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Ann Coulter Battles John Stossel & a Room Full of Libertarians: This Is Why People Think You’re ‘Pu**ies!’

Feb. 22, 2013 9:47am Becket Adams

Conservative talker Ann Coulter appeared Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Stossel” to do battle with the show’s Libertarian host — and his 1,400+ Libertarian guests.

Their biggest point of contention? Social Conservatism versus the Libertarian “Individuals Should Be Left Alone” approach.

The evening began pleasantly enough, the two discussing whether the U.S. should’ve invaded Iraq following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Coulter believes military action was justified because Saddam Hussein was “definitely looking for uranium from Niger.”

But then things became a little more heated when Stossel decided to shift gears and brought up legalizing drugs.

“Libertarians and pot,” Coulter laughed. “This is why people think libertarians are pu**ies.”

Now although Fox censored the word, Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell was on the scene and can testify to Coulter’s language.

She continued:

We’re living in a country that is 70-percent socialist, the government takes 60 percent of your money. They are taking care of your health care, of your pensions. They’re telling you who you can hire, what the regulations will be. And you want to suck up to your little liberal friends and say, “Oh, but we want to legalize pot.”

You know, if you’re a little more manly you would tell them what your position on employment discrimination is. How about that? But it’s always “We want to legalize pot.”

Stossel went all in Libertarian versus Social Conservatism: “Why can’t gays get married?”

“Well, they can,” she answered. “They have to marry a member of the opposite sex.”

The 1,400+ Libertarian students, who were there as a part of Stossel’s annual taping at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C., became increasingly hostile, jeering and booing Coulter along the way.

“This is another one where you’re just sucking up to liberals when there are big fights,” Coulter continued.

“No, we believe the individual should be left alone,” Stossel responded.

“Marriage is the most important institution to civilize young people. I make divorce a lot more difficult,” she said. “Liberals want to destroy the family.”

She explained that the left wants to destroy the family so that people will become totally dependent on government.

More jeers and boos.

“How is it any of your business what I choose to put in my body if I’m not affecting anyone else?” one student asked during the Q&A session, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd.

“First of all, for alleged individualists, you’re very mob-like,” Coulter said. “Second of all, it is my business because we are living in a welfare state … Right now, I have to pay for, it turns out, coming down the pike, your health care. I have to pay for your unemployment when you can’t hold a job. I have to pay for your food, for your housing. Yeah, it’s my business!”

Now to be clear, Coulter is no stranger to hostile environments and she and Stossel have long been on good terms. So it was not surprising to see the segment end amicably as the Libertarians students gave her a respectful send-off.

Still, that’s not to say that Coulter versus Libertarianism wasn’t something to see:

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Comments (764)

momo85
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:35am
Okay, Ann. It’s time for you to stop speaking as a conservative. You pick and choose which areas of your life, or other peoples’ lives, that you want the government to invade. That is not true liberty. That is exactly what LIBERALS do, except they choose different areas to take control over. For the record, I am a conservative, Bible believing Christian, and I hate drugs. But the war on drugs was lost from the start, and was never the government’s place to fight. We’ve lost countless lives, and countless dollars to fighting this unwinnable war. For what? So that you can take away peoples’ liberty to smoke or ruin their own lives if they want? You sound like Michelle Obama or mayor Bloomberg. Of course those things are bad for you, but the aren’t inherently dangerous to others. No different from Alcohol, and we saw how well banning Alcohol worked. I don’t believe that gays can truly be married (in the sight of God), but certainly don’t believe Government has the right to say anything about the spiritual institution that is Marriage. It’s a religious thing. It would be like regulating communion. Some people don’t believe in communion. So why should the government have anything to say about it? You want the government to be able to dictate who can get married? You are ceding the authority of God in your life to a human institution. Think deeply about the things you say first, before calling libertarians vulgarities. If I was a liberal, I would make fun of you all day l

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ionamerica
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:35am
Conservatives tend to lump all drugs together, then treat alcohol as if it is somehow different. In the days before drug legalization, the 20s, people knew that drugs were bad and cautioned each other to stay away from people who were taking addictive drugs like “laudanum” (Heroin). Now various types of methamphetamine are ravaging our communities. Frankly, it’s my body, there’s no fetus involved, and if you find yourself subsidizing my my kids, my drug habit or my alcohol addiction, that’s a sign that government has grown far too big. Ann Coulter and other conservative do gooders should just mind their own business. Their ignorance on the subject of drugs could fill small books. For example, most people here don’t know that LSD is not addictive. I’ve seen two studies that have completely failed to connect pot smoking with cancer. PCP was supposed to be addictive, but I’ve never met a PCP addict. In 1980, I was arrested for having pot in my car (it wasn’t mine) and charged with a FELONY. Now that arrest record is interfering with my employment thanks to two different bureaucracies set up by do-gooders who can’t mind their own business. Is crack dangerous? You bet. I know one guy who ended up killing himself with it (after completely destroying his income and moving in with his parents). Another guy got so shook up, he started burning down his rental properties for the insurance money. [Out of space.]

