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Ann Coulter's 'Faggot' Remark Smears Mitt Romney Too

But Coulter is unlikely to go away because "she provides an outlet ... for the twisted psychological impulses and truly hateful face that drives the entire pro-Bush, right-wing spectacle."
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The right-wing "slime bowl," the attacks by conservative media and surrogates to attempt to bang up Democratic politicians, had another big event Friday, at the meeting in Washington of the Conservative Political Action Conference. And this time the smell of Ann Coulter's hate speech is all over 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, an emerging darling of the Republican party.

Coulter, who spoke after Romney and was warmly acknowledged by him, essentially endorsed the former Governor of Massachusetts for president in her speech. But that's something he's probably already regretting because of her bigotry that concluded her talk:

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I -- so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards," Coulter said.

Shortly after the faggot remark, when responding to questions, Coulter said said that "Romney is the best candidate we have." She said Rudy Giuliani is too liberal -- "when both candidates for president support abortion I think we can hang it up as a country." After dumping on McCain, and saluting Gingrich as a brilliant guy who's time has passed she embraced Romney: "He tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy who hoodwinks the voters so easily."

McCain and others attacked Coulter's hate speech, and thus far, according to the New York Times, Romney has distanced himself from the remark, but not the hate spewer herself. Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told the press, "It was an offensive remark. Governor Romney believes all people should be treated with dignity and respect." One might expect that Romney would go further and help put the venemous Coulter out to pasture.

But in reality, this is all part of a dance and charade in which conservatives gleefully participate. As Glen Greenwald wrote on his blog on Salon:
... [T]he single most prestigious political event for conservatives of the year is a place where conservatives go to hear Democrats called faggots, Arabs called ragheads, and Supreme Court justices labeled as deserving of murder -- not by anonymous, unidentifiable blog commenters, but by one of their most popular featured speakers.
Greenwald was talking about Coulter, of course, and also wrote:
Everyone knows what a rancid hate-monger she is, yet (or rather: "therefore") she continues to be invited to the highest-level "conservative" events, be drooled on with admiration by presidential candidates like Mitt Romney, and have little right-wing warriors wait in line around the corner to get her signature on their copies of the books she wrote.
... The more delicate ones will claim to repudiate her comments in the most limited terms, but their actions speak far louder than their cursory and reluctant words. Anyone who went to this event -- and that includes Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Dick Cheney -- knew exactly what they would be getting. Coulter's face was prominently plastered on the promotional material. The right-wing political candidates who accepted the invitations to speak there knew exactly the type of people would be there -- namely, the type who continously cheer on Ann Coulter's bigoted and nakedly hateful screeds. Anyone who makes themselves a part of that event is purposely associating themselves with those sentiments. That is what this Conference is for.
Frequently there is discussion among progressive and liberal journalists about how to reduce the impact of Ann Coulter. Some suggest ignoring her, including this author, but others are addicted to the attention that comes from attacking Coulter, and insist on her being responded to, talked to, etc. Frequently in covering Coulter, everyone gets more attention; everyone gets a piece of the action. This writer even penned a satire asking that journalists never mention her name again, and here I am breaking my own rule.

On the Democratic side, the John Edwards campaign responded quickly to the Coulter attack:

"John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power," said his campaign manager, David Bonior. "Since they have nothing real to use against him, Coulter's resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion."

But unfortunately the Edwards campaign launched an ill-advised attempt to raise money from the debacle. Mr. Bonior sent an e-mail to supporters last night urging them to make contributions to the Edwards campaign.

"If we can raise $100,000 in 'Coulter Cash' this week, we can show that bigotry will only backfire on those who use it," Mr. Bonior wrote. "John is not the first progressive leader to face this kind of slime, but together, we can make sure he is one of the last."

But it is highly unlikely that Coulter is going to go away given the role she plays. As Greenwald warns:
"The people feigning upset over those matters are either active participants in, or passive aiders and abetters of, a political movement that, at its very core -- not at its fringes -- knowingly and continuously embraces the most wretched and obvious bigotry and bloodthirsty authoritarianism. They love Ann Coulter -- and therefore continue to make her a venerated part of their political events -- because she provides an outlet, a venting ground, for the twisted psychological impulses and truly hateful face that drives the entire pro-Bush, right-wing spectacle.
None of this is news, really. This is a movement propelled by an insatiable hunger for more slaughter and more wars. It is centrally dependent upon hatred of an Enemy, foreign or domestic -- the Terrorist, the Immigrant, the Faggot, the Raghead, and most of all, the Liberal. As John Dean brilliantly documented, that is the only real feature that binds the "conservative" movement at this point, the only attribute that gives it identity and purpose. It does not have any affirmative ideas, only a sense of that which it hates and wants to destroy. So to watch as the crowd wildly cheers an unapologetic hate-monger is perfectly natural and not at all surprising.

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Good article,Don
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Posted by: MrAllen on Mar 3, 2007 2:53 PM   
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You've defined the modern conservative perspective quite nicely.

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Karp's disciple
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Posted by: Karp's disciple on Mar 3, 2007 4:14 PM   
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There is no point in attacking Ann Coulter. She is impervious to reason. It may, however, be more worthwhile in attacking the pathetically low class and inhumane people who support and encourage her. Hitler was regarded as a crackpot when he first wandered around Vienna with his rants. He got nowhere until thugs and mindless citizens in Germany supported him. Without them he might have died without even becoming a footnote in history. Lift Coulter's present supporters out of Coulter's sewer and she will go the way of Father Coughlin, Joe McCarthy and other hate spewers.

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Ku Klux Koulter
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Posted by: Quasar on Mar 3, 2007 5:25 PM   
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I always thought that the best way to respond to the Ku Klux Klan was to greet their marches with parades of gleeful derision.

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» Its best, with Coulter... Posted by: JoshuaLudd

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Coulter: "Convert the Muslims in the Middle East to Christianity"
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Posted by: Aufklaerung_Baboon on Mar 3, 2007 5:27 PM   
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I saw her speech on CSPAN yesterday.

During it she said something to the effect of [paraphrasing]: "We need to convert all of the Muslims in the Middle East to Christianity."

After she said this the 'conservative' crowd was cheering, laughing, and all around having a good time, i.e. they made a lot of noise after she said these inflammatory comments. Personally, I found her comments idiotic, dangerous, and DISGUSTING.

I'm sure the video will be either on YouTube or Google video soon -- her comments will probably be used by radical Muslim propagandists to inflame hatred against The West even more...so keep an eye out for it if you're interested.

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» Go for it, crazy Christians! Posted by: karma_ran_over_dogma
» Coulter's Crucifix Posted by: Aufklaerung_Baboon
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Not alone
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Posted by: Melvin on Mar 3, 2007 7:42 PM   
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She is not alone. The Republicans seem to be coming apart at the seams. I was on a Right wing website where they were merrily discussing the use of Nuclear weapons against Iran!
The comment on the origins of Hitler were right on the mark.

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Coulter is not a problem
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Posted by: rac on Mar 3, 2007 8:06 PM   
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Our reactions to her must make her feel giddy. To be ignored would be her worst nightmare. I don't read or listen to Ann; I only know of her from everyone else's misplaced outrage, etc. She's Ms. Macacca to a Republican's better half and comic relief for the rest of us.

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license to hate
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Posted by: ES3 on Mar 3, 2007 8:17 PM   
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There seems to be an assumption that only liberal Democrats can use hate speech, name calling and personal attacks. Apparently they think they have some kind of special license to attack conservatives with profanity, false accusations and derogatory names, but as soon as a conservative or other Republican says one word that is politically incorrect, that person is crucified. Ann Coulter is an intelligent, independent thinking, talented communicator, who is also a private citizen, who has the right to make fun of a political figure just as much as David Letterman has to make fun of President Bush. And she does it so much better than he does.

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» David Letterman Posted by: ISlamIslam
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» Yes. Because they are. nm Posted by: JoshuaLudd
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» That wasn't your point. Posted by: JoshuaLudd
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MINDLESS DRIBBLE is sapping our energy
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Posted by: MISSING on Mar 3, 2007 8:29 PM   
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New film coming out on global warming called "The Great Warming" looks like a good one. Also sign up for unity 08 and try to get Gore to run that way. I personally am thinking of a gore / hagel ticket. there is still hope for us if we just stay focused on the issues, when you are subjected to mindless dribble from either side just post something more important.

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» HAGELMANIA!?! Posted by: PJAW
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Strange idea of the word 'ignore'
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Posted by: YogiBear on Mar 3, 2007 9:58 PM   
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Frequently there is discussion among progressive and liberal journalists about how to reduce the impact of Ann Coulter. Some suggest ignoring her, including this author, but others are addicted to the attention that comes from attacking Coulter, and insist on her being responded to, talked to, etc.

"including this author"? But you're doing just that!

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Time to take your Thorazine
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Posted by: YogiBear on Mar 3, 2007 10:03 PM   
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Ann Coulter is an intelligent, independent thinking, talented communicator,

I have quite a few conservative friends and every one of them would cringe to hear you praising her. But I respect your right to put rose petals on an acid bath and call it sweet.

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Coulter Merely Speaks Authentic Republican/Right Wing Views
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Posted by: sofla100 on Mar 3, 2007 10:25 PM   
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All Coulter does is tell the truth about what Republicans and Right Wingers think. They all pretty much would like to see Muslims slaughtered or converted to Christianity, Iran nuked, and homosexuals jailed. Just why do you think the neocons are doing what they are doing? You can see then what the support of Israel is all about and the invasion of Iraq. As for Coulter, if she were not saying what Repubs. and Right Wingers really think and want, why do they all fawn over her?

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May the Force be with you, Ann
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Posted by: rg on Mar 4, 2007 12:55 AM   
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There is one force that Ann KKKoulter cannot escape - gravity - as it takes its toll on what little skin hangs on her anorexic skeleton. She's a vain woman - time will only increase her bitterness to a point that even her peak-hooded sycophants will start to cringe at a bitter woman's rants.
It happened to all of the harridans before her; she can't escape the force.
Be patient.

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Not Anti Homosexual
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 4, 2007 1:16 AM   
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Methinks the term 'faggot' in this context was not anything hateful or anti Gay (plenty of gays in the Republican community - most notably Newt Gingrich and VP Cheney's daughters !! )
I would say she meant it in the sense of 'sissy', in the same way a bunch of guys talk about hetero non friends when they say 'he's such a 'fag'. And regarding Mr Edwards, she's probably right.

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Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin
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Posted by: lorenwrigley on Mar 4, 2007 4:02 AM   
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How can one person with a shred of decency have a bowel movement without thinking of one of them?

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America's Freudian slip in a miniskirt
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Posted by: kepstein7777 on Mar 4, 2007 4:35 AM   
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She's the drunken uncle at the family Thanksgiving dinner, who breaks through the politeness and exposes all the dysfunction.

She kind of looks like Beaker from The Muppet Show, with the long, skinny face and the buggy eyes...except Beaker was cool and devoted his life to science.

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name the sin, ignore the sinner
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Posted by: orwellwasn'tdreaming on Mar 4, 2007 5:29 AM   
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Could we please stop using this woman's name and photo, which only fuels her fire and strengthens her? I agree that we should call attention to her unconscionable actions as representative of a heinous mindset, but would like to see us focus on the disease rather than the symptom.

The vicious comments about her appearance do none of us credit either. Why bring ourselves to her level?

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Wasted education
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Posted by: reeldrlaura on Mar 4, 2007 6:11 AM   
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ALL that amazing education WASTED on Ann Coulter! She has ZERO credibility. That poor little blonde brain just can't quite wrap itself around anything but stupid, radical comments befitting a stereotypical BEEACH!!!

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SHE WON'T GO AWAY UNTIL SHE GETS IGNORED
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on Mar 4, 2007 6:37 AM   
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This is too much coverage for someone who serves no useful purpose. And coverage is all she wants. Thanks, Anna

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Please Stop!
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Posted by: indiewave1 on Mar 4, 2007 6:41 AM   
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Hi everyone,

Please, please stop comparing these rabid right-wing idiots to Hitler! It doesn't help anything!

Hitler served his country, was wounded in battle and decorated for it.

The American Right wants to talk the talk and send poor people to die for it. In a way, more shameful.

Hitler wiped out six million Jews. Bush will get at least that high a body count in Arab Muslims. And our young boys and girls in the Armed Forces will die doing his bidding.

It makes me sick.

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Coulter has the self destructiveness gene
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Posted by: drricklippin on Mar 4, 2007 7:05 AM   
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Ann Coulter like many other hate-mongers ultimately "wants" to publically self destruct.

She cannot help it and she is in fulfilling that unconscious desire with her bizarre remarks. (Pat Robertson redux)

A twisted psyche indeed. Ignoring her is her worst possible nightmare.

I agree with others -just give her more rope to hang herself and let the process proceed

Dr. Rick Lippin

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The Sort You Don't Invite
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Posted by: edith on Mar 4, 2007 7:25 AM   
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Ms. Coulter has a potty mouth. That itself was reason enough for most of civilized history, to justifiy exclusion from community and public events.

