem to have that great a Christmas. "That's right! But they'll be opening Christmas presents soon enough," she said. "And then they'll be happy. We'll see, but things are going pretty well, and in most cases better than expected. We're going to transform the Middle East by the time Bush leaves office, or it will be within shouting distance of there. I think Arabs flying planes into our skyscrapers will be as likely as a Japanese kamikaze pilot." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 I've heard her talk before (the first time I saw her was on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect waaaay back when the show was still funny). I had no idea who she was, but her comments were devastatingly funny. But this interview is an absolute gem: "[The countries of the Middle East] they’re pretty much George Bush’s bitch," she said. As some of you here like to say, unf&cking believable! Or, in my usual vocab, wow! Thanks for this post, Tipper. It made my day! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-09 5:30:42 PM |
| #5 The brothers aren’t big on queer theory. Vintage Ann. Savage, true, hilarious. |
| Posted by: lex 2005-01-09 5:26:40 PM |
| #4 believe it or not I hear (I think it was in the wapo style section that she has been seen in the company of an arab american businessman (didn't hear whether he was a christian or moslem or other), |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-01-09 4:20:24 PM |
| #3 Ann C. is single right? Does she have a boyfriend? Anyone know? |
| Posted by: HV 2005-01-09 2:08:08 PM |
| #2 Great piece; as proof of the soundness of this piece, did anyone else notice how the Dems rolled out Katrina Vandenhoovel (sp?) as their mouthpiece to all the networks post the election? Katrina is the Spin doctor whose purpose was to assert that every vote for kerry was a vote for the far left ideology she and hers represent. This is perposterous by the way....I'd love to see Ann C and Katrina live in debate at Carnegie Hall, using the statistics of the electorate. The Left has a record....and frankly its just not good.....tickets get your tickets....mountain vistas in North Korea....cheap. |
| Posted by: Ebbeath Gleart2775 2005-01-09 10:49:31 AM |
| #1 ROFLMAO!!! People will go positively apoplectic over this, but she rocks like Led Zeppelin at their peak. My face hurts from laughing. I love Coulter. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-09 10:19:11 AM |