Q: What’s it take to make Elisabeth Hasselbeck seem like The View’s sane, cool-headed host?
A: Apparently, a visit from bat-crap nasty author and pundit Ann Coulter!
On today’s show (clip embedded below), Whoopi started things off by railing against Coulter for stating in her new book-type thing that single mothers are a plague on our society and that Hollywood actors use single motherhood to further their careers. Things got pretty heated, of course, and just when it seemed inevitable that the ‘Bot would interject an angry defense of Coulter (who at one point complained that the hosts were reading her book "as if it were Mein Kampf"), the Hasselbot actually landed a nice jab, suggesting that perhaps society’s focus should be on the deadbeat dads, not the single mothers they ditch — a statement rightly met by (stunned?) applause from the audience. (Go ‘Bot! Go ‘Bot!) The segment concluded with the entire table shouting over each other and Sherri Shepherd very nearly hauling off and walloping Coulter for disrespecting Babs. Looks like The View only has room for one blonde, conservative loon at a time.
Anyone catch this? What’d you think of the ‘Bot’s performance? Anyone think Coulter held her own with the View ladies? What would happen if Shepherd ever ran into Coulter in a dark alley after a few cocktails?
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Ann Coulter is an evil, acid-tongued witch. Too bad her jaw wasn’t wired shut permanently.
Ann Coulter is a loon.
You couldn’t pay me to watch this show.
Sometimes we need an extreme showing of horrible behavior for us to recognize and correct our own behavior. It took the anti Christ Coulter for Hasselback to recognize what she’ll be if she keeps up with her ignorance.
The people I feel sorriest for are the ones who buy Anne’s books because they think she’s for real. Anne is basically a performance artist/stand-up comedian who says things even she knows are ridiculous (“Evolution isn’t real!” “The 9/11 widows are whiners!”) for shock value. Then watches as the uneducated masses snatch up copies of her books and laughs all the way to the bank, probably thinking, “I can’t even believe that worked.”
I always thought Ann Coulter was a comedian. Isn’t her act a parody?
While I understand their disgust with Coulter, and I agree with Whoopi that Coulter can dish it, but can’t take it, I really think that they should have not talked all over top of each other, and just let Coulter talk. She can bury herself just fine….she needs no help.
And can I say, this was one of the few times in my life I actually agreed with Elizabeth…..frightening….I should put this on my calendar. LOL
Just caught the end – at the Mein Kampf comment and the reading by BW of this toxic scribbler’s words about JFK. Noticed that EB looked like she was biting her own tongue off, looking both cowed and furious. (Maybe this was the show’s way to showcase that EB is not like Coulter, a point she vigourously protested during the campaign. Maybe not.) Truly – why does anyone give that hate-mongerer Coulter the time of day? It ended with Whoopi yelling “You can dish it out but not take it!” I ended up wondering – really, what is the matter with that Ann Coulter and why has she earned even one second of time on mainstream American tv? Wish I hadn’t even commented here either but she really was such a wave of ugliness it’s bothered me today
The best parts of the interview were the ladies continually saying “We’re not attacking you!” as they continued to attack her. I thought though Coulter was great. They didn’t let her speak much, at least without interruption, but she more than held her own.
Excuse me. Ann Coulter is a brave soul to go on that show with those B@#$%&es!!!!!!!!!
Sorry but I love Ann Coulter. She gets the last laugh, because this is exactly what she wants. She wants people to talk about her, attack her, defend her, the whole deal, all while maintaining credibility as a major voice for the extreme right-wing. She’s so much smarter than people give her credit for.
I think that all of the women are out of line. When a question is asked, then everyone should allow the question to be answered without interruption. Everyone is talking over everyone else and no one is getting their point across. All of them should learn some manners!
I wish it had gone on longer! I think Ann, Sherri and Elizabeth could be gal pals, all kinds of CRAZY!
I had to put the tv on mute. Normally I’d be happy to watch a good back and forth on the View, but Coulter is so nauseating and disturbing that her voice felt like poison in my ears. I NEVER agree with Elisabeth, but at least she doesn’t compromise her integrity by making ludicrous, hate-filled arguments just for shock value. I’m not even sure why they invited Coulter on the show, they had to have known it would be a big fight.
