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� Nuptialed | Main | Attributing Einstein �Ann Coulter is one of the most repulsive media figures to ever emerge, dripping, from the slime pit of venom and hatefulness that creates mass-market screamers. Despite the fact that everything she says is coated with hostility, she maintains that conservatives are the nicest people around (I don't make a distinction on ideology for whether people are good, bad, nice, or nasty), and that liberals deserve a lesson or two.
After September 11, she said we should bomb Afghanistan into the ground, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. A conservative Jewish publication had that column posted online for a few hours before they realized what it said. She later claimed she was using rhetoric, but it didn't sound like allegory to me.
In some of her worst comments recently, she promoted the notion that the New York Times building should have been blown up by Timothy McVeigh. Every time I read that, I think, it must have been misquoted. But, no, she said it, and she meant it. The Wall Street Journal's execrable, craven editorial opinion page defended her in a variety of inane ways that don't even hold up to basic logical analysis.
But Howard Alterman puts a number of nails in the coffin of this undead talking head: Coulter jokes about McVeigh blowing up the Times, and the Wall Street Journal--which was blown up by terrorists on September 11--rushes to her defense. Their man, Daniel Pearl, was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. Have they no shame? At long last, have they no sense of decency left?.
Unfortunately, the words that helped destroy Joe McCarthy are as ineffective as tinfoil bullets against a werewolf. We hoped and prayed it would work, but they just bounce off, as she marauds on.
Posted by Glennf at September 6, 2002 7:29 AM
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This whore would only be good in a pornographic movie. I would jerk off to her movies.
Posted by: John at September 9, 2003 7:09 PM
Don,
Bob Unger was fired from the Centre Daily Times
for being as a big A**hole as yourself.
Get a clue boy and a diaper for your mouth.
fess
Posted by: Fess Hankins at August 4, 2003 8:33 AM
This bitch makes me Laugh. It is really entertaining to see a mentally retarded person on TV. Hope she continues her work/speech.... It is actually going to be good for the Democratic party.... Wish we had more of Anns. That will guarantee a Democratic victory in 2004.
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Posted by: ANtirice at July 26, 2003 12:59 AM
I am reminded by so many mythological evil characters who often are eventually judged,tried,and convicted by their own words. Ms. Coulter should make an attempt to live and heed her own beliefs. Judgement against others often returns to the hard-hearted attackers,even if they insist on the smokescreen of patriotism. Love for your country does not mean ignoring the world and losing your compassion.
Is her home filled with stakes and fuel to begin her own personal auto-de-fe?
Posted by: Donald Sanders at July 23, 2003 10:47 AM
Ann Coulter, Hay with you on Bush's side I'm sure he wont get elected ,for his first time ,as president.. Keep talking ..........you are good for the cause...
Posted by: h. mcpeck at July 15, 2003 6:09 PM
You hold the view that the only people allowed to breathe American air are conservatives. Anyone who disagrees with you is unpatriotic, un-American, immoral, and has no place in the United States.
Well I have news for you, Ann. I was born in America. I have a military ID and a passport. I pay taxes and vote. I am just as American as you and have just as much right to live, prosper, and speak my mind in this country as you do. Just because I may have different political views than you does not take away my citizenship and my rights as a citizen of the United States. I have the same constitutional rights as you do and am entitled just as you are to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You would seem to argue otherwise, such as your famous quote:
“We need to execute people like John Walker [Lindh] in order to physically intimidate liberals by making them realize that they could be killed too.”
Anne, let me explain something to you. Last time I checked, this isn’t Berlin in 1942. You do not live in a dictatorship where you have the authority to kill people who disagree with you.
And yet somehow I, being liberal, am the enemy, the terrorist, the horrible human with no soul, and you, the conservative, are righteous and perfect. I would like to know how this is possible. For starters, I have never advocated a terrorist attack on a building filled with civilians. But you certainly have [“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building,” New York Observer, August 21, 2002]. I have also never recommended that the Commander-in-Chief of our nation and the leader of the highest office in this country be murdered, which can’t be said the same for you, as you made the comment about President Clinton in 1998 that you weren’t sure which option was better, “impeachment or assassination.”
At this point I know you’re about to explain how apparently I don’t remember September 11th and that since I dare criticize anything Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or any Republican in power says or does I must hate America. I’ll let you save your breath. Yes, I remember September 11th. I cried on September 11th. I donated money to the New York City Firefighter’s Fund and draped my house in American flags. I supported the military action in Afghanistan. I responded the exact same way you did. For the most part. I didn’t recommend that we needed to “invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”
Furthermore, based on one of your infamous quotes, you really wouldn’t have minded September 11th all that much if Mohammed Atta had been a shitty pilot and had accidentally rammed Flight 11 into the New York Times Building instead of the World Trade Center. And it’s not like you even count it as part of the U.S. (“By ‘America,’ I obviously mean to exclude newsrooms, college campuses, Manhattan and Los Angeles.”) Come to think of it, with the exception of the death of your close friend Barbara Olsen on Flight 77, I’m surprised you had any problem at all with the terrorist attacks. Aside from Virginia, every state that lost a large number of people on 9/11 (Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and California) all voted Democratic in the 2000 election. And you yourself have said that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
One other thing I did want to make you aware of: I am allowed to disagree with the President. I did not vote for President Bush and disagree with most of his ideas on what is best for America. I respect him due to the fact that he is the President of the United States (and his handling of the aftermath of September 11th), but that does not mean I have to agree with what he does. As I recall, when President Clinton was in office you disagreed with everything he did (solely on principle) and were certainly very vocal about your views. I am entitled to the same thing you are when there is a President who is doing things I don’t feel are best for my country. You can’t spend eight years insulting, criticizing, and advocating assassination attempts on the Commander-in-Chief because you don’t like him and then scream treason when I say I don’t think we should go to war with Iraq until we find weapons of mass destruction. It doesn’t work that way.