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Blazen420
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:35am
I’m sure Ann & I can agree on a heck of a lot more than any democrat you could pick out of the crowd, but the problem is, Republicans aren’t really for smaller government or individual liberty. Who came up with Homeland Security & the TSA? Folks, if you believe that republicans are for more freedom than Democrats, you ain’t paying attention at all. How many Republican talking heads came out immediately following Newtown, saying we need to ban some of these guns? The Republicans of today are the Democrats of yesterday.

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De-Elect
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:35am
I love Anne. I don’t always agree with her, but her candor earns my respect. She won’t give way to sexist liberals and their verbal abuse.

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crusaderx9
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:33am
Remember, Ann Coulter is a Hillary supporter.

Her bipolar persona can be entertaining, but she is all over the political map. She has had a political love affair with both Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton.

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LameLiberals
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:33am
Republicans AND democrats FIGHT with each other – LOL LOL LOL on whether captured enemy should be tried in a USA court……………

What A-HOLES – Such as SIMPLE SOLUTION

Congress should DECLARE WAR OFFICIALLY IN WRITING against radical Islam (al queda/hamas/whatever name) . Then ALL captured enemy FALL UNDER THE GENENA CONVENTION LAW – NOT USA law.

END OF DISCUSSION.

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- LameLiberals
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:57am
  Republicans and Democrats ALSO FIGHT on whether Bush was right to go to war in Iraq or whether Obmaa was right to go to war in Libya!!!
  
  LIBERTARIANS (AND THE CONSTITUTION) say THEY ARE BOTH WRONG
  
  FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION by having CONGRESS – OFFICIALLY IN WRITING DECLARE WAR – not punt THEIR responsibility to a president.
  
  END OF DISCUSSION
  
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CGray
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:32am
Here’s my last point.

Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with removing laws restricting drugs IF the public showed no interest in them in the first place. IF parents were taking a harder line on punishing their kids for taking them, teaching them how to live healthy, respect the neighbors and show concern and care for the public.

But that is not the case.

We have a large percentage of the population who want what they want, when they want it, and they don’t care who they have to hurt to get it. That is dead wrong and makes them a clear danger to other people.

Here’s my question as a social conservative. Why is it that Libertarians and Liberals insist on fighting for the right to put things in their own bodies that statistics have shown make them a public nuisance at best and a threat at worst? If Libertarians want freedom so much, then why do they promote lawless behavior? Even if pot were legalized, users still pose a safety risk to other people. There’s no way around that. So if freedom is so important to them, then why can’t they accept and acknowledge the role of personal and moral responsibility?

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- The Third Archon
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:56am
  “Even if pot were legalized, users still pose a safety risk to other people.”
  How? Alcohol poses a FAR greater “potential safety risk” to other people–if you are going to rationalize the proscription of marijuana possession and use on that basis, then you would ALSO necessarily have to ban the possession and consumption of alcohol. Is that what you are suggesting we should do as a society?
  
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- LameLiberals
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:18pm
  I would not have a problem legalizing ALL DRUGS as LONG as there were STRICT LAWS:
  
  1. that put your axx in prison FOR A LONG TIME – no parole – if you break the law to pay for those drugs.
  
  2. that NO TAXPAYER money was used to rehabilitate your axx OUTSIDE of a prison environment. You can go COLD TURKEY inside prison. And if you get drugs in prison and are still addicted after serving your prison sentence and get caught breaking the law to get money to buy drugs – BYE BYE – BACK TO PRISON. 3rd time in prison for drugs – get the ULTIMATE DRUG – the death penalty shot in the arm.
  
  You made your drug bed – lay in it.
  
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- Sandalman
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:38pm
  Murder is illegal. You can use a gun to commit it. Should we therefore make guns illegal?
  
  Murder is illegal. You can use a drug to impair yourself, then drive. Should we therefore make the drug illegal?
  
  Be careful. There are LOADS of people using perfectly legal drugs to kill. Should they all be illegal?
  
  Most violent crimes committed by junkies are the result of them not having access to their drug of choice. The only reason for this is prohibition.
  
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- CGray
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 10:57am
  Third Archon, You missed the point entirely. Libertartians want freedom without responsibility. The irony is as long as a growing number of people insist on making life choices that put themselves and others in harms way, a small government presence would be IMPOSSIBLE.
  
