I HATE ANN COULTER!!!!

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Conservative columnist/author of "Slander"/raging bitch

She is plainly indefensible and makes me abjectly ashamed to be American.

Discuss.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 February 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

She doesn't make me ashamed to be an American (noone could do that), I can't imagine anyone outside of America has heard of her or if they have it's been in connection to her more flagrantly stupid statements. Almost every non-kneejerk conservative I know hates her almost as much as the liberals I know. What I do hate is the loonier and more offensive she gets the more it pays off for her in the major media; national review won't touch her with a ten foot stick but she has no problem getting on MSNBC, or CNN, or, duh, Fox News. And for a journalist 'babe' she's not even that hot - I'd take her nemesis Katie Couric over her nevermind the woman on ABC overnight (who maybe the most attractive woman on television).

James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Conservative columnist/author of "Slander"/raging bitch

She is plainly indefensible and makes me abjectly ashamed to be American.

Discuss.

No really. Please don't. Her whole existence, like that of Fox News and 43*'s malapropisms, is likely designed just to make intelligent left people mad. Then wingnuts can turn around and point at the shrill (yeah, i know), angry (superior?) left response and use it as another form of Other to play to their base.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 February 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

heh, I thought 43* was like the Canadian equivalent of Fox News or something for a second there.

James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

43* is like 61*

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 February 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

heh heh, dave q to thread!!

geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 February 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

flat's OK sometimes

dave q, Friday, 14 February 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

gabbneb is OTM. She is a troll and nothing more.

fletrejet, Friday, 14 February 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And for a journalist 'babe' she's not even that hot - I'd take her nemesis Katie Couric over her nevermind the woman on ABC overnight (who maybe the most attractive woman on television).

But all the liberal womyn are jealous of her because she looks like a supermodel! Well, that's what she has said, anyway. It's kind of funny how far a little self-regard will get you...

Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex - I've started a thread (or two?) about this on ILE before - check the archives. Nitsuh made a great post commenting on how she actually plays right into the hands of liberals, since she effectively plays the right-wing-deranged-psycho bit so well. She herself admitted in that interview JLu linked to that she says outrageous things for hyperbolic value, but somehow she doesn't realize that it just makes her look like an entertaining, hyperreal, superbimbo ("Women should not be allowed to vote!" - paraphrased, from an old Politically Incorrect appearance).

If she isn't careful about continually saying shoddy things about how slavery wasn't so bad/Muslims should be wiped out/linking the Central Park raists to behvious of black men, I think she just may get gangbanged by a gaggle of hatahs herself somewhere, the first "journalist" to do so. Serious.

Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

TAD TO THREAD!!!!

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Politically Incorrect: Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Lennox Lewis

Ann: [Cops] shoot the wrong people more than civilians do, interestingly. But I'm not saying, "Get a gun and don't know how to use it." [cabbies] oughta be trained.

Jon: For what, like a week?

Chris: Drive and shoot at the same time?

[ Laughter ]

[ Applause ]

Ann: No, train the same way cops are trained.

Chris: I'm going to rob you, and he's gonna pull over and shoot me? No! What are you talking about? Are you on the pipe? What is wrong with you?

[ Laughter ]

Bill: How likely is it she's on the pipe? Really.

Chris: She's pretty skinny.

g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(I thought at one point Rock said to Coulter "You are the meanest bitch I ever met" and that's all I found.)

g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ann Coulter needs a good vicious powerful shagging from an enormously well endowed communist vegetarian African man something fierce.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that she's a disgrace to the legal profession.

Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I have yet to meet anyone who takes her seriously so she doesn't make me mad, she amuses me. Whenever I've seen her on TV it's been more of a "haha look at this freak" type of thing.

Maria (Maria), Friday, 14 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you read the Amazon.com reviews for her book though? All the ones who rated it highly, I don't know if they're people who take her seriously either, or just right-wingers who are giving her high marks since they found a "glamorous" spokesman, er, woman, they can champion for their causes.

I liked the Salon.com review of her book (a NY Times Bestseller! but she hates the NY Times so this doesnt matter!), even though I don't know whether Charles Taylor is Classic or Dud.

Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 February 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn I thought the title was "I HEART Ann Coulter"! Obviously not

dave q, Friday, 14 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

really scary thing...i know people that *do* take her seriously. i've seen her book and just reading the jacket is pretty hilarious. my father, however, seems to have become a big fan. any time the book is brought up in conversation, he'll spout all sorts of views from the book, taking every opportunity to point out the vast number of footnotes she uses.

not that thoroughness implies correctness. but i haven't read the book, so i have no idea what she's using to back up her arguments.

interesting how quickly her looks were mentioned in this thread. she's clearly taken advantage of her appearance and its selling value, as her pic is prominently on not only the cover but also the spine of the book.

JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been waiting forever for a thread in which I can share the following picture, which came up in a google image search I did when someone told me "Ann Coulter's sort of hot" and I had to go back and look to redecide for myself (conclusion: she's "hot" in exactly the same way as the "hottest" professor at any given academic conference, which isn't really "hot" but just generally nice-looking):

http://www.hermes-press.com/coulter2.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think that she's at all attractive. i think she looks like a transvestite, actually. if david brock is to believed, she's also an anti-Semite and a racist.

and though i've said it before, i'll say it again ... her credibility in the legal world is zilch. i love how these wingnuts think that they can style themselves "constitutional scholars," even though they've never published law review articles, worked on constitutional law treatises, teach constitutional law at an accredited law school, etc. (all the traditional ways of being a "constitutional scholar," not pimping the right-wing rubber chicken circuit). the real crime is that the media is allowing this nasty freak to get away with her schtick.

Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

last word on this, i promise. favorite ann coulter moment -- sometime during Monicagate, she was on some talk-show with Alan Dershowitz. she made some asinine comment about "the impeachment of Alexander Hamilton" (and how this made impeaching Clinton "OK"). needless to say, Dershowitz made short work of her w/t trying very hard.

nb: she was one of the "elves" who was digging for dirt and surreptitiously helping Kenneth Starr. yet another reason to hate this rancid cunt.

Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Tad you've hit on something that bugs me about the punditariat at large, especially the right (cos I'm on the left, natch). Coulter, Sullivan, Brooks, etc... I just want to stand up on a table and say DOES IT BOTHER ANYONE ELSE THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT SERIOUS THINKERS IN THE SLIGHTEST?

g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

>not that thoroughness implies correctness. but i haven't read the book, so i have no idea what she's using to back up her arguments.

Someone on the net (no link, sorry) took upon himself the pointless task of checking up on the footnotes and, lo and behold, most of the sources were taken out of context, distorted, or simply did not support what she was saying. This person quit doing this after the first chapter.


fletrejet, Friday, 14 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Time again to post my favorite pic of Ann:
http://www.anncoulter.org/images/webimages/gun.jpg

Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

fletrejet: I thought I saw something like that, too. Was it dailyhowler.com?

g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes it was. He goes on for several days about her and Slander.

g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ann Coulter vs. Molly Ivins FITE!

Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Ann
http://216.136.200.194/auction/Feb/20032148390584005934779.jpg

chaki (chaki), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The impeachment of ALEXANDER HAMILTON???????

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Was Alexander Hamilton ever a President?

(If memory serves correct, that's a "no", but my memory is about as reliable as Ms. Coulter's fact-checker.)

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No, he was Sec. of da Treasury.

And he was shot in Weehawken, NJ by Aaron Burr!

hstencil, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

AWWUN BUHH!

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The Secretary of the Treasury can still be impeached from office.

Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think he was, tho. But I don't know for sure.

hstencil, Friday, 14 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Alexander Hamilton was NEVER impeached or threatened with impeachment. Ann Coulter's an idiot. and a real right winger would know their Alexander Hamilton.

James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't he write the entire impeachment process?

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

AWWUN BUHH!

Yes! The winner of the annual Obscure Peanut Butter Commercial Reference Award is once again Dan Perry!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(B-b-but I thought I was competing for the Obscure Milk Commercial Reference Award.)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

D'oh!

(But he did have a mouthful of peanut butter, right? RIGHT!?! BOO-YAH!)

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Better a mouthful of peanut butter than... no, I said I wouldn't say stuff like that unless it was funny.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate this stupid bitch too. She should start a line of clothing/housewares and shut the fuck up.

Millar (Millar), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"(I thought at one point Rock said to Coulter "You are the meanest bitch I ever met" and that's all I found.)"

Nah, that was Chris Rock's comment about Laura Ingraham (another blonde conservative pundit -- but a much better looking one, for whatever that's worth.)

