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Ann Coulter On The View: Only Violence At Tea Party Rallies Came From Liberals

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Conservative author Ann Coulter continued promoting her new book “Demonic” with an appearance on The View, where one of her theories was loudly booed by the audience. Elisabeth Hasselbeck read from Coulter’s book that “the Republicans are the party of peaceful order and the liberals are the party of noisy violent mobs.” Joy Behar thought the Tea Party disproved Coulter’s argument, yet Coulter strongly disagreed.

Coulter responded to Behar’s assertion:

“At the Tea Parties and townhalls that we’ve had over the last two years there has been violence. It has all been committed by liberals.”

Coulter even exclaimed that a “conservative had a finger bitten off by a liberal!” The ladies interviewing Coulter seemed taken aback by Coulter’s claim, which she joked is something that strangely never gets a New York Times story. However, there is one thing that is very hard to dispute: Coulter knows exactly how to get provocative and push the buttons of her liberal sparring partners just in time for her book promotion tour.

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  • Moderate

    I agree with Coulter. She does go over the top when it comes to pulling a Liberal’s chain or selling a book. Palin can do the same without any effort.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    That old putrid Kart ‘o Krap, again? The story. Not Koulter.

  • Moderate

    pull someone’s chain idioms and phrases
    Make someone angry, especially deliberately, as in Teenagers really know how to pull their parents’ chains.

  • BatBoy

    “Ann Coulter On The View: Only Violence At Tea Party Rallies Came From Liberals”

    Very True!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    BatBoy said:
    “Ann Coulter On The View: Only Violence At Tea Party Rallies Came From Liberals”

    Very True!

    You might find this informative:

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/12/fearing-tea-party-violence-arizona-republicans-resign/

  • jo hoochie

    “the Republicans are the party of peaceful order and the liberals are the party of noisy violent mobs.”
    That’s how I see it.

  • Jaurez
  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    jo hoochie said:
    “the Republicans are the party of peaceful order and the liberals are the party of noisy violent mobs.”
    That’s how I see it.

    In other words, you have chosen to ignore the vile nastiness of the summer of 2009?

  • Moderate

    The meme that opponents of Obama are crazy and dangerous has been an explicit Democratic Party campaign strategy for over two years. Here is just a partial list of events in which the left-wing and Democratic Party media operation has immediately blamed right-wing rhetoric, only to be proven wrong when the facts finally came out: Bill Sparkman, Amy Bishop, The Fort Hood Shooter, The IRS Plane Crasher, The Cabbie Stabbing, and The Pentagon Shooter.

  • Jaurez

    THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
    In other words, you have chosen to ignore the vile nastiness of the summer of 2009?

    There wasn’t any.

  • BatBoy

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    You might find this informative:

    Not really, but thanks for trying!

  • WCinWI

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    In other words, you have chosen to ignore the vile nastiness of the summer of 2009?

    Don’t make me bring up Bush as Hitler signs.

  • perceptorii

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    You might find this informative:

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/12/fearing-tea-party-violence-arizona-republicans-resign/

    Any ACTUAL Tea Party violence, or are you content to prove Coulter’s point?

  • Jaurez

    “Put him back in the fields,” a sweet liberal says of the Supreme Court justice. Another calls for mutilating him. Another calls for torture — her word, “torture.” “String him up — and his wife, too.” “Hang him,” says another, lest you think that the lynching theme is an isolated incident.

  • WCinWI

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    In other words, you have chosen to ignore the vile nastiness of the summer of 2009?

    Or the Governor Walker as Hitler signs. Or the recent “school assignment” that a teacher gave her kids to write a drawing about the Governor as a devil.

  • tatboy

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    That old putrid Kart ‘o Krap, again? The story. Not Koulter.

    Really? The finger thing is pretty well documented.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/MoveOn_California_fracas_fingerbiting_regrettable.html

  • tatboy
  • tatboy

    BTW everyone… you won’t believe this but ALL of my links to the finger biting that took place in 2009 are being “moderated”. It’s just links…. no comment from me at all…. WOW!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    WCinWI said:
    Don’t make me bring up Bush as Hitler signs.

    Bush was gone in January 2009, dear.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    WCinWI said:
    Or the Governor Walker as Hitler signs. Or the recent “school assignment” that a teacher gave her kids to write a drawing about the Governor as a devil.

    Wasn’t that this year? And, it was violent, how, dear?

  • The Voice of Reason

    So Behar claims that violence has been commited in a way it was not, but then is taken back by a factual case of violence? Wow…

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    tatboy said:
    BTW everyone… you won’t believe this but ALL of my links to the finger biting that took place in 2009 are being “moderated”. It’s just links…. no comment from me at all…. WOW!

    That seems to be a trigger. A couple of triggers I have found:

    Multiple links in the same post.
    Multiple comments quoted in the same post.

