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"Better to be wanted by the police than not wanted at all."
Anonymous
Posted on 06/15/2006 10:12:05 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Let me ask you this: when, prior to last week, was the last time you heard of the Jersey Girls? I can’t give a definite answer, which in itself is telling. Not that I was paying any large amount of attention, but there was a lot of noise in between the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, intense media play building up to the 2004 election, which they did their damndest to throw to Kerry, and then… nothing.
They’d shot their bolt, they had their fifteen minutes and more, and that was the end of it. Until last week when Ann Coulter, acting unilaterally, put them back on the front pages with an attack so obnoxious that it immediately (and unjustly – it was the Girls themselves, after all, who debased their victim status for political purposes) threw all sympathy in their direction. A free ticket to a second act. Not to mention providing Madame Hillary with an opportunity to pose as, of all things, the defender of civility.
Thanks a lot, Ann.
Conservatives used to be known for this kind of thing. Much of this was the media’s doing – at any conservative gathering, be it a gun show or a political convention, reporters will make a beeline for the guy in full camo gear or wearing two dozen anti-UN buttons. But conservatives played their part.
The classic figure here is Coulter’s idol, Joe McCarthy. Bellowing about Communists you couldn’t produce (and it cannot be repeated often enough that McCarthy bagged nobody – the Party infiltrators had been cleaned out by the time he showed up) was bad enough. Doing it in an ill-cut Chicago gangland suit with a five-o’clock shadow and fifth of Jim Beam under your belt simply turned it into a circus.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It took a startling, no-nonsense statement to expose how victimology plays a major part in the Left's arguments. If Coulter had pointed this out in any less bold a way, it wouldn't have had an impact. It might not have been mentioned at all.Absolutely right. To get over the massive censorship wall of the MSM you have to be heard. Look at W. He is civil, and his message is completely and totally lost. I'm not saying W should start becoming a shock-DJ president, I'm just saying the Ann has taken on the media wall of censorship and is winning. Those conservatives who don't like her... well, that's their right. I strongly disagree with them. (And in fact, on evolution, I strongly disagree with Ann. But I did buy her book.)
bttt &
"Better to be wanted by the police than not wanted at all."
Anonymous
9/11 Widow: Jersey Girls Are “The Rock Stars Of Grief”
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/911-widow-jersey-girls-are-the-rock-stars-of-grief
From October 2004.
Where was the outrage?
I hear about those hags nearly every week.
>>Let me ask you this: when, prior to last week, was the last time you heard of the Jersey Girls? I can’t give a definite answer, which in itself is telling.
"Professors are the most cosseted, pussified, subsidized, group of people in the U.S. workforce."
Ann Coulter
Who is this JR Dunn, who writes nonsense and does not understand of which he writes.
And Harry Dexter White, who was exposed by the Senator, too. When it came to John Fairbanks, it turned out after McCarthy was dead that Mr. Fairbanks tried to bring Communism to Japan or Communists into the emerging government of Japan (Fairbanks wrote a book claiming he was a victim of McCarthy's persecution).
You must have been AWOL the day the memo went out explaining in detail how playing "nice" with rattlesnakes is not a good strategy.
Come to find out that the rattlesnakes don't like it one bit when the "rabbit has the gun" as Anne put it.
Poor babies. If it upsets tham that much it is without doubt a good thing. Let's not help them with faux sympathy...
Coulter is the quintessential foam-at-the-mouth right-winger stereotype so many of us have tried for so long to convince voters is not an accurate portrayal of conservatives.You write as if you've never read her words (except as filtered through the lying media whores of the left) or never seen her speak, like last not on Leno. You could watch last night and see a foam-at-the-mouth. Do you wear glasses? Have you had your prescription checked lately? Your meds? Sorry to get personal, but my god, wolfstar, did you see last night's interview and still say foam-at-the-mouth? I question your sanity.
You're right. I was just going off the top of my head.
There's also Phillip Keeney, the husband of Mary Keeney--and a lot more I'm sure we're forgetting.
No, by being smart and effective. Coulter is not effective for anything or any one except her own enrichment.
I'll give you an example using a Pat Buchanan incident I witnessed back when he was running for president. Buchanan, as you may remember, was the Coulter-style conservative bomb-thrower of the late 1980's and early 1990's. As with Coulter now, a great many conservatives loved what Buchanan was doing. Buchanan was so popular with conservatives that he ran for president and won the New Hampshire Primary in 1996. Had he come out of New Hampshire with an smart, effective game plan, he might very well have won the nomination and the White House.
Instead, he went to Arizona and allowed himself to be photograph like this:
Also while in Arizona, he attended a campaign rally in an auditorium where he took questions from the audience. At one point, a man stood up and asked Buchanan a question that Pat didn't like. He wound up loudly and nastily arguing with the man for several minutes. The two men traded shouts and insults over the heads of the audience. Most people in the audience -- overwhelmingly Buchanan supporters -- began squirming in their seats and looking very uncomfortable. The event was caught by TV cameras and broadcast around the state, as well as elsewhere. The photograph and that incident killed his presidential candidacy deader than dead, and Buchanan had no one else to blame but himself.
So again, there is a smart, effective way to do things and a stupid way. Coulter's way enriches herself, but does nothing for the conservative cause.
YOu shouldn't (listen to Dunn)!
Right On!
NO she is hurting the commie/fascist/social/ evil dums. Her Truths hurt them. She just has the strength to tell it to their faces.
Horse Hockey! That woman has more courage and stones than 20 male RINOS in congress put together.
I am as disgusted with alleged conservative whiners as I am with the lefties. Get over yourselves, nice does not work with the current crop of leftists.
What? That was one of the most delicious parts of the "controversy." Hillary's trumped up outrage just gave Ann an opportunity to calmly, punlicly mention...
Juanita Broaddrick! LOL. Keep it coming, Hillary!
And another thing: The MSM has claimed over and over that Ann "attacked the 9/11 families." If what she wrote is so effin bad, why do they have to misrepresent what she said?
I think there were also a bunch of Commies working in G.E. defense plants that McCarthy exposed. The case with Mr. John Fairbanks is that Mr. Fairbanks wrote a book claiming he was a victim of Sen. McCarthy merely because he was prescient in forseeing the victory of the Reds in China; however, William Rusher working for a Senate Security Comittee after McCarthy's death found out that he was trying to bring Communists into the postwar Japanese government.
William Rusher is still alive and a National Review correspondent and I'm sure he still remembers this.
Dittos.
Murtha is continuing to prove the point in today's debate. Almost everytime he gets up he holds up that bullet from VietNam and reminds us yet again of his presence there in the sixties. Now he has his dim colleagues standing up defending him because he "speaks truth to power". Translation: you can't attack him, he's a veteran and therefore knows more than you.
Bull$hit!
Nonsense. While I can't speak to her finances, she has had plenty of breaks in her career:
Born December 8, 1961, Coulter graduated cum laude from Cornell University in 1984, and received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center. Coulter practiced corporate law for four years, then became a congressional aide in Washington, D. C. in 1994, to Republican Sen. Spencer Abraham.
In 1996, the fledgling television network MSNBC hired Coulter as a legal correspondent and political pundit, launching her media career.
In 1998, Coulter published High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, which became a best-seller.
In June 2005, Coulter purchased a $1.8 million home on Palm Beach Island in Florida.
Finally, calling into question the motives of those who justifiably criticize Coulter's own self-admitted polemic style merely demeans your own ability to debate.
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