[Lance Romance]

Apparently, she doesn't remember the Clinton years of calling Paula Jones trailer-trash, bugging Newt Gingrich's phone calls, Mike McCurrry's accusation that Republican's wanted old people "to dry up and blow away", blaming OKC bombing on talk radio........

[ventana]

And some simply maintain that liberals aren't angry enough to do screed TV or rant-lit.

They're angr. It's just kind of a more Nurse Ratchit angry. They're all about control: of everything. V's wife.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

True Story:
In a critical thinking class in college, we had to incorporate discussions of 5 news 'articles' about the Unibomber. (He hadn't been caught yet.)
We had to use the standard pro and con of each argument, and then synthesize our response.
I got a 'B-' because for one article, I only did con and was thoroughly demeaning throughout.
I told the prof, I had a problem with his criticism.
He explained his rationale.
I said, "Great, but it was an Ellen Goodman article. Everyone on the Philosophy floor know she's a crank."
He didn't realize she had such bad rap and understood now why I wrote the way I did.
I got an 'A'.

This chick is consistently derided for her less than stellar line of 'thinking'.
As for her hit on Ann Coulter not being 'rational' well, you know what side of the aisle this 'middle of the roader' comes from.
Time was these liberal columnists wouldn't even admit they had sympathies, much less where they lie.

[ClearCase_guy]

OK, the most recent person to mourn the lack of civilized political debate was Ann Coulter, who said "the country is trapped in a political discourse that resembles professional wrestling." That's like Arnold Schwarzenegger complaining that voters pay too much attention to body image.

Ellen is not a great thinker, and seems to be having trouble putting coherent pieces together lately. The excerpt above is where Ellen could have said, "Even Ann Coulter agrees with me. Why can't we work together to elevate the level of discourse?"

But, no. Ellen instead basically says, "Ann Coulter agrees with the point I'm trying to make -- but she's a Conservative, so let's discount her entirely, and just move on after I gratuitously insult her."

[Kenton]

And some simply maintain that liberals aren't angry enough to do screed TV or rant-lit.

Yeah, that James Carville and Paul Begala are the voices of reason...</sarcasm off>

It's your MESSAGE that doesn't work, Ellen.

[TUX]

The problem for the liberal left wing conspiracy is the derth of facts or ideas. Screed like this lib whine has not one single fact.

Put them in the spotlight and watch the emotional name calling and character assination. The only program of the dwarf nine(oops 10)is Bush bashing/hating.

Like any bully face them down with facts and they whine and run.

[Arrowhead1952]

blaming OKC bombing on talk radio........

and blaming EVERYTHING on President Bush as the 10 and counting dwarves are now.

[Alouette]

What a pathetic, angry, bitter, jealous bitch Ellen is.

[Fester Chugabrew]

"Do you know liberals have no sense of humor?"

[Orangedog]

The great American rant (Waaaah. Conservatives Are Mean)

Don't expect the Dems to stop this using this "Conservatives Are Mean" mantra...it's worked fabulously for them ever since the 1994 elections. The GOP leadership is so afraid of being called mean names, they cave in anytime the dems even threaten to call them "mean spirited." Why should they stop using a tactic that they have had wild success in using? Just look at how they worked over the chairman of the ways and means committee several weeks ago. They had him bawling like a little girl on the House floor because he "dared" to call in security when the Dems on the committee threw a temper tantrum. A lot of Republicans have had just about enough of what passes for leadership in the GOP House and Senate.

[wayoverontheright]

I searched for a central theme, point, or message in this article, and was denied. Clarity is the Left's enemy, as motive and agenda must by necessity be obscured.

The Left's overriding emotion is not anger, it is fear, herein we witness the frantic gesticulating of someone drowning, in the form of screed.

[King Prout]

yo. ellen. remember that lemon-faced coonass's remarks about the results of fishing in trailer parks using Benjamins for bait? I cannot remember his name offhand... the fellow who bears a striking resemblance to Gollum.
Oh, yes... James Carville.
That was the best your side of the aisle can produce.
Remove the beam from out of thine own eye.

[SpinyNorman]

The search for the Great Left Hope has engendered a good deal of soul-searching. The search committee has reasoned away the lack of liberal attack dogs with arguments that range from the elitist -- "we don't do mud wrestling" -- to the defeatist -- "we're too wimpy."

And let us not forget too illogical, irrational, close-minded, whiny, asexual, transexual (anything but heterosexual), shrill, immoral, smarmy and vapid. But then, I tend to sugarcoat things.

I have to wonder just how hard she hit her head on that glass door....