    It’s nutty.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Bush was gone in January 2009, dear.

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    That seems to be a trigger. A couple of triggers I have found:

    Multiple links in the same post.
    Multiple comments quoted in the same post.

    It’s nutty.

  • The Voice of Reason

    People like to keep themselve ignorant and delusional and pretend it is only one side ever. Thus all the absurd claims and criticisms of the TP.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    WCinWI said:
    Don’t make me bring up Bush as Hitler signs.

    Bush was gone in January 2009, dear.

    Here are some actual 2009 signs, dear:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html

  • http://mediaite.com Lizzie Manning

    Hey guys, thanks for keeping the discourse more civil. Multiple links trigger the spam filter and almost all comments held for moderation eventually make it through, it just takes me a few minutes to read them over.

  • jo hoochie

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    In other words, you have chosen to ignore the vile nastiness of the summer of 2009?

    No ,both sides do it but the way I see it liberals are more vile, nasty and have a mean spirit. Huffington post, please don’t make me laugh. On second thought I might need a good laugh today but I won’t get it from the Huff.

  • Dem4Ever

    Ann bitch slapped those sacks of mushed up meat.

  • Moderate

    A mild version of Liberal violence

    Liberal college students have once again illustrated their never-ending quest for tolerance and their vast ability to think critically about ideas in opposition to their own. Yes, I’m talking about yet another pie-throwing incident involving a conservative speaker on a college campus.

    The latest chapter in this pathetic story took place at Butler University on Wednesday, April 6. Conservative activist and President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture David Horowitz was early in his lecture at Butler when he was struck with a pie.

    “There’s a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I’d call fascists opposing conservatives,” said Horowitz.

  • TeaPartyNation

    Coulter is clearly on a tour of the slimebag lamestream, socialist shows.

    When she’s done, I hope she gets a thorough cleaning and delousing to protect her from the multiple diseases these lunatic-leftists carry.

  • Moderate

    I feel deprived, I have never been held for moderation.

  • david r

    The accusations of violence against the TP have not been documented:

    Spitting on black legislators at the Washington DC mall — disproved by Breitbart. Did not happen.

    Violent placards at rallies — all the ones I saw turned up to be liberal plants having a big laugh.

    Guy with the rifle at rally — Picture cropped my MSNBC to make him look white.

    Violence by liberals is clearly documented:

    Disruption and threats against Wisc legislators– proven

    SEIU union thugs beat black “Uncle Tom” — proven

    Protesters break the leg of Bobby Jindal’s aide in the French Quarter — proven.

    This was all the plan laid out in the Journolist revelations: discredit the TP movement as violent by inserting such accusations in stories about the TP. People like Joy Behar just mouth the party line. So now watch the replies: what about Palin causing the Giffords shooting ! !? All that crosshairs talk !

  • Ramrants

    The finger biting was a well known story. How can these women not know about it? I guess they really do only read the NYT.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/MoveOn_California_fracas_fingerbiting_regrettable.html

  • tatboy
  • Moderate

    Childish violence

    OCTOBER 22–Meet “Al Pieda” disciples Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff. The Tucson men, both 24, were arrested last night after throwing custard cream pies at author Ann Coulter during her speech at the University of Arizona. Portions of the pies connected with the conservative commentator’s face and shoulder, according to this police report, which quotes Smith saying that he and Wolff were “throwing the pies at her ideas not at her.” Cops also noted that a post-arrest search of the assailants turned up “pieces of paper (propaganda) involving Coulter’s name and the explanation of ‘Al Pieda.’”

  • mtjade4

    I don’t take Ann C. seriously at all. I do enjoy her style of entertaining and selling books at the same time. She is fun to watch being interviewed.

  • purveyor

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Here are some actual 2009 signs, dear:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html

    Laugh out Loud!, Those signs are NOT offensive, a bit exaggerated, but NOT offensive. Is that all you can come up with? Jeepers, there will fighting in streets over those! LOL

    As I recall the subject was likely to “incite violence”. If those goofy signs incite Liberals, like you, to violence. Never mind, REAL ROYAL KING, (Sorry) I am laughing too hard at you and your silly attempt at self importance.

    Thanks for the good laugh.

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    She’s right. Left wing protests always end in clashes with riot cops. Tea parties always ended with a clean up of all the trash.

  • illusive man

    “Liberals” don’t only cause the violence at Tea Party rallies, they openly call for violence against people who are no programed robots like them.

    One example, this is a video of a “liberal” calling our veterans traitors that need to be “murdered”.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75T_-E42wM0

  • purveyor

    To: REAL ROYAL KING,

    I was on the Boulder Campus when Pseudo American Indian, Ward Churchill spoke. Also, I was in Denver for Tea Party Rallies.

