I HATE ANN COULTER!!!!

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I'm still trying to figure out what her point is in all of this. Calling liberals "Godless" .. ok fine, so what? Post it on ILX, but what's the point of publishing a book about it?

DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

"You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard," she said in The Washington Post on October 16, 1998.

Apparently "freaked-out gonzo-insane blowhard" is preferable to "just a blowhard"?

Dan (Don't Go For Second-Best, Baby) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The witch is on Newsnight. unfortunately she is doing rather well versus paxman. The hatchet job he did in his intro is not helping.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Video will appear here shortly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5099674.stm

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, she pretty much zinged Paxman there, despite being fundamentally incoherent and headbuttable as usual.

Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The 'do you believe all of this insanity that you spout line?' was not 100% successful.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I know what Paxman means, though -- she's obviously smart, so the temptation is to think, how can she possible believe what she's saying? (I have the same problem with Mark Steyn.)

Really though, it's the fact that she's smart AND she believes what she's saying that makes her so scary.

Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still trying to figure out what her point is in all of this. Calling liberals "Godless" .. ok fine, so what? Post it on ILX, but what's the point of publishing a book about it?

it's because the left-leaning half of the christian spectrum has started gaining more and more traction... jim wallis et al... so naturally, somebody's gotta basically make the case very loudly that if you're christian, you better not be voting democrat. (or anything but what you're told to.)

m.

msp (mspa), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Paxman treated her as a side-show attraction, trying to deny her credibility. But just being on the programme gives her some credibility, so failing to pin her down meaningfully on anything was a bit silly.

beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link

beanz otm. i was trying to figure out how to say that and you said it just fine. what was the point of having her on? did he think he was going to walk all over her? frightful woman.

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link

what an annoying voice

RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

She's on the shit list too, eh, fancy nibblers and dribblers? She's far less boring than the lot of you, and far more articulate, at the very least.

ed slanders (edslanders), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Why don't you go hang out on her board, then?

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

ed slanders, let me just open this door here, walk into the elevator lobby, summon the elevator, ride it to the mezzanine, walk out to the street and requisition a scooter, drive it to your place of work, pop my head in, and call you boring.

Later, over a beer, we will discuss how it is you drummed up the temerity to call the woman who wrotethis:

I dedicate this column to John Murtha, the reason soldiers invented fragging.

In response to the arguments of my opponents, I say: Waaaaaaaaaah! Boo hoo hoo!

articulate.

Of course, I am being foolish, because you are a troll and I am talking to myself. Good job, Jeff.

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Cover of National Enquirer this week (bottom):
"America Hates This Woman—
Why She Must Leave Our Country"
Came home and found this: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/gossip/64367

Smiley (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

From the June 8 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:

DOBBS: I had people saying I should just absolutely eviscerate you here tonight and just destroy you, which really isn't my job.

COULTER: No, I think you are eviscerating, and you're doing a very good job of it.

DOBBS: Thank you very much. But, you know, the idea that the media has this reaction to you, I find fascinating because you are basically the -- forgive me -- but the opposite of Michael Moore.

COULTER: I reject that.

DOBBS: I know you do. I know you do. But I'm giving you one man's perception and possibility.

COULTER: I think I am the right-wing Mencken, the right-wing Mark Twain. I am not the right-wing Michael Moore.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

my first reaction besides OMG ANN COULTER THINKS SHE IS THE NEXT MARK TWAIN KILL ME NOW is uhhhh does she even know anything about mencken? he hated liberals too! i guess in coulterland "famous journalist" = "commie" no questions asked.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link

shit, i first thought that read "the right-wing Moff Tarkin"

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

my friend says that she is a regular at dc gay bars and gives gay guys coke so they'll be her friend, and also tries to suck them off. i don't know if i believe it, but i really really want to

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Ann Coulter is especially similar to Michael Moore in how detractors aren't ashamed to use shameless ad hominem on them...Say what you want about either of them, I still don't think there is anything especially sophisticated about calling Michael Moore fat or Ann Coulter a bitch/cunt...It is usually taken for granted that the other person is evil incarnate so resorting to calling one overweight or calling the other a slang word for vagina is all you need to do if you want to get a point across.

Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 26 June 2006 04:56 (eighteen years ago) link

here comes the libel suit

lf (lfam), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Visions of Ann, suitable for framing

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's a matching challange.

Author:

1. Ann Coulter
2. H. L. Mencken
3. Mark Twain

Quotation:

A. "The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."

B. "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."

C. "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

why is she being given the oxygen of publicity in britain? idiot newsnight.

Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

1. C
2. A
3. B

????????

you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure Mencken made the campaign remark since he covered most of them.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh right, DUUUUH.

you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Menken is responsible for the campaign quote. Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, you should know that this is what you look like in my mind's eye:

http://www.hblaw.org/images/peanut.gif

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Ann pwned Darwin, sez RenewAmerica guy

http://www.renewamerica.us/images/columnists/vernon.jpg

To sum it up: Godless cites facts that schoolchildren should be taught. Among them:

1. The entire fossil record shows a very non-Darwinian progression, noticeably lacking the vast number of transitional species we ought to see.

