Ann Coulter uses Rush's drug addiction to bash liberals

[La_Serpiente]

In the latest display of "manliness", Ann Coulter has written a column using Rush's drug addiction to Bash liberals. Here it is:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20031016.shtml

[youngred]

1. Such a sweet child

"Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people"

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones Ann

[toddzilla]

6. she really is insane..

chappaquidick? afghanistan? clinton?

wtf does any of this have to do with rush?


moran!

[LynneSin]

2. I'm so dizzy from all the spinning spinning spinning

[dwckabal]

3. She will rue the day

any skeletons come out of her closet! Talk about a feeding frenzy!

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[ewagner]

4. That's pathetic!!

She pulled out every democratic skeleton she could find. Used every straw man she could muster and defied logical argument at every turn.

The the neocons must really be getting desperate. Good.

[Cat Atomic]

5. Is she really that dense? It's about his *hypocrisy*, not his

drug addiction. These conservative blowhards surely realize that. These lame attempts to defend Rush's hypocrisy while attacking liberals yet again are just sad.

[FauxNewsBlues]

7. What's Mann Coulter on?

It's either anorexia or she is using drugs? A 42 year old woman is not that skinny without a freakish metabolism, drugs, or an eating disorder.

[DarkPhenyx]

8. Didn't I point this out?

I think I did. Several of us pointe dout taht our senseless bashing of Rush for his drug addiction, and our laughing openly, was going to come abck and bite us. Yes, Ann is nothing but a Neo-Con mouthpiece. The problem is that people listen to her and believe what she says. They don't think. They don't analyze. They just "believe".

I don't mind that my enemy comes after me with a gun. I object to giving him the gun he's going to shoot me with though.

[Cat Atomic]

17. She'd be saying this even if DU had been civil about Rush.

She'd be saying this even if the newspapers and magazines were all nice and friendly to Rush.

It's like the endless and baseless charge of the "liberal media". It's meant to put you on the defensive.

They don't play nice just because their opponent is playing nice, and at the end of the day, that's fine. This spin is pathetic. Anyone stupid enough to buy Coulter's argument here is a died-in-the-wool GOP zombie anyway.

[Rainbowreflect]

21. I does not matter what we say or do, when they lie.

We could be concerned, compassionate and sending him flowers & get well card and she will still be foaming at the mouth in her hatred.

[Skittles]

37. so let me get this straight

I'm supposed to sympathize with that hypocritial piece of f***ing SHIT because I might offend ANN COULTER and her GOOSE-STEPPING FOLLOWERS? Someone please f***ing SHOOT ME.

[The Backlash Cometh]

44. Actually, you said it far more eloquently than I could have.

*

[The Backlash Cometh]

43. You don't get it, do you?

They will throw everything at you, including the kitchen sink. It's all strategy and you're letting them push your buttons. You're responding just the same ole' predictable way. Let me help you here DarkPhenyx, the goal is to change the drug laws and the best way to do it is to start applying the laws to the people they care about most: Other conservatives, usually white. You back off now and you've lost a great opportunity to force them to walk in other people's shoes.

[tom_paine]

52. Well said, Cat, Rainbow, skittles, Backlash...

Dark Phenyx, when are you ever going to learn about these Totalitarian Monsters?

What could the Jews have done to escape the wrath of the Nazis? Was there some behavior they could have modified to make the Nazis leave them be?

I don't blame you for viewing thing through the lens of the Old Republic. It's hard to acknowledge when you are surrounded by monstrous evil, particularly when it is so highly psychoengineered and much less violent (for the moment) than it's previous incarnations.

Totalitarians use the reluctance of civilized people to descend to their level as a weapon to destroy them. Just as Hitler did to the Liberals. Just as Ann and the rest of the Busheviks are doing now.

Wake up, my friend, it is indeed a New Amerika, this Empire. It's a full moon and the Werewolves, far from slinking in the shadows, have come out and are having a "Werewolf Pride Parade", where Coulter feels free to speculate on murdering liberals or locking them up for their views (this is not hyperbole, she actually had said these things...look it up...I'll help you with one).

http://users.rcn.com/skutsch/anticoulter/genelyons.html

Wake up, DarkPhenyx. Much as you want it to be vibrantly alive, the Old American Republic is being strangled to death by lies, fraud, and apathy.

If it's not already dead.

[Skittles]

61. F*** THAT

where has being civil gotten us Democrats? WE ARE BEING OVERRUN BY THESE GOOSE-STEPPER. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

[imax2268]

9. This was my favorite quote...

"The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites."

