Liar's Remorse
Unfortunately, Ann Coulter doesn't have any. But she should. Because, like a Hollywood agent ("Hello," he lied, the old saying goes), she can hardly speak a sentence without projectile-vomiting falsehoods. Here's one of many, many, many, reported in a column by David Corn:
She claimed that the movie Patton was made by Holly-libs with "hatred in their hearts" for George S. Patton, the brilliant but erratic World War II general. These filmmakers "intended to make Patton look terrible," she maintained, but because they produced an accurate work, the movie ended up making "Patton look great and people loved him."Was Patton a left-wing Hollywood conspiracy that backfired? Host Chris Matthews immediately challenged her in his subtle fashion: "You are dead wrong." He pushed her for proof, and she replied, "That is why George C. Scott turned down his Academy Award for playing Patton." Coulter was suggesting that Scott had spurned his Oscar because the filmmakers plan to destroy Patton's image by portraying the general "as negatively as possible" had gone awry.
Matthews wasn't buying. "Who told you that, who told you that?" he shouted. Her Oracle-like response: "It is well known." She added, "Why did you think he turned down the award, Chris? You never looked that up? It never occurred to you?"
Matthews retorted, "Because he said he wasn't going to a meat parade, because he didn't believe in award ceremonies." And Matthews was right. Following the show, I took Coulter's advice and did look it up. I found a 1999 obituary of Scott that noted he had stunned Hollywood in 1971 for being the first person ever to refuse an Academy Award. He had explained his action by slamming such awards as "demeaning" and he had dismissed the Oscar ceremony as a "two-hour meat parade." (Matthews receives extra points for getting this quote correct.) Coulter had twisted this well-documented episode into yet more proof that liberals--especially those in Hollywood--are conspiratorial traitors.
Coulter's as despicable as the left-wing's favorite liar, Michael Moore -- just easier on the eyes.
It's said that we should celebrate insane for being so far out as to live in a reality shared by no others. That said, take her behind the barn and redden her backside. I'll take Michael Moore anyday: better a funny liar with a heart than a soulless haridan with compassion for none. I expect Coulter to guest on Angel any day now, as a creepy ghoul who bursts out of the blondex body.
david at November 9, 2003 11:44 PM
Ann Coulter's a liar? Talk about old news. She's a shrill harpy who's deathly afraid of dissent so she does all she can to demonize and silence the opposition, and if that includes lying, then so be it.
Amy writes: "Coulter's as despicable as the left-wing's favorite liar, Michael Moore -- just easier on the eyes."
Since when? You know heterosexual men who are turned on by women with more prominent Adam's apples than theirs? Because I sure don't. I've seen more feminine looking drag queens.
Patrick at November 10, 2003 4:58 AM
Patrick--you know Michael Moore looks like a troll! She didn't say Ann Coulter was beautiful, just less ugly than Michael Moore.
Peggy C at November 10, 2003 7:13 AM
Sometimes I feel like I live on another planet. I have never heard Ann Coulter's voice, or Michael Moore's voice, and I'm not clear why other people have. I know Coulter has long blonde hair on the covers of her books, because I spend a lot of time in the aisles at Barnes and Noble trying to avoid prolonged contact with earthlings. I think I read somewhere that she clerked for the Supreme Court, but that might be another one of her lies.
I guess this is just the former Berkeley resident in me talking, but you can make people like this Ann Coulter go away by just changing the channel -- or better yet, by turning the thing off and reading a good book. She's a non-issue. She's a farty little blip on my radar.
Lena Cuisina at November 10, 2003 7:58 AM
Peggy is quite right. I think of Ann Coulter as Gwyneth Paltrow, but with an interior life (an evil one, unfortunately), and and adam's apple. Not attractive. Just not as troll-like as Michael Moore. And David's quite right. He's a liar, but low on malevolence and up there in the professing politics in the name of self-interest department.
Amy Alkon at November 10, 2003 7:59 AM
And I think of Gwyneth Paltrow as a prostitute who thinks blow jobs are kind of icky.
Lena Cuisina at November 10, 2003 9:03 AM
"That said, take her behind the barn and redden her backside."
Sounds like a good way to slice open your hand. Anyway, even Bill Maher has told her she just makes shit up. BILL MAHER.
JFT at November 11, 2003 8:54 PM
Michael Moore isn't a liar. He's just the target of a "right wing conspiracy." It's obvious... he sold too many books and his movies are too good, and they're out to get him.
Wanna know something else? Al Gore never said he invented the internet. 95% of the population believes this, however. That's how effective the Republican attack dogs can be.
The only evidence against Moore has been shaky arguments against his films, all of which I think are full of it. You never find on-air incidents like this involving him.
Robert Switzer at May 26, 2004 1:50 PM