Posted on 06/14/2006 8:22:58 PM PDT by HighWheeler
Another good one! God bless them!
"I seriously don't get the attacks on Ann's physical appearance... I think she's EXTREMELY hot."
Ann is wining a very public debate on the war of ideas so the Lib's are resorting to the politics of personal destruction.
BTTT
lol! I haven't seen that one.
I think the Lib's are throwing everything at the wall to see if something sticks.
She, along with Rush Limbaugh, Mark Steyn, Brit Hume, Sean Hannity, are pillars of modern Conservatism.
No more pious wimps - in your face, down and dirty. The ONLY way to effectively fight Clintonian Liberalism.
I know I'll get in trouble with some people for what I'm about to say. So be it.
Coulter and Limbaugh add nothing to the conservative movement. They are nothing more than candy and fast food.
Limbaugh is a bag of hot air. He is entertaining and is a great showman, but a bag of hot air nonetheless. His comments can be funny, witty and cutting, but he rarely has an original thought. His show doesn't move conservatives forward as much as attempting to push liberals back. He is a useful tool, but hardly a pillar of conservative thought.
Coulter is more disappointing because she is so obviously intelligent and such an excellent writer. She does an excellent job of identifying where conservatives and liberals differ. She has insightful concepts and ideas. She is an excellent speaker with excellent stage presence. But all of this is obscured to the general public when she frequently crosses over the line to get the cheap emotional reaction. Jay is correct in pointing out that her antagonistic style does nothing to help move the dialog about conservative ideas. In fact, it distracts from those ideas and ideals and provides the liberals with ammo used to attack conservatives.
Again, this is how I feel. Your mileage may vary!
Ann looked good and came across as a formidable intellect for the political right on the Jay Leno show. Jay was polite, even helpful. He obviously read "Godless" and felt that it's criticisms had merit. Carlin was subdued after an interesting social commentary poetic monologue that wanted to proove that he was still a hip and happening comedian. The show's producers didn't pull any subtle MSM camera tricks out of its hat or show any reaction shots of Carlin during the interview, it was all about Ann and she was given a level playing field.
She needs to study the tape closely for future TV talk show appearances. TV is x-ray, ask Joe McCarthy. Any self-referrential comments absolutely need to be wrapped in humor laced with a bit of analytical humility otherwise you come off as egotistical, something that does not play well even in Jerry Springer's demographic. Her observations are keen but need to be presented slightly more at the layman's level, I think she may have talked over her TV audience's head a tad.
Some of her humorous remarks such as the one about "Dorothy's house" went totally flat, but Leno didn't leave dead air for the flatness to sink in. He was a gentleman. As he said during the interview, he's a social liberal and a fiscal conservative and enjoys debate with those of his friends that are conservative.
Perhaps this breakthrough appearance will open the door to other conservative spokesfolks on the TV talk show circuit. It would be a coup if Ann could get on Oprah. Perhaps the conservative radio hosts could be tapped as an informal "speakers bureau". We need people who are totally bulletproof on the air. Print commentators and think tankers are far from trap proof.
The studio audience, BTW, were well behaved, no boos or shouts, and some of her fans cheered. My take is that any liberals in the studio audience were instructed by the producers to chill. One can assume that there was an attempt by the lefties to insert provocateurs into the studio. A sop to the radical left appeared as the last act, a singer whose guitar had the logo "This machine kills fascists" on it (given a closeup, needless to say), just like 1930's Wobbly IWW anarcho-marxist troubador Woody Guthrie's guitar.
The issue here is not so much Ann's message or her book which was doing great on the charts before Leno (which fact probably got her on Leno to begin with). The issue is that she was given a major TV platform that was not set up as a hatchet job. I hope conservatives can exploit this opening with other class acts. I think there is a growing realization in mediaopolis that the struggle is about western civilization; you know, Mr. Producer, the folks who brought you those nice studio cameras and attendant electrical grid. Conservatives need to express this central strategic issue in a civilized, non-trailer trash manner.
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Thanks for posting the link to the interview!
"RACHEL MADDOW, AIR AMERICA RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: She‘s actually an ex-girlfriend of mine. Little known fact. So it‘s a lot—it‘s very personal. A lot of our disagreements are personal. But I can see her politics, too."
There's lots of room for speculation in that statement. Yes, it could be lesbianism, and it could mean friendship. I am very skeptical that this is an "outing."
Well any reasonable person would realize what you say. But some of the lesbians I know on other boards are just rabid. I don't care what she is. But I bet many of her followers would, which is why these lesbians are so excited about the possibility.
I don't believe a word of it. Vicious rumor.
It was worth it for one point she made.
"I"m calling them 'godless' and they don't care!"
Veeeeery telling point.
Ann: "No, I read about it in Esquire though and it didn't sound very good."
(with deadpan delivery)
Beautiful.
That was good. And she killed two birds with one stone.
I don't mind living next door to an atheist...but I do mind living next door to somebody that would like to see our country fail by placating and making nice with people who want to kill us.
The thing is, atheism has consequences. "Without God, everything is permissible."
People aren't born atheists. They choose to believe that god doens't exist..
I was a good catholic altar boy and was taught by the Fransicans and Jesuits.
Religion may have been necessary for me in my formative years, but as an adult, we learn to respect your neighbors as yourself...as long as they recipricate.
Religion practiced to extreme is downright dangerous, IMO....as evidenced by islam.
This link is from Johns Hopkins:
http://www.rxpgnews.com/research/neurosciences/neurodegenerativediseases/article_3353.shtml
"Research Suggests Abraham Lincoln Suffered from Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 5 (SCA5)"
DCPatriot, it sounds as if your relations with your neighbors are governed by the policy of MAD (mutual assured destruction), which supposedly kept us safe from nuclear attack for so many decades.
Unfortunately for you, and the Soviets, Ronald Reagan proved, with his 'star wars' speech, that the protection of such a policy is illusory.
That's why sometimes, neighbors assault and kill their neighbors, because MAD just doesn't work.
Let's face it, some of your neighbors are a lot weaker, punier and more helpless than you, and some are not!
You probably don't have to worry too much about the puny ones, but you had better hope that the dangerous ones believe in God, (or have two strikes).
Regarding 'extreme' religion, I think its reasonable to say that Mother Teresa's life was an example of 'religion practiced to extreme...' ... did you consider her dangerous?
As that sign in Geno's steak & cheese up in Philly says...
ORDER IN ENGLISH!!
I no longer have HBO....why support the left.
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