Your Opinion of Ann Coulter.....

[journalist3072]

I've been thinking about something today, regarding Ann Coulter.

We all know she makes the most absurd, ignorant, and racist comments of just about anyone out there.

But then I began to wonder: Does she actually hold the beliefs she espouses, or does she purposefully make the most outragious comments, just to get attention?

So DUers, what say you? Do you think Ann Coulter actually believes what she espouses, or is she purposefully trying to make the most outrageous comments, just to get attention?

[ohkay]

1. not worth my time. n/t

[Ladyhawk]

43. Agreed. n/t

[98geoduck]

2. I think she's a mixed bag of spoiled nuts.

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[Technowitch]

46. Bigotry doesn't justify more bigotry

I think you owe our TS/TG friends an apology.

[theorist]

3. She believes it, and knows she's wrong all at the same time.

She couldn't win a political debate against me, and I'm a scientist. She's a racist, who uses hate speech to rile us. It's unbelievable that mainstream Republican voices embrace this woman. She's dangerous for that side of the aisle, because she's fodder for us.

[Tigress DEM]

Except she truly thought Canada went with us to Vietnam

Then the reason Americans would go to Canada to dodge the draft would have been.....?

[LdyGuique]

34. I tracked this one down at the time -- about 12,000 Candadians

served in VietNam, either due to birth/dual citizenship or due to personal belief and they came down and joined up. (Although some estimates say that Canadians who joined exceeded the 30,000 draft dodgers). But, because many lied on their paperwork, it'll remain unknown.

So, one can read about Canadian VietNam Vets and assume that Canada supplied troops when they didn't; however, they did supply other things. Canada wasn't quite neutral; although as the war dragged on, they did pass a law "legalizing" draft dodgers coming to Canada.

[Tigress DEM]

42. Rephrased - Canada as a Nation did not back US in Vietnam

Which was what missy Coulter was saying. She did not bring up your very insightful and carefully researched informtation.

She also led with "We LET Canada live on this continent with US."

And she was just like, "Yeah, they backed us in Vietnam." "Yeah" "Oh, well I thought they did."

Some fundie bed time story her papa raised her on, maybe based on what you mentioned, but so ingrained as a response she has no idea about what she was talking about.

[LdyGuique]

58. Wellllllllllll . . .I'm hardly gonna go to much effort to defend Annhole

and I think she is like a lot of other people, we collect information over a lifetime -- it's a mix of lies, half-lies, half-truths, and truths intermixed with forgots -- by the time a corrosive patina of opinion is added to it, we just "KNOW" stuff.

And, truthfully, I had time and leisure on my side to verify facts as I wasn't on stage. Why I even bothered to look? I dunno -- just something fishy about it. Mayhap, it was some lingering memory from an earlier time. But, enough to cause me to look rather than just laugh off Annhole as I normally do.

[Tigress DEM]

61. I'm glad you brought the information up, though.

I was born in '62, so I wasn't exactly political when the whole Vietnam deal was going on and that had never come up in the things I've read, but it makes sense.

[swag]

She's a distraction:

they always throw her out there with her worst shit just when they are trying to do the most heinous shit possible, e.g. dismantle Social Security.

[tuvor]

7. Paying attention to her means our attention and energy isn't focused

on the things that really matter.

She's a red herring.

[Tigress DEM]

29. I know. It's like watching a car wreck, though. You know you shouldn't

but you just can't help but look at the insanity and hatred coming out of her.

[tuvor]

4. Sorry to sound like a broken record, but since you're asking

She is to political analysis what Hulk Hogan is to professional sports.

At least, as someone pointed out to me, Hulk Hogan came clean about the farce.

[rzemanfl]

33. Hulk Hogan is a decent guy. He's well thought of where

he lives. Can't say that for Mann Coulter.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. someone the other day

referred to her as "Satan's Barbie Doll." I've stolen that quote and used it numerous times since then. :hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. ROFLMAO!

I'll have to remember that one for the next time one of my freeper co-workers quotes her...

[Chipper Chat]

6. I place her right behind Rush Limbaugh in the "entertainer" file.

Be she still pisses me off, and is becoming an embarrassment to the Republicans (except for Suckass Sean of course).

[immoderate]

She's doing her job.