:puke:

Hey Ann...I served my country during the first gulf war...what did you do bitch...?

Take your skinny ass that no man wants and your book that no one want's to read and get lost...

[mbartko]

24. I served too...

What's worse than a two-bit whore? A millionaire whore.

[pbeal]

60. it should read

The diffrence between a 20 dollar whore and a 100 dollar whore is 80 dollars.


Im sorry but mangled cowboy wittisims just bug me

[mbartko]

29. The reason Mann can't appreciate...

anger about hypocrisy is that hypocrites don't understand the concept of the term hypocrisy. So hypocrites like this poor excuse for a columnist and walking hate crime do not get it.

Don't worry people. She's 14 minutes and 30 seconds into her 15 minutes of fame. Then she will fade back into the sad, empty little existence that obviously drives all of this hatred. She reminds me of the movie "Carrie", and this is her prom night.

[Evil_Dewers]

31. You should send her an e-mail with those comments. n/t

[Ivory_Tower]

35. So she's defending hypocrisy?

Interesting. Talk about an intriguing strategy...

[RetroLounge]

10. Ewwwww. I feel so dirty after reading that...

eom

[Tripper11]

11. Woohoo!!!

I made it past 2 paragraphs!!!! Before I got so nauseous I thought I would hurl!

[xultar]

12. What a FUCKIN NUTCASE WHORE

That is all I have to say...

[Richardo]

13. Big deal - Ann would use the first snowfall of the season to bash liberals

...it's what she does. No, it's who she is. :boring:

[leetrisck]

14. "Smut Slut" doesn't need a reason, but the

"liberal media" keeps giving her all these opportunities to bash liberals. Isn't it amazing?

[dwckabal]

15. Sorry, I have to chime in again..

What I find DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE is that people can read this drivel, and actually AGREE WITH IT!!

To use her analogy (grudgingly), anyone with half a brain tied behind their back can see the complete and utter failure of her "arguments", the least of which accuses Bill Clinton of sodomy! Since when did oral sex become sodomy? Come on!

Arrgghh! Can we just relegate her to the loony bin?

[WoodrowFan]

34. oral sex IS Sodomy

it's not just anal sex, sodomy also counts.

[soupkitchen]

16. Her success proves the unsophisticated pay well for sophistry

They'll buy into anything that allows them not to confront their worship of the Totally Corrupt.

[Tim4319]

18. Ann Coulter is a female dog

She is a total female dog, her and her husky ass voice!

[newyawker99]

50. Hi Tim4319!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Yuck! This is why I love Franken's book so much with the constant

allusions to "Just what is it that's wrong with her". How in the heck could she even try to spin this into a Clinton thing? She needs to get help....yesterday.

[mac56]

20. I don't see why anyone gives this loon a moment's thought.

With Limbaugh falling into disgrace, she even looks more pathetic.

[farmbo]

22. She uses facts which contradict her own thesis...yet has no clue

She tries so hard to push the stereotype of the "Liberal Media" then, casually, while bragging on Limbaugh's wealth, she drops this stinker:

Rush Limbaugh's misfortune is apparently a bigger story than his nearly $300 million radio contract signed two years ago. That was the biggest radio contract in broadcasting history. Yet there are only 12 documents on LexisNexis that reported it. The New York Times didn't take notice of Rush's $300 million radio contract, but a few weeks later, put Bill Clinton's comparatively measly $10 million book contract on its front page. Meanwhile, in the past week alone, LexisNexis has accumulated more than 50 documents with the words "Rush Limbaugh and hypocrisy." That should make up for the 12 documents on his $300 million radio contract.

<snip>
Rush gets $300 from Clear Channel and their GOP cronies and no one hears of it. Clinton, an ex-President, gets an $10 million advance and its a scandal deserving of an investigation. As the man says, "What Liberal Media?".

[SnohoDem]

23. Is print media non-competitive?

"So the guy I really feel sorry for is Evan Thomas. How would little Evan fare in any competitive media? Any followers? Any fans? Any readers at all? "

WTF is morAnn talking about here? "Little Evan" has the cover story in Newsweek. He seems to be faring pretty well.

Oh wait, I get it. Only LIBERALS read. Hmmmm.

[Cheviot]

25. Ouch. She's good. I have to give her that.

Coulter probably embodies the roiling hatred boiling inside the right wing more than anybody. I would just love for somebody, perhaps Larry Flynt to dig up some dirt about her. The greater the sanctimony, the harder the fall.

[mac56]

27. She's not even that "good".

There are holes in her argument you could drive a truck through. She's merely a useful idiot for the RW.

Welcome to DU, by the way.

