Yup. Katie was completely outclassed and out "reasoned" ... when she realized how "in over her head" she was, it was on to the power-trip comment..."Since I am the one conducting this interview..."
01buttons1 Well, she prefaced it with "Invade their countries, kill their leaders". So, maybe, with their leaders out of the way, they'd be more likely to convert (according to her logic anyway). Ha ha. You know, I hear far more conservatives using the word "liberal" in a slanderous manner than I hear liberals using the word "conservative" in a slanderous manner. I have to wonder if these political pundits really believe the crap they spew or if it's just an act that they do for money.
@@gflorko That’s because false liberals are actually Progressives use the terms like Christians or deplorable & never are able to talk openly about the culture of cruelty in 40 plus Islamic doctrine countries. Consider what kind of god or prophet allows for innocent children becoming Sex Slaves or cutting the throats of innocent people that have their hands tied, acid attacks.
Someone has to straighten Ann out. To let her ridiculous lies go unchallenged is just plain lazy. It's not easy to make s point with her constant interruptions and steam of consciousness whining on in the background but Katie held her to a higher standard. It was after all her interview and her show. She chose not to have it hijacked along with the truth. No, I don't care whether you're s conservative a liberal a libertarian ... A lie is a lie is a lie and tit for tat is exactly how you have to handle a liar as a guest-- you confront them. Period.
She really is great. Like when she laid into that piece of shit that calls itself journalism, Journal-News for releasing information on legal owners of guns, which the very act of doing that should be illegal, then hiring more security guards with, you guessed it, guns to protect them from the people whose information they just released.
Betaraybill 97 Ann Coulter is right about a lot of things...but she does the same thing by saying "Only Liberals use the word stupid". No conservatives do the same thing she's accusing liberals of. I see it all the time "liberals are idiots" etc. But I do agree with her about the way we argue and the way we dismiss people. We bring up these quotes that are grossly out of context or maybe just possibly a slip of the tongue and that quote will characterize a person there whole life. It doesn't matter what they said before or after the quote. Ann COulter is shocking..yes...but it's because she's honest. I hate that Katie Couric keeps bringing up quotes and transcripts etc. lets talk about right now...that's all that matter.
In total agreement with you. The past should only be brought up when flat out lies are being perpetuated in the present. Recently Katie Couric interviewed Ted Cruz and brought up the fact that she was very happy with the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. She said her views on gay marriage were not relevent because she was not running for POTUS. But that would only be true if she was an unbiased journalist which she is not and that was what Cruz was getting at. She wanted to neutralize him instead letting him state his case and let the viewers make up their own minds. She is just like that other successful journalist Soledad O'Brien. Where is she now?
Couric got her massive ego hurt and tries to attack Coulter in her anger. Coulter has real and unique ideas that she is sharing with Americans. Coulter is brave enough and not worried about getting harassed by a lightweight like Katie Couric to have the opportunity to enlighten Americans with her thoughts on the issues in America today. Couric is a media darling while Coulter is an intellectual.
This was not a competition--Couric set this up in an effort to descredit Ann. Ann gladly took a seat and effortlessly responded like a professional, Katie gave her everything she had and Ann set her straight time and again. Liberals hate Ann desperately, but Ann is delighted with this low-brow effort. She chews it up like candy.
i do not like it when someone is interviewing someone and then won't let them finish their statements and then say BECAUSE I AM CONDUCTING THIS INTERVIEW. I call BS on COURIC
@@ACharbonneau911 I agree - failure to define the principal characters / topics of a comments makes such commentary worthless and a waste of every reader's time to give such author any benefits of a doubt.
Couric was so petty and unprofessional in this interview, but Ann annihilated every catty accusation she made. I think even liberals who view this interview would have to say Ann dominated big.
I have a new-found respect for Ann Coulter. She showed a lot of courage even coming on the program in the first place, but then to be able to so deftly and handily grappple with Couric's attempts to skewer her (without even breaking a sweat) demonstrated skill that could almost be called artistic. Really, is this the best that the Left can do?
***** Well we must have watched a different video, because when Couric was confronted with precise quotations in the beginning of the interview, she refused to address the second set of quotations, thus deflecting the question by labeling Couric a 'liberal,' as if this is an insult.
***** You're not wrong Troy. Whiny Couric tried to humiliate the wrong person. I heard a while back that Couric won some kind of award for this interview (must have been the "Buffoon of the Year Award) but it looked like to me she got her a** handed to her. Ann stood her ground with truth and facts in the face of someone who was clearly trying to marginalize and discredit her. Wrong target, Couric. **Edit** I think Couric won the "Buffoon of the Year Award" for her attempt to crucify Sarah Palin, now that I think of it.
Ann Coulter is brilliant. "Perhaps it would be good to get them interested in a hobby other than slaughtering infidels..." The Planned Parenthood comment hit a raw nerve as well. Good timing, Ann.
Katie got freaking owned in this exchange. She had nothing but GOTCHA questions, and Ann went straight to the point and made her look like a fool. A perfect example is when Katie is trying to play tit-for-tat GOTCHA with the Jerry Falwell quote, and Ann brilliantly points out that right after Islam slaughtered thousands of Americans, the liberal media is getting hot-and-bothered over the WORDS of a Christian minister.
Couric's first job in news was at ABC, then CNN, then NBC, then CBS, then Yahoo. Ann Coulter's first job was as a lawyer, then a political aid, then became a political commentator who eventually published 12 books that sold over 3 million copies. Couric has made a career out of looking at stuff, smiling, and asking questions she didn't write off of teleprompters and pieces of paper.
Ha ha Ann called it soooo correctly. Couric cherry picks one sentence in her book to portray her as some right wing religious fanatic so that the viewer will dismiss every valid point she mades. Shame on you Couric. You did the same when you bashed President Reagan.
