COMING THIS SUMMER: THE DEVIL AND MS. COULTER!
PUBLISHER ANNOUNCES NEW BOOK FROM NATION'S TOP-SELLING CONSERVATIVE AUTHOR...
DETAILS: NONE.
OBAMA AS SATAN? DEMS CULT OF WICKED? WARNING ON AMERICA'S DISINTEGRATION?
Posted on 04/19/2011 5:35:48 PM PDT by RonDog
This announcement was briefly at the top of the Drudge Report earlier today:
COMING THIS SUMMER: THE DEVIL AND MS. COULTER!PUBLISHER ANNOUNCES NEW BOOK FROM NATION'S TOP-SELLING CONSERVATIVE AUTHOR...
DETAILS: NONE.
OBAMA AS SATAN? DEMS CULT OF WICKED? WARNING ON AMERICA'S DISINTEGRATION?
I am not a troll. I don’t like Ann either.
Coulter is in it for Coulter. That is fine, but I wish she would keep her anti-eligibility crap to herself.
I know the liberals like to throw the word around, but I wish FReepers would stop using the term “birther”. I’m a concerned American citizen who believes our laws should be followed.
I will not give her any of my money.
I didn' realize that not gushing over Ann Coulter makes one a troll and a minion of George Soros and Hitlery.LOL!
Perhaps you only POST like a troll -- but are not one. :o)Sorry. It is a sore subject around here lately.
But you **do** qualify for posting this thread's top "straw man" fallacy. :o)I was talking about SUPPORTING a long-time FRiend -- even if we do not always agree with her -- not "gushing over" her.
(Not that there's anything wrong with THAT, either! :o)
It’s the 20% that really bothers me. Especially her dismissal of the birther issue and the smug way she did it. Like Beck and BOR.
How is saying you don’t like Coulter posting “like a troll—but are not one”?
I have been here a while, and I do know that blind worship of any so-called conservative is not what FR is about.
Ann, you go girl.
I’ve never read a Coulter book.Wow.
Then, may I suggest starting with TREASON -- while you are waiting for her new one?Here is one of my favorite reviews of that book, from www.claremont.org:She certainly did her research on THAT one -- demolishing the "common knowledge" about "McCarthyism" -- even among otherwise well-informed conservatives.
Tailgunner Ann
A review of Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann CoulterBy William F. Buckley, Jr.-- snip --
...As expected, much of the book is devoted to rejecting commonly accepted charges against Senator Joe McCarthy. She gives the reader the names of a dozen indisputably traitorous actors who worked in government while concealing their ties to the Soviet Union. Quite properly, she lists Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore as prime examples of liberal obstinacy, and she wonders very much out loud whether that obstinacy arose because these liberals were concerned with due process and the presumption of innocence and all that, or whether they were, in heart and mind, on the Soviet side in the Cold War...
-- snip --
...She writes with scorn and derision of the critics of McCarthy and of the lengths to which many of them went, and still do. The late Brent Bozell and I spent 18 months attempting to distinguish what McCarthy had said and charged in the years we examined, and where (not often) he was indefensible. Our book was titled McCarthy And His Enemies, because we sought to make the point that many enemies of McCarthy had earned a derision and contempt that they nevertheless never had experienced in the cooler, reflective chambers of historical criticism. Coulter's rejoinders to many of McCarthy's critics are well aimed, and the offenders eminently vulnerable...
-- snip --
...There was the dogged New York Times defense of the so-called Lackawanna Muslims, brought in by the FBI and interrogated. The Times expressed deep sympathy for the detainees, and reported the dismay of their neighbors. "It was just like the Times's man-on-the-street interviews on Bush's tax plan. For the Times, an ordinary American is a sociology professor in Oregon whose wife teaches tantric sex at the community college." Coulter accosts the defense of the detained Yemeni-Americans to the effect that they were no more suspicious than the man next door with some of the data the FBI had come up with. "The prosecution's case, at least in part, is that a terrorist can be the kid next door. Yes—if the kid next door trained with al-Qaeda. Mohammed Atta lived next door to somebody, too. Don't all criminals live next door to somebody? What was the Times's point?"
There is a lot of such fun and shrewdness as this in Ann Coulter's book, but there is also mischief, which of course can be fun. Especially mischief about the other guy.
William F. Buckley, Jr. is the founder of National Review.
I have been here a while, and I do know that blind worship of any so-called conservative is not what FR is about.O.K., it looks like we may have a TIE in this current thread's "straw man" contest. :o)
For those of you who are playing along at home, the "straw man" logical fallacy involves changing the other person's position to something that you can attack more easily -- particularly when it is not true -- so that you can then refute that easier "pretend" (i.e., "straw man") argument.As a PROMOTOR, I get this kind of thing a lot -- particularly on threads about Governor Palin.
For the record, I believe that you can AGGRESSIVELY SUPPORT and PASSIONATELY DEFEND public figures who are on our side of the issue MOST of the time without "worshiping" them.
There’s enough Coulter on the internet to keep me busy. Probably read excerpts of every book.
Absolutely brilliant!
I will not be buying it. Maybe other “cranks” feel the same.
Apparently, for many people, Ann's lack of enthusiasm for the "birth certificate" issue is a deal breaker.I agree that Obama should have to provide at least as much documentation as is required of a ten-year-old who wants to play baseball in Little League.Too bad.
And, I think that his reluctance to release virtually ANY information about his "non-American" past resonates very strongly with those of us who were raised in a culture that promotes a love for American exceptionalism.
He must be hiding SOMETHING.Still, I prefer ANN -- and the rest of the 80% where we agree, to DONALD TRUMP, for example...
... who is solid on his 20% "birth certificate" attack on Obama, but scares the Hell out of me with his 80% support for liberal positions.In California, we have had a VERY BAD recent experience with another "celebrity businessman" who TALKED like a conservative, but GOVERNED like a liberal.
I fear that Trump may be similarly deceiving conservatives nationwide today -- particularly those for whom the "birth certificate" issue is paramount. :(
:o)
Remind me never to get in an argument with you! (Not that I ever would - you agree with me far too often for that!)
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Talk about picking at straws.
How in the world did you get to Arnold in CA from some of us not worshiping the book pimping of Ann Coulter?
Every post of yours on this thread sounds like you are trying to pick a fight along with your obvious crush on Coulter.
Just accept the fact that some of us FReepers don’t like what she is selling.
Or are we not allowed to think for ourselves?
Ann is leanest meanest RINO exposer of all...
The liberals don't really care about her or her books..
Its the RINOs that despise her..
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