Keith Olbermann on Ann Coulter: "An Evil, Bad Person"

[Berry Cool]

Unfortunately for Countdown fans, Keith Olbermann is taking tonight off to watch the Yankees-Red Sox game. But in his absence, I transcribed some interesting comments he happened to make on Dan Patrick's ESPN Radio show today.

Dan had mentioned that he had just gone golfing recently with some of the NBC people, and that he had seen Matt Lauer. Here's what happened next...

DAN: ...he did a great interview with Ann Coulter on the Today Show. And she's...What is her deal?

KEITH: She--Let's put it this way, I don't know a lawyer who would take her side in an insanity case.

DAN: But--did you hear what she said today?

KEITH: Yeah, yeah, about the 9/11 widows--

DAN: The thing--the vic--yes! The widows!

KEITH: Yeah, about the widows enjoying their husbands' deaths.

DAN: Yeah!

KEITH: Ann has--seriously, I think it would be difficult to--

DAN: Well, give the exact quote, just so people--

KEITH: I don't have it in front of me.

DAN: But it was along--OK, OK, go ahead.

KEITH: I just think Ann could not successfully defend herself, you know, could not successfully pass a sanity test or a sanity hearing. She's just nuts, and, and nothing matters to her. There's nothing--there's nothing personal, there's nothing emotional. There is no limit. There's nothing sacred to her. It has nothing--you know, it's nothing to do with liberal, conservative. She's just a bad person, and I mean an evil, bad person, Dan.

DAN: But to characterize--

KEITH: And, I think she used to be a man. I'm just, I'm just saying. I'm not sure. If that makes me a bad person, I think she used to be a man. I'm not sure. And she's probably upset about that. Talk about losing something important to you!

DAN (stifling snicker): But what did she say--the widows?

KEITH: That they were all millionaires, and enjoyed the "griefarazzi" and the attention, and no one had ever enjoyed losing their husbands more. Which is just a sick, mental thing to say. I mean, you need 'round-the-clock therapy if you can actually say something like that about anybody. I couldn't--I couldn't say something like that about Bill O'Reilly! Seriously!

[acmejack]

1. He openly specdulated that she was a transexual!

Wow, she will get excited now...

[Orsino]

17. Counter-productive.

Focus, Keith, focus! How about debunking her lies, the way a real journalist might?

[bunkerbuster1]

19. Agreed, Keith dropped the ball there.

the whole "mAnn Coulter" riff is so last year, anyway.

And it's insulting to the TGs.

[Orsino]

21. Thank you for adding the point I neglected.

While not a direct slur, it's indicative of an unbecoming phobia.

[Clark2008]

27. Hardly... it's time to get MEAN and NASTY

We do it here all the time - why shouldn't we expect the pundits to do it BACK to the Republicans after they've done it to liberals for 12 years now?

Look, there's no time for civility when we're near Civil War.

[bunkerbuster1]

29. I loves me some mean and nasty

But there are so many ways to do it without sacrificing pride. I mean, she is GIVING AWAY HER BOOK FOR FIVE DOLLARS for fucksakes. There's so much one could do with that fact, who needs to haul out the whole "she looks mannish" thing.

Don't get me wrong--Annthrax needs to be thrashed, and on the whole I love what KO (whatta great pair of initials, huh?) did. I was mostly just nitpicking.

[Clark2008]

31. Best initials in news!

:rofl:

I am just tired of the likes of Ann Coulter. Isn't her 15 minutes up, yet?

You know what I'd like to see? Kristen Breitweister kick her ass on national TV, not that Kristen would lower herself to that level - but I'd bet money she could do it.

[ooglymoogly]

54. i agree...she's a bitch and a whore in whatever skin she is in.

she is self loathing not very bright bitch. time to take the gloves off.

[Mr_Spock]

58. satan

:D

[roguevalley]

55. I think he is caught by the lack of womanliness her remarks

represent. I think he's of the school where women don't speak like that about other women, at least not like this. There is no womanly empathy for the situation, even if you hated the person, you empathize for the situation. Its rather as if some bullheaded man was spewing off about this, rather than a woman. I think he can't believe she's a real woman like this.