Hate and ignorance wins the day. And it always will when you're praying on the weak and stupid. It is the tried-and-true formula that conservatives and Ultra right-wingers have always used. Good job Ann.!!!
It's fun to see Ann handle Katie with such calmness and grace, considering her not wanting Ann to answer fully about anything she was asked. Katie had more than her hands full, and Katie had all the advantages of prepped questions to push the exact agenda Ann was talking about, that is, the leftist technique of deriding and marginalizing conservatism, and more precisely, Ann herself.
mollesjohn those "Gotcha" questions. Define 'leftist' scholar, or is that another 'gotcha'? Coulter is merely peddling her books that no one with half a brain would ever cite in any scholarly/academic paper. Even Bill Maher cut her off as a guest; she sells crazy shit.
the_others I've been aware of Ann Coulter for many years. At first I thought she was audacious out of a desire for personal fame... perhaps there is some truth in that, but that said, she is a remarkable woman. Certainly I've disagreed with her now and again, but her assets far outweigh her drawbacks. First, she's absolutely brilliant intellectually. Second, her power to focus goes far beyond almost anyone I've come across. In real time she can win any debate against most anyone... she takes them all on, including Maher. She's debated him more than a few times, and IMHO always wins, despite Maher's cheap debate tactics (which is his standard way of debating; he seldom goes to substance and the merits). Lastly, she does her own research and does it extremely well. Her books, if you can get past the sharp sarcastic wit, are rife with statistics that prove her positions and opinions. One thing I give her personal credit for is proving that blacks are impoverished not due to skin color, but because society enables single motherhood, breaks up families, and it is this that causes the crime culture we see today. To be more specific, it was Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty that has been the single-most reason that blacks have been isolated and impoverished, and it is all due to breaking up the nuclear family unit. Ann proves it statistically, and I was humbled and impressed by her comprehensive study on the subject. If you can point to me a debate she loses on youtube, I'd like to see it!
mollesjohn I love those with Maher too... Where it's her vs 3 leftists, and they get her to trip up on some minor technical detail and the short clip (as the rest of the debate she easily mops the floor with them) is titled "Coulter owned by Maher".
mollesjohn are you that stupid! ann bitch tried to dominate the interview by dodging each question: talk for ever out of her ass so there won't be enough time for more questions. hahaha but Katie didn't let her get away with it
The only annoying thing is that Couric probably thinks she came out on top here when it's so clear that Ann destroyed her. There's just no getting through to some. :(
From the interview with Edmund Morris on the "Today" show, Sept. 29,1999 Couric: There has been a lot of outrage expressed by President Reagan's friends and associates about your use of the word "airhead." Morris: Yes. Couric: To describe him, George Bush says it's brutal, grossly unfair, untrue. Ed Meese, former attorney general says it's not fair, and not true. Martin Fitzwater, former press secretary said it's totally inappropriate to describe the former president that way. Morris: I agree with every single one of those. It's brutal and grossly unfair I did not call him an airhead. The quote as published first in the Washington Post dropped the word "apparent" before "head." What I said in the book, what appears plainly on the pages, I found him at first an 'apparent airhead.' And the whole course of the book makes it quite obvious that that first impression was wrong. I got the above and my two posts below from a previous post on this video from 1 month ago by Boosh0070 and then he added a comment which I totally agree with, "It seems as though Couric, in her conviction, was mistaken and Coulter knows her stuff..."
I've never watched talk shows and had not heard of Anne Coulter in 2008. I think maybe I was an ostrich with my head firmly ensconced in the sand. I am perfectly sure that is precisely how America got into the mess we are now in. Thank God there were people who were paying attention at that time and did not give up the fight....thank you.
Well, I can see why Yahoo doesn't allow comments on Katie Couric interviews. I can also see why Couric was unsuccessful filling the anchor seat she was given.
Joel Keeton No it is, you're basically saying OH Fuck the facts we're discussing, give me the facts!! Just fuck off man, your ilk won't ever accept a differing point view, and it's because of bitches like Coulter who say shit just to get ratings
I remember on 9-11 when she was a host on network tv saying "those air traffic controllers must be under a lot of stress to misdirect these planes" A minute later the second plane hit. I have Never seen that statement since BUT SHE SAID IT I was watching the news the news that morning and no one has called her on it!
01buttons1 - America wasn't the only country that engaged in slavery. The slaves in Africa were sold by their black slave owners. Most of the slaves with to South America, not the U.S. Try reading a history book. Somebody has filled you up with a bunch of nonsense.
I know Obama tried coke in high school, who is the other cokehead? by cokehead I mean everyday use, do you think anybody who has tried it is a cokehead? your hard on for Obama has lasted longer than 4 hours and you need to see a dr
LOL, I wasn't aware that bush did coke, im sorry, im so used to people coming down on Obama for EVERYTHING, if he cured cancer, he would be a bad guy cause he didn't cure strokes too, sorry again shell shot, takes a lot of energy to defend obama
Again, as Ann had stated, she talks about a wide range of issues and some people (you) take one thing she says out of context and focuses solely on that. Probably because you're not good with comprehending long conversations. You hear something at your level of intelligence, you hold onto that thought, and the rest sounds like mush and fades away...
What is my level of intelligence? Do you ev en know? No you do not, but I wonder what sort of stimulation you are deriving from this tirade, because you have apparently lost your mind in defense of this person. It's not one thing, it's EVERYTHING that comes out of Coulter's mouth, but maybe you are so myopic that you are only capable of focusing one thing atg a time, but I am not. Neither do I take what she says out of context. on the contrary I employ mutliple lenses in order to delineate meaning from Coulter's comments. You are an odd one aren't you?
I think you should pay closer attention to the clip. Yes, Katie Couric did have a legitimate axe to grind. First of all, Couric complained that Coulter called her "The Eva Braun of liberalism." Secondly, she complained that Coulter misrepresented her on another matter in her book.
