Incidentally, I recently spotted the best Coulter nickname ever:
Frau Blücher.
vaara |
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07.26.03 - 5:51 am | #
I went to Babelfish in the hope of learning what "blucher" meant, and was rewarded with the English translation "more blucher," which didn't help a lot. Maybe someone will explain this for me.
Someone around here said "Gestapo Barbie," which I still like a lot.
AlanH |
07.26.03 - 6:01 am | #
I'm waiting for her bio movie:
"ILLEGALLY BLOND"
Let's cast David Spade in the lead role.
Shag from Brookline |
07.26.03 - 6:39 am | #
One of these days science will determine why some people (Ann Coulter) are such assholes. Will us on the left be okay with the genetic engineering techniques that might cure such misfits?
jerry |
07.26.03 - 6:59 am | #
Sheesh, don't let me near a keyboard after 2am and with the Gin out:
A Bluecher is a boot, named after a German general.
St. Patrick |
07.26.03 - 7:45 am | #
"One of these days science will determine why some people (Ann Coulter) are such assholes."
One doesn't need science to determine that they are that way because of money.
Nobody would pay them much if they got an honest job.
raj |
07.26.03 - 7:45 am | #
There was a recent posting on Echaton about how effective the use of Annthrax's quotes were in helping recruit to the anti-American cause. Invading Muslim countries to kill their leaders and convert the people to Christianity is the same thing Osama says Americans are doing. She's a treasonous shit-bitch.
enaud |
07.26.03 - 7:56 am | #
Which implies they can perform an "honest job" something not in evidence by the way.
What's really odd to me is the people who buy into this nonsense. Funny, in a nightmarish, scary, frightening, no future for this country kind of way. Horrifyingly hilarious, sure.
I don't know. I don't get it. One extremely poorly written book from an author with a history of bad writing and now quicker than you can say "revisionist history" old Joe is a hero?
Who wants to buy into shit like that? Where is the desire to see someone such as McCarthy as a downtrodden hero and not the foul, back stabbing, cowardly villain he was?
Clinton had his strong points. But he also had a lot of weaknesses. I'm not eager to see someone claim that all of his weaknesses were fake and he really was a demi-god. I can live with the picture of a flawed man who did some great, and some not so great things.
So what is the motivation for going back to McCarthy for some kind of "Hey look! Presto Chango! Ol' Tailgunner Joe was NICE guy!"?
Can someone explain this to me please?
And how long before it's Nixon who is to be re-animated in some more pleasant fashion? Or is that a task even too Herculean for Annthrax?
ice weasel |
07.26.03 - 7:59 am | #
Why does anyone pay attention to that idiot? Is she living proof that in murika you don't need to have a brain to get on TV, just be blonde with nice legs? Do people actually believe that drivel? Sheesh.
Abiel |
07.26.03 - 8:04 am | #
She's so thin, whenever she walks in front of a bright light I can actually see all the horrible things inside her.
Charley Deppner |
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07.26.03 - 8:16 am | #
Much as I love the Farmer, explain to me again why Coulter's raving's are important?
If it's a valid theory that the reason anyone pays attention to this skank is that the Right considers her just the creamiest, sexiest, most hormone-inducing thing since Seka retired from the porn business, then time and gravity will make her finally go away, yes?
****
By the way--is anyone else occasionally attempting to post but instead getting a message that one has been banned (apparently arbitrarily) by the webmaster?
Molly |
07.26.03 - 8:16 am | #
1) clerestory. Beautiful. I never see that word.
Little Ann's dad was a lawyer who worked busting unions for coal mining companies.
She used to spend her summers at the mines "working" - imagine the view she got of the working man there.
What do you expect from someone who spent their formative years learning that the proletariat is full of dirty poor people who have to be firmly squashed if they ask for fair wages or conditions they won't die from?
julia |
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07.26.03 - 8:26 am | #
Ice Weasel, no one ever went broke by exploiting the greed, fear, and paranoia of the populace, and there will always be someone to exploit it.
Mustang Bobby |
07.26.03 - 8:28 am | #
Forget about Ann, she's off the rails and even the standard right wing madding crowd is distancing themselves from Treason, it's so far gone. I mean, what's next, an impassioned defense of Mussolini?
But Farmer, you need to lay off the shrooms, just a bit.
loser |
07.26.03 - 8:33 am | #
Ann the "contortionist" Gearaldo's gift to america.Is'nt she putting on weight??
Quisling |
07.26.03 - 8:36 am | #
It has never been clear why we pay so much attention to this very silly person. Surely she is not to be taken seriously.
BobNJ |
07.26.03 - 8:59 am | #
Loser, no. The next step is to show how liberals helped and abetted Hitler and Mussolini. And how it was those damn liberals that caused the Civil War. And goddamn those liberals that fought on Britain's side during the Revolution.
You know. Historical revision.
Adam 4-4-2 |
07.26.03 - 9:05 am | #
Who buys into this shit?
Sadly,quite a few people. I don't recall the author(or the title for that matter) but in the 80's some former CIA agent wrote a book about the Clintons for the small publisher Regnery. In it the Clintons were said to do things like decorate the White House Christmas tree with sex toys. Of course it didn't take long to do some fact checking and the author and his publisher were written off as nut jobs.
But what happened next was that this thing became something like holy scripture to the radio talk show host like Limbaugh and book sales skyrocketed.
A small gold-rush in anti-Clinton books followed. These were heavily advertised on talk radio and their authors were frequent guests. If you got something on the Clintons,there were publishers waithing to get a book out and money to be made. Delusional,paranoid,and factually challenged political screeds that,up until then,you would have to order from the John Birch Society or buy at the loacl Gun Show were now a "respectable" and quite profitable business.
Phil |
07.26.03 - 9:06 am | #
Coulter had always flirted with insanity, but her jealousy of Monica finally sent her over the edge.
TownDrunk |
07.26.03 - 9:10 am | #
Frau Blücher.
Did I just hear some horses neigh in terror?
the farmer - I love any post that spells "bellwether" correctly. The rest was good, too.
NTodd |
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07.26.03 - 9:15 am | #
Christ. Don't pay attention to Coulter. It's what she wants.
Zaro |
07.26.03 - 9:22 am | #
Coulter is a geek show. Might as well discuss why monkeys play with their own feces. She's fifty percent hatefulness and fifty percent greed and one hundred percent horseface. Certainly not worth a thousand words on Eschaton.
Brett |
07.26.03 - 9:29 am | #
You guys give her too much attention.
Speaking as a woman, I can tell you that no one will give her the time of day when she gets crows-feet and her tits start to deflate.
NYCO |
07.26.03 - 9:29 am | #
Di'ja see Annthrax on Paula Z's program Thursday? "Her" voice was unusally deep. Most of the time "she" does a mo' better job maintaining a higher, feminine timbre. Also, one of the camera angles gave "her" horse face a sharp angular, manish cast. Hell, I even thought there was an ever so slight Nixonian 5 o'clock shadow. Must'a been a conspiracy of the fags in makeup, wardrobe, sound and camera unions at the Clinton News Network.
Dr. Fill |
07.26.03 - 9:30 am | #
There's the Haloscan-proof link to the NYT story on the failed redistricting in TX.
RCSanders |
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07.26.03 - 9:39 am | #
Zaro -- yew don't actually believe that Annthrax has any earthly idea that this blog exists, do you?
Dr. Fill |
07.26.03 - 9:40 am | #
" Little Ann's dad was a lawyer who worked busting unions for coal mining companies.
She used to spend her summers at the mines "working" - imagine the view she got of the working man there.
What do you expect from someone who spent their formative years learning that the proletariat is full of dirty poor people who have to be firmly squashed if they ask for fair wages or conditions they won't die from?"
OK. I just hated this horse-faced harridan before, but now that I know she is the progeny of union busting scum AND that she has actually seen real working people and still has this kind of contempt for them... Now I want to sit on her head and fart repeatedly.
patrick |
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07.26.03 - 9:41 am | #
Now I want to sit on her head and fart repeatedly.
Suit yourself, but that's as likely to be her kink as anything.
Molly |
07.26.03 - 9:49 am | #
In her eyes, any union member is a communist.
Hell, I'll bet she believes that abolitionists were communists since they wanted to free the slaves and give them fair working wages(just wages, really) and working AND living conditions that were better than deplorable.
Adam 4-4-2 |
07.26.03 - 9:51 am | #
Farmer, you're H.S. Thompson, right?
Anyway, Ann seems to forget that FDR, a Democrat, stole the Nazi's best atomic scientists or we'd all be speaking German and living under the fashionably high-heeled jackboot of Herr Coulter. She's probably like that and that's why she's pissed.
Or the fact that JFK, a Democrat, stared down the barrel of nuclear combat toe to toe with that Russki madman and smacked him right down mano e mano or we'd all be speaking Russian and buying our People's Cola at the Central Commissary for 10,000 Rubles per as Politburo Annie broadcast the People's Daily Newsspeak from Pravda News Network.
Oh, wait, she already HAS that gig.
SK Bubba |
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07.26.03 - 9:54 am | #
Note that Ann blames liberals for the fact that the nation had to live with the "threat of nuclear annihilation" for the past 50 years- but she doesn't challenge the present regime to do anything about it...
peter jung |
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07.26.03 - 9:57 am | #
She is laying the ground work for the neocons inquisitions. We are being desensitized, so that even half of horseface's silliness won't seem so outrageous.
Wait and see.
She was recently the Today Show with Katie Couric.
In the third (and typically least watched) hour of the TODAY SHOW on Wednesday, Katie Couric sat down with conservative author Ann Coulter to discuss her latest book, 'SLANDER' http://www.anncoulter.org/specia...ials/
couric.htm
Three More GIs Killed In Iraq
Three U.S. soldiers guarding a children's hospital in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, were killed and four were wounded in a grenade attack Saturday morning, the U.S. military reported. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2...ain541815.shtml
hadenough |
07.26.03 - 10:05 am | #
Hows THIS for traitorous Ann?
