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Posted by: Karina 2 years, 2 months agoSeemingly not content to let Katie whisk all the "credibility" off the Today Show set, Matt Lauer really laid into Ann Coulter on a segment this morning, reading aloud passages from her new book and demanding that the right-winger defend herself. My fave moment: Coulter says "The War on Terrorism is the only thing [Bush] is doing right." Lauer responds, "I'm talking about the war in Iraq, not the War on Terrorism." Zing!
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JasonCalacanis
June 6, 2006, 2:37 p.m.That whole part about the widows of 9/11 was just shocking. Really low rent.
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Deidre
June 7, 2006, 1:43 p.m.This whole thing was just painful to watch. She deliberately uses words like \"broads\" when speaking of the 9/11 women to get a rise out of people. Poor Matt Lauer, he finally no longer has to work with the Chipmunk, but still has to do interviews with the ranters who act like he is part of the furniture and not allowed to \"get testy\" as Coulter called it.
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Alexia
June 8, 2006, 6:05 p.m.Watching the video of Ms. Coulter on the Today show, I couldn\'t help noticing that it always took her a beat to answer each question, as if she was... waiting for someone in her ear to tell her what to say??? The Queen of Mean needs to be blacklisted. Now.
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lane
June 15, 2006, 1:15 a.m.Its not really hard to rip into Coulter... she's a conservative extremist.
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donwilson
June 15, 2006, 1:52 a.m.Matt Lauer's defense couldn't be weaker if you glued words together and threw them at her. The whole reason why this is "controversial" is because the liberals are able to use widows against the right and, if the right argues back, they are bashed because they are going against someone who has lost someone. The fact that this story is controversial makes her arguement perfectly circular and absolutely right.
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freeter
June 15, 2006, 1:58 a.m.Ann Coulter is right. The left does argue from a position of infallibility, and they do send out these broads as human shields because otherwise rational people could shoot big holes in their flimsy emotion-based arguments. Ann Coulter said those things about the "9/11 widows" (wonder why they didn't start a rock band?) in order to show us what happens when you question the unquestionable (as defined by the left's position of inallibility). In my opinion, Ann Coulter is a martyr.
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illwill
June 15, 2006, 10:46 a.m.Ann Coulter says all the wrong things, but boy I love those man hands of hers...mmmm man hands.
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trudy
June 15, 2006, 10:59 a.m.Well, we couldn't use widows if the policies of the rightwingers didn't create them.
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illwill
June 15, 2006, 11:04 a.m.Well said, trudy. In this case though, I think it was the LACK of policies and lack of action that created the widows. "Bin Laden Determined To Attack America" PDB ring a bell?
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marcus
June 15, 2006, 11:18 a.m.Ha ha. Who's ripping into who? Laurer obviously has an agenda to discredit Coulter and she responds to each of his questions directly and holds her own. Great video.
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rflowers
June 15, 2006, 11:24 a.m.Correction for Mr. Lauer: Iraq is part of the "war on terror." Is he a moron, or something?
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ganesha23
June 15, 2006, 12:05 p.m.Correction for rflowers: Iraq is part of the "war on terror." Well, it is NOW! Thanks to BUSHco! Unfortunately, Coulter is the drunk at the party who just won't leave. I would rather that she were ignored but she is willing to say anything for publicity. She's an idiot and a muck-raker, pure and simple!
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donwilson
June 15, 2006, 12:26 p.m.ganesha23, name-calling aside, your commentary on this subject is empty in the usefullness department.
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chrisjara
June 15, 2006, 1:55 p.m.Disclosure: Im one of the people that Coulter's comments targets. Even if she is right about the tactics that liberals use, her over-the-top and hateful remarks are what turns off many people and will alienate middle-of-the-road voters.
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JasonCalacanis
June 15, 2006, 4:11 p.m.She was horrible on leno... why are people even giving her a platform. oh... wait. ;-)
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footstep
June 15, 2006, 6:14 p.m.Miss Coulter get far more attention than her sloppy and disingenouos thinking really deserves. But that's her business model: outrage, then sell books. Laugh all the way to the bank. She's sort of a Neo-Nazi version of Madonna.
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Scott-O-Rama
June 15, 2006, 6:47 p.m.It's pretty obvious that anchor Katrina likes Coulter. Somehow I would prefer the anchors ont this site to be a bit more neutral. Present the story; let us discuss it.
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vagredajr
June 15, 2006, 8:30 p.m.I guess at the end of the day everyone's a shill. Ann for her book, Matt for his show, and poor George Carlin for common sense. The really sad story is how just having contempt for an entire segment of the US population is now acceptable. Coming from the South, where this kind of junk was codified (Jim Crow laws), it makes me sad for our country. There is no "I understand your view, but I disagree." When's the last time you even heard that, about anything? Maybe doughnuts. Mmmm. Doughnuts.
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Eliot2000
June 15, 2006, 8:36 p.m.I for one am sick and tired of the way Liberals attack Ann Coulter for the positions she takes and the opinions she voices in the media. Liberals are supposed to embody compassion in all things, and yet, every chance they get, they go on the attack against Coulter, who is clearly suffering under some kind of mental illness. I'd say borderline personality disorder, with some serious sexual neuroses on the side. Take any streetcorner nut, dress them up, comb their hair, a little liposuction, and tell them they're on this side or that, and presto, 'ya got Coulter. The appropriate response for anything she says should be something like
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Eliot2000
June 15, 2006, 8:41 p.m.I for one am sick and tired of the way Liberals attack Ann Coulter for the positions she takes and the opinions she voices in the media. Liberals are supposed to embody compassion in all things, and yet, every chance they get, they go on the attack against Coulter, who is clearly suffering under some kind of mental illness. I'd say borderline personality disorder, with some serious sexual neuroses on the side. Take any streetcorner nut, dress them up, comb their hair, a little liposuction, and tell them they're on this side or that, and presto, 'ya got Coulter. The appropriate response for anything she says should be something like
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