June 8, 2006
ANN COULTER CHALLENGES PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO INSANE COMMENT CONTEST

Conservative Pundit, Iranian Madman to Face Off on Live TV

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter today challenged Iranian president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to what she called "an insane comment contest" on
live TV to determine who is the insane comment champion of the world.

Appearing on Fox News this morning, the sharp-tongued darling of the
right wing said that while she respects Mr. Ahmadinejad's work, she
believes he will be "no match" for her arsenal of crazy, unhinged
remarks.

"I've heard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nutty rants in the past, and while I
think he comes off like a total bananahead, in a one-on-one with me he
will be the picture of sanity," Ms. Coulter said.

In Iran, President Ahmadinejad accepted Ms. Coulter's challenge and
said that while he was "confident of victory" he recognized that
besting her in an insane comment contest "would not be easy."

"In any competition involving verbal lunacy, Ann Coulter is the
favorite going in," Mr. Ahmadinejad.  "I will need to train for this
for months."

But even as the rules for the insane comment contest were being set,
North Korean president Kim Jong-Il and televangelist Pat Robertson
expressed outrage that they had been excluded from the competition and
demanded to be invited.

Within hours, Ms. Coulter apologized for omitting President Kim and the
Rev. Robertson but said that the omission would be corrected: "Me,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Pat Robertson and Kim Jong-Il: that's the Final
Four."

Elsewhere, President Bush hailed the elimination of terror mastermind
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, telling reporters, "The world has been rid of a
tricky-to-pronounce name."

--- Andy Borowitz

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