Ann is a sow. She almost never let's anyone finish speaking and when she does she smirks and then tells half truths or just lies.
For example, she fairly recently exclaimed the war in Iraq was going slendidly and could not understand why all the liberals were lying to the contrary. Then, Bill O'Reilly, who is hardly a liberal, corrected her and she just went on lying.
Though a google search will yield many more, here is an article I liekd on the two of them that is telling and factual:
Bill O’Reilly Takes on Ann Coulter
By Scott Spicciati Editor | Bill O'Reilly Watch
July 30, 2003
In a surprisingly different tone from Bill O’Reilly’s last interview with Ann Coulter when he told her, “It’s (Slander) a good book,” Coulter is finally put on the spot in a place where you’d think she would be safe--FOX NEWS Channel.
Bill O’Reilly, the self-proclaimed Independent, opined on two books last year that were released around the same time: Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men” and Ann Coulter’s “Slander.” Moore is the liberal and Coulter is the conservative. Guess which book got the “biggest example of spin” award in an O’Reilly column? Moore of course. When Coulter appeared on the factor to promote a book that explains that conservatives don’t have a voice in the media, the conservative pundit was told by O’Reilly that her book is good. The spin award goes to Moore.
But the interview went a little different this time. Maybe even Bill O’Reilly knows when conservative rhetoric goes too far. This interview also exposes more of Coulter’s charming attitude that isn’t always evident in her columns. However, the interview also proves O’Reilly’s preference of attacking the Left when Coulter is just as extreme as any liberal, including Al Franken--who by the way is a comedian; not a politician. Here are a few highlights from Bill O’Reilly’s interview with Ann Coulter on July 22, 2003.
BILL O’REILLY: With us now is one of the most successful right-wing pundits, Ann Coulter, the author of the best-selling book, “Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.”
All right. Your book's doing great, and it's doing better than your first book, and you have a very big following.
But I don't know why you're so vitriolic in your writing, and let me give the folks an example, if they haven't read your book. Kate Moss. You know this little waif, Kate Moss, this little model. She probably didn't even go to high school. Here's what you say about Kate Moss. This is unbelievable.
"Even model Kate Moss took time out from her drug habit to wrap her head around the war issue. Terrified that an attack on Iraq could lead to an attack on Colombia and dry up her supply, she was foursquare against the war." Now come on. I mean Kate Moss?
ANN COULTER: Well, that is one of the frivolous chapters. It's toward the end. I do cover the celebrities, and that's a chapter that really is just for laughs.
Here she has just admitted that part of her book can’t be taken seriously, saying they are “frivolous.” How reliable is a book with chapters that are “just for laughs” and similar to supermarket tabloids that “cover the celebrities?” Coulter also has no problems gloating over “Treason’s” success.
COULTER: You know, his (Frank Rich) book sold about six copies. Mine has sold 150,000 in the first three weeks.
O'REILLY: Look, there's no question that you have a following, but it's preaching to the choir.
COULTER: I don't think so any...
O'REILLY: You're not making any converts.
COULTER: ... more than you are.
Interesting how Coulter makes no specific references to whom she has converted. Now we move to a part of the debate where O’Reilly makes Coulter the lesser of two evils when she’s compared to comedian Al Franken.
O'REILLY: But I'm not debating what's in your book, all right. Although I disagree with some of it. You have a perfect right to say it, and you make a lucid case for it. Millions of people buy your book. I'm objecting to your method.
See, Al Franken is a vile human being, would you agree? He is. Would you agree?
COULTER: After seeing your exchange with him, yes, I would.
O'REILLY: All right. He's a vile human being. But he does almost what you do...
COULTER: No.
O'REILLY: ... in the sense that he hates all conservative and moderates. He hates them, all right. Now I don't think you hate them because I know you hang around with Maher.
By saying Coulter hangs around Bill Maher, a liberal, he makes the case that Coulter doesn’t hate all liberals the way Franken hates all conservatives. Does this mean Franken has no conservative friends? Apparently so, according to O’Reilly.
COULTER: No. No. For one thing, at this point, I'm funnier than Franken.
O'REILLY: Yes, you...
COULTER: He used to be funny.
O'REILLY: No, you've always been funnier than Franken. I'll give you that.
COULTER: Now he's just, you know, a bubbling cauldron of anger and hatred, especially toward you, I hear.
O'REILLY: Well, I threaten him because I see through him, I know what he is. But even the conservatives have said that your rhetoric is so over the top, you may be hurting your own cause.
COULTER: People have a lot of reasons to criticize other people. This is often what was done to McCarthy. I mean Eisenhower was worried -- had a lot of reasons to be worried about McCarthy. He -- McCarthy was more popular than Eisenhower.
O'REILLY: So you don't -- you're not going to concede a little bit that you might too over the top?
COULTER: Not in the least.
End of transcript.
There is a clear double standard in how O’Reilly treats public figures. If they’re on the left, they are either spin doctors (Moore) or vile human beings (Al Franken) But never has O’Reilly attacked any specific individual on the right. He says “people on the right” without ever naming names.
O’Reilly attacked Franken for his ruthless tactics, specifically for targeting Rush Limbaugh in his book, “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.” But he never calls out Coulter for dedicating an entire book to President Clinton titled “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” O’Reilly also never calls out Rush Limbaugh because he’s too busy going after Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Anyone who studies Coulter, whether it be a fan or critic knows that she flat-out dismisses any form of liberalism. But O’Reilly doesn’t think so because she is friends with Bill Maher therefor she is not a sweeping liberal-basher.
To be fair, O’Reilly has a reason to be mad at Franken, especially after the release of Franken’s upcoming book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.” It is reported that an unflattering picture of O’Reilly dons the cover of the book along side Ann Coulter. I’ll have to wait for the book to be released before I can make any final judgments on that.
To get the scoop from Franken’s side on why he doesn’t like O’Reilly too much, check out his interview with Buzzflash.com.
http://aggressive-voice.com/zz569.html
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