We live in the say what you feel age. In truth, it is the liberal cultural legacy-Lenny Bruce, Sandra Berhard, Dave Chappelle and Al Franken-which knocked down legitimate taboos in humor and satire. [I consider these all fine satirists but their popularity caused media to cater to the profane in music, comedy and "celebrity" generally.]

Hip Hop music, discussed recently on Altenet, also made profanity a substitute for thoughtful or just entertaining speech. In the case of hip-hop, profanity and simplistic couplets allow additional stereotyping of blacks as ignorant and simple, as if there were not enough stereotypes already!

The conservatives, ironically, have run with the new Amorality of Speech. As the article rightly states, hatred and verbal abuse is the core of [neo]conservative speech.

It used to be called "red meat". In the case of the Anorexic Ann, perhaps "pale purging" would more accurate as to what seeps out of her thin, puckered lips.

Yet the Left can get potty mouth too; the periodic if understandable tossing of personal epithets at Bush and Cheney.

This is all interesting for political junkies. The average commuter or PTA parents doesn't know who Ann Coulter is or even who John Edwards is.

People have more important things to worry about nearly two years before an election. Come fall, 2008 most adults will more or less know who's running and what the general orientation of the candidates is.

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Supporting Coulter is to "Appeal to the Base"
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Posted by: sofla100 on Mar 4, 2007 7:50 AM   
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Today in the NY Times, some of the Repubs. are now trying to distance themselves from Coulter. Although, at the same time, the Repubs. don't want to distance themselves from the Conservative Forum that sponsored her. Well, this is nothing new. The Repubs. have always know about the selective use of code words and catch phrases. Although, "faggot" is undeninably negative, like the "N word" for Blacks, it shows how the Repubs. consistently work to "market" themselves not just to the "respectable" in the front rows, but to the boys in the back who own the white sheets. Plenty of them around, especially but not exclusively in the South. They are mostly busy now trying to figure out if they should peel off the "W" stickers on their pickup trucks or wait till Sunday to see what the Pastor tells them to do. Regardless, they and the Right-Wing spectrum, from the Evanaglicals to the boys in the sheets still have quite a bit in common. They all sort of wonder why women have gotten "so-uppity" lately (Coulter an exception of course), why "the blacks" get so much and so much of that there welfare, that them "A-rabs" can't be trusted, and lastly, as Rush tells them, everything wrong with America, to this day is really "Clinton's fault," if we would just look long and hard enough. So, the Repubs. will simultaneously distance themselves and cater to Coulter at the same time, to do otherwise is to risk "alienating the base."

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Republican Intelligentsia
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Posted by: boing007 on Mar 4, 2007 8:41 AM   
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Ann Coulter is an intelligent, independent thinking, talented communicator...

intelligent? possibly somewhere near the bottom 10%, grade six or thereabouts.
independent thinker? aren't we all?
talented communicator? would make a respectable standup comedian, otherwise just a typical Republican attack dog.

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It's a dog's life
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Posted by: boing007 on Mar 4, 2007 8:54 AM   
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I just went back to look at the photo of Mitt and Ann.
Ann looks like a two-legged version of an Afghan hound.

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Alternet Stupidly Gives Top Billing Coulter - Enabling the Right Wing Media Agenda...
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Posted by: CatDad on Mar 4, 2007 9:40 AM   
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People like Coulter and Rush are part of the Right’s sophisticated media plan to stifle civilized debated on real issues such as health care, foreign policy and free trade/outsourcing....As long as they can make political debate deteriorate into Left vs. Right shouting matches (the model of Faux News)...they win. They win because they’ve the censored real debate on issues where progressives excel...and they also win by making the political system seem out-of-touch/broken...thereby discouraging voting and widespread citizen participation in the democratic process.

I guess I expected more out of Alternet...giving this charlatan top billing for the sake of ratings.

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"To Coulter"/ and to counter-Coulter
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Posted by: dmacauley on Mar 4, 2007 9:56 AM   
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"To coulter" (verb; also nascent social virus):

To vomit up (like a bulimic feline who has swallowed too many hairballs) a bile of baseless, fact-free political rhetoric and hate at everything left of Atilla the Hun or the Grand Inquistor (especially evil Liberals and godless Secularists) for the purpose of inflaming the venom and unbridled vitriol of
Joe Six Packs, Jane Rednecks, George Survivalists and John Unilateralists.

Often accompanied by a sudden loss of gray matter, a corresponding emotional anorexia and a tendency to contradict reality.

Sometimes thought to be a variation of "Maggie Thatherism" with legs, though absent a heart.

Thought to orginate in reptile world; destination unknown.

[That was a first rudimentary attempt to define this political plague.]

On a more practical note, I would like to see folks drive this wingnut off of the Yahoo opinion page (and other locations) where she has her columns (read: rabid manifestos). If readers object en masse, it might help to send her into obscurity. One can best ignore this kind of stuff sometimes, but one also needs to fight back at times too.

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DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
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Posted by: ZPaul on Mar 4, 2007 10:01 AM   
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DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
How many times have I got to say it???

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Taking pleasure in other people's pain
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Posted by: anniedine on Mar 4, 2007 10:02 AM   
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Psychopaths do that. So do the neocons.

A 70-something man was killed within the last few weeks for being gay. The neocon freaks know this and enjoy the idea of sparking more of the same.

Fascist psychopaths are running the U.S. – only time will tell what becomes of them and the rest of the world they're trying so desperately to make a hellish place that matches the horrific sickness in their own brains.

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ann coulter who cares
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Posted by: pureheartseven on Mar 4, 2007 11:08 AM   
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ann coulter is in the same realm as brittney spears. who gives a flying frock? please dont give this "thing" any more publicity. she needs to crawl back under the rock from where she came......

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Good Article, But...
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Posted by: CathDeux on Mar 4, 2007 1:24 PM   
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...Why is John Edwards' attempt to raise "Coulter Cash" based on Coulter's nitwit remarks "unfortunate" or "ill-advised"? I wish more Dems would fight back with that kind of positive action, rather than just whining or demanding an apology.

I'd love to ignore Coulter right into obscurity, but her type of hate speech may be too dangerous to disregard.

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DragFag Ann
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Posted by: foxygrandmom64 on Mar 4, 2007 1:38 PM   
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Methinks I detect a skinny drag queen under thy miniskirt. Is that really your "Adam's Apple" Ann???????? Eeeeeek!

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Just Ignore Her
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Posted by: braxxian on Mar 4, 2007 3:40 PM   
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Anyone stupid enough to listen to the likes of Ann Coulter derserve whatever they get. Just ignore her and her ignorant rants and she will blow away in the wind.

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Penis Reduction Doll

Buy our new Stupid Blonde Floozy doll. It looks a lot like the woman you describe, and, guaranteed to make that thing as flaccid as the spurious (plagiarized) logic on which most of her mindless rantings depend.

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Darling Ann Coulter Doll
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Posted by: boing007 on Mar 4, 2007 4:56 PM   
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Go here and you'll find an Ann Coulter doll that spews out
14 different vile remarks about Liberals. Only $29.95. Cheap at
any price. Fun for the whole family.
http://www.talkingpresidents.com/products-af-coulter.shtml

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Republicans have 'sold out' to political correctness. Where were
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Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Mar 4, 2007 5:41 PM   
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the 'black face' skits and vaudvillian mammy shows in this conference? Or some heavily bespectacled japanese guy talking in a broken accent with buck-teeth? The Republicans are sell-outs and I expect the rabidly rightwing talk show hosts to be foaming at the mouth over this politically correct madness!!!

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WAKE UP and quit paying attention to her
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Posted by: wawa on Mar 4, 2007 6:16 PM   
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"There are two Christianities in our midst. One worships a punitive father and seeks obedience at all costs. It is patriarchal, demonizes woman, the earth, science, gays, lesbians, and deep thought. It builds on fear and it supports empire-builders. Its theology includes a punitive father in the sky and teaches original sin.

“The other Christianity recognizes the original blessing that all beings derive from. We recognize awe, not sin, not guilt, as the starting point of true religion. We recognize a divinity who is source of all things and is as much mother as father, as much female as male. We honor creation and diversity. When God created everything, He pronounced it all good. We are here to make love to life. Yes, we are here to make love to life.

“Delight in creation and take your dreams into our politics and institutions. We live in the midst of a suicidal economy, motivated by love of money. We have reached a dead end. What we need to turn it around are hearts in love with life. How do we do it?


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Wake up and stop paying attention to who?
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Posted by: SayBlade on Mar 4, 2007 8:18 PM   
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Who is Ann Coulter? No! Wait! What I would really like to know is whether America finally has its Pierre Trudeau in Barack Obama?

Can media handle the information it gets from Deep Thought?

Will Yassir get a second wife on Little Mosque on the Prairie?

What do you get when you drop a balm on a festering sore?

Did a chicken cross the road in your neighbourhood?

LEAVE IT ALONE ALREADY!

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She's not a lesbian
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Posted by: Jeanne on Mar 4, 2007 9:38 PM   
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When I saw this reported on Countdown, I had my usual reaction to the specter of Coulter's image on the screen. Emaciated, bulimic-looking, haunted eyes, truly the image of a tortured psyche. "She's in the closet." I uncharitably remarked. I know that it's beneath me to make ad hominem attacks on anyone simply because she disgusts me. I know better. Anyway, being a lesbian is not bad. Being Ann Coulter is bad. My 16-yr old corrected me. "She's not a lesbian. She's a man." "You don't think anyone with an adam's apple like that could be anything but a man in drag, do you?" You know, now that you mention it . . . .

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Contest: what's inside Ann's adam's apple?
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Posted by: dmacauley on Mar 4, 2007 9:48 PM   
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Here's the picture:

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php? showtopic=71580

[note: combine the two lines to form the weblink sicne it's too long to be used by alternet]

Maybe we can slice it open and find out what worm has been bugging her. Perhaps her rants against gays, environmentalists, anyone left of Mussolini etc. have a biological origin.

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Posted by: Newsguy on Mar 4, 2007 10:23 PM   
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Coulter is a manipulator. She is in the business of getting attention. And she does it by being outrageous. It keeps her on TV and it sells books. I tend to doubt she believes half of what she says.

On second thought, Republicans seem to be able to believe all kinds of silly crap: spending thousands of lives and billions of dollars in Iraq is good for America, the world was created in seven days 8,000 years ago, universal health care is for communists, Saddam was in bed with Osama, God talks to Bush, torture and secret prisons are Constitutional, abortion is murder, Bush, the war architect, is pro-life, the elections of 2000 and 2004 were perfectly legitimate and so on and so on...

So maybe Ann Coulter does believe the silly stuff she says.
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Truly Hideous Gal
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Posted by: john2007 on Mar 5, 2007 12:26 AM   
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I think it's legit to attack Coulter's person, after all it's her pathological personality that's the problem! We don't need Freud to tell us that much of her shtick is her perverse sexuality. It’s a witch’s brew that seems to trigger the masturbatory fantasies of the Young Republican creeps who surround her. They can’t get enough of the skeletal remains, the knobby knees, elbows, and yes, the Adam’s apple. She’s one hideous provocateur and that’s why she’s so popular with the sickies on the right.

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Hey y' all! Go after the REPUBS, who invite her time and again
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Posted by: ZPaul on Mar 5, 2007 3:06 AM   
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Let´s not get distracted with just A.C., but boldly face down the Republican Party, who has invited her TIME AND AGAIN to Republican events, recently one in lil bro Jeb´s state of Florida. If they invite her and applaud her time and again, it can only be concluded that they approve of her and her attitude. A.C. herself is something we shouldn´t get distracted with - go after the Republican Party!!! And DON´T LET UP!!!

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All she need is a Broom
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Posted by: babatunde1945 on Mar 5, 2007 3:57 AM   
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I have been watching this lady for about 5 years on such stations as FOX (Which I say is the mouth piece for SATAN).
I truly believe this woman is evil magnified. I see her in this black outfit riding on a broom flying by a full moon on a cold October night and as she gets older she will be even more perfect for that part.

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Posted by: oekosjoe on Mar 5, 2007 4:12 AM   
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It's odd that absolutely NONE of the comments respond to the real link in the Coulter comment: Mitt Romney. She is obviously a stalking horse (regardless of her adams apple) and trying to earn traction for a candidate whose only comparability to John Edwards is pretty hair. In slamming Edwards, look to what she's trying to distinguish about her own candidate: one who betrays campaign commitments so easily as to make hypocrite a compliment. Focusing on the "hair candidates" gives him just that traction, and everybody on the left ignores it.

While, as a Mass Dem I can attest to Romney's straightness - few gay people would stoop so low - it's much more interesting to ask why the fascist factotum would use this particular smear. He's too pretty even for his allies, lightweight though they be.

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Coulter Cash
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Posted by: marxalot on Mar 5, 2007 4:50 AM   
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I was a bit disappointed that the Edwards people turned this into a fund raising theme. Nowhere in that email did it even suggest how that money would be used for the stated purpose.

Anyway this is the least of Coulter's many offensive remarks over the years. Much ado about nothing.

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Time to make 'Coulter Conservative' Synonymous w/ Republican
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Posted by: David V on Mar 5, 2007 5:07 AM   
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Outstanding article.

What truly astounds me about my fellow Democrats is how they continue to suggest that the best strategy for dealing with Coulter is by ignoring her.

My friends, THAT type of thinking is why we've lost too many elections. What we need to do is take this opportunity and apply the 'Coulter Conservative' label to EACH and EVERY republican what we come in contact with.

The rise of republicanism in the mid 1990's was due ENTIRELY to the right's success at making the term 'Liberal' a pejorative. Now we liberals have been handed a winning strategy for turning it back onto them, and we're discussing THROWING IT AWAY?!?

Come on folks, why bring a knife to a gun fight?

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Focus
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Posted by: 4sense on Mar 5, 2007 5:10 AM   
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The remark made by Ms. Coulter was mean, bigoted crap; and, it was probably designed to foment. It doesn't matter that at some point a Democrat might have done it to a Republican; if it is wrong, it is wrong at any time.

What's interesting to me is that so much time is spent on deriding and insulting Ms. Coulter and the Republicans (and so much back a forth about -- what a shameful waste of time). It so misses the point. Most of us cannot know enough about her to say that she is evil, or a man, or whatever the insult of the day happens to be.

What we can do (and must do) is see her public statements (i.e. her actions) for what they are, and decry their immoral and anti-american nature. To insult her is to do something very like what she did. But we can surely judge her public actions as they are self evident.

The fact that most people in the U.S. (and the world) don't stand up and vociferously shout her down means that you can only ignore her at the peril of the safety and security of every person on the planet because of who might be listen to her.

However, if we insult her (or anyone) personally, we negate our own moral position in opposing her actions; and, rather than acheiving something good we stay mired in a whole lot of crap.

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Futile arguments
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Posted by: motamanx on Mar 5, 2007 6:09 AM   
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Everyone should know that no argument such as this can be resolved to anyone's satisfaction. And anyway, Ann Coulter is a dyke.

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Here's a good use for the "Coulter Cash"
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Posted by: KeepsonTickn on Mar 5, 2007 6:17 AM   
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I would like to see the Edwards Campaign run a TV ad with a montage of clips of Coulter's remarks before the Conservative Political Action Conference, noting that while some of them claim to disavow her hate speech, they keep inviting her back again and again. The only way to stop someone like Coulter is to tie those people who support her ugliness firmly to her, so they can't squirm free. Then show them for what they are to the world outside of the republican party.

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Bounce it back
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Posted by: momokomodo on Mar 5, 2007 6:21 AM   
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The author calls the Edwards campain's decision to use Coulter's remarks to raise funds "ill-advised."

Why?

I think it is the perfect response. When I was a student at the University of Kansas, we raised money for the student GLBT group by having people pledge money per minute that Fred Phelps and his followers stood on campus holding signs that read, "AIDS Kills F*gs Dead." What better way to respond to unbridled hate than to use it to inspire those to who don't share it to take action in the name of loving causes?

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American Politics needs more fun!
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Posted by: SayBlade on Mar 5, 2007 6:37 AM   
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The Republicans have their mascot in Ann Coulter.

The Democrats should get in on the game with Betty Bowers America's favourite Christian. See her take on Ann.

Perhaps the Greens could trot out Dame Edna Everidge to add some spice from another country!

It certainly would make American politics more fun. It desperately needs fun!

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Daddy Issues
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Posted by: Red Clover on Mar 5, 2007 6:47 AM   
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Somewhere in one of her web bios she said she used to have political debates with her union-busting RepublicHun father over the family dinner table. I think Ann is still trying to please conservative white men with her shtick. I usually shy away from psychoanalyzing public figures, but Ann is such a head case, to refrain would be irresponsible.

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Posted by: machelle on Mar 5, 2007 7:57 AM   
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Ann is just the shock jock of the conservative side. Although she is vying for attention any way she can, the only reason she hasn't walked into any of these conventions nude is because she is wooing conservatives, rather than liberals, out of money. I say we all ignore her side-show and focus on real news.

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Lets have Censorship for All Americans
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Posted by: OhioPatriot on Mar 5, 2007 8:08 AM   
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But remember this, If Ann Can't say faggot then neither can Stern.

We need to get a list of all the words that we will soon be censoring from the language. We need to send that list out to all Americans.

Lets get the children to report the parents if they use these words at home.

Next lets all stop work at 2:00 every day and gather around televisions and spend 2 minutes hating the infedels who will not comply.

We can start a new Govt. agency to go back through archives and remove all instances of these words from the american archives.

And lets not forget to put Cameras on BOTH sides of Winstons couch this time!

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Henry Rollins on Ann Coulter.
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Posted by: mewhins24 on Mar 5, 2007 8:28 AM   
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Henry Rollins: A Love Letter to Ann Coulter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgSBhlw-o9E

This really isn't adding to the dialogue in any constructive way, I just think it's great and everyone should check out it out.

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Posted by: lokicat on Mar 5, 2007 8:31 AM   
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Attention seeking Ann, she's like a little narcissist-in-training who gets ignored by her parents so she keeps escalating the mouthing off. She'll get slapped down (as she was as a child-and is now for her tantrums) but at least the parent/now the public pays attention. This escalates, since ever more outrageous statements are needed to excite the rabid classes.

Without publicity, the Ann Colters of the world cease to exist to themselves. It's only the endless wha-wha of a hurt child that in adulthood becomes what Buddhists call "the stink of self."
What a sad phenomenon. Limbaugh and all--big grownup infants--very fat or stick thin--crying for mommie or daddie to come. Their sad, pathetic, neglected childhoods paraded publicly/shamelessly before us.

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Posted by: LeftCoastProgressive on Mar 5, 2007 8:32 AM   
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Conservatives got to hear their champion Coulter excrete some really good runny turds at the those "faggot" Democrats. Ann Coulter for president. She knows how to call an Arab a raghead and scream for the murder of the Supreme Court justices. This emaciated Cheney cock-sucker
is the lowest of excrements the Republican party condones. She's a standard bearer for the Conservatives and runny putrid hate-monger of the excremented right wing.

Of course, she's laughing all the way to the bank. Tens of thousands in her brain-dead readership buy her books, if they succeed in getting past the smell. What kind of humanoid would buy her book and ask for an autograph? A knuckle-draggin' excrement-covered sub-human?

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She's frustrated...forlorn..and most of all...fallow...
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Posted by: ekipnrut on Mar 5, 2007 8:52 AM   
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.....and began to notice, stealing furtive glances up from the copy of Steinbeck I was reading, that she was eyeing me with unsettling scrutiny.
See that 'come hither' look in the inset pix for Hazen's article?
.....Some (urgent) needs never change... :O)

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Interesting...
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Posted by: Rathan47 on Mar 5, 2007 9:04 AM   
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So, by the concept that if you allow any type of "insult" you must allow all insults, then we can pretty much say anything we want about anyone, in any way shape or form...Interesting moral standing.

The fact is that abject humor intending to gently poke fun at someone is not the same as a graphic expletive that is intended only to invoke a specific concept that is usually based on some form of hatred.

Teasing you about your hair and calling you a "dyke" are not the same things. Laughing about the way you say "potatoes" and calling you a "faggot" are not the same thing.

It's not about a double standard, it's about the limits of decorum and good taste, about gentle ribbing and about promoting hatred and stereotypes.

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and they wonder
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Posted by: hangman on Mar 5, 2007 9:08 AM   
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with the likes of Ann and the right-wing nut jobs of the Bush admin... its no wonder the world despises the U.S. so Muuuuuccccchhh.

they (being Ann and the Right-wing crazies)live to spread hatred , discrimination , prejudices , homophobia , etc. etc.
it makes them feel powerful to ruin others lives with the bullsh*t.

May the bottom fall out on them for doing so.... the coming collapse of the entire country of the U.S. is at hand , unless someone steps up to the plate at the right time and pulls the plug and puts mz.Coulter and the rest in their place.

maybe she needs to spend some time in the hole for such destructive acts against the people of the U.S.

the worst enemy is found right within the system.for example Ann and the rest of the crew that loves to spread their poison.

oh well, she is burrying herself and the right-wing lunatic fringe all by herself.
the rest of them will hopefully pull away and go mainstream and live free from the hatefulness she likes to espouse.
message for the other right-wing people... free yourself from the likes of this Ann character... go live in happiness and ditch the fringe fenatics like Coulter. Join the rest of society and have a life with others.

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WHY...
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Posted by: Pirate1 on Mar 5, 2007 9:34 AM   
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Even BOTHER with idiots like this woman? She reminds me of the occluded mentalities that make the lives of those not inclined toward sports in high school miserable beyond belief. The name calling, the beatings, if they can get away with it... Faggot, my, my, how brilliant... and this woman is considered an honored spokesperson for the right? If this is their best we should make an albatross of her...

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Why didn't Edwards just say,
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Posted by: leafsong1 on Mar 5, 2007 9:43 AM   
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"That's strong words coming from a slutty transvestite."

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Posted by: stephennnn on Mar 5, 2007 10:14 AM   
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Ann's comment was not nearly offensive to me as was the strong applause that followed. Obviously it was well received by the conservatives, and fitted well with their views. Small wonder that Limbaugh continues to have high ratings as does Fox news. We're a long way from comming together in this nation.

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Blow hards from either side
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Posted by: Rathan47 on Mar 5, 2007 10:48 AM   
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The truth is, there are blow hards on either side, liberal and conservative. And no matter what your personal beliefs may be, when you start trying to belittle your opponent to make your point, you've lost.

What I want to know is, what the hell has happened to good, honest debate? What has happened to making proper statements, arguments, counter-points and rebuttals? When did we stop calling people on their crass behaviour? Is it just me, or wasn't it true, not so long ago, that someone would be ashamed to make the statements and crude comments that many of today's politicians and media darlings are making?

What has happened to honor and respect for your opponent? Where are the supposed Christian values of the religious right? Where is the tolerance and understanding of the liberal left? When did hate become the currency of politics? How did it become acceptable to drag someone else through the mud to make yourself look better?

Where are the leaders whose idea of right and wrong isn't decided by their pocketbook? Where is decency? Where is hope? Where is the will to make something better together rather than bashing each other and falling apart?

When we will as people realize that we all want the same things, no matter where we are from, what colour our skin is, what religion we practice, or what our sexual preference is? We all want to live happy, safe lives. We all want to have a family of one kind or another, and we want them to be safe too. We want to be able to follow our dreams, and to leave something more behind for the generations that follow us, whether they be our own children or that of others.

So, I guess my final point is this. Someone mentioned that no amount of reason would change Ann Coulter's thinking, or perhaps the thinking of those like her. I would like to think that hatred like that is rather but a roaring fire that burns hot and bright, drawing lots of attention with its inferno, but not able to sustain any comfortable heat to keep anyone warm and safe. And then it burns out, leaving nothing behind but charred debris and destruction. We shouldn't be trying to douse that fire, we should be trying to help build and sustain a warm glowing fire of tolerance and understanding. We need leaders who will stand in the face of that inferno and not waiver, not flinch, and not add more fuel to the blaze.

Where are those leaders?

Could it be you?

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Hell hath no fury...
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Posted by: badkitty on Mar 5, 2007 10:56 AM   
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Oh come on. The most logical reason for Ann's little outburst is that she propositioned him, and he turned her down.

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wake up to the media
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Posted by: wleming on Mar 5, 2007 11:43 AM   
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ann coulter is the face of hate
shes the scum thats risen
shes time magazines cover girl
in a country where tarrentino's sadisms
are pop film culture
and bush steals elections
fox news disinforms when not making
racial attacks
you'd be crazy to look
to the media for more "enlighment"

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Posted by: mercury613 on Mar 5, 2007 11:59 AM   
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I love how Coulter writes a book about how liberalism in America has runied the spirtual fortitude of the country but then engages in hateful behavior toward other human beings.

She's a hypocrite and a phony, just like all the other pseudo-Christians in this country.

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Coulter's hate speech??? What hate speech? I thought libs
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Posted by: SamFox on Mar 5, 2007 12:15 PM   
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liked freedom of speech. I guess they only like their own...which would explain why they say it's OK to teach the un-proven hypothesis called Darwinian evolvoution, (sp) but have hissey fits if any one else wants to teach anything else so students can be fully informed & make up their own minds. There are many other examples of liberal double standards... but for the sake of space this one will do.

If Ann's use of the "offensive" word, in the context it was used in, is hate, then the lead here is 1,000 times more so. If you want examples of hate speech, check AlterNet's archives. A lot of posters use a lot rougher, meaner words, attitudes & tones than was shown by Ann. Take "troll" for example or the curse words applied to those who disagree...

Can any one say "double standard"???

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It IS called FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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Posted by: WitchyNy on Mar 5, 2007 12:48 PM   
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I think she is really a guy. Clearly something is off there.
Perhaps when her book sales start to fall-she will 'come out' with a new one and admit she is not only a man---- but a LIBERAL as well!
In any case-'she' is clearly laughing all the way to the bank.

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Posted by: hadashito on Mar 5, 2007 1:58 PM   
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Here's the real story: Ann C. is having a terribly difficult time getting, ahh, "dates". This ugly bottle blond mop, stuck on a stick is so hungry for sex that she's hoping Romney will pay attention if she flatters him. She apparently doesn't realize that he's a LDS he-man, keep the women in their place sort of Mormon. And he'll flip flop all over the map, drooling for a place on the ticket. He doesn't measure up to McCaine's flipflopping, pandering, screw the voters caliber, but Ann can't be too particular. She's had no luck with Rush. Bad breath, you know, even though Limbaugh can't hear anything or smell anything, what with that cigar. And the damn thing got in the way when they tried sex. Turns out that Rush's sex life is intimately connected with that cigar. You figure it out !

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Here's the truth!
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Posted by: bettyd643 on Mar 5, 2007 2:24 PM   
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No one, including Ann Coulter (AC), believes the nonsense she spews.

AC loves to throw this dribble around because she's making a great living irritating people and this is what it's all about. She loves the attention and the financial rewards and has less then zero regard for concept of integrety. It's money money money and thats it.

What I would love to see is a political candidate emerge and totally disavow the "stepford" image they seem to think they have to maintin to get elected. This whole image thing is contrived and unnatural yet we allow right wing religion continue to dictate this as a requisite for our political candidates.

All I have to say is just look at where "stepford" is getting us which is basically a fast track down the drain as a political and ecconomic entity.

My opinion is that any politician that starts crowing about what a great christain they are and how they have the "typical" American family ought to be kicked right out of the race because none of this means a damn thing.

How about we stop listening to what these politicians say and start looking at what they do. Thats the reality!

Circus clowns like AC will keep distracting us as long as we pay attention to them while their backers rob us blind and destroy anything good this country has ever stood for.

Time to cut through the crap and get to the substance.

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Posted by: Sparks56 on Mar 5, 2007 3:38 PM   
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Robin Williams joked that Anne Coulter was selling her saliva to be used in the manufacture of anti-venom. At least I thought he was joking.
The public face of the American Conservative Movement used to be people like William F. Buckley. Now it's Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. From erudition to perdition. Is it any wonder the conservatives are floundering?

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Posted by: jom57 on Mar 5, 2007 4:32 PM   
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Ann Coulter is a vile contempable sow of a woman. To call her a whore would insult a group of women who WORK for a living! In Coulter we see the true nature of conservativism-holding working people in contempt and glorifying the plutocratic system that feeds them. Hate for oppressed peoples and working people standing up for themselves is teh mainstay of conservativism today, and Coulter is the rattle of the snake.

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It's Time to Shift the Frame
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Posted by: LeaderofMen on Mar 5, 2007 4:40 PM   
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Given that Ann Coulter is much like Fred Phelps - in that Fred Phelps is the epitome of right wing Christianity and is in fact faithful to the letter of the Word of Long White Beard BibleGod (and indeed the spirit: what with genocides, boils, plagues, indiscriminate killings, etc.) - Ann Coulter is a perfect example of what the right wing wants to say but knows they can't get away with en masse.

Thus, it is great that she's out there in the open, spewing EXACTLY what conservatives want to say. I say, keep her there. But shift the frame. Make her the mouthpiece of the right wing. Don't marginalize her. Keep her talking points in the MSM as long as possible.

Point out to the WORLD what is going on in this country. Make her the shining example of what it means to be right wing.

Then teach your children well....

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Take it as a joke.-which it REALLY is.
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Posted by: jsa9 on Mar 5, 2007 5:12 PM   
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My friends, You STILL dont get it. Ann is considered a JOKE, by any and all serious political thinkers. She knows it too. She doesnt care. She does ONE thing very well, and she knows how to make a lot of money-money-money. She could care less what she says, as long as she keeps making big bucks. She is just like Fox maybe news, but she moves around. Everyone with half a brain[which happens to be more people then i thought} know that Fox Maybe News isnt really a news company. Believe me , more people laugh at ANN and Fox then take what they say seriously. If you dont, YOU SHOULD. The only sub-humans who really believe Ann and Fox, are the handfull of very sad and angry[since Nov] neocons, and they are an even bigger joke.

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Nothing new.
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Posted by: Slowburn on Mar 5, 2007 6:04 PM   
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Ann Coulter is just an over paid street walker making money with her mouth. Sorry, street walkers didn't mean to put you down.

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Posted by: HAL REB on Mar 5, 2007 7:15 PM   
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ANN COULTER THE LEMON BITCH ALL MOUTH AND NO BRAIN.

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Wheres your hate laws?
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Posted by: Bearzerker on Mar 6, 2007 1:12 AM   
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One of the most advanced democracies in known history and you still don't have a law that BAN'S hate... unbelievable given that most [if not all] western nations have laws prohibiting hate in any form for public consumption...

Use this BITCH's potty mouth and PRESS for anti-hate legislation now, and then all Amerika can thank Ann Coulter for spurring HER debate in the correct direction and for the public action she influenced...

Even after success... you may still not be able to shut an Ann Coulter type personality up, but at least you'd have a means of stopping ORGANIZED HATRED, preaching from the pulpits and influencing the [oh so] many ...unenlightened...

WAKE UP AMERICA... FIGHT THE FIGHTS YOU CAN WIN, BUT USE OUR OPPONENTS VENOM POSITIVELY AND THANK THEM FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

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Go after the HOSTS(REPUBS) first
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Posted by: ZPaul on Mar 6, 2007 1:32 AM   
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Ann Coulter can say whatever she wants to, as long as free speech exists. But the Republican Party is who must give the explanations as to how representative of their Party´s ideas the words of a frequent guest at Official Republican meetings, in this case, A.C., are. Because if they are NOT representative, WHY are they always inviting her to be a guest speaker? First go after the HOSTS. Then go after the guest, if you wish.

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That's sad...
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Posted by: Rathan47 on Mar 6, 2007 4:30 AM   
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Thanks for making my point for me with your comments...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Talk trash to get what you want.

Oh, and if you are wondering...I'm a liberal...not that it matters.

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Ann and Adolf
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Posted by: Democritus on Mar 6, 2007 4:31 AM   
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Hitler loved dogs. Ergo, Hitler would have loved Ann Coulter.

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The Romney-Coulter Ticket
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Posted by: dmbtiger on Mar 6, 2007 10:51 AM   
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Ann Coulter may not deserve comment, but her linkage to Mitt Romney does. The fact that he is willing to share a podium with her and fails to either disassociate himself from her or from her slanderous remarks says a lot about Romney. And don’t kid yourself, Romney IS dangerous. Here is a man running for President who models himself on George Bush and appears to gladly accept the support of the neo-fascist right wing of the Republican party. Given the improbability of Republicans nominating a candidate who has marched in Gay Pride parades, there is a reasonable chance that Romney may be his party’s candidate in the next election. If this should happen there is a reasonable chance he may be elected. It is still highly doubtful that either a woman or a black can be elected President. I say that not because I am a racist or an anti-feminist, but because I believe there are enough of both in this country to give the election to the Republicans if the Democrats continue in the direction they appear to be heading. Therefore it is important to give publicity to the dangerous positions taken by Republican candidates who represent anti-American (if not anti-human) values. Coupling Coulter and Romney in the press shows where Romney is coming from. To bad I can only say this on Alternet. But I guess sometimes the choir has to be preached to too.

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Posted by: scoutkai on Mar 6, 2007 2:05 PM   
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Her remarks are no worse than any of the others. This is how she makes her money. She says foul vulgar things then get tons of free air time & even time on blogs like this.
On another note:
I have searched HIGH & LOW to find Anns personal school records, her high school year book picture. Grade school yearly pictures. Where she is from & family photos. Is Ann really Ann or is she Andy? She never ever says a word at people who tease her for looking like a guy in drag. No woman has an Adams Apple the reason it has that nickname.
Ann has one that only could be matched by Clint Eastwood...
Now don't get me wrong, no big deal being a drag queen, but to be a fake drag queen???
Only Ann could pull this off. wondering if she has a wee wee? teehee she is such a sick #&^$!

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Coulter, the Useful idiot
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Posted by: armadillo17 on Mar 6, 2007 2:44 PM   
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Many progressives weeting their pants over everything Annie the tranny says are missing something extremely valuable about her: Her populist appeal to the rank and file GOP---which belies the more mainstream Republicans' attempt to isolate Coulter as a "fringe" figure.

I think conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan did us a great service by pointing out that in reality, Coulter represents no "fringe" but in fact, IS the heart of the real GOP. More mainstream cats like McCain and Specter may do public handwringing over her outrageous comments, but at the dinner table, at home, they ALL sound just like her. Why not be open about it?

And the more people are made to realize that Coulter IS the Republican Party and not some loony outpost, the more difficult it is going to be for someone like Giuliani or McCain to convince mainstream, churchgoing Mom and Pop Americans that the GOP repreents their values. They will recoil in horror, as well they should.

So right on, Annie---keep yappin'. Louder! I sure as hell don't want to shut you up---in fact, every time Ann opens her foul trap the Democratic party can claim another million or so supporters. What's wrong with that?

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Is Edwards a faggot or not?
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Posted by: RevSpitz on Mar 6, 2007 4:01 PM   
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Either Edwards is a faggot or he is not a faggot. I hope he is not, because being a sex perverted faggot is a despicable and disgusting thing to be.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature:
:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that
recompence of their error which was meet.
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life. http://www.armyofgod.com

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Posted by: dmacewen on Mar 6, 2007 5:23 PM   
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You leftists make me laugh with all your nonsense about "hate speech." You've taken that phrase and turned into a meaningless, knee-jerk sound that conveys absolutely nothing (as it no doubt was never intended to). Anything you don't agree with, or which offend your sensibilities, you label "hateful." The monumental hypocrisy is as galling as it is amusing: blacks, for example, can say whatever the hell they want in our culture and they don't have to answer to anybody. Coulter's comment was tasteless, but there was no more "hate" in it -- far less, for that matter -- than there is in rantings by the likes of such bitter, liberal slime as Margaret Dowd and Al Franken. This risible business about "rehab" for the "f"-word and the "n"-word, this puerile nonsense with "sensitivity training" for those who don't verbally behave properly, is just a disgusting front for thought control and represents a brazen, systematic attack on free speech. (Yes, speech deemed offensive is protected by the First Amendment, although some people apparently believe that only holds true for artists who splash cow dung on paintings of the Virgin Mary.) This bullying attack on independent thought via the "hate speech" police would be wrong even if it was restricted to slurs, simply because of its oppressive ramifications. But everything that Ann Coulter has ever said has been labeled "hate speech": when she accused four 9-11 widows of exploiting their widow status for political purposes, you all feigned outrage, as if you could care at all about the "little Hitlers" unfortunate enough to be in those two buildings on that infamous day. I say "feigned" because you were nowhere to be heard from when two verminous, leftist cartoonists caricatured them as greedy, white-suburban women exploiting their husbands' deaths for monetary compensation.

The politically expedient and efficacious term "hate-speech" has been used by you people to label all sorts of conservative ideas and every possible manner of their expression, thereby making it extremely apparent that you feel threatened by the conservatives who resist your militant regulation of words and ideas and who openly defy your domination of political and intellectual discourse in this country. The bottom line: there is no such thing as "hate speech." There is only speech and non-speech.

Oh, and by the way, Coulter never even used the slur, she referenced it.

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Posted by: dmacewen on Mar 6, 2007 5:33 PM   
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You leftists make me laugh with all your nonsense about "hate speech." You've taken that phrase and turned into a meaningless, knee-jerk sound that conveys absolutely nothing (as it no doubt was never intended to). Anything you don't agree with, or which offends your sensibilities, you label "hateful." The monumental hypocrisy is as galling as it is amusing: blacks, for example, can say whatever the hell they want in our culture and they don't have to answer to anybody. Coulter's comment was tasteless, but there was no more "hate" in it -- far less, for that matter -- than there is in rantings by the likes of such bitter, liberal slime as Margaret Dowd and Al Franken. This risible business about "rehab" for the "f"-word and the "n"-word, this puerile nonsense with "sensitivity training" for those who don't verbally behave properly, is just a disgusting front for thought control and represents a brazen, systematic attack on free speech. (Yes, speech deemed offensive is protected by the First Amendment, although some people apparently believe that only holds true for artists who splash cow dung on paintings of the Virgin Mary.) This bullying attack on independent thought via the "hate speech" police would be wrong even if it was restricted to slurs, simply because of its oppressive ramifications. But everything that Ann Coulter has ever said has been labeled "hate speech": when she accused four 9-11 widows of exploiting their widow status for political purposes, you all feigned outrage, as if you could care at all about the "little Hitlers" unfortunate enough to be in those two buildings on that infamous day. I say "feigned" because you were nowhere to be heard from when two verminous, leftist cartoonists caricatured all of them as greedy, white-suburban women exploiting their husbands' deaths for monetary compensation.

The politically expedient and efficacious term "hate-speech" has been used by you people to label all sorts of conservative ideas and every possible manner of their expression, thereby making it extremely apparent that you feel threatened by the conservatives who resist your militant regulation of words and ideas and who openly defy your domination of political and intellectual discourse in this country. The bottom line: there is no such thing as "hate speech." There is only speech and non-speech.

Oh, and by the way, Coulter never even used the slur, she referenced it.

