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Ann Coulter is, in my opinion, slightly more conservative and slightly less rational than Rush Limbaugh, and a fairly well known spokesperson for the neo-conservative movement within the United States.

What I'm going to provide here is a few snippets from a recent news talk show on which seh was a guest. I don't feel the need to make any editorial observations, because the words pretty much speak for themselves. For more of the transcript, visit http://www.msnbc.com/news/980164.asp

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SCARBOROUGH: Now, Lisa Bloom, let me bring you in here and ask you, what does it mean when you have Democratic presidential candidates taking on a radio talk show host? And I’m not just talking about John Kerry, because Howard Dean and Rush Limbaugh have had this back and forth over the past several months.

Is Limbaugh really seen as the boogeyman on the American left right now?

BLOOM: Well, I suppose he is.

And I hate to interrupt this love fest about how wonderful Rush Limbaugh is, but I still haven’t gotten an answer from those of you conservatives, like Ann Coulter, who said that people should be punished for violating drug laws. Doesn’t that apply to your good friend Rush Limbaugh, who has now admitted that he violated a drug law?



BLOOM: Joe, are you protecting your friend Ann Coulter, who doesn’t want to answer the question. She’s been asked five times. She just said on air people who violate drug laws should be punished and go to prison. Why doesn’t Ann Coulter answer that question for herself?

COULTER: Because you’re all talking.

SCARBOROUGH: We’re not going to get there.

(CROSSTALK)

BLOOM: Not going to get there, huh?

COULTER: I’ll answer. You’re all talking.

(CROSSTALK)

SCARBOROUGH: Ann, go ahead. Ann, answer please.

COULTER: I can’t believe this. You won’t let me answer the question and then claim I’m demurring from it.

Look, if my mother committed murder, I wouldn’t want her to go to
jail. It’s a stupid question for what I think the law should be vs. what I think a friend or

(CROSSTALK)

BLOOM: You don’t think the law should apply to your friend?



COULTER: No, I told you. If my mother committed murder, I wouldn’t want her to go to jail.

BLOOM: So you don’t think Rush Limbaugh should go to jail if he

(CROSSTALK)

COULTER: We’re very big on this hypocrisy angle.

(CROSSTALK)

SCARBOROUGH: Cut them off.

Neal.

BOORTZ: It may, in fact, be a stupid question, but it is also a very revealing question. It reveals that...

COULTER: No, it isn’t.

BOORTZ: It is.

It’s revealing, Lisa, your delight in what’s happening to Rush Limbaugh.

BLOOM: Why would I be delighted if a man is addicted to drugs?

BOORTZ: That’s for you to answer. That’s for you to answer. But your tenacious insistence...

(CROSSTALK)

BLOOM: ... on the right who insist on Draconian drug laws don’t want them applied to their friends, for the same reason that I don’t want them applied to anyone.

(CROSSTALK)

COULTER: I don’t want murder laws applied to my friends.

(CROSSTALK)

SCARBOROUGH: Cut off the mikes. Cut off all the microphones.

"slightly more conservative and slightly less rational than Rush"

I thought that was a B
either works.
I would have difficulty describing her,you did quite marvelous.

Problem is, most people are *somebody's* friend.

I am anti-drugs but I'm not in favour of draconian drug laws. I'm more in favour of making society as a whole a friendlier, safer, more healthy place, and doing something about the reasons why people use drugs. For instance some people use it to relax or to forget about problems, other people because it makes them feel good, or to experience vivid visions. I think we ought to investigate safer alternatives for achieving these goals.

I have friends who use drugs, and I don't wish them to be subjected to draconian laws ... and for the sake of consistency I have to argue that I don't want anyone to be subjected to such laws.