# Ann Coulter on Larry King **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 8, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756 "2003-08-08T04:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/1 "2003-08-08T04:12:05Z")
I won’t go into all the stuff she just spouted about the Democratic Party being “a haven for traitors and spies”… However, she (and Larry, oddly enough) seemed to believe that the beauty of the Marshall Plan was that it staved off Communism in western and southern Europe. Her related point was that Marshall doesn’t really deserve credit for the plan because he wanted it extended to the Soviet Bloc. Funny… I always thought the beauty of the Marshall Plan was that it helped rebuild a dozen or so decimated economies and kept several hundred thousand Europeans from starving to death. Dopers- your thoughts? (incidentally, despite the ugliness of her prose and her ideology, she’s really kinda cute… I didn’t know there were decent looking evil right-wingers.) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/2 "2003-08-08T04:16:00Z")
False dichotomy. There is no one “beauty” of the Marshall Plan. It was “beautiful” for all those reasons - staving off communism, rebuilding decimated economies, and avoiding starvation. Kinda simple debate question, really. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/3 "2003-08-08T05:29:30Z")
And An Coulter is no beauty either! ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/4 "2003-08-08T05:40:05Z")
Most historians I’ve read believed that Marshall and Truman only suggested extending the Plan to the Communist Bloc just for show. Both men knew full well that Stalin wouldn’t go along with such a scheme. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/5 "2003-08-08T06:28:58Z")
Were you under the impression that Coulter consults historians, as opposed to doing L-N searches without even carefully reading the results? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/6 "2003-08-08T12:43:24Z")
don’t forget her expression of admiration for Joe McCarthy! ---
**Author:** ![Renob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Renob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renob)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/7 "2003-08-08T13:45:27Z")
Being someone who is relatively conservative (more libertarian, actually), I must say that I’m embarrassed that Ann Coulter is out there representing us. She’s an idiot. And she’s definitely not good looking, unless you like bleached blonde hair and anorexia. I haven’t read her book _Treason_ and I’m not going to waste my time. However, there is a case to be made for supporting McCarthy, and it was made in a much more intelligent way back in the 50’s by William F. Buckley (a much better representative of conservatism than Coulter) and L. Brent Bozell in _McCarthy and his Enemies_. Roy Cohn even wrote a book about McCarthy which is pretty interesting. I’m not saying that I like McCarthy, but there is a case to be made in his favor. Just don’t rely on Coulter to make that case. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/8 "2003-08-08T13:49:22Z")
The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard publishes case studies of various things in history. They are remarkably well done (although generally not lengthy). Some memorable ones were the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and one dealing with coal power regulations and acid rain back in the early 80s. They also put one out regarding post war Greece and the Marshall Plan. They use declassified internal documents to piece together what happened. Again, really good - I think you can get them online. Anyway, the main purpose of the Marshall Plan really was to stave off Communism. It was felt (quite correctly) that communism was able to make it’s greatest inroads in those areas where there was a large amount of poverty. The Marshall Plan was designed to get Western European countries back on their feet ASAP and act as a bulwark to the spread of communism from the East. Offering it to the Eastern European countries was just a PR move that was supposed to show folks that the US was the good guy. The Administration knew full well that the Soviets would never allow their satellites to accept US aid. Coulter is half right. She doesn’t seem to understand why the offer was extended to Soviet countries. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/9 "2003-08-08T17:24:27Z")
The funniest thing to me about her appearence was when she was complaining that Gray Davis had caused huge deficits in CA. Larry King said “Aren’t deficits the order of the day. What about the federal deficit of Bush?” This reduced Anne to sputtering. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/10 "2003-08-08T17:54:02Z")
**Renob** is dead on as far as I’m concerned. I’ve said pretty much the same thing in other threads where Coulter’s name has come up. How she manages to sell books is beyond me… ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/11 "2003-08-08T17:59:30Z")
She also made a statement, (unsupported and unchallenged as always), that most of McCarthy’s demonization stems from sources of ill-repute, hearsay etc. I distinctly remembered a book or something released recently along with tapes of McCarthy’s Senate hearings which categorically proved that he was a demagogue, rampant abuser of power, and ill-intentioned individual of the first order. ---
**Author:** ![revolutionarily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@revolutionarily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/revolutionarily)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/12 "2003-08-08T18:25:03Z")
The Soviets also offered the US help under it’s “developing nation aid” scheme when they beat the US into space. Of course, it was just a PR move to make the US look stupid and backwards, they had no intention of actually giving the US money, and knew they wouldn’t accept it anyway. Same situation here. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/13 "2003-08-08T18:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dutchboy208 \* > \*\*(incidentally, despite the ugliness of her prose and her ideology, she’s really kinda cute… I didn’t know there were decent looking evil right-wingers.) \*\* Evil right-winger wearing black leather skimpy dress to feed the fantasy: [http://www.anncoulter.org/images/webimages/annblack.jpg](http://www.anncoulter.org/images/webimages/annblack.jpg) If they made more like her I might just go to the Dark Side[sup]tm[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/14 "2003-08-08T23:14:24Z")
A succubus will look sexy and seductive, but that’s part of her nature… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/15 "2003-08-08T23:40:11Z")
_Retro me, Slutanny_ (Makes the sign to protect against the Evil, uh, Eye.) I wonder at the economics of it all. Gotta wonder why being a wingnut is such a great career move. Consider all the reptilian right talk show hosts. I’ve listened and they all have the same advertisers…spurious wonder vitamins, herbal viagra, compatability/intoductions, investment in gold… So I wonder if they are all competing for the same piece of advertising pie. Are they all struggling to capture the coveted demographic of sick, lonely, impotent hicks? The distinction between them seems only to be a matter of applied bile: the ideology is entirely consistent but one guy says “wrong” while the other guys says 'traitor" and Mike Savage says “shoot him down like a dog”. Gotta wonder that so much income is generated that it can support all of these, when thier messages are identical. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/16 "2003-08-08T23:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whack-a-Mole \* > \*\*Evil right-winger wearing black leather skimpy dress to feed the fantasy: [http://www.anncoulter.org/images/webimages/annblack.jpg](http://www.anncoulter.org/images/webimages/annblack.jpg) > > If they made more like her I might just go to the Dark Side[sup]tm[/sup]. \*\* Hey, that just might be the first of her pictures I have found attractive. Then again, it could be because one can hardly see her face in it. ---
**Author:** ![zoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71c47a/32.png) [@zoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/17 "2003-08-08T23:55:33Z")
I mysef have always been partial to Airanna Huffington. Personality goes a long way. Coulter looks just plain evil, inside and out. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/18 "2003-08-08T23:58:24Z")
I would fuck Annn Coulter 'cos I am not fussy, but she is a psycho. ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/19 "2003-08-08T23:59:08Z")
Awful legs. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-on-larry-king/193756/20 "2003-08-09T00:02:06Z")
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