I HATE ANN COULTER!!!!

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

jfc there are a million people you can invite to encourage dialogue and respectful conversation. coulter is not one of them

what an ass

yeah like invite ross douthat or something you feeb

disrespectful conversation not permissible, check

did you read what the guy said?

jfc there are a million people you can invite to encourage dialogue and respectful conversation. coulter is not one of them

exactly. this is what you get when either side engaged in this ostensible "debate" engages in bad faith. The college Republicans aren't interested in dialogue, they're interested in inflammatory, attention-getting stunts. (The inverse of this on the left can, and I'm sure does, exist as well)

(fwiw I agree w the ACLU's position on this in terms of the university's actions)

i mean, freshman year you get an article in the washington post. the opportunities are there for those with the least shame.