MRC issued a press release and I’d like to respond.
Brent Bozell should look close to home when he defends the vile Ann Coulter, who as we all know, speaks for Republicans. When it comes to ugliness and hatefulness, there is nothing that matches Coulter and he knows this all too well. The conservative magazine—the NRO had to fire Ann because of her repulsive columns:
Two weeks after penning a column calling for the United States to respond to terrorists by “invad[ing] their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” the conservative commentator has been fired by National Review Online.
Apparently, that is appropriate political discourse for the MRC. Rush Limbaugh was the first recipient of the Annual William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence and I guess they forgot how he made fun of Michael J. Fox’s illness (I broke the story on C&L) which angered many families that were touched by Parkinson’s and helped propel Claire McCaskill to an upset victory in the Senate—so why am I not surprised that they find Coulter’s hate-filled character assasinations to their liking? (here’s a list of other great Limbaugh moments.)
Brent writes that it’s all a great liberal plot to silence conservative voices, but that is not the case. Elizabeth just asked Ann to tone down the rhetoric, but the MRC tries to spin it into a debate about the Fairness Doctrine, which was a government regulation by the FCC. It was discovered in 2004 that Brent Bozell’s group called the PTC filed 99.8% of all complaints to the FCC. Read Jeff Jarvis’: “The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few.” Jarvis also lists a litany of frivious complaints filed by the PTC.
The Republicans can’t compete in a creative environment so they try to stop free expression, and then accuse us of what they’re always doing. It’s laughable that Bozell would be so worried about regulation of free speech and government control when he has used it at every turn.
And if he was being honest, he would admit that Elizabeth Edwards merely called in and asked Coulter to stop using personal attacks which lowers the bar of political debate in this country. Is he trying to say that Republicans think it’s acceptable to wish death by terrorist attack on a presidential candidate?
Edwards: If she wants to debate on issues…on positions—we certainly disagree with nearly everything she said on your show today, but it’s quite another matter for these personal attacks…the things she’s said over the years—not just about John—about other candidates—-it lowers our political dialogue pricely at the time when we need to raise it. So I want to use the opportunity which I don’t get much…Ann and I don’t hang out with the same people…to ask her politely….stop the personal attacks.
Coulter made fun of the death of Elizabeth Edwards’ son in a vicious column and all she did was ask her to stop. I guess in Bozell’s mind that’s tantamount to an attack. Brent Bozell’s attack on John’s wife is just another example of conservative whining that has no basis in facts. I challenge Bozell to watch or listen to the exchange again and tell me where Edwards attacked Coulter? I doubt he will respond. <snark>
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Brent Bozo Bozell and Ann the Man Coulter are miserable excuses for human beings, and one cannot help but wonder how in the hell they ever became so vicious and vile. Both Bozell and Coulter will rot in hell.
Who in the hell is Brent Bozell?
The vile ann coulter should be referred to as “republican party spokesperson” in all cases and at all times.
Boswell cannot even spell assassination. A ‘journalist’ who doesn’t know how to use Spellcheck? Rethuglicans can dish it out, but they CAN’T TAKE IT!!! WATB.
Why do Republican mouth-pieces like Coulter equate a request for civility and no use of hate speech in political discourse to a ban on their right to speak? It must be because they view everything they say is hate speech. It’s simple logic.
OK, call ‘em out on it but, c’mon, these rightwinger publiciy whores are creeps and as disgusting as their remarks and opinions are we have to be much more concerned with the way the administration has stacked the courts (from low-level to District to SCOTUS) with loyal, delusional rightwingers. THAT is where our lives will be truly affected for years or decades to come. It’s frightening.
“The Republicans can’t compete in a creative environment so they try to stop free expression, and then accuse us of what they’re always doing.”
That pretty much sums up the Republican pundits and Republican politicians perfectly. Just go on a conservative blog, they block you or delete your comment so you don’t interrupt their hate spewing fest that consists of blaming everyone except their policy makers (who have been in charge for the past 8 years) and spreading hateful lies.
He’s doing just what Ann tried to do. You can’t defend what ann says so instead change the subject and try to make it sound like Elizabeth was demanding censorship. Sad try and it won’t work. Facts are facts and in this day when everything is on tape anyone trying to make it something is wasn’t just looks pathetic and desperate. We know the routine and we aren’t buying.
Its like a surge on that crap site to come to the defense of Coulter.
Why pay any attention to Bozell? He’s an absolute nobody.
Before Mrs. Edwards came on Mr. Coulter called for the killing of innocent people….as long as they are not ours. What a great Christian pro life attitude.
There is no excuse for what ann said. If she believes what she said, she shouldn’t allow anyone to try to excuse her words. She should stick by her guns. She sure as hell shouldn’t try to play the victim if she said what she meant.
Anyone trying to make her the victim is also trying to gloss over her original words. There’s not enough wax on earth to cover the meaness she spews.
You ever seen a 3 year old cuss?
know what happens? the adults in the room think its funny, they laugh, the kid catches on that its funny. So next time the kid needs some attention, and they arent getting it, that kid is gonna cuss again. get what Im saying? this lady is a child that has been conditioned to spout whatever hate she can come up with so she might be validated.