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she's fooling you all
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Posted by: Vik on Mar 7, 2007 6:08 AM   
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Anne Coulter is fooling you all. Can't you see that she is really a leftie, pretending to be a conservative in order to show the world the true face of conservatism--mean, nasty, and, above all, racist. And, I must add, the true face of Christianity. I heard her say once that she was a Christian. To that I replied, "Yeah, you sure sound like one."

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Free Speech
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Posted by: onlyfunvacations on Mar 7, 2007 9:59 AM   
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I think it's just fine if Ann Coulter wants to speak her mind. If she can call John Edwards a 'faggot' or others 'traitors', she should have no problem with me calling Dubya a 'retarded warmongering idiot'?

Seriously, though. She doesn't deserve the attention. The more our media/society focuses on this kind of crap, the less we focus on real issues.

When a fire in Atlanta is the headline story on CNN, it's pathetic. Where are the stories about our education or healthcare problems? Where is the expose on Darfur and how nobody really wants to mess with the issue because of China? Where are the real stories on Iraq? Anybody notice that gas is back up to $3/gallon?

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Apparently , in an effort to poke her head out of the trash-can of obscurity, the oscar-the-grouch like succubus, Ann Coulter thought that it was prudent to announce her opinion that John Edwards is a 'faggot'. It would be interesting, for just once to call Coulter what she REALLY is: a talentless, heartless, ugly piece of shit. However, I do have to give her credit for self promotion and the fame she has achieved despite all these handicaps. Most others with her set of satirical and writing skills would probably be eating out of a dumpster right know rather than getting acclaim and national media attention for slandering politicians.

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Annie's end?
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Posted by: Parcival01 on Mar 7, 2007 10:45 AM   
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There are those who argue that this could be the beginning of the end for Coultergeist. But I disagree. She's never had a smidgen of integrity or even arguing ability. Have you heard her response to the "faggot" incident? She gets all shook up, avoids any answer, and makes up conspiracies against her--of course brought on by "the liberals." And she has the credentials of an attorney! I'd rather have a bright 8th grader defend me than Coultergeist.

M'God, she and Dinesh D'Souza have Ivy League degrees. What does that say about those institutions, except that, if you have the money, they'll graduate you?

I agree with what someone else said. Annie'll be nice for a few weeks until this one blows over. Then she'll be on the warpath again, saying the same caustic nonsense, flaunting her credentials to those whom, if a "liberal" did the same thing would accuse him/her of being "educated, liberal elite."

It's time, though, that we work to get harlots like her off the mainstream and into the gutter where she belongs.

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Posted by: scruffstuff on Mar 7, 2007 10:49 AM   
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Ann Coulter is a silly little twit, who enjoys shoving her hair around and making outrageous remarks. Looking like someone out of the 60s, the poor woman can't argue intelligently, so she uses hate speeches to keep herself known and peddle her boring books. I can't imagine any thinking human being giving her any creedence whatsoever.

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She's so anti-gay for a lesbian
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Posted by: Violetflame11 on Mar 7, 2007 10:55 AM   
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C'mon folks, Coulter is a big dyke. Just look at her site. Just another self-loathing gay republican. Someone will find her fisting some poor mexican prostitute while tripping on meth.

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Interesting theory....
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Posted by: janastasopoulo on Mar 7, 2007 10:56 AM   
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Unless you're just being sarcastic. Either way , good post.

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Why the attention?
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Posted by: jlautner on Mar 7, 2007 11:02 AM   
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WHat continues to bother me is the press that is given to Coulter and Limbaugh and Drudge and other dim-bulb hate-mongers. If we ignored them they wouldn't enjoy it much and it would be the amount of attention they deserve. What is the point of saying Coulter said something hateful or stupid? That's who she is. We already know that.

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Sex sells
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Posted by: RGO on Mar 7, 2007 11:08 AM   
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If Coulter were old and/or fat and/or ugly, no journalist would give her the time of day. The fact that she is able to trade on her physical appearance to get media attention for spewing excrement is as much an indictment of the conservative white male-dominated media establishment as it is of Coulter's pathetic narcissism.

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Romney just being himself, and she knows it
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Posted by: crmcvin on Mar 7, 2007 2:35 PM   
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We should not be surprised at Romney's spineless complicity in the remarks and overall attitude of Coulter - she knows how to play him because she sees not the cleverness she speaks of but the cowardice he is and always has been. As the governor of my state, Massachusetts, he embarrassed me beyond blushing for years. I hope his bid for the presidency is his political swan song and we are rid of him in a public role forever. No apologies - no patience with his bigotry and deeply routed inauthenticity as a person.

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And your point is what???
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Posted by: bookwoman on Mar 7, 2007 3:52 PM   
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I'm from Massachusetts, and we lived with Romney as Governor for years. His behavior in not backing completely away from Coulter is quite expected here. If you check out the pinky on his right hand, you will see that it is permanently bent from checking which way the political wind blows.

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Posted by: dmacewen on Mar 7, 2007 4:15 PM   
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JTF loves the always brave, always brilliant and always beautiful Ann Coulter

Desperate to trash the beautiful and brilliant Ann Coulter, a right-wing Christian beloved by tens of millions of conservative Americans, the controlled media has fixed on her perfectly justified excoriation of some left-wing September 11th widows

The merry 911 widows whom Ann has dubbed the "witches of East Brunswick" - The four left-wing New Jersey millionaire media darlings have spoken out vociferously against America's war on terror and supported John Kerry in his 2004 White House bid, but reacted with outrage when Ann dared to reply to their America-hatred in kind. (Ann points out that the left-wing media, fearful of losing its stranglehold on the American public, is resorting to the use of "sacred cows" whom it is supposedly sacrilege for right-wingers to criticize.)

Courageous conservative author Ann Coulter is under attack again from the Bolshevik news media and Bolshevik politicians for daring to tell the truth.

This time, Coulter has appropriately exposed four left-wing widows whose husbands were among the Americans murdered on September 11th.

G-dless - The G-dless Traitor-in-Chief Bill Clinton - a liar, thief, adulterer, rapist and war criminal - attends a mass

The four widows became instant millionaires as a result of the generous compensation packages which they received after their husbands' deaths.

In addition, they have become national news media celebrities by exploiting the World Trade Center tragedy in order to pursue an extreme left-wing, anti-American agenda.


"How dare you! O.J. Simpson was innocent!" - During a May 20, 2004 encounter with the self-hating Jew Alan Colmes, a left-wing media traitor, Ann Coulter proclaimed her agreement with Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) that Bill Clinton was a "scumbag" who raped a woman. (When Ann compared Clinton to black murderer O.J. Simpson, another brutalizer of women and evader of justice, Colmes reacted with outrage, raising his voice to remind her that Simpson had been acquitted by a jury of his (black) peers.)


On October 4, 2004, asked by Alan Colmes if she stood by her September 12, 2001 statement that Muslim countries should be bombed and their leaders killed, Ann replied, "Now more than ever"

The four publicity-hungry widows are Kristin Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie Van Auken. The widows learned soon after 911 that they can become national media stars if they simply promote left-wing causes.

Thus, in the 2004 Presidential campaign, the four merry widows enthusiastically endorsed extreme left-wing Massachusetts Senator John Kerry for President. The four women even appeared in Kerry campaign commercials.

Ann got a fist waved in her face by Democrat campaign manager Bob Beckel, who boasted of having scars from his labors in the "vineyards" of the "civil rights" movement

Ever since 911, these four evil traitors have been in the news constantly. They have used their media fame to bash America and blame America for the Muslim Nazi terrorist attacks.

Ann remarked on June 14, 2004 that self-hating left-wing Jewish billionaire George Soros is a prime example of the kind of Jew who causes anti-Semitism - To which an outraged Alan Colmes replied by mentioning four times in the space of a minute that "Soros is a Holocaust survivor" (which is a lie - Soros merely fled Europe on the eve of the Holocaust). (Tens of millions of Soros dollars have gone to far left-wing causes like Move On, professional gold star mother Cindy Sheehan - who screamed "My son didn't go to fight for Israel!" - and viciously anti-American and anti-Israel propagandist film maker Michael Moore.)

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Non-Hypocrite
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Posted by: dmacewen on Mar 7, 2007 4:19 PM   
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Why are all you leftist sewage under the delusion that Christians are the ones filled with hate? Aren't you aware that the people who threaten world peace are Muslim? The scum who crashed those planes on 9-11 weren't Christian.

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Cut out her Tongue!
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Posted by: Celtic Warrior on Mar 7, 2007 6:56 PM   
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Ann Coulter offers nothing to the human landscape except for a loathsome acumen for being one of the most vicious, foul-mouthed gutter-sniping women in America. She represents the underbelly of humanity, exalts venom and vituperation to a hideously new level and ushers forth a "feminism" best compared to the likes of Attila the Hun. The best solution to the Ann Coulter problem is surgical removal of her tongue. But, then, of course, she could learn sign language. Oops. Well, actually, given her zeal for the ultimately vulgar and insanely nasty, her sign language utlimately would be demonstrated through the use of one finger anyway.

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Posted by: Ellen Remore on Mar 8, 2007 12:22 PM   
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This woman has hit upon a surefire moneymaker by turning herself into the Great American Bitch. The media is merely proving P.T. Barnum's marketing theory by reporting her outrageous comments. And the more loathsome they are, the more books she sells, of which she is well aware. I suppose it's too much to hope that, like a person with a physical deformity, everyone should simply cease paying her any attention at all.

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What do you expect from a goddamned cunt?
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Posted by: Scone Mason on Mar 8, 2007 4:13 PM   
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Ann Coulter is a goddamned cunt. What do you expect from her? Fuck the bitch.

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Desperate Coulter Spin: Left Says Faggot Too!
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Posted by: FUDBasher on Mar 9, 2007 9:00 AM   
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It was inevitable that someone would step forward and trot out the lamest, most "losery" defense possible for Ann Coulter. That someone would be CNSNews.com's Patrick Goodenough.

In his post today, Of Hate-Speech and Hypocrisy, Goodenough (ironic, huh?) literally s t r e t c h e s as far as he can to try and draw similarities between sardonic, biting satire posted on left-wing blogs that, gasp, include the word “faggot”, versus Coulter’s “botched joke” that she’s been saving since high-school when she did the same routine for the jocks about the goth drama student they all made fun of.

More here: Desperate Ann Coulter Spin

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Insurance salesman
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Posted by: nebtwin on Mar 29, 2007 6:56 PM   
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This is typical Coulter. She should write a new book entitled " I Think I Am Sexy by All The Pictures On My Website But All You Have To Do Is Look Into My Eyes To Hear The Whistling Sucking Void Where My Soul Presumably Once Was!!" She is full of anger.

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Good article,Don
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Posted by: MrAllen on Mar 3, 2007 2:53 PM   
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You've defined the modern conservative perspective quite nicely.

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Posted by: Karp's disciple on Mar 3, 2007 4:14 PM   
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There is no point in attacking Ann Coulter. She is impervious to reason. It may, however, be more worthwhile in attacking the pathetically low class and inhumane people who support and encourage her. Hitler was regarded as a crackpot when he first wandered around Vienna with his rants. He got nowhere until thugs and mindless citizens in Germany supported him. Without them he might have died without even becoming a footnote in history. Lift Coulter's present supporters out of Coulter's sewer and she will go the way of Father Coughlin, Joe McCarthy and other hate spewers.

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Ku Klux Koulter
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Posted by: Quasar on Mar 3, 2007 5:25 PM   
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I always thought that the best way to respond to the Ku Klux Klan was to greet their marches with parades of gleeful derision.

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Coulter: "Convert the Muslims in the Middle East to Christianity"
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Posted by: Aufklaerung_Baboon on Mar 3, 2007 5:27 PM   
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I saw her speech on CSPAN yesterday.

During it she said something to the effect of [paraphrasing]: "We need to convert all of the Muslims in the Middle East to Christianity."

After she said this the 'conservative' crowd was cheering, laughing, and all around having a good time, i.e. they made a lot of noise after she said these inflammatory comments. Personally, I found her comments idiotic, dangerous, and DISGUSTING.

I'm sure the video will be either on YouTube or Google video soon -- her comments will probably be used by radical Muslim propagandists to inflame hatred against The West even more...so keep an eye out for it if you're interested.

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Not alone
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Posted by: Melvin on Mar 3, 2007 7:42 PM   
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She is not alone. The Republicans seem to be coming apart at the seams. I was on a Right wing website where they were merrily discussing the use of Nuclear weapons against Iran!
The comment on the origins of Hitler were right on the mark.

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Coulter is not a problem
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Posted by: rac on Mar 3, 2007 8:06 PM   
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Our reactions to her must make her feel giddy. To be ignored would be her worst nightmare. I don't read or listen to Ann; I only know of her from everyone else's misplaced outrage, etc. She's Ms. Macacca to a Republican's better half and comic relief for the rest of us.

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license to hate
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Posted by: ES3 on Mar 3, 2007 8:17 PM   
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There seems to be an assumption that only liberal Democrats can use hate speech, name calling and personal attacks. Apparently they think they have some kind of special license to attack conservatives with profanity, false accusations and derogatory names, but as soon as a conservative or other Republican says one word that is politically incorrect, that person is crucified. Ann Coulter is an intelligent, independent thinking, talented communicator, who is also a private citizen, who has the right to make fun of a political figure just as much as David Letterman has to make fun of President Bush. And she does it so much better than he does.

