Ann Coulter got bleeped on Morning Joe Wednesday morning. The problem is, the bleeper wasn’t working right and the TV audience lost 13 seconds of what was coming out of her vile mouth. Coulter was on a rant about consistency and went on one of her hate crusades, apparently calling John McCain a douche-bag. Now Morning Joe tries to be a civil show. Mark Halperin got suspended last June for calling President Obama a dick. The suspension lasted a week or two.
According to Politico:
After the sound returned, Coulter paused, realized that something had happened, and then could be heard asking others on the show, “What did I say? Oh, douche bag.”
“Just blur it all out,” host Joe Scarborough responded, apparently talking to the control room.
“Okay, well they got the general drift of that,” Coulter said. “Consistency is not a great thing, and especially someone like John McCain who consistently annoyed conservatives, bragged about annoying conservatives, and would claim he was courageous by attacking conservatives and getting good press in the New York Times.”
The conversation on the show moved on quickly after that with the hosts and guests showing little reaction at that point.
Coulter was unrepentant and later tweeted, “I didn’t call McCain a douchebag. I said consistency is overrated because, for example, McCain was consistently a dickweed.”
After the show, Scarborough repeatedly tweeted, “John McCain is a great American hero. All of us on Morning Joe thank him for his service to America. He is a great man.”
Coulter has long disliked McCain. In the 2008 election cycle, she said that she would vote for Hillary Clinton before voting for McCain.
The Arizona senator’s office declined comment on Coulter’s comments Tuesday.
Coulter also disparaged the late Senator Ted Kennedy on Morning Joe as “human pestilence,” a point that prompted guest Mike Barnicle to speak up in Kennedy’s defense.
“We miss him in Massachusetts and I think the country, and especially in the Senate – I think Barack Obama more than anybody because if Ted Kennedy had been alive, that health care debate would have lasted about five months,” said Barnicle.
“As a columnist, I miss him desperately,” quipped Coulter.
Some 15 minutes later on in the show, host Joe Scarborough returned to the topic of Ted Kennedy.
“He was a very close friend of yours,” Scarborough said to Barnicle. “He was a wonderful man to me – in difficult times when other people weren’t.”
Scarborough praised Kennedy and McCain a total of six times on his Twitter feed Tuesday, calling the former a “friend” and the latter a “hero and a great man.”
Later Tuesday, Barnicle told POLITICO that the offensive comments about Kennedy didn’t register with him at first.
“We – all of us who share space on MJ – make an attempt to be civil. Besides, it’s too early in the day to start tossing slime-balls at people; who wants to listen to stuff like that in between making a school lunch or looking for your shoes? So what she said didn’t register with me for a few seconds. My bad. When it did I responded,” he said via e-mail.
Coulter’s was on the show to talk about her support for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, among other topics.
I would hope Ann Coulter would be banned from Morning Joe. One of the reasons people watch MJ is because the tone is general civil, even when Mika and Joe go at it. It might get a little loud, but it is never abusive. Political foes aren’t ever referred to as dickweeds or douche bags. That kind of talk is just “at home” talk and shouldn’t be part of the morning air waves. It definitely isn’t public talk.
Ann Coulter needs to learn to clean it up if she is going to be endorsing Mitt Romney. That kind of bashing rubs off on a candidate. Romney appears to be squeaky clean. That kind of name calling in the public arena is just unproductive. Conservatives need to police their own and call out people like Coulter, Nugent, Limbaugh and Malken and other paid spokespeople who continually violate the boundaries of public good taste. And yes, I know all about Bill Maher. Has he been on Morning Joe?
I am a salty old dog myself and I grew up with brothers. I am not easily shocked. However, this is where good manners kick in. You don’t go on someone else’s show and start with the garbage gums act. Get your own show if that is what you want to do. I would think it would be an unwritten rule that you don’t call other Republicans names like douche-bag and dickweed. At least save those perjorative, vulgar terms for the Democrats. Meanwhile, Ms. Coulter needs to go back to the junkyard and learn some manners about when and when not to be a Trash-Trap.
Should Ann Coulter be banned or suspended from MSNBC shows as Mark Halperin was?
I dig the outrage from the left that ignores the vile garbage spewed out of their own mouths (moon is going to try to deflect by saying I mean her). The left can’t make a peep abut this issue until their own house is in order.
As for me, I think Ann was being way too kind to McAmnesty. McCain got what was coming to him, anyway. He likes to annoy conservatives, he’s made a career out of it. Conservatives only had to annoy McCain once….in 2008. Now McCain is a laughing stock, as he deserves to be. Dickweed is somewhat kind.
