Ann Coulter makes Bill O’Reilly appear – if only briefly – to not be a hideous person with an evil insidious agenda! Not all that easy to do. But if anyone can, it would be the insipid Ann Coulter.
This sample exchange, and it’s “Editor’s notes” come courtesy of “Left I…” as taken from the full O’Reilly Factor transcript from May 27, 2004:
COULTER: Well, I suppose the question is, why isn’t he soaring in the polls? He’s running against a nitwit, the war is going magnificently well, the economy is picking back up, why isn’t he at like 80 percent?
O’REILLY: I’ve talked to all of our Fox News political analysts. These are not raving liberals, all right, Ann? None of them come close to telling me the war is going magnificently well. What do you know that all of the Fox News military analysts don’t know?
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COULTER: It’s pretty darn safe over there.
O’REILLY: Our Fox correspondents in Baghdad won’t go out of the hotel. That’s not a good sign, Ann.
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O’REILLY: The weapons of mass destruction fiasco when they couldn’t find them.
COULTER: Wait. We have found weapons of mass destruction…
O’REILLY: No we didn’t, not to any great extent. [Editor’s note – no, not to any extent]
COULTER: That is an important point. We have found weapons of mass destruction. That is something the media is repeatedly lying about. We have not found stockpiles. We found the plants for manufacturing, we found the experiments, we found the room for human experimentation labs. We found lots of weapons of mass destruction. [Editor’s note – aside from “plants” and “experiments” not being “weapons of mass destruction,” no such “plants” or “experiments” have been found]
I happened to catch this awhile ago when it aired and thought it showed some unbiased coverage from O’Reilly. As for the WMDs, the Sarin and Mustard Gas found might not be stockpiles, and might be from an earlier time, but were found nonetheless. Not to mention the recent findings by the UN – Report
I’m not claiming this as absolute fact, but disregarding it would be a bit silly too, one would think.
Troll…tisk tisk…That World Tribune (Owned by the Moonies) article has been thoroughly debunked.
It takes UN reports and moves quotes around to give the appearance that they are one cohesive report.
"Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared."
So the destroyed Iraqi army under NO leadership was able to move their entire stockpile of WMD’s out of Iraq under the US military TWO MONTHS after Baghdad fell without anyone knowing. Hey, I hear there’s an article in the Onion that says that Saddam hid the WMD’s with Jimmy Hoffa under Giants Stadium.
http://www.indystar.com/article...-7958-010.html
This is the real story that says previously known about dual use machinery had been moved out of the country (in a suspected massive looting campaign).
The blogger who transcribed this missed an interesting line from Coulter.
It came after this:
O’REILLY: Our Fox correspondents in Baghdad won’t go out of the hotel. That’s not a good sign, Ann…
She said (in the full transcript):
COULTER: I wouldn’t go out of the hotel in Washington, D.C.
Maybe Ann should spend some time in the Red Zone to gain some perspective…