    Man-o-man, now there is a ‘dichotomy’ for you. Ouch! LOL

    Oh yes, regarding my previous Post: Your source, that paragon of journalistic virtue—The Huffington Post! LOL

  • Alz

    Talking about liberal civility, look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7l-pEBYeLI

    As you can see, it’s gross.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Didn’t someone offer a million bucks for anyone who could prove Pelosi and the other Democrats claim that tea party members spit on them as they walked down the street with Pelosi carrying the over sided gavel after they shoved Obamacare down our throats?

    Remember? Pelosi had all of her operatives out in full force loaded to the tilt with cameras and video cams to try to capture ANYTHING on film yet NOT ONE SINGLE episode was captured.

    However there have been plenty of times when Libs have been discovered infiltrating tea party events holding up vile signs and making @$$’$ out of themselves to try to make the tea party out to be violent.

    Here in Denver we had a code pink transgender throw a rock through the window of the Democratic headquarters with a nasty note attached during the 2008 elections with the attempt to make it look like a racist anti-Obama Republican did it…….too bad she/he whatever it was was caught…ouch!!!

    The Dems and the lame stream media as usual jumped the gun and started blaming everyone on the right as violent racists…….then it back fired in their face!!!

  • purveyor

    tatboy said:
    You had to know this was coming….. :)

    TATBOY,

    Thank you so much, I’ve never seen that. That should end the debate, but, Socialists are persistent in their delusion. Note: I don’t use the word “delusion” in the simple pejorative, rather, a pathology.

  • purveyor

    Colorado_Conservative said:

    Here in Denver we had a code pink transgender throw a rock through the window of the Democratic headquarters with a nasty note attached during the 2008 elections with the attempt to make it look like a racist anti-Obama Republican did it…….too bad she/he whatever it was was caught…ouch!!!

    COLORADO,

    Yes, that is correct. I was still living in Golden at the time, and remember that quite well.

    Remember Recreate 68? Let’s all be anti-American.

  • Alz

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Didn’t someone offer a million bucks for anyone who could prove Pelosi and the other Democrats claim that tea party members spit on them as they walked down the street with Pelosi carrying the over sided gavel after they shoved Obamacare down our throats?

    Remember? Pelosi had all of her operatives out in full force loaded to the tilt with cameras and video cams to try to capture ANYTHING on film yet NOT ONE SINGLE episode was captured.

    However there have been plenty of times when Libs have been discovered infiltrating tea party events holding up vile signs and making @$$’$ out of themselves to try to make the tea party out to be violent.

    Here in Denver we had a code pink transgender throw a rock through the window of the Democratic headquarters with a nasty note attached during the 2008 elections with the attempt to make it look like a racist anti-Obama Republican did it…….too bad she/he whatever it was was caught…ouch!!!

    The Dems and the lame stream media as usual jumped the gun and started blaming everyone on the right as violent racists…….then it back fired in their face!!!

    Coulter’s new book is on the mob mentality of liberals and how they are so anti-thinking. An excerpt: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/08/exclusive-ch-14-excerpt-from-coulters-demonic/print/

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Ram it down their LYING throats Ann!

    These Libs are the gutter-swipe of humanity.

  • Sam M.

    Your typical tea-partier is vulgar, unkempt, uneducated, drug addicted, and lives in a trailer.

  • tatboy

    Sam M. said:
    Your typical tea-partier is vulgar, unkempt, uneducated, drug addicted, and lives in a trailer.

    You’re a bigoted J3RK.

  • Sam M.

    tatboy said:
    You’re a bigoted J3RK.

    You are obviously a tea-partier. Embrace your ignorance.

  • writer

    I’m sure Sam wouldn’t just pull something out of thin air, and will shortly provide census figures proving that none of his statements are based purely on a left wing bias.

  • struckgld

    I was a liberal in College. There is no level of violence liberals can’t rationalize away.

  • Alz

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Ram it down their LYING throats Ann!

    These Libs are the gutter-swipe of humanity.

    Yep, exactly.

  • Sam M.

    struckgld said:
    I was a liberal in College. There is no level of violence liberals can’t rationalize away.

    Weird, I was a liberal in college as well and there was no level of stupidity that conservatives couldn’t chalk up to oxygen deprivation..

  • Sam M.

    tatboy said:
    You’re a bigoted J3RK.

    Sorry titboy, I need to add racist to the list. My bad.

  • writer

    Bill Ayers was a liberal in college, and he wasn’t violent. Oh, wait…….

  • tatboy

    Sam M. said:
    Sorry titboy, I need to add racist to the list. My bad.

    Thanks for making my point for me… ;)

  • Sam M.

    tatboy said:
    Thanks for making my point for me… ;)

    You mean the part about being a tea-bagger and that you should be proud of your ignorance? Your welcome.