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MINDLESS DRIBBLE is sapping our energy
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Posted by: MISSING on Mar 3, 2007 8:29 PM   
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New film coming out on global warming called "The Great Warming" looks like a good one. Also sign up for unity 08 and try to get Gore to run that way. I personally am thinking of a gore / hagel ticket. there is still hope for us if we just stay focused on the issues, when you are subjected to mindless dribble from either side just post something more important.

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Strange idea of the word 'ignore'
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Posted by: YogiBear on Mar 3, 2007 9:58 PM   
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Frequently there is discussion among progressive and liberal journalists about how to reduce the impact of Ann Coulter. Some suggest ignoring her, including this author, but others are addicted to the attention that comes from attacking Coulter, and insist on her being responded to, talked to, etc.

"including this author"? But you're doing just that!

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Time to take your Thorazine
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Posted by: YogiBear on Mar 3, 2007 10:03 PM   
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Ann Coulter is an intelligent, independent thinking, talented communicator,

I have quite a few conservative friends and every one of them would cringe to hear you praising her. But I respect your right to put rose petals on an acid bath and call it sweet.

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Coulter Merely Speaks Authentic Republican/Right Wing Views
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Posted by: sofla100 on Mar 3, 2007 10:25 PM   
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All Coulter does is tell the truth about what Republicans and Right Wingers think. They all pretty much would like to see Muslims slaughtered or converted to Christianity, Iran nuked, and homosexuals jailed. Just why do you think the neocons are doing what they are doing? You can see then what the support of Israel is all about and the invasion of Iraq. As for Coulter, if she were not saying what Repubs. and Right Wingers really think and want, why do they all fawn over her?

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May the Force be with you, Ann
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Posted by: rg on Mar 4, 2007 12:55 AM   
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There is one force that Ann KKKoulter cannot escape - gravity - as it takes its toll on what little skin hangs on her anorexic skeleton. She's a vain woman - time will only increase her bitterness to a point that even her peak-hooded sycophants will start to cringe at a bitter woman's rants.
It happened to all of the harridans before her; she can't escape the force.
Be patient.

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Not Anti Homosexual
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 4, 2007 1:16 AM   
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Methinks the term 'faggot' in this context was not anything hateful or anti Gay (plenty of gays in the Republican community - most notably Newt Gingrich and VP Cheney's daughters !! )
I would say she meant it in the sense of 'sissy', in the same way a bunch of guys talk about hetero non friends when they say 'he's such a 'fag'. And regarding Mr Edwards, she's probably right.

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Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin
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Posted by: lorenwrigley on Mar 4, 2007 4:02 AM   
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How can one person with a shred of decency have a bowel movement without thinking of one of them?

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America's Freudian slip in a miniskirt
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Posted by: kepstein7777 on Mar 4, 2007 4:35 AM   
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She's the drunken uncle at the family Thanksgiving dinner, who breaks through the politeness and exposes all the dysfunction.

She kind of looks like Beaker from The Muppet Show, with the long, skinny face and the buggy eyes...except Beaker was cool and devoted his life to science.

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name the sin, ignore the sinner
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Posted by: orwellwasn'tdreaming on Mar 4, 2007 5:29 AM   
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Could we please stop using this woman's name and photo, which only fuels her fire and strengthens her? I agree that we should call attention to her unconscionable actions as representative of a heinous mindset, but would like to see us focus on the disease rather than the symptom.

The vicious comments about her appearance do none of us credit either. Why bring ourselves to her level?

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Wasted education
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Posted by: reeldrlaura on Mar 4, 2007 6:11 AM   
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ALL that amazing education WASTED on Ann Coulter! She has ZERO credibility. That poor little blonde brain just can't quite wrap itself around anything but stupid, radical comments befitting a stereotypical BEEACH!!!

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SHE WON'T GO AWAY UNTIL SHE GETS IGNORED
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on Mar 4, 2007 6:37 AM   
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This is too much coverage for someone who serves no useful purpose. And coverage is all she wants. Thanks, Anna

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Please Stop!
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Posted by: indiewave1 on Mar 4, 2007 6:41 AM   
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Hi everyone,

Please, please stop comparing these rabid right-wing idiots to Hitler! It doesn't help anything!

Hitler served his country, was wounded in battle and decorated for it.

The American Right wants to talk the talk and send poor people to die for it. In a way, more shameful.

Hitler wiped out six million Jews. Bush will get at least that high a body count in Arab Muslims. And our young boys and girls in the Armed Forces will die doing his bidding.

It makes me sick.

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Coulter has the self destructiveness gene
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Posted by: drricklippin on Mar 4, 2007 7:05 AM   
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Ann Coulter like many other hate-mongers ultimately "wants" to publically self destruct.

She cannot help it and she is in fulfilling that unconscious desire with her bizarre remarks. (Pat Robertson redux)

A twisted psyche indeed. Ignoring her is her worst possible nightmare.

I agree with others -just give her more rope to hang herself and let the process proceed

Dr. Rick Lippin

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The Sort You Don't Invite
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Posted by: edith on Mar 4, 2007 7:25 AM   
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Ms. Coulter has a potty mouth. That itself was reason enough for most of civilized history, to justifiy exclusion from community and public events.

We live in the say what you feel age. In truth, it is the liberal cultural legacy-Lenny Bruce, Sandra Berhard, Dave Chappelle and Al Franken-which knocked down legitimate taboos in humor and satire. [I consider these all fine satirists but their popularity caused media to cater to the profane in music, comedy and "celebrity" generally.]

Hip Hop music, discussed recently on Altenet, also made profanity a substitute for thoughtful or just entertaining speech. In the case of hip-hop, profanity and simplistic couplets allow additional stereotyping of blacks as ignorant and simple, as if there were not enough stereotypes already!

The conservatives, ironically, have run with the new Amorality of Speech. As the article rightly states, hatred and verbal abuse is the core of [neo]conservative speech.

It used to be called "red meat". In the case of the Anorexic Ann, perhaps "pale purging" would more accurate as to what seeps out of her thin, puckered lips.

Yet the Left can get potty mouth too; the periodic if understandable tossing of personal epithets at Bush and Cheney.

This is all interesting for political junkies. The average commuter or PTA parents doesn't know who Ann Coulter is or even who John Edwards is.

People have more important things to worry about nearly two years before an election. Come fall, 2008 most adults will more or less know who's running and what the general orientation of the candidates is.

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Supporting Coulter is to "Appeal to the Base"
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Posted by: sofla100 on Mar 4, 2007 7:50 AM   
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Today in the NY Times, some of the Repubs. are now trying to distance themselves from Coulter. Although, at the same time, the Repubs. don't want to distance themselves from the Conservative Forum that sponsored her. Well, this is nothing new. The Repubs. have always know about the selective use of code words and catch phrases. Although, "faggot" is undeninably negative, like the "N word" for Blacks, it shows how the Repubs. consistently work to "market" themselves not just to the "respectable" in the front rows, but to the boys in the back who own the white sheets. Plenty of them around, especially but not exclusively in the South. They are mostly busy now trying to figure out if they should peel off the "W" stickers on their pickup trucks or wait till Sunday to see what the Pastor tells them to do. Regardless, they and the Right-Wing spectrum, from the Evanaglicals to the boys in the sheets still have quite a bit in common. They all sort of wonder why women have gotten "so-uppity" lately (Coulter an exception of course), why "the blacks" get so much and so much of that there welfare, that them "A-rabs" can't be trusted, and lastly, as Rush tells them, everything wrong with America, to this day is really "Clinton's fault," if we would just look long and hard enough. So, the Repubs. will simultaneously distance themselves and cater to Coulter at the same time, to do otherwise is to risk "alienating the base."

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Republican Intelligentsia
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Posted by: boing007 on Mar 4, 2007 8:41 AM   
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Ann Coulter is an intelligent, independent thinking, talented communicator...

intelligent? possibly somewhere near the bottom 10%, grade six or thereabouts.
independent thinker? aren't we all?
talented communicator? would make a respectable standup comedian, otherwise just a typical Republican attack dog.

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It's a dog's life
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Posted by: boing007 on Mar 4, 2007 8:54 AM   
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I just went back to look at the photo of Mitt and Ann.
Ann looks like a two-legged version of an Afghan hound.

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Alternet Stupidly Gives Top Billing Coulter - Enabling the Right Wing Media Agenda...
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Posted by: CatDad on Mar 4, 2007 9:40 AM   
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People like Coulter and Rush are part of the Right’s sophisticated media plan to stifle civilized debated on real issues such as health care, foreign policy and free trade/outsourcing....As long as they can make political debate deteriorate into Left vs. Right shouting matches (the model of Faux News)...they win. They win because they’ve the censored real debate on issues where progressives excel...and they also win by making the political system seem out-of-touch/broken...thereby discouraging voting and widespread citizen participation in the democratic process.

I guess I expected more out of Alternet...giving this charlatan top billing for the sake of ratings.

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"To Coulter"/ and to counter-Coulter
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Posted by: dmacauley on Mar 4, 2007 9:56 AM   
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"To coulter" (verb; also nascent social virus):

To vomit up (like a bulimic feline who has swallowed too many hairballs) a bile of baseless, fact-free political rhetoric and hate at everything left of Atilla the Hun or the Grand Inquistor (especially evil Liberals and godless Secularists) for the purpose of inflaming the venom and unbridled vitriol of
Joe Six Packs, Jane Rednecks, George Survivalists and John Unilateralists.

Often accompanied by a sudden loss of gray matter, a corresponding emotional anorexia and a tendency to contradict reality.

Sometimes thought to be a variation of "Maggie Thatherism" with legs, though absent a heart.

Thought to orginate in reptile world; destination unknown.

[That was a first rudimentary attempt to define this political plague.]

On a more practical note, I would like to see folks drive this wingnut off of the Yahoo opinion page (and other locations) where she has her columns (read: rabid manifestos). If readers object en masse, it might help to send her into obscurity. One can best ignore this kind of stuff sometimes, but one also needs to fight back at times too.

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DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
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Posted by: ZPaul on Mar 4, 2007 10:01 AM   
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DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
DO NOT GIVE THAT LADY FREE PUBLICITY
How many times have I got to say it???

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Taking pleasure in other people's pain
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Posted by: anniedine on Mar 4, 2007 10:02 AM   
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Psychopaths do that. So do the neocons.

A 70-something man was killed within the last few weeks for being gay. The neocon freaks know this and enjoy the idea of sparking more of the same.

Fascist psychopaths are running the U.S. – only time will tell what becomes of them and the rest of the world they're trying so desperately to make a hellish place that matches the horrific sickness in their own brains.

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ann coulter who cares
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Posted by: pureheartseven on Mar 4, 2007 11:08 AM   
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ann coulter is in the same realm as brittney spears. who gives a flying frock? please dont give this "thing" any more publicity. she needs to crawl back under the rock from where she came......

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Good Article, But...
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Posted by: CathDeux on Mar 4, 2007 1:24 PM   
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...Why is John Edwards' attempt to raise "Coulter Cash" based on Coulter's nitwit remarks "unfortunate" or "ill-advised"? I wish more Dems would fight back with that kind of positive action, rather than just whining or demanding an apology.

I'd love to ignore Coulter right into obscurity, but her type of hate speech may be too dangerous to disregard.

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DragFag Ann
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Posted by: foxygrandmom64 on Mar 4, 2007 1:38 PM   
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Methinks I detect a skinny drag queen under thy miniskirt. Is that really your "Adam's Apple" Ann???????? Eeeeeek!

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Just Ignore Her
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Posted by: braxxian on Mar 4, 2007 3:40 PM   
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Anyone stupid enough to listen to the likes of Ann Coulter derserve whatever they get. Just ignore her and her ignorant rants and she will blow away in the wind.

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Member Reduction
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Posted by: bvconway on Mar 4, 2007 4:28 PM   
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Penis Reduction Doll

Buy our new Stupid Blonde Floozy doll. It looks a lot like the woman you describe, and, guaranteed to make that thing as flaccid as the spurious (plagiarized) logic on which most of her mindless rantings depend.

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Darling Ann Coulter Doll
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Posted by: boing007 on Mar 4, 2007 4:56 PM   
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Go here and you'll find an Ann Coulter doll that spews out
14 different vile remarks about Liberals. Only $29.95. Cheap at
any price. Fun for the whole family.
http://www.talkingpresidents.com/products-af-coulter.shtml

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Republicans have 'sold out' to political correctness. Where were
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Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Mar 4, 2007 5:41 PM   
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the 'black face' skits and vaudvillian mammy shows in this conference? Or some heavily bespectacled japanese guy talking in a broken accent with buck-teeth? The Republicans are sell-outs and I expect the rabidly rightwing talk show hosts to be foaming at the mouth over this politically correct madness!!!

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WAKE UP and quit paying attention to her
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Posted by: wawa on Mar 4, 2007 6:16 PM   
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"There are two Christianities in our midst. One worships a punitive father and seeks obedience at all costs. It is patriarchal, demonizes woman, the earth, science, gays, lesbians, and deep thought. It builds on fear and it supports empire-builders. Its theology includes a punitive father in the sky and teaches original sin.

