Coulter: If Murtha did get fragged, he'd finally deserve a Purple Heart

[kpete]

Thu, Jun 22, 2006 7:46pm EST

Coulter: If Murtha "did get fragged, he'd finally deserve one of those Purple Hearts"

Summary: Ann Coulter refused to explain -- and even expanded upon -- her recent claim that Rep. John P. Murtha is "the reason soldiers invented fragging," military slang meaning the intentional killing of a member of one's own unit. On a Denver radio show, Coulter referred to her fragging comment as one of her "best lines" and refused to confirm that she was not "suggesting that anybody should off John Murtha," stating only: "It is what it is." On Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Coulter further expanded upon her statement, asserting that if Murtha "did get fragged, he'd finally deserve one of those Purple Hearts."

transcripts and video at:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606220013

[fooj]

1. She needs to have her ass THROWN IN JAIL!

Grrrrrrrr...

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Yes Abu Ghraib sounds about right.

As a Terrorist!

[LittleClarkie]

4. Club Gitmo

She can come back and tell Rush how much fun it was.

[gatorboy]

9. She'll never get in trouble for what she says.

Hell, she was on Fox when she said it. That pretty much gives you the White House seal of approval.

[smoogatz]

2. If Coulter got fragged--and I mean blown into several shredded wads

of bloody shemale-burger--she'd still deserve to be shat upon. Just my take on things.

[Ringo84]

5. Yawn

Her vitriol doesn't affect me anymore. She WANTS me to react to this. I won't give her the pleasure. She's not even good enough for my contempt.
Ringo

[skipos]

61. I second that yawn. Ignore her and she will go away. nt

[marmar]

6. What a waste of DNA that beast is...

If she got fragged, the fragger could claim he was performing euthanasia. Or Annimal Control.

[Dr Fate]

7. Yeah- but Murtha looks like a man because he IS one.

So what is her excuse? ;)

[Rose Siding]

8. Poor thing! Her ardor for Senator Lieberman has rendered her senseless

Now she's nothin' but a Jo ho.

[Cha]

18. godless pervert has joehadist

FEVER!

[jmowreader]

10. Birthday gift for Ann Coulter: a Wonder Bar

Wonder Bars are short little crowbars carpenters use to pry moulding off, nails out and things like that.

Eventually Ann is going to get one of her size-13 pumps stuck in her mouth so badly nothing short of a crowbar can get it out...and a Wonder Bar fits neatly into any purse.

[democrank]

11. What a despicable comment.

Reminds me of the purple band-aid lady at the Republican convention. Sick.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. AnnThrax is getting increasingly desperate for attention.

Even though she, with the help of the MSM, has tried very hard to pimp her book for the last week, you can buy it (if you wanted to) for a deep discount on the freeper sites. The book was a bust, so Ms. Coultergeist is amping up her poisonous rhetoric. She's gone way beyond offensive; now she just sounds silly.

[Truthiness Inspector]

13. A fine example

of continuing to dig the hole when you are already in one.

I think Madame Coultergeist bought shovels wholesale, and just wants to make sure she uses them all.

[Danieljay]

14. She and Fred Phelps would make a great couple! n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

19. Probably his sister...

But that don't mean they wouldn't make a great couple, because it wouldn't matter to a GOPer!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. When a house falls on your sister you never get over it. n/t

[Hekate]

68. That's VERY funny! nt

[sandnsea]

16. Isn't this a federal offense?

Isn't there a specific federal law against threatening to harm a Senator or Congressman, just like threatening to harm the President? Shouldn't the FBI pay her a visit - and I'm not kidding. She is like somebody on a psychotic rampage who won't stop until she hurts herself or somebody else.

[Rude Horner]

26. I agree

And what's scary is that there are plenty of sick freeper-types who worship this woman, and who would want nothing more than to take her advice about Murtha.

Wanna see the freepers head's explode with hypocricy? Suggest that someone knock off Coulter. They'd all have a shit fit.

