Tell us what you really think, Ann Coulter

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 8/10/02 | Bill Steigerwald

[MissAmericanPie]

What is NPR? Gad I can't keep up with all these initials.=o(

[JavaTheHutt]

Ann is an embarassment to the conservative movement.

I was tempted to say something to the effect of "The real embarrasment to conservatives is people like yourself who only consider it a "movement" and fire off attacks at the most prominent, visible, and vocal people in the "movement" by calling them an embarassment.

But then I thought about how inconsequential your opinion really is and how Ann Coulter would dismiss you and your opinion as being completely irrelevent.

[Brasil]

Ann should be on the news shows as often as Terry McAwful. She could smack down any of the lib lies.

[DeFault User]

What is NPR? Gad I can't keep up with all these initials.=o(

Let me think now, hmmmmm, I believe it stands for National People's Radio, something like that. It's the federally funded broadcast arm of the DNC.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"(Bill) Bradley got a 485 on his verbal SATs. That’s ‘cerebral’ for a Democrat. Dumb George Bush got a 566, which was lower than Gore’s 625 – but a lot higher than Bradley’s 485."

Well, 566 is hardly indicative of genius. But then, there are people who view anything less than 800 as none-too-bright. But none of them ever got nominated for POTUS, either . . .

Ann's point is that liberals routinely credit Democratic presidential nominees with high intelligence--and just as routinely judge the current Republican nominee (or incumbent, for that matter) to be even dumber than previous Republican nominees. According to the logic of which, GW shouldn't be smart enough--by their lights--to drag his knuckes on the ground.

[MissAmericanPie]

Never even heard of it. So where is the conservative funded radio? Let me guess.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Surely you jest. National Public Radio. That is, National as in National Socialism, Public as in RePublicans are evil, Radio as in voices-in-their-heads. All socialist, all the time.

[Paul Atreides]

Seems there is a growing cottage industry all over the internet devoted to debunking her latest book, footnote by footnote. Site are springing up all over the place.

LOL! There was an article posted on FR the other day, by a Ann-hating columnist, taking her to task over her mention of the NYT coverage of the death of Dale Earnhardt. Out of that entire book, the only "smoking gun" he had was Ann, supposedly, getting wrong the amount of the NYT's covereage of the death.

[another cricket]

Q: What's the worst thing any liberal has said about you — something that almost made you cry?
A: "I liked your column today."

My role model! I want to be Ann when I grow up.

a.cricket

[navigator]

Calling fellow conservatives with opinions different from your own "RINO's" is so Second Millenium.

It should be put to rest alongside the liberal Second Millenium-favorite "Nazis."

[MissAmericanPie]

This is one issue I would love to see Freeped. Funding for N.O.W., MMM, PBS, this NPR. Why should Americans be forced to fund organizations with not enough popular support to go it on their own? We are forced to pay the bill to promote the lame ideas of our enemies, and they are our enemies. It's rediuclous. I think we have a right to be free from such abuse.

[Notforprophet]

You must just be looking to start an Ode-to-Ann Shrine in this thread. LOL

[BOBWADE]

ping

[RonDog]

Here is the streaming link for Ann's appearance on C-SPAN TODAY, from:

Anne Coulter Will be Interviewed on C-Span's BOOKNOTES, Sunday, 8 and 11 pm EST
C-Span ^ | 8/9/02 | Booknotes
Posted on 08/09/2002 9:45 AM Pacific by Dr. Scarpetta

This morning Brian Lamb said on C-Span that Anne Coulter will be on Booknotes Sun. (8/11/02) at 8/11 pm ET, and he mentioned that he's been getting negative e-mail.

and

Ann Coulter and "Slander" on C-SPAN Booknotes (11 Aug)
C-SPAN Booknotes with Brian Lamb
Posted on 07/28/2002 5:51 AM Pacific by leadpenny

C-SPAN Booknotes Link

Broadcast times (Eastern) are 8 and 11 PM and 6 AM the next morning.

You can WATCH Ann Coulter on C-Span (or just LISTEN) -
LIVE over the Internet, at:

www.c-span.org/watch

[RonDog]

Since Ann's appearance on C-SPAN today was PRE-recorded on July 10, you can watch a BIG (20 minute) excerpt already posted at: http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1688:

August 11, 2002 Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter
• Preview Program Read the New York Times Review The immutable fact of politics in America is this: liberals hate conservatives...

(I cannot make the java applet launch from FR.
You have to CLICK HERE, go to the C-SPAN page, and the click Preview Program.)

[longfellow]

Does anyone here know how to get in touch with Ann or a mailing address?

[Vinnie]

Why should Americans be forced to fund organizations with not enough popular support to go it on their own? We are forced to pay the bill to promote the lame ideas of our enemies, and they are our enemies. It's rediuclous. I think we have a right to be free from such abuse.

AMEN...AMEN....AMEN

Add National Endowment to the Arts

[navigator]

Ann is an embarassment to the conservative movement

Without people like NewYorkTimesBestseller Ann, "conservative" and "movement" would be oxymoronic. Or maybe that should be epoxy-colonic ...not movin' anywhere anytime soon.

No, the trouble with conservatism isn't with the Ann Coulters, she's an absolute gem. The trouble is with all the "movements" discarded by the left and banished to the rightwing.

Half the people who think they're conservative actually aren't, they just think they are 'cause the leftwing establishment told them so to make them go away.

"Libertarians" come immediately to mind. Followed closely by those other olde lefties, the national SOCIALISTS.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Calling fellow conservatives with opinions different from your own "RINO's" is so Second Millenium.

It should be put to rest alongside the liberal Second Millenium-favorite "Nazis."

I almost never do that, but I was overcome.

I think very highly of Slander, but it stops one step short. That step is to identify the fact that entertainment is superficial, and entertainers who engage in politics as entertainment are demagogues. And that journalists are entertainers or they are commercial failures.

Liberalism is simply following the path of least resistance created by the demagogic imperatives of entertainment; a journalist may claim to be independent of liberal politics, but liberal politicians can and do moot that claim by refusing to be independent of the journalistic herd. And the journalistic herd is coherent because flame wars among journalists are counter to the interests of all journalists--they would subvert the ideology of "objectivity."

[cold_vicious_logic]

Ann is an embarassment to the conservative movement.

Embarrassment is the wrong word here. I'll grant you she falls short in a few areas; she's too easily clouded by emotion at times and often prefers spitting out one liners to properly laying out her arguement. But when she's not patting herself on the back for her own wit, she's a brilliant debater who tears through any half-assed liberal propaganda like a hot knife through butter.

She is confrontational and too arrogant to assist the cause.

Got news for you: shy, humble sissies ain't much good either.