I have never, ever wanted to put a bullet through someone’s head before.
Until I saw Ann Coulter.
I sure as hell don’t want to silence her. Let her keep right on talking. If someone wants to listen to her, fine by me. Each time she opens her mouth she makes her party look more and more cruel and foolish. If the Repubs like her as their mascot, I’m okay with that. She’s not the person I would choose to represent me, but if they like her let them have her. I don’t think she’s exactly a plus for their party and I have a feeling a lot of Repubs don’t either.
BRING BACK THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.
The wingers want Dems to run from the Fairness Doctrine, but before Reagan removed it, the required presence of rebuttal on public broadcast channels WOULD HAVE STOPPED MUCH OF THE LIES LEADING TO THE IRAQ INVASION.
And that’s a good thing. Why should public broadcasters be free to lie incessantly as if that fulfills their (FCC) licence duty to serve the public good?
Cable/Sat/Internet is another can of worms, but if the major public broadcasters have no constraints, then they will eventually lose track of that public duty.
Don’t let the wingers drive liberals away from the regulatory environment that we have all now seen to be CRUCIAL to an informed society.
Another thing that is upsetting about this whole thing is that conservatives defend someone who insults a person about the death of their son, wishes him dead, and calls him a homophobic slur but when a journalist asks Cheney how he justifies his relationship with his daughter and his fascist party (which exploits prejudices in the name of God for political gain) the conservatives are appauled and calling for Democratic blood.
Worldclass asswipes, Bozell, Coulter, Limbaugh, all of them.
Coulter is invading our town in a few weeks or so, much to our detriment. She will be giving a “speech”, if what she does can be elevated to that level.
Listen to Annie have a meltdown this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....c%2Ecom%2F
This is just another example of how alot of Americans have allowed themselves to be pulled through the looking glass. I honestly cannot believe that people who would otherwise consider themselves upstanding and decent would hitch their wagons to Coulter and her obviously psychotic views. Did any of you see the psychofant psycho fans that were cheering Coulter on? Where do they find these people? It was like watching “Deliverance” “the hills have eyes” and “The Stepford wives” all rolled into one. So I hope everyone is really aware of what is happening to our society. Calling for the assassination of Presidential candidates is ok but asking people to stop using personal attacks to the detriment of the level of discourse amounts to an attack? I mean c’mon…
I simply cannot believe Brent Bozell is behaving in a way that is intellectually dishonest. Unthinkable.
DrToxic @ 14
Had same feeling well over a year ago, so decided that in order to soooooth my
feelings, I had better NEVER, NEVER watch/listen to her again…It has worked because
I have totally boycotted her and she is out of my life…and oh, I feel soooo much better.
If Coulter was CORRECTLY LABELED as a Neo-Nazi, this debate would not occur.
Political advantage, Patricia, does not outweigh the damage to society done by HATE-SPEECH.
She should be fined until she has to wear one of Elizabeth Edwards’ hand-me-down smocks. And the broadcasters who give her licence to spread hatred should lose theirs.
I wonder how they would respond if, through some perverted dostortion of reality, roles were reversed? The Republicans can achieve nothing, based on whatever the merits the thing they are trying to achieve might possess. Hence the need to propagandize, lie, manipulate, attack,distort, misinform and use every other dirty trick ever devised.
Ann Coulter is a monkey throwing Poo. And the MSM loves it.
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Excuse me, I have to go take a Coulter.
It is hard to believe that somone was goofy enought to write that “press release.” One need only see the video of the conversation to see that the title itself is a bit skewed. I was not aware that you could attack someone via a telephone call. Perhaps they should file assault charges.
I don’t know who the MRC is, but clearly they have a nasty case of crazy.
Iwoolf What did she say? What happened? And I hate myself for being interested. PS I have Dial up.
Brent Bozell and ann c are monkeys who eat their own poo.
you can not change the mind of someone whose brains are in the hands of the person who have them up their butts. in ann’s case it’s two hands clapping.
I sent letters to NBC, MSNBC, and ABC today telling them that I am sending transcripts of Ann Coulter’s appearances on their programs to their sponsors and starting boycotts of their products among my family and friends. I included links to youtube videos where she called John Edwards a “faggot” as well. The only way to rid the airwaves of this garbage is to hit the networks in the pocketbook. That’s the ONLY reason Imus was let go and it can work in our favor against this piece of human garbage, too.
We do not want to see, hear, or read this kind of hate-filled Neo-Nazi crap any longer.
Just a warning, don’t go to the Bozell link and read the comments if you have a weak stomach. The comments deny Edwards was called a f@ggot. (I guess I forgot that conservatives don’t do nuance or insinuation, but when you make a statement like: “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,” do you have personalized insult Tourette’s Syndrome.” When a few liberals posted there about this, some of them offered to get the exact quote! I am guessing they wouldn’t have or just claimed that since she did not say exactly what she is accused of, she didn’t say it.
Nowhere in Mr. Bozell’s press release does he mention what Mrs. Edwards actually said to Coulter. He goes on a tangent about the Fairness Doctrine and the stifiling of Republican talk radio as if this was about that. They then remark about how liberal the media is and how any attempts to have Coulter silenced (which they claim was Mrs. Edwards’ idea) would be censorship.