[tblue37]

34. Or threatening a Supreme Court justice?

Let's see: She has suggested assassinating Bill Clinton (when he was still in office), poisoning Justice Stevens, and fragging Rep. Murtha.

She's hit the trifecta!--she's suggested murdering people from all three branches of the US government.

Did any of you ever see the Robin Williams movie The Fisher King, where an unbalanced fan of the Jeff Bridges right wing radio host character shoots up a restuarant after taking the radio host at his word when he says that people should be killed?

Don't forget that for a brief and shining moment there was actually some consideration about whether the language of right wing hate radio and publications might have had something to do with Timothy McVeigh's commitment to violence.

[Brigid]

45. Excellent point.

Is it not a crime to talk like that about a federal official? Seriously.

[PegDAC]

49. Yes, it's illegal.

Remember, not so long ago at one of her college speaking engagements she said, "Someone should put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee."

(S)he makes me want to :puke:

[Bjorn Against]

63. It definately says something that she has not been arrested

This is not the first time she has threatened the life of a public official. She also threatened a Supreme Court justice, and said that the only question with Clinton was whether to "impeach or assasinate". She said this while he was President, and did not get locked away. She even said her "only regret" with Timothy McVeigh is that he did not blow up the New York Times building. This woman is a terrorist, she should be arrested.

[Cha]

17. Those twits on the insane right

better be careful about bringing up those Purple Hearts.

I'd love a revisit to those hags wearing purple bandaids at the reguritating convention in NYC, 2004.

[karynnj]

55. Because the MSM didn't condemn them then

Coulter thinks she can say the same think (for all practical purposes) about Murtha. I hope Kerry condemns her for this comment - it's a lot easier to express righeous indignation when it's someone else than when it's you. His defense of Murtha last year was excellent. Teresa also wrote a wonderful editorial for a PA paper - apparently she's known Murtha for years.

[roguevalley]

20. she's mentally ill, always has been and will be. It isn't theater. its

mental illness. Imagine among her other quotes talking about looking sexy and dressing sexy. she can't see herself truthfully. she's a sick mutt.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. I nominate Ann for the first Black Heart Award...for shooting off her

mouth on a subject she knows nothing about.

[Monkeyman]

22. When Republican want to change the subject

They run out Ann the mouth. What a mind man talk about someone with mental problems

[msongs]

23. why do you people keep PROMOTING her here? nt

[sandnsea]

27. Generally I agree

But I do think when the nutballs start talking about fragging someone like Murtha that we need to pay attention to that. Same strategy - you point to it, call it dangerous and threatening language, and then ask someone like John Warner or Chuck Hagel what he's going to do about it.

[doc mercer]

31. Coulter

Anyone else not have a hard time believing she does not have a sex life???

[PegDAC]

50. I forget where I read it,

but she said in an interview that she has "thousands of suitors". That is sooo cringeworthy!

[rman]

37. how does dissing her equate to promoting her?

[Beelzebud]

39. Do you think we're stupid or something?

As if this is "promotion"...

We have brains. We can think about things. We can focus on more than 1 thing at a time.

If you ignore cancer, it won't just go away on its own.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

24. As Ann quoted herself " If you're not making Liberals foam, you're

not doing it right" or something like that . She was quoting herself from two books ago. She is sickening. Literally. What's up with her extremely weird William F. Buckley+Truman Capote+ Madonna / drawl? Who talks like that?

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Well, Then We Must Be Doing Something Right

Because she's been foaming at the mouth for 10 years now.
The Professor

[Raksha]

25. What a bitch! What a fucking BITCH! n/t

[Initech]

28. Ann Coulter is a demon set loose on the earth to lower the standards.

End of fucking story.

[Marr]

29. I think she's trying a little too hard these days.

I mean c'mon- isn't it obvious by now that this woman just *tries* to say outrageous things to sell books? She doesn't deserve any attention.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

30. why even raise this issue? all it does is provide her with more PR

which is her goal in the first place.

