Annthrax Coulter: Environmentalists "want to destroy the middle class"

[marmar]

From Media Matters:


Coulter: Environmentalists "want to destroy the middle class" but "would also wipe out their little friends in Chad and Darfur"
On the February 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter argued that proponents of energy efficiency "want to kill humans" and that energy efficient refrigerators are "not new energy" but, rather, a sign that "humankind is dying." Coulter also suggested that environmentalists' energy policies are based on "spend less" and "us candles."

In addition, when co-host Sean Hannity, who referred to former Vice President Al Gore's best-selling book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Plume, January 1992) as "Earth for the Unbalanced," asked about the book's suggestions of eliminating the internal combustion engine in 25 years and levying higher taxes on fossil fuels, Coulter responded that such suggestions are "anti-human" and show that environmentalists want to create a world "where they -- the beautiful, rich people -- live in their homes, and there are a few maids. Well-tempered maids will come in and take care of them, bicycling to work. But they want to destroy the middle class of America." She added: "I know they hate the middle class of America, but it would also wipe out their little friends in Chad and Darfur, who need energy to eat, to live, to have -- to go to the bathroom indoors in winter."

From the February 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

JON COIFMAN (spokesman, Natural Resources Defense Council): That's a surprising lack of faith in the American system and the ingenuity that we have in this country to develop better solutions.

COULTER: OK, but you don't have it.

COIFMAN: You know, the refrigerator you have today is --

COULTER: You're the ones who want to kill humans.

COIFMAN: -- 75 percent more fuel efficient than that old harvest gold one that your parents --

COULTER: And that does nothing.

COIFMAN: -- had at home in Connecticut, and it saves us three-quarters of the energy of times --

COULTER: No, you don't -- that is not new energy. That's saying that humankind is dying.

COIFMAN: -- times 300 million refrigerators -- is power plants that don't need to be built. It's pollution that doesn't need to go into the air.

COULTER: That's .

COIFMAN: It's electric bills that don't need to be paid by ordinary --

COULTER: And apparently candles.

COIFMAN: -- middle-class American families.

COLMES: Ann, are you listening? Are you listening to this man?

COULTER: Yes. You can -- ..............

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[kenny blankenship]

1. I swear I can't understand how anybody can listen to this crap for more than 2 seconds

just to hear it all the way out, once through, let alone to transcribe it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. Ann got the memo...

that feigning concern for the middle class is popular. But in her dementia, she thinks that clean air, clean water, and affordable energy are somehow going to "ruin" the middle class.

That woman is just not right in the head.

[depakid]

2. This woman is clearly mentally ill

to the point of being delusional.

[Toots]

18. And those that showcase her such as Fox News and Hannity are even more so

There is a mass delusion that has infected a good portion of Americans and those people love to hear the rantings of Coulter and Limbaugh and such. They are just morally debased people..

[BOSSHOG]

3. "Conservative" ignorance loud and clear

Don't bother me with all that facts stuff, I'll just shout you down. limbaugh, coulter, bush, oreilly, hume etc - none have done anything FOR our country ever.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. Ignorance is exactly what it is. When you don't have any

knowledge of a subject, just interrupt the expert and throw out a few barbs to satisfy those in your audience who think you are witty. That seems to be Ann's style.

[opihimoimoi]

4. ATTENTION WHORE She is....a despicibile woman who will say anything for attention

she should be taken to the nearest tree and tied up

[City Lights]

6. She's bonkers.

A padded room is in order...

[gollygee]

7. Feudalists want to destroy the middle class

You know the ones, the owners and shareholders of large corporations, the folks who make money off people being poor and indebted to them? God she's an idiot.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. 99% Of Them ARE Middle Class

What? Environmentalists don't have a self-preservation instinct. That is self-contradicting! What an idiot.
The Professor

[OneBlueSky]

9. Annie . . . sweetie . . . BushCo beat us to it! . . . n/t

.

[marmar]

12. LOL. So true.....

:toast:

[Jackpine Radical]

10. O, Geez, I been found out.

I am indeed one of those tree huggers, but how on earth did she see right through me and discover my hatred of the middle class? I thought I had it well-hidden.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Oh, Annie. Everyone knows that deregulation and runaway corporate profits are the real problem

[Dastard Stepchild]

13. What?

No, really. What? I never understand anything this woman is saying. It's all loud voice and vehement head nods with no substance.

[Atman]

14. I would love to see her forced to read and desconstruct her own bullshit

And explain why ANYONE would "want to kill humankind" or wipe out the middle class. I'd love to hear how she arrives at that conclusion and what she assumes the benefit would be to those who did so. I mean, it sounds like a pretty crazy business plan to me -- kill all of your customers. Doesn't do much for repeat business or profit outlook. She is certifiably bat-shit crazy.

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[rpannier]

15. In some ways I do like ann 'the shrill voice of treason' coulter

Everytime she speaks another American voter turns to the Democratic Party.

[seabeyond]

16. "want to destroy the middle class"... repug well on

their way without any help from environmentalist. maybe she ought to address her own party as they do, instead of worrying about what might be.

[ET Awful]

17. And we all know how cold it gets in Darfur in the winter.

WTF?

[The2ndWheel]

19. Well the middle class is part of the problem

The wealthy class is the biggest problem, since they want and get whatever they want. The middle class has every right to whatever the wealthy class has, so they demand that they get it(and since the wealthy class is never satisfied, neither is the middle class). The lower class has to exist by definition(can't have a "middle" without a top and bottom), and is dragged along by both the wealthy and middle classes in their need for it to exist.

Then we have China and India, who also have every right to the luxury the US enjoys(as does every other country on the planet). So that's more people using more resources.

So while the middle class isn't the biggest part of the problem, it has a significant role. It wants what the wealthy have, and needs poverty. Unless you integrate the lower class with the middle class, thus making the middle class the lower class. Unless you integrate the new middle/lower class into the wealthy class, creating once class. However you would need to distribute all wealth perfectly even to every single person, or else you'd still have levels within that new single class. Sounds like it could work.

[Edweird]

20. RW'ers use this tactic a lot.

All she is doing is saying outrageous statements. Her desire is to get you to ask "what did you just say?" Then she's got you. You are now being attacked with outlandish claims and are forced to defend your position against an opponent that is willing to lie and cheat.
Coifman executed the only counter-tactic (besides strangulation) which is to ignore her. I used to encounter this on a daily basis. I had a delivery driver that came to my jobsite every day and was a hardcore RW'er. Out of his freakin' mind. He would spout the the same kind of semi-retarded fantasies that AC does. The only defense is a good offense.

[ellacott]

22. The only response that Coifman should have said to Ann is...

...wtf are you talking about?

[Javaman]

23. She has no viable talents, when peak oil hits she will die nt

[sniffa]

24. cuckoo! cuckoo!

[treestar]

25. Typical right winger

Skips over all the issues as if they are already decided and draws a conclusion from the last mistaken premise.

Just because she can't face up to the reality that there are environmental problems. She thinks she can make them go away by "affirmations" that they don't exist.

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. She's still around?

I thought she crawled back into her hole after the midterm elections.

Go away, Ann. :crazy:

[NoodleBoy]

27. water fluoridation all over again

what would Ann do if we won in 2008-- Congress and President-- just completely flip out and join a christian militia, or just sit in a corner and whimper?