Letters to the Editor
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Coulter unplugged... maybe someday...
...well, maybe unglued would be a more appropriate term.
Coulter definitely sounded defensive... more than usual.
What I'd really like to hear is some caller asking her why she feels entitled to her own intrepretation of voting law enforcement. [A personal signing statement from Bush as thanks for keeping the rabid right-wing in red meat?] More specifically, why did that story just melt away? Perhaps because of her personal relationship with a member of federal law enforcement? And, if so, what was she wearing when she asked for the favor? Certainly not a blue dress-- but perhaps that is why she favors that black cocktail dress?
Finally, why is it okay for Coulter to say what she does, yet no one asks her those questions, which are perfectly legitimate, given that lying about your residence on your voter registration is a felony?
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2429
Isn't this similar to the type of "voter-fraud" that the Republican party has been trying to prosecute in target states under the guidance of Karl Rove, and with the willing and able assistance of the newly reconstituted DOJ?
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It just gets funnier
Coulter's first line from her column:
The Edwards campaign is apparently still running low on donations, so this week they went back to their top fundraiser: me.
She asks rhetorically two paragraphs later:
did any TV host ever surprise [liberal commentators] with a call by the wife of someone made nasty remarks about?
So she's saying that her making nasty remarks about Democrats constitutes an effective way to channel funds to them.
So should we be yelling "Stop Ann stop!" or "Go Ann go!"?
Or, as I've said for years, is it now not manifestly obvious that Coulter is a plant -- effective only in driving Republicans away from the shrieking right and into the center where they could conceivably vote Democrat?
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Thank you, starman, for the quote.
Here's a question for you:
In light of the complete quote, do you think that it was a reasonable explanation for Joan Walsh to say this;
"Coulter picked the fight when she called Edwards a "faggot" at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting in January and cruelly accused him four years ago of hyping his son Wade's death."
On the latter point, we know that even John Kerry got creeped out by Edwards' casual and bogus storytelling about 'never having before revealed to anyone' that wierd little bit about him hugging his dead son's coffin or whatever it was that Edwards told Kerry when Edwards was auditioning for Veep?
Now as for your question to me, I think it is pretty clear that Ann Coulter was not seriously accusing Edwards of being a homosexual man. Is that the way that any of you took it? Are the Salonistas that humor-impaired? What Coulter was doing, first and foremost, was making fun of the msm kerfuffle over Isiah Washington and the ridiculous handwringing among the Hollywood elites who so richly deserve any ridicule that is sent their way. Secondly, she was making (in what was probably a highly oblique way) fun of Edwards' calculated, prissy, self-absorbed persona. Rightfully so. Look, I hate Edwards. You might not. You're going to like a lot of rude anti-Bush humor. I happen to like humor that trashes Edwards. It doesn't make Ann Coulter a racist or a homophobe.
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this is my last Ann Coulter post of the week. Really.
Thank you!
Now I suppose you'll be leaving for a long weekend and this thread will lurch on until you come back after the 4th.
Please leave us with something more positive to chew on until you get back.
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"It doesn't make Ann Coulter a racist or a homophobe."
Really? Try telling that to a no-nonsense person of color or gay person... and then get back to me. Sometimes individual people get fed up with their "identity" being used as a slur. And, yet, for some reason, that possibility often does not make it through the haze of these discussions about why it's really okay to use them, even when it shouldn't be. Instead, those whose identities are now "slurs" are told it doesn't really mean anything. Well, if that's the case, then how/why is it being used at all? For an intended non-effect? Please! How is not being a racist or a homophobe consistent with believing you can use those identifications as slurs? The logic escapes me.
It's on a par with many women not liking it when they hear derogatory names for women being used as insults. As if there were nothing in the world worse than being a woman, or a person of color, or gay. But, of course, all of those are "true" epithets, I guess, if you are a Republican? So everyone else had just better get used to it or else? Because Republican standards of civil public discourse are the best? (Someone better tell Cheney.)
And guess what? Really good writers-- not like the plagiarizing Coulter-- know how to produce a devastating & eloquent insult without using epithets that hurt innocent bystanders. And yet, Coulter appears to thrive on her ability to create collateral damage.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Paper_confirms_Coulter_plagiarism_0702.html
Go watch that scene in Roxanne again...
And Joan... thank you for keeping the sunshine on this story. I know that many people would like to deprive Ann Coulter of her platform-- and I understand the impulse-- but she will never go away willingly. Instead, she should be tied (metaphorically speaking) around the neck of the the Republican Party like a dead chicken (thank you, Molly Ivins for that story)... and then let them try to disown her.
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Something we can do about it
From an earlier post: "Stop buying her books, stop going to her speeches."
To which I add, stop buying the products of the sponsors who support programs that invite her participation. Then send a letter or email to the sponsor telling them why you will no longer buy their stuff, and that you are asking your friends to do the same.
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Elephantman! You are SO Right!
I totally get it! But I went there once and there was a guy just like you – I think, because I can’t be sure because I don’t really know you! But I think so! – but you were just leaving. Holy moly! I couldn’t believe it. Do you have a job? I didn’t think so. So anyway, today was cooler than it should be. For June I mean. Oh no, I didn’t mean that. Sometimes I just think in book titles. I can’t say for sure. Did you ask me that? Who did? I can’t be sure! Listen to this: phhhhht! Isn’t that just it? I thought so. Ridiculous. Me too, that’s what I think. How about this: blllllegh! That is better. But what about Bing Crosby? Who knows?! Who can know for sure? You? You seem sure! What about phenomenon. That’s a hard one. But not as hard as Pythagoras. I saw him once in a film hosted by Donald Duck. The Coca-Cola is too fizzy. I agree. Please write again soon!