I wouldn’t be sorry if Shepard did run Coulter over with her car in a dark alley, cocktails or no. I don’t even care if saying that makes me a bad person. I’m a bad person, there I said it. Ann Coulter disgusts me, she’s a terrible excuse for a human being.
I think Elisabeth deserves major props for standing up for what she believes in despite being under a very liberal scope. In that kind of arena, who wouldn’t occasionally say something they regret later? I imagine I’d be saying some pretty despicable stuff sometimes.
Ann Coulter, however, is a hateful and narrow-minded woman with little actual intelligence and a great deal of venom to spew onto society. She is, by definition, an idiot.
Why is Ann showing so much cleavage on the book? HA! I always thought she was a comedy act myself because no one can be that dumb.
Poor, Ann, victimized by those mean, mean ladies. Now she’s crying that NBC is out to get her, and the Today show! That Perez Hilton is more important(!). And now, that bastion of knowledge and logic, Sherri Shepherd is out for her. And, oh, Barbara Walters is reading her like she’s Hitler! Oh, my! No one understands her. For some reason, they think she’s a self-serving, hate-filled cretin.
Ann Coulter must die.
If I saw Ann Coulter in person I would punch her in the face.
This site/magazine’s liberal bias is so laughably blatant. We on the Left always talk up tolerance, yet if anyone has a conservative point-of-view, they’re fair game for invectives. While I’m certainly not a fan, Coulter’s basically just a social satirist. Then you have a Leftie buffoon like Al Franken “winning” an election. It’s embarrassing. We’re becoming what we say we stand against.
Watching Anne is like watching a Klansman on Oprah. You need these appearances to show the public how insane the lady is. Every show is the same, it gets the ratings but the arguing is not positive, nothing comes from it except showing Anne for who she really is. Pity.
Wow. Is Coulter for real? I mean, what kind of statement is that–that single mothers are an attack by the left on the nuclear family in America? How does that make any SENSE?!! I’ve seen her books in Borders and wondered what kind of mind thinks it’s actually worth buying and reading. Disgusting.
Yes to tolerance, but you have to give it to receive it. Ann Coulter doesn’t deserve anything. I’m actually middle of the road, somewhat conservative, somewhat liberal, so I’ve seen liberal bias actually applied. There are plenty of conservatives who think she’s freaking insane without it being a liberal thing.
Ann Coulter: Poster child for retroactive abortion.
I am a moderate-conservative and I HATE Ann Coulter. She is a pasty, dried up, nasty Skelewhore. Yeah that’s right, I combined a He-Man reference with a word for an attention starved, easy woman. Those of her ilk …Hannity…O’Reilly…have given us conservatives that actually can think for ourselves a bad name. Very few conservatives (especially moderate ones) are anything like these clowns.
I’ve got to agree with those who say it’s time for us all to ignore Coulter in hopes she’ll just go away. Coulter once said liberals don’t enjoy sex (!) and then claimed she’d gotten mugged in DC and would have shot the guy had the ban not kept her from getting her gun. Yet, no police report was ever filed to match the story. She loves attention and it’s fuel to her fire when she gets argued with. Why? Because it makes her sheer lunacy seem legit.
I am glad they had her on – she ends up alienating far more people than she converts. I hope she campaigns for Plain in 2012.
I’m a Liberal, but it’s not even Ann Coulter’s politics I find most distasteful (though I definitely disagree with her on just about everything)- I just don’t like the fact that she seems to hate everyone except for people exactly like her, and can be quite mean about it. I have no idea what the real Ann Coulter is like, but I really hope that she’s not as spiteful as she seems on television. I don’t care for anyone like that, even people who share my political beliefs. Name-calling, groundless accusations, and caustic remarks do not equal rational political arguments, yet many people seem to think so. I’m sorry to go off like this on an entertainment site, butthe site of Ann Coulter (or any other hate-spewing media figure) really gets my blood boiling.
Coulter is one of the reasons I switched my political beliefs over to Democratic. Ironic she talks about Mein Kampf since she thinks Obama wrote his own version:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030010