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Lethally Blonde (Ann Coulter Alert)
The Observer (UK) ^ | 6/11/2006 | Gaby Wood

Posted on 06/10/2006 5:54:27 PM PDT by 1066AD

Lethally blonde

Ann Coulter has made a career out of saying the unthinkable. Last week the bestselling American author caused outrage when she described the widows of 9/11 as 'witches' who revelled in their husbands' deaths. Mixing soundbites with short skirts, this former lawyer has become the most extreme - and popular - polemicist in America. How did that happen?

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; coulter; liberals
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To: Nightrider
"was she criticizing his Views or the fact he was Handicapped?

- If memory serves, Cullen had made the point that many wounded veterans (such as himself) had been injured by US land mines - the implication being that the war was so incompetently managed that the US was careless enough to blow up it's own soldiers. It's at that point that Anne made her remark, so she was in fact criticizing his views and not his handicap.
As it turns out, the Viet Cong had a practice of recovering and/or cannibalizing parts from US mines that they found and resetting them to kill Americans. So Cullen was not correct in his charge of incompetence but he was correct to say that US mines were being used to kill American soldiers.
It's the old story that a good lie always contains a grain of truth.
121 posted on 06/11/2006 6:19:48 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: finnigan2

thanks! appreciate that.


122 posted on 06/11/2006 6:29:51 AM PDT by Nightrider
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To: JustaCowgirl

"Think Janet Reno. I'm sorry, but that is the ugliest woman on earth."

My child,
Helen Thomas makes Janet Rhino look like a foot locker pin-up.
Helen Thomas would put Zarqeeri's goat in demand.

Helen Thomas makes......anyone?.....anyone?


123 posted on 06/11/2006 7:02:23 AM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: TET1968

Not to hijack this thread any more than I already have, but I see Helen Thomas has many fans in the 'ugliest woman on earth' category.

Maybe everyone is right, but Janet Reno is definitely a player. I have to say Janet gets my vote, I think she's even uglier than HT. At least you can tell at first glance that Helen is a woman (well, sort of), even if she is an old crone/old bat/old harpy.


124 posted on 06/11/2006 8:01:04 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (The left aren't stuck on stupid. They're swimming in a vat of stupid.)
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To: marc costanzo

Thats right and now I remember DUH! CRS is getting worse :) Most recently read about him, Bobby Muller, on FreeRepublic and it reminded me of some things I had forgotten about him. See article posted 6/10/06 titled Over The Top


125 posted on 06/11/2006 8:12:31 AM PDT by D1X1E (Don't hold a protest sign in my face then try to tell me you support the troops.)
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To: JustaCowgirl

I can tell your a very compassionate human bean.
You would have to be to grant Thomas a # two slot
All I know, is that every time an image of her is posted on this site without warning, my Yorkie starts barking.


126 posted on 06/11/2006 8:18:23 AM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Rummyfan

Fame attracts defame.


127 posted on 06/11/2006 8:22:41 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Rummyfan
"These comments notwithstanding (except for the one wrt a Vietnam Vet which I don't believe she ever said) - THIS ARTICLE IS A HIT PIECE!!!! "

If she was referring to a Murtha or Kerry type, I'd say she was quite correct.

128 posted on 06/11/2006 8:27:14 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
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To: finnigan2

>>correct. Whether it happened during a commercial break is another question.
What actually happened was that Coulter and the veteran, a man named Cullen, were set up to debate the Vietnam war. Cullen was the leader of an anti Vietnam war group, in much the same way as Kerry was. During the debate, Coulter said to Cullen, speaking about his views, "No wonder you guys lost the war". It was for that remark that she was fired.<<

Actually she criticized him for the erroneous remark he made: " 90% of all American casualties were from American made mines"

Wrong ! It is true that many of the Viet Cong IED's used parts they salvaged from the remains of U.S. made ordinances, though .. . . . . . .


129 posted on 06/11/2006 8:29:35 AM PDT by marc costanzo (Strength & Honor)
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To: finnigan2

>>correct. Whether it happened during a commercial break is another question.
What actually happened was that Coulter and the veteran, a man named Cullen, were set up to debate the Vietnam war. Cullen was the leader of an anti Vietnam war group, in much the same way as Kerry was. During the debate, Coulter said to Cullen, speaking about his views, "No wonder you guys lost the war". It was for that remark that she was fired.<<

Actually she criticized him for the erroneous remark he made: " 90% of all American casualties were from American made mines"

Wrong ! It is true that many of the Viet Cong IED's used parts they salvaged from the remains of U.S. made ordinances, though .. . . . . . .


130 posted on 06/11/2006 8:29:42 AM PDT by marc costanzo (Strength & Honor)
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To: Tribune7

It was that idiot Max Cleland she was talking to at the time, I think. Therefore, the statement fits him perfectly as it would Kerry too.


131 posted on 06/11/2006 8:34:29 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: massfreeper
Ann Coulter has made a career out of saying the unthinkable.

No, she made a career out of saying what many people think, but are too polite to say!

There's a reason why all of Ann's books are runaway bestsellers. You'd think a reporter would be able to put two and two together. I guess that's why Gaby Wood is a journalist and not a mathematician.

132 posted on 06/11/2006 8:51:51 AM PDT by shezza (God bless our military heroes)
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To: ImpBill
Must have a picture on a Coulter thread.

Yeah. One that demonstrates clearly her hatchet face and anorexic body. Ugh!

133 posted on 06/11/2006 8:59:37 AM PDT by Wolfstar (So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn, There's vultures and thieves at your back...)
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To: 1066AD
[ Ann Coulter has made a career out of saying the unthinkable. ]

BULL.... Ann merely says, "THE KING HAS NO CLOTHES"..

UnThinkable IN BRITAIN.. But its True too, she does say the Queen is a Skank as well..

134 posted on 06/11/2006 9:06:05 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: TET1968
All I know, is that every time an image of her is posted on this site without warning, my Yorkie starts barking.

LOL! That's certainly a piece of evidence we can't ignore.

135 posted on 06/11/2006 12:18:19 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (The left aren't stuck on stupid. They're swimming in a vat of stupid.)
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To: Wolfstar
Must have a picture on a Coulter thread.

Yeah. One that demonstrates clearly her hatchet face and anorexic body. Ugh!

De gustibus.


http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc1.jpg

136 posted on 06/11/2006 8:16:24 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: marc costanzo
"Actually she criticized him for the erroneous remark he made: " 90% of all American casualties were from American made mines"

- I was unaware of Cullen's actual remark that you quote above. Obviously, you consulted a better Google source than I did when I made my comments.
137 posted on 06/12/2006 5:27:59 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: finnigan2

>>"Actually she criticized him for the erroneous remark he made: " 90% of all American casualties were from American made mines"

- I was unaware of Cullen's actual remark that you quote above. Obviously, you consulted a better Google source than I did when I made my comments.<<

No, that was an approximate statement .
I did not google it !
~ ~ Most of the U.S. casualties of landmines in the Viet Nahm War were from American made mines~ ~

Cullen got it wrong, probably diliberately, for
most of these Viet Cong mines used parts salvaged from exploded U.S. mines and bombs - not that they(US Soldiers) were victims of our US-made mines . .


138 posted on 06/12/2006 6:10:31 AM PDT by marc costanzo (Strength & Honor)
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