Regardless of your opinion of the man, you missed the point. She is on someone else’s show and she is in public. You want your kids picking up that kinda talk to take to school?
As for Bill Maher, he has his own show on a subscription channel and is on after prime time. He can be easily filtered out. (before anyone brings him up)
ann coulter is not even worthy of a comment – I put her in the same ranks as maher.
Has she really done anything in her life other than throw slime balls? The more the Right lets her voice their view, the worse it makes them look.
Only to the left, whose opinions don’t matter.
Her behavior should embarrass real conservatives. Here is what I believe, if she were unattractive, she would get away with nothing and no one would watch her. Her inner character is quite ugly. If only the movie “Shallow Hal” were real, you would see her inner ugliness represented by an exterior unattractiveness.
Why is McCain a laughing stock? Working with the other side is treacherous? I feel sorry for Repbulicans if this is how they believe you solve problems. I wonder, when issue arise in their personal lives, do they take same approach, no compromise, not ever? My way or the highway? Do they have friends, lovers, wifes, husbands that put up with that kind of behavior?
1) Coulter is just another “mouth” on TV. Her 15 minutes are almost up.
2) McCain is a laughing stock because he’s a hypocritical Republican. He wanted to get elected but insulted his base. He “reached across the aisle” while backhanding his own, just to get good press. He never “reached across the aisle” to get Democrats on board with Republicans. “Compromise” was always agreeing to go along with the other party. That’s why the press loved him for being a “maverick” and he actually was stupid enough to believe that press.
We don’t mind compromise. We mind that the definition of “compromise” in DC is “do it the Democrat way.” The Republicans aren’t there just to get things done and make government work. They are there to fight for principles that their constituents hold dear.
Slow – I am sorry to hear that you think she is being constructive.
@Elena
Depends on the issue.
“We don’t mind compromise. We mind that the definition of “compromise” in DC is “do it the Democrat way.” The Republicans aren’t there just to get things done and make government work. They are there to fight for principles that their constituents hold dear.”
I’ll admit it. As a man I started to get a little misty reading that.. God Bless this great nation and those that choose to defend the core principles.
I still see many a MCCAIN/PALIN stickers on cars today… with the MCCAIN part removed. 🙂
She really must be a hottie with you, marin. It certainly can’t be much else.
John McCain is a man of great courage and integrity. He is also an American war hero, having been a prioner of war and refusing to be released unless all of his brothers in arms could be released as well. Ms. Coulter should learn to respect our nation’s heroic veterans, not talk trash about them.
Starry, I am going to agree with you about 3/4ths of the way. In the first place, Coiulter is just disrespectful. He is a war hero. I don’t agree with much of his politics but I hope I have a little more class than she does when I disagree.
She always wants to take the moral high ground. She will never claim it if she talks that way on public TV when everyone’s kids are running around getting ready for school.
Shame on her.
@Starryflights
Its perfectly OK to talk trash about a war hero if his subsequent actions deserve it. He’s a hero, not a saint.
It’s ok to criticize people’s policy. It’s not ok to call them d-bags and d-weeds on someone else’s morning show during the time when kids are likely to be around.
McCain deserves some respect, if for no other reason he is a lot older than haggette Coulter. She needs to respect her elders, at least publically show respect for them.
You know, it really isn’t OK to talk trash about anyone…not in that setting. She is just class-less.
@Moon-howler
Why is it that if I like a female politician it must be about her looks?
Not A female….it is one in particular that you keep coming back to, Marin. In this case, it sure isn’t her brains.
@Moon-howler
Are you kidding? I love her two massive lobes….brain lobes.
She speaks to me. Sure she’s a might bit neoconish for my tastes but when she speaks I feel engorged with a sense of pride. I’m swelled with patriotism. I rise up in my chair to salute her and her embracing the unapplogetic ideal that America is the best nation on this planet – ever.
Wait, what were we talking about again?
True knuckle-dragging at its best. 😈
The left calls this “leading by example”
This “left” calls it good manners.
I strongly disagree
@Starryflights
Hey! Look, a typical leftist misquoted me, and actually put a period at the end of the sentence to make it look like a valid sentence.
It will probably get censored but I gotta say this about Coulter:
Use the words Ann Coulter and horticulture in a sentence. Ann Coulter is an excellent example of horticulture; i.e., you can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think.