The Think Tank

Catchy title, eh?  Well, let me explain how I came by it.  I was driving down the road the other day, listening to a radio talkshow discussing, among other things, the latest Ann Coulter controversy.

(If you are one of the three people in the country who haven’t heard about this yet, she intimated that John Edwards was a “faggot”, then later claimed that the epithet was not a slur against homosexuals at all, but was simply a “school yard” slang for “Wussy”.  What I found most abhorrent about the whole thing, more even then the comment itself, was that it was met not with disdain but with laughter and applause.)

The question posed by the talkshow host was this: “Should we play the clip and thereby lend credibility to this nutjob’s luny ideas, or should we not?”  They put it to the callers, and took a vote.  In the end, “Play it” won out, but one of the callers from the minority “Don’t Play It” contingent had a truly unique view.  He said that by playing the clip and discussing it instead of simply dismissing it as the angry rantings of an insane person, the media was “Justin Timberlake to her Janet Jackson, revealing the ugly nipple of homophobia for the world to gawk at.”

Wow.

While I can see the legitimacy of his claim, I have to disagree with this random person and his not-so-eloquent statement.  I think we need to flash these ugly nipples as often and with as much fanfare as we can, simply to point out that people like Ann Coulter, author of many best selling hate books, and everyone who thinks like her is precisely what is wrong with humanity.  I think we need to get her comments out there for the whole world to see, rather then allowing them to be limited to the select individuals  who agree with her narrow philosophy of hatred and intolerance.  And furthermore, I think that we not only need to flash these ugly nipples, I think we need to stop acting as if every nipple is the same as every other nipple in the world.

Okay, so maybe the nipple analogy has gone to far…

What I’m trying to say is that one belief is not equal to every other belief.  We should be damn embarrased that one of our countrymen is on national television making the rest of us look like morons to world.  Sure, she is entitled to her opinion, but I think if she chooses to express it in a national forum, then she deserves national ridicule.

To that end, I have assembled a selection of some of her comments for you to peruse.  While reading them, you must remember that Ann Coulter is a highly respected advocate of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement.  Her latest attack on John Edwards was made while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which is sort of like recruitment conference hosted for young people.  All of the big wigs in the Republican party were there, including presidential hopefuls Rudolph Giulianni, John McCane and Mitt Romney, as well as various other commentators and Republican Party leaders.  In the past she has received the Media Research Center’s Conservative Journalist of the Year award, and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute bestowed upon her its annual Conservative Leadership Award “for her unfailing dedication to truth, freedom and conservative values and for being an exemplar, in word and deed, of what a true leader is.”

Please bear these facts in mind when you read the following statements.
Just to make my own, personal views known I want to point out that I am completely fair and balanced.  I have no personal feelings about Ann Coulter other then thinking that she is a vile, evil, deplorable hate monger who’s uses these outrageous and slanderous comments to sell books and make obscene amounts of money off of a narrow wedge of the population who share her mean spirited, ignorant ideology and suffer from the same shriveled up soul that she does.  If her loathsome words were hot lava, her mouth would be like Mount Vesuvius endlessly erupting a fiery cascade of abhorrent filth and insecurities upon the world, boiling straight up from the white-hot core of the new American Conservative movement.

But I have no opinions.

Please read on and see what I mean:

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word “faggot”, so I – so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.” (Met with applause and laughter from the crowd)
– Speaking at Conservative Political Action Conference, March 2, 2007

“Whenever you have to go to the argument “Oh, would you use the N word”… I mean that is part of this, of this symantic totalitarianism, to compare everything to the N word.  No, if you weren’t brought here as slaves, if you weren’t legally discriminated against – you hear this when people say “you can’t use the word illegal alien because that’s like using the N word!”  No, those are words that are specifically used to demean a particular race.  The word I used has nothing to do with sexual preference.  It is a schoolyard taunt.  And unless you are going to announce here on national TV that John Edwards, married father of many children is gay, it clearly has nothing to do with that!  It’s a schoolyard taunt!”
– excerpted from Hannity and Colmes show, March 6, 2007

“I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.”
– from her newspaper column, December 21, 2005

“We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.”
– Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story (1998), pg. 183, referring to Paula Jones.