[soupkitchen]

28. You're right, its not that good. Its all sophistry

Seemingly "logical" arguments predicated on false premises.

[Junkdrawer]

26. Look, she went to FR, saw the denial, and wrote a column...

if Rush falls further, she'll turn it into a book. If you have no soul, there is no end to the money you can make.

'Nuff Said.

[FauxNewsBlues]

30. The Most shocking thing...

Mann still hasn't found a life partner yet. Go figure!

[rasputin1952]

58. She once made the statement...

that she was, "single, so I have the option of sleeping around for sex".

So much for the morality of Coulter and her ilk. Wonder if she uses protection, or if she just says the hell with it, and is a walking bag of infectious STD's/

In any case, while I love women, she will not have to worry about me getting too close, (and I keep c crucifix for an occasion when she might come knocking at my window!). :scared:

:kick:

[msmcghee]

32. As their shame and hypocrisy become visible to all . .

. . we can expect ever more shrill wailing from the right.

Expect to hear a lot of this in the coming weeks from various RW apologists. I think of it as their wails of pain as a putrid tumor is removed from our society - without an anasthetic.

And who better to scream with the greatest pain.


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[liberalhistorian]

33. When does Annie NOT

find a reason to bash "libruls?" The way she carries on, you'd think this country was made up of 250 million liberals all coming at the few remaining "brave conservatives" with pitchforks and flaming torches. Doesn't she know that her side is totally in charge of everything right now?

[Skittles]

36. Dear God

for everyone's sake, Ann, PLEASE GET SOME THERAPY.

[spotbird]

38. Where can I send this letter to the editor?

To the editor:

No matter how far I stretch I can’t reach my mind around the massive denial about the moral failure of the pseudo-patriotic movement whose banner Ann Coulter proudly waves. Ann’s rigorous defense of Rush’s addiction is another example of that standard of duplicity manifested in every area of her writings. Ann’s assertion that Rush was addicted to “prescription drugs” means that Ann would also have to be an astounding naïve Deadhead, which is improbable, or are simply lying to her astoundingly naïve readers, the likely answer.

Here is an educational hint to save Ann some time and trouble with research. Prescriptions drugs are prescribed by a medical professional, the Schedule II drugs which Rush enjoyed are available only with a prescription from a physician. When one buys drugs available only by prescription from his maid in a Denny’s parking lot he is not a prescription drug addict, he is a garden variety addict. Rush has not denied that the maid was his supplier because he is well aware that the authorities know otherwise. Rush’s claim that he took the opiates for pain reminds me of the stories of prohibition where people would drink elixirs for “medicinal purposes, of coarse.”

Like Bill Bennet, Rush didn’t attack his own vice often, what a hero. Rush did have strong opinions about personal responsibility and the criminal justice so it is time he showed the world the sincerity of those beliefs. But the suggestion that anyone in the extremist anti-American movement would walk the walk is as laughable as the suggestion that Ann stay consistent in her positions when one of her own falls from grace.

Yours truly,

Town hall might not be interested.

[Skip Intro]

40. She's like some puss-filled hemorroidal cyst

Something nasty and disgusting that has been left untreated.

I feel like I need a round of pennicillin after reading just the first few paragraphs of that sludge.

If she and rush are our moral saviors, grab your pitchfork and a pair of shorts.

btw - Christ preached peace and love and honesty - all that liberal hippie stuff - hardly compatible with the murderous treason that flows endlessly from little hitler's regime, or the filth that oozes from its apologists, like that lying, hypocritical gutter whore.

I'll be nice later.

[Zorra]

41. With all due respect,, DUers

It does not seem to me to be a wise thing to attack the physical appearance of anyone. Physical attributes are, for the most part, exclusively genetic, and a person has no control over this. Attacking the physical appearance of someone whose opinions and beliefs we detest seems to me to be a distinctly conservative tactic.

Ann Coulter is, to put it mildly, ridiculous and illogical. IMO, we can have a field day tearing apart her statements, which demonstrate a probable certifiable psychological disorder. I feel bad for her:cry: because of whatever childhood traumas led her to this highly confused state of mind and skewed thought process,:crazy: but her ludicrous statements must be refuted, for she is consistently deceiving masses of gullible and ignorant conservatives :nopity: with her inflammatory and non-sensical false rhetoric.
;-)

[mac56]

54. I agree, Zorra.

Welcome to DU, by the way.

[eleny]

42. Conservative buzzards like Ann...

would swoop down on the most helpless among them to snatch a scrap from their bones for the express purpose of using the failings as poison to jab at Dems. I don't see how that shows any compassion on her part for Rush. She makes a career of bashing Democrats. You would think she had enough ammunition without using Rush's failings as a tool.