"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation,
we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically
read it "all men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings
get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and
foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating
to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia,
for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy
of hypocrisy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P.
Basler, Volume II, "Letter to Joshua F. Speed" (August 24, 1855), p. 323
Anonymous |
07.26.03 - 10:07 am | #
Oooops, forgot this:
The Couric-Coulter Catfight
Jun 27, 2002, 2:45 PM PT
The biggest catfight on daytime Wednesday wasn't on any soap opera. Nope, it was on NBC's usually claw-free Today Show.
Katie Couric dropped the perky persona and went hiss to diss with conservative writer Ann Coulter over perceived political bias. http://www.eonline.com/News/
Item...1,10167,00.html
hadenough |
07.26.03 - 10:09 am | #
A letter from Abe to his boyfriend!
Way cool.
David Ehrenstein |
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07.26.03 - 10:16 am | #
My understanding is that "blucher" is German for glue - hence the horses' terrified whinnying at each mention of her name.
tomaig |
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07.26.03 - 10:17 am | #
I doubt that Coulter actually believes any of this crap that she spews; it's just that wingnuttery is the shtick she uses as a meal ticket.
Coulter herself isn't important. What is important is the right-wing propaganda apparat that employs her. Without Fox, CNBC, Clear Cannel, Regnery and the rest she'd just be a horse-faced harridan howling into the void. If someone plugged her tomorrow they'd find another to do the same job.
jimBOB |
07.26.03 - 10:34 am | #
Isn't it obvious by now?
Coulter is either insane (which I also think is tied in with her chain smoking and habitual alcohol abuse---by the way, McCarthy was also an alcoholic), or she is consciously being extreme and outrageous because it's her "schtick" and she knows it "sells."
The question is, what to do with her?
How do we her expose her for what she is---just as we need to enlighten people to the fact that the boy-king has no clothes.
Jeremiah Elias |
07.26.03 - 10:35 am | #
Now I want to sit on her head and fart repeatedly.
The 4th grader in me (which my wife doesn't find endearing for some reason) just laughed a lot. My goodness. Thanks.
NTodd |
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07.26.03 - 10:35 am | #
Sam Tanenhaus writing for Slate nails it well.
Coulter's cheerleading on behalf of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and "his brief fiery ride across the landscape," as she puts it, is what has her critics most exercised. Doesn't she understand, they ask, that McCarthy wasn't an anti-Communist at all but a dangerous outrider who harmed a noble cause by defaming and giving ammunition to the left?
This writer basicly says that Coulter of is the embodyment of everything the right doesn't want you to know about who they are. Conservatives are extremely paranoid and so they see social programs like Medicare as communistic.
Change scares them so much they invent witches and thats why Ashcroft, who see all immigrates as enemies has racked up considerable accounts of human rights violations.
And like the writer says in Slate the type of reasoning that Coulter is what whips the words of Safire columns.
Or to imply, as William Safire did this week, that unnamed journalists pressing the WMD case are, "by their investigative and oppositionist nature," unwitting handmaidens of Saddam.-- or the witches of McBeth.
Bubble, Bubble toil and trouble – just add one blond nitwit.
But will the spell last in the sobering event of the daily return of bodys coming from Iraq?
Cheryl |
07.26.03 - 10:37 am | #
Silly reactions aside, What do you think Ann would make of our most beloved fouding father if he were alive today?
Again:
Hows THIS for traitorous Ann?
"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation,
we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically
read it "all men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings
get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and
foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating
to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia,
for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy
of hypocrisy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P.
Basler, Volume II, "Letter to Joshua F. Speed" (August 24, 1855), p. 323
Anonymous |
07.26.03 - 10:38 am | #
Farmer,
I don't care what anyone else says, I look forward to your purple prose every day. It's luscious.
And Frau Bleucher (horse whinnies) is the best nickname we could give this batshit loony bitch.
Jorge |
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07.26.03 - 10:39 am | #
Well, she's no more extreme than Michael Moore, and a lot easier on the eyes.
Bill S. |
07.26.03 - 10:42 am | #
Yeah, if yew call a transsexual skank easy on the eyes.
Totally off the subject from Bob Park's What's New:
3. VOTING MACHINES: “HANGING CHAD” WASN’T SO BAD.
There is no way to independently verify results of electronic voting machines that run on proprietary code (WN 25 April 03). Worse yet, teams at Johns Hopkins and Rice analyzed one leading company’s system and found gaping holes in security, leaving the system open to both insider and outsider attacks.
4. PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM: THE NATION’S TOP CIVILIAN HONOR.
Weapons of mass destruction are hard to find in Iraq, but in this country, contributions to methods of mass fatality are recognized with the Medal of Freedom. Recipients this week included: Edward Teller for the H-bomb, Charlton Heston for the Saturday-night special, and Dave Thomas for Wendy’s square hamburger with fries.