“If Americans support abortion, let’s vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby.”
– Her column, December 28, 2000

“Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.”
– Her column, September 28, 2001

“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis… These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them… I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”
– Excerpted from Godless: The Church of Liberalism June, 2006

“If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.”
– Fall Fashion Preview: Cowboy Boots In, Flip-Flops Out; October 14, 2004

“I don’t know if Bill Clinton is gay. But Al Gore – total fag.”
– Media Matters; July 26, 2006

“Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.”
– Her column This Is War; September 12, 2001. Referring to video of Arabs dancing in the streets after the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01

“Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.”
– AnnCoulter.com; November 22, 2006

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
– Her column This Is War; September 12, 2001

“Bill Clinton was a very good rapist”
– New York Observer, January 10, 2005

“I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties”
– New York Observer, January 10, 2005

“I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.”
– New York Observer, January 10, 2005

“The Episcopals (sic) don’t demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages – it’s much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments – or “Moses’ talking points” – but hasten to add that they’re not exactly ‘carved in stone.'”
– Her column The Jesus Thing; January 7, 2004

“Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t answer to the name Mohammed’).”
– Her column; March 4, 2004

“Few failures have been more spectacular. Illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell is just one of the many eggs that had to be broken to make the left’s omelette of transferring power from states to the federal government.”
– Discussing desegregation with Attorney General Ashcroft, Hannity & Colmes show.

“There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.”
– Interview with Brian Lamb; August 11, 2002

“Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do. My allies are the ones wearing crosses or American flags. The people sporting shirts emblazened with the “F-word” are my opponents. Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.”
– On the 2004 Democratic Convention; July 26, 2004

“The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats’ behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle. They fill the airwaves with treason, but when called to vote on withdrawing troops, disavow their own public statements. These people are not only traitors, they are gutless traitors.”
– New Idea for Abortion Party: Aid the Enemy; November 23, 2005

“The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet – it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars – that’s the Biblical view.”
– Oil Good; Democrats bad; October 12, 2000

“They’re [Democrats] always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let’s do it. Let’s repress them. Frankly, I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment.”
– University of Florida speech; October 20, 2005

“I’d build a wall. In fact, I’d hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. […] It’s cheap labor.”
– The O’Reilly Factor;  April 14, 2006

“I was not enthusiastic about the last Gulf war. Of course, it goes without saying, I rooted for our team once the shooting started. But I wasn’t for that war. I was also against sending Americans to the Balkans. My point is, I’m genuinely against America deploying troops without a really, really good reason. I just can’t imagine anyone not seeing 9/11 as a really good reason for wiping out Islamic totalitarians.”
– Her column, May 17, 2003

” as for catching Osama, it’s irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan.”
– Hannity and Colmes, August 24, 2006.  Responding to assertions about problems with Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
– Her Column, This Is War; September 12, 2001

“Point one and point two by the end of the week had become official government policy. As for converting them to Christianity, I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels. I mean perhaps that’s the Peace Corps, perhaps it’s working for Planned Parenthood, but I’ve never seen the transforming effect of anything like that of Christianity.”
– The Drudge Report; June 26, 2002, referring to the preceding comment.

“I think our motto should be, post-9-11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'”
– At Conservative Political Action Conference; February 10, 2006

“Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.”
– Muslim Bites Dog; February 15, 2006

“The presumption of innocence only means you don’t go right to jail.”
– Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; August 24, 2001

“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors. ”
– Conservative Political Action Conference; February 26, 2002

“Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.”
– CNBC; Kudlow & Cramer; February 7, 2005

“Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president”
– Anncoulter.com, “REPUBLICANS, BLOGGERS AND GAYS, OH MY!”, February 23, 2005

“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.”
– New York Observer article; August 26, 2002

“Of course I regret it. I should have added ‘after everyone had left the building except the editors and the reporters.'”
– rightwingnews.com; June 26, 2003, referring to her preceding statement.

“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’s creme brulee. That’s just a joke, for you in the media.”
– Philander Smith College January 26, 2006, referring to US Supreme Court Justice Stevens.

“I think [women] should be armed but should not vote…women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it…it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.”
– Politically Incorrect; February 26, 2001

“It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.”
– Her column, May 17, 2003

“I think the other point that no one is making about the [Abu Ghraib] abuse photos is just the disproportionate number of women involved, including a girl general running the entire operation. I mean, this is lesson, you know, number 1,000,047 on why women shouldn’t be in the military. In addition to not being able to carry even a medium-sized backpack, women are too vicious.”
– Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; May 5, 2004

“I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.”
– Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; August 17, 1997

“Liberals’ only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That’s their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that.”
– Slander (2002); ISBN 1400046610

“Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.”
– Slander (2002) ISBN 1400046610, p. 5-6

“I’m here, I’m not queer, and I’m not going away.”
– Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006); ISBN 0978602412

…And sadly, this is but a few of the quotes available.  I’m sure the full list would rival the complete US tax code in page volume.  If you aren’t now convinced that Ann Coulter is in fact the devil spawn, then I can only assume that you can’t read.

While it is very depressing to think that with only a few minutes of searching I was able to find such a collection of horrible quotes from one of this country’s most prominent and syndicated writers, I did find one website that made me laugh.  If you don’t mind foul language and enjoy revealing in the sort of untrue garbage that Ann Coulter sends forth, you might want to check out http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/.  The title alone pretty much says it all.