Is Right Wing Media Gasping Its Final Breath?
Ann Coulter, In an attempt to promote her new book "Guilty" was canceled on by NBC's Today Show, ironically... today. CBS picked up the slack but it didn't seem like Harry Smith, host of The Early Show, was all that crazy about hosting the right wing nut either, calling her views "sophomoric" among other things.
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"who is 'sophomoric and
"who is 'sophomoric and simplistic'" ?
Yikes. I was talking about Coulter, of course.
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
who is "sophomoric and
who is "sophomoric and simplistic" ? Ann Coulter or I (I wouldn't have got the very deep thoughts of this woman... so deep that you can't see it).
OK, for that I might watch a
OK, for that I might watch a vampire flick. LOL
Hey, Annie, if you're going
Hey, Annie, if you're going to quote me, get it right. "Ok, mom, thanks for the advice."
I read this too fast the
I read this too fast the first time and thought you wrote, "Or maybe Rachel could just stake her."
Rachel the Vampire Slayer has a nice ring to it.
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
Several people have advocated
Several people have advocated taking Ann Coulter's statements seriously and engaging her in debate. There is an incorrect assumption that she publishes her books and columns because she wants to engage in debate. Coulter tosses rhetorical incendiary devices to get attention and sell her books She's not interested in debate.
If anyone thinks she is, kindly describe the best way to debate someone who makes claims like there:
"Girl-power feminists who got where they are by marrying men with money or power -- Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington and John Kerry -- love to complain about how hard it is for a woman to be taken seriously. It has nothing to do with their being women. It has to do with their cheap paths to power. Kevin Federline isn't taken seriously either."
On President Clinton: "Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten."
On Voting: “It would be a much better country if women did not vote.”
On the Press: “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.”
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant."
"Only Spain remains a nation of women. As long as Spain exists, it will not outlive the shame of its gutless capitulation to terrorist bombings in 2004. It is worse than Sweden's neutrality toward Hitler."
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
so i guess that's what the
so i guess that's what the guys were doing when they criticized Hillary's ankles, her pantsuits, her cackle, and why they described her as a "washed-up old hag", a "hellish housewife", a “scolding mother" (as fg called me), etc etc etc all because they would hve loved to find her appealing but "HC didn't have an attractive brain/spirit. in the absence of intellectual/emotional affinities, the men fixated on HC's WARDROBE and LAUGH, freudian displacement techniques, or poetic devices (part for whole, synecdoche) allowing THEM to vent rage without doing irrevocable harm."
sexy indeed.
“welding her mouth shut” is
“welding her mouth shut” is violent. If someone would state that our mouths should be welded shut we would call them misogynist and anti-free-speech.
ARGUE against Coulter and find way to be heard and be convincing. CAMW, you and others sure have the intelligence to do it. Violence and suggestions of violence are simply wrong (and ultimately backfire), regardless of stance.
Wow, brains and wit! I think
Wow, brains and wit! I think I'm in love, lol!
I wouldn't care if Coulter
I wouldn't care if Coulter was what my ideal of physical beauty would be. The moment she opens her mouth and spews forth her hatred, she still becomes one of the ugliest women I know of.
Why is it that freedom of
Why is it that freedom of expression means anyone can say anything they want, even if it incites violence, but that no one has the right to express an opposing view? Why is it the right wing is always playing "victim" when they get called out for the things they say and do?
No, Coulter brought this crap on herself, as did Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and the rest of the neocons who hate this country and everything it stands for.
Free speech also means that
Free speech also means that we should have the right to be critical of that speech. The Coulters of the world would love to have their say and no one challenge it, because they think free speech only applies to them, and that no one should be allowed to challenge their words of hate. They spew forth hatred, and then play the role of victim when the targets of that hatred fight back.
If Coulter and her ilk don't want anyone challenging them, they should keep their fracking mouths shut, period.
Or maybe Rachel could just
Or maybe Rachel could just shake her. I know, she wouldn't do that; Just play yourself a sweet little daydream sequence -until it hurts, and then just a little longer. Pardon the inexact quote. Time for beddy-bye.
I'm gonna guess inhospitable
I'm gonna guess inhospitable womb.
Oh damn! I can't breathe. I
Oh damn! I can't breathe. I have a new one: TFFTB
Too fucking funny to breathe AKA CMW
Her theme song. Right on!
Her theme song. Right on!