Dr. Fill |
07.26.03 - 10:45 am | #
OT, but there seems to be no more appropriate thread to put it on this morning. Finally some good news out of the House of Republicans (er...Representatives). They voted to repeal one (but just one) of the numerous unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot act on a bipartisan ~300-100 vote. Of course, Ashcroft has to throw a hissy fit that his personal secret police are in danger of losing their priviledge to sneak into somebody's house, search it, steal stuff, and leave without notice. But the best part is, go to CNN and read the article, then check out their QuickVote on the subject. The vote isn't registering no votes!
BBC World News - now with all content guaranteed sexed down
By Mark Steyn
Good evening. Reports that the former Italian leader Benito Mussolini is "dead" and "hanging" "upside down" at a petrol station were received with scepticism in Rome today. Our "reporter" - whoops, scrub the inverted commas round "reporter", the scare-quotes key on the typewriter's jammed again. Anyway our reporter Andrew "Gilligan" is "on" the scene "in" Milan. Andrew...
Andrew Gilligan: I'm leaning on a lamp post at the corner of the street in case a certain little duce swings by, and I don't see any dead dictators, John. But then the Allies have a history of making these premature announcements...
He's just above your head, Andrew. I know you don't like to do wide shots, but, if the camera pulls back, I think you'll find that's definitely a finger tickling the back of your ear...
AG: Well, there you are. He's not hanging from a petrol station, is he? He's hanging from a rope attached to a girder on the forecourt of a petrol station. We've become all too familiar with the Allies playing fast and loose with the facts.
Yes, indeed, Andrew. And contradictory reports that he was hanging from a lamp-post have led some observers to question the accuracy of the intelligence on which the "liberation" of Milan went ahead....
BBC World News - now with all content guaranteed sexed down
By Mark Steyn
I think that's a skirt that's just fallen over your head. And what about those crowds behind you dancing the tarantella, singing "Funiculi, Funicula", and so forth?
AG: Well, John, it's yet another protest at the deteriorating security situation. As you can see, people are very worked up. Many haven't been paid in days. My own translator says it's over a week since his last cheque from the National Fascist Party Propaganda Office.
Thank you, Andrew. Joining us now is Harold Pinter. What do you think when you see these bodies hanging outside a petrol station?
Harold Pinter: No blood for oil, chum. Isn't that what they told us? Ha-bloody-ha.
Yet more spin, Robert Fisk? Or is that really him on that girder?
Robert Fisk: I doubt it. Gerda is more of a German name, and I can't see him with a German mistress. And if he had one, he wouldn't take her to a petrol station. A railway station, maybe. The Mussolini I know - the Mussolini who says, "Mister Robert, if only more Englishmen could make linguini as good as yours" - has a full head of hair, like Harpo Marx. But, if he is dead, then following the disastrous setback of D-Day, this is just more bad news for the Allies.
Thanks, Robert. Meanwhile, international aid organisations continue to express concern about Italy's worsening humanitarian catastrophe. Joining us now are Jonathan Steele of the Guardian and Will Day of CARE International. Mr Day, you recently wrote in The Daily Telegraph that Italy is "on its knees"...
Will Day: Absolutely. The Allies have been in Milan several hours, and there's still a total lack of basic services. I was just in the Piazzale Loreto and I was staggered by the chaotic queues outside the petrol station there.
Jonathan Steele: That's right, Will. Many are upset at the damage that's being done to Milan's infrastructure by random dangling. Does the coalition seriously expect us to believe it can invade an entire continent but it's powerless to prevent an outbreak of girder dangling?
Thank you, gentlemen. Meanwhile, the turbulent region's only independent TV network, al-Dente, reported that most Italians refuse to believe that the former duce is really dead. Joining me now are French intellectual theorist Michel Foucault and the leading Italian fundamentalist cleric, Pastor Al Forno, a vocal critic of the Allied administration.
Pastor Al Forno: This is yet more Hollywood-style trickery from the Americans. In the bars of Rome they are certain that this is a doctored still from Esther Williams's aquatic ballet in Million-Dollar Mermaid, with Esther and the girls diving off the boards retouched to look like hanging fascists. If you look closely, you can see the outlines of the swimsuits under the blackshirts. And the cheering Italian peasants in the background are Victor Mature and Walter Pidgeon. This propaganda is so crude it's laughable.
Anonymous |
07.26.03 - 10:48 am | #
First, the use of clerestory isn't quite right. A clerestory window is placed above sightline, providing light but no view. Second, since you mentioned "essence" a few times: Ann, if you're reading this, I'm keeping my essence pure for you, only for you! Come back! All is forgiven! Third, Charles Pierce had a nice send-up of Ann's claim to have worked in the coal mines of Arizona, noting that the benefits the workers there, which made them comfortable, and which she admired, were the very ones Pappy Coulter was working to strip from them.
