Barnicle Barely Blinks As Coulter Calls Ted Kennedy 'Human Pestilence'
Can you imagine the holy hell Ann Coulter would have unleashed if Ronald Reagan had been described in similarly scathing terms? But when the irrepressible Ann called Ted Kennedy "human pestilence," long-term Kennedy clan retainer Mike Barnicle barely blinked.
It happened on Morning Joe today. Coulter, who has called on conservatives to rally around Mitt Romney, was defending Romney's adoption in the past of moderate positions. Ann argued he did so in hyper-liberal Massachusetts while running against Ted Kennedy and that Romney "came within five points of taking out that human pestilence." The best Barnicle could muster was a stumbling "I, I, I, I don't know that I'm going to do that with Ted Kennedy," that "we miss him in Massachusetts" and that Kennedy would have facilitated the ObamaCare debate. Video after the jump.
Watch Barnicle's lame defense of Kennedy and try to envision what Ann would have done to the former Boston Globe columnist had he dared besmirch the memory of The Gipper in similar terms.
ANN COULTER: I'm making the larger point of believing that conservatism is very popular: more popular than Republicanism is. That's the concern with Romney. But I think Romney is conservative now. What I don't understand some not understanding, though in the end as I say I think they will understand since I think it's going to be Romney, is what do they not understand about Massachusetts, the most liberal state in the Union, he ran against Teddy Kennedy. I mean, you're flipping from positions you held when you came within five points of taking out that human pestilence. Come on: give the guy a break.
MIKE BARNICLE: I, I, I, I don't know that I'm going to do that with Ted Kennedy. I mean, he was, we miss him in Massachusetts. And I think the country, and especially in the Senate, and I think Barack Obama more than anybody. Because if Ted Kennedy had been alive, the health care debate would have lasted about five months.
COULTER: As a columnist, I miss him desperately.
What explains Barnicle's timid response to Ann's condemnation of Kennedy? Intimidated to be sitting across the table from Coulter?
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Don't miss Ted at all. Barney
Submitted by P. Aaron on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 9:27am.
Don't miss Ted at all. Barney Frank: good riddance!
Too Bad
Submitted by tvhall on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 8:08pm.
Frank isn't going out the same way Kennedy did!
tvhall*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 8:22pm.
I am sure you meant....under a dark cloud, fat, ugly, and rich on tax payer money.
Right?
I see now
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 9:31am.
Anns excuse NOW is that romney can blame others for his failings.
she needs to go away.
You can go away...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:15am.
Ann Coulter is a conservative goddess!
not so much
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:41am.
she gets to play one.
chair of goproud ??
fan of christie and now romney?
Earth to dmacleo...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:14pm.
Christie is not running (thank God).
btw Ann is still a conservative goddess, but no one is perfect, not even a goddess.
Also, M&M, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:41pm.
... she is VERY hot!
I know hes not
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:46pm.
which is why she now supports romney, even though she was against him before.
shes changed over last 2 years.
Yeah, right
Submitted by ckc1227 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 8:59pm.
A conservative goddess who apparently has a thing for northeastern rinos.
Liberal Perspective
Submitted by Hozeking on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:13am.
Typical. If a conservative disagrees with a liberal, that liberal will not engage in debate but wishes that he/she will 'go away'.
wrong
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:39am.
not at all a liberal, I just don't agree with much with people who support christie as a conservative then swing to romney only because hes the most electable.
Apologies from Jersey, but Corzine had to go.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:53am.
And Christie was the only hope.
I'm sure MF Global investors wish it had went the other way, but too bad for them.
agreed
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:01pm.
no debating that, but that does not make christie a conservative.
fwiw no apologies from jersey needed as far as I am concerned.
you're fixing your state.
Sez the idiot that walked away from 12 years of free education..
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:20am.
Oh, we do so very very very respect your opinion, dmacleo. You don't know the proper use of the period. It goes at the end of a sentence. You don't know that an apostrophe is used to show possessive case. You can't capitalize proper nouns such as the name of a person. And you fail to capitalize the beginning of a sentence.
12 years of English classes at taxpayer expense wasted. Right down the drain. But yeah, you tell us now how much we are to respect your opinion, mmmmmkay? Cuz you got the brains goin' all on. Dang, your posts just drips with smartinesses. Tell us troll. Tell us all how smart you are.
whah whah whah
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:36am.
first that period was a typo.
deal with it.