I don't think Rush is going to succeed. And frankly, I can't summon up enough compassion to give a darn. If Ann does give a damn, she might consider a less enabling posture.

[BigBigBigBear]

45. She maintains a steady strategy

Keep the focus off the facts and off Rush's behavior, and just use 'liberal' in close proximity to 'hypocrisy', 'coward', immorality', etc as often as possible.

Once you establish the 'Rush critic = liberal = coward' baseline, you can say pretty much anything.

I think she long ago gave up any notion of crafting substantive political arguments, and has simply reverted to Pavlovian formula writing. It pays the bills and achieves the desired effect: it's a palliative for the knuckle-dragging hate-liberals set, and it infuriates liberals. Both groups help keep her relevant. Remember, the National Review canned her because she was such a shrill airhead.

She's like the little brat at the zoo that stands outside the cage and taunts the animals.

Face it. Liberals, lefties, progressives have better ideas but can't win with them. As long as we refuse to stoop to their level and try to beat them at their rhetorical games, they will win by default. And in this country, it's all about the quality of the show.

If you don't think Coulter or O'Reilly or Limbaugh is about the entertainment-ization of political discourse in America, you're not paying attention. Conason is right, but O'Reilly's a better entertainer.

We find it distasteful, but this is Springfield, folks, and everyone's the Simpsons.

[rasputin1952]

46. They made the mistake of having...

a 'contact ann' link at the bottom of the 'article'.

Guess calling her a shrill hack might get censored on the way to her, but such is life, at least i got a chance to possibly tick the bag of bones off!

Write and enjoy!

:kick:

[pdx_prog]

48. I wrote her

Don't think she will ever read them, but it was great fun letting a little steam off.

The little loud mouthed skinny ass nazi wannabe....

[rasputin1952]

57. LOL...

that is exactly what I was thinking!

I doubt she will ever read any of the nasty le-mails, she's as protected from them as are all of the RWnuts.

But it WAS FUN just blasting away!

:bounce:

[noonwitch]

47. So, Rush has a drug problem, but it's somehow shameful to liberals?

A drug addict is a drug addict-Rush took Oxycontin originally to relieve back pain. I've worked with a lot of female junkies who started shooting up to relieve the emotional pain of a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse. According to Ann, Rush is entitled to more sympathy because he had a physical ailment.

What is her deal with Evan Thomas and the NY Times? Did he refuse to hire her or something? You'd think he was some kind of personal enemy, the way she goes off about him. She was going off recently about how Al Franken didn't note that Norman Thomas, the "socialist", was actually Evan's grandfather-she obviously didn't bother to follow the endnote, which was one of the points he was making about her book.

[Scott Lee]

49. There Goes Skankwich again

So there she is again - Anne Coulter performing a most amazing rhetorical highwire act to spin and lie for her team. We knew ya could do it, Annie.

My favorite part was her attempt to deflate the well publicized rants Rushbo made against drugs and drug users by saying it was "eight years old" and "pre-back surgery". So am I to understand, Annie, that what CONSERVATIVES (remember that means they conserve their ideologies, they are married to their beliefs and opinions by definition) say has a truth shelf life? Or perhaps the Pigboy changed his mind. Fair enough, we all change our minds and there's nothing wrong with that. Then, why didn't he say so in all those hours of mindless blowhole hot air he vented since?

In a sick and twisted continuation of Rushbo's lyin' ways, it seems that he need not even speak his own excuses to get out of hot water anymore. No, he has mediawhores like Skankwich Coulter to do it for him. Back during Vietnam you might remember he had to do his own beggin and pleadin to avoid service. It had something to do with anal warts.

What do you say, Skank? Do you wanna tackle the anal wart thing? I'll just watch, thanks.

To me it's clear why Rushbo is addicted to pain killers. Did you see that face of his on the latest Newsweek? Pure, fat, gloating hate. I can't see how anyone harboring such a hateful, miserable personal existence can keep from eating handfulls of painkillers, to be honest.

[Greyskye]

55. Coulter argues for marijuana legalization

So it appears to me that Coulter is making an arguement for marijuana legalization here:
In fact, Rush's behavior was not all that dissolute. There is a fundamental difference between taking any drug – legal, illegal, prescription, protected by the 21st Amendment or banned by Michael Bloomberg – for kicks and taking a painkiller for pain.

So do the folks I know who partake of the 'green' in order to keep food down, and to help manage chronic pain pass her litmus test listed above? I'll add my voice to the choir:hypocrite!