[The Stranger]

22. Focus, DUers, on Coulter, the real problem -- not Olberman.

[stepnw1f]

40. Thank You for Saying Something

so I don't.

[meow2u3]

38. Now you see why I call her Tranny Annie?

and many on DU call Coulter 'Mann Coulter'?

[CottonBear]

50. Those are not nice things to say about her.

We should not speculate about her sexuality or gender.

We can, however, rebut her insane pronouncements about liberals and the 9-11 widows and victims.

[benburch]

41. She was born intersexual.

She had a birth defect called ambiguous genitalia and was surgically assigned a female sex as an infant.

So she never was a man. She is not a transexual. She is a woman, and has been since she was around 9 months old. I think all this "Ann The Man" stuff is demeaning to transsexuals and intersexuals and needs to end. She cannot help being what she is, and I think a lot of her anger is rooted in it.

[Javaman]

44. I'm curious, how do you know this?

:shrug:

[benburch]

45. An intersexual activist told me this.

And I believe hir. And I have read it in at least one other place.

[Bjorn Against]

56. I took a class with a teacher who wrote a book on intersex people...

While Ann Coulter was never mentioned, what I do know is that there are far more people who are intersex than what most people realize. It is rarely talked about but there are actually millions of people who are neither men or women, but rather fall somewhere in between. My guess is that Ann Coulter is part male but has never been fully male.

I agree that we should lay off her for her sexual characteristics, and focus on the horrible things she says instead.

[Pachamama]

43. Is there any doubt that she used to be a man? Now she isn't either!

No woman I know could ever be so venom and hate-spewing....And the former genitalia Ann-Man used to have are clearly gone too....

I'd love to see KO debate Coulter as well as the Jersey Girls take "it" on....

That would be priceless.... :rofl:

[CottonBear]

49. Intersexed people are both male and female.

If she is intersexed (if what benburch says is true), then there is nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is when the parents OK surgery on the children as infants. These children have no choice in the matter and it causes them great mental anguish as adults.

I don't care if Ann is male, female or intersexed.

I do care that she is a freaking nutcase who obviously has some real issues. She owes the 9-11 widows an apology.

[Pachamama]

51. I agree...

It doesn't matter if Ann is a she, a he, transgender, intersexed or even a mutant alien...Ann Coulater is a friggin nutcase lunatic and definitely owes the 9-11 widows (and every family who lost someone on 9-11) an apology.

And meanwhile, the MSM should avoid her like the plague- she should be seen no different than the head of some Neo-Nazi Hate Group like Matthew Hale and not be allowed to use up airtime to spew her hatred across our country.

[CottonBear]

52. Amen to that.

It makes us DUers look mean and bigoted to call her Mann Coulter or Tranny Anny.
It's just wrong and I will not be part of it.

[RamboLiberal]

2. Damn I hope KO is on his show tomorrow night

I have a feeling we're going to get another great ass-whupping rant!

Have fun at the game KO.

[tives12]

3. Has Keith written any non-sport books?

[Patsy Stone]

5. Well

They'll be publishing a collection of "The Worst Person in the World" in September. Does that count?

[Berry Cool]

7. Sadly, no, but he does have a non-sports book coming out this fall.

The title: The Worst Person in the World and 119 More Strong Contenders.

[Felinity]

4. It's a great day for the wheels to come off

ROFLOL K&R with a hooty hoot hoot

Randi was losing it totally today, and KO is certainly out of control here.

And I like it!

The Rethugs will drive you bonkers.

:rofl:

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. Randi 'totally loses it', KO is 'out of control' , 'the wheels come off',

and, you LIKE IT?

Welcome to DU.

[Felinity]

18. Thanks and Yes, I Do

I'm a little tired of progressives having to watch every word they say, while the media swallows whole whatever propaganda, lies, BS, & talking point/sound bites the neocons dish out.

Perfect example is how we're always "Oh, yes we do support the troops," defending our patriotism against what? Have we lied our country into war, cut VA funding, given over control of feeding, housing, and securing our bases overseas to independent contractors who serve up SEWAGE? Have we given out key contracts for armored vests and armored vehicles to our buddies who can't get it done? Show me what we've done that does not support our troops--trying to stop their lives from being squandered by madmen?

