this page of Media Matters should get your attention. With comments stating Canadians "better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them...." and "They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent..." on Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, it caught the attention of not just the U.S., but Canada also.
The CBC got wind of this and invited Coulter on their investigative news show,
the Fifth Estate, on an episode called Sticks and Stones. She and reporter Bob McKeown had words.
COULTER: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"
MCKEOWN interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."
COULTER: "I don't think that's right."
MCKEOWN: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."
COULTER (looking desperate): "Indochina?"
MCKEOWN: "Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."
COULTER: "I think you're wrong."
MCKEOWN: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."
COULTER: "I think you're wrong."
MCKEOWN: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."
COULTER: "I think Canada sent troops."
MCKEOWN: "No."
(For the record, no, Canada never sent troops to Vietnam.)
Of course, the United States reacted. (MSNBC: "What’s odd about Ann Coulter humiliating herself on national TV? Well, not much, except this time it was on Canadian national TV!",) and the CBC posted
this on their website, a compilation of American news clips regarding the exchange, in one of which, Bill O’Reilly compares Canada to Nazis.
But who really is Ann Coulter? Well, Coulter is a right-winger, or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call her an anti-left-winger, (her motto being "there are no good Democrats,") and has written four New York Times Best Sellers: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism; Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right; and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.
(Upon Treason’s release, the webmaster of AntiCoulter.org had this to say: "This girl is wack. She is going to write a whole book proving liberals are traitors, just after she writes a book complaining about the way liberals slander conservatives. Amazing. And people buy this crap. I'll have to comment on the waste of trees when it comes out...")
But what caused all this tension around Coulter? Well, she started as a legal correspondent for MSNBC, but that came to an end when she told a disabled Vietnam veteran, "People like you caused us to lose that war."
MediaMatters.org reports, "The conservative National Review dropped her column after she responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by stating that America should "invade their [terrorists'] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." "
I found that the article was in fact never printed, but the National Review did print another in its place. In it, Jonah Goldberg says, "Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior..." and also states "We're delighted that FrontPageMagazine has, with remarkable bravery, picked up Ann's column, presumably for only $5 a month. They'll be getting more than what they're paying for, I'm sure."
MediaMatters.org's page on Coulter includes a video, a compilation of clips that ends with her stating that the best way of dealing with Liberals is "with a baseball bat."
What's really sad is that this woman actually believes this pathetic stuff coming out of her mouth. One of my favorite examples of this is the one shown below, from Hannity and Colmes.
COULTER: I take the biblical idea. God gave us the earth.
PETER FENN (Democratic strategist): Oh, OK.
COULTER: We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.
FENN: This is a great idea.
COULTER: God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."
FENN: Terrific. We're Americans, so we should consume as much of the earth's resources...
COULTER: Yes! Yes.
FENN: ... as fast as we possibly can.
COULTER: As opposed to living like the Indians.
Wow, Ann, I never knew Jesus advocated strip mining, ozone depletion, toxic waste spills, and polluted waterways.
If you have heard of Ann before, you might have stumbled across the chat room on her website. Notice the banner, depicting her poised to fire a rifle, smiling gleefully. I don’t know what the War President would think, but personally, this disturbs me.
Though I haven’t a clue why, I kept sifting through the piles of meaningless laziness, clutter and
contradictions that make up Ann Coulter. I soon came across something else that make me laugh out loud. Accuracy In Media appeared on her "Patriot Links" page. What’s hilarious is that the Accuracy website only reports slanted right-wing stories. Perhaps they should compare this biography with the one on her website. Both are accurate, sure, but there is a fine line between accuracy and the full truth.
More contradiction. These are some quotes from Brian Lamb's Booknotes interview with Coulter a few years ago.
COULTER: There is no serious dialogue or engagement of ideas between the left and the right in this country.
...because...
COULTER: There are no good Democrats.
Not a single one.
LAMB: Where did you write the book?
COULTER: In my apartment.
LAMB: In what part of the world?
COULTER: Mostly in New York, though some in Washington. I tried originally writing it from L.A., Vail and Aspen, and I wasn't getting much work done.
There you have it. The woman who despises New York, Washington, L.A., and other un-American places wrote Slander in her apartment in New York. And Washington. And L.A. A true woman of her word.
And if that isn’t enough to convince you this woman is out of her mind, take a look at these slightly disturbing quotes.
January 2006: told Fox News that Americans were "getting sick of" Martin Luther King Day.
December 2005: attacked CNN and called them "Nazi block watchers."
September 2005: lied to the American public about Katrina on Fox News, until she let slip, "I don’t know what the details are."
February 2005: accused the Democratic Party of "support[ing] killing, lying, adultery, thievery, envy"
February 2005: said she wished "that the American military were targeting journalists."
January 2005: labeled Bill Clinton "a very good rapist," and said "I think the rest of the countries in the Middle East, after Afghanistan and Iraq, they're pretty much George Bush's bitch."
January 2005: said "I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties," adding "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning. … I just think it would be fun to nuke them…"
November 2004: told Canadians that it is "lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent."
October 2004: LINDA VESTER: You say you'd rather not talk to liberals at all? - COULTER: I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days.
August 2002: "My only regret with [Oklahoma bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." (More contradiction, considering she advertises on any space she can that her books are NYT bestsellers and has said 'I love the New York Times, I'd be out of business but for the New York Times.' Also said in June 2003: "Of course I regret it. I should have added ‘after everyone had left the building except the editors and the reporters.’")
Unknown: told Fox News, "I'm not blaming the Democrats for 9/11 alone, I'm blaming them for the Cole bombings, the embassy bombings and for 20 years of attacks that have not been stopped."
Unknown: told Fox News "I think Al Gore is nuts," adding "I think it would have been polite if you guys told us that before he ran for president! … [mocking] 'I was in the White House with Bill Clinton, give me a break, I'm nuts.'"
Please note, this IS a vicious verbal attack against Ann Coulter, and it is meant to be exactly that. I am no assassin, I do not encourage any harm toward Ms Coulter. I’m just one pissed off liberal. In the words of Bill O’Reilly, I am a "bad human being, doing what [I’m] doing."