I don't care if the typing passes your muster.
and coulter is not the conservative people make her out to be, she plays one for money. remember she loves christie (and mahr) and supported him for running.
and calling me a liberal because I don't agree with coulter?
oh that takes brains,
Yes. It is fully evident.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:03pm.
We are already aware you don't care. As we are aware you are not to be taken seriously. You act like an eight year old, including the horrid grammar and spelling. Your opinion will be given the weight afforded an eight year old.
spelling?
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:20pm.
I was purposely screwing up the grammar last time to piss you off (you're so welcome) but thought I caught spelling errors.
ill hf to tri hardr next time 2 relly muss thm ap.
I care?
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:54pm.
No. Prove once again you are not serious.
You're correct, Vet. Knowing the rules is VERY important.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:47pm.
CAPITALIZATION - very important. it's the difference between, ...
... "Johnny helping his Uncle Jack off the horse, and Johnny helping his uncle jack off the horse."
Almost got my keyboard with the coffee spew,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:05pm.
Bubba. Good point, one that will be overlooked by a certain poster, I'm sure.
whatever
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:25pm.
if that's what bugs you guys then nothing I can do about it.
I'll take the disability benefits offered to me and get the 3 tendon operations just to make the grammar police happy.
I've refused them so far but hey, the grammar is so important I must get the tendons repaired.
gonna cost taxpayers a lot of money though.
nah, I'll just deal with it as I have and not take welfare.
Awwwww.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:53pm.
Poor little thing is the only one on the planet to have setbacks. So serious. We can't criticize him because he has had setbacks. And if we do, he will stomp his feet and threaten to change his political outlook.
Had you pegged the first time. You don't have to prove me right over and over.
not the point at all
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 3:01pm.
but you knew that, you're just looking for a fight.
I was explaining, or trying to, why the punctuation and typing is so bad.
you can take it or leave it, you mean nothing to me and what you think is so insignificant its almost funny.
been reading and commenting here for long time, will continue to do so.
can read them, ignore them, whatever.
at this point you're convinced I'm some whiny little liberal because I dared not like the great goddess coulter, hey thats your own slice of hell not mine.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 1:43am.
You tossed out a dig - She needs to go away.
I have disagreed with other conservatives here more times than I can count. I don't insult and dig just because I disagree. You deliberately dig and insult to get a rise out of your fellow posters.
You did not speak of disabilities when your grammar was first brought up. You spoke of typo's. And you further insulted Miss Coulter when I did not speak of her. A dig.
I never called you a liberal. Nor did I speak of Miss Coulter. You knew you were digging at other posters. It is why you continue to bring up Miss Coulter when I only spoke of your atrocious grammar.
Your frag your own. You are deliberately combative with other members of the right. And why? I don't know. But your attempt to lay it off as some issue of mine was pathetic.
PS:
dmacleo: I was purposely screwing up the grammar last time to piss you off.
dmacleo:...you're just looking for a fight.
Yeah, that's the ticket. It's me the fight looker. I admit I am doing stuff just to irritate people and then claim they are the ones doin' all the irritatin'.
Help me out here.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:19pm.
Exactly which three tendons affect grammar?
2 finger typing really
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:56pm.
have issues getting shift keys when typing fast.
Does not slow you down when throwing out digs.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:43pm.
Digs meant to raise the hackles of people supposedly of a like mind. You don't like someone or something on the right. Here's a tip - let it go.
News, you forgot the comas.
Submitted by antiObamunist on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 3:22pm.
I still laughed though, as I am an interpretive reader!
Newsbubba
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 4:19pm.
Got any monitor wipes? Mine is dripping the soda the came out my nose - ouch, that buuuuuurns!!!
Ronald Reagan
"Love Her"
Submitted by mad53PA on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 9:35am.
Was channel surfing this morning and couldn't believe my eyes. Ann Coulter on Morning Joe!!!
It was amazing and of course not unexpected to see the "usual suspects" almost mute in challenging Ann on anything she said. I guess there is a big difference between firing on the defenseless and having an army of one sitting across the table from you.
I also laughed when Mika fired enough brain cells to try and trap Ann by asking who is the most conservative candidate (you know the response she was trying to get) but Ann didn't take the obvious bait.
Just goes to show that none of them can match up!
Obama: Hopeless Change!
mad53PA
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 4:22pm.
I posted before I saw your comment. Wasn't that great? I was feeling sorry {almost} for poor little Mika trying to match wits against Ann!!!