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 February 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

O Burr, O Burr, what has thou done?
Thou has shooted dead great Hamilton.
You hid behind a bunch of thistle,
and shooted him dead with a great hoss pistol.

the best poem evah (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal Op-ed section had an essay subtitled "Meet Ann Coulter, the Maureen Dowd of the conservatives," and I swear, that's the meanest thing anybody could possibly say about her.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, I think something like "Ann Coulter - alien/monkey demon spawn with the cognitive powers of a rotten mango fills the O'Reilly c*mdumpster role for the conservative p0rn addict" might come off a little harsher.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice one.

I worry about Ann Coulter. I think she's really very unhealthy.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

No Maureen really is a trash-sucking stupid flea tho, imo. I think Arianna Huffington (who is supposedly independent or something?) could take her anyday. Ok, maybe not that stupid, but still not the best the left could do as a foil to Coulter; I read her column on Eminem last year and almost upchucked. It was really unnecessary, Maureen.

Ann is getting really old now, the new McCarthyism-wuz-right! shtick embarrassing for even her usual fanbase to unquestioningly support, but hey - the more obnoxious she becomes, the more entertaining it is for the rest of the sane world. I think she's going to resort to wearing a string bikini in a Fox interview someday, while again regurgitating her views re: how women should never have gotten the right of suffrage

Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry Vic, but if anything Arianna strikes me as an even bigger idiot that Maureen Dowd.

Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Both Arianna and Michael Huffington are their own special brand of unique California politicos.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, speaking of California politics - would u vote for Ahnold or Diane, if the thing that is allll theoretical still actually happened tommorrow ?

Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear god. Neither.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Dowd actually has had some decent columns this year. I think it's slander to compare her to Coulter, who after all has voiced genocidal fantasies in print.

amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i dont even think it would make a difference if we didnt have a governor anyway, or ok, not that big a difference. i just cant believe this one republican friend i have who says he would def vote for ahnold. i'd rather vote for...am i saying this?...dennis miller!

ew nvrmind

Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sick. Actually, ask him why he feels Arnold would make a good governor and what experience he thinks he's got for the job. I'd be intrigued at the various evasions and denials.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I would only vote for Ahnuld if he could promise an apocalyptic distopian future ruled by evil machines by 2006.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

why he feels Arnold would make a good governor and what experience he thinks he's got for the job

Good governor? Experience? Who cares? What California needs is a charismatic personality who looks good on television. That's what gets problems solved. I'd prefer Warren Beatty, of course, but Arnold will do.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Coulter, who after all has voiced genocidal fantasies in print.

i think thats all her "liberal-baiting" shtick though, innit? i mean she said so herself in that interview, how she is just saying the obvious things which would horrify and piss the left to pieces and then play off of it . what she wasn't bright enough to anticipate tho, was that her game would eventually be seen through and fall apart, as it approaches farce, leading to even the right leaving her out there on her own as well, since no one wants to be caught supporting a joke..

right?

Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i tried asking him "um, exactly how is Ahnold qualified? and why do conservatives make such a big fuss if "limo liberals" like streisand/robbins et al are vocal in their politics, but are OK supporting a celebrity conserative... just because they think he could win? no hypocrisy?"

i didnt get a real response, but i didnt expect one

if warren beatty's term = something like Bulworth happening in real life haha, no contest

Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Just ask him again if it comes up again. Could be fun.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

McCarthy was OK but Cohn was better

dave q, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

A log cabin fascist. Very charming.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

What's Peggy Noonan's story, anyone? She seems reasonably well-spoken and somewhat intelligent.....how can she be so utterly misguided?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...
Coulter's at it again, this time attacking Sen. Max Cleland because apparently losing three limbs to an American grenade < getting shot at by enemy fire.

More background on the story here.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

how completely insane and fucked up is that.

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

not that i really needed to point that out, but still.

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It might be amusing to see if Coulter would agree to engage Maury Crallé (Cleland's commanding officer during the injury) in a debate on the matter.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

here's a good summary of things from the World O' Crap blog

Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...
Coulter's on MSNBC right now, spewing her usual venom. Why is she given airtime? She's a raving lunatic!!! I mean, there are conservatives/repulicans who I may not agree with, but whose opinions i still respect -- but Coulter is simply, abjectly insane and the world would be a much better place is she was kept far away from microphones.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, keep in mind that maybe she's getting more desperate, and therefore more entertaining.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I often wonder whether Phillip Pullman named Mrs. Coulter after her. I'd like to think he did.

Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i know!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd somehow managed to avoid seeing her speak on TV until yesterday morning when she was on some morning show talking about her new book, so I watched for a few minutes, and what struck me is how dumb she seems. Not dumb in, "oh, I disagree with her opinions, so she's stupid," but just generally unintelligent. She was talking kind of slow and her inflections are kind of dull and monotonous and she wasn't answering any of the questions, but not seemingly out of spite or intentional dodging of the question, but just out of dumbness.

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If you removed the words "liberals" and "traitors" from her vocabulary, she's have nothing to say, basically.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's old but good:

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2002/082002.asp

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

In Blinded by the Right, David Brock describes her as something of a harpy who survives on a diet of Chardonnay and Marlboro Lights. Ugh.

adam (adam), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Chardonnay?

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Chardonnay.

adam (adam), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, yeah adam, I've had a few bottles of Montrachet-Chassagne in my time. It just seems like such a liberal drink for her. I was expecting something like tequila, or bourbon. Jack and Diet Coke maybe.

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Chardonnay seems very conservative to me--the default choice of someone too timid, uncreative or boring to drink wine that doesn't taste like a cocktail of rancid Mountain Dew and rat urine. It's like one day in college she decided to like wine and picked chardonnay as her "brand." I bet she only orders crunchy rolls when she goes out for sushi.

nb I'm only dissing cheap OAKTASTIC chardonnay so plz don't kill me winefreaks.

adam (adam), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree adam, but admit that wine & cheese = liberals generally for Coulter's brand of lumpen kern-Merkan kind of class resentment politics.

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

kern-Merkan? please explain. I get the lumpen part.

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hence those ridiculous pictures of her like cleaning a rifle and petting a hound dog--still she seems like she was one career move away from being an assistant editor at Marie Claire.

adam (adam), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

as in Nazi 'kern Deutsch', plus Merkan as in 'God Bless Merka'.

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Aha

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hence those ridiculous pictures of her like cleaning a rifle and petting a hound dog--still she seems like she was one career move away from being an assistant editor at Marie Claire.

ROFFLE!!

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Since when the fuck is wine a liberal's beverage? That makes absolutely no sense. Also who cares? Marlboro lights are fucking nasty.

TOMBOT, Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Results 1 - 7 of about 133 for "wine-sipping liberals"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22wine-sipping+liberals%22&btnG=Search

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Since it came from France. I couldn't care less. That's not true. I wish she drank more antifreeze.

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

who was it that wrote at length about the republican strategy of aligning dems with a certain subset of products (ie. volvos, lattes) anyway? i remember that being an interesting piece.

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Thomas Frank talks about the "latte libel."

http://www.wesjones.com/frank1.htm

The Gore-voting people of the Blue states, meanwhile, were dismissed with what we will call the latte libel: the suggestion that liberals are identifiable by their tastes and consumer preferences and that these tastes and preferences reveal the essential arrogance and foreignness of liberalism. And since many of the pundits who were hailing the virtues of the Red states - pundits, remember, who were conservatives and who supported George W. Bush - actually, physically lived in Blue states that went for Gore, the rules of this idiotic game allowed them to present the latte libel in the elevated language of the confession. David Brooks, who has since made a career out of projecting the liberal stereotype onto the map, took to the pages of The Atlantic to admit on behalf of everyone who lives in a Blue zone that they are all snobs, toffs, wusses, ignoramuses, and utterly out of touch with the authentic life of the people.

Gold Teeth II (kenan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ah right! thanks kenan.

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The director of the NSA drives a Passat

TOMBOT, Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What does he know that we don't?

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I go to Starbucks all the time, but I order black coffee. I guess that makes me a moderate.

Gold Teeth II (kenan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It makes you frugal.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

isnt the NSA the thing that Condeleeza Rice heads?

Anthony (Plato Guy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think so. She's just the "National Security Advisor." The NSA is all Tom Clancy'd out.

adam (adam), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...
the bitch is on the cover of time magazine this week.

this is not a serious country any more.

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

http://i.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2005/1101050425_400.jpg
It's a Stick Insect!

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't those shoes be ruby?

Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Haha! xpost

this is not a serious country any more.
We were ever...?

Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Apparently she's really upset about the cover, she thinks the photographer deliberately tried to make her look bad -- as if that's something that requires any special trickery or effort.

Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

"Ms."?? surprised she consented to that stalinist appellation...

g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Thing is, I'd still hit it.

Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Dear fucking lord WHY is she resurrected again and again? Someone should take a Mecha-blowtorch to her publicity agents, for fucks sake.

Failin, you couldn't hit it. There's nothing to hit!

