CBS' Smith: Coulter "says that I am certifiably insane. Perhaps I am, for having her on the program this morning"
SUMMARY: On CBS' The Early Show, Harry Smith teased an interview with Ann Coulter by saying, "Ann Coulter is in the studio this morning. She has a brand new book ... and in it, she says that I am certifiably insane. Perhaps I am, for having her on the program this morning."
On the January 6 broadcast of CBS' The Early Show, co-anchor Harry Smith teased an interview with author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter by saying, "Ann Coulter is in the studio this morning. She has a brand new book. It's called Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America, and in it, she says that I am certifiably insane. Perhaps I am, for having her on the program this morning. So we'll get to that in a little bit."
Smith joins other media figures who have expressed disapproval for Coulter's comments while giving her a platform to promote those comments, as Media Matters for America has documented. Indeed, NBC has repeatedly provided Coulter a platform to spew her inflammatory rhetoric even as NBC-affiliated hosts and anchors have expressed disapproval of her statements or criticized the media for promoting her. Coulter's latest book is rife with such inflammatory and offensive comments.
From the January 6 edition of CBS' The Early Show:
SMITH: Ann Coulter is in the studio this morning. She has a brand new book. It's called Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America, and in it, she says that I am certifiably insane. Perhaps I am, for having her --
MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ (co-anchor): Really?
SMITH: -- on the program this morning. So we'll get to that in a little bit.
Smith may not be insane, but he isn't terribly bright, either.
CBS is not bright for giving this hater air time. Shame on them.
If you say this about the Coultergiest Mr Smith....
then why the heck would you bother having her on?
Ratings? Publicity? Idiocy? Your producers made you? The corporate whores up at HQ made you?
Ann Coulter is to peace, decency, and tranquility as the Dali Lama is to hate, violence, and destruction!
So why give this 80 lbs witch the time of day beyond the safe walls of FoxNoise??
Fear: Fear of the right-wing backlash. That is what led us into Iraq, media emasculation over the Bush administration and GOP rule for the 90's and the past 8 years.
IMHO: I think that this worked out very well. NBC stepped up and canceled her. So she was relegated to Harry Smith. And it was pretty difficult for her to hide the fact that all she is doing is producing brain candy for those if her ilk that have incredible disdain for anyone who does not agree with her.
She came across as angry, nasty & very Jerome Corsi-like. All she succeeded in doing was to provide more links & segments for Drudge, Hannity, Limbaugh and Cunningham.
I saw a bit of the Coultergeist on tv last night, and she must have mentioned her "best sellers" 10 times in two minutes. She' describes her book that's not out in stores yet as a best-seller, meaning it's bought in bulk and given away as a perk by various wingnut groups.
Go to Human Events and see what the "free prize" is for subscribing to their newsletter. Coulter's books are usually among the choices. Her pamphlets are the literary equivalent of the cheap set of steak knives given away with a new bank account, or the temporary tattoos in a box of CrackerJack.
She's only on tv for the same reason Gallagher was for a brief time. A certain group of Americans had never seen watermelons smashed with a sledge hammer, and they found it "outrageous".
Great post. In truth, no one actually likes Coulter. She has no fan base. All she has are certain interest groups that buy her crap in bulk.
"In truth, no one actually likes Coulter. She has no fan base"
Funny, had I written something so ridiculous as what you just did I would be accused of using my imagination > "That's probably more your imagination than anything else".....
I guess Brab just missed that doozy of yours.
I took it as exaggeration.
But of course you did.
:)
As you should, because it doesn't sound like it's supposed to be literal. "Nobody goes to that bar". "Nobody bought that book". If you point out that some handful of people defy the literal interpretation, you get "you know what I mean".
You can worm your way around it all day long, I don't care. I guess I just get under your skin and you can't stand it. :) :) :)
Sorry, if everyone is "parsing" when they question what you say, then you're "parsing" when you question the words of others. You don't get special rights, no matter how many smiley faces you put in your posts.
I think your beloved phrase "grow up" applies very well to your behavior today.
Correct. It was hyperbole. The factual statement would read: Coulter may have exactly 37 fans on planet earth, having said that, I have never met or spoken with a single fan of hers and I tend to doubt their existence.
The question is, will Tommy engage in "ridiculous parsing", or will he accept common usuage of the English language for what it is?
