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Ann Coulter Calls Birthers "Cranks"
Memo to Birthers: Even Ann Coulter calls you a bunch of "cranks."
Appearing on Fox News this past Friday, Coulter further blamed the liberal media for using the Birthers to smear the political right, saying that multiple conservative publications looked at this issue last year and concluded that there's nothing there:
"So for CNN or MSNBC, or you Geraldo, the liberal on Fox, to be bringing this out as if it's an issue, you know, it's just a few cranks out there," said Coulter. "It's like when networks bring on the three remaining Klanners in America, on TV."
Hmm... so what does this say about Jim Inhofe?
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It's all the liberals fault. Like those dozen liberals in congress sponsoring the birther bill.
Richard Shelby is a liberal, too, I guess.
July 27, 2009 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've not seen or heard anyone mention this, but doesn't anyone else find this whole birther thing a bit hypocritical considering the Republicans were itching to ignore the naturalization requirement for Arnold Schwartzenegger?
I recall more than a mention of amending the constitution (specifically for Arnold).
July 27, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gulp. It is indeed a cold day in hell, 'cause I'm agreeing with part of what she said. The "cranks" part.
As for this being the fault of the liberal media? Yeah, Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh are just a bunch of flaming lefties.
July 27, 2009 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I feel the shiver at appearing to agree with Coulter, but note how she parrots the GOP dismissiveness about the Dept of Homeland Security's report on extremist right wing groups. Only 3 Klanners out there, Ann??? Talk to the residents of Janesville, WI. Or try the Google:
July 27, 2009 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's ironic how she's quick to blame the "liberal media" for having the birthers on to make conservatives look foolish, while not recognizing that the same standard would apply to her frequent appearances.
July 27, 2009 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goddammit. Coulter has always been a net asset to the left (albeit an extremely irritating one) but I would have loved to have her as part of the Birther chorus. I'm guessing she just got caught napping on it, and decided it was too late for her to stake out a patch of turf on the subject, so she's trying to pee in the cornflakes of her competition.
There is a ray of hope, though: if we can coax now-ex-Gov. Sarah Palin into the Birther fold, it's worth ten Coulters.
July 27, 2009 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
(Perhaps I should clarify, as it may not have been clear from context, that I'm a left-winger who knows that the Birthers are pure poison for the right wing's political hopes, rather than a right-winger who thinks they're pure awesome.)
July 27, 2009 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
To kooky for Ann Coulter? Man, you are way out on a limb Inholfe!
July 27, 2009 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
If the mainstream cable news media really wanted to conclusively debunk this phony-baloney "controversy", journalists would have by now interviewed Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle and her state health director Dr. Chiyose Fukino, both of whom have vouched for the Obama birth certificate's authenticity, rather than continue to mix it up with right-wing publicity whores like Orley Taits, Alan Keyes and G. Gordon Liddy.
That they have not leads one to conclude that this is also an issue manufactured by said cable media out of whole cloth, not unlike the Swift Boat Veterans allegations against Sen. John Kerry in 2004. The difference this time around is that most journalists are publicly ridiculing the insane clown posse, rather than feigning its wide-eyed credulity at their charges.
But let's not ever believe for one moment that Ann Coulter wouldn't be flogging this story for all its worth, had most cable media once again decided to play house with the GOP right, the way they did until September 2005 when the Hurricane Katrina debacle exposed Republican racism and incompetence to a heretofore-gullible general public. Right now, that bitch has made a tactical political decision to try and break off engagement on this issue in order to cut her losses. She's vile and mean, but she's also not stupid.
July 27, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. I can't believe Ann "I-hate-people-so-much-the-media-has-made-me-a-celebrity" Coulter doesn't agree with extreme wingnuts crazies. What next? Kucinich proposes a free-trade agreement with the Honduras coup leaders?
July 27, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Christ, at least for now Coulter seems to be back on her Lithium.
July 27, 2009 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing can ever be the conservatives' fault. Even when the conservatives are wrong, as the birthers clearly are, it's still somehow the liberals' fault that that's the case.
July 27, 2009 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
The thing is, those "few remaining cranks" appear to include at least six members of the US Senate, and that's one reason the story remains alive.
July 27, 2009 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think even Coulter realized this was hurting the Republican Party even more.
I'm truly shocked she was able to see this one.
However, if all you listen to is FOX and Right Wing radio, then of course you believe it was Liberals that started all of this because you have no clue what was really going on in the first place.
July 27, 2009 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I see it, the only solution to all of this absurdia is for Jon Voight to run off with Alan Keyes and they can then get married somewhere in Boston and live the rest of their lives in eternal bliss.
July 27, 2009 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink