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Ann Coulter, on a Roll
At the annual American Conservative Union meeting—attended by the V.P. and all the 2008 Republican candidates but McCain—Ann Coulter gave her latest gaydar reading. John Edwards, like Bill Clinton and Al Gore before him, is a "faggot."
Posted by Cameron Scott on 03/03/07 at 11:19 AM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |
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Ms. Coulter is not comically stupid. She's on her way to making tens of millions in wealth. She's a top fundraiser and top draw at Republican gatherings. She represents the ruthless, bipartisanship is for the testosterone-less mentality of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and the top leadership of her party. Not the old party, but certainly the new one.
The problem, like managing a company that has long outsourced its key functions, is that those left behind forget or no longer learn any other way.
Posted by: dpk on 03/03/07 at 6:14 PM
Ann Coulter is a rockstar. It's about time you liberal jerks figured out that working class Americans are on to you - and your endless crying for more handouts will soon come to an end.
AC holds up to humor what you guys are really up to - and she has the right to call any liberal anything she wants - because anyone who believes in the premeditated killing of the unborn are not human by definition anyway - mere dogs and calling a dog anything is fair game.
Posted by: Paul on 03/04/07 at 12:50 AM
Do you hear something? It sounded a little bit like a baby crying or something.....
Anyway, Ann Coulter is such a tremendou phoney. You know she doesn't believe half of the bilge that comes out of her mouth. People who get behind her are probably the first social group she starts sniggering at, at the top of the morning. She plays to the emotional buttons of the illogical, compassionless right, those who don't really understand the importance of diversity and social responsibility to a healthy democracy.
Does anyone know her background? Does she come from an affluent family or a poor one? Does she know how working class people live? Does she know that raising the minimum wage is not the same as a hand out? Anne Coulter is somewhat pathetic, but people who think her views are sincere are truly naive.
Posted by: Paul Miller on 03/04/07 at 7:05 AM
Yeah, she's a rock star that has no creativity and plays to win over the money from dumbsh.. like you. are you ready to rock springfield ?? (hold up your bic and holler)
Posted by: dandaman on 03/04/07 at 7:06 AM
Ann is a hit amongst her crowd, but not amongst those who are the point of her joke. Let us stop joking and be more serious. We do not want to offend anybody. Peace and Harmony to all.
Posted by: Ted on 03/04/07 at 7:10 AM
Hey Paul,
I'm just curious if you buy into the entire republican platform. Do you:
1) believe in the death penalty?
2) oppose gun control?
3) oppose welfare?
4) oppose sex education?
5) oppose distribution of condoms in public schools?
I already know that you oppose safe legal abortions.
So, if you answered yes to these 5 questions, I would point out to you that perhaps you merely believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 03/04/07 at 7:12 AM
Oh, and one last thing, yes, Ann Coulter has a right to say whatever hateful things she wants as long as she does not advocate violent actions. The rest of us have a moral obligation to loudly decry what she says as bigotry of the worst form. I will continue to do so.
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 03/04/07 at 7:15 AM
Scott, you make good points. I was trying to ignore the poster who sadly shares my first name [if that's real] because I feel that he, like Pastor Bob and Tyrone, are more than likely just here to distract from the real conversation. After all, anyone who argues that pro-choice American's don't deserve to live because of their beliefs has already lost their own argument. Should fetuses from liberal families be aborted because in all likelihood they will become grown humans eventually who believe in choice?
Posted by: Paul Miller on 03/04/07 at 7:20 AM
Ms. Coulter's remarks indicates that she has a problem with Southerners. She insults the whole South with her remarks. She is probably one of those elitist(wine drinker)types. Regarding sexuality(not that it matters) I hear that she is not exactly like most women in that area. I think that she needs to drink whisky to get a clearer picture of her surroundings. This experience just makes me wonder if I can ever trust a Yankee again. Vote for Edwards, a true son of the South and also a Bourbon drinker. This one is to you John boy.
