Damn, I really love this stuff. I can pretty much write whatever I want about people who write whatever they want. So here is goes again. Good ol’ Coulter (Time’s loudmouth of the year) is at it again. She is criticizing Mike Huckabee in her latest from December 26th. Which is fine. The man thinks pheasant hunting is important in a presidential campaign because the other guy now knows there are guns involved. It’s her comments on sodomy that get me.
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The Wicked Witch of the Right
UPDATE: This blog was previously written with a link to the videos posted below, followed by a brief explanation as to why I couldn’t load YouTube videos on my wordpress. I have since figured out that I actually can upload YouTube videos, but being such a noob, I had to get my boyfriend to figure it out for me. Anyway, I am now able to compile these videos for your enjoyment in one place. They all have something to do with the crazy neocon that everyone loves to hate: Ann Coulter (hence the title of the blog).
This Week With the Shrew
Ann Coulter’s defense of the military’s handling of the Pat Tillman case:
Liberals will even turn a war hero like Pat Tillman into an anti-war cause celebre posthumously — so he can’t disagree. Tillman died in a friendly fire incident that occurred — unlike Max Cleland’s accident — during actual combat with the enemy.
Because they are screaming, hysterical women, liberals treat friendly fire like a drunk driving accident. But friendly fire has been a part of war from time immemorial.
Liberals have an insane, litigious view of the military: There’s been an accident in warfare, let’s sue! It’s as mad as the line from “Dr. Strangelove”: “Gentlemen! No fighting in the War Room!” Golly jeepers, accidents can’t happen in a war!
And later in the article she somehow draws the conclusion that friendly fire is welcomed by POWs. So I guess that makes it ok:
But the POWs weren’t denouncing the U.S. military for risking their lives with “friendly fire.” They weren’t crying Mommy, investigate this! Get me a trial lawyer!If their camp had been hit by American bombs, it would have been as the POWs were shouting: “God bless President Nixon!”
That’s from their own mouths; that’s what’s in their hearts. Friendly fire — to a nation that hasn’t lost its wits — is part of waging war.
First of all the dog-in-heat has totally missed the point about the Pat Tillman case. The disgusting injustice wasn’t just the friendly fire itself (although it is still horrible considering that it is so much more preventable than it was thirty years ago), it was the way the Pentagon and the White House lied about the circumstances involved, portrayed it as a daring fire-fight, and didn’t even tell the man’s family how their own beloved had been killed.
Second, she forgot a space between “lawyer!” and “If” in the second quote.
And third, friendly fire is usually caused by someone that doesn’t have their wits about them, not by a nation that has its wits.
Fourth, friendly fire is a part of war. So I guess in her world, Americans should be happy when these things happen because it is a sign we are still fighting.
And lastly, CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE SAID GOD BLESS PRESIDENT NIXON!!!!! MY GOD!!!
Lol. Ok, I’m done.
A New Cause for the Right Wing: Advocating for Underpaid Doctors
Preventative medicine comes second in this country so that Big Pharma can make money “treating” illnesses while the doctors that dole out these new wonder drugs drive around in Mercedes Benz automobiles. At the same time, health insurance companies can charge as high as they want and refuse treatment to whomever they choose due to “prior conditions” or a flat out inability to pay the disgusting co-pays for treatment of terminal or chronic illnesses. And Ann Coulter believes that the problem with health care is that doctors aren’t paid enough.
How Wrong Were They?
So there are a lot of funny anecdotal books out in the humor section in Borders that have titles like “Stupidest Things Ever Said.” Many times you find that these quotes are merely premature ramblings by people who aren’t very far-sighted when it comes to the future. One such example would be August Lumiere telling someone his invention (a device for showing moving pictures) would never have a market. Another is Bill Gates saying that 56 megs of ram would be all anyone would ever need on a computer.
Out of the Mouths of Lames
“Even Falwell’s fans, such as evangelist Billy Graham and former President Bush, kept throwing in the ‘We didn’t always agree’ disclaimer… And when I die, if you didn’t always agree with me, would you mind keeping it to yourself?” -Ann Coulter, Jerry Fallwell – Say Hello to Ronald Reagan, May 16, 2007.
Coulter was criticizing public figures for adding, “Although I didn’t agree with everything Fallwell had to say…” to their statements about the bigot’s life when she so arrogantly asked that the same statement be left out of any comments about her life when she died. As if she is that important! I picture more of a relieved sigh from both political camps when she finally kicks the bucket. To Republicans she is a liability and to everyone else she is just a manly-looking shrew. The best thing anyone could say about the end of her life is, “FINALLY!”
In other news, Obama is the man with the plan. If you haven’t heard, he plans to reform health care in this country and finally create universal health care to the millions of Americans (including nine million children) that are not covered. He also plans to encourage preventive medicine and update technology. You can read more about his plan at this website, http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hcplan. Also see Crispy Quips on my blogroll. He did a bit more research on the subject than I did.