  • writer

    Moderator, Ted is being naughty again.

  • Rio

    writer said:
    Moderator, Ted is being naughty again.

    Positive reinforcement does not always work, some will need a taste of that …..board of education, at least once. Our principal had one with half inch holes drilled in it, I don’t know why.

  • felixw

    You can learn a lot about the mainstream media, by examining how these charges of “violent tea parties” got started.

    When the first tea parties took place, the liberal media didn’t want to cover anything actually SAID AT THE PODIUM of these events. The liberal media still doesn’t want to cover any public event that calls for more accountable government and fiscal restraint No video clips ever show up on TV that address those issues — even though they are the very reason why the tea parties are taking place. Strange but true!

    In desperation, liberal reporters tried to find some other way of covering this grass roots movement. This was tough. How can you cover a political event and not talk about the politics involved? They grabbed on to this idea of VIOLENT TEA PARTIES, but it was a feeble ploy, since no tea party member ever did anything violent at any of these events.

    Soon most journalists gave up on this smear campaign, since they could never back it up with evidence. The last hurrah was the shooting in Arizona, which in a very pathetic move — even by the low standards of the mainstream media — they tried to connect to Sarah Palin and the tea parties to an assassination attempt. How low can you sink? But when it emerged that the shooter admired Karl Marx and was known as a far left ideologue, they were left looking pretty stupid. Not to mention dishonest…but I guess we already knew THAT.

    But the liberal media is now in a very tough place. All over the country, people are calling for MORE ACCOUNTABLE AND FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, and since the liberal journalists don’t want to let even a whisper of this to get on the airwaves, they need to find some other was of characterizing these events. They don’t really have a good answer.

    Of course, they could always try to cover these events honestly, and report on why people are attending them and what they are actually calling for. But that level of refreshing honesty will only be found on one TV news network. The rest are simply struggling to find a new disinformation angle that might be plausible.

    Hey, it’s tough being a journalist when you value ideology above the truth. But you pick your side and pay the price.

  • david r

    Sam M. said:
    Your typical tea-partier is vulgar, unkempt, uneducated, drug addicted, and lives in a trailer.

    Right about some of it, but they are not violent at political rallies like liberals tend to be.

  • Sam M.

    felixw said:
    You can learn a lot about the mainstream media, by examining how these charges of “violent tea parties” got started.

    When the first tea parties took place, the liberal media didn’t want to cover anything actually SAID AT THE PODIUM of these events. The liberal media still doesn’t want to cover any public event that calls for more accountable government and fiscal restraint No video clips ever show up on TV that address those issues — even though they are the very reason why the tea parties are taking place. Strange but true!

    In desperation, liberal reporters tried to find some other way of covering this grass roots movement. This was tough. How can you cover a political event and not talk about the politics involved? They grabbed on to this idea of VIOLENT TEA PARTIES, but it was a feeble ploy, since no tea party member ever did anything violent at any of these events.

    Soon most journalists gave up on this smear campaign, since they could never back it up with evidence. The last hurrah was the shooting in Arizona, which in a very pathetic move — even by the low standards of the mainstream media — they tried to connect to Sarah Palin and the tea parties to an assassination attempt. How low can you sink? But when it emerged that the shooter admired Karl Marx and was known as a far left ideologue, they were left looking pretty stupid. Not to mention dishonest…but I guess we already knew THAT.

    But the liberal media is now in a very tough place. All over the country, people are calling for MORE ACCOUNTABLE AND FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, and since the liberal journalists don’t want to let even a whisper of this to get on the airwaves, they need to find some other was of characterizing these events. They don’t really have a good answer.

    Of course, they could always try to cover these events honestly, and report on why people are attending them and what they are actually calling for. But that level of refreshing honesty will only be found on one TV news network. The rest are simply struggling to find a new disinformation angle that might be plausible.

    Hey, it’s tough being a journalist when you value ideology above the truth. But you pick your side and pay the price.

    This is hilarious and you naturally are a joke. You need to get out more.

  • Sam M.

    david r said:
    Right about some of it, but they are not violent at political rallies like liberals tend to be.

    Except when they wave misspelled racists signs and spit on people. Other than that, sure.

  • david r

    struckgld said:
    I was a liberal in College. There is no level of violence liberals can’t rationalize away.

    So was I a lib back then. You had to be if you wanted to get laid. It was a by-product of the phony, dual standard for men and women. I’m still a liberal about a lot of things. I’ve just lost faith that the government can help me, or anyone else over the long haul. As Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once said: “less is more.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    Ann Coulter. The pitbull of the conservatives.

  • david r

    Sam M. said:
    Except when they wave misspelled racists signs and spit on people. Other than that, sure.