Oh how professional a journalist you are couric.. let something someone said about you effect the interview. Could you see Walter Cronkite getting all pissy eyed because someone called him a name?
From the transcript of the "Today" show, Sept. 27, 1999 Couric: "Good Morning." The Gipper was an airhead. That's one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that's drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today. We're going to see why Morris thinks Reagan was an airhead but still a great president.
If nothing else, I'll say this: very rarely do we get to see two women debating seriously and ably on national television - and it's even more rare to see that video get over a million views on UA-cam. I'm no apologist for Ann Coulter or her work, but I think she did have a point when she implied Couric was using her power as the interviewer to scrutinize particular quotes out of context so that she might avoid engaging with Coulter's ideas. The quotes are real, and her ideas are shit, but the point was a fair one.
Katie Couric was FIRED from the news AND her silly talk show, and while watching this I can see WHY Katie was dismissed. She could hardly contain her HATRED of the conservative guest, and was VERY unprofessional as her baiting and sniping was meant to try to upset Ann Coulter.
I love Ann, they just can't walk over her or make her back down . She is not a coward and stands by what she says and they hate her guts for it... You keep standing Ann and when you have done all you can to stand ... Just Stand... clap, clap, clap to one smart Lady!
What a tense interview lmao. Katie should have never tried Ann Coulter the way she was cause she was getting her ass handed to her xD and then quickly decided she "wanted to talk about the book" since "she was conducting this interview" haha. She used her position as the interviewer to dictate what she wanted to talk about and still didn't come out on top. How pathetic.
+Mike Swivel Watch the whole interview again. Couric lets her talk because that's her job. That does not add points to Coulter at all. What I noticed though, is how much they dislike each other, and Coulter does not like to be corrected at all. Every time she smiles is a sign of being uncomfortable. She may be smart, but not enough for TV, and less to cover her weaknesses.
Patroklos Alexander Right. And i think you can include yourself in that assessment too. Liberals feel so smart labeling people and calling people names. I guess by doing so they can stroke their own egos and make themselves feel superior.
Patroklos Alexander You should give yourself more credit than that. It''s a rare bird that can post as many times as you and still not have anything meaningful to add to the conversation.
Patroklos Alexander Well, then the jokes on you, who have been conversing with me. I guess that puts you one rung lower than me in the cognitive hierarchy. I suspect you'll be dashing your keyboard onto your forehead sometime soon.
When this aired I couldn't stand Ann Coulter. Now I see how this interview could be aired today, nothing has changed it's only gotten worse. Ann was right all along, and she's making her very point by Couric's passive aggressiveness and deceptive questioning through this entire interview.
Killing me softly with his song...killing me softly... That's what Katie Couric is doing to Ann Coulter in this interview. Didn't know Couric was that shrewd.
Ann is well trained. - I suspect she's had worse. Others here indicated Ann wasn't prepared, but Couric was.... um, who's referring to notes and such, but still floundering...?
huh.im not saying shes absolutely wrong,i dont know enough about her or anything,but her voice is ahhh its hard for me to listen :/ but honestly looking back on it its not as bad as i once said. but couric is a bitch >.
I would like to see THAT transcript :) N.R. was quite defensive/protective of R.R. (well, natural ly... that if the author was bashing R R as Couric says (a) Nancy's thank you proved ANN's point and (b) Couric may have been more giddy / self-congratulatory over NR called her than fully understanding the paradox of "why" vs. Couric's interpretation of the book's tone.
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed that Couric was perfectly content to dwell on mischaracterizations until Ann started besting - or at least forcing a draw - at which point it was, "But I really want to get to some of the other points in your book."
People see what they want to see, "What The Thinker thinks, The Prover proves." Critical thinking is not as easy as it might seem. As an exercise, try arguing from the point of view of your opponent. Can you make a better case for their position than they do? If so, what does that prove?
You can't do that exercise when trying to argue from the view of ann coulter because her arguments never make any freaking sense. She lies, contradicts herself, and just bumbles along whatever fancies her at that moment haha.
Is he constantly lies about what she says. And when she's called on the bigotry she spews, she backs out by lying and saying I didn't say that. Constantly. Just watch her two days in a row, and there's at least one for you. You may Live in the bubble if u want, praising Reagan and the misinformation given to you by Fox News, but whatever you do or say, nothing make ann coulter a JOURNALIST.... She's a right wing hack, a racist and bigot, and you can tell this by the bullshit she says.... Arrogant with no cause.
Couldn't give just one example, just an over all arch that she is a liar. Well, I say you are a liar...............and I have as much proof of that as you do that Ann Coulter is a liar............How u like me now?
The thing about Anne Coulter is, I don't really believe that she believes the things she says. Oftentimes you can catch her, trying to rationalize some idiotic position she has taken, and you can tell she doesn't even believe it herself. She's taken it upon herself to act as a walking stereotype for some ludicrous ideology which most conservatives are actually embarrassed by. At least with Pat Buchanan you get an honest, if bigoted and xenophobic, but legitimate, reasoned opinion. Anne Coulter is in a hell of her own making where she can't even speak coherently for trying to cram as many neo-con catch phrases into every sentence. Nobody should stick that close to the program. It's actually kind of sad.
How Couric went from selling fried egg recipes on a morning talk show to becoming a political analysts is beyond me. I can't forget how she questioned Sarah Palin if she was qualified to be vice-president. What makes her think she's qualified to be a political analysts? P.S. Coulter is correct in saying that liberals condemn the religious right.
Sorry Robert, but Palin like her dumb sister Coulter, got owned by Katie------not because Katie was anything less than professional, but because Palin is stupid------and you know it, and the Country was terrified of having Bubba's twin sister a heartbeat away from the oval office.
"Good morning. The Gipper was an airhead! That’s one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that’s drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today, Monday, September the 27th, 199" -- Katie Couric
Thx for the transcript... though you left of the last digit of the date (probably in the interview). Coulter didn't say Couric said RR was an airhead, but she did say that the show was portraying RR that way by inference (ok I paraphrased)...
