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NJ assemblywomen call for boycott of new Coulter book
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Posted on 06/08/2006 12:38:21 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Russ_in_NC
Why is it okay to say the president is a terrorist, and he and his ilk allowed 9/11 to happen (which had to hurt the entire Bush family and any truly patriotic American) but no one can touch them because they lost relatives in the twin towers? Attack their political views. Take issue with their statements in front of the 9/11 commission. Tell them they're exploiting their positions as 9/11 widows.
But asserting that they're glad their husbands are dead and that these guys would have divorced them anyway is just plain mean. In fact, dragging any speculation about their husbands into her book was wrong, and Bones knows it. She got personal like this because she wanted this reaction. She relishes controversy and could care less if it actually hurts anybody, so long as she can rake in the book sales.
Things like this that go around, tend to come back around.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:39:06 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
To: blitzgig
She did the same praising Joe McCarthy. True red meat for the politically correct.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:39:06 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunkport
(Left's reaction to "Godless": "They haven't hated a book so much in NJ since the Bible." (pissant)
To: Peach
So when freepers write back I should not respond? Is that your position? Must be new rules around FR. No. Respond all you want my friend. But with all due respect Peach, there isn't much you can add to what you've said. This whole ANN C thing has gotten the entire forum stirred up over differences of Opinion. I got pretty caught up in it yesterday and I'll not do it again.
Happy FReeping.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:39:38 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Call me a Jingoist, I don't care...)
To: I still care
"Anne on Cavuto right now"
Cool.
I am gonna watch the re-run tonight. :)
To: Peach
She made up nothing. She said: who knows, there husbands COULD have been ready to leave them. Silly hyperbole, yes. A statement of a purported fact: no.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:40:49 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: republicofdavis; Peach
It happens when you arbitrarily stand by a comment shown (several times) to be either false or incomplete.
Peach, I admire you for your tenacity and understand your thoughts, but you have become fixated and frankly argumentative. (Which ISN'T against the rules btw, as I know them).
The statements made by Ann that may have been over the top are normally recognized as biting satire.
It is meant to push your buttons and raise some response. Obviously, hers worked.
To: street_lawyer
They will now, like moths to a fire. LOL
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:41:21 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: sinkspur
Wow, a post critical of Coulter that is simultaneously rational and also not self-righteous.
Thanks for the intelligent look at the controversy.
To: RabidBartender
"Change "Ann Coulter" to "The Dixie Chicks" and these politicians would be crucified by the press."
Egg-xactly!
These are the same breed of liberals that call a Crucifix in a jar of urine, "Art" and "free expression".
I'm sure Ann won't starve even if the "boycott" was successful, however, what they are trying to do is going to backfire on their cause...this will do Ann's book more good than a $1-million ad campaign.
The stupidity of the left never fails to amaze me...and the hypocrisy...maybe it's liberal Stupocrisy".
Who needs the Comedy Channel when we have all the libs running around to entertain us?
As far as the liberal press goes, with the state of newspaper circulation, and ratings of mainstream network news, no one is listening except the libs and people still using rabbit ear attennas...so who cares.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:41:57 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(Don't let the bastards wear you down...)
To: subterfuge
Coulter threads seperate the men from the boyz here on FR. All the pseudo-conservatives come crawling out of their rocks bashing Coulter with the exact shrill strawman and out-of-context arguments the Left themselves use.
To: Petronski
But urging the bookstores to not carry it is too damn funny.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:42:32 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: Peach
See my previous post pinged to you, please? Ann didn't claim they were going to divorce them. She asked a rhetorical question..."how do we know they weren't?" It was rhetorical. It wasn't a claim that she knew they were going to. My previous post pinged to you says more on the subject. I think Ann was making a reasonable point, but when she put it the way she did...well...that's a different ball game, which I address.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:43:09 PM PDT
by
txrangerette
("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
To: pissant; Peach
Yes, hyperbole is acceptable as a rhetorical device, even volcanic hyperbole. And we conservatives need to use stronger language to get our message heard because otherwise, the leftist media would drown us out. Coulter is beating the media at their own game.
To: Beckwith
Intolerant. The word of lefties. You really think that anything Peach has said is "intolerant?" Is being critical and expressing an opinion "intolerant?"
To: sinkspur
O'Reilly today suggested to Coulter that she made these statements about the Jersey Girls in order to sell booksIf I were Ann, I would have responded, "Yeah, Bill, you're probably right," but she doesn't back down. If she did, she wouldn't be Ann.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:43:21 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunkport
(Left's reaction to "Godless": "They haven't hated a book so much in NJ since the Bible." (pissant)
To: Kenny Bunkport
Not true. I've seen her drink Chardonnay.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:43:41 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.)
To: street_lawyer
The kind of attack she has heard thousands of times over, without nary a whimper. The kind of attack that the sacred hens she blasted have never heard, and look at the fallout. Funny as hell.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:43:58 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: Peach
"Ann hit the nail on the head when she said that the husbands were about to divorce their wives?"
Her statement is being misquoted in this discussion thread. Her statement is a speculative wisecrack and not a statement of fact. The sentence, in its entirety, appears on page 112 at lines 32 and 33: "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?"
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:43:58 PM PDT
by
kilowhskey
(Land of the free, because of the brave.)
To: Hoffa
If you were married to her and got on her s**t list, life would be pure hell.
To: scpg2
correct. And the reaction PROVES her point.
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posted on
06/08/2006 1:44:41 PM PDT
by
pissant
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