Damned By Faint Praise: Ann Coulter Likens Charlie Rangel To Tom DeLay

by Zeke Turner | 10:10 am, October 11th, 2009

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coulter Judge Jeanine Pirro, Rev. Al Sharpton and Ann Coulter joined Geraldo Rivera on Fox’s Geraldo at Large last night to talk about the standing allegations against New York Rep. Charlie Rangel.

Everyone was taken aback to hear Ann Coulter defend Rangel — you can even hear a few whoas in the background. But then again Coulter’s main defense was that Rangel’s alleged ethics violations are ‘only a little bit worse than what Tom DeLay was accused of’:

“I’m so glad I’m here to be able to say to Al Sharpton that I’d like to hold a press conference with you and Charlie Rangel because I think it’s outrageous the way the New York Times is going after Charlie Rangel … This is about no worse, it’s a little bit worse than what Republican Governor Rowland of Connecticut did and it’s a little bit worse than what Tom DeLay was accused of — but in both of those cases it was nothing.

Sharpton ended the segment by saying “this proves even a broke clock is right twice aday.”

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Karol

I like Charlie Rangel and that is not much of a story – except I am a registered Republican from Arizona.
Rangel’s humor and his charm probably keeps him in office. I don’t know what will happen to him or what should happen but his popularity and Nancy Pelosi may get him through this ordeal. The sentimental side of me hopes so. The practical side of me…I dunno.