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Ann Coulter: Please Shut Up
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Coremodels
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20thousandinmypocket
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i am not sure i tend to think she is right on the money with this. she also called clinton a fag which was a great move, as the feminists think oversexed males are really faggots, so she was able to slam the feminist thoughts at the same time as calling bill a fag. pretty good move, and while i am not sure about edwards, gore is most definitely homo.
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Brewmaster
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20thousandinmypocket wrote i am not sure i tend to think she is right on the money with this. she also called clinton a fag which was a great move, as the feminists think oversexed males are really faggots, so she was able to slam the feminist thoughts at the same time as calling bill a fag. pretty good move, and while i am not sure about edwards, gore is most definitely homo.
I don't really understand your sense of humor, so next time please use smileys ( :wink: ) to tell the rest of us when your being sarcastic. If you don't, your opinion will be read literally as being ignorant and assinine.
The repubs better hurry up and denounce her remarks. They're alienating too many voters lately. I don't think you can win an election solely on Nascar and Evangelical votes.
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20thousandinmypocket
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reps, dont have to do anything. dems are running obama and hillary, rudy will wipe the floor with both of them without breaking a sweat. my last post was not sarcastic it was the truth, anyone that has half a brain can tell that her calling them faggots was a shot at the feminists.
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Columbusite
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See, this is why politics isn't a good subject to bring up sometimes. It might change your opinion of someone for the worse.
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BG wrote At least she didn't promote/wish the death of Edwards like Bill Maher did with VP Cheney
LOL...hey man, if you're looking for someone to support Maher from the left, you'll have to look well past me. I think Maher says 90% of what comes out of his mouth for the exact same reason as Coulter...to be talked about and be outrageous (just on other sides of the issue).
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20thousandinmypocket
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OMG its simple how it was a great move but you kids just dont have the brain power to see it. I will break it down step by step for you.
1. Coulter is known for being brash and saying anything.
2. Her saying someone is a faggot would not be out of the realm of possibilities.
3. Buy calling clinton a faggot she not only takes a swipe at clinton (just by calling him the word) she takes a swipe at the feminists who support clinton (because they say oversexed cheating men are usually homos, so calling clinton a faggot also is a swipe at feminists).
4. her name is in the minds of people everywhere
5. a lightbulb clicks on in maybe 5% of the people who heard this and they think "hmmmmmm maybe she is right"
if you cant get it through your skull that this was really a shot at feminists, i dunno what to tell you.
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myliftkk
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20thousandinmypocket wrote 1. Coulter is known for being brash and saying anything.
That's funny you say that, since she's amazingly managed to avoid calling Obama a word near and dear to her heart. But, I think that's more because she's afraid Suge will bust a cap in her when she does. :shock: But, then again, she might get her own VH1 special :wink:
20thousandinmypocket wrote 2. Her saying someone is a faggot would not be out of the realm of possibilities.
As long as she can still string words together in sentences (no mean feat), the possibilities are endless...
20thousandinmypocket wrote 3. Buy calling clinton a faggot she not only takes a swipe at clinton (just by calling him the word) she takes a swipe at the feminists who support clinton (because they say oversexed cheating men are usually homos, so calling clinton a faggot also is a swipe at feminists).
Coulter capable of two-part insults? More likely I'll see Hawking dunk a basketball in my lifetime...
20thousandinmypocket wrote 4. her name is in the minds of people everywhere
I usually cache information about her in the same mental dustbin where I keep facts on Goebbels... (I try to auto-archive that one regularly), but I guess that means she's with me nonetheless. :roll:
20thousandinmypocket wrote 5. a lightbulb clicks on in maybe 5% of the people who heard this and they think "hmmmmmm maybe she is right"
Dim sum dim bulbs :lol:
Strangely enough I feel kinda hungry :)
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Brewmaster
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20thousandinmypocket wrote 5. a lightbulb clicks on in maybe 5% of the people who heard this and they think "hmmmmmm maybe she is right"
...and then 20% of the people brush it off as ignorance while the other 75% of the people are fuming mad and get pissed off at republicans in general (they did cheer as she said it at a huge repub fundraiser). Last time I checked, 75% was enough to win a popular election...by a landslide.
I'm not saying that she just lost an election that is almost two years away, but she didn't do her party any favors. To steal a term from republican leaders, she just emboldened the enemy. Like you said, only 5% of the people "understand" the twisted logic you think she used in the statement...and those people are already going around beating up gay people and calling them sinners. The worst harm she did was remove any hope of swing voters like myself to vote for any republican candidate but Guiliani. The ideological republican mentality is too prominant in the other candidates. That statement is proof as far as I'm concerned.
