On Fox, Coulter says it's a "shame and embarrassment" that Clinton's "involved in this bipartisan [Haiti] effort"
January 18, 2010 10:13 am ET
From the January 16 edition of Fox News' Geraldo at Large:
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and what your basing your argument on the fact that clinton lied about an affair? well that is a drop in the bucket compared to the whopper lies told by bush. bush should have been impeached and removed from office.
and how is obama worse...he is trying to clean up the mess that came to fruition under bush and was begun under clinton.
the only embarassment here is your attempted argument.
As far as George Bush? Well, it was tough to love the ole U.S when he was talkin about BOTSWANA!
I can tell you truthful facts about why I think Clinton was not a good president in my own opinion, but I will not just spit out non-factual statements or just blab out words like you just did.
WTO, NAFTA, Repeal of Glass-Steigel, The telecommunications act of 1996. I blasted Clinton for those policies. Just like I am holding Obama's feet to the fire for his actions. Just because I am a progressive does not mean I should become a kiss up.
And no, I don't think Pres. Clinton hopes "that Obama is even worse." That's absurd and mean-spirited.
But I would give Hummer the same advice I would give poor little Annie.... it was more than ten years ago... it was a BJ... move on with your life.
W was low and still is low in both. He is so bad hardly anybody has even seen him in a year. Showing him off HURTS Republicans in elections! And most embarrassing of all, world leaders don't even want to be seen with Bush shaking hands:
EMBARRASSMENT TO THE WORLD
Yeah, that sure was an embarassment . . .
- leaving office with record budget surplus
- leaving office with the highest ratings of any president
- the longest peacetime economic expansion in US history
- standing peace treaty in N. Ireland
. . . embarrassing to a wingnut who keeps repeating "hmmm", maybe . . .
It's a shame and embarassment that you and Limbaugh have been making partisan comments here. What have you said or done in a positive way? Have you lifted a finger? Have you donated one cent?
But notice how the dutiful Fox/GOP host describes these two well-documented liars, and repeaters of debunked right wing talking points; They "say what they believe" and tell it like it is.
Really ? If that's true, they're not very well informed, and should have no business appearing as "pundits" on a national "news" channel.
If that's not true, then the host is lying, or not very well-informed.
There are only two options here, and both lead to the same conclusion; Fox has no business calling itself a news channel.
It's for the benefit of those confused wingnuts who like to cry that people hate Fox simply for showing opposing views. Bullsh*t is not an opposing view.
- in 1994 Bill Clinton threatened Millitary Intervention to oust a Dectatorship and then secured the return of their elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was removed from power by a coup.
- In March of this year, Bill Clinton toured Port-au-Prince with the U.N.to encourage investment into the country.
- In April of this year, Bill Clinton was at a conference in Washington that earned $324 million dollars in pledges to Haiti.
Yeah... why would the Haitian people want Bill Clinton's help? What has he ever done for them?
As far as the sex scandal is concerned, I don't think the people of Haiti would care if it was Larry Flynt who was appointed as Special Envoy, just so long as they get the help they so desperately need.
Now as far as that family values stuff & the Clinton marriage goes....well of course only Hillary & Bill know the truth, but IMO, that marriage stayed intact for mostly political reasons.
She doesn't need Bill really any longer, and I'm pretty sure nobody would blame her at all if they did ever get divorced, but it seems pretty strong right now, their marriage.
I guess call me naive about it, but maybe I'm just being optimistic that a couple can go through that, and through a lot of healing, can come out on the other side of it OK.
Who knows why some relationships seem to withstand almost anything & others crumble very easily? So one can only speculate about the Clintons. I can't imagine any spouse being publicly humiliated the way Hillary was & sticking it out, so that's why I figured they held it together for mostly political reasons. Sure she could divorce him now, but can you even imagine the media circus if that happened? All their dirty laundry & then some, would be on public display once again. I doubt either of them want to go through that.
Hey who knows? Maybe they really do love each other & despite everything have a bond that can't be broken.
All part of the "human equation," jeter. It may even be that Bill and Hill are simply comfortable with each other, and thus willing to overlook or even accpt behavior other people could not stand.
You're quite right about what would happen in the wake of a divorce--the media would be All-Hillary-Divorce-All-The-Time...
In her biography Living History, at the end of a passage concerning her marriage, she wrote [paraphrasing}: "Bill and I began a conversation in 1975, and, more than thirty years later, we're still having it."
Hm, thirty-plus years, with the SAME spouse. Let's compare that to the number/length of the Gingrich, Giuliani, and Limpballs unions, shall we . . .
Ahh! The Coultergiest strikes with ignorance of her dense minded views again! Nevermind that she likes to talk about other people while she has had problems of her own (Three failed engagements). She talks about Clinton being an embarassment because of his personal life a little too much to me. Kind of make me think is she attracted to him sexually???
*Initiate throwing up!*
Ain't it the truth, soze? It seems like there's NOTHING like the mere MENTION of the name "Bill Clinton" to get the Fox Comedy Channel and Crazy Annie into a tizzy . . .
Yeah... those Haitian's don't want anything to do with this filthy pervert.
Bill Clinton is a great ambassador for our country, whether it be for humanitarian purposes or foreign policy.
Heck, he even got Kim Jong Il to let those 2 women go last year.
If anyone could do it, I knew Bill could. The guy has that something, let's call it diplomatic charisma, that even evil dictators can't resist ;-)
But seriously, I think Clinton is well respected by world leaders [even the nut job variety] & was the only one that could have pulled that off.
Simply put, jeter, she has to escalate her attacks to remain relevant. Once the acts gets stale, you have to intensify it to keep getting a reaction (and TV time), so Ann simply amps up the rhetoric. As you clearly have noticed...
Annie, nobody is ashamed of Bill Clinton... the world loves Bill Clinton, only narrow minded GOP Sycophants are embarassed and you certainly are one of them.
Were you embarassed when Bill Clinton and Bush Sr. were working on flood relief together? Did the world point and laugh at us because he was such an embarassment?
It gets funny watching these people when they become so intellectually dishonest that they can no longer distinguish the talking points from the truth.
Having her comment on an relief effort is a joke. Unless she is willing to lug water from a well or clean latrines she will never overcome her damning reputation.
This is all smoke and mirrors to deflect from her failings.
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So, very nearly journalism from a FOX Propaganda host. Let's compare two disasters under two different presidents and see what we discover.
How is it being handled? Very effectively. America is responding with grassroots fundraising and national fundraising drives like those sponsored by celebrities. The celebrities themselves are leading the way by donating. Military personnel have been dispatched to keep order and bring in food and medical supplies which are being donated from around the world. Had this happened on Bush's watch, Haiti would still be waiting for the flyover.
The two incidents provide enough similarity to make a good comparison showing how the two presidents respond to emergencies. Should we do that? Should we actually delve into political discourse and see what we can discover? We have the answer from Ann Coulter almost immediately:
Right. Let's not talk about disaster relief, or engage in any actual journalism at all. Let's pretend we're the video version of the National Enquirer. Ann, you're not a journalist. You're not a commentator. You're a gossip, and a snippy, snide gossip with a bag full of stones living in a glass house. You will not be missed when you are gone, you add nothing of value to America, and anyone who takes you seriously deserves exactly what they get.
What a coincidence -- I think its a "shame and embarrassment" that a woman[?]
- who called for the poisoning of a sitting Supreme Court Justice
- who called for the assassination of a sitting US President
- and committed voter fraud
is allowed to continue spewing BS on the airwaves instead of sitting in a jail cell . . .