    Didn’t happen. A bunch of liberal shenanigans. I did it once myself with a gal who went on to hold public office here in Texas. We set up a booth at the local college and had students fill out postcards to legislators urging them to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment. Then we drove all over Texas posting the cards from all the swing districts. The ERA passed. This kind of stuff is commonplace on both sides. Remember Donald Segretti ?

  • Sam M.

    david r said:
    Didn’t happen. A bunch of liberal shenanigans. I did it once myself with a gal who went on to hold public office here in Texas. We set up a booth at the local college and had students fill out postcards to legislators urging them to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment. Then we drove all over Texas posting the cards from all the swing districts. The ERA passed. This kind of stuff is commonplace on both sides. Remember Donald Segretti ?

    Of course it did. Tea-baggers are vile, vulgar, uneducated and notorious for misspelling and spitting on members of congress, especially if they are black. I’m sorry, but this is who the tea-baggers are. Uneducated nit wits.

  • NORBIT

    Liberals are the EVOLUTIONARY HUNS of Reasoned Thinking!

    You don’t negotiate with dysfunctional thought; you defeat it! – at the polls!!

    2012! – Save the Nation – Vote TEA-PARTY GOP!

  • Sam M.

    NORBIT said:
    Liberals are the EVOLUTIONARY HUNS of Reasoned Thinking!

    You don’t negotiate with dysfunctional thought; you defeat it! – at the polls!!

    2012! – Save the Nation – Vote TEA-PARTY GOP!

    Here you go. Perfect example of what I’m talking about. Thanks Norbit!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    I have just read through the entire comment section and I have not found one documented claim that a conservative has been violent at ANY Tea Party event! Can that really be true. With all the professional, well-payed(?) left wing demagogues in here??

    Not that I doubt that Tea Partiers are more well-behaved than the general population. All you need to do is look at the amount of garbage left from the Jon Stewart event at the mall and the union rally at the mall to the amount of garbage left from the attendants of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor. QED.

    And btw. Jared Loughner was apolitical, not a left-winger or right-winger. I have documented that in the comment section here:
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jared-laughner-found-not-competent-for-trial-after-courtroom-outburst/

  • Sam M.

    Thorkil Kowalski Værge said:
    I have just read through the entire comment section and I have not found one documented claim that a conservative has been violent at ANY Tea Party event! Can that really be true. With all the professional, well-payed(?) left wing demagogues in here??

    Not that I doubt that Tea Partiers are more well-behaved than the general population. All you need to do is look at the amount of garbage left from the Jon Stewart event at the mall and the union rally at the mall to the amount of garbage left from the attendants of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor. QED.

    And btw. Jared Loughner was apolitical, not a left-winger or right-winger. I have documented that in the comment section here:
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jared-laughner-found-not-competent-for-trial-after-courtroom-outburst/

    Then you need lessons in comprehension.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Moderate said:
    A mild version of Liberal violence

    Liberal college students have once again illustrated their never-ending quest for tolerance and their vast ability to think critically about ideas in opposition to their own. Yes, I’m talking about yet another pie-throwing incident involving a conservative speaker on a college campus.

    The latest chapter in this pathetic story took place at Butler University on Wednesday, April 6. Conservative activist and President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture David Horowitz was early in his lecture at Butler when he was struck with a pie.

    “There’s a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I’d call fascists opposing conservatives,” said Horowitz.

    The leftists here would love for the conversation to devolve into name-calling or a war over provocative signs, which is nothing more than political speech and represents only (perhaps) that individual’s personal ugliness. It’s when that speech begins to translate into actions, the subject at hand, that the left far outpaces their conservative counterparts.

    Simply to use the label ‘fascistic’ doesn’t do justice as the term is so overused but it’s just as you say, a lizard brain desire to suppress the other, that’s being acted upon when a progressive protester, for example, slams a pie in Coulter’s face (or Horowitz, etc), shoves a sign in Rand Paul’s face or throws glitter on Newt Gingrich. It’s nothing more than a direct appeal to political violence, moderated only by the fear of personal repercussions.

    That’s what so disturbs me when actions such as these are defended or made light of by journalists sympathetic to the protester’s politics. In doing so, they’re normalizing the concept of physical protest against persons. If such behavior comes to be considered acceptable, how much shorter is the gap, then, if a disturbed individual misjudges what the repercussions would be should he NOT act with actual violence?

    The culture of pseudo-violence against politicians is almost exclusively the domain of the left and any attempt to form equivalencies are fabrications. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was never spat on by members of the Tea Party. Joe Miller’s security ‘detained’ an activist ‘reporter’ who’d approached Miller while the candidate was taking a leak in a public restroom. Even these *fake* misdeeds don’t rise halfway to the level of those acts listed previously that are applauded by committed progressives. The narrative which fuels accusations such as Behar regularly makes comes out of a left field from Bizzaro world, so off base is it. Coulter is spot on – again.