Posted by: Jack Daniels on 03/04/07 at 7:22 AM
Sad statement on the US education system. It produced her AND people are listening. Dumbing Down of Republican America. It is a strategy. Why? So the political elites can get away with their adventures without any opposition. People with low education have low expectations of themselves and their politicians. USA is uneducating the republican & democratic middle class to poverty and despair.
Posted by: Paul M. on 03/04/07 at 11:39 AM
Paul M, I don't believe that the dumbing down of the population is specific to Republicans. I think it applies statistically across the board. Keep in mind that the number one method for reducing birth rate is to educate women and get them into the work force, a strategy often very effectively applied to help developing nations.
The converse is also true. Uneducated people often have more children. Education does not necessarily correlate to intelligence. However, we may indeed be, for lack of a better term, breeding stupider. This has a negative connotation. However, our intelligence, such as it is, has caused us a tremendous number of problems, and may indeed spell our demise. Perhaps if we could truly breed for lower intelligence, or a lack of thumbs, we might survive for a lot longer. Or, perhaps I'm just a misanthrope. The two may not be mutually exclusive.
And, no, I don't claim any higher degree of intelligence than anyone else. I am glad though that it won't be my kids dealing with the problems to come. I'm a true Darwinian failure.
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 03/04/07 at 12:22 PM
Another one of Ann’s jokes. She is so funny! I wonder how she would react if she was described as an emaciated, [deleted by moderator].
Hey, I’m just kidding. She not classy enough to be on coke. She is a little more white trash – more of a meth head.
Remember – it’s just a joke.
Posted by: Jim Kirkhoff on 03/04/07 at 12:57 PM
You know, it seems to me Ann may just be going thru a slow period of personal discovery. Her snippy little tirades and commentary supported by wimpy little "Republi-Cants" who titter from the wings, points to some possible serious denial about her own sexual orientation. Because she probaly hasn't found anyone to hold a decent dialog with in ages who might have a different opinion than hers, and more than likely hasn't received a good boning, in years from any of the swishy, milquetoast Republican "men" around her, and she's followed everywhere by retentive, conservative sycophantic wusses who freak out whenever they get a wiff of a strong womans crotch, doesn't mean she might turn gay, BUT...
she sure is showing signs of coming out, doesn't she?
The "All Democrats are gay" line (Al Gore and Bill Clinton? COO COO! COO COO...!) sounds a lot like sour grapes to me. Poor thing.
Seems she has a couple of options.
Sleep with a Democrat guy and get it out her system, or come out of the closet and switch to the other side.
Embrace the freedom, Ann.
We will be waiting with open arms.
Considering her Republican friends will throw a hissy and start comparing her to Roseanne Barr, she'll need someplace to go.
We're here for you, Honey
Posted by: Bite Me Elephant Boy! on 03/04/07 at 1:08 PM
Would the gentlemen posting please try to hide your women hating. I don't like Coulter any more then you do, but please talk like an intellectual and don't get down to her level.
Posted by: Kay on 03/04/07 at 1:34 PM
Good point Kay. Annthrax's sex life, or lack thereof, is no more our business than anyone else's is her business. Let's stick to the topic, she's a total bigot that has every right to say the hateful stuff that comes out of her mouth, just as we have every right, and obligation in my opinion, to expose her for the hateful bigot she is.
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 03/04/07 at 5:20 PM
One of the most troublesome things about Ann Coulter's popularity is the fact that she's one of the most witless untalented people in America. I don't usually agree with P.J. O'Rourke's politics, but I can read his work and admit that he has a sense of humor and is a talented writer. Coulter has no talent. She has no wit. And yet she's wildly popular. I'd have much more respect for conservatives if they looked to people like O'Rourke for snarky comments about Democrats rather than the talentless Coulter.
Posted by: Josh on 03/04/07 at 6:33 PM
Yes, the militant hatefulness of Coulter is embittering, while a P. J. O'Rourke doesn't seem hateful. To be honest, not having had cable in so many years, and listening to NPR and not mainstream 'news', I have not heard much about her in a while and had hoped that she had faded away. Seems like this specific type of politicing would be more a stylistic fad that we would have morphed out of eventually.
