Not only are copies of Ann Coulter’s newest attack screed on sale at News Max for a mere 4.99 (giving a nice boost to book sales no doubt), but the morning after Nasty Ann’s appearance on the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the right-wing web rag had this to say:
Liberals may hate Ann Coulter, but the folks in the audience of Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” roared their approval of the controversial author when she was introduced on Wednesday night. [...] During her 8 1/2 minutes on stage, Ann was interrupted by vigorous applause time and again.
The implication is that Ann was adorned with affection from the mainstream public. But, the truth is a bit more staged.
As an industry insider, I know how an audience and how applause works. I know how screams of approval work. They are always fan clubs, or friends, or plants. And, during Coulter’s appearance there was a medium sized but very vocal group in attendence in the audience. That much was obvious. I knew immediately that they were plants of some type. Truth is, it’s not all that uncommon. PR agencies often pad an audience for their clients to ensure more than ceurteous applause. And, my suspicions were dead on. The audience at Leno was Freeped for Coulter.
Jay Leno gives you a little notice, a little warning of sorts, before taping his show, that it just wouldn’t be nice or appropriate to shout out stuff or boo or heckle any of the guests because, hey, everyone should be able to come and share their views. But even if a grungy, dreadlocked white kid in a Che t-shirt did decide to heckle Ann Coulter, there was a rather large group of Freepers, conservative/Republican activists and friends in the audience to overwhelm them. [...]The musical guest was some chick from Scotland who stank, but had a mysterious message taped to her guitar which read: “THIS MACHINE KILLS FACISTS.” Nobody seemed to know what this meant, but I did notice that at the end of the show she shook Carlin’s hand, then Ann’s, but then immediately focused a conversation on Carlin and didn’t even glance at Ann again, as if she wasn’t there.
Not surprising actually that not one single Freeper and Ann Coulter fan from a “rather large group” would know what “This machine kills fascists” refers to or how it becaome a call to arms for Liberals both past and present. And, let there be no doubt, the message was for Ann, pure and simple. Zoom. Right. Over. Freepers. Heads.
Ann’s own message was lost amid the controversy. You see, the message that poor Ann wanted so desperately to get out upon the release of her new book was so simple: Liberals are Godless. It’s in the title for Pete’s sake! But, all that 9/11 widow stuff got in the way and her message was scuttled. (Not that Ann is usually all the coherent or salient or correct in the first place.)
Appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Ann seemed genuinely shocked that the Liberals are Godless meme had been pretty much ignored by those very same “Godless Liberals”. From a (partial) Leno show transcript:
…the funny thing about this is I’m calling liberals godless. Oh, they’re cool with that. Just don’t attack the Jersey Girls. (empphasis mine)
So, why the wall of silence in response to Coulter’s assertion that Liberals are Godless? Well, it’s simply untrue for starters. Common sense tells anyone that. It’s ridiculous on it’s surface. And, of course, the fact that it is the thrid book of a trilogy which presents Liberals as Insane, Godless Traitors. It’s all a bit much. Fantastically hate filled, untrue and obviously meant to further the aims of the Conservative movement by branding their opposition as undesirable.
Rmemeber: Scapegoats are very important to the Conservative Fascist Movement. And, Ann Coulter is one of their best and brightest at providing that hateful rhetoric to feed the True Believers. Watch your back.
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