  • Sam M.

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    The leftists here would love for the conversation to devolve into name-calling or a war over provocative signs, which is nothing more than political speech and represents only (perhaps) that individual’s personal ugliness. It’s when that speech begins to translate into actions, the subject at hand, that the left far outpaces their conservative counterparts.

    Simply to use the label ‘fascistic’ doesn’t do justice as the term is so overused but it’s just as you say, a lizard brain desire to suppress the other, that’s being acted upon when a progressive protester, for example, slams a pie in Coulter’s face (or Horowitz, etc), shoves a sign in Rand Paul’s face or throws glitter on Newt Gingrich. It’s nothing more than a direct appeal to political violence, moderated only by the fear of personal repercussions.

    That’s what so disturbs me when actions such as these are defended or made light of by journalists sympathetic to the protester’s politics. In doing so, they’re normalizing the concept of physical protest against persons. If such behavior comes to be considered acceptable, how much shorter is the gap, then, if a disturbed individual misjudges what the repercussions would be should he NOT act with actual violence?

    The culture of pseudo-violence against politicians is almost exclusively the domain of the left and any attempt to form equivalencies are fabrications. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was never spat on by members of the Tea Party. Joe Miller’s security ‘detained’ an activist ‘reporter’ who’d approached Miller while the candidate was taking a leak in a public restroom. Even these *fake* misdeeds don’t rise halfway to the level of those acts listed previously that are applauded by committed progressives. The narrative which fuels accusations such as Behar regularly makes comes out of a left field from Bizzaro world, so off base is it. Coulter is spot on – again.

    You whack jobs write so much but say so very little. Bags of hot air come to mind.

  • felixw

    Sam M. said:
    This is hilarious and you naturally are a joke. You need to get out more.

    Does Mediaite remove your obscene posts one at a time? Or do they simply delist your current identity?

    I’m also curious to know if you have to change your IP address after your previous identity has been banned. I would think that Mediaite would block IP addresses of repeat offenders who spam the boards. And you would be the expert on that, huh? So fill us in….

  • CRW

    Do any of you long-term regulars around here know who this falsely generalizing, left-wing insult-bomber, Sam M. is? Just a typical HuffPo troll? He/she just repeats all of the baseless, fictional claims propagated by the left, without any substantiation, and we’re supposed to believe them?

    BTW, Sam M., when you try to insult people, you should pick faults that they actually have, rather than project your own upon them. Just on one page, I have found two spelling errors of yours. I suspect those aren’t the only faults you are projecting on Tea Partiers, either. Perhaps YOU are the one who is vile, vulgar, racist, uneducated, and notorious for misspelling. (I doubt someone as apparently unstable as you seem to be can get close enough to any Members of Congress to spit on them, given the current socio-political climate, so I won’t suggest that one.)

  • Sam M.

    felixw said:
    Does Mediaite remove your obscene posts one at a time? Or do they simply delist your current identity?

    I’m also curious to know if you have to change your IP address after your previous identity has been banned. I would think that Mediaite would block IP addresses of repeat offenders who spam the boards. And you would be the expert on that, huh? So fill us in….

    Total pablum as we have some to expect from you.

  • seek

    Sam M. said:
    You whack jobs write so much but say so very little. Bags of hot air come to mind.

    Are you ready for another time-out? Please moderator – this time make it longer. Thanks

  • Yukon Jack

    The show, “The View” is grossly misnamed. It should be titled “The Beauty and the Beasts”.

  • Yukon Jack

    Thorkil Kowalski Værge said:
    Ann Coulter. The pitbull of the conservatives.

    I think it is a safe bet that if there was a female best-selling author with Ann Coulter’s looks and manners, promoting liberal ideas, as Coulter does for conservatives, one would never see the snide remarks about Adam’s apples, being a man and she would be hailed as a true heroine.

  • Sam M.

    seek said:
    Are you ready for another time-out? Please moderator – this time make it longer. Thanks

    I don’t know, are you ready for your enema? Grow a pair a shut the pie hole.

  • felixw

    felixw said:
    Does Mediaite remove your obscene posts one at a time? Or do they simply delist your current identity?

    I’m also curious to know if you have to change your IP address after your previous identity has been banned. I would think that Mediaite would block IP addresses of repeat offenders who spam the boards. And you would be the expert on that, huh? So fill us in….

    Sam M. said:
    Total pablum as we have some to expect from you.

    I realize that you are embarrassed by all this. But please answer the questions. Does Mediaite send you a warning note before the delete your posts for spamming? Or does it just happen suddenly out of the blue? Has anyone threatened legal action yet? Fill us in on the details….