I see two (count them - TWO!) threads on Ann Coulter in today's Greatest. There is something wrong here if we give her so much credibility.

[Ganja Ninja]

32. There's a fine line between crazy and outrageous.

Manny crossed it long ago, I just wish the MSM could see that.

[Straight Shooter]

35. ... stating only, "It is what it is."

Reminds me of Clinton's non-answer, "It depends on what the meaning of is, is."

Coultergeist has a Clinton fetish. It seeps like sewage from her brain, into her mouth, and spills over.

[Supersedeas]

36. is that the message to be sent to all troops who don't support HER neo-

fascist agenda?

[President Kerry]

38. she's trying really hard to get attention.

She's not good at anything remotely productive to society, she's just a salesman of a bad product that nobody's interested in. She's losing it, and she knows it. She'll end up in insane asylum somewhere.

[Bake]

40. THIS IS THE FACE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Say it over and over again. Coulter IS the Republican Party.

Bake

[Harry Monroe]

41. Ann Coulter the literary equivalent to Jerry Springer

She's not at all interested in intelligent debate, providing solutions or rationally advancing the conservative agenda she so allegedly and passionately claims to be an advocate of. She's only interested in offending people to sell books. Ann Coulter the literary equivalent of Jerry Springer. All together now with fists pumping in the air: "COULTER! COULTER! COULTER!"

What a shrill shill!! She's a carnival sideshow, interested in only the shock value and attention she can muster to sell her hateful screeds to the yahoos who eat this kind of stuff up.

She offers absoultely nothing constructive. Out of curiosity, I picked up her book in Barnes and Noble, feeling quite dirty as I did so. I couldn't get past the first chapter. From what little I could stomach reading, she only offers hatred and divisiveness, only doing so to sell her books to the masses. Unfortunately, that she is a best seller is a symptom of a bigger problem that this country faces.

[mwooldri]

42. Correction: Ann Coulter is equivalent to the "Jerry Springer" TV Show.

Not the guy himself. If you listen to him on the radio show on Air America, or any other outlet that he exposes himself on (no not nudity but jerry Springer naked... ewww IMNSHO) he comes across as a very sensible and reasonably intelligent guy. He just hosts a freak show on TV, and it pays him well.

Mark.

[Harry Monroe]

46. That he hosts a "freak show" on TV...

...should be embarassing to intelligent liberal thinkers everywhere.

But perhaps, when you think about it, it makes sense in a perverse sort of way. After all, he's a liberal, yet making money off the most racist, reactionary segment of the American citenzry. They eat it up and he laughs all the way to the bank, thinking "Suckers!!!" He's actually exposing the underbelly of the lowlifes for what they really are. I bet if you did a survey of his audiences, you'd be hard pressed to find an intelligent liberal in any of them.

Looked in this light, he's a modern day PT Barnum.

[mwooldri]

64. lol ;)

Jerry Springer - a modern day PT Barnum. Whuduyathunk?

:evilgrin:

[genie_weenie]

43. Langauge in, Garbage Out

I had hoped we'd begin to ignore her statments but... The very odd thing is, Murtha is the exact opposite of the officers who were targeted for fragging.

Murhta has been outspoken about defining the mission and arguing for the removal of our troops from Danger. Officers who were fragged (to my understand of the Vietnam Experince) were the ones who couldn't give a shit about their men and wanted dangerous missions in order to win favor and awards...

It seems to me other persons in High Office in the government fall under my defintion of those deserving to be fragged...

[Harry Monroe]

47. Ironic that she'd advocate fragging Murtha...

...if he were still in service, he'd be one of those officers that his men would willingly fight and die for. Murtha would respect those men fighting under him. That respect would be mutual.

I'd wager if Ann the Man were an officer, she wouldn't last or live a week; she'd be fragged within 24-48 hrs.

[genie_weenie]

54. That's what I don't understand.

Officers who looked out for their men weren't fragged. The ones who were advocated Stay the Course without ever asking the question of "Why?"

