I hope I can find another sound bite vid like this one from her previous book.
Posted on 06/08/2006 8:17:14 PM PDT by Salem
If anyone thinks her words are "extreme", then they have not been around the millions of average people who say and think these things constantly.
Hooray Ann Coulter! Congratulations.
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Most of those negative reviews were almost certainly written by people who have never even touched the book. How can they write a review (don't answer that)?
Ann makes Sean Hannity look like a chump when it comes to hyping books !
"Ann bashers...come out and play-e-yah!"
Ok - I'll bite.
A year ago I thought the woman was a goddess....I absolutely loved her.
Then she referred to muslims as "ragheads" at a function where Dick Cheney was present in the audience.
I thought this showed poor judgement on her part...but hey - who doesn't slip up now and then...right?
I don't know what I think now.
Sure - she's getting tons of publicity, but now I'm wondering if she's showing signs of some sort of mental illness herself? Or maybe fame is getting to her head?
I'm worried about her. I fear we're about to witness an unraveling that won't be very pretty.
SH*T!!!!
I got the Audible files, and...it is someone ELSE reading them! ARGGGH!
One of the joys of listening to the Audiobook is exactly as you said...her voice and inflection is perfect for the material. It is a bummer to listen to some other woman read it.
It doesn't really work for me. Rats.
I posted this in another thread regarding her comments on the "Jersey Girls" since that seems to be the thing most people who are offended take issue with...
I agree completely with Ann Coulter's characterization of those women.
There is a line by Robert Duvall's character in the movie "Open Range" that I really like:
"Good health to them that has it comin'..."
I believe in giving people respect in life on the basis of their station, experiences or rank. I grew up in military family, and we were taught to address men as "Sir" and women as "Ma'am", and responding had to say "Yes Sir" or "Yes Ma'am". I understood the concept of rank and chain of command.
The point is, if you meet a military person, you give them respect BECAUSE they are in the military. If you meet an elderly person, you give them respect BECAUSE they have lived a lot longer than you have. If you meet someone who has lost a loved one, you treat them with respect and deference BECAUSE they have suffered. All this is done without a single qualifying action on the part of the person. They don't, and shouldn't ASK for your respect and deference, the right thing, in the abscence of ANY other qualifying factor, is to grant them special treatment by default.
However, if people show, through their words and deeds, that they are not worthy of that default respect, there is NO reason whatsoever to grant that to them, in my opinion.
Benedict Arnold served his country brilliantly, but lost his right to default respect when he turned traitor.
John Kerry wore the uniform of the US Naval Service, and disgraced it. He is not worthy of default respect.
John Murtha served as a Marine. If anyone is worthy of respect by default, it is any person who makes it through Marine Basic Training to become a Marine. He has shown through his words and deeds, he is unworthy of the title Marine.
Ted Kennedy is a Senator, the very title should command respect by default. He has shown himself to be an enemy of everything this Republic stands for, through his legislative actions and slanderous personal attacks on an honorable man who is too classy to fight back.
Helen Thomas is an elderly person, a woman, and someone who has risen in her field to a position of prominence. She should be entitled to deference, but her vicious partisan attacks have discarded any protection those attributes should have provided her. She made a choice.
The best example of this is Cindy Sheehan. Who would dream of disrespecting a woman who has lost her son in the defense of his country? Never in a million years would I have done so, in usual times. But these are not ususal times. She has become a Useful Idiot for the antiwar left, she has used her son (who apparently had a polar opposite point of view on these things than his mother does) as a prop and a tool, and his coffin as a soapbox. She has disgraced everything her son stood for, for her own personal aggrandizement.
I feel EXACTLY the same way about these four women. Anyone who has heard them speak, seen them appearing in the venues they have, to push their political agendas, realizes they have voluntarily surrendered their default deference and respect to pursue a partisan political agenda. It has been their choice to do so.
If she's unraveling, so am I 'cause I agree with 99% of all she says. Strange how speaking simple truth can offend so many folks.
It's always a trade off with Ann's books in audio format. She only reads the abridged versions. A voice actor named Elizabeth White does all of her unabridged versions.
I like Ann as much as the next guy, but Ms. White does a better job speaking than Ann does.
"If she's unraveling, so am I 'cause I agree with 99% of all she says. Strange how speaking simple truth can offend so many folks."
I have often heard people be "right" and speak the "truth", but sometimes they say it in such a way that is a turn off.
I think that is the problem I'm having with Ann.
It isn't so much that I disagree...I just personally am tired of the rudeness, coarseness, and constant bashing that is now becoming commonplace in our culture.
I have come to expect it from the liberals and I am sorry to see that conservatives are now stooping to that level as well.
"Good."
Well...you think it is "good" because you agree.
I still think it placed our Vice President in an awkward position.
"I don't know anyone who is more sane than she is.
She has one of the sharpest and best minds in the business."
I agree she has a sharp mind, but sometimes even intelligent people go through troubling times or experience lapses in judgement.
"It isn't so much that I disagree...I just personally am tired of the rudeness, coarseness, and constant bashing that is now becoming commonplace in our culture. "
Tell that to Nich Berg's father, Cindy Sheehan, Hanoi John Kerry and John Murtha.
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