Before the Hillary people attack me with flames I want to say that I am genuinely not sure whether she is being serious. She has said so many vile things about the Clintons in the past that it seems impossible to believe. Honestly, I think of her as the same kind of performance artist as Limbaugh and nothing she does or says has any meaning in reality. But if this is not serious it may backfire because her fans, like Limbaugh's, tend to believe every word she says and they don't know she's a joke.
So here's the video with transcript. It's a little quick and dirty in terms of punctuation and such because I didn't realize how long it was going to take and I ran out of time. I have to run out to a noon meeting now so I won't be able to respond to comments until much later in the day.
Whether true or not, this is still a moment in political history--one of the bizarrest moments in a primary season that has already been ridiculously surreal.
Hannity: ...look i'm standing on substance here.
Coulter: yes
Hannity: it's immigration, it's limits on free speech, it's not supporting tax cuts
Coulter: its ANWR, it's torture at Guantanamo
Hannity: it's class warfare rhetoric,
Coulter: Right
Hannity: it's interrogations, it's Guantanamo, its ANWR, its... this is not, these are not small issues to conservatives.
Coulter: no and if you're looking at substance rather than whether its an R or D after his name manifestly if he's our candidate then Hillary's going to be our girl Sean cause she's more conservative than he is I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism,
Hannity: you really believe that
Coulter: I absolutely believe that
Hannity: that that that's the one area I disagree with you
Coulter: no no no
Colmes: can I just say one thing
Coulter: she will yeah we're gonna sign up together, but let me explain that point on terrorism
Hannity: so you would vote for Hillary over...
Coulter: yes. I would campaign for her if its McCain, he voted...
Hannity: boy. if Hillary's watching tonight you just got an endorsement from...
Colmes: i just heard the word no!
Coulter: i was touched when she cried.
Hannity: That put, that set you on the..
Coulter: ok that part isn't true. but the rest of it is true. I mean he has led the fight against, well as you say interrogations I say torture at Guantanamo, she hasn't done that she hasn't taken a position in front.
Hannity: but wait a minute I'll give you one distinction. without interrupting you, just let me give you one, that's what liberals do to you but let me give you one distinction: he did support the war
Coulter: so did Hillary
Hannity: he, all right, but he stayed with it. he supported the surge. I didn't like his criticisms of Rumsfeld but he was right, we needed to readjust
Coulter: OK OK let's get to him supporting the surge. he keeps going on and on and on about how he was the only Republican who supported the surge
Hannity: Hillary didn't
Coulter: and other Republicans attacked him it was so awful how he was attacked it was worse than being held in a tiger cage. OK well I looked up the record. Republicans all supported the surge, he's not only not the only one who supported the surge, I promise you no Republican attacked him for this
Hannity: but wait a minute
Coulter: and you know why I think he's saying that Sean,
Hannity: but wait a minute
Coulter: I realize cause he keeps saying it every debate, I'm the only one
Hannity: let me get this in this is important
Coulter: I was attacked by Republicans, he's confusing Republicans
Hannity: wait a minute
Coulter: with his liberal friends
Hannity: hang on a second
Coulter: they're the ones who attacked him for it,
Hannity: Hillary Clinton,
Coulter: his real friends.
Hannity: Hillary Clinton
Colmes: dont interrupt her
Hannity: Hillary Clinton if she gets her way
Coulter (to Colmes): thank you
Hannity: will nationalize health care, she's going to pull the troops out of iraq, we're going to hand...
Coulter: I don't think she will. She isn't going to be a weak one...
Hannity: well well that's what she's saying she's going to do she says
Coulter: Compared to John McCain she will be better
Hannity: let me finish my point she says in 100 days she immediately is going to begin to pull out she's going to hand Iraq over to AlQaeda
Coulter: she's running in a Democrat primary he's running in a Republican primary and their positions are about that far apart. When George Bush said at the State of the Union Address that the surge is working in Iraq, Obama sat on his hands, Kennedy sat on his hands, Hillary leapt up and applauded that we are winning in the surge and that the surge is working in Iraq. she gave much better answers in those debates when Democrats like Obama and Biden they were all saying oh well what do we do, what do we do if three cities are attacked, she said I will find who did it and I will go after them I would trust any Republican...
Colmes: I don't wanna
Hannity: you want to sit back?
Colmes: you know what can I just say something?
Coulter: i would trust any Republican but John McCain more than Hillary Clinton.
Colmes: hey Ann, Ann
Coulter: compared to John McCain, Hillary is absolutely more conservative.
Colmes: my work is done.
Coulter: moreover...
Colmes: my work is done!
Coulter: moreover she lies less than John McCain, I'm a Hillary girl now,
[loud laughter in studio as Colmes lifts her arm up in the air—he's either the ref at a prizefight or Coulter and Colmes are posing like running mates]
Coulter: she lies less than John McCain, she's smarter than John McCain, so that when she's caught shamelessly lying at least the Clintons know they've been caught lying.
[loud laughter in studio as Colmes sits back and puts his feet up on the desk]
Coulter: McCain is so stupid he doesn't even know he's been caught.
Colmes: Go. In fact could you fill in for me next week?
[loud laughter in studio]
Coulter: if its McCain I will
Colmes: let me get this straight, let me get this straight, would you vote for Hillary Clinton
Coulter: [erupts] Yes!
Colmes: you would actually go into a voting booth...
Coulter: If it's close and the candidate is John McCain, because John McCain is not only bad for Republicanism, which he definitely is, he is bad for the country, he is very very bad for the country.