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

With a baseball bat, maybe. (xpost)

Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

I mean, she's still going to be bitching about shit even if every non-right-wing non-Christian American in the world is destroyed.

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

The legs/pointy shoes = wicked witch.

Rocker For Light (on a Bad Brains kick) (Eleventy-Twelve), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v501/marktwang/Time-Ann-Coulter-Cover-400.jpg

Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone read that story about her speaking at colleges that was linked from the Bookslut blog? Ugh.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

From the article:

"The fate of our troops isn't a game. The fate of the victims on 9/11 is not a game." But she told me several times that, as she put it in an e-mail, "most of what I say, I say to amuse myself and amuse my friends. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about anything beyond that."

Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

OMG NICOLE

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

She wouldn't bother me so much if she just admitted that she's a stand up comedian instead of trying to pass herself off as a real political commentator.

shookout (shookout), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

larcole proves again that SHE ROOLZ OMGWTF

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001450.asp

interesting mix of reactions from righty blogs

kingfish, Monday, 18 April 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

OMFG Anne Coulter is Richard D. James on that Time magazine cover.

Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget to vote.

Does Ann Coulter make a positive contribution to American political culture?
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/graph/piegraph?height=150&width=420&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&d1=78250,990000,Yes%2016.6%&d2=390025,000033,No%2082.8%&d3=2629,999966,Don


http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050425/story.html

dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

ROFL @ neocon mentalism:

And the Ace of Spades decides that the Coulter cover is actually "proof of media bias" against conservatives. Why? Because Coulter didn't get a cover until now.

Ha ha ha ha.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Also ROFL at that ac3 0f sp4d3s bl0g where the readers comments are all about how it's an example of media bias b/c thee pic ov ann they chose for the cover is not hot enough.

And yeay, I'd "hit it", but then I have the hots for todd rundgren as well, heh.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

OMFG Anne Coulter is Richard D. James on that Time magazine cover.

I thought the same thing!

I got super-annoyed when I first saw this (Tom Delay barely gets a mention in the corner, and he actually has some REAL influence over American government!). Now my attitude's more like, "Eh. Let the baby have her bottle."

It also makes me laugh at Time since they're about two years behind on even CONSIDERING a front page story on someone like her.

sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I just realized:

She is the Paris Hilton of neocons.

(I wonder when Time is going to do their cover story on La Hilton?)

sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

you can readit here without registering

http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=001&part=1&area=

spitoon, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

....and then break into gales of laughter so forceful you smell the Nicorette.

Baaaaaahahahahaha!

dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Um. It's 2005? Wtf is this thing doing on the cover...?

She had her moment in 2002; after that book came out, none of her following ones were even that successful. She's so passe; now it's all about, you know, reading Teh Bible, not Ann Coulter.

(I like looking back at this thread - I said Arianna could take Maureen two years ago!!)

Vic in Alderaan (Vic), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050425/gallery/2.html

Vic in Alderaan (Vic), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

the ability to read Time pieces at Time Canada always fascinates me.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the link!

Having read the story, I don't get much of an impression of Coulter other than that she seems constantly desperate for attention. Her political beliefs don't seems particularly well-formed, either, for someone who's allegedly written entire books on the subject.

sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

she says in her new book:

"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."


Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

No dude, thats not from her new book, or maybe it's just bein advertised as such. It's from her September 14th, 2001 column, or whatever...and unfortunately was the very thing that started getting her all the inexorbitant attention in the first place (she was sacked from the NRO editorial site for penning that)

Vic in Alderaan (Vic), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

i'm ashamed on being the ann coulter reference guide :(

Vic in Alderaan (Vic), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd hit it too...

Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to hate fuck her.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001458.asp

interview with Time's John Cloud, who wrote the piece.

in summary, "fuck you. ann doesn't fuck up all that often. david brock sucks dicks."

David Brock wrote a whole book saying, 'Oh, my other books? They were lies.' So I don't think David Brock has a lot of credibility on the question of Ann Coulter. And what they are doing is a smear job. That's his other history -- David Brock has a history of smear jobs. And this is a smear job against me personally.

[...]

The idea that this is a puff piece is just absurd. And it's part of this left-wing attack machine that David Brock has invented for himself in his shame.


John Cloud
John Cloud is a staff writer for Time magazine, where he has worked since 1997. Before coming to Time, he was a senior writer at Washington City Paper. He wrote this week's much-discussed Time cover story about Ann Coulter.

Brian Montopoli: First things first: Why did you write the story? Did you pitch it, or did the editors come to you and say, "We want to do a cover on Ann Coulter?"

John Cloud: Last summer, you know, we put Michael Moore on the cover. And, by the way, at that time we didn't get quite the reaction, certainly not from the left, which seemed rather pleased with the cover we did on Michael Moore. You get it from both sides.

As for how the story got suggested, I suggested it after the election. Ann Coulter [it seemed to me] had epitomized the way politics was discussed last year during the election. It was slash-and-burn, on both sides. Her side won, rather decisively, and it seemed the right time to figure out who was this force behind the way our political dialogue was being conducted. Ann Coulter is the person who is shaping the tone of this dialogue in many ways, and I thought it was time to examine her.

BM: One of the criticisms that people have made is that Time has bottom line considerations [that go into] who it puts on the cover, and choosing to put Coulter on the cover reflected either a pursuit of conservative readers or a desire to just put a hot woman on the cover, which is pretty much what the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz said. And let me read you something from Eric Alterman, and just ask you to respond: "Time's cover story/whitewash of Ann Coulter ... will make it impossible for serious people to accept what the magazine reports at face value ever again. It is as if Time had contracted a journalistic venereal disease from Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and is now seeking to lower itself to their level in pursuit of their ideologically-obsessed audiences."

JC:Well, this is just absurd. A few weeks ago, we put Jeffrey Sachs' book on how to end poverty on the cover. I mean, is that going to be a huge seller for conservatives? We did a piece on television indecency that basically concluded that the FCC had gone too far in regulating television. That was on the cover recently. I don't pick the covers, unfortunately -- I don't have that much power here -- but we did Michael Moore on the cover last summer, we've done, over the years, incredibly flattering covers on Hillary Clinton, on both of the Clintons, multiple times. We did Ann Coulter because she's an interesting figure. I could not care less what conservatives or liberals think of Time magazine's covers, and if people read my work over the years -- I've been a journalist for ten years -- and if you read that body of work I think you'll see that I'm not trying to kiss up to conservatives. And if you look at Time magazine, even over the last month, this idea that we're kissing up to conservatives is wrong.

Plus, who are their sources for this? Did Alterman do any reporting before he made this assertion? I think a pertinent thing about Alterman is that he has said publicly that he will not engage Ann Coulter in debate. He won't go on television with her. So his solution to Ann Coulter is to act as though she doesn't exist ... I don't agree with that approach to people that we don't necessarily like. I think you engage those people in open debate, you get those people to talk about their ideas, and then you weigh those ideas. And my story does that. My story is very fair about her.

I think maybe Eric and Ann are in the same bunch. They also, by the way, use the same language. He calls Ann Coulter a name-caller, but he doesn't do anything in that screed against me except use sort of fancy name-calling. He says [the piece] is a "moral, professional, intellectual abomination" without making an argument about the actual substance of the piece. Instead, he picks up something from David Brock's Web site [Media Matters] and reprints it on MSNBC's website. Now David Brock is a very famous hater of Ann Coulter. They used to be friends, they're not friends anymore. He is also a serial liar. David Brock wrote a whole book saying, 'Oh, my other books? They were lies.' So I don't think David Brock has a lot of credibility on the question of Ann Coulter. And what they are doing is a smear job. That's his other history -- David Brock has a history of smear jobs. And this is a smear job against me personally.

BM: I realize you don't have a lot of faith in what the Media Matters people have been saying. But the one line [from the Time article] that seemed to upset a lot of people on the left was, "Coulter has a reputation for carelessness with facts, and if you Google the words 'Ann Coulter lies,' you will drown in results. But I didn't find many outright Coulter errors." I looked at the Media Matters stuff on Coulter. There were a lot of examples of what seem to me to be errors. Even if you don't think highly of David Brock, how do you respond to that?

JC: This one sentence in a 5,500-word piece has been worried over more than any other. Which is fine, I'm happy to defend it. My piece does not say that there are no Ann Coulter errors. In fact, I offer some Ann Coulter errors that we haven't seen before, and I quote people like Ronald Radosh at some length on the problems with the more recent book of hers, which is Treason. David Brock, who knew Ann Coulter from years ago, goes to a book that's years old, and prints some mistakes from that book, and of course [there are] mistakes. And a lot of them are corrected. If you go out and you buy a copy of Slander now, you won't find those mistakes in it, because the publisher has corrected them.

