Ann Coulter: New Yorkers "Would Immediately Surrender" If Attacked... Fox News | August 26, 2005 at 03:52 PM From crooksandliars.com Watch the video here. From "Hannity and Colmes," August 25, 2005: COLMES:...And I want to ask you about something, Ann, that you wrote in your most recent column. You had a very funny line, actually, that it is hard to find a parking spot in New York City. There's no question about it. You've had a pretty good day if you can do that. But then you said, "It's far preferable to fight them on the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York, where the residents would immediately surrender." Now, some New Yorkers... HENICAN: Ooh... COLMES: ... felt that you were calling them cowards by making that statement. COULTER: No, I think I was calling them supporters of Cindy Sheehan. COLMES: Is that what that is? You certainly don't feel that New Yorkers are cowards? COULTER: I think they would immediately surrender. COLMES: So you do? COULTER: I don't -- I don't think -- I think I'd rather have them trying to invade Mississippi or Georgia, Alabama, you know, the states where I want Cindy Sheehan's bus tour to go. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/#a006277
Ann Coulter and the rest of them are a bunch of chicken hawks. Too bad she didn't enlist, I wouldn't shed a tear.
wow...what a mean, ignorant, stupid, horrible, divisive, ridiculous thing to say. i'm sure i could think of some more adjectives.
We Owe Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter a Big Thank You Mark Green These two American mullahs of the far (f)right are helping to expose how The Bush Team is in the extreme and we who question this war – most prominently Cindy Sheehan – are in the mainstream. By now Ann Coulter should have reached a tipping point where serious journalists would stop treating her antics and comments seriously. Suggesting that Timothy McVeigh should have blown up the New York Times building instead of the one in Oklahoma City should probably have been enough to ward Time magazine off its unctuous cover profile. Or perhaps it should have happened when she recently told an audience in Canada that they should be helping us in Iraq as they did in Vietnam (for which she was hooted down by Canadians who knew their history better than she). But now that she has casually asserted that New Yorkers are cowards who would surrender to terrorists, it’s past time to call her for what she is – an ignorant parody of a right-wing nut who says things for effect and sales. The Administration keeps arguing that the Iraqi insurgents are becoming more violent as America succeeds in Iraq. While that’s obvious nonsense, it does provide a reasonably good analogy for what war defenders are now doing in their Custer-like last stand. As all their arguments about the war have failed – both the reasons for invading and the reasons for “staying the course” – embarrassed proponents are increasingly retreating to the McCarthyism they are so skilled at. Hence all the desperate attacks on Cindy Sheehan and, now, New Yorkers. Blaming Richard Clark, Dan Rather, Newsweek’s Periscope or Dick Durbin was always the equivalent of blaming the radar gun for the speeder. But those polemical diversions did provide momentary relief for the chicken hawks. But now they’re forced to up the ante to both gain attention and justify their existence. Hence Coulter’s noxious crack. I was 40 blocks north of the World Trade Towers at 8:46AM on September 11 – and saw a plane sticking out of Tower One five seconds after it hit. I happened to be running in a Democratic Primary for Mayor being held that very morning and so was in a position to watch New Yorkers that day and the next several weeks demonstrate unmatchable courage and compassion in the most tragic of circumstances. I spent hours handing out free food to firefighters and cops who were part of the rescue and recovery effort over the next few days, New Yorkers who were getting diseased lungs from unreported pollutants. I visited the hospital bed of a Port Authority police officer whose legs had been crushed, as he said, “Mr. Green, the building fell on me. But the terrorists didn’t stop me and they can’t stop us.” There are thousands of such stories of quiet heroism, not to mention the unbearable fact that we lost more firefighters and police in the next 24 hours than we had in the prior 50 years combined. Are these the cowards who surrendered that Ann Coulter refers to? So as she shuttles in limos between her sanitized cable appearances in a successful attempt to be the blondest blowhard in tv history, I would hope that assignment editors everywhere start exercising some news judgment. That includes Fox News. Hell, Murdoch and Ailes are New Yorkers. At what point do they and reasonable Americans turn their faces away in disgust? Indeed, at what point do reasonable Americans turn away in disgust from a President whose faith-based war has been blown up by reality and who can only wave the bloody shirt of 9/11 whenever he’s asked to explain what he’s doing to our soldiers and our country. There will come a time – whether it’s in five months or 5 years or 50 years, I don’t know – when we’ll all have to answer the question of what we were doing when the Bush-Robertson-Coulter crowd tried to ruin America, just as earlier generations had to explain the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials or McCarthyism. Cindy Sheehan and New Yorkers don’t need lectures from those that hate the values of a country whose flag they perennially wave. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-green/we-owe-pat-robertson-and-_b_6285.html
Apparently, she didn't watch the National Geographic 9/11 special, because she would have seen those 'cowardly' New York firemen climbing up 50-70 floors to rescue those trapped in the inferno. Seriously, if anything, this just showcases the extremists among us, and there are plenty of public figures who fit the bill. Ann, in particular, is not just an extremist, she is mentally unstable and has been for a while. Just do a quick search on some of the things she has said/done in the past and you will understand. It's really great stuff! Look for Ann Coulter's/Pat Robertson's/Jerry Falwell's greatest hits on Google or something.
The thing I don't understand is how anyone can take her seriously. Why do news shows still have her on? She has been shown to make racist remarks, calls New Yorkers who suffered most on 9/11 cowards, has been caught lying multiple times and yet supposed news shows still have her on to spout her divisive hate. I don't understand how some people can take anything she says seriously. She has zero journalistic integrity, has been caught lying, and has no expertise on anything.
You love to call people racist. Can you provide a link showing that Coulter is racist? Thanks in advance. Your credibility is on the line.
I think he is refering to the remarks she made about Helen Thomas being allowed near the president. It was during the Gannon blowup and Coulter implied that it was fine for a fake reporter to be allowed near the President since they allowed "that old Arab" near him, or something to that effect.
Coulter is a complete and total idiot. Are you defending her? If you're gonna pick a fight w/ somebody, you might wanna pick a better topic cause it really reflects poorly on you. And that says a lot.
I dare you not to say this stupid crap again for a month. Thanks in advance. Good day and so long. Yippee-daddle-o. See you in the funny papers.
texxx Do yu agree with Coulter that New Yorkers would immediately surrender if attacked by terrorists? Your credibility is on the line.
No matter how she justifies. . and dress it sounds to me she just said New Yorkers are Craven Cowards with not backbone and no commitment to resistance of injustice Rocket River
texxx, your credibility has been on the line; however, supporting this woman has caused you to lose any credibility you once had. Welcome to crazyville, neo-"New York Would Surrender"-texxx.
SM is correct. It has been posted numerous times. I actually don't love to call people racist, but if I see something that is racist I will point it out, and people who make comments like that shouldn't be taken seriously.
if a suicide bomber was caught by civilians in the streets or subways of NYC, the VERY LAST THING New Yorkers would do is surrender...
Has anyone watched the video of this? Coulter looks like a trapped animal during the whole exchange. Like she wasn't expecting the question and doesn't know how to get out of the situation. Also check out the nazi comment at the end of the clip. It's very weird. Here’s the video http://mediamatters.org/items/200508260002
