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Coulter 2005
On Jan. 3, I met Ann Coulter at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East
Side. She was glowing, stunning, radiant. Better than ever. She was
wearing a powder blue shirt, black pants, black boots and a cross around
her neck made of diamonds. I hadn’t seen her since the Republican
convention. Since then, the President had been decisively re-elected,
her book How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) hit the New York Times
best-seller list, where it remains, and some dopes threw pies at her
during a speech she was giving at the University of Arizona and missed.
"I sort of like liberals now," she said, taking a sip of white wine.
"They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid. They’re so
pathetic and sad. They can’t come up with a fight. I mean, if the best
you’re going to give me to argue about is Rumsfeld’s auto-pen ….
"I’m rooting for the faction of the Democratic Party—like Nancy Pelosi,
quoted in yesterday’s New York Times, and I think this is the dominant
faction—taking the position that our ideas are fine. That’s right,
class, do not change anything about what we believe. We’ve just got to
package the wine in new bottles. We need a new way of delivering our
message, but the message is perfect! We just need to advertise RU-486 at
NASCAR or something—that’ll do the trick!
"I think the trick is, they need to obfuscate their message," she said.
"Democrats always have these open public discussions on how they can
fake out the American people, so that’s one wing—let’s not tell them
what we believe—and the other wing is, Our message is perfect. Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Why was 2004 a great year?
"I’m thinking about putting up a reward on my Web page for any liberal
who will mention either Afghanistan or the Kurds," she said. "I mean, 85
percent of Iraq is free, it’s beautiful—we have about 300 troops
patrolling the entire Kurdish area. These poor beleaguered Kurds are
free, are happy, are dancing in the streets, and liberals simply won’t
mention them. I certainly thought Afghanistan was going to be a tougher
nut to crack than Iraq—the Russians couldn’t take Afghanistan! They’ve
basically been at war for a hundred years—even when nobody’s there,
they’re at war with one another. We took Afghanistan in a month, and now
they’ve had elections and women vote, and they didn’t vote for some
crazy lunatic mullahs. So that’s a pretty good year."
The Iraqi people didn’t seem to have that great a Christmas.
"That’s right! But they’ll be opening Christmas presents soon enough,"
she said. "And then they’ll be happy. We’ll see, but things are going
pretty well, and in most cases better than expected. We’re going to
transform the Middle East by the time Bush leaves office, or it will be
within shouting distance of there. I think Arabs flying planes into our
skyscrapers will be as likely as a Japanese kamikaze pilot."
What would have to happen to make you say it was a bad idea to invade?
"That’s a good question. It would be a mistake if we just futz around
and the whole country became like one long Falluja. I thought we were
wasting way too much time on that. This is a war, let’s go in and win
it. Just take the city! I think if it got to the point where it was
going on for six, seven years, and it was just Americans patrolling
without killing anyone—I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about,
oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now
just to give the rest of the world a warning."
Nuke North Korea?
"Right—and this is tied to my point that, in Iraq, let the Marines do
their job. There may be some civilian casualties—that’s known as war.
Americans can live with that. And when did we become the guardian of the
world to prevent all civilian casualties, ever—how about our civilians?"
After we bomb North Korea, what’s the next country we should invade?
"Iran. Though that’s the beauty part of Iraq: It may well not be
necessary. Because precisely what I’m saying with nuking North
Korea—despite that wonderful peace deal Madeline Albright negotiated
with the North Koreans, six seconds before they feverishly began
developing nuclear weapons. They’re a major threat. I just think it
would be fun to nuke them and have it be a warning to the rest of the
world."
What about Mecca?
"Seriously, I think the rest of the countries in the Middle East, after
Afghanistan and Iraq, they’re pretty much George Bush’s *****," she
said. "I think they know we’re serious: We have a President who can do
what he thinks is right, whether or not there are a bunch of liberals
carping, and no matter what the letter writers to The New York Times
have to say about being ashamed for their country."
What will liberals say when George Bush leaves office?
"They will say: ‘Many people would like to give George Bush credit for
transforming the entire Middle East. But it was inevitable, it was going
to happen anyway. It would have happened under John Kerry.’"
