Posted on 06/18/2006 2:24:55 AM PDT by Al Simmons
OK gang. Time to put the old iconoclastic part of the old thinker to work.
Yeah, I have enjoyed Ann's acidic barbs and laughed out loud at some of her more outrageous pronouncements over the years - though frankly, her act is getting a bit old with me - but that is not what this vanity is about.
I suspect that we are all secretly aware that her public persona displays more than a little evidence of exhibitionism and narcissism....the woman clearly has some personality issues. I personally think that she likely has a low sense of self-worth, which her public persona would appear to compensate for....
I would like to hear opinions on this topic from any FReepers who are psychologists or psychiatrists.
Oh, and in case some of you didn't get it, I'll repeat myself:
THIS VANITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MS. COULTER'S POLITICAL VIEWS. It is meant to provoke some thought about her method of promoting them (and herself).
I suspect that few Freepers would want their daughters to behave as Ms. Coulter does - both in terms of her outrageous rudeness and her never-married lifestyle.
Hmmmm....your views appear to be too extreme for your homepage as well. Meet JCEccles yet? (Or is he your alter-ego?)
b. I respect Ann having been a Federal Judge's Law Clerk and all that, but I don't think she ever tried a case. I did. And I was pretty good at it. So good, in fact, that I was chosen prosecutor of the year in 1995.
c. I am not practicing law, that's for sure. Right now I am getting ready for my upcoming annual month-long vacation at my summerhouse in the Mediterranean...catching up with old friends, and doing some 'heavy lifting' while shooting the breeze at a succession of seaside cafes next to an azure-blue calm sea....
Hope the Summer's equally nice up in your neck of the Great Northwest....
Sure, as long as she didn't tell an African-American Supreme Court justice to eat a lot of fried and fatty foods and die of heart disease."
Your answer above is one of the exact reasons that I have continued this thread.
So its not OK for liberals to make outrageously rude statements about Justice Thomas, but it IS OK for Ann to make similarly outrageously rude statements about Justice Stevens?
Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e per chance? Internal logical consistency is supposed to be one thing we have over the liberals, isn't it?
Not sure if she tried a case or not but she did practice for 4 years.
Isn't one of the characteristics of a Narcissist one who talks about themselves a lot?
Biography Ann Coulter was born in New York City[1], and later raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, in a family she describes as "upper middle class." Coulter's two older brothers are John and James. Her father, John V. Coulter, a lawyer, represented clients in opposition to labor unions before obtaining a government job as a constable. Her mother, Nell M. Coulter, is a member of the New Canaan Republican Town Committee. [citation needed] As an undergraduate in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, Coulter helped launch a conservative newspaper, The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national women's sorority [4]. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif and was an editor of The Michigan Law Review. At law school, Coulter shared an apartment with human and civil rights advocate Cindy Cohn, who is now the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.[2] Coulter practiced corporate law for four years before becoming a congressional aide, in 1994, to Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. [citation needed] Coulter denies she is a fundamentalist Christian "but only because I'm from Connecticut where the term is not frequently used." (On that subject in a June 2006 interview in Human Events Online she stated: "Although my Christianity is somewhat more explicit in this book [referring to Godless], Christianity fuels everything I write.") In 2000 she considered running for the U. S. Congress from Connecticut on the Libertarian Party ticket to serve as a spoiler in order to throw the seat to the Democratic candidate and see that Republican Congressman Christopher Shays failed to gain re-election, as a punishment for Shays' voting against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. The Connecticut Libertarian Party leadership, after meeting with Coulter, declined to endorse her. As a result, her self-described "total sham, media-intensive, third-party Jesse Ventura campaign" [5] [6] did not take place. Since that time Coulter has been repeatedly critical of libertarian philosophy in her writing and speeches [7] [8]. In June 2005, Coulter purchased a $1.8 million home on Palm Beach Island in Florida.[3]
Above was from here: Ann Coulter
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Clear thinking is something we claim over them. That would include being able to draw distinctions, for example the distinction between "apparent inconsistency" and hypocrisy. Another claim we like to make about ourselves is that we don't call names the way the liberals do. For example, we don't leap at the chance to suggest that someone is a hypocrite.
I do note an apparent inconsistency between your calling attention to a distinction conservatives like to draw between themselves and liberals, and the style and rhetorical intent of the very paragraph in which you note it.
I actually have had classroom and clinical work in counseling, and on the basis of that and more than 3 decades experience, I am now wondering if you started this thread to have a conversation, a debate, or a fight. At the lkeast, if you have a point ot make, it looks to me like you want to make it in a very unpleasant way. And I would observe that you don't settle for "asked and answered". When you get a clear response to the question you ask, several times in this thread you attack, not the response, but the responder.
There: a gift! Free counseling. Don't bother to thank me. PLEASE don't bother ....
You would rather we cut ourselves more slack. Jesus said hatred in one's heart is murder.
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I wasn't aware that somewhere along the way you'd acquired . . . perhaps from a UFO driving ET? . . . the capacity to read the thoughts and intents of the human heart.
Personally, I think you need to demand your money back. The ET appears to have taken your money without delivering the goods. Or perhaps you didn't do your homework up to standard. Or maybe it was the lab work?
I also have the impression that you have misconstrued Jesus' point about the letter of the law vs the spirit. I suppose you worship on Saturday regardless of the Sabbath being made for man instead of man made for the sabbath.
Yes, Jesus set a higher standard.
He insisted that The Father was serious about conforming us to the image of His Son. He's serious about being the author and finisher of our faith as well as of us.
AND, He's still against folks trying to jury rig by fleshy means narrow, rigid, dogmatic fleshy perfectionism and conformity by hypocritical authoritarian battering one's self and others into one's fleshy image of one's self--construing that as facilitating their conformity into Christ's image.
Thanks. Clever.
I love several dear honorable Christian lawyers.
But as a class--and particularly as politicians, I think they are exceedingly destructive.
Hey, all I can do is go by what you and others have said.
Hey, all I can do is go by what you and others have said.
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Going by what we say should not be such a problem.
It's the whacky extrapolations that are bothersome.
BTTT
You are so , oh so, I don't know. Rules keep from expressing how much I disagree with you. Ann tells it like it is, more than anyone else out there in my opinion, and there is nothing wrong with her because of it. The only thing she is doing is saying what other people should be saying. She is fed up with liberals and how they have destroyed this nation and she is exposing them.
Now I understand YOUR disdain for Ann Coulter. She could probably out-lawyer you and she HAS found something more fulfilling to do.
Another key to understanding Al is his problems with women. As he noted:
[Al]:
I am drawn to them [strong women] like a Moth to a flame -
So I have sworn off of them completely for the time being...
Yes Al, we see. -- You deny them your essence.
Just basic self-presevation.
--- preservation of my blood fluids is key to my survival. If you ever had a psycho wife who was ARRESTED for trying to kill you you might understand...
Rest assured Al, your explanations aid our understanding far better than you realize.
You're awfully cranky today, Grandma...
You're perceptive.
Yeah, that was pretty dumb on her part. When you walk around having a bullseye on your back the way she does, you'd think she would have known better.
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