Ann Coulter may have finally found a country with that perfect mix of robust conservative values and restrictions on the free press . Only days after Ann Coulter was met with thunderous applause at CPAC after proclaiming “I think there should be more jailed journalists,” Iranian officials have announced the creation of a new court for media crimes. It is not clear whether the Iranians will name the new tribunals “Coulter courts” but they should be a real crowd pleaser for those who wildly applauded at CPAC.
In the video below, when an audience member asked Coulter about the problem of “jailed journalists” around the world, Coulter responded by saying that she did not view that as a problem and wanted to see more jailed journalists. The only statement that seemed to thrill the crowd as much was the pledge of Newt Gingrich to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency.
It appears that stoning people under Sharia law is not sufficient. Abbas Zagholi, the head of Iran’s Government Employees Court, said the new judicial branch “was necessitated by the special media crimes . . . For certain reasons, such as great developments in mass media, the Tehran prosecutor felt the need to create a more independent court to deal with media affairs.”
Iran has become a paradise for Coulter with at least 34 journalists detained at the end of last year in Iran. They are now tied with that other Coulteresque society: China. According to the article below, those jailed reporters include Mohammad Davari, editor of the news website Saham News, who was arrested after reporting on the rape and torture of detainees at Kahrizak Detention Center.
Many American conservatives have argued that American journalists should have been criminally charged for revealing the torture of detainees by the Bush Administration and the use of secret prisons. This was the subject of a hearing at the House Intelligence Committee where I testified for media protections, here.
Source: CNN
Jonathan Turley
Wayne,
I’ll second that suggestion!
I suggest sending Andy Coulter to Iran to report from the scene.
Elaine and Mike S.,
Great Coulter poetry! Elaine that video from Letterman was hysterical!
frank,
I think you are right that the Right seems to only love the parts of the Constitution that floats their own boat.
Well Coulter and can afford to take that position; she, nor anyone on FOX, will ever be mistaken for a journalist and arrested.
—
Mike,
“bottle blonde bitch”
Oh, I love that line–and the alliteration!
*****
“much wind, little substance”
How true, how true!
Elaine,
With my apologies an attempted Haiku from a non-poet:
Ann Coulter,
much wind, little substance,
bottle blonde bitch,
too much notice.
well, some people take her seriously…
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It always amazes me that these people who claim to love America and the Constitution soooooooooo much seem to love the governments who would crush the liberties that made us great to start with.
How many times have you heard one of these wingnuts express deep admiration for China’s legal system(put a bullet in their brain & send the bill for it to the family)? Or the physical punishment if Singapore? Or for old Soviet tactics of arrest without warrant and secret trials? And of course elimination of freedom of the press? And, of course, censorship like Iran?
People like mAnn Coulter have really forfeited the right to call themselves patriotic American’s and the fact that they are allowed to appear on legitimate news shows is a symbol of how far our public discourse has fallen to the wingnut assault.
Hey, those journalists might deserve punishment! Perhaps they defamed a former NAACP leader! 😉
There seems to be a pandemia going on among politicians; so many have broken their brains. Newspapers: According to “Swedish Frids & Skiljedomsføreningen” an internationally esteemed organisation, it takes 60.000 trees to make ONE days supply of “News”-papers and leaflets in the Stockholm area. Trees are the ONLY cleaner of air and producers of Oxygen (93%-the Oceans 7%) It is possible to make News-“papers” that you do not just discard after use: Philips has developed a soft plastic sheet with LCD. It can be mounted with some buttons for choise of editor and scroll, and have colour-pics in 3D. After reading it youn roll it up and put in pocket/bag. Next day you have news (No-TREE-NEWS) without destroying a single tree! (takes 70 years to grow up)ECO-LOGY for dummies, plastic-sheet recyclable. FREE IDEA courtesy Johnny de Vulcan
The one thing all of these commentators on the right have in common is they will keep trying to talk over you,no matter what your argument to their stance.
“All I have to say about Ann Coulter is this. If this guy wants to live his life as a woman I’m going to back his choice up 100 percent.”
http://thejoshuablogs.blogspot.com/2010/02/olbermann-on-coulter-if-this-guy-wants.html
Remember this?
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I guess the Free Press is not free anymore….
Great going Elaine….
Trying to keep the smiles on your faces this morning:
“I actually don’t think Arpaio would run for Senate, because a county sheriff has a lot more direct power to punish and humiliate people — all while relentlessly self-promoting oneself — than one junior senator. A senator can vote to keep Guantánamo open, sure, but a sheriff gets to actually set up little camps and frog-march his prisoners around town.”
http://www.salon.com/news/2012_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/15/arpaio_versus_flake
Not my best effort…but I’ll post it anyway.
If Only Somebody Would: A Terse Verse about Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter?
Somebody bolt ‘er
mouth shut…
or stitch it up with catgut…
or gag her with a dirty sock.
I can’t bear to hear her squawk!
What BIL said.:=)
lol
Both funny and true, Elaine!
For those who’d like a good laugh this morning:
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After last week, I can see why they want Chris Christie to run for president.
I’m talking about the leaders of the national Republican Party. They’re in a tough spot. Their party is disappearing out from under them.
That was in evidence not just at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, where Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were booed, but in a poll that was released by the Pew Research Center.
The poll gave evidence of what conservatives have been arguing for years: There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republican and Democratic parties, at least on economic issue
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2011/02/if_mitt_becomes_moot_will_chri.html