Oh oh, you're just miffed because your selective patrol cop partisanship was exposed for the hypocrisy it is, tsk tsk. Remember that next time you scold me for "exaggeration".
:) :)
Brab be selective in who he attacks on here? no say it Aint so?
LOL
Not according to Tommy. Tommy says that Victor is Governor. If he really believes that, then he knows I've argued with him several times. I don't have any allies that I refuse to question.
Of course he is selective J, that's why his blustering is so entertaining.
The comment you referred to wasn't about "exaggeration", though. It just wasn't true. It's a strawman you like to haul out whenever capitalistic inequities are discussed. There's a big difference between saying "no one" as an exaggeration and saying that people make blanket statements when they simply do not.
Even your dime store lawyer training can't dice your way out of this one, and the more you huff and puff the sillier you look. Just admit it, when something is said you agree with, like the made-up nonsense the Governor uttered, it's "exaggeration", when it's not, you get to play Perry Mason and demand evidence. You are so transparent it's amazing.
I have no idea how many times I've heard you or other conservatives use similar phrasing. I never criticized any of you for it, because there's nothing there to criticize.
Tommy, sometimes your parsing is entertaining, but this one is a little silly even for you. Brab's "Nobody goes to that bar" example should make the difference clear to anybody who's not just nitpicking.
Col, Feel free to rush to Brab's defense, he needs it. But there is no difference with what I said yesterday about rich people than what the Governor said here, of course both were exaggerations and meant to make a larger point, not the one Brab chose to pick his ridiculous battle with. So I thought I'd point it out today just to illustrate his selectivity where I'm concerned. It's all good, I am more than happy to fulfill Brab's L.A. Law fantasy, he needs it more than I do.......
You didn't claim to be exaggerating. You said you stood by your words. If you want to make that argument, then you can tell me how it's an "exaggeration" to claim that people make blanket statements about rich people being immoral. That's not really a matter of degree. Either they do, or they don't.
Tommy, I agree with you , this is a poster who wants to be Perry Mason with other posters he does not like, but ones he does like he allows to get away with things others would be held "accountable" for. Or as Brab is always talking about "Credibility".
I'm sure you can provide examples.
This particular thread is the most recent one I can think of. But there are millions more, I am sure (oops, exaggeration........)
You would have to show where I've criticized a conservative for making a comment like "no one likes..." because it's not literally true. Otherwise, there's no hypocrisy in letting it slide by here.
Look, the Colonel, the Governor, and Pete have all thrown you a life jacket, it ain't helping.
(glub, glub)
Are you clueless? I posted about Coulter, not Brabantio. I don't really care about your slap fight.
I was speaking about the Governor..........oops.
You're masterbating. That's all. Please stop.
That didn't address the point, though it is amusing that you seem to think I'm sweating over something here. Can you show where I've criticized a conservative for that, or can't you?
Since we're off on such a Tommy-centered point here, I'd like to cut in and point out that it was also yesterday (11:12am to be exact) when you screamed at that poor McDonald's attendant for having the gall to explain to you that breakfast was over. That's no exaggeration. Nor is the fact that you reluctantly "settled" on two 20-piece Chicken McNuggets in place of 4 Egg McMuffins. The only shocking part of all this is that you were able to part with 3 of said McNuggets. (though it was utterly shameful of you to chuck them in disgust at that poor McDonald's attendant who was guilty of nothing more than doing her job.)
Where do you get this stuff? Did you do alot of acid in the 60's?
Tommy, I was trying to protect you, not Brabantio. He seems to be fine.
Sorry to break it to you Colonel, but I am on a website heavily tilted with people who disagree with nearly everything I say, so thanks for the protection, but I am fine without it, really. It seems that those here neatly tucked away in the bosom of liberal like-mindedness need it more than I do, but I'm just sayin'....
It is silly, especially since Brab had not even said anything yet. Tommy felt compelled to incite him seemingly out of some need for retribution or exoneration.
Nah, not retribution. Sometimes our little Perry Mason needs his hypocrisy up on the witness stand once in awhile, that's all.
Tommy, sometimes your parsing is entertaining...
I disagree. It's ALWAYS tiresome.
