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Politics and Punditry | 03/10/2009 7:35 am

Bill Maher and Ann Coulter Agree on Something at Radio City Music Hall Debate

The far left and the far right had a lovefest last night in NYC. Well, not exactly, but it was entertaining to watch.
By Deborah Barrow, Editor-in-Chief
Ann Coulter and Bill Maher at Radio City
Photo: Marion Curtis/StarPix

No, it’s true. Ann Coulter and Bill Maher found common ground at least once during their packed-to-the-rafters Radio City Music Hall debate last night in New York City. And it’s this:

Timothy Geithner is doing a baaaaad job as Obama’s Treasury Secretary. With Maher adding, "He sounds like he’s shitting his pants."

Other than that, last night was a hilarious, gallows-humor free-for-all of Bill Maher’s funny take on politics and the economy, and Ann Coulter’s trademark designed-to-incite commentary against liberals. Held in the historic hall in the heart of liberal New York, the audience’s raucous cheers and boos on both sides made it an important, vocal part of the proceedings.

The dynamic between the two pundits is an interesting one. There is clear affection and respect for one another. Ann Coulter was Bill Maher’s most frequent guest on his late ABC talk show, "Politically Incorrect." When the NYC-based liberal crowd in the audience clearly favored Maher, he asked for a round of applause for Ann, lauding her courage for making the appearance, and said if the debate was being held in Paducah, KY, instead of NYC, it would be Bill having a difficult night. He added: "She takes her booing like a man."

Some highlights of the night:

Coulter: "Overnight, the media went from watchdog for the people to watchdog for the government … except for Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, who are the lapdogs for the government."

Coulter on Obama win: "The Republicans were running McCain … that’s the equivalent of George Foreman beating Helen Thomas in a TKO in the 12th round."

Maher: "Osama bin Ladin said he wanted to bankrupt America. Sorry, big guy, but a Jew named Madoff beat you to it."

Maher: "Mood matters. What do you think the mood in America would be if Old Man McCain and Cruella de Vil were in power (right now)?"

Maher on Rush Limbaugh wanting Obama to fail: "We all say crazy shit when we’re high."

The next event in the "MSG 2009 Speaker Series: Live and Uncensored" will be held at Radio City on March 31 with Anderson Cooper interviewing Arianna Huffington, Mike Huckabee and D.L. Hughley on Free Speech and the Power of the Press.

On May 26, Charlie Rose will take the stage, interviewing James Carville and Karl Rove. 

Tickets can be ordered at the website, 2009 Speaker Series.

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Images: Marion Curtis/StarPix

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Elizabeth Bennett
So does J.K. Rowling, but you don’t see her mentioned every two days.
By Elizabeth Bennett on 03/10/2009 3:14 pm
Marva Marva
EB, Hillarious comment! So funny I had to come out of lurk mode.
By Marva Marva on 03/10/2009 10:32 pm
HA BIBI
Probably because J.K. Rowling isn’t writting books anymore or atleast not the Harry Potter series!
By HA BIBI on 03/10/2009 3:32 pm
Cheeky Wombat
I like Ann because she’s smart, funny and riles up so many people. No shrinking violet.
By Cheeky Wombat on 03/10/2009 10:42 pm
Republican 4Life
“These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing bush was part of the closure process.”

“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much.”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/ann_coulter_says_911_widows_enjoy_husbands_deaths_today_show_video/

 Yup. Hilarious!!!

By Republican 4Life on 03/11/2009 2:54 am
Irish Eyes NY

YUP , r4l:

The truth sometimes hurts, don’t it?

I say that Ann put into print what millions were thinking.

By Irish Eyes NY on 03/15/2009 1:46 am
Chrome Toe
darn… wish i’d have seen it! didn’t know it was on. would have been great. I feel the same way some other posters do. if these two can get along with respect to their differences the rest of us should be able to as well! i doubt there was any name calling or mean spiritedness between them.
By Chrome Toe on 03/11/2009 10:13 am
Elizabeth Bennett
Ann Coulter was practically invented by Bill Maher on his show Politically Correct in the nineties.  She is a former lawyer who decided there was more money in being outrageous.  What most people do not seem to know is that far from being enemies or rivals, Mayer and Coulter are friends or perhaps romantically linked.   See http://www.nndb.com/people/399/000022333/  Some debate. 
By Elizabeth Bennett on 03/11/2009 12:27 pm
Stacy Davies
Finally someone says it! Yes, Maher and Coulter’s "lovefest" is nothing new - or merely about politics. I love Maher, but dating Coulter? He MUST smoke a lot of weed. Yikes.
By Stacy Davies on 03/12/2009 5:45 pm
Mike Hunt

Ann Coulter can buy Bill Maher. Your right, the two people that watched Politacally Incorrect multiplied into millions. I give Maher credit for this interview, but he is a never was comedian. His movie about religion made a whopping 13 mil.