[dreissig]

51. Narcotics for Pain

By claiming that Limbaugh got addicted innocently by taking narcotics for pain, Coulter slides past the point that there are many forms of pain. Physical pain is only one of them. How about the hopelessness of the poor? Wouldn't that drive people to seek relief from pain?

Limbaugh's purported "truthfulness" can not be compared to the petty fibs Clinton told to escape the harassment of the right wing. Limbaugh, by his own admission, is nothing but a talk show host. Clinton, President of the United States, was under relentless, constant attack by his political enemies.

[mumon]

53. Let's count the lies:

1. After years of the mainstream media assuring us that Rush was a has-been, a nobody, yesterday's news – the Rush painkiller story was front-page news last week.

The demographics for talk radio are what they are Ann: mostly nearly dead people listened to the Nazi gas bag.


2. Rush Limbaugh's misfortune is apparently a bigger story than his nearly $300 million radio contract signed two years ago. That was the biggest radio contract in broadcasting history. Yet there are only 12 documents on LexisNexis that reported it.

Yes, the NYT, and every other print media organ I've seen reported his $285 million contract.

Wanna bet she put in $300 million and Limbaugh into Lexis/Nexis???

3. Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames {liberals.}

No, try theft, murder, extortion, overt racism, invasions of privacy, attacks on civil liberties...

4. Not a lie, really, but...I couldn't believe this:
At least Rush wasn't walking into church carrying a 10-pound Bible before rushing back to the Oval Office for sodomy with Monica Lewinsky.

At least he didn't have Clinton's penis???

I had a discussion with a Freeper yesterday, who couldn't bring himself to say that the phrase "Take that bone out of your nose" to an African American woman was racist!

Go figure...

5. Rush has hardly been the anti-drug crusader liberals suggest.

Well, that's a blatant lie, as anyone can see from:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=513499

6. The Rush Limbaugh quote that has been endlessly recited in the last week to prove Rush's rank "hypocrisy" is this, made eight years ago...

See? I told you so! Yet he said, from his own website, on July 23 of this year:

You know, there's this problem of not accepting responsibility for what you do. Somebody else is always to blame for the decisions you make. It's just maddening, this mentality to blame someone else for your thirty-seven adult beverages a day, and then find some greedy lawyer to buy you a ticket for the big-money lawsuit gravy train.


7. And, I might add what spinal operation? He never said he had one!

8. When a conservative can be the biggest thing in talk radio, earning $30 million a year and attracting 20 million devoted listeners every week – all while addicted to drugs – I'll admit liberals have reason to believe that conservatives are some sort of super-race, incorruptible by original sin.

No, rather we have reason to believe that dittoheads are some kind of untermenschen...not that there's anything wrong with that.


9.BIG LIE ALERT:

There is a fundamental difference between taking any drug – legal, illegal, prescription, protected by the 21st Amendment or banned by Michael Bloomberg – for kicks and taking a painkiller for pain.

Actually there is: People that take painkillers for pain, study after study after study shows (e.g., from wounded Vietnam vets) - don't get psychologically dependent upon them. Limbaugh's pain is no doubt a phantom pain, made up just so he could get high. It is the most logical conclusion one can make given the copious amount of research. Limbaugh was lying about his "pain."


10.This week, Rush proved his motto: He really can beat liberals with half his brain tied behind his back

Ha ha ha ! Then how come he never debated one, where he didn't have control of the mike???

Bill O'Reilly, for all his copious faults, at least ventured into the realm of "Fresh Air." Limbaugh never even got that far!

[mac56]

56. Great post, Kanzeon!

Bookmarked for future use.

:thumbsup:

[eleny]

59. Rewrote my comment and sent it to Ann via the web site-

"Conservative buzzards swoop down on the most helpless among you to snatch a scrap from his bones for the express purpose of using his failings as poison to jab at Liberals. This editorial lacks compassion for Rush, nneither does it uplift him.

You might consider a less enabling posture. But from the tone of your editorial, I doubt you have compassion for him. Spare us the lecture, Ann. You're hardly a voice for integrity when you seize upon his life and death problem to serve you as yet one more divisive tool."

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

62. Succinctly said. I'm afraid that I would just have to come out and call

her a mother of puppies.

[woofless]

63. Jeez, I should have known better

than to read that right after lunch! After I finish hurling someone please slap me.

[donotpassgo]

64. THAT COURT TV CHICK SURE SHUT HER UP

On Scarborough, I think. The lawyer was outdone by another lawyer because she made Naziwhore answer a yes or no question she couldn't wiggle out of.