I know it seems like Couric won this debate because she was on the offensive the whole time. However, instead of looking the surface and the actions of either person look at the substance. Coulter answered every question and one upped Couric which forced her to back peddle and change subjects. I'd say Coulter: 1, Couric: 0.
She never back peddled. Moving on to the next question is not changing the subject it's moving on for time. Coulter also didn't answer the last question. Couric sort of forced her to answer it and Coulter dug herself deeper.
ttmobaleaaa Actually he is correct. Fox news is way more hands on to its cause than any liberal media. But then again that is what get's their ratings. Liberal media tends not to do as well because they are no where near as radical and outrageous. Conservatives also take the bate far quicker than liberal media. I'm guessing they do this on purpose to keep liberals listening as well. It's he same reason why Hannity honors war criminals on his show.
I wish I had Ann's ability to argue without getting angry. She handles this personal attack stunningly well.
lol
Well this aged horribly
Yup. Katie was completely outclassed and out "reasoned" ... when she realized how "in over her head" she was, it was on to the power-trip comment..."Since I am the one conducting this interview..."
01buttons1 Well, she prefaced it with "Invade their countries, kill their leaders". So, maybe, with their leaders out of the way, they'd be more likely to convert (according to her logic anyway). Ha ha. You know, I hear far more conservatives using the word "liberal" in a slanderous manner than I hear liberals using the word "conservative" in a slanderous manner. I have to wonder if these political pundits really believe the crap they spew or if it's just an act that they do for money.
01buttons1
Thanks for the definition. I thought it meant, "BJ's for all".
Couric has proven herself to be an idiot time and time again; as with the majority of the left wing liberals take shows.
@@gflorko
That’s because false liberals are actually Progressives use the terms like Christians or deplorable & never are able to talk openly about the culture of cruelty in 40 plus Islamic doctrine countries. Consider what kind of god or prophet allows for innocent children becoming Sex Slaves or cutting the throats of innocent people that have their hands tied, acid attacks.
Couric: "I don't want to do a tit-for-tat."
Oh that is PRECISELY what you want, Katie.
Em Jay Enn I would do Katie.
Mark Twain Her talents are certainly not in journalism.
Mark Twain Me too, as long as I didn't have to listen to her mouth afterward.....
Someone has to straighten Ann out. To let her ridiculous lies go unchallenged is just plain lazy. It's not easy to make s point with her constant interruptions and steam of consciousness whining on in the background but Katie held her to a higher standard. It was after all her interview and her show. She chose not to have it hijacked along with the truth. No, I don't care whether you're s conservative a liberal a libertarian ... A lie is a lie is a lie and tit for tat is exactly how you have to handle a liar as a guest-- you confront them. Period.
K lea Umm, what lies are you talking about? Katie's lies?
It was fun watching Couric defend herself for a third of the interview. I love Ann's brutal honesty.
She really is great. Like when she laid into that piece of shit that calls itself journalism, Journal-News for releasing information on legal owners of guns, which the very act of doing that should be illegal, then hiring more security guards with, you guessed it, guns to protect them from the people whose information they just released.
Plenty of people like to make bets at Churchill Downs. Never thought anybody wanted to go back to the stables with the horse.
She starts the interview by saying Ann Coulter has been called "a right wing tele bimbo"! Right there Kouric proves the point of Coulter's book.
Betaraybill 97 Ann Coulter is right about a lot of things...but she does the same thing by saying "Only Liberals use the word stupid". No conservatives do the same thing she's accusing liberals of. I see it all the time "liberals are idiots" etc. But I do agree with her about the way we argue and the way we dismiss people. We bring up these quotes that are grossly out of context or maybe just possibly a slip of the tongue and that quote will characterize a person there whole life. It doesn't matter what they said before or after the quote. Ann COulter is shocking..yes...but it's because she's honest. I hate that Katie Couric keeps bringing up quotes and transcripts etc. lets talk about right now...that's all that matter.
In total agreement with you. The past should only be brought up when flat out lies are being perpetuated in the present. Recently Katie Couric interviewed Ted Cruz and brought up the fact that she was very happy with the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. She said her views on gay marriage were not relevent because she was not running for POTUS. But that would only be true if she was an unbiased journalist which she is not and that was what Cruz was getting at. She wanted to neutralize him instead letting him state his case and let the viewers make up their own minds. She is just like that other successful journalist Soledad O'Brien. Where is she now?
Betaraybill 97 Couric almost got the "Laura in Egypt" gang BANG. What would she have been like after that? Well I'm glad it did not happen.
Betaraybill 97 And you prove the point that conservations aren't smart enough to grasp or appreciate simple irony and humor.
You probably meant conservatives. What was the irony and humor that was missed?
Couric got her massive ego hurt and tries to attack Coulter in her anger.
Coulter has real and unique ideas that she is sharing with Americans.
Coulter is brave enough and not worried about getting harassed by a lightweight like Katie Couric to have the opportunity to enlighten Americans with her thoughts on the issues in America today.
Couric is a media darling while Coulter is an intellectual.
Amazing. Couldn't have framed it better myself. Thank you!
Intellect superiority vs complete dishonesty.
which one?
Landon Le Isn't it obvious? What do you think?
of course Coulter. ;)
Ann Coulter is one hot tamale! Couric is nothing but a liberal mouthpiece, and has need of a religious experience!
Boy are you IN THE MINORITY
This was not a competition--Couric set this up in an effort to descredit Ann. Ann gladly took a seat and effortlessly responded like a professional, Katie gave her everything she had and Ann set her straight time and again. Liberals hate Ann desperately, but Ann is delighted with this low-brow effort. She chews it up like candy.
i do not like it when someone is interviewing someone and then won't let them finish their statements and then say BECAUSE I AM CONDUCTING THIS INTERVIEW. I call BS on COURIC
I think more of this has to do with the fact that there is limited time in the segment, so they have to move things along, as quickly as possible.
