Posted on 06/07/2006 5:24:50 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Ivan, you sure have a way with words! ":^)
In short... they were stooges.
Wrong... You can fire her. Simply stop reading her columns, and buying her books.
If enough people "fire her," she'll go away.
BTW, I'm NOT firing her. History's shown her to be right when she wrote "Treason," and while she can be impolitic in her statements, she does have a habbit of speaking the truth.
Mark
and the parties i went to in college - "beer whores"
There's an unabridged version available through Audible for about thirty bucks.
It's not Ann reading, but you won't mind.
Precisely.
A lot of them continue to blame Bush and the Republicans for terror that was brooding for years under Clintonian lethargy and licentiousness, instead of the agents that cuased the problem.
They are female Michael Bergs.
Ann as usuall, is right on target and I shall buy her bokk, as always.
Anybody who thinks Ann Coulter looks likes a praying mantis needs a reality and eyesight check.
Right now I'm laughing at your lack of mind-reading skills.
No, I'm just pointing out that Coulter got what she wanted - controversy and attention.
I tend to think that the way she goes about getting that attention is counterproductive to the conservative cause and feeds into the stereotypes about conservatives being mean-spirited and hateful. You're welcome to disagree.
Don't be silly.
The entire point Ann is making is that democrats have started using "messengers" that can't be politely criticized, because they can no longer monopolize and manipulate the organs of communication to silence their opposition.
What makes the left so mad is Ann gave away their secret weapon, and she's lmmune to their retaliation ...as long as conservatives stick by her. She has done and said nothing the left doesn't practice on a regular basis.
And before the old chestnut gets rolled out...yes we do have to sink to their level.
You're right, randog. I did learn some things about the effects of the particular disease my wife had.
It would be the loss of a wife or husband in a car wreck that would be analogous.
In any event, I'm sick of the NJ harpies sounding off as authorities on everything.
Thanks.
I'm being quite serious when I ask you how someone could prove your opinion is in error?
Would it be possible for you to show that Coulter appeals to more than a certain segment of "the base", and that in fact, people who disagree with her find her points worthy of further thought?
Has she ever convinced a significant number of people to change their minds, or is she just "preaching to the choir"?
Coulter is in demand for the "shouting heads" shows both because of her provocative dress and because she is sure to say something outrageous.
I'm basing my opinion in large part on personal experiences however: when I disagree with a family member, friend, or coworker, I'm more likely to consider their arguments if they approach me with calm, thoughtfulness, and logic, than if they attack me with insults and bombast.
How about you?
Yesterday I would have agreed with this 100% Suzy Quzy.
However, after listening to that puke Berg (father of the beheaded) blame GWB, the USA, the war and say they are worse than Abu Musab al-Zarqawi I now understand what Ann was saying.
Agree....liberals come out name-calling conservatives....but let one conservative fight the same battle and it's unexcusable....Ann is right....and she's taking the gloves off to fight liberal media bias....
Your points don't actually answer my question. Even so,I don't agree with your framing of the the issue anyway.
It's not a matter of two sides of a reasoned debate; it's a matter of what do you do when you find yourself 'negotiating' with a petulant, teenaged girl, but you have no authority to disallow her purile histrionics. Answer: get Ann Coulter to beat the little princess at her own game.
I don't expect Ann to convince too many people she's reasonable. I expect Ann to get payment in rhetorical blood from those who find "Borking" an acceptable tactic. I don't want her to change minds. I want her to punish the people who try to make Linda Tripp's looks the issue to avoid noticing Bill Clinton pissed away forty million dollars making the justice department prove his perjury.
In short, I want her to point out the emperor has no clothes no matter who it embarrasses.
Nobody who lost a loved one on 9/11 has more standing, or ought to, than any of us in the public debate on the War on Terror.
It was an attack on the nation, not a targeted murder of anyone's individual loved one.
The war is not simply about justice for the victims, it's about preventing future attacks by an enemy hell bent on our destruction.
Just as WWII was not an act of vengeance for the attack on Pearl Harbor and it's casualties, but about eliminating enemies hell bent on world domination.
In other words, you don't care if she plays into the stereotype of conservatives being mean-spirited and hateful, because you feel that by being obnoxious, she's serving a useful purpose. Do I understand what you are saying?
I'm saying it's a fools errand to try to avoid it, because the libs are the ones who invented and propagate the stereotype anyway. Why would you play right along with them.
Ann is NOT obnoxious, but you'd never know that if the only people you listen to are the people who's entire focus on Linda Tripp was how "ugly" she is.
> Good for Ann! Just saw her on Hannity and Colmes and she's simply speaking the truth and exposing a particularly deplorable ploy on the part of the left in using victims as spokesmen that we're not "allowed" to argue with.
This is what I agree with Ann about. She should have stuck with that. What I don't agree with is her saying that these women are "enjoying" their husband's deaths.
Maybe it's just because my mother-in-law just lost her husband to cancer, but I think Ann should be ashamed to say something like that. Flaming invective is fine when directed to the right political target, but personal attacks on a tragedy should be left to indecent people (that is, Dims and their ilk).
We're better than this.
I started it on the bus to work this morning, and had to restrain myself from saying "right on!" every few sentences.
"saw the book right in front of me and decided to grab a copy -- making sure that other people saw me take it."
I can't endorse shoplifting; you should have purchased it. ;)
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