Brian C.B. |
07.26.03 - 10:49 am | #
How can Ann O'Rexic say the left is "as evil as the Nazis" when her hero, Tail Gunner Joe, defended those poor Nazis? Specifically, Peiper's SS troops, who McCarthy got off the hook (see below) for killing some Americans (who might have been lefties!). Following is a quote from "The Meaning of World War 2" by Williamson Murray, an article in JFQ (Joint Force Quarterly, Summer 1995):
"The killing of over a hundred British POWs at Le Paradis in May 1940 was
the first in a series of incidents involving the Waffen SS. The execution of Canadians by the murderous juvenile delinquents of the 12th SS Panzer Division, Hitler Jugend, the slaughter of French civilians at Oradour-sur-Glan by troops of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, Das Reich, and the slaying of Americans at Malmedy by Peiper’s SS troops in late 1944 typified behavior among Hitler’s ideological legions in the west.
"footnote: Peiper and fellow criminals were condemned to death by an American military court, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment through the efforts of Senator Joseph McCarthy and they were then almost immediately released by the post-war West German government."
Nothing treasonous to see here! Just a good American defending some good Germans for killing some other Americans. My hee-ro! (Swoon!)
Kip W |
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07.26.03 - 10:56 am | #
SKBubba: go read this and then tell me that our village idiot, the farmer, is HST:
Even if farmer sobered up, he wouldn't be in HST's league. Hell, he's not even in Atrios' league, I have no idea why Atrios would allow this crap on his site. Coulter is a Tar Baby for the left, to debate her ideas only gives them more weight. Coulter is yesterday's news, even the neocons know it.
Charles |
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07.26.03 - 10:57 am | #
Bloggers Slam Gov. Dean Hoping to Boost Traffic
(2003-07-26) -- Several so-called "webloggers" announced today that they would begin ridiculing presidential candidate Howard Dean on their so-called "blogs" in order to increase site traffic.
The announcements came after a Washington Post story said supporters of Gov. Dean's presidential bid are using email to deluge reporters who write negative things about their candidate.
"My sitemeter's been languishing around 25 visitors per day," said one unnamed blogger. "I figure if I can tick off Dean's backers I could get that up to 50 or even 75."
Editor's Note: The vast editorial staff at ScrappleFace will never resort to attacking the anti-American leftist wacko Governor of Vermont in order to increase visitors to this site.
Anonymous |
07.26.03 - 10:58 am | #
Farmer, you certainly have a gift. I'm not sure what of, though. Maybe other subjects are more worthy of attention?
"This all happened many years ago, when men were men and chaste women made the nest upon the slopes of whatever slag heap the kindly Mr. Peabody provided." What about women with very large Adam's Apples?
And this from Brett I think is on the money: "Coulter is a geek show. Might as well discuss why monkeys play with their own feces." I don't care why monkeys do that.
John Isbell |
07.26.03 - 11:04 am | #
washingtonpost.com
Dean Defense Forces: Lobbing E-mail at the Enemy
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 26, 2003; Page C01
When Dotty Lynch, CBS's senior political editor, wrote a column criticizing Howard Dean on foreign policy, she was deluged with e-mails defending the Democratic presidential candidate, often in similar language.
"They were all rather insulting: 'Why don't you do your research?' " Lynch says. "When anything's orchestrated, you sort of smell a rat."
The letters were indeed generated by Dean Defense Forces, a volunteer outfit affiliated with the doctor's campaign. Day after day, the DDF Web log, which is linked to Dean's official site, hammers reporters deemed critical of Dean and urges its followers to flood the in-boxes of offending journalists.
"When negative press gets written, we'll ensure that letters to the editor get printed in response. . . . The last couple of months have proven the effectiveness of our efforts at media response," the DDF says.
Sometimes this is rough stuff. When New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets slammed Dean's appearance on Tim Russert's "Meet the Press," the DDF denounced the piece as "crap," declaring:
"So here's what we're gonna do. First, we're gonna write Zev (zchafets@yahoo.com) and let him know what we think of his vitriol."
Suggested themes: "Russert used Republican lies for his policy research. . . . Anyone who saw Dean's performance knows it wasn't his best, but it was a hell of a lot better than Chafets's columns."
Says Chafets: "They were polite, but they took issue with the idea that Dean hadn't done well. They were not unintelligent, but it was pretty clear to me they were writing from talking points."
Campaigns have always tried to gin up letters to news outlets, but the Internet's hyperspeed, which has helped Dean raise truckloads of money, has also made it easier to organize such campaigns.
And in an age when online commentators blast their critics around the clock, the Dean Defense Forces site uses comparable artillery, unloading on selected targets with a clever, cynical, sometimes sneering tone.
"The NY Post Proves Its Worthlessness Again," says a typical headline. "Associated Press Spinning for Kerry," says another.
"Perhaps we should write Slate.com and tell them we want political coverage, not psychobabble musings from their writers?"
Dean spokeswoman Kate O'Connor referred questions to DDF chief Matthew Gross, who works out of the campaign's Vermont headquarters. Gross did not respond to three requests for comment. He appears to run a shoestring operation, with a dozen or so volunteers posting items and six donors, who have contributed a grand total of $585.
