I HATE ANN COULTER!!!!

Texted from a friend at her bookstore job: "Ann Coulter is here. Eek."

It's not even like a restaurant job, where you could at least spit in her food.

As it turns out, though! My friend later commented with this:

"...she was very polite and gracious. i guess she saves all the garbage for F(au)x News. when she's amongst the people she's sweet as punch and pie. probably a good strategy."

I think the Boondocks episode featuring Coulter pretty much sums it up.

http://www.eurweb.com/?p=8192

this is like the most fascinating BFF pairing ever

Wow

Dyn-O-Mite!

That IS fascinating. What a couple. Suddenly she doesn't seem so bad. Like, if Jimmie digs her then maybe her whole public persona really is just an act (I'm convinced Glenn Beck's an actor but I've never been sure about Coulter). Countdown to the self-righteous "pallin' around with terrorists" Daily Kos post dredging up his Black Panther connections?

????!!!!

On second thoughts, this actually does not make her look better, but it sure makes him look bad.

I went to see her speak at my school a couple weeks ago, thinking it'd be at least stimulating in some way. I just got a headache and really depressed and bored. But she mentioned by aunt's name toward the end of her speech! Glad I stayed for that weird moment

dogg u gotta tell that bitch to keep your fam's name out her gotdamn mouth

There was a totally manufactured outrage here in Canada recently with her pretending to be censored but thankfully it didn't really blow up beyond the Canadian press. Maybe her appeal on on the wane.

bitch i thought i told you don't you ever in your life come out your mouth with some shit about my fam coulter i will fuck you up and sell your hair to an uptown beauty parlour

yeah, the proctor of Ottawa U sent her a letter saying you better watch what you say in Canada bc we will sic the Tribunal on you and make you apologize. Played right into the hands of those "free speech" yahoos who brought her up as a drone to draw controversy

Were you at the U of Calgary event?

he's got a conservative blog on his website - JJ's Views - so really not too surprising after all

London. The crowd was about 50-50. It sucked.

Hah. I'd totally go and see her just in case there was any shit-disturbing worth experiencing. But yeah, I'm not surprised it was a dud.

It was pathetic. She'd been brought up by this right-wing group whose purpose is to agitate against the "hate speech" laws in the legislation that governs human rights, and she was supposed to talk about that, I guess? I'm interested in the human rights machinery in Canada so I thought it might be good for a larf to hear her go off all indignant about something she would have just learned enough about to fake indignation. But no, she just gave her speech about US politics she must give everywhere she goes! Totally boring and pointless, and she tried to rile the audience up about stuff that's been accepted and uncontentious in Canada for ages--even the rednecks didn't rise to the bait. "I say God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve! Over my dead body will I see a gay marriage in my hometown! Who's with me?" *crickets*

the way the U of O guy handled things could not have been any more ham-fisted. it's like he didn't really know who/what she is or something.

big time lols from that article:

Walker lavished his repeated praise with a straight face and appeared to be serious

xpost. It's so typical when US folks can't change their act one iota for a foreign audience. You see that with comedians a lot. eg. Lewis Black, who actually apologised at the start of his show here in Vancouver that he was only gonna talk about America. As for Ann, I don't think she really understand that the trolling standards are totally different up here. Like, a lot of people have legitimate concerns about the Human Rights situation here in Canada, but there's not a lot of outrage about gay marriage any more.

But see, if she gave any indication that she realizes outrage over moral topics is a RELATIVE THING among different groups of people, it might look like a lessening of her fervor for those things being MORALLY AND UNCOMPROMISINGLY WRONG. She can't afford to be seen to be letting any of her pet issues off the hook.

I didn't get the impression she meant, believed, or even understood a word she said. The nadir, as always with these right-wing pundits, was the section of her talk, after 20 minutes of the unfunniest fucking jokes you have ever heard in your life, about how liberals have no sense of humour. Because we don't find it funny anymore to hear someone's pithy observations regarding gay guys' facility in throwing a baseball.