Our enemies--the enemies of democracy, and of the constitution--are outrageous; and I think it is high time we let 'em have it. We've been so busy being controlled "not like them" that they have been walking all over us on every talking heads "news" program.

Yeah, I think it's time to let loose on these guys, and that goes for our Democratic Representatives. I'm outraged, why aren't they?

[Bridget Burke]

16. Olberman "out of control"?

Hardly.

[Felinity]

20. But in a good way!

Have you ever noticed that, even with the worst right wing idiots, like say, Ann Coulter, interviewers seem to back down from asking the hard questions, or challenging their stupidity? It's almost as if they feel too embarrassed to mention how obviously stupid their thinking is.

Then they beat the crap out of the Democrats/Progressives. Also, see post 18 above.

[Beaverhausen]

6. "I think she used to be a man"

God I love Keith!!!


:loveya:

[Quantess]

I loved that part.

I always thought that whole she's a shemale thing was just a bunch of hooey, but today when I looked at her book cover, I saw it...I saw the man hiding under the feminine clothes and long blonde hair. I think there's some substance to that rumor...

[mwb970]

35. I noticed the mannishness the first time I saw her.

Now it's hard to see her as a woman, despite the get-up.

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. I can't believe he said it, but then again they were going on and on the

other day about the Carson Palmer Charity Cornholing event. *lol*

[Cha]

8. Wonder if anthrax will

go after Keith the way she went after Alec Baldwin when he said something true about her?

Hulk Hogan decided to referee and chose anthax over Alec..saying "Baldwin would be lucky to go out with ann"!

Hulk is obviously missing some important cells.

[wryter2000]

32. She'd be nuts to go after KO

He has a nightly news show, and he's not afraid to use it.

:loveya: Olbermann

[eugene5debs]

9. Crazy Annie spews forth her book today, a "Goddess"?

6-6-06, the "Antichrist" day. Her book title is arranged to suggest she is a goddess, more likely she is the antichrist.

http://www.staggeron.org/fire&brimstone.html#ann-goddess

[wryter2000]

33. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[originalpckelly]

11. "Talk about losing something important to you!" -OMG!

That is so hilarious! The best quote ever!! Really!!!
:rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

12. Coulter's definitely more masculine than Lauer. I saw the clip.

why do those candy asses treat her so gently, after she spews such outrageous FILTH about people

that idiot couldn't even respond that the main widow, Kristen Breitweiser, was a REPUBLICAN til she got fffffed over by the junta, and she wasn't the only one.

AND....didn't several of them REFUSE the government settlement, which would not make them millionaires?

why was he so unprepared, after asking the opening question in the first place

what a simpering gob of pultaceous goo that little pimpleass is

he acted like he was afraid she was going to slap his wimpy face

[long_green]

13. I don't blame anyone for saying anything nasty about Coulter

but I think KO could have just left this one alone. She killed herself on Today. No one can even pretend to take her seriously anymore.

[readermostly]

14. Sadly, her RW fans will still take her seriously, but I agree, she made a

vicious spectacle of herself on Today. Almost looked out of control. She needs to stick with her base, Fox News, when she spews her venom.

[RebelOne]

23. Asshole Sean Hannity thought her interview with Lauer was funny.

[AngryOldDem]

28. Why am I not surprised? n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

39. Asshole Sean thinks tricking vegetarians into eating meat is funny.

He's such a dick.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

24. Media monopoly power makes a place for her

Her idiotic hate mongering has a place in the corporate weasel media.

She will be well paid for her antics for many years to come, unless we reinstate the fairness doctrine into broadcasting and force broadcast media to cover news as a public service, instead of a division of their entertainment programming.

[Buns_of_Fire]

30. "So, Ann, have you considered switching to decaf?"

That's what I wanted Matt Lauer to ask her, after she'd exhausted herself and was sitting there all dripping wet, her hair stringy with sweat, panting heavily. I figure the question would have totally overloaded her, and she would have snapped right there in the window of 30 Rock, stripping off her and Matt's clothes, and they would have ended the segment rolling on the floor like weasels in heat, while the video faded to black and the voice of Al Roker came on and said, "...and now let's see what's happening in your neck of the woods..."