Have you met anyone in the administration?
"Briefly I met Gonzalez and Karl Rove years ago—very briefly, like at a
dinner—and I’ve pretty much been attacking them ever since. I kind of
avoid meeting politicians, because then I can’t attack them."
What would happen if you visited the White House?
"I was invited to the White House Christmas party, but I couldn’t go. I
was busy. Maybe next year. But I’m not really someone who wants to meet
people generally. It’s just not that big a thing for me. The one person
I really want to meet and have my picture taken with is Jesse Helms. He
kept America safe before Reagan came in. He was Senator No. He’s a great
American."
How badly are Republicans hoping that the Dems nominate Hillary?
"It would be a lot of fun and I think they might well," she said. "The
advantage Hillary has is the crazies—which is to say, the base of the
Democratic party—love her, adore her, no matter what she says or does.
She can come out for curbing illegal immigration. She could come out for
parental notification and against partial-birth abortion and the crazies
will still say, ‘No, she’s our gal. She is Madame Hillary.’"
Do you have a perverse admiration for her?
"Ewwww, no. As with John Kerry, I generally don’t admire people who get
ahead on somebody else’s coattails. She’s like the anti-feminist. No,
except she isn’t—because all feminists behave that way and pretend to
be, ‘Oh, I’m a strong woman.’ They’re all weak and pathetic. Have you
ever seen Citizen Kane? You know, he marries the nightclub singer and
then wants to make her a great opera singer, because he controls all
news in America; even though the audience is booing and throwing paper
airplanes, all the headlines on every newspaper is ‘Susan Alexander
Sweeps Chicago!’ That is what it’s like to be a liberal in America,
whether you’re Susan Sontag or Hillary Clinton. No matter how pathetic
and useless and everyone can be booing you, throwing paper airplanes—you
can be incomprehensible like Susan Sontag, a ‘genius,’ a ‘public
intellectual’! Did you try reading anything she’s ever written? What was
the point of it? And Hillary, constantly voted the most admired woman."
What should we remember about Bill Clinton?
"Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten.
I don’t think it’s fading. I winced when I saw him on TV today—what is
Bush thinking, what is that? It reminds everyone of basically the worst
episode in American history: Clinton talking on the phone with
Congressmen about sending American troops to the Balkans while being
serviced by Monica Lewinsky under the desk. And liberals didn’t mind
that—but they’re upset that George Bush waited 48 hours to fly back from
Crawford, Tex. If they’d shown half the indignation they showed at
George Bush for not immediately turning over the entire United States
treasury to Indonesia—where the Indonesians are all wearing Osama bin
Laden T-shirts, by the way. Did you see that the Sri Lankans would not
accept medical teams from Israel? ‘It’s a natural disaster, we’re dying,
send help! No Jews.’ Oh-kay. Lovely people."
What’s a major flaw of the Republican Party?
"They don’t trust themselves enough and they get nervous about running a
real Republican. Our problem is exactly the reverse of the Democrats,
who have to prevent the American people from understanding what they
really believe. The more they know about what we really believe, the
more they like us, as opposed to the image of conservative or Republican."
Would you do a TV show with Al Franken?
"No, he’s physically repulsive. TV—we’re talking about where people see
you. I have friends I trust who are smart who would put together a good
TV show, and they came up with some ideas. And I can tell you straight
out, we’ve basically given up. There is no liberal worthy of debating
me, and I won’t do a TV show unless I have a liberal counterpart."
Maureen Dowd?
"No. I promise you, she wouldn’t do it—she’s whiny, she’s not funny.
What we’re looking for is good-looking, male, liberal, half a brain.
They don’t even have to be smart.
"The one person I really want to sit down with and figure out why he
thinks he’s a liberal is Larry David," she said. "Because that’s the
most brilliant TV show—it is conservative humor, and you can’t tell me
it’s not. It’s all politically incorrect. And people I know who’ve
worked with him say he’s really sweet, so there is nothing about him
that should make him a liberal—and yet he flew from Los Angeles to
Boston to sit at the Democratic National Convention.
