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 "Drudge gets results," controversial conservative pundit Ann Coulter opined on her website after she was rescheduled for Wednesday's NBC's Today show, after being bumped Tuesday.
Ann Coulter has a new book, Guilty, that continues her successful pattern of taking potshots at liberals. According to the Drudge Report, Coulter's hyper-partisanship was what got her cut from a planned appearance this week on NBC, although the network claimed they were merely overbooked.
According to Politico's Michael Calderone, Coulter will be "appearing during both the 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. hours" on Wednesday's Today show broadcast.
"So in the end, NBC will probably get more viewers and Coulter will sell more books—or at least further convince those in her camp that the MSM isn’t on her side," Calderon writes. "Either way, it should be entertaining."
Coulter did, however, appear on CBS on Tuesday.
In a teaser for the interview, host Harry Smith suggested, ""Ann Coulter is in the studio this morning. She has a brand new book ... and in it, she says that I am certifiably insane. Perhaps I am, for having her on the program this morning."
Coulter mocks Smith in the book for having asked Ted Kennedy if Barack Obama faces a greater risk of assassination because he is African-American. "Kennedy may be a drunken slob," Coulter writes, "but unlike CBS news anchors, he is not certifiably insane."
"Here's what's serious about this," Smith told Coulter, pointing to the 1984 assassination of liberal talk show host Alan Berg and the Oklahoma City bombing. "I have looked hate in the eye. I know there are people in this country who would be interested in the death of not only Barack Obama but any president."
In response, Coulter reaffirmed her claim that presidential assassins have all been leftists or apolitical and that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are at far greater risk of assassination than Barack Obama. She told Smith that the crimes he cited were merely "anecdotal" and that statistics support her position.
"I wouldn't have mentioned that all these presidents assassins were anarchists, communists, liberals -- they were some form of, basically, Obama's base -- other than the fact that everyone keeps talking about Obama being at some unique risk," Colter stated. "So maybe we can stop talking about the 'threat' of right-wing violence in a country that is teeming with left-wing violence."
In its own online writeup of the Coulter appearance, CBS barely mentions the actual interview, aside from noting that Smith accused Coulter at one point of being a whiner. Instead, it fawns over the "conservative firebrand," quoting her description of her book as being "about the rewards and praise you get for being a victim and the way liberals use victimhood and they oppress others," and ending with a link to the book's Random House catalog entry.
What Smith actually said to Coulter was, "You talk about victims and victimhood in America. On the other hand, the more I listened to your complaints, the more I kept thinking you're the whiner. You're the one who's claiming victimhood here. You're the victim of this great left-wing conspiracy."
"I'm not, but there are real victims," Coulter replied. "You have George Bush, the most persecuted ... president, I think, since Richard Nixon. You have Joe McCarthy. You have Robert Bork. You have Tom DeLay."
"Tom DeLay is a victim?" Smith asked incredulously. "Of what?"
"All the ones who are identified as oppressors are always genuinely the victims," Coulter insisted. "And the ones who ... play victims are in fact the oppressors."
This video is from CBS' The Early Show, broadcast Jan. 6, 2008.
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