Ann Coulter Morning Joe, Ann Coulter bleeped on 'Morning Joe'Ann Coulter was bleeped on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show on Tuesday but the censoring didn’t work and the conservative pundit could be heard using some words not fit for TV - apparently about Sen. John McCain.
Coulter appeared to call John McCain (R-Ariz) a “douche bag” on the morning show, in the context of a conversation where she said she preferred conservative principles to mere consistency.
While talking about the Arizona senator, Coulter’s audio was bleeped by the show, cutting in and out three separate times, for a total of about 13 seconds.
After the sound returned, Coulter paused, realized that something had happened, and then could be heard asking others on the show, “What did I say? Oh, douche bag.”
“Just blur it all out,” host Joe Scarborough responded, apparently talking to the control room.
“Okay, well they got the general drift of that,” Coulter said. “Consistency is not a great thing, and especially someone like John McCain who consistently annoyed conservatives, bragged about annoying conservatives, and would claim he was courageous by attacking conservatives and getting good press in the New York Times.”
The conversation on the show moved on quickly after that with the hosts and guests showing little reaction at that point.
Coulter was unrepentant and later tweeted, “I didn’t call McCain a douchebag. I said consistency is overrated because, for example, McCain was consistently a dickweed.”
After the show, Scarborough repeatedly tweeted, “John McCain is a great American hero. All of us on Morning Joe thank him for his service to America. He is a great man.”
Coulter has long disliked McCain. In the 2008 election cycle, she said that she would vote for Hillary Clinton before voting for McCain.
The Arizona senator’s office declined comment on Coulter’s comments Tuesday.
Coulter also disparaged the late Senator Ted Kennedy on Morning Joe as “human pestilence,” a point that prompted guest Mike Barnicle to speak up in Kennedy’s defense.
“We miss him in Massachusetts and I think the country, and especially in the Senate - I think Barack Obama more than anybody because if Ted Kennedy had been alive, that health care debate would have lasted about five months,” said Barnicle.
“As a columnist, I miss him desperately,” quipped Coulter.
Some 15 minutes later on in the show, host Joe Scarborough returned to the topic of Ted Kennedy.
“He was a very close friend of yours,” Scarborough said to Barnicle. “He was a wonderful man to me - in difficult times when other people weren’t.”
Scarborough praised Kennedy and McCain a total of six times on his Twitter feed Tuesday, calling the former a “friend” and the latter a “hero and a great man.”
Later Tuesday, Barnicle told POLITICO that the offensive comments about Kennedy didn’t register with him at first.
“We - all of us who share space on MJ - make an attempt to be civil. Besides, it’s too early in the day to start tossing slime-balls at people; who wants to listen to stuff like that in between making a school lunch or looking for your shoes? So what she said didn’t register with me for a few seconds. My bad. When it did I responded,” he said via e-mail.
Coulter’s was on the show to talk about her support for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, among other topics.
The conservative pundit’s comments come after frequent Morning Joe guest Mark Halperin was suspended in June for calling President Barack Obama a “dick” on the show. Halperin has since apologized and the suspension has been lifted.
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