Found herself a niche. What she believes is one of those great cosmological questions.:shrug:

--IMM

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. And the real problem with Annthrax Coulter is that,

whether or not she actually believes the dreck she spews, other people do. She may indeed be a totally cynical nihilist who doesn't care what she says because she intends only to stir the pot. Or else she is a deranged, vicious ideologue who really believes her own shit. Either way, she's evil because she brings out the absolute worst in her ignorant brownshirt skinhead freeper audience.

[Tigress DEM]

25. I vote "Annthrax" as the Best Moniker ever for Coulter!!

First of all, :yourock:

Second, I think she is honestly deranged, but agree that either way she's spewing ignorance and needs to be stopped.

Third, as to how, we have to hold the media accountable and tell FAUX News to get with REALITY or get off the tube.

[immoderate]

52. Right. She's not the problem.

It's the supposedly sane people who let her on the air. What the fuck is wrong with THEM?

--IMM

[Tigress DEM]

62. Supposedly Sane Network Execs - there's an oxymoron

[noiretextatique]

8. her function is to outrage

and i don't think she really belives a word of it.

[randr]

9. She is one sick puppy

Gets satisfaction by causing distress in people she has for some reason decided to hate.
Hate disguised as political banter. She is a bad example of reverse discrimination of women. If she were a man and had made some of the comments she has made, he would have been long ridiculed and shamed out of public eye.

[Canuckistanian]

10. What is more shocking is her enablers

The Network heads who decide to put her on despite her viciousness, lack of comapssion and sheer incompetency.
She represents the worst of the worst and yet, she's treated as "mainstream" by Fox and CNN.

[number6]

11. Mentally distubed NAZI bi-aaatch

:(:(:(

[bpilgrim]

12. she provides a tremendous opportunity for progressives and liberals

to hold up for scorn and ridicule and to associate her rabid racist views with all of the right wing leaders.

peace

[Just Me]

14. Shallow, materialistic, self-centered, reckless, narcissistic, MEAN, bitch

She does what she does 'cause she makes good money by being what she is being.

She doesn't give a rat's ass about how she influences or shapes this world 'cause it's all about her.

She is nothing without sucking up to extremism and being a bitch.

She is ugly and hurts people with reckless abandon.

My trying to understand why she does what she does won't help her or me.

She needs to get a freakin' clue on her own.

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[Mz Pip]

17. She's a shill

for the Republican Right.

I think she serves them well. She's so over the top and outrageously hateful that she makes the RWers seem subdued in comparison. THat's her job, to make herself look worse than them, thereby making them seem ok.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[El Fuego]

18. It a twisted sort of way, I think she benefits Democrats

She exposes the right wing to be the ugly beast that it is.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

19. she appears to be a lost soul

so stuck in maya that she can't get out. Hatred and intolerance can only eat away at the soul.

[applegrove]

21. Ann is playing the role of "bad cop" so that the red state people can

feel they are not as close to Utopia (KAOS) as they really are. Just like Freepers blame Democrats for having all the negative qualities the Freepers don't want to take ownership of within themselves (modeling after Bush their president), Ann provides that scapegoat to the likes of Bill O'Reilly. He can argue with her and thus convince himself that he is reasonable & in the middle. His viewers get the same thing.

When she says: McCarthy was great - it is to paint a picture of a 'nutty' other in Repuke circles. This implies that the Utopia Neocon Republicans are not a delusional bunch of assholes. If she calls Helen Thomas an A-rab, it means that the Utopian neocon Republican Rovbots can say to themselves ... "that is going too far - I am a good person" and then turn around and try & gut SS.

I do not doubt that everything she writes is vetted and reviewed by someone who either instinctively or intellectually knows what role she has to continue to play (may be Ayn herself - could be some other propaganda worker). Look for some reporter to be called a "Jew" the next time 'White House illegal Propaganda against American people' becomes a big issue.

[Bluebear]

22. Playing her "constituency" like a violin

She is no doubt conservative but I don't buy the "take a baseball bat to a liberal" crap. She knows the more provocative she gets the more books she will sell and the more news she will make.

Unfortunately this kind of talk will reach some dim bulb who thinks he really SHOULD take a baseball bat to a liberal. Therefore she is not only crazy like a fox but also complicit.

[Amaya]

23. She's absurdity personified

And no, I don't think she believes what she spews. For her, I think, it's about the money and attention.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. She's brain damaged

from all those years of throwing up what she eats.