DDF has achieved some success with its letter-writing appeals, such as getting supporters' words read on CNN's "Crossfire." This followed an "action alert" that said: "Tucker Carlson call
Anonymous |
07.26.03 - 11:04 am | #
The amazing thing is that conservatives think Coulter is attractive. Christ, in order to screw her, you'd have to put a bag over your own head.
TownDrunk |
07.26.03 - 11:07 am | #
Charles,
?????????
You can't go to a neocon site without a coulter popup ad or coulter banners plastered all over the pages.
Join the conservative book club get horseface for a buck.
"Now I want to sit on her head and fart repeatedly"
Suit yourself, but that's as likely to be her kink as anything.
Molly | 07.26.03 - 9:44 am
and ...
The 4th grader in me (which my wife doesn't find endearing for some reason) just laughed a lot. My goodness. Thanks.
NTodd | 07.26.03 - 10:30 am
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Sorry, I just had to laugh also at the original and both responses. I was a fourth grader once and had three brothers -- none of us ever thought of this. The image of this being done to Coulter, or Limbaugh, etc. (bush?) is too much! 'Scuse my regression!!
BTW, blucher: A shoe having the vamp and tongue made of one piece and the quarters lapping over the vamp.
and (getting really technical) vamp: Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
Somehow, that 'vamp and tongue made of one piece', rehashing old material, seems to fit Coulter.
Streaker |
07.26.03 - 11:11 am | #
Say what you will about McCarthy, he's sure got a scenic final resting place overlooking the Fox river. Perhaps Annthrax would care to join him?
Airmon |
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07.26.03 - 11:12 am | #
This just in...Pol Pot greets Ann Coultur and pins the Cambodian Medal of Freedom on her ample chest. Ann will celebrate in Thailand on her way home.Freedom loving people rejoice at her daring.
Quisling |
07.26.03 - 11:13 am | #
I was a fourth grader once and had three brothers -- none of us ever thought of this.
Come on, you have three brothers and not one of you thought of farting on the others' heads?
Say what you will about McCarthy, he's sure got a scenic final resting place overlooking the Fox river.
The Fox River. How ironic is that?
RCSanders |
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07.26.03 - 11:19 am | #
Why not!
LENO:
The Iraqi citizen who told us where Saddam Hussein's sons were hiding is now eligible for a $30 million reward. $15 million for each of them. But the good news doesn't stop there. Once he gets the $30 million, he'll get a tax cut.
You know who President Bush invited to his ranch? His ally in the War on Terror, the Italian premier, Silvio Berlusconi. One embarrassing incident. The Italian premier gave Bush a picture of the ruins of the Coliseum in Rome. Bush looked at the ruins, thought for a second and said, "We’ll get the scum who did this!"
hadenough |
07.26.03 - 11:20 am | #
News links (in order of appearance) on MSN.com:
Iraqis glad to be rid of Saddam's sons.
Grenade attack kills 3 U.S. soldiers.
In the military, we called things like that "lack of situational awareness".
RCSanders |
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07.26.03 - 11:21 am | #
Bush Almighty signin' an Amurrikan flag? How darned funny is that?
Dr. Fill |
07.26.03 - 11:22 am | #
Town Drunk:
You can't possibly be a man. Any man would be able to dissociate a hot...well, let's say, babe, from the political stance she holds. Hey, I can say nice things about Reagan for, you know, as long as an hour before, my conscience kicks in and I have to pretend I have to get up early and let myself out. Men compartmentalize where sex is concerned. It's what we do, God bless us: we're pigs.
Brian C.B. |
07.26.03 - 11:26 am | #
While Coulter is indeed a geek show, she's a geek show who gets a national platform from which to recite her fractured fairy tales, and the sad fact is that some people will believe them. It doesn't hurt to point out the absurdity of some of her major points. Ultimately though, I don't think The Farmer's piece requires any justification. It was entertaining and hilarious. What more do you want?
Beth |
07.26.03 - 11:30 am | #
Hey, even pigs have to draw the line somewhere.
TownDrunk |
07.26.03 - 11:33 am | #
"Says Chafets: "They were polite, but they took issue with the idea that Dean hadn't done well. They were not unintelligent, but it was pretty clear to me they were writing from talking points." "
Oh my God alert Grover Norquist. Maybe he can take this new Dean-inspired concept and run with it. Maybe on a Tuesday morning?
Message discipline works. Every single day I see letters to the editor repeating the current GOP talking point. And I for one have no problem with fighting back, even if some people on my side get a little over-zealous. They can always use the Limbaugh defence "We were only trying to be entertainers, some people just don't get the joke".
Bruce Webb |
07.26.03 - 11:43 am | #
The best part about her Scarborough appearance was that she defended McCarthy, practically insisted he was a Buddhist monk of self restraint, denied any political agenda whatsoever, swore there was no witch hunting or inpropriety during his reign, that the whole thing was made up by liberals....
Then when she got talking about how we all powerful on the Left keep the Republican down by making them afraid to express themselves on issues or patriotism or lust for aircraft carrier photo opping Presidents, she referred to this opression as....
McCarthyism!
I think Ann is years ahead of us all.
