I HATE ANN COULTER!!!!

Yeah, I think that the world ceasing to pay any attention to her is about the worst thing that could happen to Ann Coulter. Her eyes tell me that death would be nothing but a sweet release.

your favorite pastime

lol

http://www.chacha.com/question/does-ann-coulter-have-cancer

Yeah, I think that the world ceasing to pay any attention to her is about the worst thing that could happen to Ann Coulter. Her eyes tell me that death would be nothing but a sweet release.

― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, that's true. it's always regrettable (albeit understandable) when folks post her latest outrage to this or that website--there's really no reason to give her any attention, she feeds on it.

she is a despicable human and i really wish her the worst.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:33 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

your favorite pastime

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

concern trolls are concerned.

MEGALOLZ

http://gawker.com/here-is-a-collection-of-twitter-trolls-teaching-photosh-1575074274

What?! I thought she was dead.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/25/coulter-growing-interest-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/

lmao

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade — or about the length of the average soccer game — so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

• Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls — all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

• Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

• No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties — and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

• The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game — and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

• You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

• I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

• It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

• Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

• Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear — again about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist. Contact her through her website at www.anncoulter.com.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

This is officially the point at which she crosses over into grotesque self-parody.

How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

Simple, just imagine 10 penises laid end-to-end

simpler still, just picture 95.28 men's thumbs

this is hard to believe

This is officially the point at which she crosses over into grotesque self-parody.

Isn't that what she's always been? Obnoxious attempts at trolling and unfunny comedy.

That would be cool if we called inches "thumbs".

I was at a used book store the other day and they had a bunch of books by personalities like AC. All the titles were basically unfunny parodies of liberal catch-phrases, which seems to sum up their entire approach.

I love how she's outright said BECAUSE FOREIGNERS. She gives zero fucks.

Also, wat: "I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is."

DOes she live on planet no-media?

The only parts of that article that really annoyed me were where she displayed complete ignorance of the sports she was talking about (not only soccer, but the real amurcan sports she claims to love). Everything else was just pro forma coulter.

i love the completely random segue from ranting about soccer to ranting about the metric system

Vincent Vega: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?"
Ann Coulter: "No, but if it has anything to do with the metric system, go fuck yourself."

But metric system is bad bcs furriners, dousee.

http://i.imgur.com/bpNxl5C.jpg

Chinese-style brainwashing notwithstanding, soccerball measures things in yards exclusively

This thing about you aren't American if your great-grandparents sounds supremely batshit, is there any way to get numbers on that? Like it seems like it would actually be pretty rare to find someone whose family is 100% American tracing back 100+ years. I'm trying to find some data on this but not sure how to search...

I don't know how old YOUR great-grandparents were, but I had great-grandparents alive in the 1980s.

not sure it's an assertion that warrants that much statistical scrutiny

FWIW I think the average black family has been in America for longer than the average white family

Coulter to her Syndicate: "I told you I could get a bunch of people to read a stupid article if I just recycled a bunch of 'lol, soccer' jokes. They'll click on anything. The dumber it sounds, the more they want to read it, so they can share their opinions about how dumb it is. Fucking magic. Pay me."

Hope he doesn't mind, but this was my friend's response:

"Hey you reactionary ghoul- my great grandfather was born in the US and was a pillar of his community and a member of the KKK, and I'm watching all I can of the World Cup. But I suspect that what I like about that fact is exactly what you hate about it. God forbid Americans would participate in a shared global experience that they don't dominate, control, subvert or police with arms. And, of course, immigrants have had no impact on American culture, where our food, sports, music and art all sprang forth from the soil."

But I suspect that what I like about that fact is exactly what you hate about it.

was gonna say, p sure all her observations that are actually about the sport itself were creaky canards 20 years ago and I daresay were around when MLS blew up in the 70s

Excuse me, but I think that was the NASL.

A country in which football/soccer isn't by far the biggest sport seems like such a bizarre parallel universe to me.

Coulter isn't even a grade A troll -- that was some hack shit. It's amazing she's as famous as she is.

parallel universe

Would make an interesting thread of its own, providing ilx knew enough about such countries to identify and compare them. e.g. Isn't cricket bigger than football in India? Isn't hockey the biggest sport in Canada?

she's useless and i'm pretty confident she will end up sad destitute and alone so i'm going to go out and have fun today

Hockey is the biggest anything in Canada.

Man I'm late on the party to this but I wonder what she'd say if she knew about the German-Americans, Colombian-Americans, Icelandic-Americans, and Mexican-Americans on our World Cup team, let alone our madman new ager German coach.

also aerosmith is as OTM as love in an elevator means going down

@DennisThePerrin
The only people keeping Ann Coulter relevant are American liberals. She's writing for YOU, kids, and you seem to love it.

No argument there.

She bombed hard on the Rob Lowe roast. I almost felt bad for her (but not really).

“The unacceptable threats of violence that have led to the ‘hecklers’ veto’ of Ann Coulter’s speech at Berkeley are inconsistent with free speech principles that protect us all from government overreach. Hateful speech has consequences, particularly for people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and others who have been historically marginalized. But if the government gets to decide which speech counts as hate speech, the powers that be may later feel free to censor any speech they don’t like.

“For the future of our democracy, we must protect bigoted speech from government censorship. On college campuses, that means that the best way to combat hateful speech is through counter-speech, vigorous and creative protest, and debate, not threats of violence or censorship.”

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-ann-coulter-speech

I have a feeling she--just like Milo before her--had no intention of actually speaking at Berkeley. Book the gig...agitators gonna agitate...cancel the date and Oh Hai! loads of free publicity giving me the illusion of a upper hand.

^^
Most likely scenario. Still, I have to wonder why Berkley is even booking her (or Milo) in the first place?

Is it UC-Berkeley booking her or is it some shitstirring student group booking her?

http://www.snopes.com/2017/04/21/berkeley-coulter-speech-lawsuit/

apparently they offered a venue that could accommodate better security, but she turned it down because

UC Berkeley had imposed “new, more burdensome conditions” on her constitutional rights.

Is it UC-Berkeley booking her or is it some shitstirring student group booking her?

it's the latter

ie this guy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/27/i-invited-ann-coulter-to-speak-at-uc-berkeley-heres-why/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9bf8c1d1bb45

who just seems more naive than shit-stirring but the results are the same

we need to alleviate polarization by inviting dumb, incendiary, polarizing idiots to speak