OOHHH! Couric tried sooo hard to mischaracterize and then rush forward after making a faux point. Good for Coulter. Rational thought prevails.
So does irrational delusions!
@@jeromedevereaux1332
Please explain who & what you are referring to.
@@ACharbonneau911
I agree - failure to define the principal characters / topics of a comments makes such commentary worthless and a waste of every reader's time to give such author any benefits of a doubt.
Love how Ann stays cool and just sends Katie off the rails.
That didn’t happen. Ann lies
Couric was so petty and unprofessional in this interview, but Ann annihilated every catty accusation she made. I think even liberals who view this interview would have to say Ann dominated big.
If you think Ann dominated that interview you have to send me some of whatever you're smoking
Seriously, it was completely dominated by Katie. No questions.
Carl Cardwell I,m think you have your own supply of smoke.
religulous420 Ann busted her on every question. Katie was getting very angry.
Coulter absolutely CRUSHED her!
couric really is a creep
Who is Katie Couric???
Seriously? She's been around longer than Ann.
***** Smh. Let me give you an example. What's the difference between Mickey Mantle and Mark McGuire?
Yahoo! Global News Anchor *snicker turns to belly-laugh*
Best comment of the whole thread :)
I like Ann. She may be slightly nuts but who isn't???
Great point
That makes you an uneducated bigoted hick.
oOoOh who is the bigot now??
+TACTICAL BURGER GRIP still you
Well you I guess given you elected a guy whose platform was mostly about building walls and hating on Immigrants.
They should have mud wrestled.
+plod That's a great idea. I think Ann would kick Katie's ass. What do you think??
+psubill
It wouldn't matter. I think we would all win
+plod True, very true !
I have a new-found respect for Ann Coulter. She showed a lot of courage even coming on the program in the first place, but then to be able to so deftly and handily grappple with Couric's attempts to skewer her (without even breaking a sweat) demonstrated skill that could almost be called artistic. Really, is this the best that the Left can do?
Yes, bullshit is an art, and facts are the best Couric can do when confronted with lies.
Chris M couldn't prove it by me
***** Well we must have watched a different video, because when Couric was confronted with precise quotations in the beginning of the interview, she refused to address the second set of quotations, thus deflecting the question by labeling Couric a 'liberal,' as if this is an insult.
***** Coulter tried to smear Couric in her book and was clearly wrong, her interview with Morris in fact got praise from the Reagan family.
*****
You're not wrong Troy. Whiny Couric tried to humiliate the wrong person. I heard a while back that Couric won some kind of award for this interview (must have been the "Buffoon of the Year Award) but it looked like to me she got her a** handed to her. Ann stood her ground with truth and facts in the face of someone who was clearly trying to marginalize and discredit her. Wrong target, Couric.
**Edit** I think Couric won the "Buffoon of the Year Award" for her attempt to crucify Sarah Palin, now that I think of it.
HORRIBLE interview by Couric. It can't even be called an interview.
Couric v Coulter? Coulter has an unfair advantage in the intellect department.
LOL
Ann Coulter is brilliant. "Perhaps it would be good to get them interested in a hobby other than slaughtering infidels..." The Planned Parenthood comment hit a raw nerve as well. Good timing, Ann.
Coulter is really well-spoken. I don't agree with some of the things she says (attacking Iraq, etc.), but she makes her points very adroitly....
I love Ann Coulter. Thank you for sticking up for conservatives everywhere.
That 'Couric Grin' could bend steel.
Nothing like Ann Coulter telling it like it is.
Way to go Coulter. You OWNED that interview!
"The affable Eva Braun of morning Tv." Perfect description of Katie.
This is what it looks like when the interviewer is handed their lunch when they're not even remotely hungry.
Katie got freaking owned in this exchange. She had nothing but GOTCHA questions, and Ann went straight to the point and made her look like a fool.
A perfect example is when Katie is trying to play tit-for-tat GOTCHA with the Jerry Falwell quote, and Ann brilliantly points out that right after Islam slaughtered thousands of Americans, the liberal media is getting hot-and-bothered over the WORDS of a Christian minister.
No Ann is a lying bullshit artist
I have to admit. Ann Coulter is growing on me. I'm an Independent but I loved that debate with Couric. It's like watching Magneto and Professor X!
Couric's first job in news was at ABC, then CNN, then NBC, then CBS, then Yahoo. Ann Coulter's first job was as a lawyer, then a political aid, then became a political commentator who eventually published 12 books that sold over 3 million copies. Couric has made a career out of looking at stuff, smiling, and asking questions she didn't write off of teleprompters and pieces of paper.
Ha ha Ann called it soooo correctly. Couric cherry picks one sentence in her book to portray her as some right wing religious fanatic so that the viewer will dismiss every valid point she mades. Shame on you Couric. You did the same when you bashed President Reagan.
I love Ann Coulter! :)
After watching that beat down I'm surprised Couric isn't working on some obscure cable network. Oh wait
Ann your awesome thanks for your work.
I love Ann's intellect.
LOL Oh you made me laugh
It's pretty good. Shame that all she does with it is try and make the world a darker place.
I do not agree with that,she is a very courageous woman.The problem other women have with her is she is intellectually very bright.
Hate and ignorance wins the day. And it always will when you're praying on the weak and stupid. It is the tried-and-true formula that conservatives and Ultra right-wingers have always used.
Good job Ann.!!!
Im glad to see Coulter has a backbone and is standing up for the Conservative Right
It's fun to see Ann handle Katie with such calmness and grace, considering her not wanting Ann to answer fully about anything she was asked. Katie had more than her hands full, and Katie had all the advantages of prepped questions to push the exact agenda Ann was talking about, that is, the leftist technique of deriding and marginalizing conservatism, and more precisely, Ann herself.
mollesjohn she puts out loaded 'questions', asks her response, and cuts her off. Typical leftist.
mollesjohn those "Gotcha" questions. Define 'leftist' scholar, or is that another 'gotcha'?