2. The truth about Haeckel's embryos is that they were a fraud perpetrated by a German eugenicist.

3. One by one, so-called "proof" of evolution has melted under honest scrutiny.

There is much more, of course. We've just skimmed it. Ann Coulter has done the research. Her book is a page-turner, not just for her one-line zingers, but for its depth.

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

also, be sure to read for where the guy delightfully mixes Margaret Sanger, Hitler, black folks gettin' abortions, the ACLU as being behind the Scopes Monkey Trial, etc

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

One of her one-line zingers...

"From Marx to Hitler, the men responsible for the greatest mass murders of the twentieth century were avid Darwinists."

And drank milk presumably.

Why oh why oh why do i look at those links...

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i like how marx is responsible for a lot of murders!

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

He was a fiend with his pen in the British Library Reading room, you can still see the bloodstains.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"From Marx to Hitler, the men responsible for the greatest mass murders of the twentieth century wore black shoes."

DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

There has to be a latin name for this. I seem to remember reading it in WIZARD MAGAZINE.

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to see Coulter write about the Malthusians, too. It was really a comb of Darwin and Malthus that inspired the eugenicists (among whom Virginia can claim its own Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette, who famously said that Germany was "beating us at our own game" in the 1930s, and who was cited at the Nuremburg trials as evidence that the Allies were holding the Nazis to a double standard). A poem from Dr. DeJarnette, "Mendel's Law":

Oh, why are you men so foolish — you breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?

Blaming Darwinism for Hitler, though, is a little like blaming E=MC2 for Hiroshima.

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah, and i found that link from a P.Z. Myers bit, where he actually talks about Ernst Haeckel's work

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(btw yes, the state of Virginia force-sterilized thousands of people even up until the 1970s and has never apologized or offered any restitution)

xpost

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't the logical fallacy at work here the fallacy of the undistributed middle? real simple sleight-of-hand?

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002800574

UPDATE: Coulter's Syndicate Requests Report From Plagiarism Prober -- As She Hits Back at 'NY Post'

By Dave Astor

Published: July 05, 2006 5:15 PM ET

NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate has requested a copy of a report about Ann Coulter's alleged plagiarism, according to a post on the TPMmuckraker.com blog. Meanwhile, in her latest column, Coulter has hit back at the newspaper that aired the latest plagiarism charges -- but did not refute them.

The report was conducted by John Barrie, creator of the iThenticate plagiarism-probing system. A New York Post story this Sunday said Barrie found several examples of alleged plagiarism in Coulter's new "Godless" book as well as in her Universal column.

Universal Director of Communications Kathie Kerr, when contacted by E&P, said she called Barrie on Wednesday morning and left him a message asking him for a copy of his report. "Once we see a copy of the report, we'll be happy to comment on the findings," she added. "We take allegations of plagiarism very seriously." E&P has also left a message for Barrie, who appeared on MSNBC late Wesnesday.

There he explained that the Post had asked his company to put Coulter's book and the past 12 months of columns through his program. But his staffers stopped before completing the task--"we gave up after awhile, we'd seen enough," he explained. The many examples added up to "advanced plagiarism," he said, the kind of stuff that would "flunk any English student."

The alleged plagiarism is the latest development in a tempestuous 2006 for Coulter. Universal distributes Coulter's column to more than 100 newspapers.

Today, the latest installment of Coulter's column takes aim at the New York Post, although her July 5 piece doesn't mention the Post's July 2 plagiarism story.

Coulter wrote: "Once considered a legitimate daily, the Post has been reduced to tabloid status best known for Page Six's breathless accounts of Paris Hilton's latest ruttings, and headlines like 'Vampire Teen -- H.S. Girl Is Out for Blood.' How crappy a newspaper is the Post? Let me put it this way: It's New York's second-crappiest paper."

Of course, the Post could hardly be "reduced to tabloid status" since it is, in fact, a tabloid.

She added: "Maybe the Post's constant harassment of me is an attempt to shake me down for protection money like they did with billionaire businessman Ron Burkle. I have sold a LOT of books -- more books, come to think of it, than any writers at the New York Post."


Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, why are you men so foolish — you breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?

There's nothing anti-Darwinian about the stupid and weak breeding. Survival is survival, and any dreams of "perfecting" or "improving" the human race certainly aren't based on any credible evolutionary theory.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, some folks have been digging around in the "ann = plagarist" area for a while now...

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, with updates here and here

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

'Oh, why are you men so foolish — you breeders who breed our men
Let the fools, the weaklings and crazy
Keep breeding and breeding again?'

Mr and Mrs Coulter for a start - who let them breed?

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurting - that's why Malthus, with his overpopulation hysteria and paranoia of some rising tide of unfeedable lower classes addicted to sex, was the other important component for eugenicists (and Mendel, obv, for the science of breeding - you CAN improve/change species over hundreds of years with selective breeding; this is why corn is tasty today)

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Death Warmed Over said, "I'm Ann Coulter
Of wingnut horror I am the auteur
With my leathery thighs
and my books full of lies
I'm a plagerist and raconteur."

Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice green highlights, Anne!

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Eh, ignore her. Anyone remember Morton Downey Jr?

pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link


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