I would have liked (guiltily) to hear someone laying into the Tribunal;s policy and the free speech discrimination provisions. My reservations about its effectiveness and worth are one of like five political subjects I'm sympathetic to "conservative" viewpoints about

I mean I don't expect her to get someone to put together a whole hour of material that's relevant to an audience she's going to be speaking in front of three times (two, it turned out), but at least give us SOMETHING. Oh! I shouted out a good heckle, though: she was talking about Obama's executive leadership experience, after having spent some time talking about Jesus, and she said "There were 12 apostles-- even Jesus had more leadership experience than this guy!" and I called out "Darker skin, too"

LOL. Good one! Totally agree re. the Human Rights Tribunal. eg. A great restaurant down the road from my house is currently weathering a controvertial HR case brought by a woman claiming human-rights abuse caused by a comedian telling a bunch of gags about lesbians. If Coulter's rhetoric wasn't so lazy and US-centric she could actually have brought some attention to stuff like this.

Oh, I've been following that, sort of. Didn't his lawyer pull a "I'm out of order? YOU'RE out of order! This whole damn SYSTEM is out of order!" and storm out of the hearing? That's the last thing I heard.

oh i was reading about that!
something about some carpet munchers heckling a comedian and then not appreciating the return volley.

xpost!!!

Basically the BC HR Tribunal have no juristiction to even be hearing this case. They would have to define the comedian as being an employee of the restaurant, which he clearly is not. They are going ahead with it anyway, despite not establishing any authority. The comedians lawyer walked out at that point. It's a total farce.

Importantly, the BC HRT had previously been told by a court that they had establish juristiction before proceeding. An order which they ignored.

Thermo pls webmail me your mailing address & expect a summons in the mail irt my pending claim on the basis of your hate speech on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:50 PM

You know there's something wrong when you find yourself in agreement with the likes of Margaret Wente.

To return to the original point, it would have been so easy for Coulter to get some mileage out of this case when she was here in Canada. Especially since her Canadian promoter, Ezra Levant has been all over the BC Tribunal case for ages now.

It's a very important system to have in place-- it's great that it's there, and in theory it's an vital resource to be made available in a liberal democracy for the use of private citizens in resolving what are usually serious and meritous claims. it's just that they were doing it really inefficiently before, so in response to complaints about delay and procedure they changed it and fucked it up way worse. it's way underfunded and understaffed on every level, so people don't get the support that they need and wind up flustering their avenues of access to the justice available, and frivolous claims get through too often because of inadequate investigation and they make big news, and it all just serves to undermine the credibility of the system further. wanto to get rid of something that's a pain in your ass but people won't let you get rid of it because they think they need it? get some bureaucrats to go in and fuck it up so bad everyone winds up hating it

then maybe her whole public persona really is just an act

would make her just as reprehensible IMO. maybe more.

Yep. I posted without really thinking. She's probably the vilest person on the continent. I mean, if JJ's a conservative, so what? I have no problem with that. But Coulter's race-baiting stuff is just awful. Or maybe JJ doesn't give a shit? Why should I assume he would?

I think maybe we should stop calling Jimmy Walker "JJ" and start calling him "Uncle Ruckus"

“Among gay conservatives, she is an icon,” said Christopher Barron, chairman of GOProud’s board, who spoke at Homocon. “We could not think of anyone who we would want to party with more.” Jimmy LaSalvia, the group’s executive director, exclaimed: “Just look at her shoes!”

Coulter seeks new Image

Coulter said that might be a weakness in the Republican Party as a whole — that certain individuals become celebrities and are allowed to profit off that status and yet still interfere in GOP politics, which Democrats have been able to avoid.

“And just a more corporate problem is I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party,” she said. “I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people — as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.”

She cited Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as examples where despite having a loyal following, Democrats haven’t honored him with even an MSNBC show.

“No, no, no — you embarrass us and drag this thing out, you are finished in the Democratic Party,” she said.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/coulter-on-palin-brokered-convention-gop-has-a-problem-with-con-men-and-charlatans/#ixzz1

it is weird to see Ann saying something lucid, although it is very lol and in character that said lucidity is happening because she's trying to ice out competition from hurting her punditry's bottom line

When even Malkin thinks you've gone too far...

http://thisistwitchy.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/twitter-lynch-mob-square-version-eyebrows.jpg?w=190&h=190&crop=1

I have to say, I'm surprised that's all she said

suffers from Don Imus syndrome

Wow, Coulter on Piers Morgan digging in. She's said "creton" twice in the last three minutes--some kind of mythical creature that crosses Ramones imagery with Caesar salads and sofa beds.

did she mean cretin

Croatan?

Sure--and she corrected herself each time. Just thought it was funny. She's also claiming--insisting--that no one ever uses "retard" to belittle people with Down Syndrome, etc., and that neither would she; it's just another synonym for "loser" or idiot.

Or "faggot."