Coulter is merely peddling her books that no one with half a brain would ever cite in any scholarly/academic paper. Even Bill Maher cut her off as a guest; she sells crazy shit.
the_others I've been aware of Ann Coulter for many years. At first I thought she was audacious out of a desire for personal fame... perhaps there is some truth in that, but that said, she is a remarkable woman. Certainly I've disagreed with her now and again, but her assets far outweigh her drawbacks. First, she's absolutely brilliant intellectually. Second, her power to focus goes far beyond almost anyone I've come across. In real time she can win any debate against most anyone... she takes them all on, including Maher. She's debated him more than a few times, and IMHO always wins, despite Maher's cheap debate tactics (which is his standard way of debating; he seldom goes to substance and the merits). Lastly, she does her own research and does it extremely well. Her books, if you can get past the sharp sarcastic wit, are rife with statistics that prove her positions and opinions.
One thing I give her personal credit for is proving that blacks are impoverished not due to skin color, but because society enables single motherhood, breaks up families, and it is this that causes the crime culture we see today. To be more specific, it was Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty that has been the single-most reason that blacks have been isolated and impoverished, and it is all due to breaking up the nuclear family unit. Ann proves it statistically, and I was humbled and impressed by her comprehensive study on the subject.
If you can point to me a debate she loses on youtube, I'd like to see it!
mollesjohn I love those with Maher too... Where it's her vs 3 leftists, and they get her to trip up on some minor technical detail and the short clip (as the rest of the debate she easily mops the floor with them) is titled "Coulter owned by Maher".
mollesjohn are you that stupid! ann bitch tried to dominate the interview by dodging each question: talk for ever out of her ass so there won't be enough time for more questions. hahaha but Katie didn't let her get away with it
It's funny watching Couric's little chipmunk face trying to look serious. She just can't pull it off.
Couric smarter than Coulter? You are joking, Right?
american37 Coulter is a as crazy as Beck
Yes, and she hasn't been "pulling it off" for 30 years on TV - I guess no one took her chipmunk face serious.
It's funny watching Ann Coulter's adam's apple jiggle up and down while trying to appear to be a woman. She just can't pull it off.
***** ann is so much smarter than Katie , you have no clue
The only annoying thing is that Couric probably thinks she came out on top here when it's so clear that Ann destroyed her. There's just no getting through to some. :(
Coulter is straight up awesome and speaks so much truth, love it
I'm usually not into cat fights, but this one is worth watching again and again. I find a new subtle attack every time. Both are extremely aggressive.
From the interview with Edmund Morris on the "Today" show, Sept. 29,1999
Couric: There has been a lot of outrage expressed by President Reagan's friends and associates about your use of the word "airhead."
Morris: Yes.
Couric: To describe him, George Bush says it's brutal, grossly unfair, untrue. Ed Meese, former attorney general says it's not fair, and not true. Martin Fitzwater, former press secretary said it's totally inappropriate to describe the former president that way.
Morris: I agree with every single one of those. It's brutal and grossly unfair I did not call him an airhead. The quote as published first in the Washington Post dropped the word "apparent" before "head." What I said in the book, what appears plainly on the pages, I found him at first an 'apparent airhead.' And the whole course of the book makes it quite obvious that that first impression was wrong.
I got the above and my two posts below from a previous post on this video from 1 month ago by Boosh0070 and then he added a comment which I totally agree with,
"It seems as though Couric, in her conviction, was mistaken and Coulter knows her stuff..."
Ann doesn't put up with bullshit!! She's a total SAVAGE!!
Wow this is such a biased interview it is actually insane. Every question Katie asks is an attack, has some demeaning negative element to it...
Duh...she's a leftist hack. But I would totally hit that.
Ironically proving each and every one of Ann’s points.
God I love Ann Coulter!
I've never watched talk shows and had not heard of Anne Coulter in 2008. I think maybe I was an ostrich with my head firmly ensconced in the sand. I am perfectly sure that is precisely how America got into the mess we are now in. Thank God there were people who were paying attention at that time and did not give up the fight....thank you.
Coulter was put on the hot seat by Couric and she handled it very well.!
Well, I can see why Yahoo doesn't allow comments on Katie Couric interviews.
I can also see why Couric was unsuccessful filling the anchor seat she was given.
Katie is in denial about many thing's,
Ann see's things for what they are I love her
The title of this video should be "Couric spends 10 minutes trying to cover her butt" Next.
Better is "Ann spends 10 minutes trying to misrepresent facts"
Chris M Really? Then it should be very easy for you to list a number of facts she's representing. Let's hear them.
Joel Keeton C'mon man, don't pull that typical bs on me. You watched the video
Chris M Not typical BS, it's called put up or shut up.
Joel Keeton No it is, you're basically saying OH Fuck the facts we're discussing, give me the facts!! Just fuck off man, your ilk won't ever accept a differing point view, and it's because of bitches like Coulter who say shit just to get ratings
I remember on 9-11 when she was a host on network tv saying "those air traffic controllers must be under a lot of stress to misdirect these planes" A minute later the second plane hit. I have Never seen that statement since BUT SHE SAID IT I was watching the news the news that morning and no one has called her on it!
Couric is the "Eva Broun of liberalism". Haha I love it! and it's very fitting!
Eva Peron of liberalism
Colter SLAUGHTERED Couric and her fake smile
Did you watch the video I did?
01buttons1 - America wasn't the only country that engaged in slavery. The slaves in Africa were sold by their black slave owners. Most of the slaves with to South America, not the U.S. Try reading a history book. Somebody has filled you up with a bunch of nonsense.
