# Annie Coulter Does It Again!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 23, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343 "2002-09-23T21:13:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/1 "2002-09-23T21:13:56Z")
I know, I know. We’ve discussed the stunning Ms. Coulter before. But I think this is the all time record breaker!
“They know that the American people support defending America, unlike them. Their real feelings are coming out as much as they can right now, which is that they’re desperately dying to provide aid and support to al-Qaeda.”
Quoted by Undernews, a web site/blog devoted to news from a somewhat lefty position. Actual source of quote and/or link not given.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/2 "2002-09-23T21:15:02Z")
rats, should have been
ANN COULTER ON ANTI-WAR DEMOCRATS -
“They know that the American people support defending America, unlike them. Their real feelings are coming out as much as they can right now, which is that they’re desperately dying to provide aid and support to al-Qaeda.”
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/3 "2002-09-23T21:17:22Z")
Well, assuming it’s a real quote, it depends who “them” is. If she’s talking about Congressional Democrats, that’s pretty outrageous. If she’s talking about Iraqis, or the PLO, or somebody, I wouldn’t neccesarily agree with her, but the quote wouldn’t shock or disgust me.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/4 "2002-09-23T21:20:59Z")
Well, now I seem silly…
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/5 "2002-09-23T21:24:23Z")
I would just like to see one prominent Democrat sue her and her publishers for slander for even **one** of her bigoted remarks.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/6 "2002-09-23T21:25:15Z")
No reason to, my bad, not yours
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/7 "2002-09-23T21:29:09Z")
Apparently, according to one source, she said this on an interview with WOR’s Ed Walsh. He then questioned it and she answered "“I’m only exaggerating slightly”. I don’t have conformation on the interview, though.
Coulter seems to enjoy exaggeration, especially during press interviews. I think her rhetorical strategy is to be so over the top and offensive that people have to pay attention to her, and likely that’s what happened here.
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/8 "2002-09-23T21:29:19Z")
Wow, she’s a piece of work.
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### Author:  [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/9 "2002-09-23T21:29:49Z")
How about a cite, so we can see the quote in context?
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### Author:  [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/10 "2002-09-23T21:32:28Z")
She probably wants to be sued. Then she could write about how her 1st amendment rights are being prohibited, which is what the “liberals” want to do to everyone.
She is a caricature, a scarecrow, the Marilyn Manson of the pundit world creating controversy for its own sake because she has nothing original or insightful to say. The truly frightening thing is that her book has been on the best seller list for such a long time. Granted, many people are just reading it for the comic relief value a’la the Weekly World News but many people think she knows what she’s talking about.
A while back, our local paper ran a letter to the editor from a lady who was cancelling her subscription because of the “liberal media” bias and whatnot. Her closing line?
“I’ll get the truth from Jeff Jacoby, Ann Coulter, and Rush!”
:smack:
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### Author:  [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/11 "2002-09-23T21:44:28Z")
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> \*Originally posted by jk1245 \*
> \*\*“I’ll get the truth from Jeff Jacoby, Ann Coulter, and Rush!”
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> :smack: \*\*
Who the Hell is Jeff Jacoby?
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/12 "2002-09-23T21:45:46Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by december \*
> \*\*How about a cite, so we can see the quote in context? \*\*
The nearest I can find is this source
> **[Newsmax.com - Breaking news from around the globe](https://www.newsmax.com)**
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> Newsmax.com reports today’s news headlines, live news stream, news videos from Americans and global readers
> seeking the latest in current events, politics, U.S., world news, health, finance, and more.
Look about halfway down, at the headline “Tom DeLay Slams Dems as Handwringers and Appeasers.”
It doesn’t have any context for the Coulter quote, though, and some of the articles seem to have a pro-democratic slant, even though I’d never heard of Newsmax before this.
I can confirm, however, that Ed Walsh is the host of the morning show on New York 710 WOR, and that he does have a show on Saturday mornings.
[http://www.wor710.com/wor\_morning\_show.shtml](http://www.wor710.com/wor_morning_show.shtml)
Maybe a New York City or Northern New Jersey doper could call and see if transcripts are available?
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/13 "2002-09-23T21:50:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \*
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> Who the Hell is Jeff Jacoby? \*\*
Conservative columnist at the Boston Globe.
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### Author:  [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/14 "2002-09-23T21:55:05Z")
He’s a conservative writer for the Boston Globe Op-Ed pages. I wouldn’t classify him as being as bad at formulating logical and non-psychotic arguments Ann Coulter, although I’ve moved out of the area and haven’t been keeping up with his pieces. I never cared much for the majority of his analysis or opinions (sometimes he made some interesting points) but in the 7 or 8 years that I was reading his work on a daily basis, I never read anything as polemical as Ann Coulter’s stuff.
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### Author:  [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/15 "2002-09-23T21:59:50Z")
Thanks for the cite, \*\*Captain Amazing \*\*. Newsmax is very conservative, so they certainly aren’t trying to smear Coulter. Here’s the relevant portion:
> [@](#):
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> “The Democrats have never been very supportive of these kinds of actions over the history of time,” DeLay told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity.
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> "They didn’t vote for the Gulf War, Desert Storm. They are handwringers and appeasers. They believe we ought to dream of peace rather than going out and fight for it.
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> “It’s who they are and what their worldview is,” the top Republican told Hannity.
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> DeLay was reacting to a report in the Washington Times about a House resolution sponsored by Democrats opposed to the war in Iraq.
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> “Unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq is unjustified, unwarranted and illegal,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, reportedly complained.
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> Kucinich, a lead organizer of the House anti-war movement, predicted that “dozens” more Democrats would join a group of 20 legislators already backing the resolution.
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> The anti-war Democrats also drew the ire of best-selling author Ann Coulter on Saturday morning.
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> “They know that the American people support defending America, unlike them,” Coulter told WOR Radio’s Ed Walsh.
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> “Their real feelings are coming out as much as they can right now, which is that they’re desperately dying to provide aid and support to al-Qaeda.”
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> “I’m only exaggerating slightly,” Coulter added, after Walsh questioned the observation.
Even if one agrees with DeLay, what Coulter said was outrageous. Her admission that she was “exaggerting slightly” doesn’t come close to curing the offensiveness.
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### Author:  [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/16 "2002-09-23T22:02:16Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by jk1245 \*
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> “I’ll get the truth from Jeff Jacoby, Ann Coulter, and Rush!”
> \*\*
Hey, I liked “2112” as much as the next guy, but I wouldn’t base my political philosophy on it.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/17 "2002-09-23T22:12:48Z")
I can go downtown and hear people say insane things, no charge. How does Ann Coulter make a living at it?
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/18 "2002-09-23T23:31:39Z")
“2112”?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/19 "2002-09-23T23:51:25Z")
**Baldwin:** Gams.
**Derleth:**'S an album. By the band, Rush. As opposed to Limbaugh. 'Tain’t funny when it’s 'splained out, y’understand.
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### Author:  [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annie-coulter-does-it-again/129343/20 "2002-09-24T01:17:08Z")
I guess the gams must be the appeal. I can even imagine how she’d be attractive with a bag over that man-face of hers.
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