By Mike Hunt on 03/12/2009 6:46 pm
HA BIBI
Are you sitting down? Obama plans to pay for his $3.6 trillion-dollar spending bill by raising taxes on "the rich." I know, I know … I was pretty shocked, too.
   
The bad news is, by hiking taxes in a recession, Obama will turn a disaster into a catastrophe. But there’s good news, too. The "rich" include most of Obama’s biggest supporters.
   
While liberals love being praised for their looks, their style, their brilliance and their courage, the one quality they don’t want talked about is their money. To the contrary, Democrats are constantly boasting about how poor they are — as if that’s a virtue in a capitalist society with no class barriers.
   
No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they’re giving up the poor’s mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus.
   
Democrats’ claims of poverty merely serve to show how out of touch elected Democrats are with actual incomes in America.
   
At the Democratic National Convention, for example, there were heartfelt tributes to the daunting self-sacrifice of both Barack and Michelle Obama for passing up lucrative jobs to work in "public service" — which apparently is now defined, such as in Michelle Obama’s case, as "working as a ‘diversity coordinator’ at a big city hospital for $300,000 a year."
   
Seriously, even with a company car, full medical benefits and six weeks’ paid vacation thrown in, how do people live on that?
   
Meanwhile, the average salary for a lawyer with 20 years or more experience in the U.S. is a little more than $100,000. If Michelle Obama doesn’t lay off all this "giving back" stuff pretty soon, she’s going to find herself in Warren Buffett’s tax bracket.
   
During the campaign, Joe Biden was also praised by the Democrats for being the poorest U.S. senator — as if that were a major accomplishment.
   
Howard Dean, then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, touted Biden as "a good example of a working-class kid," adding that, to this day, Biden was "one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate." Only a Democrat would list "never really made anything of myself" on his resume.
   
On the Huffington Post, operated by a woman who acquired her wealth by marrying a rich gay guy connected to Big Oil, liberal blogger Steven Clemons gloated that, unlike John McCain, Biden wouldn’t "forget the number of houses he owns," adding that, in 2006, Biden was ranked the poorest U.S. senator.
   
And at his high school reunion Biden was voted "most likely to try to bum a ride off of somebody." Vote Biden!
   
According to tax returns for Biden and his public schoolteacher wife, in 2006, their total income was $248,459; in 2007, it was $319,853 — putting the couple in the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S.
   
This, my friends, is the face of poverty in America. At least in the Democratic Party. It’s located just below that row of hair plugs. The Bidens are yet another heart-rending example of America’s "hidden poor" — desperately needy families hidden behind annual incomes of a quarter million dollars or more paid by the taxpayer. My fellow Americans, we can do better.
   
The national median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. Working for the government pays well.
   
If liberals are going to show how in touch they are with normal Americans by demanding a Marxist revolution against the rich every time they control the government, how about taking a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the little guy?
   
According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this "giving back" stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.
   
No wonder Obama doesn’t see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama’s tax plan won’t affect his supporters.
   
Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.
   
For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million — more than twice President Bush’s 2005 income of $735,180 — but they both gave about the same amount to charity.
   
That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama’s. Maybe when Obama talks about "change" he’s referring to his charitable contributions.
   
Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That’s for other people to do with what’s left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.
   
As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: "I’m afraid you’ve got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don’t pretend to be Christians."
Ann Coulter
By HA BIBI on 03/11/2009 7:58 pm
laureen f
Take a minute to look at the you tube video..cbs/elephant and dog. This will explain everything…
By laureen f on 03/14/2009 5:08 am
RoseMerry Hoffman

Get along? Those two have hot for each other for YEARS! I imagine it is a Same Time Next Year type of relationship.

 Excuse me while I throw up.

By RoseMerry Hoffman on 03/16/2009 3:02 am
Diana Taylor - Henry
Is it just me ???  Ann Coulter just grates my last nerve….lol..Any show she’s on I turn off.
By Diana Taylor - Henry on 03/16/2009 3:51 pm
jules verne
I don’t care for Coulter because she is mean spirited, I do agree with some of her more sane beliefs.  I have watched her enough times, she reminds me of Rush in a skirt.  She is clearly a marketing genius.  Everyone has her on their show when she publishes the next book.  No one I know has bought her book.  You?  I won’t when I can watch her on tv for free.
By jules verne on 03/16/2009 10:50 pm