Ann Coulter: 'Will of Allah' pre-empts Iraq invasion

TownHall.com ^ | Thursday, February 6, 2003 | by Ann Coulter

[KS Flyover]

Thanks for the Ann Coulter ping!

[JohnHuang2]

Why, thank you! Very high praise, indeed =^) I think Ann Coulter is in a league of her own, though ;^)

[JohnHuang2]

You two still over here lusting after that purty young thing?

Who me? Oh, hold on a minute, got another Coulter pic to post...;^)

[JohnHuang2]

Welcome -- the pleasure is mine =^)

[doosee]

At least the Times could count on stability and permanence from John Hartpence Kerry. Let me tell you something, John Huang2..........there's nothing admirable nor 'clever' about this statement. It's disgusting. Even if it is directed at a Democrat.

Lighten up out there. For one thing, Kerry is a full of himself snob who hates to go to crappy places like Iowa or S. Carolina when he could be prancing around Beacon Hill in his limo.

[The Raven]

Wow!!!

[Kip Lange]

Yeah, they may be...but *I'm* humming "Mrs. Robinson". *whistle*

[patriciaruth]

I heard her use the phrase, "You're invading my personal space!"

Oh, for goodness sake, I'll bet dollars to donuts Ann said that sarcastically, as wry 'gotcha' humor, meaning to deride the concept and criticize them for hypocrisy at the same time..... especially if she said this after Hillary won the election over the "issue" of Rick Lasio invading her personal space in their debate.

[Kip Lange]

No, no, trust me, I have a good memory for visceral reactions. :-) It was not wry humor at all; she got very uncomfortable at an effusive Carville-like Democrat and spouted that out in anger instead of a reasoned argument. Trust me on this one. As for her "wry 'gotcha' humor"...I agree with Ann, but I really don't find her that terribly funny. The humor is heavy-handed at best. Sorry. That's just me. You can still worship her. ;-) (And I'm so WASPy I'm probably *related*)

[DCPatriot]

Having recently been labeled a "Senior Citizen" myself, (ooh boy..Denny's breakfasts are now cheaper), I must say that I, too, didn't lose a wink when the Challenger went down, nor when the WTC went down. The Columbia breaking up was sad....for about 30 minutes.

I thought it was because I was an insensitive boob too distracted by the need to earn a living and run my business so that a couple of dozen people and their families could eat.

I must confess. The older I get, the more I hate Liberals. And don't even ask me about these anti-war demonstrators here in the United States.

If it were up to me, Iraq would already be glowing in the dark.

[patriciaruth]

You may be right about the incident.

I find her TV appearances and her book, Slander, to be funnier than her usual column. She's funniest when she speaks the truth with outrageous, take no prisioners wit; and I doubt that all of the newspaper outlets for her columns are enamoured with this, her most endearing quality for me.

[Greybird]

She's lovely, but I'm afraid Ann dropped off my idol list when she ran that piece [after Barbara Olson died on Nine Eleven] that ... I'm not even going to talk about ...

I admire your scruples. Yet her punchline from that column shouldn't be forgotten by those worshipers who are touting the savage, abusive Coulter as (may the gods forgive them) the next Mencken:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."

As for the article heading this thread, I haven't read it in full, and I refuse to do so. I retched when I saw enough of the first few paragraphs to recognize the absurd destination of her viewpoint: She sees the news media as orchestrating the shuttle-disaster coverage, in its scope and emotion, to divert supposedly needed attention from the Iraq Crusade.

I am as annoyed by the excess media bathos as anyone who dislikes wallowing in cheap theatrics. Yet what terminal cynics such as Coulter are forgetting is that the chord of emotion that the space program touches is that of RESPECT FOR ACHIEVEMENT. Soldiers perform an essential task, without which we could not live, but they achieve nothing on net beyond the prevention of calamity or tyranny.

Scientists do achieve, even those who don't succeed in their original objectives ... or who die trying. They advance a cultural respect for seeking truth, if nothing else. Those on the shuttle died -- yes, ignoring their tax-funded context for a moment -- for the sake of advancement of knowledge. Just how many times has this happened since Giordano Bruno, Galileo's inspiration, was burned at the stake?

This is what Americans are responding to with, yes, the occurrence of this tragedy. Except for Coulter and her ilk, who don't care about tearing the striving toward values into shreds, if they can become rhetorical meat for her grinder.

[Tamzee]

I'm not forgetting, have no fear LOL It just about spun me right out of my chair when I hear Iraq tell everyone yesterday that they were telling the "truth" and to just ask "Scott Ritter"...

Unbelievable.

Tammy

[DooDahhhh]

The loss of Columbia and 9-11 were 2 very different tragedies. The tragedy of the Columbia was the loss of seven professionals loosing their lives doing their lifelong dream. The loss of 3000 folks at 9-11 was the slaughter of people in the work place by our foriegn enemies!

[Tamzee]

Glad you like it :D

[Kip Lange]

This thread seems to have split in three directions:

1. The media made a big deal out of Columbia "mourning" (and banked on it) and milked it for all its worth. Of course, Ann then came out and milked it a little more...there's a certain element of hyprocrisy inherent in this...anyway, the argument is well-taken; I'm sick of hearing about how we need to be consoled about everything. We don't. I was in 3rd grade when Challenger blew up. You know what I said? "Wow that must have been like a trillion dollars they lost!" (guess I was doomed to be a fiscal conservative for life, eh?) I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even think of the human loss at first. But why should you be impeached for that? Do we need government-mandated sensitivity training programs? Every time something nasty happens we all go and have a big candlelight vigil and we hold hands and we "heal". Bah. Gimme a break. Rather, give me a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a copy of _Man and God at Yale_.

2. The media did this somehow on purpose to distract our attention from Iraq. This, I don't agree with. They're just going for ratings. Period. You could argue that they ended the "weird mail truck guy" standoff coverage to hook you into watching Bush & Blair speak just as easily. This argument, I don't buy. #1, that I buy, and I buy #...

3. Random Coulter worship. She's pretty. Even if I don't normally go after older women. ;-) Has she had any work done?

[Adder]

Hey, now he gets to campaign for the Jewish vote. Lieberman and Kohn/kerry, fightin it out in the matzoh bowl. I am glad Kerry found out his roots. I am not sure what the big deal is, however. Whether he is a liberal Irish Democrat or a liberal Jewish Democrat, the operative phrase is liberal Democrat, imho.

[Kip Lange]

The operative phrase is "Massachussetts". There are nothing BUT liberals here. ;-)

Oh, and I have a personal grudge against Kerry, so I'm biased (Shamie Republican).

[Lee'sGhost]

"perhaps I'm just an insensitive Neanderthal, "

No, you're just a carry over from America's age of rugged individualism and independence, trying to deal with a liberal undercurrent that desperately wants us to become a nation of whiny girlie men.

Thank God for the Internet or else people like you and me would still be wondering if there were any others out there left in the country.

[DCPatriot]

I realize the difference between the two events (Columbia Shuttle/World Trade Center)

But a previous poster pointed out that 4 servicemen died in a crash of a Black-Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan with nary a yawn by the media. They too, died doing their job. (it's a VOLUNTEER military)

The Space Program MUST go on. The "ultimate weapon" in this millenium will be one fired from orbit. I want to give us every advantage so that the insignia on the weapons platform in orbit around the earth will be "USA" instead of a Red Star.

If I have to defend that position, then the world has gone truly "NUTS". Afterall, last I heard, Libya was the head of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations (yuk-yuk)