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Ann Coulter Slammed by Conservatives for Dissing Soccer
newsmax.com ^ | July 1, 2014 | Drew MacKenzie

Posted on 07/01/2014 3:15:08 PM PDT by PROCON

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has been shown a red card for her controversial comments criticizing the World Cup and calling soccer a girls’ game.

On the eve of the United States game against Belgium, Coulter has been blasted by fellow conservatives who have scoffed at her claim that "any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay," Politico reported.

On Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade attacked Coulter, saying, "I will outline what she said and try to find anything factual in it. That will be an interesting little exercise."

And Fox News host Shep Smith said sarcastically, "I'm told it's a sign of moral decay. It's not."

Although millions of Americans are watching every match in the tournament being held in Brazil, especially the U.S. team, Coulter suggested that only Americans of Hispanic descent are viewing the games.

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To: doorgunner69

“Shep Smith likes succer?”

Maybe not soccer, but definitely the first act of Chorus Line.


41 posted on 07/01/2014 4:47:40 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Once a politician has determined to do anything to keep his seat, he no longer deserves it.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
"Maybe not soccer, but definitely the first act of Chorus Line."

Having never seen it, I can guess..............

42 posted on 07/01/2014 4:49:16 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: who knows what evil?; miss marmelstein
thought I was watching the first act of “A Chorus Line

The difference is chorus girls don't keel over, writhe and whimper and wet themselves for no apparent reason.

43 posted on 07/01/2014 4:52:21 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: miss marmelstein

Yes, because baseball players are the epitome of sporting physicality. Steroid sodden sport whose greatest player is a fatso.

Baseball is for people too poor to afford sleeping pills. Give me soccer anyday over that slow, dull, 4hr snoozefest. A game based on English rounders for little girls.

Soccer is at least 90m of continuous movement, baseball is SO slow and dull. And not even American.


44 posted on 07/01/2014 4:58:29 PM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: miss marmelstein

Do baseball players eveb warm up?.

Yes, how silly of soccer players to warm up and stretch their bodies like professional athletes.


45 posted on 07/01/2014 5:00:52 PM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: PROCON

People that don’t “get” Coulter, don’t “get” hyperbole either.


46 posted on 07/01/2014 5:07:38 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Football, baseball are not American. You DO realise that?.

Although Americans are the only people who can watch two sports which take 3-4 hrs to complete, and then with no sense of irony complain that soccer is slow and dull.


47 posted on 07/01/2014 5:08:12 PM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

Uh oh. The scotsman has surfaced...correcting hundreds of freepers as we go...


48 posted on 07/01/2014 5:10:34 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Watching a bunch of guys in shorts kicking a ball up and down a field is meaningful how?

Yeah, it's not nearly as meaningful as watching a bunch of gorillas in armor beating the snot out of each other for five seconds in between beer commercials.

49 posted on 07/01/2014 5:11:56 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: the scotsman

Oh, the lack of irony charge tonight, scotsman! You’re in rare form! Sitting by your fireside with your single malt scotch and your itchy kilt correcting us low-life Americans again. I feel like I’m lost in the comments section of The London Times.


50 posted on 07/01/2014 5:14:43 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: PROCON

not a soccer fan or a coulter fan.


51 posted on 07/01/2014 5:17:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Fightin Whitey
The difference is chorus girls don't keel over, writhe and whimper and wet themselves for no apparent reason.

This.

52 posted on 07/01/2014 5:18:04 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Viennacon

But are there not MORE IMPORTANT things to be attacked, Ann?

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There is nothing more important to Coulter than getting attention for her comments.


53 posted on 07/01/2014 5:27:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

Soccer? What the hell is soccer?


54 posted on 07/01/2014 5:29:15 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: PapaNew

That happens for the Olympics too.


55 posted on 07/01/2014 5:47:19 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

What about basketball?
What about hockey?

What about GOLF?


56 posted on 07/01/2014 5:49:21 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: IronJack
Meaningful but often frustrating. Such as when both teams jam together and all start spinning in a slow circle, until the quarterback breaks loose and runs the wrong way. Or at night when your parents shout through the door "Will you shut that thing off!?"


57 posted on 07/01/2014 5:59:59 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: PROCON
I'm a huge Ann fan. Basically everything I've ever heard or read her say I not only agreed with, but agreed enthusiastically and with great admiration for her intelligence, wit and mastery of expression.

Except when she talks about Romney, Romneycare, and oh, did I mention Romney? When she does that, I say to myself, I say, "Ann, you ignorant slut."

And then when she changes subjects, I go on applauding her.

It's called real life, folks. For all of you who simmer with rage because she hasn't turned into a perfect ball of light, here's a tissue - grow up. Because the fact is that Ann Coulter is, for 95% of everything she does, one of the strongest and most effective conservative writers America has ever had. She's the moral successor to Thomas Paine - and I'm a big Paine fan (no pun intended). Even after I read that Paine had bad breath and horrible manners, I still praise his writings.

Amazing, isn't it?

58 posted on 07/01/2014 7:02:40 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: the scotsman

and then with no sense of irony complain that soccer is slow and dull.

...I don’t complain that it is slow and dull...I complain that it artificially depresses scoring so as to make it appear competitive...

...since so few goals are scored, I would submit that shots on goal should figure into the final score...and then you’d have a decent game...


59 posted on 07/01/2014 7:20:44 PM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: PROCON
>> "Ann Coulter Slammed by Fake Conservatives for Dissing Culture Bomb called Soccer" <<
60 posted on 07/01/2014 7:31:37 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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