  • david r

    The guy must work for a competing website.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Sam M. said:
    You whack jobs write so much but say so very little. Bags of hot air come to mind.

    Sam M.’s checklist for this or any thread in which he participates

    [x] post count increase
    [x] personal insult
    [_] valued input expressing an original idea

    I know your intent is to troll and divert, but you may have missed all of what I managed to include in my post. I enumerated 3 (4) instances of quasi-political violence which was supported by the left, contrasting those against 2 stories of supposed Tea Party ‘violence’ that before they were discredited were demagogued in the harshest of terms by the left as a means to demonstrate a culture of violence existent as an undercurrent of progressive activism. Ann Coulter had already provided several examples of individual acts of violence progressive supporters have directed against political opponents. Combined with my examples, credence is lent to the argument of a distinct element within the left that challenges ideas with suppressive violence and that, protected and supported as it is, such a fertile culture is apt to turn to even more flagrant acts of violence should they be convinced of the need.

    To prevent the public from discerning the clear differences in moral philosophy, and to mitigate the bad behavior of their own supporters, progressive narrative builders, I also made clear, are required to muddy up the waters. They must create and propagate falsehoods – about the Tea Party, which is a peaceful group of concerned citizens troubled over the rapid expansion of government, ballooning debt and excessive taxation – and about the nature of far-left activism, from which, over the years, violent action has arisen time and time again.

    The purpose of this post, in case you’re unaware, is to return the conversation away from your useless, diversionary posts and back on topic.

  • david r

    TicToc said:
    Washington is making up all the headlines and the stories for the media to report on. . .

    That’s deep, man.

  • CRW

    TicToc said:
    How many coincidences does it take to make something more than a coincidence?

    Kmart is having a blue light special on aluminum foil…

  • GoneFishing

    TicToc said:
    Washington is making up all the headlines and the stories for the media…and other assorted drivel.

    C’mon Mod’s, and do us all a favor. If there was ever a nut-ball spammer to bounce, Tictoc is it.

  • bealzebubba

    Sam M. said:
    I don’t know, are you ready for your enema? Grow a pair a shut the pie hole.

    Now THAT’s the kind of one-liner, verbal masturbation that I expect to see here from people like you.

    As B. Rabbit once said:

    “In fact dog, here’s a pencil, go home, write some s**t, make it suspenseful; and don’t come back ’til somethin’ dope hits you. F**k it, you can take the mic home wit you.”

  • BarneyFranken

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    In other words, you have chosen to ignore the vile nastiness of the summer of 2009?

    when this statement was challenged RKK wanst able to show one single instance of actual violence by the tea party to back it up.

    His lame example was a huff post slideshow of signs at unidentified rallies. I’ll ignore the obvious question of the source he provides and the lack of context to simply show that to RRK a sign is equal to violence, but actual violence is whitewashed, jusified, or ignored.

    What a hypocrite.

  • BarneyFranken

    CRW said:
    Do any of you long-term regulars around here know who this falsely generalizing, left-wing insult-bomber, Sam M. is? Just a typical HuffPo troll? P>

    Its best if you just try to ignore him.

    After all, they say you should never wrestle with a pig: You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.

  • Steve_27

    Sam M. said:
    Your typical tea-partier is vulgar, unkempt, uneducated, drug addicted, and lives in a trailer.

    Typical and classic liberalism. Such great detailed and convincing thought provoking wisdom. Great post Sam, rock on!

  • Doughboy

    “Coulter even exclaimed that a ‘conservative had a finger bitten off by a liberal!’ The ladies interviewing Coulter seemed taken aback by Coulter’s claim”

    Yeah, because they’re morons(BTW, I wouldn’t exclude Hasselback from that description). I’m sure they had no clue about the finger biting incident or Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative, being beaten to a pulp by SEIU thugs. Did they even acknowledge that Coulter herself has been prevented from exercising her 1st Amendment rights at numerous college campuses by a bunch of militant left-wing students? Have they forgotten about the liberal protesters in Wisconsin and the vile, hateful things they said about Scott Walker and the Republicans in the Legislature(not to mention the mess they made at the State Capitol)? What about Amy Bishop, the Obama worshiper who decided to gun down a bunch of people?

    We could be here all day doing this, but these ladies need to stop living in a bubble. Newsflash, Whoopie and Misery Behar. If you get all your news from MSDNC, Jon Stewart, and the NY Times, you don’t have a clue what’s really going on out there. Hell, you might even think Obama was a competent President and that our economy wasn’t in the toilet.

  • Alz

    felixw said:
    You can learn a lot about the mainstream media, by examining how these charges of “violent tea parties” got started.

    When the first tea parties took place, the liberal media didn’t want to cover anything actually SAID AT THE PODIUM of these events. The liberal media still doesn’t want to cover any public event that calls for more accountable government and fiscal restraint No video clips ever show up on TV that address those issues — even though they are the very reason why the tea parties are taking place. Strange but true!