Ronald Reagan
The liberal lion is gone, now it is time for korupt Kerry
Submitted by antiObamunist on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 9:47am.
It is time for my fellow massholes to wake up from their progressive slumber and send this ideologue packing. Can someone in state explain just what has John Kerry done with his time in the senate? The foreign affairs committee? Really?
I can't think of anything that is more screwed up at this point.
As for Barneys' Frank, I am sorry I didn't live in his district so I couldn't vote against him! Good bye you doofus.
Not only do I agree with everything you said...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:26am.
...but I love your moniker! :-)
I glean from your post....
Submitted by antiObamunist on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:35pm.
that my McCarthyism is showing through!
Not to worry
Submitted by Marsh on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:07am.
After Ann left the entire Morning Joe crew did a sycophantic tribute to the got away with vehicular manslaughter lion of the Senate. Joe and Barnacle had tears in their eyes describing how great Ted was to them. I guess that's easy to do when it wasn't your daughter Ted left to drown in a car he was the drunk commander of.
I heard that too while I was
Submitted by ParalegalGoddess on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:15am.
I heard that too while I was in the car (on Sirius XM). What got me was they were LYING about what he had done before he passed away. There was no way that Ted Kennedy was reaching out to anyone about a week before he died. The man would have lost all power of speech and been drifting in and out of consciousness. I seriously doubt he even KNEW he was a senator in those last weeks. To say he reached out to fellow senators and congressmen was a bold face lie. And stopping by someones home after chemo? Not likely.
funny how they have to clean up the havoc Ann causes AFTER she's gone. No one to refute any of the bs they were spouting.
Of course it was after Ann left
Submitted by Marsh on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:28am.
because she would have wiped the floor with their paper thin Kennedy worship talking points without breaking a sweat.
Ted Kennedy couldn't polish Reagan's shoes.
Submitted by NeoKong on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:14am.
Kennedy never worked a real job a single day in his life. He coasted on his family name his whole life. He killed a girl and never paid a penalty.
Coulter is right.
He was a slug.
Barnicle is wrong.
We don't miss him.
Barnicle misses him
Submitted by Marsh on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 10:31am.
because they were both cut from the same test cheating plagiarizing cloth.
Ted Kennedy couldn't polish Reagan's shoes.....
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:47pm.
because Ted Kennedy's shoe shine polish would be last night's Guinness.
Miss him? I didn't get a clear shot.
Submitted by Huapakechi on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:15am.
kennedy, dodd, frank, and all the others are escaping the trials and public executions they so richly deserve. There's a bunch of putative republicans that deserve to be doing a rope dance as well.
If we can't impose term limits on these political vermin, at least give us an open season on 'em. We could retire the national debt in half a decade simply by selling licenses.
Set a price.
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:44am.
I'm in.
we still have time to have
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:06pm.
we still have time to have all on trial. This situation is or will not be resolved just by the culprits attempting to flee. "roundup" time comes after Nov 2012.
"Human Pestilence" vs.
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:41am.
the "Amiable Dunce". Only one label is truthful.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Barnicle is smart. He knew
Submitted by DaChew on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:26pm.
Barnicle is smart. He knew that he needed to defend Saint Teddy but at the same time he did NOT want to give Ann an opening to run down her encyclopedic knowledge of his record. His response was basically, "I know you, Ann, can destroy any defense of Ted as a person that I might bring, I'll let you have the Human Pestilence thing without a big fight, lets talk about Obama because I really want to stay with a subject I think I have a chance on."
cowards
Submitted by rightwinghawk on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:44pm.
The Morning Joe show regulars are cowards. They look down with thin smiles when somebody like Coulter speaks the truth. Barnicle's response on the Kennedy remark is hilarious. Read it out loud. Worse than Sharpton's "resist we much" line. They find the courage to respond only after the guest leaves. Then they giggle and snort and roll their eyes. Cowards, all of them.
Barnicle is a vile, nasty lib who knows nothing bout sports!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:18pm.
And he knew he'd get eaten up alive by Coulter. But what really disturbs me is Anns devotion to RINOS and left of party "Republicans"? I thought she was a CONSERVATIVE pundit?
ann
Submitted by rightwinghawk on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:41pm.
Ann wants to win. Period. That explains the Romney thing. I still wish Christie or Ryan or even Giuliani would jump in. Won't happen. I'm holding my nose and going for Newt, only because he will beat Obama. That is the most important thing.