  Libertartians and Liberals ignore the role of judeo-christian values in the success of our nation. Even the Founding Fathers knew the consequences of an immoral society.
  
  John Adams said “Our constitution was made ONLY for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
  
  The only way to have a small government is through the conscious decision of the people to govern themselves. Libertartians do not recognize that.
  
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CGray
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:31am
What is the rate of alcohol related car accidents? I saw a report stating that in 2010, 1/3 of the driving related crashes were alcohol related. Drugs other than alcohol (like pot and cocaine) are responsible for 18% of auto driver deaths. I could go on about the facts all day. Pot isn’t legal now in most states and it is a public nuisance and a threat to public safety. That’s not to include the threat it poses to the public regarding a distortion of judgement. To say that one chosing to get high is no one else’s business shows a lack of acceptance of personal responsibility when it comes to a civilized society. It is a ridiculous argument. Marijuana is a serious drug with serious consequences. According to an article in USA Today, of the number of people arrested and made to take drug tests, 87% tested positive in Chicago, 78% in Sacramento. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-27-arrestees_N.htm

Legallizing marijuana may eliminate a large number of arrests for possession of it, but it does not solve the problem of crime and car related deaths.

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- LameLiberals
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:21pm
  2 wrongs do NOT make a right.
  
  That 18% of drug car accidents will GO UP once drugs are legalized.
  
  Unless there is a way for cops to TEST for marijuana use like there is for alcohol use – it should not be legalized.
  
  Once there is a marijuana test like there is for an alcohol test for cops to USE – THROW the person convicted IN JAIL FOR 2 YEARS – MINIMUM – NO PAROLE – NO EXCUSES!!!
  
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Rob
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:31am
That is all libertarianism is “legalize dope.” I think libertarians are all a bunch of dopes.

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CGray
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:31am
I’m going to split my argument up so I can get my full thought in here. Here’s part one.

Libertarians want all of the benefits of freedom without the responsibility.
To say that taking pot does not affect other people when you take it is a huge denial of the facts. People could say the same thing about alcohol. And yet, what are the chances that someone taking pot is just going to sit in their room with it and wait until the high wears off. Of course not. People get high to relax and enjoy themselves (the medical argument is just as lame as saying Playboy has great articles) which means they are going to go out and interact with other people. And no matter what drug you are taking, it impairs your motor skills, judgement and other things.

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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:27pm
  My suggestion is to put strict consequences in place for those who cause accidents while using.
  
  That would allow many “safe” prisoners to get back out into society and start working again. (reducing our tax burden by housing them in jail). It would also save money at checkpoints and by not requiring helicopters to fly around searching for pot fields.
  
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Atrum Angelis
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:27am
I agree and I don’t. Yeah, you can put anything you want in your body. As long as I’m not paying for it later. If you want to take drugs, you can pay for the consequences of your actions. That’s what I mean by “None of my business.” You can do anything you want, you just have to deal with it later. However, with more and more people living of the taxpayer dime, it should stay illegal.

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rfycom
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:25am
Ann is not a leader people. She is a business. Her business is to sell books. REPRESENT

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RodT82721
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:21am
Now Stossel knows why all those liberal university students throw pies at Ann, if they let her into the building.
If only we a few thousand Anns in our media every day.
Maybe then our dear leader couldn’t create his crises, then blame Republicans for them, like this latest sequester crisis, from Barry’s own White House, his idea, he got dingy Harry to go along, signed it into law, then went on TV to warn Republicans they better not try to change it!
He swore to veto any attempt to stop the cuts!

Now he’s back in campaign mode, on TV once again, blaming it all on Republicans and predicting dire results from a 2.4% cut in a scheduled 8% increases in his spending.
Teachers, Fireman, 1st responders all across the land (he has not control over) will lose their jobs?
Tens of thousands of Federal workers made to stay home 1 day a week for a couple of months, Seniors will not get their free drugs or pension checks.

The sky will surly fall, if Barry is not caved in to, and allowed to take some more income tax from anyone still working.

No mention of how this will effect his green energy investments, his $20 Million family vacations on the tax payers, or his campaign travels on our AF-1 at $186,000.00 per hour in the air.
No one on the dole will lose anything, unless like SS, they have paid in already, those he will make sure suffer.
It’s how Barry makes the point he’s the messiah, and intends to win the 2014 elections, with his low information voters

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xpilotah1s
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:18am
Most people feel uncomfortable with Ann C because she is so brutally honest and many find this type of honesty threatening. Besides I love to hear her talk and she is sooooooooooooooooo Hot.

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carollouise
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:17am
Ann Couter is RIGHT! There are bigger issues… We do not have time for hypotheticals anymore. This country is in big trouble. We are losing freedoms and the government IS controlling us more and more….