Now, I had a choice of, do I want to, in my article, list every single Ann Coulter mistake ever made, even ones that have been corrected by the publisher -- which is, by the way, what almost every other journalist who has written about her has done -- or do I want to say something fresh and interesting about her? Do I want to engage her on issues and try to figure out what makes her tick and whether this is all an act? That was what my story was about. My story was not primarily about picking apart ... all 1,000 of Ann Coulter's columns or the hundreds and hundreds of pages that she's written in her books. My job in this story was not to be a fact-checker. I don't say in this story that she's never made a mistake. In fact, I point out some mistakes. This is a story that calls some of her writing highly amateurish. I say I want to shut her up occasionally. I quote a friend of hers calling her a fascist [and] another friend of hers calling her a polemicist. I quote Eric Alterman, Salon, James Wolcott, Andrew Sullivan, and Jerry Falwell all criticizing her. The idea that this is a puff piece is just absurd. And it's part of this left-wing attack machine that David Brock has invented for himself in his shame.

BM: Ann Coulter has obviously said, as you well know, some pretty offensive things. There have been a lot of things on the blogs about why people are so upset. One blogger wrote ...

JC: Are these conservatives or liberals who are upset? Because both sides are very upset with this piece.

[Interviewer]: I've been seeing the conservatives complaining about the cover picture and the liberals complaining about the content. One thing I read on a blog that maybe gets to why this is bothering people so much is, as you know, Ann Coulter said at one point that her "only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." And one blogger wrote, "I reserve the right to be slightly upset about Time glorifying a woman who once expressed dismay that one of my parents wasn't murdered in a terrorist bombing. So please, with no due respect, fuck the fuck off." It obviously gets a little coarse. But, you know, Time has put on the cover a woman who a lot of people feel is sort of beneath contempt.

JC: Brian, Brian, we have put Josef Stalin on the cover. We have made Adolf Hitler the person of the year. We are a news magazine. The cover of our magazine is not glorification. It is news. This whole idea is bizarre to me. If the New York Times did a front-page story on Ann Coulter, would it be glorifying her or would it be covering her? And, by the way, the picture that we used on the cover is apparently such a horrible image for conservatives that they can't even read the story.

As to the New York Times quote, our package has a whole list of outrageous quotes from Ann Coulter. It's called "What Did She Say?" and we have a whole list of them. The New York Times quote she said to another reporter, George Gurley. She said at the time that it was a joke. You can say it was a despicable joke or that it's not a very funny joke. But if she's kidding around with another reporter, and says something to him that he puts at the end of his article, am I then obligated to print that in my article? I mean, we've already seen that quote. Again, this is about trying to get a fresh look at Ann Coulter. I didn't reprint every outrageous quote, but, by the way, she told me outrageous quotes that are in my story. We don't need to go to the New York Observer to find outrageous quotes from Ann Coulter. They are in Time magazine...

kingfish, Friday, 22 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

oops. i quoted a bit more than i'd planned...

kingfish, Friday, 22 April 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.darrelplant.com/images/time-hitler.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.darrelplant.com/images/time-stalin.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

roffletastic.

(Cloud seems awfully defensive for someone who claims to have presented an unbaised look at Ms. Coulter.)

sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
even Bill Reilly is calling her disgraceful over this:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-quotable-coulter,0,1820649.story

"Ann Coulter, the conservative pundit with a penchant for creating controversy, caused a ruckus when she called 9/11 widows "witches" and accused them of using their husbands' deaths for their own political gain.

It is just the latest of the high-emotion, sharp-rhetoric attacks that she has leveled in four previous books and frequent appearances on cable television programs. Her firebrand style even inspired NBC's "The West Wing" to create a "a blond, Republican sex kitten" in her mold.
In her latest book, Coulter criticizes the four New Jersey widows who pushed for an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed their husbands at the World Trade Center. The women also backed Democrat John Kerry's presidential candidacy in 2004.

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much," Coulter wrote.

Among Coulter's previous statements, she advocated the invasion of non-Christian nations after Sept. 11 and the deportation from the U.S. of "all aliens from Arabic countries." She said American Taliban John Walker should be executed to show liberals what happens to traitors. And she said the only real question about President Clinton was "whether to impeach or assassinate."

I'd be amazed if even the most radical Republicans could defend this.

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

woops, should've scrolled down
my bad

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still trying to figure out what her point is in all of this. Calling liberals "Godless" .. ok fine, so what? Post it on ILX, but what's the point of publishing a book about it?

DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

"You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard," she said in The Washington Post on October 16, 1998.

Apparently "freaked-out gonzo-insane blowhard" is preferable to "just a blowhard"?

Dan (Don't Go For Second-Best, Baby) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

The witch is on Newsnight. unfortunately she is doing rather well versus paxman. The hatchet job he did in his intro is not helping.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Video will appear here shortly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5099674.stm

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, she pretty much zinged Paxman there, despite being fundamentally incoherent and headbuttable as usual.

Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

The 'do you believe all of this insanity that you spout line?' was not 100% successful.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

I know what Paxman means, though -- she's obviously smart, so the temptation is to think, how can she possible believe what she's saying? (I have the same problem with Mark Steyn.)

Really though, it's the fact that she's smart AND she believes what she's saying that makes her so scary.

Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still trying to figure out what her point is in all of this. Calling liberals "Godless" .. ok fine, so what? Post it on ILX, but what's the point of publishing a book about it?

it's because the left-leaning half of the christian spectrum has started gaining more and more traction... jim wallis et al... so naturally, somebody's gotta basically make the case very loudly that if you're christian, you better not be voting democrat. (or anything but what you're told to.)

m.

msp (mspa), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Paxman treated her as a side-show attraction, trying to deny her credibility. But just being on the programme gives her some credibility, so failing to pin her down meaningfully on anything was a bit silly.

beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

beanz otm. i was trying to figure out how to say that and you said it just fine. what was the point of having her on? did he think he was going to walk all over her? frightful woman.

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

what an annoying voice

RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

She's on the shit list too, eh, fancy nibblers and dribblers? She's far less boring than the lot of you, and far more articulate, at the very least.

ed slanders (edslanders), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't you go hang out on her board, then?

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

ed slanders, let me just open this door here, walk into the elevator lobby, summon the elevator, ride it to the mezzanine, walk out to the street and requisition a scooter, drive it to your place of work, pop my head in, and call you boring.

Later, over a beer, we will discuss how it is you drummed up the temerity to call the woman who wrotethis:

I dedicate this column to John Murtha, the reason soldiers invented fragging.

In response to the arguments of my opponents, I say: Waaaaaaaaaah! Boo hoo hoo!

articulate.

Of course, I am being foolish, because you are a troll and I am talking to myself. Good job, Jeff.

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Cover of National Enquirer this week (bottom):
"America Hates This Woman—
Why She Must Leave Our Country"
Came home and found this: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/gossip/64367

Smiley (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

From the June 8 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:

DOBBS: I had people saying I should just absolutely eviscerate you here tonight and just destroy you, which really isn't my job.

COULTER: No, I think you are eviscerating, and you're doing a very good job of it.

DOBBS: Thank you very much. But, you know, the idea that the media has this reaction to you, I find fascinating because you are basically the -- forgive me -- but the opposite of Michael Moore.

COULTER: I reject that.

DOBBS: I know you do. I know you do. But I'm giving you one man's perception and possibility.

COULTER: I think I am the right-wing Mencken, the right-wing Mark Twain. I am not the right-wing Michael Moore.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

my first reaction besides OMG ANN COULTER THINKS SHE IS THE NEXT MARK TWAIN KILL ME NOW is uhhhh does she even know anything about mencken? he hated liberals too! i guess in coulterland "famous journalist" = "commie" no questions asked.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

shit, i first thought that read "the right-wing Moff Tarkin"

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

my friend says that she is a regular at dc gay bars and gives gay guys coke so they'll be her friend, and also tries to suck them off. i don't know if i believe it, but i really really want to

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ann Coulter is especially similar to Michael Moore in how detractors aren't ashamed to use shameless ad hominem on them...Say what you want about either of them, I still don't think there is anything especially sophisticated about calling Michael Moore fat or Ann Coulter a bitch/cunt...It is usually taken for granted that the other person is evil incarnate so resorting to calling one overweight or calling the other a slang word for vagina is all you need to do if you want to get a point across.

Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

here comes the libel suit

lf (lfam), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

Visions of Ann, suitable for framing

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a matching challange.

Author:

1. Ann Coulter
2. H. L. Mencken
3. Mark Twain

Quotation:

A. "The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."

B. "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."

C. "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

why is she being given the oxygen of publicity in britain? idiot newsnight.

Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

1. C
2. A
3. B

????????

you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure Mencken made the campaign remark since he covered most of them.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right, DUUUUH.

you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Menken is responsible for the campaign quote. Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, you should know that this is what you look like in my mind's eye:

http://www.hblaw.org/images/peanut.gif

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ann pwned Darwin, sez RenewAmerica guy

http://www.renewamerica.us/images/columnists/vernon.jpg

To sum it up: Godless cites facts that schoolchildren should be taught. Among them:

1. The entire fossil record shows a very non-Darwinian progression, noticeably lacking the vast number of transitional species we ought to see.

2. The truth about Haeckel's embryos is that they were a fraud perpetrated by a German eugenicist.

3. One by one, so-called "proof" of evolution has melted under honest scrutiny.

There is much more, of course. We've just skimmed it. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth.

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

also, be sure to read for where the guy delightfully mixes Margaret Sanger, Hitler, black folks gettin' abortions, the ACLU as being behind the Scopes Monkey Trial, etc

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth.

DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

One of her one-line zingers...

"From Marx to Hitler, the men responsible for the greatest mass murders of the twentieth century were avid Darwinists."

And drank milk presumably.

Why oh why oh why do i look at those links...

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i like how marx is responsible for a lot of murders!

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

He was a fiend with his pen in the British Library Reading room, you can still see the bloodstains.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

"From Marx to Hitler, the men responsible for the greatest mass murders of the twentieth century wore black shoes."

DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

There has to be a latin name for this. I seem to remember reading it in WIZARD MAGAZINE.

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to see Coulter write about the Malthusians, too. It was really a comb of Darwin and Malthus that inspired the eugenicists (among whom Virginia can claim its own Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette, who famously said that Germany was "beating us at our own game" in the 1930s, and who was cited at the Nuremburg trials as evidence that the Allies were holding the Nazis to a double standard). A poem from Dr. DeJarnette, "Mendel's Law":

Oh, why are you men so foolish — you breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?

Blaming Darwinism for Hitler, though, is a little like blaming E=MC2 for Hiroshima.

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, and i found that link from a P.Z. Myers bit, where he actually talks about Ernst Haeckel's work

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

(btw yes, the state of Virginia force-sterilized thousands of people even up until the 1970s and has never apologized or offered any restitution)

xpost

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

isn't the logical fallacy at work here the fallacy of the undistributed middle? real simple sleight-of-hand?

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002800574

UPDATE: Coulter's Syndicate Requests Report From Plagiarism Prober -- As She Hits Back at 'NY Post'

By Dave Astor

Published: July 05, 2006 5:15 PM ET

NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate has requested a copy of a report about Ann Coulter's alleged plagiarism, according to a post on the TPMmuckraker.com blog. Meanwhile, in her latest column, Coulter has hit back at the newspaper that aired the latest plagiarism charges -- but did not refute them.

The report was conducted by John Barrie, creator of the iThenticate plagiarism-probing system. A New York Post story this Sunday said Barrie found several examples of alleged plagiarism in Coulter's new "Godless" book as well as in her Universal column.

Universal Director of Communications Kathie Kerr, when contacted by E&P, said she called Barrie on Wednesday morning and left him a message asking him for a copy of his report. "Once we see a copy of the report, we'll be happy to comment on the findings," she added. "We take allegations of plagiarism very seriously." E&P has also left a message for Barrie, who appeared on MSNBC late Wesnesday.

There he explained that the Post had asked his company to put Coulter's book and the past 12 months of columns through his program. But his staffers stopped before completing the task--"we gave up after awhile, we'd seen enough," he explained. The many examples added up to "advanced plagiarism," he said, the kind of stuff that would "flunk any English student."

The alleged plagiarism is the latest development in a tempestuous 2006 for Coulter. Universal distributes Coulter's column to more than 100 newspapers.

Today, the latest installment of Coulter's column takes aim at the New York Post, although her July 5 piece doesn't mention the Post's July 2 plagiarism story.

Coulter wrote: "Once considered a legitimate daily, the Post has been reduced to tabloid status best known for Page Six's breathless accounts of Paris Hilton's latest ruttings, and headlines like 'Vampire Teen -- H.S. Girl Is Out for Blood.' How crappy a newspaper is the Post? Let me put it this way: It's New York's second-crappiest paper."

Of course, the Post could hardly be "reduced to tabloid status" since it is, in fact, a tabloid.

She added: "Maybe the Post's constant harassment of me is an attempt to shake me down for protection money like they did with billionaire businessman Ron Burkle. I have sold a LOT of books -- more books, come to think of it, than any writers at the New York Post."


Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, why are you men so foolish — you breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?

There's nothing anti-Darwinian about the stupid and weak breeding. Survival is survival, and any dreams of "perfecting" or "improving" the human race certainly aren't based on any credible evolutionary theory.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, some folks have been digging around in the "ann = plagarist" area for a while now...

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

oops, with updates here and here

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

'Oh, why are you men so foolish — you breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?'

Mr and Mrs Coulter for a start - who let them breed?

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hurting - that's why Malthus, with his overpopulation hysteria and paranoia of some rising tide of unfeedable lower classes addicted to sex, was the other important component for eugenicists (and Mendel, obv, for the science of breeding - you CAN improve/change species over hundreds of years with selective breeding; this is why corn is tasty today)

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Death Warmed Over said, "I'm Ann Coulter
Of wingnut horror I am the auteur
With my leathery thighs
and my books full of lies
I'm a plagerist and raconteur."

Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/coulter_poppins.jpg

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nice green highlights, Anne!

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, ignore her. Anyone remember Morton Downey Jr?

pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

i have a feeling coulter won't be semi-remorseful later in life, though

latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that Adam Carolla would ever hang up on Mark Twain.

cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I loved Morton Downey Jr. when I was a kid.

Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

So did I! And I loved the logo for his show.

http://anything80s.com/catalog/images/80s/Toys-Culture/Boardgames/1546.jpg

GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly, I don't remember Morton Downey Jr. being quite so vile as Ms. Coulter.

Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 13 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that Adam Carolla would ever hang up on Mark Twain.

The Adam Corolla thing in case anyone hasn't heard it:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Adam-Carolla-Coulter-7-6-06.mp3

Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

roffle

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

BEST MP3 EVER

i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://wonkette.com/politics/tag/whats-the-big-idea-with-flashing-donnie-deutsch-187770.php

whoa awesome

SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Seems like a lateral move to me.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

y'see, she had this devastating logic n' shit

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

As of today, we're opting to go with Michelle Malkin, one of the most articulate and exciting young conservative voices out there today.

wtf dude

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

if by articulate you mean 'likes to say moonbat' then yes

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

maybe articulate means "even more batshit insane than ann coulter." and they're going for that hot 18-34 pro-concentration camp demographic.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)


Ann sez Bill Clinton is a latent homosexual, the proof being his rampant promescuity

J (Jay), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

(pls forgive typo, etc.)

J (Jay), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

she appears to be entering the hopping up and down screeching phase of her need for attention.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

transcript, of sorts.

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

she appears to be entering the hopping up and down screeching phase of her need for attention.

otm

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

when her leap completely clears the shark, she'll start a springer-style talk show i bet

won't that be, umm, awesome

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Coulter Claims Bill Clinton/Lance Bass Tryst

M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Al Gore's a total fag, and the more U.N. places should be bombed. Aren't I just outrageous, *tee hee*?

--

Maybe we're seeing what happens after she's wrung the last bit of mileage out of that real estate? Would Colbert have her on?

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ms. COULTER: Well, there is something narcissistic about homosexuality. Right? Because you’re in love with someone who looks like you. I’m not breaking new territory here, why are you looking at me like that?

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.accesswave.ca/~rclancey/attention-whore-book.jpg

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Letterman had a little segment last night saying that Clinton told Coulter he was gay so she would stop asking why he wasn't hitting on her bony ass. It ended with the tagline - "Bill Clinton: Only gay to crazy bitches".

Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I’m not breaking new territory here, why are you looking at me like that?

oh, that's a new one. i'll use it the next time I say something stupid

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

interview with Beliefnet.

The Estonian judge only gives her a 5.7 for attempted snark.

God did not "cause" evolution because evolution doesn't exist. Thus, for example, He also didn't "cause" unicorns. My faith and reason tell me that God created the world and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out when I meet my Maker.

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

"We're not particularly interested in the details." should be the Republican motto.

Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

How long will it be before she ends up on the Surreal Life with Star Jones?

GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

She is completely insane.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Jesus thinks you're a jerk" seems appropriate.

Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Get a clue, little shrew"

Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Part of the lolz with interviews like these is they actually try to seriously engage her. how do you engage someone who's just doing an act? you'd get better thought out answers from esteban buttez

kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Now Esteban Buttez interviewing Ann Coulter, that I would read.

Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Thursday, 3 August 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

it has to be a music video, not an interview

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 3 August 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

The full article is at the New Republic behind a paywall, but it's reprinted here: A DEFENSE OF ANN COULTER.

Americans like comfort: comfort food, comfort shoes, comfort pundits to reinforce everything we already believe. Ann Coulter is not comfort. I love that she pisses people off. I love her outsized confidence, rare in females who've gone through puberty, which means she doesn't turn into a pile of stuttering mush when an interview turns to her body...

kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone heard this? adam carolla and ann coulter have a very brief conversation....

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=77F41DA41A95CEC6

gear (gear), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

- AC

libcrypt, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

Her entire life is almost like a cruel joke. It's as if she wished for fame and the genie said, "Oh yes, you'll be famous...famous for being a wretched bitch!"

Eh. I'd like to think that she's miserable for having to live with herself, but maybe she's laughing all the way to the bank.

Nathan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

I have a friend who has been arguing that we need to take away the Women's Vote for several years now, so that's kinda unshocking to me. I guess I'm just more used to her calling Jon Stoltz spineless or something. xpost

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think that in 10-20 years, she'll write,

Ha, ha, you stupid wankers! It was all a joke!

libcrypt, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

It's not my leading hypothesis, but I do think there's a good chance she's one of the better performance artists of our time.

en i see kay, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

i saw her back in '01 and she seemed positively timid compared to now, she was just another pundit type on bill maher. i think she recognized how to get noticed and upped the bile. i think one would like to believe she's putting us on but i don't think that's the case.

omar little, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, me either...not every baffling or awful person has heard of Andy Kaufman or is trying to adopt his vibe.

Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it.

Because, of course, nothing is more shameful than attracting women rather than men.

She has a new "book" out. It seriously is nothing more than transcripts of things she has said on various cable shows. Seriously. Like every paragraph has like "Hannity & Colmes March 13, 2004" after it.

Promotionwise, I fully expect her to say something OUTRAGEOUS if she can still get on the Today Show or whatever.

mulla atari, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

i'd give her one

max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

I know I'll be let down, but I hope she includes the quote where she claimed Canada fought in Vietnam.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

maybe someone should compile a companion book full of all the maybe someone should compile a companion book full of all the made-up "facts", bone headed statements and obviously retarded things she's barfed out over the years.
as opposed to the covertly retarded things that fill its' current books.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to call "her" an "it" from now on.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

I know I'll be let down, but I hope she includes the quote where she claimed Canada fought in Vietnam.

"American Woman" makes SO much more sense now!

Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Ann Coulter epitomizes the c-word

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

Coulter?

antexit, Saturday, 8 December 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

Look, wouldn't they make a great next First Couple?

http://i11.tinypic.com/6ww0ayf.jpg

StanM, Saturday, 8 December 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

where is his hand

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

where's hers?

StanM, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, I see. She's holding his dick, he's holding hers.

StanM, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

doesnt ethan think shes really hot?

max, Saturday, 8 December 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

Ann Cougar

Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 8 December 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

I haven't seen her in about a year. What happened to her? I am missing her lolz.

"JOE THE PLUMBER, I'LL WHUP YOUR ASS" (The Reverend), Monday, 3 November 2008 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

Last I can remember of her was when she said she'd support Hilz if McCain won the Republican nom.

"JOE THE PLUMBER, I'LL WHUP YOUR ASS" (The Reverend), Monday, 3 November 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

yknow i've been thinking she's been awfully quiet this election cycle. mccain too "soft" for her?

donna rouge, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

xp ha

donna rouge, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

no the other day i decided to listen to fox news radio on itunes and she did a phone-in interview on one of the shows. she has a new book coming out after xmas!!!! better pre-order it!!!

horrible (harbl), Monday, 3 November 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago)

oh joy!

"JOE THE PLUMBER, I'LL WHUP YOUR ASS" (The Reverend), Monday, 3 November 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago)

lol her website has a section called REPORTERS WHO ARE ALLOWED TO INTERVIEW ANN AGAIN

donna rouge, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

Translation: REPORTERS WHO WOULD BOTHER INTERVIEWING ANN AGAIN

Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago)

I think they sat on her for this cycle to not damage anything more, but she'll be back in time for the inaug, just you wait.

she's still out there:

http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2008/10/30/red_hoax_blue_hoax

---
Red Hoax Blue Hoax
by Ann Coulter
Thursday, October 30, 2008

As the case of Ashley Todd reminded us again last week, racial bias crimes are almost always hoaxes....

obama cyber leader (kingfish), Monday, 3 November 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago)

my wife says she flipped over to fox news the other night for laffs and hannity had coulter on in full meltdown WHAT ABOUT REV. WRIGHT??? mode.

tipsy mothra, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

Still gets quoted; it's just that pretty much all media have figured her shtick out and it don't sell anymore.

forksclovetofu, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

she hates mccain for being too liberal and back in february or march wrote that it's better if he loses, or else he'll be blamed for all of the democratic congress' messes and will have only 1 term, and the dems will win a super-majority for the next 30 years.

Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i34.tinypic.com/35a144x.jpg

ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago)

Oh no.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

ha ha hhahahahaa!

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

fucking liberal-biased doctors!

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

As many as 50000 people have Marfan syndrome, the so-called brittle bone disease.

gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

I must be a terrible person, but this made me very happy this morning.

Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

http://i38.tinypic.com/30urfp1.jpg

ice cr?m, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

Politically Incorrect: Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Lennox Lewis on Youtube for anyone interested:

youcangoyourownway, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

lennox lewis?

racist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

Texted from a friend at her bookstore job: "Ann Coulter is here. Eek."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2009 00:58 (sixteen years ago)

It's not even like a restaurant job, where you could at least spit in her food.

Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 13 February 2009 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

As it turns out, though! My friend later commented with this:

"...she was very polite and gracious. i guess she saves all the garbage for F(au)x News. when she's amongst the people she's sweet as punch and pie. probably a good strategy."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

I think the Boondocks episode featuring Coulter pretty much sums it up.

System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Friday, 13 February 2009 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.eurweb.com/?p=8192

this is like the most fascinating BFF pairing ever

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:40 (fifteen years ago)

Wow

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

Dyn-O-Mite!

Beer me a Lagavulin (KMS), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

That IS fascinating. What a couple. Suddenly she doesn't seem so bad. Like, if Jimmie digs her then maybe her whole public persona really is just an act (I'm convinced Glenn Beck's an actor but I've never been sure about Coulter). Countdown to the self-righteous "pallin' around with terrorists" Daily Kos post dredging up his Black Panther connections?

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)

????!!!!

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

On second thoughts, this actually does not make her look better, but it sure makes him look bad.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:39 (fifteen years ago)

I went to see her speak at my school a couple weeks ago, thinking it'd be at least stimulating in some way. I just got a headache and really depressed and bored. But she mentioned by aunt's name toward the end of her speech! Glad I stayed for that weird moment

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

dogg u gotta tell that bitch to keep your fam's name out her gotdamn mouth

stunting how my father did before me (m bison), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:47 (fifteen years ago)

There was a totally manufactured outrage here in Canada recently with her pretending to be censored but thankfully it didn't really blow up beyond the Canadian press. Maybe her appeal on on the wane.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

bitch i thought i told you don't you ever in your life come out your mouth with some shit about my fam coulter i will fuck you up and sell your hair to an uptown beauty parlour

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, the proctor of Ottawa U sent her a letter saying you better watch what you say in Canada bc we will sic the Tribunal on you and make you apologize. Played right into the hands of those "free speech" yahoos who brought her up as a drone to draw controversy

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

Were you at the U of Calgary event?

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)

he's got a conservative blog on his website - JJ's Views - so really not too surprising after all

solid yet bouncy (herb albert), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

London. The crowd was about 50-50. It sucked.

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

Hah. I'd totally go and see her just in case there was any shit-disturbing worth experiencing. But yeah, I'm not surprised it was a dud.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

It was pathetic. She'd been brought up by this right-wing group whose purpose is to agitate against the "hate speech" laws in the legislation that governs human rights, and she was supposed to talk about that, I guess? I'm interested in the human rights machinery in Canada so I thought it might be good for a larf to hear her go off all indignant about something she would have just learned enough about to fake indignation. But no, she just gave her speech about US politics she must give everywhere she goes! Totally boring and pointless, and she tried to rile the audience up about stuff that's been accepted and uncontentious in Canada for ages--even the rednecks didn't rise to the bait. "I say God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve! Over my dead body will I see a gay marriage in my hometown! Who's with me?" *crickets*

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

the way the U of O guy handled things could not have been any more ham-fisted. it's like he didn't really know who/what she is or something.

big time lols from that article:

Walker lavished his repeated praise with a straight face and appeared to be serious

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:20 (fifteen years ago)

xpost. It's so typical when US folks can't change their act one iota for a foreign audience. You see that with comedians a lot. eg. Lewis Black, who actually apologised at the start of his show here in Vancouver that he was only gonna talk about America. As for Ann, I don't think she really understand that the trolling standards are totally different up here. Like, a lot of people have legitimate concerns about the Human Rights situation here in Canada, but there's not a lot of outrage about gay marriage any more.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)

But see, if she gave any indication that she realizes outrage over moral topics is a RELATIVE THING among different groups of people, it might look like a lessening of her fervor for those things being MORALLY AND UNCOMPROMISINGLY WRONG. She can't afford to be seen to be letting any of her pet issues off the hook.