Closer and closer come the Primaries. I pray and pray (to pagan gods according to Republicans) that Hillary falls. We don’t need her disunity and ego dividing this country more. She is the Democratic equivalent of Bush- ego driven, set in her ways, and short-sighted. Down with Hillary! Barack ’08!
Another note on Barack. My mother, a Democrat for many years, (although lately she is beginning to scare me with leaving Laura Schlessinger books around the house claiming they are “funny.”) told me that Obama is too close to Islam. As the Conservative media machine (that still insists it is oppressed by the liberal media that consists of Air America and PBS) repeats Obama’s middle name so that the idea that he is islamic will seep into the minds of unsuspecting Americans. Coulter even calls him “B. Hussein Obama” just for impact. As if that name automatically qualifies you as a middle-eastern dictator. If that is the case, there must be a butt-load of dictators, seeing as how Hussein has been one of the most popular names in the area for many years, before and after Saddam.
Now, pick up The Audacity of Hope and flip to the chapter titled, “Faith.” Read about Obama’s upbringing, the household he grew up in, and his own personal journey to root himself further into the Christian faith. You will find no Islamic religious upbringing whatsoever. His middle name was given to him by his father, a former muslim turned atheist, who did not live in the same household and therefore could not have given Obama an Islamic upbringing. Still, consrevatives can say the word “Hussein” and strike fear into ignorant Americans looking for safety from an attack by the Iraqi people (the ones that had nothing to do with 9/11, remember?). Points to the Republicans again, for being the masters of spin.
That is all the ramblings I have for today. Before I forget, the sources for this blog entry are as follows:
Coulter, Ann. “Jerry Fallwell- Say Hello to Ronald Reagan.” anncoulter.com. 16 May 2007. 2 Jun 2007 <http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=183>.
Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. 1st. New York: Crown Publishing, 2006.
How to Bash a Neocon (Whenever You Want)
I was just wondering how easy it might be to make Ann Coulter look like an idiot. I, a college student, might not have a chance against someone who was named “one of the top 100 public intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner in 2001” (fire that guy) as it mentions in her “About the Author,” but I’ve read a couple of her articles on her website (which is the only place she has a job now, I believe) so I knew what I was up against. Not surprisingly, it was fairly simple: she does it to herself. I only had to purchase her throwaway book from a yard sale for three bucks, titled “How to talk to a Liberal (If you Must)” published in 2004, and use common sense to see just how ignorant she really is.
All the inconsistencies, all the twists of the truth, all the sources that remain a mystery, the examples of what unnamed people are saying, just in her introduction are far too extensive to list on my humble little blog. I will, however, present here a few of her inane remarks:
Freedom of Speech: “There is probably no conservative student newspaper in the country that has not been trashed or burned by liberal” (2).
How dare liberals burn Dartmouth student newspapers in protest! My god! First amendment! All the conservative student press wanted to do is make light of date rape, racism, and poke fun at Native Americans! After all that hard work, I’m sure these righteous young minds are up for a get together, probably keeping themselves warm over a bonfire of Harry Potter books, like any good Christian.
On Torture: “Torturing the guy you know for a fact is withholding information actually works quite well” (7).
Of course! No one admits to a crime they haven’t really committed! We can be sure the people we torture are guilty! Look how many inmates have been put on death row with the solid evidence of a signed confession obtained after hours of interrogation! They weren’t even being physically harmed when they started talking! Let’s just never mind how many confessors have been exonerated through DNA evidence.
Page 8: “Al Gore couldn’t say ‘pass the salt’ without claiming to have invented salt.”
That Al Gore. I’m sure this is in reference to a quote of him saying, “I invented the internet.” Wait, where is that quote? I can’t seem to find it anywhere! Could it be that this is the actual quote, as I found on CNN.com? “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” This website makes an excellent point about why Al Gore wasn’t that far off.
Page 10: [Regarding her first rule for talking to a liberal] “Come to think of it, since our side does not accept Klansmen [Senator Bryd], murderers [Ted Kennedy], or rapists [William Jefferson Clinton], this rule may be simplified to: Don’t be defensive.”
That’s right! Because when the Democrats made it clear in 1964 that racism and discrimination were not part of the core values held by that party, a certain segregationist Mr. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat (Dixiecrat, really), had no where to go but the party that would accept such a man: The Republicans.
As far as rape and murder, good thing justice was served. –Oh, what was that you said Voice of Reason? What do you mean not convicted? What do you mean not even charged? Are there any politicians that have been convicted or charged with sex crimes? Maybe these ones?
The ‘F’ Word: “On the bright side, you know you’ve arrived when liberals start calling you a fag. Curiously, these proponents of tolerance always choose ‘gay’ as their most searing epithet” (15).