    In desperation, liberal reporters tried to find some other way of covering this grass roots movement. This was tough. How can you cover a political event and not talk about the politics involved? They grabbed on to this idea of VIOLENT TEA PARTIES, but it was a feeble ploy, since no tea party member ever did anything violent at any of these events.

    Soon most journalists gave up on this smear campaign, since they could never back it up with evidence. The last hurrah was the shooting in Arizona, which in a very pathetic move — even by the low standards of the mainstream media — they tried to connect to Sarah Palin and the tea parties to an assassination attempt. How low can you sink? But when it emerged that the shooter admired Karl Marx and was known as a far left ideologue, they were left looking pretty stupid. Not to mention dishonest…but I guess we already knew THAT.

    But the liberal media is now in a very tough place. All over the country, people are calling for MORE ACCOUNTABLE AND FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, and since the liberal journalists don’t want to let even a whisper of this to get on the airwaves, they need to find some other was of characterizing these events. They don’t really have a good answer.

    Of course, they could always try to cover these events honestly, and report on why people are attending them and what they are actually calling for. But that level of refreshing honesty will only be found on one TV news network. The rest are simply struggling to find a new disinformation angle that might be plausible.

    Hey, it’s tough being a journalist when you value ideology above the truth. But you pick your side and pay the price.

    Perfect description of how the libs in the media work.

    And since they are liberals, they cannot learn. So strong is the desire to stay liberal, that they sacrifice major news outlets. Time magazine is a pamphlet now. If Time wasn’t so biased to the left, it would be successful and it would be able to build on a great past.

    Outlet after outlet suffers from the same infestation of liberals.

  • patricia5

    what a bunch of obama lap dogs. do you think behar would go anywhere where she was outnumbered. i loved the way ann coulter turned around in her chair to face behar. the little snob’s not so mouthy when she has to say it to your face. i heard couric and behar had a wrestling match with bo the waterdog for lap space, poor dog got the heck out of there, can you blame him?

  • Biscuit

    patricia5 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 5:47 pm patricia5(Quote)
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    what a bunch of obama lap dogs. do you think behar would go anywhere where she was outnumbered. i loved the way ann coulter turned around in her chair to face behar. the little snob’s not so mouthy when she has to say it to your face. i heard couric and behar had a wrestling match with bo the waterdog for lap space, poor dog got the heck out of there, can you blame him?

    Small wonder conservative men call THEIR women stupid, worthless feminazis. My, how deluded and bitter.

  • Biscuit

    Studies HAVE shown the most abuse TO females comes from men with very conservative views on women. It isn’t liberal men treating women like crap.

    Even females who marry abusive men and either abuse their own children or allow their partners to are mostly raised by strict, CONSERVATIVE fathers.

    haha, truth hurts, doesn’t it, right-wingers? I guess your limited brains cannot absorb much.

  • Biscuit

    Alz, you will NEVER be considered a decent or intelligent human being, so shut up, boy.

  • TucsonTerpFan

    Most of the women on “The View,” most of the time, have opinions, but most of their opinions are not formed with knowledge.

    But, as is the case with many on the left, opinions most always top facts, i.e., “feelings over facts.”

  • Tedderman

    Utterly laughable twerpfan, Fox fans and Coulter’s crazies wouldn’t know the difference between a fact and an opinion if it hit them in the face with an ugly stick. Time and time again it’s been proven that “facts” have a liberal slant. Meaning, more often than not, information disseminated by liberals is factual or fact based unlike conservative drivel which is lies repeated often to the lapping lemmings.

  • Upon Further Review

    Tedderman said:
    Utterly laughable twerpfan, Fox fans and Coulter’s crazies wouldn’t know the difference between a fact and an opinion if it hit them in the face with an ugly stick. Time and time again it’s been proven that “facts” have a liberal slant. Meaning, more often than not, information disseminated by liberals is factual or fact based unlike conservative drivel which is lies repeated often to the lapping lemmings.

    Yeah, ri-i-i-ight …

    And yet, after complaining about Tea Party violence, not one of the liberal bimbettes on The View could name a single violent incident involving the Tea Party.

    Meanwhile, Joy Behar had such command of her “facts” that she wasn’t even sure whether Sharron Angle was from Nevada or Arizona.

    Wow, what an awesome display of liberal “brilliance.”

    Despite being outnumbered, Ann Coulter ate their lunch.

  • CAconservative

    Ann Coulter is one smart lady with a firm grasp of reality. When compared to the dim-bulbs on the View, she is positively genius. Love the look of a “deer caught in the headlight” look in the faces of the View’s mental midgets when Ms.Coulter hit them with facts.

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