Posted on 07/05/2003 4:28:35 PM PDT by Pokey78
Ann Coulter is the best of America. Michael Moore is America's garbage. Andrew Sullivan is clueless.
Shorthand insults do not elevate the discussion. I oppose policies, not personalities. Unless one believes that Jimmy Carter should be running things due to his strong personal character, I really think we need to get off the politics of personal destruction, because we are going to get some really lame Carter like people running the world.
How about socialism is wrong. Affirmative action is wrong. Even if I have smoked a joint, cheated, swore or did anything else improper, it does not change the fact that socialism is wrong. If you have lived as pure as the driven snow, but still advocate bad policy, you are still wrong.
That is my point I guess. Coulter goes for the zingers instinctually and it can become a battle of name calling. Those who want no change win in that battle. If people remember first that you called Kennedy an adulterous drunk, and remember no more, you have lost. If they know first that Kennedy is screwing up our educational system and trying to fiddle with health care, you win in the long run.
You can count on it their scared to death of her she pulls no punches and takes no prisoners .
Sounds a whole lot like my wife!
Where is the hyperbole here?!?!?
But Fat Ted is also a homicidal coward. He is a good swimmer, though.
Well, he did.
That was the best one I could find on her site.
I know other guys like Coulter but she needs to eat. She needs to eat a lot!
Excuse me, but that should read: Kennedy is a bloated, murderous, adulterous, socialist, brain-dead drunk.
Coulters modus operandi is rhetorical extremity. She was fired from the conservative National Review magazine when, in the wake of 9/11, she urged the invasion of all Muslim nations and the forcible conversion of their citizens to Christianity...I though Ann defended this position rather nicely in her interview with Katie Couric last year:
COURIC: You were also fired, I guess, because you wrote in the National Review that we should--when it came to fighting terrorism, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Do you still believe that that's the best way to combat terrorism worldwide?Ms. COULTER: Well, that's a somewhat dishonest quote. I was referring to the people in the previous sentence of that column, cheering and dancing in the streets right now. And, in fact, this--the way that was so widely misquoted is an example of what I describe in my book, which is the constant mischaracterization, switching a small word, taking out the word, apparent. It makes a big difference and these subtle differences that are then glossed over as if there's absolutely no difference, to try to portray conservatives as crazy people, as--as Nazis, slave owners...
COURIC: Well...
Ms. COULTER: ...sexist, homophobic. How about dealing with our ideas? I mean, I've written two books now, I've written hundreds of columns, I've been on TV hundreds of times. The idea that someone can go out and find one quote that will suddenly, you know, portray me, 'Just dismiss her ideas. Read no more. Read no further. This person is crazy!' This is precisely what liberals do all the time.
COURIC: But obviously--but obviously, the National Review had a problem with these articles and some of the pieces you did because you were fired from that job. Can you elaborate or at least tell us what you exactly meant?
Ms. COULTER: Well, that--that also isn't quite true. I mean, I write a syndicated column. I write for Human Events. That's the newspaper that hires me. People buy a syndicated column, they drop the column. But a lot of people don't like me for a lot of different reasons, including...
COURIC: Well, why don't you explain what you meant then.
Ms. COULTER: ...that they're my competitors.
COURIC: What do you think is the best way to--to battle terrorism?
Ms. COULTER: Well, point one--point one and point two, by the end of the week, had become official government policy. As for converting them to Christianity, I--I think it might be a good idea to get them on some sort of hobby other than slaughtering infidels., perhaps that's the Peace Corps, perhaps it's working for Planned Parenthood, but I've never seen the transforming effect of anything like Christianity...
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