I think Ann Coulter is fabulas! She is so brave and will go into a room of people against her and against what she believes and yet she speaks out! And she speaks the truth!

Love Ann! YOU GO GIRL!

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maryann72961
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:14am
I want every dime I paid into social security from the time I was 15 years old up through my current age of 52

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- carollouise
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:23am
  Stossel makes me sick sometimes. Yes, I believe in basically what he is saying, that the givernment should stay out of our lives. YES! He is rght on that… But really, he wines a lot too… He is on this big kick trying to legalize pot and Ann is right. Enough!
  
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maryann72961
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:11am
I find it amazing that the majority believe that the goverment doesn’t have a right to decide what goes into someone’s body, if it doesn’t have an effect on anyone else. This is their argument for legalizing drugs. However, the goverment is working on regulating the food you eat, the size glass you can have for your drink, what can be packed into your childs lunch at school. I guess I get a little peeved when the fight for the rights to keep goverment out of our life, is to make it legal to use drungs, and ignore all the ways the goverment is killing our republic.

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rfycom
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:10am
Come on now. Reach down deep. Remove the foggy thing in your head that allows you to loose all logic when you think of politics. Ann is nuts. We can all agree, but she is desperate to keep selling books. To make a living spewing BS like she does…. Is that going to actually get her into heaven? NO

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altops
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:09am
Gay marriage is illegal because you’re trying to use this state to force a religious entities to bend their doctrine according to the will of the state and that is an unconstitutional infringement where is no enumerated powers wherever granted so henceforth there can be no gay marriage because this state has no authority to dictate to a religious entities what their doctor in is going to be. End of story. How is it no one makes this common sense argument but ME?

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krenshau
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:09am
I agree with her, when her remarks are taken in context. While I agree with Stossel that the Government should have no say in who I marry and what I put in my body, they lay down and say nothing on anything else the liberals try to do that infringe on their/our rights.

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person.of.nocolor
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:07am
Libertarians, Mr. Sandalwood, or whatever your name is, do not live in reality. We actually live in a world where force is required. If it were not so we would have never exited our mother’s wombs. So please don’t talk about God and Jesus with me because I can tell you are justifying your own behavior just as the Pharisees did in the Bible times. You haven’t even left for 1st base yet as far as learning what the Bible says. You have a dim future. Listen to Ravi Zacharias a while at rzim.org and maybe you’ll have a chance.

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- Sandalman
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:36am
  How does your statement “Force is required” fit into what Jesus said about turning the other cheek 70 times 7? If you, sir, are a spokesperson for Ravi, I reject you both outright.
  
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Clever Username
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:07am
#1. So with that logic we should allow murder of born people and “let her take it up with God when she dies”. Does the child get a choice? It’s not the mother’s body I give a flying f about, it’s the voiceless, defenceless, inocent human growing and developeing inside it’s mother that I stand with. We obviously disagree when life begins, but I will ALWAYS “fault” on the side of that little person’s life, future dreams, future accoplishments, future family and their future pursuit of happiness. Please think about it and I pray you have a change of heart.
#2-6 Right on right on

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spfoam1
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:05am
Libertarians, conservatives, Christians, republicans etc….squabble and argue, dividing themselves, to the great delight of the democrats who always stick together when it comes time to vote.

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person.of.nocolor
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:03am
I would not be proud to be a Libertarian. Its nothing but a shadow of an arrow to pierce the problems our society is having. They are grasping at shadows all of them. Then laughing and mocking when an original thought crosses their path. This does not bode well for the future of America and these, apparently, were supposed to be the best and brightest young Libs?

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Sandalman
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:03am
The use of force is what we libertarians protest most strongly. If the federal gov’t actually respected the 10th Amendment, there would be realistic bastions of freedom available. We are all forced, at the end of a gun, with the threat of being caged, to pay for the welfare of another. Now explain- Ms. Coulter, anyone- how folks who speak out against that threat are the *******.

These days we mostly obey laws because of threat, rarely because its just the right thing to do. And with good reason.

The answer to big gov’t will NEVER be more gov’t. The Lord made Adam and Eve with free will. That world, we’re told, had everything today’s world has naturally. Among them was CANNABIS. To be clear, I do not and have never toked up even once. I have no right to deny you that freedom, because I am not greater than Almighty God Himself. Opium is natural. Tobacco is natural. You have the God-given right to do ANYTHING if you don’t harm others. In a libertarian world, you have the right to be stupid, AND the right to correct your mistakes YOUR WAY.

I live my life in a Bible-guided, conservative manner. I have NO right to force you, at the end of a gun, with the threat of a cage, to do as I do!

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- rfycom
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:11am
  I’ll smoke one in your name Sandalman.
  
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- sharpeye
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:41am
  Amen!
  
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