But, Coulter has no reason not say the most outrageous things. In fact she has every reason to be over-the-top, she's making millions of off the blood...

[RubyDuby in GA]

44. My husband says he'll bail me out if I ever run across her

path. I honestly think if I ever saw her on the street, I'd walk up to her and smack her. I wouldn't say one word...just me smacking her.

There are some people on this earth that are worth relaxing my personal policy of nonviolence for. She is one of them for statements just like this.

[NightHawk63]

48. I truly hope your husband wouldn't let you fight a dude, Ruby. (nt)

[PegDAC]

53. For a second,

I thought that said "run over her"!
:rofl:

[Rex]

51. Coulter is proof positive that Hitler still exists.

nt

[dogday]

52. It really is not good to insult a Marine

it tends to piss off people... Oh well, Miss Ann shall reap what she sows, they already tried to pie her... Who knows what can happen when people make these kind of statements?

[1620rock]

56. I truly hate that bony freak. If anyone was ever drunk enough...

...to go down down on that thing it would be like humping a bag of coat hangers. :puke:

[ShortnFiery]

62. Yeah, her ass is so bony when she walks away from you it looks like

two squirrels squirmin' around a sack. Ewe! <with apologies to squirrels> :P

[geniph]

57. She's the best argument for postnatal abortion walking

Nasty, vicious, blowhard that she is. Urgh!

Ann, dear, blow me.

[stepnw1f]

58. Her Parents Must Have Tortured Her

I bet one of ex's was a liberal. Sour grapes....

[SammyWinstonJack]

59. Why doesn't she put her skanky boney a$$ in the line of fire on the

battle front? At least then, she might have a right to weigh in on decorated war vets.

[Ksec]

60. The party of David Duke, Ann Coulter. George Bush, Karl Rove, Abramoff

Dick Cheney, Ken Lay and Tom Delay....Ask yourself. Does anyone believe a word that drools out of their spewholes?

I dont think so.

Whenever Coulter opens her yap she spews venom and hatred towards America and what it stands for. Shes an Far reicht extremist that needs support of other haters and propagandists to exist. Consider the source. No cred, no nothing propagandist.

[blonndee]

65. WRONG.

It's "leaders" who don't represent their soldiers' interests that usually get fragged. Not that fragging is RIGHT, but she's completely off, as usual. I can tell you, at least from what my army boyfriend in Afgh says, they all support one another, and it would take a HELL of a lot of DRAMATIC anti-troop behavior for someone to be fragged. Like seriously, sending people in to unwinnable shit, over and over again, and then over and over again, without listening to common sense. Her claim that Murtha's anti-war views would get him fragged is fucking laughable. From what I hear, the VAST majority of the troops don't want the fucking war and just want to come home. More so when it comes to Iraq than Afghanistan (my friend has been in both).

[johnnyrocket]

66. What a bat-shit crazy whore!

Pardon my fucking French.

[Riverman]

67. Who Benefits from putting her in front of cameras?

She is put there by the same interests who profit from the misery of war, from organized cheating to deny the vote by minorities, from the networks who sell the sheeple Ambian - ask your Doctor if Ambian is right for you? She has sold her soul and is thus suffering from extreme soul loss. She is poison, vile and putrid. Her heart is a calficied, cancerous mass, her brain marinated in the toxic waste of the corporatists. She is exactly what they want, someone to spew the Nazi-like venom to distract us from the real theivery going on under our noses. She has given up her inherant humanity for short-term personal financial gain.

She would not be wanted by the tribal families if she were in the villages of ancient peoples. Tribal council would cast her out from the tribe for her evil spirit to the dark forboding woods to fend for herself among the wolves and carnivorous beasts. Her naughed bones would be soon found in a shallow pit and then burned to finally exorcise her viral marrow.

[Caretha]

69. From your keyboard to God's ears n/t

[jimshoes]

70. Coulter is the perfect excuse

to bring back witch trials. I say burn her.