BREATH NOT BREADTH THX
BREATH
NOT BREADTH
THX
Maybe Rachel Maddow can come
Maybe Rachel Maddow can come over and shake her up a little morning eye-opener, so she can just loosen up a lil and check it with the vitriol. I am reminded of the incident several years back where a tipsy John Riggins (Redskin running back) says to Justice Sandra O'Connor at a dinner party, "Loosen up, Sandy baby!"
Yah for sure. Skin and bones
Yah for sure. Skin and bones not really my type either, but I don't think she can be classified as ugly looking (in the sexist sense) and that makes a difference on TV.
Maybe the anorexic look appeals to her fellow neocons? Are neocons the kind of sexist people who want a woman to be skinny rather than healthy? I don't think I have met any neocons (fortunately it seems) - we only have old-fashioned conservatives around here.
EB, you're making me crush
EB, you're making me crush HARDER on you.
Bulls-eye!
Bulls-eye!
@kdhales
it's not sexist on FG's part,
it's not sexist on FG's part, it's sexy. FG would LOVE to admire these sartorial choices or find them perversely appealing, if only AC had an attractive brain/spirit. in the absence of intellectual/emotional affinities, FG fixates on WARDROBE, a freudian displacement technique, or poetic device (part for whole, synecdoche) allowing her to vent rage without doing irrevocable harm.
Ok, mom, thanks for the
Ok, mom, thanks for the advice.
Correction, that's Harry
Correction, that's Harry Smith, not Reid.
"Fight Prime Time. Read a Book"
Boy she is one twisted
Boy she is one twisted sister. For a second I thought she was making a little bit of sense by saying that Obama isn't/won't get more death threats for being black than the right wing Republicans such as Bush/Cheney/ etc. have gotten. She's correct there. Anarchists , Communists etc. have threatened Bush and Cheney's lives on many occasion. I've heard and seen them do it.
But...what does that have to do with anything? Is she saying that all liberals are evil whiners who are just unhappy with their lives and blame "the system" for it rather than their own actions......AND Right Wingers are the "good" people? She seems to be the one who is doing most of the whining. Sophomoric describes her pretty well.
Then she goes off on some twisted explanation of why she thinks that Liberals are actually the oppressors and Republicans are the victims. Huh??
Harry Reid was just as annoying and I didn't feel that he gave very compelling arguments either. That interview was a waste of time and it makes me angry that people like that make a hell of a lot more money than teachers and other more intelligent people in the world.
"Fight Prime Time. Read a Book"
"Sophomoric and simplistic".
"Sophomoric and simplistic". He gave her way too much credit.
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
That's very funny!! But you
That's very funny!! But you still give her importance.
Shouldn't you put it in the "mind deficiency" (medical) section?
She is a case.
really? Where did she hide
really?
Where did she hide her brain?
I can't believe it.
Minnie, are you sure? Frankly... there is a problem.
When you face the deep drivel
When you face the deep drivel (she is close to daft, deficient I think), what can you say?
Nope. She needs a doctor.
The problem is that you can't cure retarded persons, so even a doctor can't do anything fo her.
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"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
upon reading these comments
upon reading these comments on this interview i am struck by the condemnation of free speach...as for the interveiwer, i agree with annie oakley , harry smith's body language is agressive and invading..if you turn off the sound you will see it.
some of what she purports is truth some is meant to incite riot.
fostering hate against anyone including bush, coulter or whoever does not agree with you does not raise you to a higher level of thought...on the contrary, it brings you closer to that which you despise.....
Coulter is like some weird
Coulter is like some weird science experiment gone horribly wrong. She was part of that batch of Femme-Bots who made their names during the Clinton impeachment and never went away.
I'm still waiting for that house to drop on her.
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
She gets my vote, hands down.
She gets my vote, hands down.
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
yes, she wins the crazy lady
yes, she wins the crazy lady of the day award.
I support freedom of
I support freedom of expression and cringe at even flippant suggestions of "welding her mouth shut".
That said, there's LOTS WORSE problems we could be looking at...
Like the anti gay-marriage, anti-choice Kaine who will probably run the DNC. Or Gaza!! or someone's SILENCE re Gaza while he instead plays golf and tans himself!
http://hillaryunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/code-pink-protest-in-fr...
fastgurrrl: i cannot believe
fastgurrrl: i cannot believe you are telling ann "her boots are not working for her"???
and leg-crossing is "basic instinct"?