Do I need to go here? I can’t even sarcastically address this one! Really, Google “Ann Coulter calls (Take a pick: Clinton, Gore, or Edwards) a fag” and you get all kinds of websites! Including YouTube, where you can hear her say the very word! What a nut! How many liberals did she name that use the word fag? Nought! Because she’s got monopoly on it!
The best part is, she thinks she can say “It was a joke” and everything is ok. We’ll forgive her without an apology because she was only poking fun. And now for a personal antidote just to prove a point: When I reached the ripe age of seven, I realized I could hurt my little sister’s feelings calling her names and get away with it by shouting, “Just kidding! I was only joking with you!” Fortunately, my parents are smarter than Coulter’s (who should have left her at the hospital in whatever year she says she was born-it changes all the time). They realized quickly my scheme and put a stop to it right away.
Ok, one more and then I’m done.
How to Beat up on a Republican: Page 11 and 12 the right-wingnut tells her minions never to compliment a Democrat because “compliments to Democrats are always returned with insults.” She then describes an epidode of “Larry King Live” from May 7, 2004. As evidence of Democrats returning insults to the compliments of conservatives, she uses the first statement of each senator featured on the show.
Senator John Warner (Republican of Virginia): “First, If I may say of my colleagues on the committee, and twenty-four senators out of twenty-five were present at that hearing, I think we comported ourselves individually and collectively as best I’ve seen it in the Senate….”
Senator Jon Kyl (Republican of Arizona): “I agree with Senator Warner that the senators comported themselves well for the most part….”
Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat of Iowa): “Well, [Rumsfeld should resign] for a couple of reasons.”
Sure sounds to me like Democrat beating up on Republicans that was just trying to give out kudos for the great job that was done! As soon as the Republican senators give out compliments, that Harkin belligerently tries to dispute them!
In reality, the second and third quotes are much further in the transcript than the first. Harkin is not replying to Kyl and Warner’s compliments of a job well-done. He is answering a question posed by the host of the show, Larry King.
King: “Senator Harkin, why do you think he should resign?”
Sen. Harking: “Well, for a couple of reasons”.
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the whole point of a talk show to feature two different opinions?
Her next example of Democrats beating up on Republicans is a transcript from “Meet the Press” that I found dated on May 9, 2004
A few days later, Republican senator Lindsey Graham used about half his allotted time on Meet the Press to make clear he had absolutely no criticisms of the Democrats: “I didn’t come here to beat on Senator Kerry or to defend any political position. This is not about Republican and Democratic politics….[Let’s] show the world that Republicans and Democrats may disagree on policy and the war in Iraq, but we have the ability to make sure those accountable are going to be held accountable….Republicans and Democrats need to come together to prove to the world that our system works.”
The Democrats on the panel returned the love by accusing President Bush of responsibility for Abu Ghraib prison abuse (Senator Carl Levin: “I think he helped to create the atmosphere,” saying the mission in Iraq would probably fail (General Wesley Clark: “I think there is a greater than 50/50 chance, let’s say 2:1 chance, of a catastrophic early end to this mission”).
I found the transcript on NBC.com. They ask that any use of their material be cited as NBCNews’ Meet the Press©2004. They are so nice. Random House (the shrew’s publisher) will probably take me away in the middle of the night for all the material I’m using against- I mean from- Coulter, even if I do cite it.
First of all, Levin does not say, “I think he helped to create the atmosphere” in response to Graham’s statement. Graham’s statement comes much later in the transcript. In fact, Levin is responding to the host, who had asked, “You believe the president then is ultimately responsible?” Levin answers, “I think he helped to create the atmosphere by the way in which he called the Geneva Convention discussion relative to Afghanistan a matter of legalism. It’s not legalism. It goes right to the heart of this matter.”
Not only does Coulter include incomplete quotes and position them in such a way as to mislead her faithful readers, but she leaves context out as well. Graham didn’t appear on Meet the Press to talk about uniting parties. The point of the show was to find out who was responsible for the torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib. Again, aren’t talk shows supposed to feature different points of view? Unless you are Fox News, the point of these debates is to show both sides of an issue.
So, after all 18 pages of the introductory chapter, I have one of the longest blogs I’ve ever written, and I even left a lot of her screw-ups out. You should really read the one about liberals “getting drunk and having unprotected public sex with Colin Farrell” (page 11, regarding her feelings toward public apologies). If you can find a free copy, pick it up and see for yourself. However, don’t spend any money on it because I can honestly say I want my three dollars back.
Now for the boring stuff:
Sources:
CNN Larry King Live. “Analysis of Donald Rumsfeld’s Congressional Testimony.” CNN.com © 2005 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved.
Coulter, Ann. How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): the world according to Ann Coulter. New York: Crown Forum, 2004.
NBC News’ Meet the Press Copyright © 2004, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