Were I to utter the words, “If you don’t hate Bush and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don’t love your country,” you would be immediately screaming for my deportation to Guantanamo Bay. Yet in reality, you were the one who said that. The only difference is that I switched the word Clinton with Bush.
Ann, why don’t you pull the stick out of your ass and go get a real job. You are pathetic. All you know how to do is trash people different than you. In terms of me ever changing any of my political views and considering voting Republican, all I have to do is remember there are psychos like you on the far fringes of the party and I’ll remember to always vote Democrat.
Seeing how you have so much patriotism, I suggest you get out of my country and go find one with closer views to your own, such as Iran or China.
This world will be a much better place on the day the rest of this country learns how much of a horrible person you are and you get laughed out of town. Good riddance.
Posted by: Justin at July 11, 2003 7:56 PM
"Interesting. Coulter's main point is that the left currently relies on personal insults rather than observation, logic, and reasoned discourse."
Logic??? I guess being a Christian and believing that some omnipotent father figure in the sky is watchig over JUST the good old USA and nobody else is using "logic." Please, the conservative mind is incapable of using real logic. President Bush basis his decisions on what "God" tells him to do. How scary is that? Maybe that voice in W's head isn't god, maybe it's Jack Daniels.
Posted by: mike at June 26, 2003 10:42 AM
well im glad that you liberals know what you are up against!
Posted by: janie at April 24, 2003 1:50 PM
I'd have to agree with Micheal Moore &co...but to be rational, I fully agree that hatred doesn't pick sides.
please go to AnnCoulter.org and join in the "discussion" there. Be forewarned though, anyone who doesn't uphold racism, sexism, and biggotry will be called a troll and probably banned before their second post.
So why do I advocate it? Because it's an important learning experience.
I post on several other political webforums, and none of them have been so utterly fascistic in their tendency to gang up on anyone who argues and label them "trolls"
It's quite scary, and takes a strong stomach, but give it a try.
Posted by: miss c. at September 22, 2002 7:41 PM
I'd have to agree with Micheal Moore &co...but to be rational, I fully agree that hatred doesn't pick sides.
please go to AnnCoulter.org and join in the "discussion" there. Be forewarned though, anyone who doesn't uphold racism, sexism, and biggotry will be called a troll and probably banned before their second post.
So why do I advocate it? Because it's an important learning experience.
I post on several other political webforums, and none of them have been so utterly fascistic in their tendency to gang up on anyone who argues and label them "trolls"
It's quite scary, and takes a strong stomach, but give it a try.
Posted by: miss c. at September 22, 2002 7:40 PM
Ann Coulter's comments about the left or right are beside the point: her political approach eschews actual engaged discussion and a meeting of the minds. She isn't interested in creating a dialog that moves forward, but creating points that she can score on. The reason I feel capable of insulting her is not become I'm a leftist or a rightist or whatever, but because she promotes the notion of hate.
Hate is not a left or right problem. The left and right don't collectively have difficulty in creating dialog, either; specific individuals promoted by the media because of their mass popularity on the left and right do. Because the country is somewhat more right than left, we have more alleged conservatives who have little to do with the complex set of ideas that is pure conservatism than left-wing nuts who, likewise, don't have much to do with the actual tenets of liberalism.
My point is that if you tell people it's shame that your "opponents" weren't killed, and if you incite rage and violence against groups or individuals, that you're not engaging in dialog or political commentary. Rather, you're a demogogue trying to maintain popularity by preaching to the lowest common denominator, a strategy which works because of the poor civil education that most people are provided with that gives them little sense of how the country works, or even how to understand their civil and professional rights in living and working.
So when I assail Ann Coulter, I'm about as hard on her ass as I am on Michael Moore's: ideologues don't create better societies. Hate only turns to more hate. I need to rise above hating Ann Coulter and move into understanding how to promote ideas that make people have no interest in her.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at September 14, 2002 11:05 AM
"Ann Coulter is a crazy skull-faced bitch."
Interesting. Coulter's main point is that the left currently relies on personal insults rather than observation, logic, and reasoned discourse.
Trying to disprove her point by proving it doesn't seem particularly productive.
(She does use invective herself, which is why she is so amusing. Lefties can't handle the same techniques they use against others.)
Posted by: Michael Moore at September 14, 2002 9:30 AM
Ann Coulter is a crazy skull-faced bitch.
Posted by: Miranda at September 13, 2002 8:58 AM
Pfeh. That's not discourse, either. Republican and Democrats don't have typical patterns of rhetoric. That's a canard.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at September 10, 2002 6:59 AM
A Republican using common Democratic rhetorical techniques. Horrors.
"Ann Coulter is one of the most repulsive media figures to ever emerge, dripping, from the slime pit of venom and hatefulness that creates mass-market screamers."
Ah, a Democrat using common Democratic rhetorical techniques. Now that's more like it.
If you want out-of-context quotes, go here:
http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/
Posted by: anonycoward at September 9, 2002 10:11 PM
Bob Unger, editor of the Centre Daily Times (State College, PA, home of Penn State), recently wrote an editorial explaining why the paper is no longer carrying Coulter's column.
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/3977402.htm
Don
Posted by: Don Arbow at September 9, 2002 11:08 AM
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