So her motives don't matter. She's too impaired to make good judgements.

[Juan Martinez]

26. Well...

According to David Brock in his book Blinded By The Right, Coulter is a fierce anti-semite, and really does believe what she says. And she has the audacity to call other people "racists."

[DavidMS]

45. He also

stated that there are no written materials in her apartment and he has never seen her with a book or newspaper. That said, she has also not sued him for slander/libel.

At a minimum Anthrax Annie is a little kooky... at most she needs a strait jacket and shock therapy.

[SmokingJacket]

27. My mother, the freeperess, says:

"She's funny! It's hilarious to poke fun at humorless liberals. They don't get that it's all in fun! It's a big joke!"

Well.... if it was funny, I'd be laughing, believe me. The problem with Repubs is they don't HAVE a sense of humor. They wouldn't know irony if it bit them in the ass.

Personally, I think she's trying to have it both ways. It's all in fun when she really steps over the line, but most of the time, when she gets away with it, she's as serious as a heart attack.

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[tx_dem41]

32. I can agree with many of the adjectives you use...but, I don't see

how using the thought of her having a sex-change operation is anything but an insult to that community.

[Technowitch]

63. I said it above in this thread and I'll say it again

Bigotry from the right does NOT justify bigotry from the left

Spinoza, you owe the TS/TG community an apology. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Coastie for Truth]

30. She's an entertainer

but when she actually worked for a living she was a "union decertification" lawyer.

[PowerToThePeople]

31. She can be my Monica anytime

That would shut her up too, which would be a good thing.

[Tigress DEM]

44. People who play with pirhanas.... get bitten.

[ashmanonar]

49. LOLOLOLOL

OMG, that was the best thing i've read in a LONG time.

watch her teeth, People. she looks like a biter.

[Pirate Smile]

35. I immediately turn the channel if she is comes on. I wont waste

any time watching her because she is always so outrageously vitriolic, nasty and ignorant. She isn't worth raising my blood pressure over.

[Just Me]

41. I write every station she appears on,...and chide them for allowing,...

,...yet another deliverer of HATE to take space on MY airwaves!!! I tell them that if I were the FCC, I'd close their doors for allowing so much anti-American hatred onto their broadcasts!!!

I cannot just sit and allow these vitriolic profiteers continue to infect MY PEOPLE!!! I may not be able to stop them,...but, I sure as hell can object, LOUDLY!!!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

36. Where is the frigging FCC when persons such as her and Lush are

spewing hatespeak, lies, innuendo, disinformation, subterfuge, slander, halflies, and other deranged statements ON THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES?????



As far as her personally? I think it may be a chromosomal thing.

[jonnyblitz]

37. I wonder the same thing because she is always on the verge

of smirking when I saw her on tv like she isnt really being serious about what she is saying. it seems like she is amused by it all. I often watch her facial expressions and body language when she is around whom she deems is a liberal and it's funny to watch. I often think she can't actually believe that crap that pours out of her mouth, but who knows. :shrug:

[mordarlar]

38. I think she is the worst type of human. One that spews hate because she..

perceives it all as a big game. I honestly think it matters little what she believes. She sees it all as a big game and she thinks she is an awesome player. What she fails to either realize or care about, is the fact that she is HARMING PEOPLE. She is listened to as someone knowledgeable. I think she laughs harder for the people who listen to her than she does any of us. It is truly sad.

I DETEST people who manipulate others knowingly.

[ashmanonar]

51. sociopath, in other words.

people who don't recognize the world as real are clinically sociopaths. that's a pretty classic description of coulter. (and of sociopaths)

[Syncronaut Seven]

39. Self loathing, bitter, angry, seething

Sexually frustrated (look at her face) shrewish and uterly without compassion.

Also she looks fat.

[ryan_cats]

40. She has a gnarly Adam's apple.

I'm afraid she believe what she spouts. Her whole career was built on Bill Clinton. Clinton is now a well respected elder statesman and she's still doing the same schtick or is that shtank? I think she's going to explode when Bill Clinton becomes the first man!

I do think the more outrageous statements are to garner attention.

[SixShooter]

47. One word-Hideous

Maybe we could make her GOP spokesperson

[ryan_cats]

55. her or Savage

Either her or wiener boy Savage.