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Brewmaster
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BG wrote At least she didn't promote/wish the death of Edwards like Bill Maher did with VP Cheney
I haven't seen Bill Maher get invited to speak at any huge Democratic Conventions either. One key point here is that the Republican leadership thought so highly of Coulter's opinions, they invited her to speak at a big to-do. By doing that, they are essentially endorsing her opinions as the platform of thier party.
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myliftkk
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Brewmaster wrote
BG wrote At least she didn't promote/wish the death of Edwards like Bill Maher did with VP Cheney
I haven't seen Bill Maher get invited to speak at any huge Democratic Conventions either. One key point here is that the Republican leadership thought so highly of Coulter's opinions, they invited her to speak at a big to-do. By doing that, they are essentially endorsing her opinions as the platform of thier party.
Maher is a satirist :D , Coulter is a sycophant :roll: ... it's an important distinction.
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BG
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Brewmaster,
CPAC is not an official Republican event. It is a conference held by a few conservative groups. Repubs happen to speak there, but in no way is it an officially sanctioned Republican conference.
Please get your facts straight.
And NO that was not a minor point that I clarified above, just in case.
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BG
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Brewmaster,
How do you know 75% are pissed about Coulter's remarks? I bet you 75% of people either don't know/don't give a crap. It's pretty much fodder for cable news and hardcore politicos.
I think all of this shows that the Left is amazingly super-sensitive to wisecracks. Maybe she was on to something.
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twistofreality
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As much as I abhor what she stands for (and I mean that in the sense of the deep schism between political parties in the United States right now), and as much as I don't agree with the bigotry her views toward homosexuals reveal, her comment was sort of clever, wasn't it? I mean, had a comedienne said something similar as a part of a comic routine, I think fewer people would be up in arms. It was definitely shocking, but so are a lot of comedic routines these days.
Implying that what she said was inappropriate implies that she's someone important with important things to say, someone with some kind of political significance and responsibility. She's shown time and again that none of those implications are reality, so I think that all of this hoopla and frenzy does little more than empower her.
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Brewmaster
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BG wrote I think all of this shows that the Left is amazingly super-sensitive to wisecracks. Maybe she was on to something.
First, I'm not "the Left". Second, to use a word like f@#$%t earns you a close second to someone who uses the "n" word on my asshole-o-meter. That shows how out of touch "the Right" is.
BG wrote CPAC is not an official Republican event. It is a conference held by a few conservative groups. Repubs happen to speak there, but in no way is it an officially sanctioned Republican conference.
Please get your facts straight.
And NO that was not a minor point that I clarified above, just in case.
I take any event that's called itself a "conservative conference" that allows Vice President Cheney, Tony Snow, UN Ambassador John Bolton, a host of Senators, and Presidential Candidates to give speeches as representative of the overall view of a political party...for better or worse. Whatever you want to call it, it has some serious political firepower and to throw a lunatic like Coulter in there just makes her another legitimate republican voice.
When I was "trying to get my facts straight", I stumbled across this response to Coulter's ignorance from the CPA Conference.
RESPONSE TO COULTER COMMENTS
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The American Conservative Union and the Conservative Political Action Conference today issued the following statement:
The just completed 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference on March 1 – 3, 2007, was the largest in the 34 year history of the event, featuring 33 panels on a variety of public policy issues, 24 stand alone speakers including public officials, writers, student activists, media personalities and comedians.
ACU, the event’s primary sponsor and CPAC strive to provide a platform and forum for a variety of differing views and personalities. ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse every speaker or their comments at the conference. As such, ACU and CPAC leave it to our audience to determine whether comments are appropriate or not.
“ Ann Coulter is known for comments that can be both provocative and outrageous. That was certainly the case in her 2007 CPAC appearance and previous ones as well. But as a point of clarification, let me make it clear that ACU and CPAC do not condone or endorse the use of hate speech,†said David A. Keene, ACU Chairman.
So to sum it up...they don't condone or endorse her...but they don't disagree with her, or condemn her "hate speech" either. There's a distinction there.
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BG
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So what if they don't futher comment on her remarks. They say they don't condone. Move on.
One thing I am starting to notice is that the PC walls are starting to crack a little. I think everyone should be able to exercise freedom of speech (in a legal context) to their hearts content, including taking jabs and insults. That also means not having to apologize to every special interest group who get their feelings hurt.
BTW, if this was "hate speech", you would have to jail millions of people, especially pro athelets and stand-up comedians.
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