Ann, the incendiary...
Posted on 08/23/2002 6:49:15 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
No it won't. Her entire schtick is being a bomb thrower. She's said things worse than this before, and it hasn't hurt her a bit.
This was an indefensible attack on the Big Media and it will be deployed ruthlessly against her and all conservatives.
Well, we can argue over the "indefensible" part, but all her statement will do is give the same people already filled with unrestrained hatred for her (like they have for all conservatives) one more quote to toss onto their "Ann Coulter is Evil" web pages that will only be read by fellow liberal hater travelers.
Gee, thanks. Here's the quote in context.
When Lincoln was approached with complaints about the appalling number of casualties among Grant's men and Grant's drinking problem, Lincoln responded that a case of whatever Grant was drinking should be sent to all the Union's generals! "I cannot spare this man," Lincoln said, "he fights!" ...[Grant became]...the most revered man in the Union. 
Ann is using hyperbole for purposes of humor. Morbid humor, but humor nonetheless...Bingo!
Let us stipulate that this quote was not one of Ann's finer riposts.
But compare her light-hearted, OBVIOUSLY humorous, tone with the extraordinarily SERIOUS focus of that darling of the Left, Gore Vidal, from http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b85c7014b09.htm:
The writer Gore Vidal yesterday compared the executed Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh to Paul Revere, the hero of American independence.I'll take Ann on her WORST day over the Denizens of the Evil Left on their BEST days - every time.In a withering address at the Edinburgh book festival, the liberal novelist and elder statesman of the Gore political dynasty, said the former soldier decorated for bravery in the Gulf war wanted to send out a warning that the government had been bought by corporate America and "its secret police, the FBI, were out of control. What McVeigh was saying was, 'The Feds are coming, the Feds are coming' "
In his strongest identification yet with the man who confessed to blowing up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people in retaliation for the FBI's "slaughter at Waco", Vidal described him as a "Kipling hero" with an "overdeveloped sense of justice..."
While admitting no wrong, the US Government settled suits filed by the Weaver family over the killing of his 14 year old son and his wife by federal law enforcement officials at Ruby Ridge in Northern Idaho. The payment settles claims filed by Weaver and his two daughters. The original claims totaled $200 million. The Justice Department released a statement on the day they agreed to the settlement that said in part: "The settlement reflects the loss to the Weaver children of their mother and brother. By entering into a settlement, the United States hopes to take a substantial step toward healing the wounds the incident inflicted."
Right. That's why Randy Weaver was awarded $3.1 Million in a suit against the United States government.
Get a clue, clueless.
I said: "Is it comfortable being a doormat for the liberals? ;-)"
Clearly we can see that I was not "making light of the murder of innocents". I do remember that Clinton tried to use the Oklahoma bombing to blame "right-wing hate radio" (Rush Limbaugh et al), which is infinitely more scummy than "making light of the murder of innocents". Standing on a pile of broken, bleeding bodies and pointing a bloody finger at your political opponents is the stock-in-trade of our liberal enemies.
If you're comfortable being a doormat for such execrable scum, then I pity you.
And quit putting words in my mouth to try to make yourself feel better about wrapping yourself in the chains of servitude to the liberals.
She said she "takes joy in liberal attacks. It’s like coffee. I mean, usually when I write up a column, I know what’s going to drive them crazy. I know when I’m baiting them, it’s so easy to bait them and they always bite. That is my signature style, to start with the wild, bald, McCarthyite overstatements—seemingly—and then back it up with methodical and laborious research. Taunting liberals is like having a pet that does tricks. Sit! Beg! Shake! Then they do it."
The liberals and the country-club Pubbies are going to go nuts over this quote.
Then, Ann is going to put this quote of hers on the front cover of her next book, and will go on to fill the book with hundreds of examples of liberals spewing worse bile and hate, and getting away with it, with the indulgence and complicity of the Democrat media. And she's going "back it up with methodical and laborious research".
And then you're going to look like the country-club Pubbie chumps that you really are. Get it? ;-)
At least twice in recent weeks when I've argued with liberal acquaintances about media bias, they've thrown your first point at me to "prove" that the press has a conservative bias. They seemed to have a formula all worked out:
Corporations make money
Making money = conservative
Therefore, corporate ownership = conservative point of view
They wielded this formula like a trump card. They weren't interested in actual examples of bias (and since I subscribe to the Media Research Center's Notable Quotables newsletter, I can provide a truckload of examples). As far as they were concerned, once a media outlet's corporate ownership was triumphantly revealed, the discussion was over. Arguing with them was very frustrating.
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