It's Gonna Be Romney
Submitted by rammingspeed on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:08pm.
rightwinghawk
You won't be able to vote for Newt (unless you write him in) in the 2012 election, because Romney is going to be the nominee, and the next president.
yikes
Submitted by rightwinghawk on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:23pm.
Double whoops and an apology. I meant I will vote for Mitt, not the fellow I mentioned. And yes, I believe Mitt will be elected president. Sorry.
watch it
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:42pm.
make sure you've used proper grammar when saying bad stuff about her.
I don't know why but she seemed to change when TP started kicking up.
Remember, this is what she seems to think of us.
I think the candidate, it is going to be and is the strongest candidate to beat Obama is Mitt Romney. And, you know, I’m a little tired of these Johnny-come-lately conservative purists.
from Hannity on the 15 or so.
Oh quit you're whining there bub...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:57pm.
and they all agree that anyone on that panel is better than Obama, and they are all conservative to some extent. If anyone is acting like a purist it's you. Like you never had to re-evaluate your stance because you're so perfect.
I wanted Romney over McCain and got McCain, and eventually voted for McCain in the general election. I want Bachmann or Cain over Gingrich or Romney, so we'll see which of the latter I get to vote for from the way it's looking.
So according to your logic if these purists do not get who they want specifically, they should not vote for them at all. Because guess what? That's what happened in 2008/2009 and look what we got. A complete cluster... mess.
no
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 3:06pm.
what I am trying to say, maybe badly, is that since tea party started to rise up coulter seems to have changed and has no problems insulting the conservative base if they do not agree with her views.
my views have not changed in decades, hers have and lately they seem to be drifting to the middle/left more.
do I agree with her sometimes?
yes.
do I place on a pedestal like too many do?
hell no, she is not all that. and pretending she is can be dangerous.
... but she IS hot!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 4:05pm.
Right?
:) :)
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 6:22pm.
well now you mention it :)
So Mitt going to work for ya.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 2:53pm.
Brace yourselves for, Polygamy Texas style take 2..
Me I'll just have a beer.
I've seen first hand how a Republican Governor Linda Lingle operates in a deep blue state. The reach across the aisle, style.
Mitt's ah lawyer, he will have the verbiage to rationale, his Rinoness.
If he is on the ticket I will vote for him. Heck I wanted him in '08.
You Didn't Build That.
Even better? When Mika tried
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 4:04pm.
Even better? When Mika tried to get Ann to say the most conservative one was Huntsman!!! Either Ann didn't know about Mika's fetish, or she just played dumb, so while I was waiting for an EPIC smackdown by Ann, leaving Mika frustrated was MUCH sweeter!!!
Barnicle is a bs'ing tool, who can't even stand up to Mika, no way he's going up against Ann!!!
Ronald Reagan
"Ann:Come : give the guy a
Submitted by ckc1227 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 9:12pm.
"Ann:Come : give the guy a break."
How about you give us a break, Ann? Romney chose to run for governor of a liberal Massachusetts, which makes about as much sense as a pro-life doctor going to work for Planned Parenthood, and then complaining he had no choice when it came to giving abortions. If you want the guy because you think he has the best chance to win, that's fine, but don't make lame excuses to defend your position.
Romney will be nominee and Scott what's his name that took over
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 2:59am.
Teddy's senate seat will be Mitt's running mate? Now that will be a liberal marriage made in hell, Ms. Coulter.
To make Mitt palatable Coulter is comparing Mitt with Teddy? Palatable to whom,Ms Coulter? Surely not Reagan conservatives!
There is a transcript and a recording of the Mitt versus Teddy debate floating around the net. In this vintage liberal fest we hear Mitt tell the audience that he is the abortionists' best ally; he is the chumpion that will fight for homosexual rights. He lays out the typical welfare big government programs as if he would do a better job at defending the liberals' sacred cows of welfarism and big gobblement better than anyone on the planet.
Listening to that "debate" I had to wonder why Mitt ran against Teddy since both agreed pretty much on all the Liberal issues.
"I believe that ABORTION should be safe and legal in this country." ---Mitt Romney
"I was an independent during Reagan... and I am not going to return to Reagan...!"---Mitt Romney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
No one cares loon.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 3:47am.
Go back to plagiarizing. It is the only thing you do well.
→ Hey Vet
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 3:54am.
Maybe it's been pointed out before, but has anybody noticed IRGON is an anagram of GROIN?
Maybe that's why he's so crotchety.