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't get the impression she meant, believed, or even understood a word she said. The nadir, as always with these right-wing pundits, was the section of her talk, after 20 minutes of the unfunniest fucking jokes you have ever heard in your life, about how liberals have no sense of humour. Because we don't find it funny anymore to hear someone's pithy observations regarding gay guys' facility in throwing a baseball.

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

I would have liked (guiltily) to hear someone laying into the Tribunal;s policy and the free speech discrimination provisions. My reservations about its effectiveness and worth are one of like five political subjects I'm sympathetic to "conservative" viewpoints about

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:34 (fifteen years ago)

I mean I don't expect her to get someone to put together a whole hour of material that's relevant to an audience she's going to be speaking in front of three times (two, it turned out), but at least give us SOMETHING. Oh! I shouted out a good heckle, though: she was talking about Obama's executive leadership experience, after having spent some time talking about Jesus, and she said "There were 12 apostles-- even Jesus had more leadership experience than this guy!" and I called out "Darker skin, too"

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

LOL. Good one! Totally agree re. the Human Rights Tribunal. eg. A great restaurant down the road from my house is currently weathering a controvertial HR case brought by a woman claiming human-rights abuse caused by a comedian telling a bunch of gags about lesbians. If Coulter's rhetoric wasn't so lazy and US-centric she could actually have brought some attention to stuff like this.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, I've been following that, sort of. Didn't his lawyer pull a "I'm out of order? YOU'RE out of order! This whole damn SYSTEM is out of order!" and storm out of the hearing? That's the last thing I heard.

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:49 (fifteen years ago)

oh i was reading about that!
something about some carpet munchers heckling a comedian and then not appreciating the return volley.

xpost!!!

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)

Basically the BC HR Tribunal have no juristiction to even be hearing this case. They would have to define the comedian as being an employee of the restaurant, which he clearly is not. They are going ahead with it anyway, despite not establishing any authority. The comedians lawyer walked out at that point. It's a total farce.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

Importantly, the BC HRT had previously been told by a court that they had establish juristiction before proceeding. An order which they ignored.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

Thermo pls webmail me your mailing address & expect a summons in the mail irt my pending claim on the basis of your hate speech on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:50 PM

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

You know there's something wrong when you find yourself in agreement with the likes of Margaret Wente.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

To return to the original point, it would have been so easy for Coulter to get some mileage out of this case when she was here in Canada. Especially since her Canadian promoter, Ezra Levant has been all over the BC Tribunal case for ages now.

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

It's a very important system to have in place-- it's great that it's there, and in theory it's an vital resource to be made available in a liberal democracy for the use of private citizens in resolving what are usually serious and meritous claims. it's just that they were doing it really inefficiently before, so in response to complaints about delay and procedure they changed it and fucked it up way worse. it's way underfunded and understaffed on every level, so people don't get the support that they need and wind up flustering their avenues of access to the justice available, and frivolous claims get through too often because of inadequate investigation and they make big news, and it all just serves to undermine the credibility of the system further. wanto to get rid of something that's a pain in your ass but people won't let you get rid of it because they think they need it? get some bureaucrats to go in and fuck it up so bad everyone winds up hating it

antexit, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)

then maybe her whole public persona really is just an act

would make her just as reprehensible IMO. maybe more.

by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

Yep. I posted without really thinking. She's probably the vilest person on the continent. I mean, if JJ's a conservative, so what? I have no problem with that. But Coulter's race-baiting stuff is just awful. Or maybe JJ doesn't give a shit? Why should I assume he would?

everything, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:34 (fifteen years ago)

I think maybe we should stop calling Jimmy Walker "JJ" and start calling him "Uncle Ruckus"

This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

“Among gay conservatives, she is an icon,” said Christopher Barron, chairman of GOProud’s board, who spoke at Homocon. “We could not think of anyone who we would want to party with more.” Jimmy LaSalvia, the group’s executive director, exclaimed: “Just look at her shoes!”

Coulter seeks new Image

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Coulter said that might be a weakness in the Republican Party as a whole — that certain individuals become celebrities and are allowed to profit off that status and yet still interfere in GOP politics, which Democrats have been able to avoid.

“And just a more corporate problem is I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party,” she said. “I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people — as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.”

She cited Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as examples where despite having a loyal following, Democrats haven’t honored him with even an MSNBC show.

“No, no, no — you embarrass us and drag this thing out, you are finished in the Democratic Party,” she said.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/coulter-on-palin-brokered-convention-gop-has-a-problem-with-con-men-and-charlatans/#ixzz1

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:36 (thirteen years ago)

it is weird to see Ann saying something lucid, although it is very lol and in character that said lucidity is happening because she's trying to ice out competition from hurting her punditry's bottom line

thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

When even Malkin thinks you've gone too far...

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:33 (thirteen years ago)

I have to say, I'm surprised that's all she said

The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:37 (thirteen years ago)

suffers from Don Imus syndrome

Aimless, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:26 (thirteen years ago)

Wow, Coulter on Piers Morgan digging in. She's said "creton" twice in the last three minutes--some kind of mythical creature that crosses Ramones imagery with Caesar salads and sofa beds.

clemenza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:34 (thirteen years ago)

did she mean cretin

mookieproof, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:36 (thirteen years ago)

Croatan?

Gukbe, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:37 (thirteen years ago)

Sure--and she corrected herself each time. Just thought it was funny. She's also claiming--insisting--that no one ever uses "retard" to belittle people with Down Syndrome, etc., and that neither would she; it's just another synonym for "loser" or idiot.

clemenza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:39 (thirteen years ago)

Or "faggot."

Room 227 (cryptosicko), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:40 (thirteen years ago)

did piers ask her about dinesh y/n

mookieproof, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:41 (thirteen years ago)

Not yet; still a few minutes to go.

clemenza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:42 (thirteen years ago)

lol @ sarah palin

If you are a child of #God, you are filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. [Colossians 1:9-10]—

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:09 (thirteen years ago)

@God
Thx 4 callback. RT@SarahPalinUSA: If you are a child of #God, you are filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. [Colossians 1:9-10]

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:10 (thirteen years ago)

The whole creepy thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h282C3ta3mg

clemenza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:03 (thirteen years ago)

what a pathetic attention whore. imagine how bad she must have been in high school

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:21 (thirteen years ago)

she is a despicable human and i really wish her the worst.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

Really interested in her new book about racial demagoguery titled MUGGED.

circa1916, Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:41 (thirteen years ago)

I missed the beginning last night...I'll queasily give her a draw for the first 3:30; from "more child molesters in America than racists" forward, she's off the reservation, and her disingenuous on how people use "retard" is disgusting.

Tried to cast my mind back to which Ann Coulters I might have gone to high school with, couldn't make that leap. I'm sure she was a real piece of work.

clemenza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:44 (thirteen years ago)

"disingenuousness"

clemenza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:45 (thirteen years ago)

she is a despicable human and i really wish her the worst.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:33 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

your favorite pastime

turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:49 (thirteen years ago)

it's plenty good enough to wish obscurity upon her. that, plus having to live with herself for the rest of her days.

Aimless, Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I think that the world ceasing to pay any attention to her is about the worst thing that could happen to Ann Coulter. Her eyes tell me that death would be nothing but a sweet release.

Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:57 (thirteen years ago)

your favorite pastime

lol

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:58 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.chacha.com/question/does-ann-coulter-have-cancer

buzza, Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:13 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I think that the world ceasing to pay any attention to her is about the worst thing that could happen to Ann Coulter. Her eyes tell me that death would be nothing but a sweet release.

― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, that's true. it's always regrettable (albeit understandable) when folks post her latest outrage to this or that website--there's really no reason to give her any attention, she feeds on it.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:42 (thirteen years ago)

she is a despicable human and i really wish her the worst.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:33 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

your favorite pastime

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

concern trolls are concerned.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:42 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

MEGALOLZ

http://gawker.com/here-is-a-collection-of-twitter-trolls-teaching-photosh-1575074274

Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:10 (eleven years ago)

What?! I thought she was dead.

epoxy fule (Aimless), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:18 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/25/coulter-growing-interest-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/

lmao

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade — or about the length of the average soccer game — so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

• Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls — all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

• Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

• No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties — and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

• The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game — and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

• You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

• I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

• It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

• Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

• Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear — again about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist. Contact her through her website at www.anncoulter.com.