Joe Briefcase. |
07.26.03 - 11:47 am | #
Did anyone go look at the Katie Couric interview linked by hadenough (10:00am)?
The transcript starts "The following is a rush transcript of their heated exchange" and seems reasonable, right up to the point where Katie starts to really paste Ann on the Edmund Morris/"Reagan is an airhead" flap. Then Katie's statements slowly turn into meaningless gibberish:
Katie Couric: He said that young Ken Timmons, panting brace played occasional hookey from the White House speech writing department to help me build a chronology, and I was about to hire a full-time assistant, yes, it is the magic of Geneva had faded. Judge remained a history to and worst still that I entertained such heresy in the hushed and reverent precincts of his office an apparent airhead. So these are Edmond Morris --
Katie Couric: No, it was just one day and we'll get the transcript for you. Anyway he said commond Morris beyond mazement I was fressed by the relent finalities not to say incoherence of his interviews. I didn't really switch in the book but we don't want to get too hired --
Omar K. Ravenhurst |
07.26.03 - 12:02 pm | #
Libdevil, that has to be one of the stranger things I've seen. Perhaps it is CNNs way of poking a finger into the eye of big brother.
pixie |
07.26.03 - 12:04 pm | #
Perhaps the CNN quick poll voting is a preview of Election 2004...
RCSanders |
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07.26.03 - 12:14 pm | #
Bush MUST go back to the UN and if he fails to do so I think it truly necessitates impeachment because what the Iraqis are getting is NOT freedom or democracy at all.
I've said that often enough and it's true.
Back in May, Bush signed an executive order giving American oil companies operating in Iraq immunity from "any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process" related to "all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein." Which I guess makes the oil companies more powerful than the U.S. government, because, as an interesting article from Financial Times points out, the U.S. is constrained by a body of "occupation law" that was designed to discourage aggression by making the occupying power completely responsible for meeting the needs of the civilian population. Under international law, Iraqi civilians can bring civil and criminal actions against the occupying powers if they're needs aren't met. As long as the complaint isn't agaist the oil companies.
Absolutely make sure you click on and the Financial Times and read the link.
This why I hate John McCain, I WANT a senator that pushes for UN involvement and not someone telling me that France is my foe...France is not the foe, McCain is the foe.
His campaign finance reform has turned out be a con-game that was design to lessen grassroots and general citizen participation while escalating corporate control.
McCain is every bit as dishonest as Bush is. I want UN involvement and McCain is will not puch Bush in direction that the people of Arizona need someone else - someone a lot honest.
Cheryl |
07.26.03 - 12:17 pm | #
That last part should say:
McCain is every bit as dishonest as Bush is. I want UN involvement and if McCain is not willing to push Bush in that direction that the people of Arizona need someone else - someone a ot more honest.
Cheryl |
07.26.03 - 12:20 pm | #
Bush marks anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act
Bush changed the name of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities the same week that a commission he created recommended a campaign to bring the mentally ill more into the mainstream.
Great, now Pretzel Boy can reap the benefits of the ADA himself.
RCSanders |
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07.26.03 - 12:21 pm | #
They were all rather insulting: 'Why don't you do your research?'" Lynch says.
My, God, those Dean people are mean. I'm surprised ol' Dotty didn't fall dead away on the spot from reading such vitriol.
stranger |
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07.26.03 - 12:25 pm | #
She's a cunt. Period.
hate her |
07.26.03 - 12:26 pm | #
Cheryl,
How about a link?
RCSanders |
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07.26.03 - 12:30 pm | #
You could be talking about Scrabble and they would instantly leap to the anti-American position.
Take that, you SOWPODS affectionados -- Ann's on to you now!
QrazyQat |
07.26.03 - 12:45 pm | #
Well, she's no more extreme than Michael Moore, and a lot easier on the eyes.
--Bill S.
All right, I'll bite. Explain please how "Bowling for Columbine" has anywhere near as shoddy resaearch as "Treason"?
or just how these two radically different people have anything in common? I don't recall Michael Moore being anywhere neer as shrill as Anne caulter, or one instance where he said anything half as bad about Conservatives that she says on a regular basis about Liberals.
Jorge |
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07.26.03 - 12:46 pm | #
Omar K. Ravenhurst,
Sounds like a Charlie Rose transcipt.
I think Katie lost it. They hate each other.
hadenough |
07.26.03 - 1:02 pm | #
"...they've hidden their collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis by making McCarthy the issue. - Ann Coulter"
You know, this is too much even by Ann(thrax)'s standards. So she compares Democrats to the NAZIS eh? Pushing this kind of out and out bullshit, it's no wonder she ends up on garbage fests such as "Scarborough Country" - programs which enjoy even less credibility than ol' Annie. However, she makes her money, which means there's a percentage of moron-Americans out there who believe this shit.
gene214 |
07.26.03 - 1:10 pm | #
gene214,
I think she was comparing the Soviets to Nazis, and merely accusing the Democratic Party of collaborating with the Soviet Union. The real irony is that her hero McCarthy hid his own collaboration with the Nazi regime by making Communism the issue.