If Ms. Coulter has something to contribute to the political discourse that is honest, I welcome her input. If she can prove any of the assertions she made while on Hardball (i.e. we found stockpiles of WMD, Iraq was involved with 9/11, The Edwards campaign used the death of his son to political advantage, etc.), she has every right to. Unfortunately, using the rationale of “that’s a fact,” over and over and over doesn’t cut it. If she is just going to resort to cheap shots with no regard for priniciples or truth or even rational thought, why is she on TV?
Look, I would feel the same way if a Liberal pundit was on television saying these outrageous things. Conservatives, at least on that site, bring up Keith Olbermann as their counterargument regarding personal attacks on the President. It seems to me, that Keith’s arguments are at least thought-out, thorough and nuanced. I would give Coulter credit if she used her law degree and argued in such a manner.
Oh, and one more thing, if she is just “kidding” or this is all “satire,” why is she on the editorial page on not by Dave Barry?
ohhhh, it’s beginning to look alot like christmas….
Imagine how the media would react if a liberal pundit suggested a bumper sticker that read, “Ask me about Dubya’s dead sister,” and then tried to pass it off as a “joke.”
(She died of leukemia, many years ago.)
that letter has desperation written all over it.
I said this yesterday and I think it bares repeating. These people are acting a part. They are playing a caricature of real people. They no more really believe what crap spills from their mouths than you do. It is very much like professional wrestling. Ann Coulter is playing part like other players that go by the name of “Hulk Hogan”, “The Iron Sheik”, and “Sone Cold Steve Austin”. There is big money in playing these unreal, hateful, crazy caricatures. That is why they do it. Its a good living and they have no shame.
Well said. Mrs. Edwards was only offering Ann a chance to stop throwing food at the kiddie table and join the grown ups in serious discussion. And all Ann could do was offer the paranoid screams of censorship. To be fair, if she’s incapable of writing anything but disrespectful vitriol, perhaps she should stop writing books.
Listen to Annie have a meltdown this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..c%2Ecom%2F
I listened. So sad - Coulter just hates it when he, er I means “she,” gets criticized for using hate speech and personal attacks. It’s too hard for her to actually discuss the issues rather than using ad hominem attacks on the time.
Boycott the sponsors of any show she appears on. That’ll get her attention.
Wow. You totally owned him. Thanks, you reinforced the reasons why I bookmarked C&L in the first place. :-)
pissed off patricia @ 15:
I agree. Just be sure to prefix her name with the title “republican spokesperson”.
PoisAnn Coulter and her fellow rightwing freaks have lost all self control because they can read the writing on the wall.
The Nov ‘06 midtearms was their official curtain call and they know that their time in the sun has ended. They’re also beginning to realize that their failed leader will go down in history as being the Decider when every decision he’s made has been wrong.
They’re failures and they know it. Everyone knows it. That’s why they’re freaking out.
Strawberry @ 28:
She said NOTHING on the Scrabrough Country tel. conversation…all I heard was her
“plugging” the five(5) books she has written, so if you’ll ready want to know where she
is coming from, see what RayC has to say @ 35…..It is money only..
Correction-
“The Republicans can’t compete in a Democratic environment
:::applause for John!:::
Way to go.
I just don’t get it. The majority of talk radio shows are devoted to neo-conservative POV’s. Where do these people get the idea that their existence is jeopardized? That’s bananas. Elizabeth Edwards is right, and those who have nothing but belligerence do not deserve a platform. People like Coulter have dumbed-down forms of debate.
The msm isn’t going to grow IQ points unless we force them too. They don’t have the smarts to stop booking Coulter, and so the public needs to drag them all, kicking and screaming, to the 21st century.
Bozell was a boy scout, he rubs Ann’s legs together and starts a fire, she gives him something warm and fuzzy to feel.
What do you want, John? Republicans are a bunch of lilly-livered, hypocritical, myopic crybabies. Not mention disrespectful, cruel, stupid, and boring. The idea that these people will ever see reason when there is money to be made or a point to be won, silly band of scoreboard watchers that they are, they will never change their disgusting tactics.
I don’t even allow republicans in my home, at least not until the time when the Bushistas are out of office and perhaps the discourse gets cranked back down to a more reasonable level of sniping. Better for now to just chain them up in the backyard and let them bark at the squirrels, because at my friends & family gatherings, they are NOT allowed inside with the adults.
What makes Coulter different from Ayman al-Zawahiri?
Zawahiri wears glasses.
Let’s face it, if ann lets go of her hate speech she’s toast. That’s her only claim to fame and I’m feeling like the spotlight is on her for negative reasons only. She knows that and she’s desperate not to lose her only “talent”. The elections of last Nov showed the public is fed up with a lot of things and her way of speaking and writing may well be one of them. The party of tough guys, wars, and all things macho is in the minority now. The country is tired of this bs. Realilty is starting to awaken and make itself known. The days of “kill them all and let god sort them out” have pretty much run their course. Along with that so has the popularity of hatred.