Posted by: Paul Miller on 03/04/07 at 7:24 PM
Funny, I liked the the satirical nature of the comment made by "Bite Me...". Ithought it was satirical, and I didn't get the "women hating" comment afterwards. Maybe you need to relax your personal requirements for other peoples comments a bit. I think humor is absolutely needed in situations like this one. The one thing Republicans count on is predictable responses. If you cannot laugh while being "smart", then nobody would enjoy Robin Williams, George Carlin or Bill Hicks. Or any speech made by George W.
And maybe they wouldn't see how ree-diculous Ann Coulter really is. In fact, serious commentary about her is pretty ridiculous, too. She' a pretty sad icon for a political party.
So the commentary was a little bitchy, big deal. Don't take it so personal and read between the lines a little.
Posted by: Kurt on 03/04/07 at 8:56 PM
Personally I have no idea what “conservative” means or why Ann Coulter is considered a “conservative”. If Ann Coulter represents conservative then conservative suggests an ignorant individual who sounds like a rather pathetic bigot. Of course when Coulter goes after Edwards she is going after a Southerner and it is in fact difficult to say just how Southerners will accept a Yankee accented bigot going after a true homegrown Southerner, who has succeeded in the “American Dream”, having risen from the ranks of a middle class home that struggled to make ends meet, became the first in his family tree to actually go to college and to find real success as a self made man and who has then decided to dedicate his life to “politics” when he is genuinely gifted in the art of making money—and calling this man a “fagot” because he thinks health care is important for the better good of the nation and that this kind of care should be considered a “human right”, that is instead of the USA looking like one of the most backward countries on the face of the earth where people who are in clear need of medical attention are removed from hospitals and dumped on the street to die as was recently shown on CNN—because they can't pay for average medical care in the world's most expensive and elitist medical care system. What constitutes murder in the USA? This form of murder is a murder that falls on all of our shoulders because we allow it. Where's the blood thirsty Coulter on this issue?
I thought that the term “fagot” when used in a derogatory sense referred to one's sexual inclination and in that case Edwards clearly isn't homosexual. Usually Democrats have the opposite problem where the smear campaign by the sexless sterile Republicans whose children apparently arrive from storks after they are glued together by God (because babies are not born they are created), are aimed at their pussy hungry appetite and that too is said to be horrible requiring the full use of the legal system to pursue in the most minute detail the sexual habits of even the president while placing the entire security of the nation at risk because instead of worrying about the affairs of state the president has to worry about “affairs” in general (that somehow strikes me as just plain stupid but that is the Republican Party) but with Coulter what we hear is a slanderous liar—I wonder if “conservatives” (who and whatever they are) really want to be attached to a slanderous, lying, bigot?).
On the other hand our manly Cheerleader President Bush, our Vietnam war-dodger Bush, our grounded wingless insubordinate Air Force reserve pilot Bush, our alcoholic Bush, our sounds like he was “C” student because he was a “C” student and who is insofar as the term applies, an honest to God “carpet-bagger” Bush (because just what is a Connecticut Yankee, educated at Andover, Yale and Harvard doing in Texas involved in a history of shady business practices if he's not a carpet-bagger. The carpet-bagger mentality of Bush is best revealed in the New Orleans catastrophe (here we will witness billion dollar frauds equaling perhaps surpassing the 11 billion dollar fraud of the UN in Iraq, with the exception that the UN fraud actually fed 15 million people 3 times a day and offered them medical coverage every day for five years until the US offered them absolute chaos and no care whatsoever for a 400 billion dollar fraud while the US can't take care of a single city consisting of 500,000 people, that is the Carpetbagger American reality where for billions upon billions you get ZERO!!!!)—the utter disgrace it reflects on America the nation, before the eyes of the entire world (we did the same thing to Atlantic City (but who remembers or who cares)—left it to rot and now its owned by the Mafia and gambling—is that a conservative solution—Mafia) I guess our tough on crime Coulter sucks the Godfather's wanger because she lacks the true grit to go after the real scum or perhaps she's looking for a job at the Godfather's brothel.