"He can’t be a liberal! It’s got to be a generation thing. I’m sweeping
the youth of America. I just noticed that most of my fans are college
kids, I mean, it’s striking. And all these old people who ought to be
conservatives still think of themselves as liberals. I would bet you
anything if Larry David were 20 years old, he would be a right-wing
lunatic."
Will Rudolph Giuliani ever be President?
"I love Giuliani, but I just think he needs to switch his position on
abortion. We’re a pro-life party. And I don’t think half the country
realizes he claims to be pro-choice. He’s a Catholic kid from Queens, he
was in the opera club—c’mon! These New York Republicans, they don’t have
a feel for the red states like I do. I give all of my speeches out in
the red states—I know America and it is not New York. And they say, ‘Oh,
now, we could run a pro-choice candidate and that would get moderates in
the Northeast to vote for us—and those right-wing Christians, they’ll
vote for us anyway.’ No, they won’t!"
She said she’s not a big fan of the current Mayor.
"I think anyone would be better," she said. "Michael Bloomberg is Marie
Antoinette in all senses. He has no constituency to respond to, he’s
raising taxes through the roof, he will not cut any programs, and by
cutting out smoking … I mean, the tax base that has been hurt, the bars,
the restaurants that have been hurt—it’s totally Marie Antoinette. In
New York, people live in apartments the size of this table. Our dining
room is the restaurant community of New York. We’re not all Michael
Bloomberg, where we can invite people over to our huge hall and dining
room. And to not allow people to smoke in our dining room is so Marie
Antoinette. Oh, I loathe him."
Why do liberals often say violent things?
"Forget what they say, they are violent," she said. "They were slashing
tires on Election Day. I was physically attacked this year. I hear
MoveOn.org has a bounty for anyone who throws a pie in my face. Neither
of those guys hit me. I think one is still in prison. It is a funny
thing, that they ended up in prison—enjoying the benefits of gay
marriage. One guy with a broken shoulder and one with a broken nose. And
that was when I was traveling totally unprotected. Let ’em try it again,
they’ll end up dead."
Condoleezza Rice being appointed Secretary of State is a huge deal, right?
"Yes, liberals are going to have figure out a way to cut her out of all
the pictures. It’s going to be like Stalinist Russia: ‘Say, who’s that
black woman standing next to Bush? No, never mind—it’s probably someone
he’s arresting! It’s the maid!’ No, they’re going to start to notice.
And it is I think curious, the issue Democrats have with blacks: They do
not attack Spanish conservatives the way they attack black
conservatives. With black conservatives, Democrats immediately go to the
old racist stereotypes. It’s instantly that ‘they’re incompetent,
they’re stupid.’ Look at the attacks on Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza
Rice. They try to refuse to recognize her. They’re specifically engaging
in racist attacks on her: ‘Oh yeah, not up to the job. She’s not
competent. She’s a dummy.’ Bush, they tell us, is dumb, dumb, dumb,
dumb. He is the puppet and the puppet master is ***** Cheney, or it’s
Donald Rumsfeld and he’s just being run around by these wily neocons.
But when it comes to Condoleezza Rice, she’s the puppet of the dumb
guy—that’s how dumb she is."
Could she say something about black conservatives?
"During the gay-marriage debate, these black ministers would come on TV
and say things no white conservative would say. ‘Sodomy? You’re going to
burn in hell for that!’ And I realized to my delight that if we can get
blacks to be conservatives, we have an entire race of Ann Coulters. They
do not care about politically correct. It would be so much fun. And they
are conservative! I’m going to specifically appeal to them. I decided
it’s the only free speech I’m willing to give this year. I will go to a
black church and talk about gay marriage. The brothers aren’t big on
queer theory. The four groups most opposed to gay marriage are blacks,
Hispanics, old people and blue-collar workers—i.e., the four pillars of
the Democratic Party."
How was her Christmas in New York?
"Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is
like saying ‘***** you!’ I’ve said it to everyone. You know, cab drivers,
passing people on the street, whatever. And they come up with the ‘Happy
holidays.’
"‘Merry Christmas.’ I mean, it really is an aggressive act in New York."
—George Gurley
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notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
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