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Friday Night Countdown

Posted: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:01 PM by Countdown
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Amy Robach is in for Keith tonight...

A Red Meat Banquet
: Conservatives gather for the annual C-PAC conference, which is highlighted by jokes about the war from Dick Cheney and homophobic hate speech from Ann Coulter. Will the Republic candidates for president denounce Coulter's ugly slur of John Edwards? Plus, the Hillary/Obama battle continues, as both candidates hold rallies in the same, small Alabama town on the same day. WATCH VIDEO

After the Storm: At least 20 people are dead after yesterday's series of deadly storms across the southeast and midwest. Plus the tragic bus crash in Atlanta, which killed six, including four members of a college baseball team.

ODDBALL: Flying cars, surfing dogs, and potatos that look like celebrities. WATCH VIDEO

American Sex Idol?: Most seem to agree that Antonella Barba isn't the best singer, so why is she still on American Idol? It wouldn't have anything to do with those sexy pictures of her all over the internet would it? WATCH VIDEO

My Big Fat Bahamian Funeral: America's Rose is now the Bahamas' Tulip Bulb after one of the most fabulous funerals in history. We'll give you a full report. WATCH VIDEO

Oddball Plays of the Month: Simply put: You're crazy if you miss this!  WATCH VIDEO

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I think I know what's wrong with Ann Coulter. Her neck is very long and the blood just doesn't make it all the way up to her brain.
She has called Al Gore gay, Clinton gay, and now Edwards. When she cannot come up with a legitimate criticism about an ideological opponent, she just comes out and calls them gay. Her voice does not belong in our political discourse but in a high school hallway.
WHY do we pay any attention to these wingnuts?? They'll implode on each other over their "who's the biggest loser status" in very short order. Their world in unraveling faster than they can stick fingers in it!! HA!
keith, Cheney said last week that the insurgents chose to use Iraq as a stage for their war;didn't Bush claim the same thing some time ago to explain why HE decided to draw insurgents into Iraq so they don't come here? How ignorant and forgetful (not to say "gullible")do they think we are? I guess I answered my own question!
I think Ann Coulter should wear a muzzle and a Berka. This way we wont see her nor hear her nasty mouth.
Ann Coulter has nothing original or objective to say. There is nothing she says that cannot be heard as a taunt on a grade school playground. Her intellect is mediocre. She is sadly to say, invited to vent her hateful and juvenile comments on many mainstream media outlets. She is permitted and encouraged to say these things as a way of appealing to the lowest common denominator in the American viewer. The mass media allows people like her to show themselves for only one reason. To keep Americans uninformed. Uninformed so that we are spoon fed the worst and least reasoned opinions. They try to put us to sleep, so that we do not notice what the government and the media themselves fail to do. And it works! There will always be many too lazy to think and reason. To stupid and ill informed to notice what is happening. It takes some effort to dig and find facts and objective news sources. It is much easier to let some one with name recognition or some authority to tell us what to think. That is the real sin here. Ann Coulter is what she is. A self promoting media whore. And the colleges and the corporate media that give her air time are enablers in their own eventual down fall. She no writer and no thinker. She is an obscene aberration, vain, callous and a self hater. And constantly shows her contempt for those who listen to her in the content of her ideas.
you know the old saying about people who are homophobic like tranny annie is. she's more manly than most male republicans. surely has bigger kahuna's .
Ann Coulter doesn't have a civil bone in her body. Her brain is wired so reflect her hatefullness. When she spouts out whatever comments that come to her mind they just reflect how her ignorance outways her intelligence.
Ann Coulter spews verbal diharrea, Britney Spears just shaves her head. Who's less crazy? Who has more dignity?
Ann Coulter beats up the widows of 9-11 and now uses the word "fagott" and received applause. This is just the latest in a long line of slurs that she spits out, then walks away from. One day, she will go to far, if she hasn't already, where these "comments" will tip someone over the edge and re-arrange her face. Just like O'Reily, Hannity, Savage,Limbaugh plus others of the same ilk, they seek to divide not bring people together.
Ann Coulter constantly amazes me. I find her opinions totally disconnected from any experiences or conclusions that come to me, leading me to wonder what planet in the universe she lives on, because I can't believe it is Earth.
Republicans like to do these little hatchet jobs, thinking they have the power, by uttering magical words, to cripple people. I remember when Dick Morris called Hillary "angry" and how all the Con pundits said "she's fatally wounded! The mighty Dick Morris has spoken!" So much of Republican tactics relies on the power of authorative pronouncements that aren't open to debate. Also, Republicans think they are carrying out a pre-emptive strike on the man they think is their greatest real threat. They have written off Hillary and Obama because they have a faith that the next president will be a white man. I think that's a serious jumping of the gun. There are so many "new realities" in this decade, why not the new reality of a non-white-male president?
This is just the latest in Coulter's long line of ridiculous stunts to grab the media spotlight. Because she can't sell her uber-conservative agenda on merit, she is forced to go for shock value. Unfortunately, she always gets the attention she wants. After all, bad press is better than no press; she has books to sell, and will be cackling all the way to the bank.
Ann Coulter..."SHE'S A MAN BABY", what else can be said? Just another wingnut, who hates basically anything in the Constitution, or for that matter anything related to manners.
Molly Ivins said it best, "In Texas, when the Republicans are in trouble, they just break out the ol' 'God, Guns and Gays' rhetoric." Thank you Ann for once again proving Molly to be the most acerbic and accurate columnist of our time.
To say any more about A. C. would be to say too much, so I am only going to say this.
Please play Ann Richards opening comments at the Democratic convention that almost brought down the house. What you are seeing is a "trustfunder" acting out. Ann's words were profetic, "Poor George. He can't help it. He can't help that he was born with a silver boot in his mouth." That might hit close to home enough make him rethink some things. Your guest last night commented that our President must believe he is justified because he is "pure" in his intent. This from a powerful mother figure that keeps him thinking he was the "chosen" one? For Keith...here in Dallas/Fort Worth, I am told that when our President attended Ranger games back when he had part interest in the team, he did NOT stand for the National Anthem and was heard to curse loudly by boxholders in close proximics. I suppose those days are all forgiven since Laura steered him away from ale. And they are snickering about Clinton possibly being the same man he always was???
I have the remedy. Only watch SportsCenter News and I even despise some of those talking heads!


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