Perhaps you're speaking in broad terms, but I've met people who absolutely adore her, and find her... attractive (throwing up in my mouth now).
Pete, if you've got a decent Spam filter, go to Human Events sometime and check out the comments following one of Coulters "essays". She has some rabid fans, but it would be hard to imagine many of them buying a book, let alone reading one.
Col. from my ongoing statistically non-significant and mostly unsolicited survey here in Tennessee, you have hit the nail right on the head. The only correction I might sadly have is changing "some" to "a lot more than makes sense", but that seems to be decreasing around here. Additionally, I think progressives are speaking up more, placing her hatespeak into sharper contrast. I can't recall ever hearing anyone quote from her book (surprise). She seems to mostly have an audio/visual appeal (easily accessed and digested by those with a taste for her venom) and more and more perceived as a Jerry Springer-like attraction. There is hope.
I have to object to that comparison. The "sledge-o-matic" was the only dumb part of Gallagher's act, as far as I ever saw. The rest of his material was actually pretty clever.
Sustained. I haven't seen him in a while, but to the best of my recollection, the "Sledge-o-matic" was always the last 15-20 minutes of a two-hour show.
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The MSM is becoming more irrelevant day after day because the intellectual laziness and that futile strategy to produce fast and cheap news. People like Harry Smith, Campbell Brown or Jake Tapper have no shame, no ethics at all.
How many times have they interviewed Ron Gettelfinger of the UAW, Bill Ford or any businessperson related to the auto industry to see how many of us will lose their jobs next week?
How many times have they interviewed somebody like the Economic Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz who predicted that real costs of the Iraq war will be more than three times than what expect and the consequences on generations to come?
At least somebody like Lou Dobb pretends to care.
It's all about semi-trash, semi-celebrity format. People who have travelled abroad know what I'm talking about where you have real reporters try to make sense of a situation that affects millions rather than promoting hate and vulgarity. Hate right-wing radio exist today because of complaisance of morons like Harry Smith. They will try to keep the Anne Coulter and the Hannity alive so they can have the pile of manure to compare to. It's the perfect way to hide one's imbecility.
Shaggles, you're right, that was one of her key talking points; "Liberals like to play the victim, but they're really the victimizer"
But if she's calling somebody else the victimizer, isn't that blatantly playing to the victim mentality ?
And Brab, I don't recall seeing much of Gallagher except the smashin', so I wasn't familiar with his entire act.
I guess Coulter thinks that Conservatives are the real victims. If you look at the 2006 and 2008 election results, it's clear that Conservatives have been the victims of democracy. Poor things.
Conservatives are the victims. Just look at the attacks they suffer-- two people they don't know want to get married and it's an assault on their marriage. Somebody points out their lies and it's an attack on free speech. Somebody proposes airtime for an opposing viewpoint and it's censorship. They're asked to kick in a part of their income to help run the country they suposedly love, and it's robbery.
Those of us in the reality-based community may never understand the pain of the poor conservative.Unless we can recall being three years old, when not getting everything exactly as we wanted it was "no fair!"
So true! And don't forget the most innocent conservative causality of all: the poor man who's routinely victimized by this knuckle blowing, chest swiping, cage rattling website. Why must it torment the unknowing smug one?
Obviously just to see some more hand-wringing ?
That would be my guess?
Coulter deserves more of the Adam Carolla treatment. It would be especially effective if it were on television. Just cut her off and end the interview abruptly and prematurely.
Harry, what a sad little lead in to a plug for this creepy horror of a person. Kind of like Bill O'reilly playing all those videos of inappropriate sexual innuendo so he can act "outraged."
Harry Smith should have the leaders of HAMAS, North Korea. Iran, and the American Nazi Party on his show next month. Any one of them is a better American than Ann Coulter.
At night this women sits at home as I do and ponder the stupidity of the American people. She must have a smile as wide as a cheshire cat thinking about how much money her new book of fable is going to make her. This is a very enterprising woman who has made millions using the media and the gullibility of the Republican base by poking fun at Democrats. She is a true Capitalist, in the Milton Friedmen Ayn Rand mold. Although she wears a cross, she is an atheist and a narcissist. she is a conservative fraud, one of her pals is Liberal atheist Bill Mahar who makes his money attacking conservatives and religion. Get the picture you idiots who are going to go out there and buy her book.