To Ann Coulter's Critics: "Shut Up And Read"

Charleston City Paper ^ | June 14, 2006 | Michael Graham

[LuxMaker]

I suspect in their hearts, even liberals admit Ann Coulter's right. But they don't know how to counter her intellectually. She's firing with all barrels and they're shooting back spitballs. If I were a Democrat, I'd say the party has been intellectually disarmed. But you're never going to hear these the people admit openly they have to change. The ego of liberals prevents them from doing it. If they weren't so shrill and angry, they might stand have a chance. But the way they have reacted to Ann is an indication they're setting themselves up to lose another election this year. Look at it: is that kind of whining the sign of a confident party on the offensive? The party to the contrary, keeps signaling how weak and divided it is. Whatever the Democrats might say publicly, their fear of Ann Coulter is an a revelation that victory is not at hand in 2004 - cause otherwise they would just ignore her. All that conventional wisdom being promoted in the Drive By Media about how this will be the Year Of The Democrats is just that... bunk.

Right on! :)

[RetiredSWO]

Last night we had Gore on

That's like saying "last night we had diarrhea"
Either way it couldn't have been comfortable

[firequarrel]

Where, in her book or elsewhere, do you think Ms. Coulter has suggested your political ideology has been ordained by God?

You make a good point. My political ideology diverged from hers when she emanated that her political ideology is ordained by God. Such hubris usually comes before a fall.

[blowfish]

LOL Please, don't stop. Don't even slow down ...

With a straight-man like you, it's tempting to continue. But I think I'm done here.

[x]

To Ann Coulter's Critics: "Shut Up And Read"

It doesn't work that way, does it? Otherwise Barbra Streisand's response to Laura Ingraham is "Shut up and listen," and George Clooney's answer is "Shut up and watch." If we can criticize liberal celebrities for their political opinions, how can we expect others to simply shut upt and keep their noses in Coulter's book.

The whole controversy is overdone, but surely one has to maintain the same standards. Eleanor Clift and Julianne Malveaux, Alec Baldwin and Julia Roberts get on my nerves for their uninformed opinions and obnoxiousness, and Ann Coulter does too.

[papertyger]

Would you like to be pinged to my upcoming thread documenting her grossly misleading sophistry?

Yup.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I have read. Coulter seems not only worse than her critics claim, she's even worse than her supporters claim.

[papertyger]

My political ideology diverged from hers when she emanated that her political ideology is ordained by God.

Wow. You used the word "emanated."

You must be really smart....

[righteousindignation]

You are correct and I can be a bit impassioned when ignorance is attacking.

[Antoninus]

Good article. Go Ann go!

[TAdams8591]

"In all the hoopla over her language, a point she should have made about the "widows" gets lost, again."

That's the problem with what Ann said about those four widows -enjoying their husbands deaths- and the very reason she should have avoided saying it.

[TAdams8591]

":Ann Coulter: I would say teach them the one that has the strongest scientific basis to it, and if there's any time left over at the end of the day you could also teach them about the theory of evolution"

LOL! Very witty.

[papertyger]

Oh, I don't know. She seems to capture the warp and woof of the debate pretty effectively.

[Wolfstar]

What did Ann write or say that causes you to reach the conclusion she is a demagogue?

Forgive me for answering for you, blowfish, but I resent the conformity of thought the "Church of Coulter" around here demands.

Blueflag, in the definition you provided, #3 fits Coulter to a T. So does #1, in that Ms. Coulter puts herself out there as a leader.

Ann Counter is the right-wing equivalent of James Carville. They are equally strident, bombastic and ugly.

[drama queen]

I think she does a great job at making the conservative movement look mean-spirited. Are the NJ Widows happy that their husbands died on 9/11? I would say NO but why don't we let God be the judge of that and not Ann?

[VadeRetro]

I guess I'll do a few Annie-isms right here and see if it makes THIS thread go away.

Ann Coulter: 1. It's illogical.

Here's the theory. "Life on Earth is the result of common descent diversifying because of random heritable variation and natural selection."

How would this not happen? Where does it break down?

Does variation exist? Check. Even within small subpopulations, we're not all the same.

Is much of it heritable? Check. There is a tendency, but only a tendency, to breed true.

Does nature select? Check. Nature is very cruel to the lame, the poorly camouflaged, the disadvantaged.

Do conditions vary from place to place and time to time? Check to both. You can get varying conditions staying in one place or moving around.

A population expanding through space and time, meeting ever-varying conditions, is bound to be pushed and pulled by its environment to new adaptations.

2. There's no physical evidence for it.

"Ann, you ignorant slut!"

3. There's physical evidence that directly contradicts it.

Yeah, sort of, if you hang around on the Bible.CA and some other sites. Malachite Man, Carl Baugh's Cretacious miner's hammer, some faked footprints, some horrendously hopeful misinterpretations (like the Paluxy dino-and-man tracks) ...

Not a good penny in the bunch. Mostly frauds.

She could have meant something else, of course; she didn't say. But she's starting to look like she's bought the YEC nonsense, which would make her a real crackpot's crackpot. She'd better keep it a secret if so as that's more than most non-science-literate people are ready to swallow.

Apart from those three concerns I'd say it's a pretty solid theory.

Good! Then that's all dealt with.

[VadeRetro]

"Ann, you ignorant slut!"

Apologies to whomever I stole that from.

[cowboy_code]

I love how Ann in her book: 'THROWS A ROCK IN A PACK OF DOGS AND THE ONE WHO YELPS IS THE ONE HIT.'
It shows she is on target.

[1000 silverlings]

lol, that's a good old Baptist pastor saying.

[bornacatholic]

It doesn't work that way, does it

*Yes, it does. This particular thread is about those who criticise Ann without first reading her book.

I don't know what is so hard to understand about that concept but several on this thread, apparently, can't understand it.