Documentary will not show Coulter saying she admires Sen. Joe McCarthy

[swimmernsecretsea]

From SFGate.com:

Ann says no: Ann Coulter may be known for her inflammatory rhetoric, but after the conservative commentator saw a new documentary featuring her testy exchange with liberal humorist Al Franken, filmmakers Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus received an uncharacteristically terse e-mail from a Coulter associate.

"Ann says 'no.' " That was the extent of the e-mail, says Doob. While shooting "Al Franken: God Spoke," Doob and Hegedus assumed the Coulter-Franken debate held at the Connecticut Forum would be fair game for a documentary.

Wrong.

"There was a miscommunication," Doob says.

In fact, the filmmakers had to get permission from the participants to use footage shot at the event. The final version of "Al Franken: God Spoke" will therefore not show Coulter naming Sen. Joe McCarthy as the historical figure she most admires. The filmmakers also had to trim Coulter's response when the moderator asked which historical figures they'd like to be. Coulter named McCarthy, then added Franklin Roosevelt, "so I could not introduce the New Deal."

Franken's response to the same question: Hitler. Looking at Coulter: "You get to call off the New Deal, I'd like to call off the Holocaust."

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Source Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/17/PKG0SJ71TU1.DTL&hw=ann+coulter&sn=001&sc=1000

[aquart]

1. Who will it say she does admire?

Torquemada?
Savonarola?

[Kutjara]

2. I do so love a woman with the courage of her convictions.

She'll stand by her principles through hell or high water, as long as they don't threaten to stop the flow of money from the media teat to which she's surgically attached.

[Donnachaidh]

3. Wow -- Ann not standing behind her mouthed convictions?

What a surprize!

[swimmernsecretsea]

4. The last part is what really kills me.

Given the opportunity, what would she do? When she has limitless choices in a hypothetical question? Why, issue some snotty barb at politicians again! What a bee-otch.