Ann Coulter on Newsnight

I haven't read much of Ann Coulter's utterances: some quotes, the odd op-ed and reports of yet another polemic here or there; that's about it. I'm not really about to start my further education on this Doberman pincer of the American Far Right either. Coulter is living proof that if one somehow manages to get one's outrageous and obnoxious views dissipated by the MSM, a substantial revenue stream follows, as sure as night follows day. You get the impression Coulter simply doesn't believe in what she says or writes, that she is merely a rather caricatural persona, invented only for the purpose of topping bestseller lists.

Last night Jeremy Paxman had the honour of meeting Coulter via video link on Newsnight, in what cannot reasonably be described as an "interview", rather a series of sputtering attempts to get something going. Paxman was definitely not asking the right questions and as a consequence didn't get much by way of answers. Coulter kept her game up, confirming ubiquitously that she "believes in everything she writes", including the ridiculous crap about "Darwinism is a faith belief system without any evidence to support it".

You can see the actual interview here.

And here are some noteworthy quotes from the SS storm trooper of the American Right, courtesy of a US blogger.

• "I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to]vote."


• "I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote."


• To a disabled Vietnam vet: "People like you caused us to lose that war."


• "God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals,the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"


• "My only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building,"


• "I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific...It may sound silly, but in defense of the Cargo Cult, they did not wait as long for evidence supporting their theory as the Darwinists have waited for evidence supporting theirs."


• "Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran."


• "I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."


• Describing Muslims: "camel jockeys", "jihad monkeys", and "tent merchants"


• "It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950— except Goldwater in 64 — the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."


• "But while some Americans express pride in their slave-trading ancestors by calling themselves "African-Americans" and donning African garb, pride in Confederate Catholic vote, Democrats could demand that those Masonic symbols be removed from the The Great Seal of the United States. And how about the American eagle? The eagle is a bird of prey and hence offensive to rodents, a key Democrat constituency.

You might be tempted to believe that with such a level of gratuitous vacuousness, the American Right shouldn't be to difficult to defeat, but you'd probably be wrong... G-d Bless Amewikah.