Katie Couric 10, Ann Coulter -5
Ann Coulter for Congress. Seams right to me. And Bill O for president
yeah, we need a coke head that sexually assaults his producers for president, wow, and if you don't know about that, what kind of fan are you?
I know Obama tried coke in high school, who is the other cokehead? by cokehead I mean everyday use, do you think anybody who has tried it is a cokehead? your hard on for Obama has lasted longer than 4 hours and you need to see a dr
LOL, I wasn't aware that bush did coke, im sorry, im so used to people coming down on Obama for EVERYTHING, if he cured cancer, he would be a bad guy cause he didn't cure strokes too, sorry again shell shot, takes a lot of energy to defend obama
But this is NOT about Ronald Reagan who wasn't stupid and was a victim of ALZHEIMER'S, there is a difference.
Again, as Ann had stated, she talks about a wide range of issues and some people (you) take one thing she says out of context and focuses solely on that. Probably because you're not good with comprehending long conversations. You hear something at your level of intelligence, you hold onto that thought, and the rest sounds like mush and fades away...
What is my level of intelligence? Do you ev en know? No you do not, but I wonder what sort of stimulation you are deriving from this tirade, because you have apparently lost your mind in defense of this person.
It's not one thing, it's EVERYTHING that comes out of Coulter's mouth, but maybe you are so myopic that you are only capable of focusing one thing atg a time, but I am not. Neither do I take what she says out of context. on the contrary I employ mutliple lenses in order to delineate meaning from Coulter's comments.
You are an odd one aren't you?
Let's have Couric run for President.
All that qualifies for a vote in this country is that she has favorable looks and leans to the Left. RIGHT?
+Rick Ruffin
Oh! You mean she is a conservative and NOT a Liberal Journalist?
Admon Johnson j
Daaamn! Coulter just humiliated Couric!
how so?
I like Couric, but did she have some sort of axe to grind with Coulter and brought her on to bicker?
So fucking petty.
I think you should pay closer attention to the clip. Yes, Katie Couric did have a legitimate axe to grind. First of all, Couric complained that Coulter called her "The Eva Braun of liberalism." Secondly, she complained that Coulter misrepresented her on another matter in her book.
When did Tom Petty get into politics
Very funny, well played
Oh how professional a journalist you are couric.. let something someone said about you effect the interview. Could you see Walter Cronkite getting all pissy eyed because someone called him a name?
From the transcript of the "Today" show, Sept. 27, 1999
Couric: "Good Morning." The Gipper was an airhead. That's one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that's drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today. We're going to see why Morris thinks Reagan was an airhead but still a great president.
If nothing else, I'll say this: very rarely do we get to see two women debating seriously and ably on national television - and it's even more rare to see that video get over a million views on UA-cam. I'm no apologist for Ann Coulter or her work, but I think she did have a point when she implied Couric was using her power as the interviewer to scrutinize particular quotes out of context so that she might avoid engaging with Coulter's ideas. The quotes are real, and her ideas are shit, but the point was a fair one.
2 women going catty but with big smiles lol
i just love how COURIC is smiling and seems to be getting a laugh out of her being fired. She is trying to burn her.
Katie Couric was FIRED from the news AND her silly talk show, and while watching this I can see WHY Katie was dismissed. She could hardly contain her HATRED of the conservative guest, and was VERY unprofessional as her baiting and sniping was meant to try to upset Ann Coulter.
I love love love Ann! She always uses facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Facts!!!!!!!!!
I love Ann, they just can't walk over her or make her back down . She is not a coward and stands by what she says and they hate her guts for it... You keep standing Ann and when you have done all you can to stand ... Just Stand... clap, clap, clap to one smart Lady!
What a tense interview lmao. Katie should have never tried Ann Coulter the way she was cause she was getting her ass handed to her xD and then quickly decided she "wanted to talk about the book" since "she was conducting this interview" haha. She used her position as the interviewer to dictate what she wanted to talk about and still didn't come out on top. How pathetic.
KATIE, YOU ARE AWESOME!
Really??
Yaasss. Go Katie!
Gosh that was funny how Katie said "Well Ann, it's always so interesting talking to you to say the least."
Most often Couric was talking AT Coulte, and that's what she got back. Irritation 5 conversation 0.
Coulter smoked Couric like a cheap-ass cigar. Good job Ann.
Katie Couric is so classy and professional. She maintains control of the interview and stays on topic. Good on her.
I think Ann Coulter is great.
COURIC should have had them PLAY THE CLIPS to prove her point if she is right.
Ann Wins as usual
+Mike Swivel No, delusion wins; it's your only pacifier.
+Mike Swivel Watch the whole interview again. Couric lets her talk because that's her job. That does not add points to Coulter at all. What I noticed though, is how much they dislike each other, and Coulter does not like to be corrected at all. Every time she smiles is a sign of being uncomfortable. She may be smart, but not enough for TV, and less to cover her weaknesses.
Wins what?!?!?!? This is not a debate.
of course it is a debate.....Couric tried her and Ann are her lunch....hands down
Ann slaps Couric around. So what's new?
Patroklos Alexander What interview were you watching. Couric looked like a deer in the headlights, scrabbling to find something to say.
Patroklos Alexander You can include yourself in that assessment.
Patroklos Alexander Right. And i think you can include yourself in that assessment too.
Liberals feel so smart labeling people and calling people names. I guess by doing so they can stroke their own egos and make themselves feel superior.
Patroklos Alexander You should give yourself more credit than that. It''s a rare bird that can post as many times as you and still not have anything meaningful to add to the conversation.
Patroklos Alexander Well, then the jokes on you, who have been conversing with me. I guess that puts you one rung lower than me in the cognitive hierarchy. I suspect you'll be dashing your keyboard onto your forehead sometime soon.
When this aired I couldn't stand Ann Coulter. Now I see how this interview could be aired today, nothing has changed it's only gotten worse. Ann was right all along, and she's making her very point by Couric's passive aggressiveness and deceptive questioning through this entire interview.
