"Ann bashers...come out and play-e-yah!"
Ok - I'll bite.
A year ago I thought the woman was a goddess....I absolutely loved her.
Then she referred to muslims as "ragheads" at a function where Dick Cheney was present in the audience.
I thought this showed poor judgement on her part...but hey - who doesn't slip up now and then...right?
I don't know what I think now.
Sure - she's getting tons of publicity, but now I'm wondering if she's showing signs of some sort of mental illness herself? Or maybe fame is getting to her head?
I'm worried about her. I fear we're about to witness an unraveling that won't be very pretty.
I posted this in another thread regarding her comments on the "Jersey Girls" since that seems to be the thing most people who are offended take issue with...
I agree completely with Ann Coulter's characterization of those women.
There is a line by Robert Duvall's character in the movie "Open Range" that I really like:
"Good health to them that has it comin'..."
I believe in giving people respect in life on the basis of their station, experiences or rank. I grew up in military family, and we were taught to address men as "Sir" and women as "Ma'am", and responding had to say "Yes Sir" or "Yes Ma'am". I understood the concept of rank and chain of command.
The point is, if you meet a military person, you give them respect BECAUSE they are in the military. If you meet an elderly person, you give them respect BECAUSE they have lived a lot longer than you have. If you meet someone who has lost a loved one, you treat them with respect and deference BECAUSE they have suffered. All this is done without a single qualifying action on the part of the person. They don't, and shouldn't ASK for your respect and deference, the right thing, in the abscence of ANY other qualifying factor, is to grant them special treatment by default.
However, if people show, through their words and deeds, that they are not worthy of that default respect, there is NO reason whatsoever to grant that to them, in my opinion.
Benedict Arnold served his country brilliantly, but lost his right to default respect when he turned traitor.
John Kerry wore the uniform of the US Naval Service, and disgraced it. He is not worthy of default respect.
John Murtha served as a Marine. If anyone is worthy of respect by default, it is any person who makes it through Marine Basic Training to become a Marine. He has shown through his words and deeds, he is unworthy of the title Marine.
Ted Kennedy is a Senator, the very title should command respect by default. He has shown himself to be an enemy of everything this Republic stands for, through his legislative actions and slanderous personal attacks on an honorable man who is too classy to fight back.
Helen Thomas is an elderly person, a woman, and someone who has risen in her field to a position of prominence. She should be entitled to deference, but her vicious partisan attacks have discarded any protection those attributes should have provided her. She made a choice.
The best example of this is Cindy Sheehan. Who would dream of disrespecting a woman who has lost her son in the defense of his country? Never in a million years would I have done so, in usual times. But these are not ususal times. She has become a Useful Idiot for the antiwar left, she has used her son (who apparently had a polar opposite point of view on these things than his mother does) as a prop and a tool, and his coffin as a soapbox. She has disgraced everything her son stood for, for her own personal aggrandizement.
I feel EXACTLY the same way about these four women. Anyone who has heard them speak, seen them appearing in the venues they have, to push their political agendas, realizes they have voluntarily surrendered their default deference and respect to pursue a partisan political agenda. It has been their choice to do so.
If she's unraveling, so am I 'cause I agree with 99% of all she says. Strange how speaking simple truth can offend so many folks.
Please stop watching the lying MSM News. You are clearly infected with the pathogen that they are determined to spread around in order to infect us all.
You needn't worry. She's got her head on straight, her feet on the ground, and a twinkle in her eye. She's having the time of her life.
Ragheads Are Sihks.. Arab mussies are Sand Monkeys.. MAKE A NOTE..
I concur.
Muslims are recently arrested in Canada.
They behead people in Iraq.
They flew planes into our buildings.
They attacked Spain.
They attacked England.
They rioted in France.
They dragged our dead servicemen around and hung them from bridges.
They rejoiced in Palestine and New Jersey on 9/11.
They blew up our embassy in the Sudan.
They blew up the towers where Air Force personnel lived.
They blew up the Marine barracks and murdered our Marines.
They attacked the USS Cole.
They are involved in every hot on the globe.
How do you want to refer to them?