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:47 (eleven years ago)

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:10 (eleven years ago)

This is officially the point at which she crosses over into grotesque self-parody.

You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:17 (eleven years ago)

How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

Simple, just imagine 10 penises laid end-to-end

Josefa, Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)

simpler still, just picture 95.28 men's thumbs

this is hard to believe

rip van wanko, Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:55 (eleven years ago)

This is officially the point at which she crosses over into grotesque self-parody.

Isn't that what she's always been? Obnoxious attempts at trolling and unfunny comedy.

wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:29 (eleven years ago)

That would be cool if we called inches "thumbs".

I was at a used book store the other day and they had a bunch of books by personalities like AC. All the titles were basically unfunny parodies of liberal catch-phrases, which seems to sum up their entire approach.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:37 (eleven years ago)

I love how she's outright said BECAUSE FOREIGNERS. She gives zero fucks.

the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:12 (eleven years ago)

Also, wat: "I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is."

DOes she live on planet no-media?

the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:15 (eleven years ago)

The only parts of that article that really annoyed me were where she displayed complete ignorance of the sports she was talking about (not only soccer, but the real amurcan sports she claims to love). Everything else was just pro forma coulter.

'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:15 (eleven years ago)

i love the completely random segue from ranting about soccer to ranting about the metric system

ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:13 (eleven years ago)

Vincent Vega: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?"
Ann Coulter: "No, but if it has anything to do with the metric system, go fuck yourself."

clemenza, Friday, 27 June 2014 04:24 (eleven years ago)

But metric system is bad bcs furriners, dousee.

the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, 27 June 2014 06:14 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/bpNxl5C.jpg

write 500 words of song (sleepingbag), Friday, 27 June 2014 06:26 (eleven years ago)

Chinese-style brainwashing notwithstanding, soccerball measures things in yards exclusively

Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 June 2014 07:36 (eleven years ago)

This thing about you aren't American if your great-grandparents sounds supremely batshit, is there any way to get numbers on that? Like it seems like it would actually be pretty rare to find someone whose family is 100% American tracing back 100+ years. I'm trying to find some data on this but not sure how to search...

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 June 2014 11:50 (eleven years ago)

I don't know how old YOUR great-grandparents were, but I had great-grandparents alive in the 1980s.

Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:02 (eleven years ago)

not sure it's an assertion that warrants that much statistical scrutiny

Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:04 (eleven years ago)

FWIW I think the average black family has been in America for longer than the average white family

, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:27 (eleven years ago)

Coulter to her Syndicate: "I told you I could get a bunch of people to read a stupid article if I just recycled a bunch of 'lol, soccer' jokes. They'll click on anything. The dumber it sounds, the more they want to read it, so they can share their opinions about how dumb it is. Fucking magic. Pay me."

Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:43 (eleven years ago)

Hope he doesn't mind, but this was my friend's response:

"Hey you reactionary ghoul- my great grandfather was born in the US and was a pillar of his community and a member of the KKK, and I'm watching all I can of the World Cup. But I suspect that what I like about that fact is exactly what you hate about it. God forbid Americans would participate in a shared global experience that they don't dominate, control, subvert or police with arms. And, of course, immigrants have had no impact on American culture, where our food, sports, music and art all sprang forth from the soil."

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:47 (eleven years ago)

But I suspect that what I like about that fact is exactly what you hate about it.

Coulter's just trolling, but her audience doesn't dislike soccer for any real reason - they're just lolsoccer like bad comedians are lolairlinefood.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 27 June 2014 13:45 (eleven years ago)

was gonna say, p sure all her observations that are actually about the sport itself were creaky canards 20 years ago and I daresay were around when MLS blew up in the 70s

Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 June 2014 14:11 (eleven years ago)

Excuse me, but I think that was the NASL.

Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

A country in which football/soccer isn't by far the biggest sport seems like such a bizarre parallel universe to me.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:30 (eleven years ago)

Coulter isn't even a grade A troll -- that was some hack shit. It's amazing she's as famous as she is.

'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:46 (eleven years ago)

parallel universe

Would make an interesting thread of its own, providing ilx knew enough about such countries to identify and compare them. e.g. Isn't cricket bigger than football in India? Isn't hockey the biggest sport in Canada?

Aimless, Friday, 27 June 2014 16:48 (eleven years ago)

she's useless and i'm pretty confident she will end up sad destitute and alone so i'm going to go out and have fun today

I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:50 (eleven years ago)

Hockey is the biggest anything in Canada.

You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:42 (eleven years ago)

Man I'm late on the party to this but I wonder what she'd say if she knew about the German-Americans, Colombian-Americans, Icelandic-Americans, and Mexican-Americans on our World Cup team, let alone our madman new ager German coach.

dan m, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:45 (eleven years ago)

also aerosmith is as OTM as love in an elevator means going down

dan m, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:46 (eleven years ago)

@DennisThePerrin
The only people keeping Ann Coulter relevant are American liberals. She's writing for YOU, kids, and you seem to love it.

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 June 2014 14:20 (eleven years ago)

No argument there.

How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 15:23 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

She bombed hard on the Rob Lowe roast. I almost felt bad for her (but not really).

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 05:28 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

“The unacceptable threats of violence that have led to the ‘hecklers’ veto’ of Ann Coulter’s speech at Berkeley are inconsistent with free speech principles that protect us all from government overreach. Hateful speech has consequences, particularly for people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and others who have been historically marginalized. But if the government gets to decide which speech counts as hate speech, the powers that be may later feel free to censor any speech they don’t like.

“For the future of our democracy, we must protect bigoted speech from government censorship. On college campuses, that means that the best way to combat hateful speech is through counter-speech, vigorous and creative protest, and debate, not threats of violence or censorship.”

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-ann-coulter-speech

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:09 (eight years ago)

I have a feeling she--just like Milo before her--had no intention of actually speaking at Berkeley. Book the gig...agitators gonna agitate...cancel the date and Oh Hai! loads of free publicity giving me the illusion of a upper hand.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:19 (eight years ago)

^^
Most likely scenario. Still, I have to wonder why Berkley is even booking her (or Milo) in the first place?

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:58 (eight years ago)

Is it UC-Berkeley booking her or is it some shitstirring student group booking her?

International House of Hot Takes (kingfish), Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:00 (eight years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/2017/04/21/berkeley-coulter-speech-lawsuit/

apparently they offered a venue that could accommodate better security, but she turned it down because

UC Berkeley had imposed “new, more burdensome conditions” on her constitutional rights.

so basically c.grisso otm

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:26 (eight years ago)

Is it UC-Berkeley booking her or is it some shitstirring student group booking her?

it's the latter

Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:27 (eight years ago)

who just seems more naive than shit-stirring but the results are the same

Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:30 (eight years ago)

we need to alleviate polarization by inviting dumb, incendiary, polarizing idiots to speak

marcos, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:42 (eight years ago)

jfc there are a million people you can invite to encourage dialogue and respectful conversation. coulter is not one of them

marcos, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:43 (eight years ago)

what an ass

marcos, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:43 (eight years ago)

yeah like invite ross douthat or something you feeb

-_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:44 (eight years ago)

disrespectful conversation not permissible, check

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:47 (eight years ago)

did you read what the guy said?

marcos, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:51 (eight years ago)

jfc there are a million people you can invite to encourage dialogue and respectful conversation. coulter is not one of them

exactly. this is what you get when either side engaged in this ostensible "debate" engages in bad faith. The college Republicans aren't interested in dialogue, they're interested in inflammatory, attention-getting stunts. (The inverse of this on the left can, and I'm sure does, exist as well)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 April 2017 18:59 (eight years ago)

(fwiw I agree w the ACLU's position on this in terms of the university's actions)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 April 2017 19:01 (eight years ago)

i mean, freshman year you get an article in the washington post. the opportunities are there for those with the least shame.

plax (ico), Thursday, 27 April 2017 19:48 (eight years ago)

Speak of the devil: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/26/milos-appearance-at-berkeley-led-to-riots-he-vows-to-return-this-fall-for-a-week-long-free-speech-event/?utm_term=.e0fbc6a9fb92

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:20 (eight years ago)

trying to think of some comparable right-wing public college the left can go cause problems at

Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:22 (eight years ago)

Bob Jones University? Oral Roberts University? Liberty University?

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:26 (eight years ago)

Trump University? Oh wait...

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:30 (eight years ago)

trying to think of some comparable right-wing public college the left can go cause problems at

― Οὖτις

there isn't one, because free speech isn't actually a value of the right

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:31 (eight years ago)

Well, yeah.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:32 (eight years ago)


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