[Rex]

48. Worthless

Ann is an entertainer, nothing more. It's pathetic that some people regard her as a journalist.

[Mr_Spock]

50. If she wasn't a tall, pretty blond - she'd be institutionalized & jailed

for inciting a riot/hatred. She may not actually be insane - if that is the case then she ought to be thrown in jail.

[Dimsdale]

53. Did you ever notice that (M)ann, Ari, and Scot...

all speak in the same monotonous cadence when they're lying, which is, of course, whenever they open their mouths. McClellan's rapid-fire, repetitve bullshit sounds exactly like Ari Flyshit used to do it and Ann is right there with them.
By the way, Ann is really a harpy. A rapacious, grasping, unscrupulous bitch.

[XemaSab]

54. She's crazy

Nobody who wasn't crazy could spew out that much hatred. Rush and O'Reilly spew out a lot of CRAP, but not that much HATRED. Her level of hatred reminds me a lot of Fred Phelps.

The only reason she's on TV instead of in a locked ward somewhere is because she's a skinny blonde. She's not even pretty, just skinny and blonde.

Also, as a historical note, her dad was a big union-busting lawyer, and that's where she got her start. Barbara Kingsolver wrote a book about a big mine strike they were involved with, called "Holding the Line."

[bloom]

56. She strikes me as an evil clown. She could be wearing a big red nose.

She has been involved with Scaife funded institutions for quite awhile....

I think she's playing some ridiculous role like Limbaugh.



http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/ann_coulter.htm

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ann Coulter, who recently imploded in print, is nearly a complete product of the conservative philanthropies, having worked for or received funds from no fewer than six of their funded institutions. She was recently fired from her job as columnist for the National Review Online after she advised that the US conquer Muslim countries and convert them to Christianity.

In college she benefited from funds from the Collegiate Network - funded by Richard Mellon Scaife. She trained at the National Journalism Center, which itself is connected to the Young America's Foundation, and run by the conservative philanthropy funded columnist M. Stanton Evans. She founded a chapter of the Federalist Society at the University of Michigan Law School, and later worked for former Michigan SenatorSpencer Abraham, himself deeply involved with the Federalist Society.

Later Coulter worked at the Scaife-funded Center for Individual Rights. Now she's just been picked up by David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, one of the mostprominent recipients of conservative philanthropy money.

[New Democrat]

57. Ann Coulter is a genius.

She knows that the more stupid shit she says, the more attention she will get, therefore she will sell more books. Hell, this topic right here is helping her sell books.

[Mr_Spock]

59. True, but we wouldn't discuss her if she was treated equally

If she was fat & ugly - she be considered just another "wack-job" and we should wonder about this...

[Tigress DEM]

64. So which one of her books are YOU going to buy?

Like the cop who argued in a women's issues class that women still shouldn't wear mini-skirts because it made it 40% more likely that they would be raped or something like that.

The teacher asked him, "And how many more women have you been raping since mini-skirts came out?"

I suppose you're right though. Jesse Ventura had an action figure and I thought that was the most idiotic thing I'd ever heard of, a man running for Guv with an action figure. Then first Jesse, now Arnold.

[TrustingDog]

60. She/He Heesh? is an experiment to test the Dumb Waters.

unfortunately too many americans pass.

[Sapphire Blue]

65. The first time I ever saw her

I honestly thought it was a SNL type satirical skit....

Thought the same thing of Rush first time I heard him (courtesy of a co-worker).

When I found out they were for real, I realized I had walked through the looking glass.

[sphincter]

66. Change jobs

I know of at least 1 better use of her hands and mouth.

[Booster]

67. As I posted a long time ago, I worked at the place where

the tapes for Pol Inc would be brought to for air. The guy who brought the tapes was a young black Assoc. Prod. and we would always have a conversation about the show. I asked him why Bill had Ann Coulter on so much and he said "because he likes her". He said "Hell, even I like her, she's a very nice fun person". So I said then what she says and does is an act and he said yes. If you think about it, she has no other talent, just like Rush Limbaugh, so she gets on TV shows for publicity to sell her books. It's an act for her and for Rush and the morans eat it up - so, who are the idiots in this scenario?

[Catherine Vincent]

68. I wonder what her family thinks of her.

[Moderator]

69. Locking

As bad as Coulter is, unfortunately this topic has become an invitation for insensitive comments and flaming.