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Coulter's 'Slander' a lazy mix of errors, invective (Roeper continues his slander)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 23, 2002 | RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Posted on 07/23/2002 10:11:23 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

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To: Timesink
July 33, 2002?

Whoops!

I knew it was going to be a long month but not that long!

41 posted on 07/23/2002 4:00:05 PM PDT by facedown
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To: Go Dub Go
How is he disrupting? It appears to me that he has a difference of opinion and would like to discuss the article. Isn't that what the forum is for?

I don't know what this guy said, since the posts were already deleted when I got here, but the general rules for liberals on FR are relatively simple: If you want to participate, you need to create an account, and then spend some time just reading, getting a feel of the place. And when you do start posting, post very respectfully. (In other words, don't call Bush "DUH-bya" or yell "Gore really won!" or otherwise act in a generally antagonistic manner.) If you sign up and then immediately start posting liberal dogma attacks on the opinions of other Freepers, you're going to be presumed to be an intentional disruptor, and your account will be deleted.

Oh, and judging from the single sentence of riggs2002's posts in this thread that remains, "Thanks for letting me know I pushed the right buttons," it seems pretty obvious to me that he was here to stir up trouble, not engage in legitimate debate. If you're only here to "push buttons," then you're a disruptor, period.

42 posted on 07/23/2002 4:02:35 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Chi-townChief
Maybe deep down, she's got a crush on us.

Gee, I guess he's blown his cover.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

43 posted on 07/23/2002 4:02:56 PM PDT by mikeb704
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To: F16Fighter
It's always funny to watch the liberals try and bitch slap Coulter. She has become a conservative Superstar overnight and people like Roeper are seething about it.

How come people take a conservative seriously and not liberals like Roeper?

That's what really gnaws at this ass clown.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

45 posted on 07/23/2002 7:24:10 PM PDT by section9
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To: riggs2002
Wow, I got a personal attack from my very first post!

Thanks for letting me know I pushed the right buttons.

Most of us conservatives still haven't learned that neat little trick that Katie "Eva Braun" Couric has of vomiting acid in the eyes of her political enemies (everyone to the right of Castro), otherwise I would have done that to you.

;-)


46 posted on 07/23/2002 7:43:00 PM PDT by an amused spectator
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To: Timesink
July 33, 2002?

Uh, gee, that's gotta be next week or something.

47 posted on 07/23/2002 7:47:48 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: laurav
I remember seeing corrections to her column when she used to write for USA Today.

Several months ago, a nationally known professor of history wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times. In the piece were several blatantly obvious misrepresentations of fact.

I called him on one personally, and he admitted his mistake and told me that the Times insisted on inserting the error in his piece (it was quite short - about 4 or 5 paragraphs).

Strangely, I don't recall the Gray Lady issuing a correction of their propaganda piece. ;-)

48 posted on 07/23/2002 8:00:20 PM PDT by an amused spectator
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To: The Presidunce
The Presidunce? And I always thought that Hillary was the world's smartest woman.

I guess everyone can be wrong, and I'll admit my mistake about Hildabeast. She is kind of a dunce, when you think about it. ;-)

49 posted on 07/23/2002 8:02:44 PM PDT by an amused spectator
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To: Timesink
You should forward your reply to this schmuck and his editor -- along with the URL. That's very fine work.
50 posted on 07/23/2002 8:14:24 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: Chi-townChief
P. 157: "The good part of being a Democrat is that you can commit crimes, sell out your base, bomb foreigners [i.e., Serbs], and rape women, and the Democratic faithful still think you're the greatest."

I don't know if this statement is true of all Democrats, but it sure is true about clinton!!!

52 posted on 07/23/2002 8:38:07 PM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: facedown
LOL! You're exactly right!
53 posted on 07/24/2002 6:38:24 AM PDT by an amused spectator
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To: an amused spectator
Thanks - other than a slight error with the date - see #36 and #41.
54 posted on 07/24/2002 6:45:24 AM PDT by facedown
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To: Chi-townChief
I think Ann is a very clever woman and I admire her spunk...that said - I have a problem:

I have been debating on another site with some of the libs and they keep directing me to the The Daily Howler and bringing up things I am finding hard to defend.

Like yesterday when they were telling me that Ann outright lied in many instances. I said "show me!" Then on her last page they note:

COULTER (page 205): The day after seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt died in a race at the Daytona 500, almost every newspaper in America carried the story on the front page. Stock-car racing had been the nation’s fastest-growing sport for a decade, and NASCAR the second-most-watched sport behind the NFL. More Americans recognize the name Dale Earnhardt than, say, Maureen Dowd. (Manhattan liberals are dumbly blinking at that last sentence.) It took the New York Times two days to deem Earnhardt’s name sufficiently important to mention it on the first page.

She DID lie here because I know and remember the Earnhardt story the following day ON PAGE ONE of the NYT. (I know because I kept the paper)

She really shouldn't have to resort to this. It seems petty I know but...

Having "a book packed with footnotes" really doesn't mean anything if the footnotes are wrong or you have to go through 24 hoops to make the connection with what you are saying and a way-out random quote.

(I really got hammered on by the libs when they referred to one of the her "slanders" about Phyllis Schlaffly (sp?)and her footnote was a 1984 Muppet movie review.)

How can I argue with that?

55 posted on 07/24/2002 9:28:28 AM PDT by punkit
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To: Chi-townChief
Dear Roep-a-Doep:

Ann Coulter's book is a polemic. It makes no pretense of objectivity. It is a jeremiad, a broadside, a diatribe. Ask your mom if you can borrow her dictionary and look up those words, then you'll have a clue.

And in the end, most of her allegations are true. Bill CLinton DID commit crimes, sell out his base, bomb foreigners, rape women, and folks like YOU are still carrying his water! And it seems fair for Ann to point out that Linda Tripp's enemies villified her as physically repugnant, apparently oblivious to the message Bella Abzug's mirror was sending, and noting that Maxine Waters, Betty Friedan, Janet Reno, Madeline Albright, and Donna Shalala weren't on Victoria's Secret's short list.

56 posted on 07/24/2002 2:29:24 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: an amused spectator
Yeah, the gray lady's corrections policy is "if we feel like it, and then we bury it in a little box where no one looks." USA Today at least prints their corrections in the spot where the error occurred, and does not leave it up to the whim of the individual columnist or editor.
57 posted on 07/25/2002 2:09:16 PM PDT by laurav
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To: UB355
"I don't normally buy this type of book, but did so because of the way it was footnoted." Do you trust the footnotes? How many mistakes would it take before you became concerned that the research was sloppy or fraudulent?
58 posted on 08/06/2002 2:59:47 PM PDT by ConsistentLibertarian
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To: Doc-Joe
Is this a quote from the book? "Only conservative women have their looks held up to ridicule because only liberals would be so malevolent." Sounds like an easy claim to test. Then we'd know if Ann was prone to exaggeration -- maybe the conservative version of Al Gore?
59 posted on 08/06/2002 3:12:35 PM PDT by ConsistentLibertarian
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