Posted on 06/07/2006 5:24:50 PM PDT by churchillbuff
What a moron.
Ann Coulter, that is.
After calling a group of 9/11 widows "harpies" who seem to be "enjoying their husbands' deaths" in her new book, the conservative pundit has gone too far. She even added:
"And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy..."
Huh?
Ugly is the only way I can describe what Coulter has written. Now I understand why Time magazine put her on the cover a few years ago and made her look like a praying mantis. She just might be the type of creature that would eat its mate after sex.
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By speaking on behalf of conservatives, she makes us look as bad as michael moore makes liberal looks. I think someone made that comparison earlier. She has said that women are not as smart as men--she was not just talking about women who support abortion, but all women.
"It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 — except Goldwater in '64 — the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted." ^ a b c "An appalling magic", The Guardian Online, May 17, 2003
I understand her wanting Republicans to win, but I don't think she goes about it in the "right" way. I know all conservatives are not the same, but I don't think the majority of Republicans are as hateful as she is. It backfires, as the liberals are finding out. We shouldn't stoop to tha level is all I'm saying.
Jesus wouldn't talk like that.
Direct Hit!
But again, why should we stoop to their level? Is there no proverbial high road anymore?
I, too, have thought that exploiting 9-11 was wrong. I felt bad for firemen and policeman who die everyday being brave and doing their jobs with little recognition. I am not sure what the widows are doing, but they are definitely not the only widows in this war. I respect when the loved ones of cancer victims or other diseases speak out to help people. These 9-11 widows are not helping by speaking out, because their speaking out will not end terrorism.
Please note what the "proverbial high road" has brought us overall. You can only be nice so long before someone needs to come out and call a spade a spade.
Sorry, but there is no high road when it comes to dealing with liberals and their minnions. Granted, I may not speak as strongly as Ann, but it's about time someone did. Bravo for her doing it.
Keep in mind too, it's the "proverbial high road" that is being used to condemn our troops before investigations are even finished by Liberals. It was the "proverbial high road" that ended up letting 2.5 million of us who served in Viet Nam be slandered and castigated as murderers, walking time bombs and baby killers over the past 3 decades.
For those that wish, be my guest to take the "proverbial high road." Just don't be surprised to wake up in November this year seeing Liberals back in charge of Congress with the White House following in 08.
Sometimes, you need to fight fire with fire.
Any ideas what all he was really saying as he threw the money changers out of the temple?
For me Ann Coulter ia a the "Joan of Arc" of true Conservatism.
Speaking TRUTH is the proverbial high road. It's been lacking for a long time - that's why it's strange to you - you think it's stooping.
You win. One line that says it all! Good bumper sticker material.
It's a good question. I'll give it a shot.
Rall's cartoon seems to say that, based on their media appearances, the 911 widows and widowers were greedy, shallow, and undeserving of sympathy. The cartoon offends with a very broad brush. It criticizes people who have done nothing wrong, people who deserve respect for their losses.
Coulter directs her scorn at a much smaller target group, specific individuals who have acted in a way that deserves to be criticized. The Jersey widows who cynically used 911 as a springboard to advance their political agendas are similar to Cindy Sheehan, who parlayed her son's death into a career as the globe-trotting Mama Moonbat.
If Rall's cartoon had been targeted at specific individuals, real people who had behaved as he described, it would have been a sad commentary, but not offensive.
You are shortsighted and so is O'Reilly. He said that he made his point much more successfully about Cindy Sheehan than did Ann Coulter.
What you and O'Reilly fail to take into account is that O'Reilly made his point TO THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE OF THE EQUATION. A big fat "so what."
Ann is forceful enough in her remarks that she has gotten national attention, both the Conservative but also the muddled Center and the Libs. As a result, many, many more people are going to read, hear and discuss her thoughts; the Libs will dismiss them but a lot of the muddled minds in the middle are going to hear her thoughts and see the wisdom of what she says. She's a net winner on this.
When you are at war you sometimes have to use a Bunkerbuster, that line is it.
These women were Party hacks that were given credibility for one reason alone and that was because their husbands died in 911, nothing else.
Nothing is sacred for liberals and Ann called them on it. She just knocked down their PC wall. Ann Rox Again
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Rock on Ann...
Re your #107 - very, very well stated! Bravo.
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