But I guess that when men like Mr. Edwards or Mr. Gore or Mrs. Clinton—who gave it her best shot to make national health care a reality for all Americans believe that we should take serious those suppressed rapports by the Bush administration from the “fagot” Pentagon (I say fagot Pentagon not because it is my belief that a five sided building has sexual preferences but to follow the lingo and logic of Ann Coulter—since the Pentagon has given out some of the most critical warnings concerning global warming, then they must be fagots) that the single greatest threat to the future of the USA and the entire world as we know it, isn't terrorists (a term that isn't even defined by the international community because it is completely ambiguous—ain't it fitting that we are at war with “ambiguity = terrorism” for more than 200 Billion dollars a year) but global warming that even ridiculous slanderous lying bigots like the feeble Ann Coulter would comprehend the seriousness of the problem.
Posted by: jeff on 03/05/07 at 5:19 AM
I thought that Coulter's comments were funny. She has good legs as well and beautiful long flowing blonde hair.
Posted by: Matt Blumberg on 03/05/07 at 6:18 AM
I have to agree with this cartoon...I thinks she's really lost it.
http://henrypear.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Richard on 03/05/07 at 8:52 AM
On a lighter note: If Donald Rumsfeld had been still US Defense Minister, instead of Robert Gates we would of heard, instead of the firings, the following quote last week at the convention: "As you know, you go to war with the VA(Army) you have. They're not the VA (Army) you might want or wish to have at a later time."
Posted by: Paul Malouf on 03/05/07 at 9:20 AM
We really need to stop taking Man Coulter so seriously. I'm not defending her words... I'm just saying... who cares?! She's a total loon. Just ignore her. The sad thing is that this little joke (which wasn't even funny) gets SOOOOOO much play in the media.
Posted by: Guy Incognito on 03/05/07 at 9:40 AM
Maybe Ann does have gaydar ... I mean isn't she a transsexual? Whatever sex it is, it sure looks pretty manly to me. I've got it, she's a cyborg shembot! Yeah, that's it.
Posted by: Alan on 03/05/07 at 3:41 PM
I feel that all the comments regarding Coulter's gender identity and/or sexuality diverts our focus from what should be our real consternation: That is, that a major political party in what ought to be the best nation did not cut ties with this radical phoney a long time ago. It does illustrate however that the republican party has no inspired vision for the future of America, if their only means for gathering support is through a pretense of bigotry at this level.
On another note, however, it reveals how uncomfortable we are culturally with a strident tone in a woman, that we would rather suppose that Coulter is really a man and not a woman being so offensive. It's troubling that she picked up the message somewhere that to get this level of coverage, she would have to masterbate the idealogies of a lot of narrow-minded conservative suits.
Posted by: Paul Miller on 03/05/07 at 6:19 PM
Murder stupidity and bigotry like Tranny Annie's with
s-i-l-e-n-c-e.
Nobody ever mention her name again, ok?
Don't get annoyed, don't get upset, don't pay any attention, just ignore IT!
Posted by: shonny on 03/05/07 at 9:23 PM
shonny is right.
The more the blogs publish her hateful remarks (and frankly not comedic by any measure) and fall into full outrage mode, and the MSM follows suit over the outrage on the blogs, the more she gets free publicity and sells more of her ridiculous books.
She would go away if just ignored completely.
Posted by: Tawanda on 03/06/07 at 4:20 AM
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Good!! I'm really glad she continues to say stupid stuff like this. Imagine if she learned to tone it down enough so that someone with a brain might listen to her!
The most conservative individual I know (a real classical conservative, not a right wing radical) thinks she's completely over the edge and comically stupid. (Not his words, just my summation from listening to his opinions.)
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 03/03/07 at 3:00 PM