Posted on 07/05/2007 11:50:07 AM PDT by pissant
As the race for the 2008 Presidential election gains more and more ground each day, we find ourselves increasingly subjected to literal up-to-the-second coverage of the U.S. political arena. More often than desired, this barrage of “news” ends up to be nothing more than a coagulation of useless facts and figures accompanied by an endless stream of insults directed at your candidate of choice. Interviews are about as educational as watching 12 year olds argue about whose dad is cooler, normally consisting of three or more grown, educated men simultaneously trying to prove the others wrong by talking as loud as possible. Liberal bias or conservative bias, CNN or Fox News – mass media exists only to cater to those brave souls willing to aim low enough to attack the opposing individual’s very character. This type of high-brow, mature political dialogue has been an issue of especially high contention in recent presidential elections, and 2008 is no exception.
I do my best to maintain reasonable expectations for the public figures in my country. I assume most of them are remotely intelligent, and truly capable of listening if they’d only shut their mouths on occasion. I like to think that the pundits I see on television are reasonable people on the inside, and that I might even agree with some of their takes on many important issues.
However, there is one person in particular that serves as a towering exception to the rule: a cruel, heartless, close-minded individual who cannot and will never serve any good to humankind. I am, of course, talking about super-pundit and author Ann Coulter.
Since the recent execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006, Coulter is believed to be the most feared and last precursor to the coming of the Anti-Christ. Preaching a message of intolerance and hatred, Coulter chooses to prey on any group promoting any sort of equality, fairness, or compromise by making direct, personal attacks at her opponent. Coulter relies on her wit and her ability to interrupt others to convey her message, usually consisting of nothing more than a pile of ideological garbage. A staunch fascist, Coulter promotes many of the same ideas as her late male colleagues, including torture, imperialism, racism, intolerance of homosexuals, and a general hatred for any follower of Islam. Her loud mouth and ruthless attitude immediately propelled her to the summit of the media mountain, where she sits as the queen of the neoconservative movement.
Coulter has promoted the escalation of warfare in the Middle East, going so far as to encourage a takeover of the entire region and conversion of its people to Christianity. She has continually encouraged racial profiling and discrimination based on sexuality. In her most recent book, “Godless,” Coulter attacks four women widowed after 9/11, saying, “I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.” She recently referred to John Edwards as a “f*****” and remains proud of it, despite pleas from Edwards to clean up her language and stick to the issues. Shameless and cold-blooded, Coulter’s purse has gotten fat as a direct result of her message of intolerance.
On a self-imposed mission from God, Coulter sees fit to usher out the rather important, constitutionally granted freedom from persecution based on race, religion, or cultural background and replace it with a theocracy bent on converting the entire world to Christianity and bombing anyone who disagrees. She claims to be waging a war on “liberals,” the umbrella term for anyone who disagrees with her ideology. The definition of Coulter’s “liberal” most closely resembles what a sane person would call a reasonable, pragmatic, progressive individual. You do not have to be liberal to be a “liberal,” the only requirement is that you disagree with any of the various moral wrongdoings Coulter actively endorses. As fundamentalist as any Ayatollah, Coulter may serve to be a greater threat to the American way of life than any terrorist. Monotonously divisive and inflammatory, “Ms. Right” is slowly eroding any remaining remnants of the motto, “United We Stand.”
There was a time when Ann Coulter would have made my heart stop, the combination of brains and beauty, but those days are long gone.
She made her name, in effect, being the anti-Maureen Dowd, countering progressive childishness with an adult view of the world and politics. However, Ann, to me, hasn’t decided when to stop being the anti-Maureen Dowd. As ‘liberals’ like Dowd have become increasingly shrill and disconnected, so has Ann. SHe has a “shtick:” now, and can’t stop it. She has made a career of basically trumpeting the opposite view of her ideological enemies with the same piecing howl they use, matching them decibel for decibel, outrageous statement for outrageous statement.
I have a serious issue with Ann’s idea of conquering and coverting the Middle East, if only because it’s a distraction from the true remedy to Islamic terrorism; killing them and making them suffer until they are broken wretches incapable of having a thought that goes beyond ‘how do I fill my aching belly today?’ and ‘I wonder when the smart bomb finds me? When people are hungry, fearful and suffering, they dont have the time or inclination to plot terror attacks.
Eventually, we’ll get lucky and they’ll come to us begging to be dragged into the 21st century.
As for Ann’s remarks about Edwards, yeah, he’s a friggin’ jerk, but you know that any sort of statement like she made only garners him sympathy in the end, and if there’s anything John Edwards loves, it’s sympathy; he rode it to a successful career in fleecing the medical insurance system, and then he cashed it in for a Senate seat. I don’t think anyone who watched John and Elizabeth Edwards in the last Presidential campaign and in this latest announcement of her returning cancer (if they had the same sense a brain damaged golden retreiver has) already knows what a bastard the man is. They don’t need Ann to tell them.
When all is said and done, the only thing this non-entity will be remembered for is saying “Lesbian” eight times to Dick Cheney on national TV...and surviving the ordeal. Don’t give anyone a reaosn to remember that he’s alive.
Tone it down a bit, Sweetie, and go back to what you do best: making a clear and concise case for your philosophy and doing it in an educational and entertaining way.
Kind words from the inclusive Left...
All anti-Coulter posts are from liberal plants.
Every time Ann’s name is mentioned, another angel gets his wings!
Yeah, that’s RI-I-I-I-I-GHT!
Ann is what’s wrong with political punditry and commentary today.
These people lose all credibility. At least conservatives are capable of admitting what we do. Even Ann herself.
Liberal (mainstream media) writing seems to consist almost entirely of personal attacks and distortions of people with good, honest ideas of their own.
All these guys/gals seem to plagiarize their ideas from the same Democratic Underground rant of the day.
What happened to the good ol’ days when they all plagiarized the lead editorial from the New York Times?
Mizzzz Peebles uses name-calling to condemn Anne Coulter for calling people names.
No, $400.00 haircuts on a politician who hides behind his cancer-stricken wife's apron strings makes a mockery of politics.
I can not wait until Peeps next column. I understand it is a dissertation on What is a hissyfit?
I’m not certain how to take that. My point was not that Ann Coulter was not credible or not right in (many of)her assertions, only that the act has gotten old and that she in danger of becoming that which she professes to detest.
Yea, but I’m pretty sure Ann wasn’t kidding.
As if Cindy Sheehan, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Moore, Al Gore Jr., Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Lyndon LaRouche, Howard Dean, and the Fat Vichy Chick don’t make a mockey of politics.
Not really.
Rush delivered the Senate to the Dems, and Coulter is capable of delivering to them the presidency.
You may like what you hear from Coulter, but the vast majority do not.
Time to elevate the dialog.
Rush delivered the Senate to the Dems?
What of the “Culture of Corruption” and Foleygate? DeLaygate? and Fristgate?
Doesn’t matter that the charges were hollow, the public ate it up.
“You may like what you hear from Coulter, but the vast majority do not.”
What is your evidence for this statement? Particularly the “vast” part.
Imagine this:
Ann Coulter, Press Secretary to the (next) President
The Middle East will never enter the 21st century until they recognize and respect the notion of a freedom of religion. To do so would mean tossing out the concept of “muslim lands”.
It will not happen peacefully but you can bet that some so called muslims are practitioners only because their lives depend on professing the faith.
The Islamic supremacist mindset must be put to rest.
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