“The other Christianity recognizes the original blessing that all beings derive from. We recognize awe, not sin, not guilt, as the starting point of true religion. We recognize a divinity who is source of all things and is as much mother as father, as much female as male. We honor creation and diversity. When God created everything, He pronounced it all good. We are here to make love to life. Yes, we are here to make love to life.

“Delight in creation and take your dreams into our politics and institutions. We live in the midst of a suicidal economy, motivated by love of money. We have reached a dead end. What we need to turn it around are hearts in love with life. How do we do it?


THE ANSWER is on
March 4th
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Wake up and stop paying attention to who?
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Posted by: SayBlade on Mar 4, 2007 8:18 PM   
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Who is Ann Coulter? No! Wait! What I would really like to know is whether America finally has its Pierre Trudeau in Barack Obama?

Can media handle the information it gets from Deep Thought?

Will Yassir get a second wife on Little Mosque on the Prairie?

What do you get when you drop a balm on a festering sore?

Did a chicken cross the road in your neighbourhood?

LEAVE IT ALONE ALREADY!

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She's not a lesbian
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Posted by: Jeanne on Mar 4, 2007 9:38 PM   
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When I saw this reported on Countdown, I had my usual reaction to the specter of Coulter's image on the screen. Emaciated, bulimic-looking, haunted eyes, truly the image of a tortured psyche. "She's in the closet." I uncharitably remarked. I know that it's beneath me to make ad hominem attacks on anyone simply because she disgusts me. I know better. Anyway, being a lesbian is not bad. Being Ann Coulter is bad. My 16-yr old corrected me. "She's not a lesbian. She's a man." "You don't think anyone with an adam's apple like that could be anything but a man in drag, do you?" You know, now that you mention it . . . .

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Contest: what's inside Ann's adam's apple?
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Posted by: dmacauley on Mar 4, 2007 9:48 PM   
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Here's the picture:

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php? showtopic=71580

[note: combine the two lines to form the weblink sicne it's too long to be used by alternet]

Maybe we can slice it open and find out what worm has been bugging her. Perhaps her rants against gays, environmentalists, anyone left of Mussolini etc. have a biological origin.

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Newsguy
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Posted by: Newsguy on Mar 4, 2007 10:23 PM   
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Coulter is a manipulator. She is in the business of getting attention. And she does it by being outrageous. It keeps her on TV and it sells books. I tend to doubt she believes half of what she says.

On second thought, Republicans seem to be able to believe all kinds of silly crap: spending thousands of lives and billions of dollars in Iraq is good for America, the world was created in seven days 8,000 years ago, universal health care is for communists, Saddam was in bed with Osama, God talks to Bush, torture and secret prisons are Constitutional, abortion is murder, Bush, the war architect, is pro-life, the elections of 2000 and 2004 were perfectly legitimate and so on and so on...

So maybe Ann Coulter does believe the silly stuff she says.
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Truly Hideous Gal
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Posted by: john2007 on Mar 5, 2007 12:26 AM   
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I think it's legit to attack Coulter's person, after all it's her pathological personality that's the problem! We don't need Freud to tell us that much of her shtick is her perverse sexuality. It’s a witch’s brew that seems to trigger the masturbatory fantasies of the Young Republican creeps who surround her. They can’t get enough of the skeletal remains, the knobby knees, elbows, and yes, the Adam’s apple. She’s one hideous provocateur and that’s why she’s so popular with the sickies on the right.

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Hey y' all! Go after the REPUBS, who invite her time and again
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Posted by: ZPaul on Mar 5, 2007 3:06 AM   
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Let´s not get distracted with just A.C., but boldly face down the Republican Party, who has invited her TIME AND AGAIN to Republican events, recently one in lil bro Jeb´s state of Florida. If they invite her and applaud her time and again, it can only be concluded that they approve of her and her attitude. A.C. herself is something we shouldn´t get distracted with - go after the Republican Party!!! And DON´T LET UP!!!

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All she need is a Broom
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Posted by: babatunde1945 on Mar 5, 2007 3:57 AM   
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I have been watching this lady for about 5 years on such stations as FOX (Which I say is the mouth piece for SATAN).
I truly believe this woman is evil magnified. I see her in this black outfit riding on a broom flying by a full moon on a cold October night and as she gets older she will be even more perfect for that part.

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Massachusetts Democrat
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Posted by: oekosjoe on Mar 5, 2007 4:12 AM   
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It's odd that absolutely NONE of the comments respond to the real link in the Coulter comment: Mitt Romney. She is obviously a stalking horse (regardless of her adams apple) and trying to earn traction for a candidate whose only comparability to John Edwards is pretty hair. In slamming Edwards, look to what she's trying to distinguish about her own candidate: one who betrays campaign commitments so easily as to make hypocrite a compliment. Focusing on the "hair candidates" gives him just that traction, and everybody on the left ignores it.

While, as a Mass Dem I can attest to Romney's straightness - few gay people would stoop so low - it's much more interesting to ask why the fascist factotum would use this particular smear. He's too pretty even for his allies, lightweight though they be.

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Coulter Cash
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Posted by: marxalot on Mar 5, 2007 4:50 AM   
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I was a bit disappointed that the Edwards people turned this into a fund raising theme. Nowhere in that email did it even suggest how that money would be used for the stated purpose.

Anyway this is the least of Coulter's many offensive remarks over the years. Much ado about nothing.

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Time to make 'Coulter Conservative' Synonymous w/ Republican
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Posted by: David V on Mar 5, 2007 5:07 AM   
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Outstanding article.

What truly astounds me about my fellow Democrats is how they continue to suggest that the best strategy for dealing with Coulter is by ignoring her.

My friends, THAT type of thinking is why we've lost too many elections. What we need to do is take this opportunity and apply the 'Coulter Conservative' label to EACH and EVERY republican what we come in contact with.

The rise of republicanism in the mid 1990's was due ENTIRELY to the right's success at making the term 'Liberal' a pejorative. Now we liberals have been handed a winning strategy for turning it back onto them, and we're discussing THROWING IT AWAY?!?

Come on folks, why bring a knife to a gun fight?

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Focus
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Posted by: 4sense on Mar 5, 2007 5:10 AM   
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The remark made by Ms. Coulter was mean, bigoted crap; and, it was probably designed to foment. It doesn't matter that at some point a Democrat might have done it to a Republican; if it is wrong, it is wrong at any time.

What's interesting to me is that so much time is spent on deriding and insulting Ms. Coulter and the Republicans (and so much back a forth about -- what a shameful waste of time). It so misses the point. Most of us cannot know enough about her to say that she is evil, or a man, or whatever the insult of the day happens to be.

What we can do (and must do) is see her public statements (i.e. her actions) for what they are, and decry their immoral and anti-american nature. To insult her is to do something very like what she did. But we can surely judge her public actions as they are self evident.

The fact that most people in the U.S. (and the world) don't stand up and vociferously shout her down means that you can only ignore her at the peril of the safety and security of every person on the planet because of who might be listen to her.

However, if we insult her (or anyone) personally, we negate our own moral position in opposing her actions; and, rather than acheiving something good we stay mired in a whole lot of crap.

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Futile arguments
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Posted by: motamanx on Mar 5, 2007 6:09 AM   
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Everyone should know that no argument such as this can be resolved to anyone's satisfaction. And anyway, Ann Coulter is a dyke.

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Here's a good use for the "Coulter Cash"
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Posted by: KeepsonTickn on Mar 5, 2007 6:17 AM   
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I would like to see the Edwards Campaign run a TV ad with a montage of clips of Coulter's remarks before the Conservative Political Action Conference, noting that while some of them claim to disavow her hate speech, they keep inviting her back again and again. The only way to stop someone like Coulter is to tie those people who support her ugliness firmly to her, so they can't squirm free. Then show them for what they are to the world outside of the republican party.

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Bounce it back
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Posted by: momokomodo on Mar 5, 2007 6:21 AM   
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The author calls the Edwards campain's decision to use Coulter's remarks to raise funds "ill-advised."

Why?

I think it is the perfect response. When I was a student at the University of Kansas, we raised money for the student GLBT group by having people pledge money per minute that Fred Phelps and his followers stood on campus holding signs that read, "AIDS Kills F*gs Dead." What better way to respond to unbridled hate than to use it to inspire those to who don't share it to take action in the name of loving causes?

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American Politics needs more fun!
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Posted by: SayBlade on Mar 5, 2007 6:37 AM   
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The Republicans have their mascot in Ann Coulter.

The Democrats should get in on the game with Betty Bowers America's favourite Christian. See her take on Ann.

Perhaps the Greens could trot out Dame Edna Everidge to add some spice from another country!

It certainly would make American politics more fun. It desperately needs fun!

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Daddy Issues
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Posted by: Red Clover on Mar 5, 2007 6:47 AM   
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Somewhere in one of her web bios she said she used to have political debates with her union-busting RepublicHun father over the family dinner table. I think Ann is still trying to please conservative white men with her shtick. I usually shy away from psychoanalyzing public figures, but Ann is such a head case, to refrain would be irresponsible.

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Posted by: machelle on Mar 5, 2007 7:57 AM   
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Ann is just the shock jock of the conservative side. Although she is vying for attention any way she can, the only reason she hasn't walked into any of these conventions nude is because she is wooing conservatives, rather than liberals, out of money. I say we all ignore her side-show and focus on real news.

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Lets have Censorship for All Americans
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Posted by: OhioPatriot on Mar 5, 2007 8:08 AM   
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But remember this, If Ann Can't say faggot then neither can Stern.

We need to get a list of all the words that we will soon be censoring from the language. We need to send that list out to all Americans.

Lets get the children to report the parents if they use these words at home.

Next lets all stop work at 2:00 every day and gather around televisions and spend 2 minutes hating the infedels who will not comply.

We can start a new Govt. agency to go back through archives and remove all instances of these words from the american archives.

And lets not forget to put Cameras on BOTH sides of Winstons couch this time!

"For every instance of beauty, every moment of triumph, Many souls must be trampled) ..Hunter Thompson

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Henry Rollins on Ann Coulter.
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Posted by: mewhins24 on Mar 5, 2007 8:28 AM   
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Henry Rollins: A Love Letter to Ann Coulter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgSBhlw-o9E

This really isn't adding to the dialogue in any constructive way, I just think it's great and everyone should check out it out.

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Posted by: lokicat on Mar 5, 2007 8:31 AM   
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Attention seeking Ann, she's like a little narcissist-in-training who gets ignored by her parents so she keeps escalating the mouthing off. She'll get slapped down (as she was as a child-and is now for her tantrums) but at least the parent/now the public pays attention. This escalates, since ever more outrageous statements are needed to excite the rabid classes.

Without publicity, the Ann Colters of the world cease to exist to themselves. It's only the endless wha-wha of a hurt child that in adulthood becomes what Buddhists call "the stink of self."
What a sad phenomenon. Limbaugh and all--big grownup infants--very fat or stick thin--crying for mommie or daddie to come. Their sad, pathetic, neglected childhoods paraded publicly/shamelessly before us.

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Coulter Excrement
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Posted by: LeftCoastProgressive on Mar 5, 2007 8:32 AM   
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Conservatives got to hear their champion Coulter excrete some really good runny turds at the those "faggot" Democrats. Ann Coulter for president. She knows how to call an Arab a raghead and scream for the murder of the Supreme Court justices. This emaciated Cheney cock-sucker
is the lowest of excrements the Republican party condones. She's a standard bearer for the Conservatives and runny putrid hate-monger of the excremented right wing.

Of course, she's laughing all the way to the bank. Tens of thousands in her brain-dead readership buy her books, if they succeed in getting past the smell. What kind of humanoid would buy her book and ask for an autograph? A knuckle-draggin' excrement-covered sub-human?

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She's frustrated...forlorn..and most of all...fallow...
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Posted by: ekipnrut on Mar 5, 2007 8:52 AM   
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.....and began to notice, stealing furtive glances up from the copy of Steinbeck I was reading, that she was eyeing me with unsettling scrutiny.
See that 'come hither' look in the inset pix for Hazen's article?
.....Some (urgent) needs never change... :O)

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Interesting...
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Posted by: Rathan47 on Mar 5, 2007 9:04 AM   
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So, by the concept that if you allow any type of "insult" you must allow all insults, then we can pretty much say anything we want about anyone, in any way shape or form...Interesting moral standing.

The fact is that abject humor intending to gently poke fun at someone is not the same as a graphic expletive that is intended only to invoke a specific concept that is usually based on some form of hatred.

Teasing you about your hair and calling you a "dyke" are not the same things. Laughing about the way you say "potatoes" and calling you a "faggot" are not the same thing.

It's not about a double standard, it's about the limits of decorum and good taste, about gentle ribbing and about promoting hatred and stereotypes.

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and they wonder
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Posted by: hangman on Mar 5, 2007 9:08 AM   
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with the likes of Ann and the right-wing nut jobs of the Bush admin... its no wonder the world despises the U.S. so Muuuuuccccchhh.

they (being Ann and the Right-wing crazies)live to spread hatred , discrimination , prejudices , homophobia , etc. etc.
it makes them feel powerful to ruin others lives with the bullsh*t.

