Ann Coulter.

by Blueblades 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  Blueblades

  What are your thoughts about her? There has been some controversy about her lately. Anyone read her book The Godless?

  Blueblades
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  purplesofa

  she is a freaking nut and she needs a new dress........she is rude too. gonna find the video where she got the pie thrown at her!!!!

  Al Pieda" Targets Ann Coulter

  Conservative author survives creamy stage-left attack

  http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1022042coulter1.html her and star jones...............ugggggggggggggggggg
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  dvw

  i will probably read it. dont know much about her except she has to be the white man's equivilant to louie farakan or al sharpton.
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  purplesofa

  awwwwwwwww

  poor thing............here comes the pie

  can you tell i dont like her?

  http://www.alpieda.org/pics.html
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  jeanniebeanz

  Soooo... why are you so mad at Ann?
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  DanTheMan

  She's hilarious in a Joseph Goebbels sort of way consummately, frighteningly mean-spirited
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  apfergus

  She gave a talk at my university last year. I couldn't go, but from what I understand she was very rude and actually walked away before the end of the scheduled Q&A period so she didn't get paid the full amount she was supposed to because of breach of contract.
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  gwyneth

  Isn't she like the Republican version of Al Franken? My BF LOVES her and has her book. I haven't read it, so I don't have an opinion.
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  SirNose586

  Oh, I got words for Mann Coulter. But because they'd break TOS rules 1-3, I'll keep it to myself...

  I will say this though, she's an embarrassment to the conservative movement. I feel bad more for them than anything. She's beyond nutjobs like Rush and Hannity, because even they know better than to make fun of certain people, like the 9-11 widows.

  Isn't she like the Republican version of Al Franken? My BF LOVES her and has her book. I haven't read it, so I don't have an opinion.

  Republican version of Al Franken? Hah! Franken is articulate and educated. You can disagree with Franken all you want, but Mann Coulter looks like a coked-out tranny. And she's certifiably insane.
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  purplesofa

  No Ipod Needed! Listen on your computer.

  

  ANN COULTER NEW: AUDIO COMMENTARY ON 9/11 WIDOWS CONTROVERSY WITH SEVERAL COULTER CLIPS Ann Coulter: Vicious & Ignorant Ann Coulter: Her ExcuseAnn Coulter: Her ColumnAnn Coulter: Her Excuse DebunkedAnn Coulter: Her IgnoranceAnn Coulter 's controversial statement in her column that "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" is not the least of Coulter's sins. Ann Coulter : Her Excuse Coulter claims that she wasn't speaking of all Muslims: Coulter says her line about "convert them to Christianity" has been misconstrued and was aimed at those celebrating the attacks. "I wasn't talking about Muslims generally," she says. "I was talking about the crazed homicidal maniacs dancing in the streets." [The Washington Post, October 2, 2001] Ann Coulter : Her Column Let's look at the full context in which Coulter made her infamous declaration: Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. [Town Hall, September 14, 2001] A fair reading could be that Ann Coulter wasn't explicitly referring to all Muslims, but that the "they" referred back to those in the streets of Arab nations who were celebrating the World Trade Center attacks. Coulter's statement as thus interpreted is, of course, still outrageous. Ann Coulter : Her Excuse Debunked While Coulter can maybe get away with parsing her own text here, I wonder if any commentators on this brouhaha have taken what Coulter said in her column together with what she said on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect September 25: Ann Coulter : What's different about Germany than here, but I think is more similar to Japan and ought to be the model, is that Germany at least had a wealth of civilization prior to the Third Reich and it had a respect for human life, something that was not as noticeable in Japan. And one of the things General MacArthur did, he considered converting the emperor to Christianity. Decided not to because he thought there would be a fight between Catholics and Presbyterians. But General MacArthur called in thousands of Christian missionaries. He distributed thousands of Bibles. It wasn't as much of a success story as the Christian missionaries were in Korea after the Korean War, but you know how it was a success story? They have unprecedented religious freedom there, something that is absent in every Muslim country. In fact -- [Transcript of Politically Incorrect, September 25, 2001, emphasis added] This shows Coulter would like to apply her conversion concept to entire countries, such as she believes was done in Japan. Ann Coulter : Her Ignorance Moreover, Coulter, as the following dialogue, in relevant portions, makes clear, continues to put her foot in her mouth, with respect to her claims -- begun above -- that Arab countries have never had any "civilization," nor a history of tolerance for other religions: ("Jerry" is producer/journalist Jerry Nachman, and "Eric" is Eric Braeden, star of "The Young and the Restless."): Eric : We have to allow the tolerant part of Islam to flourish. In other words, establish Democratic institutions and then -- Ann Coulter: What tolerant part of Islam? Eric: Islam has an enormous history. Ann Coulter: Where is that in evidence in the Middle East right now? Eric: Do you know anything about the history of the Middle East? Bill: Islam was the most flourishing civilization in the middle ages. When Western Europeans were shivering and cowering and cast behind -- Ann Coulter: Fine, they invented the flying buttress, but they don't have a history of tolerance. That's the point -- Eric: She's absolutely wrong. Excuse me. You are wrong.Ann Coulter: Well, then, name -- Eric: Historically, you are wrong. In all the Muslim countries, they allow Judaism to flourish and Christianity to flourish. Ann Coulter: That's not true. Eric: That is absolutely true. Bill: Before -- Eric: In these kinds of countries right now, they don't. But in most Muslim countries in the past, they have allowed religious freedom. Jerry: The Taliban is an exception, correct? Eric: That's the problem. Jerry: Ask any Jew who used to live in Iraq or Syria or Egypt until 20 or 30 years ago. Ann Coulter's ignorance of history is amazing -- ignorance of the flourishing, advanced Arab civilization in the past, and of the religious tolerance toward Christianity and Judaism which was its hallmark. Ann Coulter: not only vicious, but ignorant. [I won't even address here Coulter's bloodthirsty analogizing to Germany in World War II in order to support her contention that we should carpet-bomb Afghanistan and not be concerned with civilian casualties. On the inappropriateness of Coulter's analogy, see Ann Coulter's Bombing Germany Analogy Not Applicable to Afghanistan .] More on the War on Terrorism UPDATE: In her book Slander -- indeed in most of what she writes and says -- Ann Coulter takes what sounds like the ill-tempered blustering of a barroom drunk and offers it as serious political commentary. But she's no barroom drunk. At least the barroom drunk would be embarrassed the next day and apologize for such remarks. ***Click HERE to read her latest verbal diarrhea, and how to SHUT HER UP!*** Chris Matthews slices-and-dices her!