(And now you know why I'm not allowed to produce live television. :-) )

[wryter2000]

34. In a sane world she killed herself

I just watched the video. I expected her to be vile and disgusting. I didn't expect her to be so lame. How many times did she say, "I don't know"? She's supposed to be the freaking expert. I don't know???

[bbgrunt]

48. I agree. The real question is WHY she was even on the show.,

and why she gets so much media attention when she is nothing but a hateful, despicable person.

[neoblues]

15. Now That's Honest Language...

No pussyfooting around, call a spade a spade! If we could get more such honesty on all the issues, but in more of the mainstream Press and on TV (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, hahahaha-FAUX)... (sigh) What a nice thought.

[noonwitch]

25. Ann is mentally ill.

I dislike O'Reilly, Rush and Hannity, but they are not insane. They are pushing a point of view that they somewhat believe in (the first two-Hannity is a true believer in conservatism)for a profit and are probably cynical enough at heart to realize it.

But Ann is nuts. It's not her being a conservative that makes her crazy and differentiates her from the rest. It's the nasty tone of her very presentation and prose that makes her different. She could have made a point about democrats using victims to make points that no one feels right about challenging, but she had to use such mean and vicious language about the 9-11 widows that her point gets lost.

On top of that, when I see her on tv, she acts, speaks and has mannerisms of one who is suffering delusions of superiority. Her every gesture and move is over-exagerrated, her eyes bug out when she speaks and she never expresses anything but nastiness. I don't hear her ever saying anything nice to or about anyone, except Hannity and the dead Joe McCarthy. She claims to be a christian, but has absolutely no humility or kindness in her, which are prime christian values.

Either there is another Ann off camera and what we see is a persona she created to make a living, or she is a seriously deranged individual.

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. Way to go, KO!

Simple and to the point. Anthrax Annie is an evil person.

[Bake]

37. It's about time KO said what needed to be said!

That she is fucking insane, batshit crazy. That she is evil. Instead of calling her a "conservative commentator," KO called her what she is. And it's HIGH TIME somebody in the media did so.

Even Maher won't do that.

Bake

[tomreedtoon]

42. Remember what Chris Rock said to her on "Real Time"?

I will never forget it. I think it was the very first episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher." Coulter was on the panel. Bill apparently took a phone call from an impassioned black man. Then, after a few phrases, said black man walked on the set. It was Chris Rock.

He walked behind the panelists, faced Coulter, and said, "Are you f***in' the President?"

And she didn't get angry. She...SMILED.

In the immortal words of Stan Lee, "'Nuff said."

[dancingme]

46. In Ann's next book

she says the parents of the murdered kids at Columbine are happy because they don't have to pay college tuition.

[joeunderdog]

47. Keith just doesn't get it.

"Used to be a man"?

What's this Used to be shit?

[Brazenly Liberal]

53. This time, I have to disagree with KO

"you know, it's nothing to do with liberal, conservative. She's just a bad person, and I mean an evil, bad person, Dan."

I agree that it's not about her personal values. I wouldn't bet two cents that Ann-thrax is really as fixed on the right (and definitely not as knowledgeable about conservativism) as she claims to be. Not that I think she's a lefty. I think her focus is on one thing and one thing only - raking in the big bucks that spewing venom brings her. She'd babble any ideology that paid the mortgage on that Florida mansion.

I don't think she does it just because she's evil. Oh, yes, she is truly evil, but I don't think that's her motivation. I think it's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

That's exactly why she says things like this. Because every time she does, she gets a MOUNTAIN of free publicity and that translates into speaking engagements, book deals, etc.

An asshole who's willing to say anything can do well posing as a rightwing babbler because the right is willing to make haters rich. There are some nutjobs on the left, but we aren't willing to pay them big bucks to be that way, so there's no point in the Coulters or Limbaughs doing what they do with a leftist slant.

[eppur_se_muova]

57. I think he should retire her number & make it a unique honor.

He can start a "WPITW" Hall of Infamy--she can be the first "Immortal".

(As long as she avoids sulight, crosses, and anything silver.)