Killing me softly with his song...killing me softly...
That's what Katie Couric is doing to Ann Coulter in this interview. Didn't know Couric was that shrewd.
Ms Sandhu isn’t it great
That host was so mean. I’m amazed Ann kept her composure.
Ann is well trained. - I suspect she's had worse. Others here indicated Ann wasn't prepared, but Couric was.... um, who's referring to notes and such, but still floundering...?
Am i the only one who gets annoyed from Coulter's voice?
well apparently im not XD
I'm beginning to love it. Music to my ears.
huh.im not saying shes absolutely wrong,i dont know enough about her or anything,but her voice is ahhh its hard for me to listen :/ but honestly looking back on it its not as bad as i once said. but couric is a bitch >.
I love the fact that Nancy Regan thanked Katie.
I would like to see THAT transcript :) N.R. was quite defensive/protective of R.R. (well, natural ly... that if the author was bashing R R as Couric says (a) Nancy's thank you proved ANN's point and (b) Couric may have been more giddy / self-congratulatory over NR called her than fully understanding the paradox of "why" vs. Couric's interpretation of the book's tone.
Perhaps Katie could have read an entire chapter of Ann;s book out loud on national TV?
Boy that would really show Ann.
Just when you thought video quality couldn't get worse!
I like this woman Anne Coulter. she's got guts.
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed that Couric was perfectly content to dwell on mischaracterizations until Ann started besting - or at least forcing a draw - at which point it was, "But I really want to get to some of the other points in your book."
This really needs to be seen on 1080HD.
Brilliant job as always, Ann! Keep up the great work.
Ann Coulter has more intelligence in her pinky finger than Katie Couric has in her whole head.
Wait, why stop at head? LOL
Funny
i like how Katie said "since i'm conducting this interview" at 5:23
Can't stand Katie Couric either!!! Ann Coulter is AWESOME AND MAKES TOTAL SENSE!!!! LISTEN TO HER!!!
People see what they want to see, "What The Thinker thinks, The Prover proves." Critical thinking is not as easy as it might seem. As an exercise, try arguing from the point of view of your opponent. Can you make a better case for their position than they do? If so, what does that prove?
You can't do that exercise when trying to argue from the view of ann coulter because her arguments never make any freaking sense. She lies, contradicts herself, and just bumbles along whatever fancies her at that moment haha.
Nick Hanson Name a lie........just one.
Is he constantly lies about what she says. And when she's called on the bigotry she spews, she backs out by lying and saying I didn't say that. Constantly. Just watch her two days in a row, and there's at least one for you. You may Live in the bubble if u want, praising Reagan and the misinformation given to you by Fox News, but whatever you do or say, nothing make ann coulter a JOURNALIST.... She's a right wing hack, a racist and bigot, and you can tell this by the bullshit she says.... Arrogant with no cause.
Couldn't give just one example, just an over all arch that she is a liar.
Well, I say you are a liar...............and I have as much proof of that as you do that Ann Coulter is a liar............How u like me now?
The thing about Anne Coulter is, I don't really believe that she believes the things she says. Oftentimes you can catch her, trying to rationalize some idiotic position she has taken, and you can tell she doesn't even believe it herself. She's taken it upon herself to act as a walking stereotype for some ludicrous ideology which most conservatives are actually embarrassed by. At least with Pat Buchanan you get an honest, if bigoted and xenophobic, but legitimate, reasoned opinion. Anne Coulter is in a hell of her own making where she can't even speak coherently for trying to cram as many neo-con catch phrases into every sentence. Nobody should stick that close to the program. It's actually kind of sad.
How Couric went from selling fried egg recipes on a morning talk show to becoming a political analysts is beyond me. I can't forget how she questioned Sarah Palin if she was qualified to be vice-president. What makes her think she's qualified to be a political analysts? P.S. Coulter is correct in saying that liberals condemn the religious right.
Sorry Robert, but Palin like her dumb sister Coulter, got owned by Katie------not because Katie was anything less than professional, but because Palin is stupid------and you know it, and the Country was terrified of having Bubba's twin sister a heartbeat away from the oval office.
lol how did she own Coulter here? THEY BOTH MISQUOTED EACH OTHER THE WHOLE INTERVIEW. It's a wash
"Good morning. The Gipper was an airhead! That’s one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that’s drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today, Monday, September the 27th, 199" -- Katie Couric
Thx for the transcript... though you left of the last digit of the date (probably in the interview).
Coulter didn't say Couric said RR was an airhead, but she did say that the show was portraying RR that way by inference (ok I paraphrased)...
Couric is scary here. NEver seen her before but her smiles creep me out.
I know it seems like Couric won this debate because she was on the offensive the whole time. However, instead of looking the surface and the actions of either person look at the substance. Coulter answered every question and one upped Couric which forced her to back peddle and change subjects. I'd say Coulter: 1, Couric: 0.
Which debate/interview were you watching? Coulter got smacked!
She never back peddled. Moving on to the next question is not changing the subject it's moving on for time. Coulter also didn't answer the last question. Couric sort of forced her to answer it and Coulter dug herself deeper.
ttmobaleaaa Actually he is correct. Fox news is way more hands on to its cause than any liberal media. But then again that is what get's their ratings. Liberal media tends not to do as well because they are no where near as radical and outrageous. Conservatives also take the bate far quicker than liberal media. I'm guessing they do this on purpose to keep liberals listening as well. It's he same reason why Hannity honors war criminals on his show.
ttmobaleaaa She said nothing brilliant this this interview.
ttmobaleaaa She wants to convert all Muslims. I'm a Buddhist so I have no trouble with Christians. I just want to be left alone on the subject.
Couric is a snake
Katie was out of her league. She had all the advantages but was dismantled. Made my day.
Couric's first problem is Ann is a million times smarter than her.