Please just ignore Ann Coulter since all she wants is attention.

[liberalnurse]

She only does this obnoxious babble to get some kind of reaction and attention. She is craving any type of acknowledgment and will resort to even flashing to get someone to talk to her and/or look her way.

This fagot language is deliberate taunting for her own narcissistic gain.

Just ignore her and she will go away....because she then will be unable to make any news print via our rebuttal.

[sellitman]

1. ummmmm

You just gave her attention.

:spank:

[liberalnurse]

7. I feel that I am speaking to a group

of peers....processing the wicked behavior of a desperate, narcissistic, slander-junkie of the Third Kind. That's why this is called a discussion board.

She is not a journalist but just a political groupie who will say anything, do anything to gain attention. She will go away if we do not acknowledge her....She looses any media power by our doing nothing.

[grytpype]

2. Hear, hear!

[ClassWarrior]

3. I don't want her to go away!! She's the face of modern Rape-Publicanism.

I want Americans to see these hateful criminals in all their petty glory.

NGU.

[terrya]

4. AMEN

All she does is spew insane gibberish. Nothing she says is worth the slightest bit of attention.

The best revenge on this woman is to just ignore her completely. Let her talk to herself and the poor, sad people who thinks that she has anything worthwhile to say.

[Ikonoklast]

5. Her sister says hello

"....And your little dog, too!"

[cali]

6. That's lousy political advice.

I'm glad Howard Dean knows better than to do what you suggest. As for people ignoring it on DU, why should they? It really isn't going to make much of a difference whether we discuss it or not.

[liberalnurse]

8. What are you getting at???????????

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[cali]

9. I don't know how I could have been clearer

HD was on top of her remark within hours, calling on repub pols, particularly those who were at CPAC to repudiate and denounce what he called vile comments. That's good politics. And discussing it here doesn't help Coulter in any way.

[liberalnurse]

11. Well, in my opinion, that is exactly

what Coulter seeks.....HD gives her a "cookie". I'd rather it be Dean than the actual candidates. He is best at running interference and she actually wants to get into a media dialog with the candidates....so we best not take the bait.

[tinrobot]

18. Exactly... she's baiting us...

...and guess what, it works. Look at all the energy that goes into this woman and her foul messages.

Her job is to bait people. By taking the bait, you do her work for her.

[ClassWarrior]

20. Then don't "take the bait." Let it roll off your back and let her hang herself and her ilk.

All we have to do is laugh and continue to point out her connection to the mainstream Rape-Publican movement. I don't know how that uses any more energy than any other successful political strategy.

NGU.

[cali]

22. Nope. And you've already been proven

wrong by denunciation of Coulter from Guiliani, Romney and McCain. The point is to make sure the public knows the Coulter is a part of the repub establishment, and to associate her comments with them.

[B Calm]

10. I thought the same thing back in 1989 about Rush Limburger ..

[Spiffarino]

12. Couldn't disagree more

I respect your point and you are precisely correct that she is an attention-seeking slag, but I think her outrageous hatefulness is why her words need more, not less, attention.

Coulter is not mainstream in any sense. When regular folks around the country hear how awful she is they make up their own minds. Remember, McCarthy used the bully pulpit and eventually it did him in. Coulter is a cable news phenomenon. When she hit the mainstream on NBC's morning show, she made a complete ass of herself and damaged her credibility in the process.

No, what we do here and elsewhere to expose her for the mean-spirited hag she is will lead to her undoing. We should always expose lies and hate and do it loudly and powerfully.

Edit: K&R: It's an excellent topic for discussion. What is the best way to handle a hateful loudmouth?

[terrya]

13. I wish more people in the media would call her out on her crap.

It really doesn't help, for instance, for people like Bill Maher, who's supposedly chummy with her and who doesn't share her beliefs, acting as enablers for her vile insane crap.

My take is that she should be marginalized. It's the same with people like Pat Robertson. Why people take this insane nutjob even slightly seriously is a complete mystery to me. They deserve to be ignored.

[ClassWarrior]

15. She's not mainstream American, but she IS mainstream Rape-Publican...

...which, again, "is why her words need more, not less, attention," to use your phrase. She repeatedly rips the mask off the ugly, hateful face of the mainstream RW.

NGU.

[tblue37]

14. No--she WILL get all the attention she craves, no matter what we do, and it

will be POSITIVE, because the media and her RW fans will continue to lionize her. The reason we must speak out against her is that not doing so doesn't deprive her of positive attention, but just lets her get away with what she does without calling attention to the fact that it is really ugly and that she IS the mainstream Republican party, not some fringe element.

John Kerry tried to take the high road and ignore the Swift Boaters. How did that work out for him?

[tinrobot]

16. Thank you - well said.

But she's not only doing it for vanity - she says these horrid words precisely because she knows that people will repeat those words and spread the lie... and judging from the number of times her words have been repeated here and elsewhere, it's working.

They say that energy flows where attention goes, and by putting so much attention into her words, we take energy away from the important and positive things that our own candidates are advocating.

Ignore her.

[Selatius]

17. Doesn't the Florida police still want her for voter fraud???

What happened with that issue?

[ourbluenation]

19. or, shine a white hot spotlight right on her ugly ass and reveal all.

[Obamarama]

21. How can you ignore someone whose head you'd love to clobber with a tire iron?

I can't ignore that pile of shit. And as much as the lurid cretin spikes my blood pressure, I hope the Resmuglicans continue to be associated with the bony-assed bitch...hopefully she will serve them well.

Come to think of it, she doesn't deserve to be beaten with a tire iron. I hope she lives a long life and ends up dying alone,wallowing in her own shit and piss in a Depends, and absolutely terror stricken with what awaits her putrid soul.

Whew...feels better now I've got THAT off my chest.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Totally! Look how well ignoring sexism, racism and gay-bashing has gotten us so far!

:rofl:

[Madspirit]

24. I disagree

I think it is our job to fight homophobia, racism, xenophobia, etc. anytime it rears it's ugly head. She will not go away because her Republican bootlickers give her plenty of reinforcement. What she says needs to be countered, imo.
Lee

[Jack Rabbit]

25. I posted something to the effect yesterday

In that post, I even cited three past cases where she accused leading Democrats of being homosexual, without any supporting documentation whatsoever.

Little did I know that at almost the very instant I posted that, she was adding a fourth leading Democrat to her list.

I don't know why this one gets attention and the other three didn't.

It's not as though this is even swiftboating. No one can take what she said seriously. Mr. Edwards hardly needs to refute the charge. She thinks slandering the opposition is funny, especially when everybody knows it's slander.

Well, it isn't funny. It's just warped.

Ignore the harpy already.