May the bottom fall out on them for doing so.... the coming collapse of the entire country of the U.S. is at hand , unless someone steps up to the plate at the right time and pulls the plug and puts mz.Coulter and the rest in their place.

maybe she needs to spend some time in the hole for such destructive acts against the people of the U.S.

the worst enemy is found right within the system.for example Ann and the rest of the crew that loves to spread their poison.

oh well, she is burrying herself and the right-wing lunatic fringe all by herself.
the rest of them will hopefully pull away and go mainstream and live free from the hatefulness she likes to espouse.
message for the other right-wing people... free yourself from the likes of this Ann character... go live in happiness and ditch the fringe fenatics like Coulter. Join the rest of society and have a life with others.

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WHY...
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Posted by: Pirate1 on Mar 5, 2007 9:34 AM   
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Even BOTHER with idiots like this woman? She reminds me of the occluded mentalities that make the lives of those not inclined toward sports in high school miserable beyond belief. The name calling, the beatings, if they can get away with it... Faggot, my, my, how brilliant... and this woman is considered an honored spokesperson for the right? If this is their best we should make an albatross of her...

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Why didn't Edwards just say,
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Posted by: leafsong1 on Mar 5, 2007 9:43 AM   
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"That's strong words coming from a slutty transvestite."

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Posted by: stephennnn on Mar 5, 2007 10:14 AM   
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Ann's comment was not nearly offensive to me as was the strong applause that followed. Obviously it was well received by the conservatives, and fitted well with their views. Small wonder that Limbaugh continues to have high ratings as does Fox news. We're a long way from comming together in this nation.

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Blow hards from either side
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Posted by: Rathan47 on Mar 5, 2007 10:48 AM   
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The truth is, there are blow hards on either side, liberal and conservative. And no matter what your personal beliefs may be, when you start trying to belittle your opponent to make your point, you've lost.

What I want to know is, what the hell has happened to good, honest debate? What has happened to making proper statements, arguments, counter-points and rebuttals? When did we stop calling people on their crass behaviour? Is it just me, or wasn't it true, not so long ago, that someone would be ashamed to make the statements and crude comments that many of today's politicians and media darlings are making?

What has happened to honor and respect for your opponent? Where are the supposed Christian values of the religious right? Where is the tolerance and understanding of the liberal left? When did hate become the currency of politics? How did it become acceptable to drag someone else through the mud to make yourself look better?

Where are the leaders whose idea of right and wrong isn't decided by their pocketbook? Where is decency? Where is hope? Where is the will to make something better together rather than bashing each other and falling apart?

When we will as people realize that we all want the same things, no matter where we are from, what colour our skin is, what religion we practice, or what our sexual preference is? We all want to live happy, safe lives. We all want to have a family of one kind or another, and we want them to be safe too. We want to be able to follow our dreams, and to leave something more behind for the generations that follow us, whether they be our own children or that of others.

So, I guess my final point is this. Someone mentioned that no amount of reason would change Ann Coulter's thinking, or perhaps the thinking of those like her. I would like to think that hatred like that is rather but a roaring fire that burns hot and bright, drawing lots of attention with its inferno, but not able to sustain any comfortable heat to keep anyone warm and safe. And then it burns out, leaving nothing behind but charred debris and destruction. We shouldn't be trying to douse that fire, we should be trying to help build and sustain a warm glowing fire of tolerance and understanding. We need leaders who will stand in the face of that inferno and not waiver, not flinch, and not add more fuel to the blaze.

Where are those leaders?

Could it be you?

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Hell hath no fury...
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Posted by: badkitty on Mar 5, 2007 10:56 AM   
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Oh come on. The most logical reason for Ann's little outburst is that she propositioned him, and he turned her down.

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wake up to the media
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Posted by: wleming on Mar 5, 2007 11:43 AM   
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ann coulter is the face of hate
shes the scum thats risen
shes time magazines cover girl
in a country where tarrentino's sadisms
are pop film culture
and bush steals elections
fox news disinforms when not making
racial attacks
you'd be crazy to look
to the media for more "enlighment"

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Hypocrite
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Posted by: mercury613 on Mar 5, 2007 11:59 AM   
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I love how Coulter writes a book about how liberalism in America has runied the spirtual fortitude of the country but then engages in hateful behavior toward other human beings.

She's a hypocrite and a phony, just like all the other pseudo-Christians in this country.

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Coulter's hate speech??? What hate speech? I thought libs
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Posted by: SamFox on Mar 5, 2007 12:15 PM   
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liked freedom of speech. I guess they only like their own...which would explain why they say it's OK to teach the un-proven hypothesis called Darwinian evolvoution, (sp) but have hissey fits if any one else wants to teach anything else so students can be fully informed & make up their own minds. There are many other examples of liberal double standards... but for the sake of space this one will do.

If Ann's use of the "offensive" word, in the context it was used in, is hate, then the lead here is 1,000 times more so. If you want examples of hate speech, check AlterNet's archives. A lot of posters use a lot rougher, meaner words, attitudes & tones than was shown by Ann. Take "troll" for example or the curse words applied to those who disagree...

Can any one say "double standard"???

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It IS called FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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Posted by: WitchyNy on Mar 5, 2007 12:48 PM   
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I think she is really a guy. Clearly something is off there.
Perhaps when her book sales start to fall-she will 'come out' with a new one and admit she is not only a man---- but a LIBERAL as well!
In any case-'she' is clearly laughing all the way to the bank.

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Posted by: hadashito on Mar 5, 2007 1:58 PM   
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Here's the real story: Ann C. is having a terribly difficult time getting, ahh, "dates". This ugly bottle blond mop, stuck on a stick is so hungry for sex that she's hoping Romney will pay attention if she flatters him. She apparently doesn't realize that he's a LDS he-man, keep the women in their place sort of Mormon. And he'll flip flop all over the map, drooling for a place on the ticket. He doesn't measure up to McCaine's flipflopping, pandering, screw the voters caliber, but Ann can't be too particular. She's had no luck with Rush. Bad breath, you know, even though Limbaugh can't hear anything or smell anything, what with that cigar. And the damn thing got in the way when they tried sex. Turns out that Rush's sex life is intimately connected with that cigar. You figure it out !

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Here's the truth!
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Posted by: bettyd643 on Mar 5, 2007 2:24 PM   
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No one, including Ann Coulter (AC), believes the nonsense she spews.

AC loves to throw this dribble around because she's making a great living irritating people and this is what it's all about. She loves the attention and the financial rewards and has less then zero regard for concept of integrety. It's money money money and thats it.

What I would love to see is a political candidate emerge and totally disavow the "stepford" image they seem to think they have to maintin to get elected. This whole image thing is contrived and unnatural yet we allow right wing religion continue to dictate this as a requisite for our political candidates.

All I have to say is just look at where "stepford" is getting us which is basically a fast track down the drain as a political and ecconomic entity.

My opinion is that any politician that starts crowing about what a great christain they are and how they have the "typical" American family ought to be kicked right out of the race because none of this means a damn thing.

How about we stop listening to what these politicians say and start looking at what they do. Thats the reality!

Circus clowns like AC will keep distracting us as long as we pay attention to them while their backers rob us blind and destroy anything good this country has ever stood for.

Time to cut through the crap and get to the substance.

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Posted by: Sparks56 on Mar 5, 2007 3:38 PM   
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Robin Williams joked that Anne Coulter was selling her saliva to be used in the manufacture of anti-venom. At least I thought he was joking.
The public face of the American Conservative Movement used to be people like William F. Buckley. Now it's Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. From erudition to perdition. Is it any wonder the conservatives are floundering?

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Posted by: jom57 on Mar 5, 2007 4:32 PM   
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Ann Coulter is a vile contempable sow of a woman. To call her a whore would insult a group of women who WORK for a living! In Coulter we see the true nature of conservativism-holding working people in contempt and glorifying the plutocratic system that feeds them. Hate for oppressed peoples and working people standing up for themselves is teh mainstay of conservativism today, and Coulter is the rattle of the snake.

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It's Time to Shift the Frame
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Posted by: LeaderofMen on Mar 5, 2007 4:40 PM   
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Given that Ann Coulter is much like Fred Phelps - in that Fred Phelps is the epitome of right wing Christianity and is in fact faithful to the letter of the Word of Long White Beard BibleGod (and indeed the spirit: what with genocides, boils, plagues, indiscriminate killings, etc.) - Ann Coulter is a perfect example of what the right wing wants to say but knows they can't get away with en masse.

Thus, it is great that she's out there in the open, spewing EXACTLY what conservatives want to say. I say, keep her there. But shift the frame. Make her the mouthpiece of the right wing. Don't marginalize her. Keep her talking points in the MSM as long as possible.

Point out to the WORLD what is going on in this country. Make her the shining example of what it means to be right wing.

Then teach your children well....

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Take it as a joke.-which it REALLY is.
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Posted by: jsa9 on Mar 5, 2007 5:12 PM   
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My friends, You STILL dont get it. Ann is considered a JOKE, by any and all serious political thinkers. She knows it too. She doesnt care. She does ONE thing very well, and she knows how to make a lot of money-money-money. She could care less what she says, as long as she keeps making big bucks. She is just like Fox maybe news, but she moves around. Everyone with half a brain[which happens to be more people then i thought} know that Fox Maybe News isnt really a news company. Believe me , more people laugh at ANN and Fox then take what they say seriously. If you dont, YOU SHOULD. The only sub-humans who really believe Ann and Fox, are the handfull of very sad and angry[since Nov] neocons, and they are an even bigger joke.

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Nothing new.
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Posted by: Slowburn on Mar 5, 2007 6:04 PM   
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Ann Coulter is just an over paid street walker making money with her mouth. Sorry, street walkers didn't mean to put you down.

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Posted by: HAL REB on Mar 5, 2007 7:15 PM   
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ANN COULTER THE LEMON BITCH ALL MOUTH AND NO BRAIN.

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Wheres your hate laws?
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Posted by: Bearzerker on Mar 6, 2007 1:12 AM   
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One of the most advanced democracies in known history and you still don't have a law that BAN'S hate... unbelievable given that most [if not all] western nations have laws prohibiting hate in any form for public consumption...

Use this BITCH's potty mouth and PRESS for anti-hate legislation now, and then all Amerika can thank Ann Coulter for spurring HER debate in the correct direction and for the public action she influenced...

Even after success... you may still not be able to shut an Ann Coulter type personality up, but at least you'd have a means of stopping ORGANIZED HATRED, preaching from the pulpits and influencing the [oh so] many ...unenlightened...

WAKE UP AMERICA... FIGHT THE FIGHTS YOU CAN WIN, BUT USE OUR OPPONENTS VENOM POSITIVELY AND THANK THEM FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

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Go after the HOSTS(REPUBS) first
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Posted by: ZPaul on Mar 6, 2007 1:32 AM   
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Ann Coulter can say whatever she wants to, as long as free speech exists. But the Republican Party is who must give the explanations as to how representative of their Party´s ideas the words of a frequent guest at Official Republican meetings, in this case, A.C., are. Because if they are NOT representative, WHY are they always inviting her to be a guest speaker? First go after the HOSTS. Then go after the guest, if you wish.

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That's sad...
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Posted by: Rathan47 on Mar 6, 2007 4:30 AM   
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Thanks for making my point for me with your comments...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Talk trash to get what you want.

Oh, and if you are wondering...I'm a liberal...not that it matters.

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Ann and Adolf
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Posted by: Democritus on Mar 6, 2007 4:31 AM   
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Hitler loved dogs. Ergo, Hitler would have loved Ann Coulter.

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The Romney-Coulter Ticket
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Posted by: dmbtiger on Mar 6, 2007 10:51 AM   
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Ann Coulter may not deserve comment, but her linkage to Mitt Romney does. The fact that he is willing to share a podium with her and fails to either disassociate himself from her or from her slanderous remarks says a lot about Romney. And don’t kid yourself, Romney IS dangerous. Here is a man running for President who models himself on George Bush and appears to gladly accept the support of the neo-fascist right wing of the Republican party. Given the improbability of Republicans nominating a candidate who has marched in Gay Pride parades, there is a reasonable chance that Romney may be his party’s candidate in the next election. If this should happen there is a reasonable chance he may be elected. It is still highly doubtful that either a woman or a black can be elected President. I say that not because I am a racist or an anti-feminist, but because I believe there are enough of both in this country to give the election to the Republicans if the Democrats continue in the direction they appear to be heading. Therefore it is important to give publicity to the dangerous positions taken by Republican candidates who represent anti-American (if not anti-human) values. Coupling Coulter and Romney in the press shows where Romney is coming from. To bad I can only say this on Alternet. But I guess sometimes the choir has to be preached to too.

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ANDY ANN COULTER
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Posted by: scoutkai on Mar 6, 2007 2:05 PM   
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Her remarks are no worse than any of the others. This is how she makes her money. She says foul vulgar things then get tons of free air time & even time on blogs like this.
On another note:
I have searched HIGH & LOW to find Anns personal school records, her high school year book picture. Grade school yearly pictures. Where she is from & family photos. Is Ann really Ann or is she Andy