Puhleeze! I don't wanna be judged for my (dirty western dung covered) boots or crossing or not crossing my (hairy or not hairy, long or fat or stumpy or slender) legs (in a skirt, pantsuit, dress, thong, whatever).
go ahead and criticize her but do so intelligently.
Will women ever lay off their sexist treatment of other women? EVER???
LBDL: her hair is
LBDL: her hair is gorgeous...LOL! She also has the LONGEST NECK of any living woman! (her hair accentuates that)
The dynamics are interesting to watch. Coulter does a good job of standing up for herself (note Harry Smith POINTING at her – just like a man who thinks he's talking down to a child, as men-who-consider-themselves-experts so often do when talking to women.) He leans forward and keeps invading her space with his hands – intimidation tactics. He insults her repeatedly, even opening the conversation with a personal insult. Coulter never insults him personally, holds her own and gets in the last word.
She's also right about the assassination thing: Hillary received more death threats than Barack but no one ever talked about that.
Coulter, like her or not, wins here.
A suffering soul on the way
A suffering soul on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven
Shouts on the news, "they are the godless ones"
But the anger inside, and the fear that it hides, never leave her
When the cameras are gone, when the cameras are gone
Guess who exactly Melissa Etheridge wrote that about?
Coulter, according to every single thing ever said or written about her, has NEVER been capable of one ounce of empathy or sympathy, and is completely devoid of any sense of tolerance or acceptance.
And Coulter is a True Believer, in that she honestly believes every single thing she says. She also is a firm believer that the ends justify the means, without any mental or moral reservation.
Like I said, very dangerous person.
She's a neocon. They cannot
She's a neocon. They cannot tolerate even the perception that someone other than they have any opinion worth hearing, and so they just spit them out and then shout everyone down until the listeners get sick of it and give up.
As far as reasonably pretty goes, anyone thinner than I am is either on drugs or has serious health problems. I personally do not find anorexia attractive, especially in someone my age.
Coulter has the ultimate
Coulter has the ultimate contraceptive device: Herself.
And no, I would rather not imagine dealing with her at the breakfast table, at least not without a loaded gun in my hand pointed at my temporal lobe. I thought this one through... If I shoot her, I have to treat her injuries. Of course, I could always wait until January 18th to do it, and then I could cite "personal conscience" as a reason to both take her out and then to not treat her. In my defense on both charges, I would just present the jury with her books, and force them to deliberate while listening to her endless spewing of hate.
I figure 5 minutes from deliberation to aquital?
Watched her on Fox last night
Watched her on Fox last night (American morning). I don't hate often - but man, I really REALLY hate her.
I can't imagine why she's had multiple broken engagements? ... Imagine dealing with that at the breakfast table every morning! Jesus.
Usually I wouldn't question why someone doesn't have kids, but if she's straight, pro-life, conservative, Christian then why is she childless?
To be 47 (dated many men) and to not have had a baby or an abortion along the way for an unplanned pregnancy is quite a feat.
She seems more willing to
She seems more willing to "preach" rather than discuss ideas. (I don't think they managed to complete one question-answer-response cycle without interruption.) Pretty much a walking definition of fanaticism. Someone who clings to one point of view this desperately is definitely a menace.
However, being reasonably pretty and saying outrageous things is one way to get to be a celebrity these days. She is certainly a shrewd self-promoting businesswoman.
"The people who are mugged by
"The people who are mugged by the millions of illegitimate children born every year."
Anybody have a connection with the Wizard? This one needs a brain, a heart, and a soul.
Oh-ho-ho-ho! :lol: Taking
Oh-ho-ho-ho!
Taking care of #5, as usual.
LOL, let me guess, you're not
LOL, let me guess, you're not exactly a big fan of Coulter's?
Like that state doesn't have
Like that state doesn't have enough problems already!
The one time I found one of
The one time I found one of her books, I used it to test a paper shredder.
The shredder refused it.
Maybe that's why Coulter is
Maybe that's why Coulter is so thin, and not because of her thyroid. Maybe she just listens to her own words and blows chunks in response to them?
She is dangerous, in the
She is dangerous, in the extreme. She promotes hate, and does it in a way that incites those most likely to take direct action based upon what she says.
And, while I have met intelligent conservatives, I have yet to meet one neocon that has an IQ with more than two digits in it.
Probably meth,
Probably meth, lol.
Actually, from what I can tell, she has a fairly serious thyroid problem, at least that's how she looks and acts.
Coulter is proof that beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the core of one's soul.