Ann Coulter not to be taken literally

BG News ^ | 2/24/05 | dj Johnson

[dmz]

neither. It was actually intended to be moderately humorous, but the AC defense team is out in force.

Seen any threads at FR requiring pictures to be posted of unattractive women?

[Texas Mom]

That quote is one of the reasons that thinking people have dismissed her as an intellectual lightweight. The idea that anyone should be converted to Christianity by force is in itself, counter to Christianity

Funny I must have missed those two words in that quote.

[MadIvan]

I have all her books and I'm British. Therefore she can at least claim to be internationally renowned. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Ladysmith]

...errr...

Actually, I rarely see any posts of theirs on here (although Dixie Lee Ray has an excuse, God rest her soul.)

ANYWAY!!

Doesn't matter. Their analysis and viewpoints are spot on.

(...arg...what's the plural form of "analysis"?)

[tomkat]

analyses ?

[untrained skeptic]

"Most of us are puzzled, frustrated, annoyed, disquieted and troubled by the libs.......but I don't hate anybody!"

That statement is just way to politically correct for Ann Coulter.

I suspect that she would tell you she hates them, and if you don't you're not a proper patriot, because they're destroying our country.

She's just not one for mincing words.

[smoothsailing]

I would suggest that thinking people would realize that nowhere in that quote does she advocate conversion by force.

[Protagoras]

The quote is preposterous. No serious Christian would ever say it except in jest.

Let's see if we can torure this quote to see what she might have meant other than "not by force".

Let's invade their countries, kill their leaders, and then tell them Jesus loves them. Yeah, that's it! That's what she meant!

"Hey , we just invaded your country and killed your leaders, now we're going to have a bible study on the new testament and some milk and cookies afterwards. Then we can have a pot luck dinner! "

Yeah, sounds like it, I apologise, I must have been crazy to think anything else.

[dmz]

I was referring to the mere mention of their names, as the mere mention of AC will have the salivating freeper masses begging for photos.


LOL.

Why don't they just right click and save, that way they can get their jollies 24/7

[hosepipe]

One wonder if Ann "Coulter" is a pen name..
because coulter is a meaningful english word.. and oh! so accurate..

Coul·ter: a cutting tool (as a knife or sharp disc) that is attached to the beam of a plow, makes a vertical cut in the surface, and permits clean separation and effective covering of the soil and materials being turned under

[Ladysmith]

Hey hey, you're right!

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/pluraltext.htm

Nouns that stem from older forms of English or are of foreign origin often have odd plurals.

For example:-
analysis - analyses | crisis - crises | ox - oxen | index - indices or indexes

(My grammar bites.)

[msnimje]

OK, but her 'renown' is from her writing rather than her attorney-ing

I am not a lawyer but I would assume with that education and those positions she may very well have had a hand in important litigation. If that is the case, she could very well be renowned in the Lawyer circles.

[injin]

personally I would love to see Ann Coulter run for office somewhere. I would love to see her burning their ears in the Halls of Congress . I would love to see Congresswoman or Senator added to Ann's already illustrious resume.
How much more qualified Ann is than the likes if Hillary,
who somehow schmoozed her way into office in a state she is not even from.

[HardStarboard]

Probably one of the best pictures of her I have seen.
Thats a true "pinup" smile!

[NorCalRepub]

don't think she said that either but at times you do need to take her with a grain of salt......I always like the fact that she wrote the book "Slander" which I totally agree with since Dems use it much more against us but then she turns around and uses the same tactic at times with some invectives and such.......oh well, I can agree with her conclusions, just not some of her methods at times

[Ladysmith]

Oh brother.

How about putting this back into context, eh?

She wrote that in an article right after 9-11. Her friend, Barbara Olson, was on the plane that slammed into the Pentagon.

As she and many others point out, Christians are not in the habit of slamming planes into buildings, blowing them up, or diving them into the ground. If someone else encourages that kind of activity or any other that threatens us, then, by God, you take those terrorists out. And then, hopefully, win the hearts of those who more than likely lived in fear of these butchers we took out.

Kind of like, oh, I don't know...AFGANISTAN??!!

[wizr]

Great post. Great pics. Great discussion. Great lady. Thanks.

[lafroste]

Stupid question department:

Does Ann ever lurk here, or post under a nom de plume? I guess if she is incognito, she should stay that way, but I was just curious.

[Ladysmith]

Some Friday night reading for you.

http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml

Barbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed him that he had better call the FBI — the plane had been hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon.

Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end.

This is not to engage in the media's typical hallucinatory overstatement about anyone who is the victim of a horrible tragedy. The furtive cell phone call was an act of incredible daring and panache. If it were not, we'd be hearing reports of a hundred more cell phone calls. (Even people who swear to hate cell phones carry them for commercial air travel.)

The last time I saw Barbara in person was about three weeks ago. She generously praised one of my recent columns and told me I had really found my niche. Ted, she said, had taken to reading my columns aloud to her over breakfast.

I mention that to say three things about Barbara. First, she was really nice. A lot of people on TV seem nice, but aren't. (And some who don't seem nice, are.) But Barbara was always her charming, graceful, vebullient self. "Nice" is an amazingly rare quality among writers. In the opinion business, bitter, jealous hatred is the norm. Barbara had reason to be secure.

Second, it was actually easy to imagine Ted reading political columns aloud to Barbara at the breakfast table. Theirs was a relationship that could only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary — the latter being a subject of Barbara's appropriately biting bestseller, Hell to Pay. Hillary claimed preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy with Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara really did talk politics — and really did have breakfast together.

It's "Ted and Barbara" just like it's Fred and Ginger, and George and Gracie. They were so perfect together, so obvious, that their friends were as happy they were on their wedding day. This is more than the death of a great person and patriotic American. It's a human amputation.

Third, since Barbara's compliment, I've been writing my columns for Ted and Barbara. I'm always writing to someone in my head. Now I don't know who to write to. Ted-and-Barbara were a good muse.

Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were dropping in Afghanistan — and then updated the report to say they weren't our bombs.

They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.

This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.

We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution condemning the attack this week.

The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory racial or "religious" profiling.

People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from Idaho. This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and work for our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so bloodthirsty.

"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV. Every single time there is a terrorist attack — or a plane crashes because of pilot error — Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no purpose whatsoever.

The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about whether passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen mesomorphs ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed hijackers to board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody Tuesday. (Did those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker anyplace in America that day?)

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

[Protagoras]

I reject her conclusions.

She is an entertainer. She's like Sean Hannity. As shrill as any liberal entertainer.

These people make a living by stirring the pot. They are not to be confused with serious thinkers.