Since when has Coultergiest ever been embarassed about anything she said?

And it will help her sell another 5 copies of her asswipe book. I realize everything that vile woman does is performance art , but the show is getting a little stale

Coulter is one of the few conservative hacks who makes me feel not amused, pitying, or annoyed, but downright angry. Violently angry.

This is some funny stuff.

Ironically it was a liberals-hate-NASCAR bit that was the most infamous of all her fake "endnotes".

I forget the book -- and I'm not going to look it up -- but one of them ended with a reference to the NY Times not bothering to cover the death of Dale Ernhardt, then finally covering it several days later with a negative article on Ernhardt's funeral. Both those points had endnotes.

The first endnote did in fact refer to the NY Times on the day after Ernhardt's death. That's where the factual accuracy ended. Instead of not covering his death it was the top headline on the front page. Yes, that's right, Coulter claimed the absence of a topic in an edition of the NY Times that was in fact the main topic of that edition.

(My guess is that one of her College Republican interns looked up the NY Times on the day of the death, instead of the day after. But with Coulter who knows.)

Of course, the second endnote was just as bad, but not so obvious. There was a front page article that weekend, but far from being negative about NASCAR it was written by a life-long fan.

I love it when Ann Coulter talks about NASCAR in that pinched-nosed Mrs. Hathaway accent of hers. The voice of the people, that woman.

If Steve King is ever going to catch up to Michelle Bachman, he will have to quickly find a way to turn this into a constitutional ammendment. Perhaps he'll claim the G20 has outlawed advertising on motor vehicles, and propose that America will never surrender the right of free speech to a foreign body.

"If Obama can tell GM and Chrysler that their participation in NASCAR is an 'unnecessary expenditure,' isn't having public schools force students to follow Muslim rituals, recite Islamic prayers and plan 'jihads' also an 'unnecessary expenditure'?"

Is there any basis in the real world for these supposed public schools?

I must be out of the loop... when did public schools start forcing students to follow Muslim rituals? What schools is she talking about?

Republicans can never admit they were wrong about anything, because their followers might then start wondering what else they might be wrong about. They learn to do this in Sunday school, never questioning the inerrancy/infallibility of the Bible, for fear it might lead one down the path to atheism.

Has an article by Ann Coulter ever been corrected?

I fully expect Obama's attack on NASCAR will feature prominently in Coulter's next book.

Maybe Michelle Bachmann can introduce legislation addressing this Marxist conspiracy against NASCAR.

But was it a prank?

Isn't this just the kind of thing they'd like to get smeared about as an urban legend, like the Obama-is-a-Muslim meme?

It doesn't matter that they did it on April Fool's Day, now it's out there.

Too fucking bad it's not true.

How much CO2 do you think that 'sport' spits out in a year, more then a mid-sized town I bet. Then add in all the non-friendly environment additives and lubricants and on and on and that place is a cesspool before before you even open the gate.

WHO AMONG US WOULD FALL FOR THE NASCAR PRANK?

I could be wrong, just an assumption, after all, but I doubt there is very much overlap on the Venn diagram of Car and Driver readers and Washington Monthly readers.

Basic Principal of the Right Wing Slime Machine

If you repeat something enough times, and in enough places, it becomes "true."

How much CO2 do you think that 'sport' spits out in a year, more then a mid-sized town I bet. Then add in all the non-friendly environment additives and lubricants and on and on and that place is a cesspool before before you even open the gate.

I have no problem with limiting the use of internal combustion engines to NASCAR races. Drop in the bucket.

I must be out of the loop... when did public schools start forcing students to follow Muslim rituals? What schools is she talking about?

Apparently one school did have junior-high students read Islamic prayers and other rituals as part of a comparative religion class. Of course, it was a horrible affront to all Christians, everywhere, for all time to point out that people who follow other religions have, like, reasons for doing so and aren't just a bunch of murderous freaks.

The school did go a bit far with the role-playing and probably crossed the line separating church and state, but when has Coulter ever given a fuck about the separation of church and state?

Well, there are 40500 hits on google searching for "gm chrysler pulling out of nascar."

Checking the first couple of pages of hits they're wingnuts going spastic. Fits them to a T, this - but they can't be paying much attention to what GM and Chrysler have been up to over the past six months. Among other things, they've pulled out of NASCAR.

For a woman who tries to duck responsibility for every hateful epithet and smear that she utters by saying it's "just a joke," she sure is slow on the uptake about recognizing other people's jokes. But what's the big surprise? Her alcoholism has clearly done permanent brain damage, and that's been evident for years.

The admin would be well within its rights to insist on such a divestiture, if it felt like the NASCAR promotions weren't worth the money. Why the free-marketeers believe that free government money mustn't have strings attached, I'll never fathom.

More likely the NASCAR involvement is profitable, enhancing the companies' image with a key demo, and that's why the Obama admin hasn't put the kibosh on it.

"WHO AMONG US WOULD FALL FOR THE NASCAR PRANK?

I could be wrong, just an assumption, after all, but I doubt there is very much overlap on the Venn diagram of Car and Driver readers and Washington Monthly readers."

I think the title is a reference to a Maureen Dowd misquote of John Kerry, in which he supposedly said "who among us doesn't like NASCAR?"

Come on. One can be a progressive and a gear-head. C&D is one of the better written car mags, although it has suffered from a bit of a reactionary streak, which appears to have eased somewhat of late with staff turn-over (Brock Yates - I am talking about you). They were sued by Ralph Nader for publishing a letter purportedly from Ralph in which he complained about the quality of K-Mart blue light special hot dogs. I don't know who owns it now, but during the Bush years C&D's publisher was in part owned by a French conglomerate, one of whose major stock holders turned out to be an Iraqi named Saddam Hussein.