Ann Coulter on the O’Reilly Factor speaking about her book:  Guilty:  Liberal “Victims” and their Assault on America

 

Bill:  Here now, the always controversial, Ann Coulter.  So, did you enjoy that (referring to her appearance on the Today Show with Matt Lauer)

 

Ann:  It was fabulous—I could kiss him—I was so happy to be on.

 

Bill:  I’m banned from that program, the Today Show.

 

Ann:  Well so was I until I was on, as we all know, but they had me on, so God bless you Matt Lauer—he’s fabulous, he’s plucky, he’s fun.

 

Bill:  I like Matt Lauer—he didn’t ban, it was those pinheads over there, but I tell you if I’d have gotten that bear I would have booted you out tonight.

 

Ann:  A dancing bear, I think…

 

Bill:  Well, look, you go on these shows and right away they’re going to attack you because you’re conservative,  Somebody on the radio today—I want you to react to this—said, a guy from Chicago, ‘Coulter told me, she attacks, she says outrageous, over the top things because she’s the only one that will confront the Left,  and the Left does that all the time.  That’s her mission.’  Is that true?

 

Ann:  I don’t think I know anyone from Chicago.

 

Bill:  OK, that’s what this guy said, that you are a bomb thrower on purpose.  That you want to create situations to get back at the media.

 

Ann:  It’s just how I talk, Bill.  It’s how I wish my mother a happy birthday.

 

Bill:  You call your mother Hussein, do you?

 

Ann:  No, because that’s not her middle name.  The only different tone I have is, I’m a little giggly when I try to talk my way out of a traffic ticket, but other than that, I’m from Connecticut, this is how I talk.

 

Bill:  You’re not as shrill, though. . .

 

Ann:  I don’t think I’m shrill, period.  Fine, I’m shrill.  OK, what’s shrill?

 

Bill:  Well, when you call somebody a name, like you called the Jersey girls, harpies.

 

Ann:  Are we going to go three books back to this?  Can we talk about the current book?

 

Bill:  Yes, I have a compliment on the current book.

 

Ann:  I think I’ve answered that and by the way, you took a Bill O’Reilly poll on that and your viewers agreed with me and not you.

 

Bill:  That doesn’t mean I’m wrong…

 

Ann:  Move on, from three books ago.

 

Bill:  You’re not shrill ever?

 

Ann:  No.  You, however, are overbearing, chauvinistic, humorless…

 

Bill:  Me?

 

Ann:  With me you are, so let’s just get to the book.

 

Bill:  All right, fine.  I agree with all of those things.  The best part of your book is the Palin.

 

Ann:  Well, then you’re also honest.

 

Bill:  The best part of the book is the Palin analysis of how the press went after her, and then other flawed politicians in the Democratic precincts, they gave a complete pass to.  That was good analysis.  Whoever your researcher is…

 

Ann:  I don not have a researcher.  I do all my own research.

 

Bill:  Very good.

 

Ann:  Thank you.

 

Bill:  Well, then last night, I was going ‘this is good information that I can use,” alright, but then you had a part where a woman named Tara Reid, an actress, was laying face-down in her own vomit, so I’m saying to myself, do you need Tara Reid?—which she wasn’t, you were making a joke—or can you just do it with the other stuff, that really snap research on Palin?

 

Ann:  I think you have to read that in context.  I’m going through Hollywood celebrities and the vicious things they said about Palin—-foreign policy analyst and home porn star, Pamela Anderson, said “suck it,” I think, to Palin, you got all these vulgar things from various…and then at the end I have an actress known for extremely vulgar and tasteless behavior and I throw in, ‘Tara Reid was unavailable for comment because she was lying in a puddle of her own vomit.’  You don’t think it’s funny—you don’t think anything I say is funny, Bill.  My readers think some of it’s funny.

 

Bill:  They do.  You sell a lot of books and there’s a market for what you do, but do you do it just to be provocative?

 

Ann:  I told you, this is how I talk, this is how I wish my mother a happy birthday.

 

Bill:  Last question.  Bernie Goldberg has some advice for you.  Should I not go there?

 

Ann:  My general policy is to take advice from people who sell more books than I do, not fewer books than I do.

 

Bill:  Then you’d talk advice from me?

 

Ann:  No, no, I said more books.

 

Bill:  I sell more books than you.

 

Ann:  No you don’t.

 

Bill:  Yes, I do, but we won’t argue about that.  I like this book.  I think it’s a provocative book—you’re provocative.  I think you’re provocative on purpose—I do believe that—on purpose, to get attention, to sell books.

 

Ann:  I think you’re avoiding talking about my book, on purpose.  It had a lot of good stuff in it.

 

Bill:  Well, we only have five minutes to talk about it.

 

Ann:  Do we have the bear coming on?

 

Bill:  No, we don’t have the bear.  Good luck with the book, Ann Coulter.

 

Ann:  Thank you.

I realize that there are a lot of Coulter fans in the conservative movement, but this interview only reinforces the notion that she is a self-centered bombthrowing egomaniac.  O’Reilly isn’t much better but when Ann gets defensive she resorts to name calling and that doesn’t do her or the conservative movement any good.

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