Beth |
07.26.03 - 1:22 pm | #
Jorge:I just read Stupid White Men, and the furthest it goes is saying that the massive A/C costs in the south help cause global warming. Something which not only you can argue for, but makes a bit of sense.
In Bowling for Columbine, it's a fairly reserved, laid back diatribe, politically speaking.
Karmakin |
07.26.03 - 1:27 pm | #
Actually, a clerestory window is one that is placed in a wall above the line of an adjoining roof, as in the naves of Gothic cathedrals, where the roofs of the side aisles helped buttress the nave.
Architecture school was good for something after all.
Jennifer |
07.26.03 - 1:35 pm | #
See Sunday's NYTimes Best Seller List. Hillary's still at #1, but the blonde slut's book is falling like a rock.
Marq |
07.26.03 - 1:37 pm | #
Any man would be able to dissociate a hot...well, let's say, babe . . .
I know there's no accounting for taste, but "hot"? Sex with Coulter would feel like riding a bicycle with broken springs down a railroad track. Only less romantic. And she wouldn't let you honk the horns, either.
Molly |
07.26.03 - 1:47 pm | #
This blog and it's comment section are not likely to be ever read by the same class of people who believe Ann Coulter or those who send money in to televangelists who have 'Christian' interests to maintain in Mr. Taylor's Liberia.
We are going for the people who are smart enough to think things through beyond 'Uh-huh'.
As far as the press goes, well, the journalists who fail to tell the truth will eventually be outed and fired.
If the Truth Squad of the Internet Free Press keeps doing it's job, we will see the results.
An interesting comment on election politics. I understand that Hitler came to power just shortly after the electoral percentages of his party began to go down. In other words, ending the Weimar democracy prevented Hitler from being voted out of office.
So we had better start banging the drums for free, fair, auditable elections NOW!
Ann adam's apple:
You're not allow to call liberals -- Democrats -- less patriotic than Republicans, but I just wrote a book saying they're treasonous.
So much for logical arguments. But seriously, where can she go from here? Hasn't she reached the end of the hyperbole rope?
stencil |
07.26.03 - 2:00 pm | #
The road to grasping the odd sexual yearnings of the collective Republicum Party's turgid Id may indeed climb along the crevices and rocky outcroppings of Miss Occulter's school laddy frame.
Stoned on gonadotropins, with her Rapunzel condo thrusting upward and towering in her necropolis, she releases her flesh eating bacterium to climb down her golden locks and masticate upon her chosen targets.
How does this jangling banshee keep her worshippers a ga-ga? The blood of insanity upon her breath, she retches forth from her mouth unto her brood her fishnet lure and strokes her faithful ones: the dog park boys, the lovers of the leash, the pink sheaths who seek their man inside the woman, all rise and slaver, uh-huh.
Ann Occulter rises not from the daylight realm, but from the bogs of a gothic nightmare: she has escaped from an Anne Rice novel, and roams the world wraith-like in search of the soul of her dead lover, to cradle the silence of his bones.
********
Thank you farmer for releasing some of my more crespuscular enzymes.
"I mean, what's next, an impassioned defense of Mussolini"
tee hee.... my partner and I were having a similar convo at Barnes & Nobles in Manhattan when Treason came out.
We were talking about how Ann's next book would be 'Mussolini: A visionray Falsely Accused' when we caught some smiles, winks and nods by a group of Sales assistants behind the Information desk. They had a copy of her book under the desk and were laughing their heads off.
The 'subtle' difference between Moore and Coulter?
MM speaks out on the behalf of those that have no voice, the ones among us who are suffering because of callous corporate greed.
Coulter, on the other hoof,(ahem) spews vitriolic hatred towards anyone or anything (real or perceived) that threatens her incredibly narrow view of the world. I feel sorry for anyone that is possessed by so much hatred.
As far as being easy on the eye, well, each to their own.
I prefer women that look like women, not a bleached blond scarecrow.
Curtis |
07.26.03 - 2:17 pm | #
...seriously, where can she go from here? Hasn't she reached the end of the hyperbole rope?
stencil | 07.26.03 - 1:55 pm
Well, she seems to be moving back in time historically. Her Scandal book dealt with 9/11, T. McVeigh, NYTimes, etc. This next one with the 1950s mostly. Where could she go next? I'm sure her research skills and imagination could take her much further back to connect us with even more scandalous individuals or things.
Streaker |
07.26.03 - 2:45 pm | #
this is way too much ink (well, cyber ink) for someone like ann coulter.
John Steppling |
07.26.03 - 2:58 pm | #
No one seemed to explain the Frau Blucher comment so I'll make a stab.
It's a reference to a character in Mel Brooks' comedy classic "Young Frankenstein." Cloris Leachman (Phyllis from the Mary Tyler Moore show) plays a harsh, sinister older woman who is the caretaker of the Frankenstein castle. Frau Blucher is so sinister that any time someone mentions her name the horses outside the castle rear and whinny.
Anyone who hasn't seen "Young Frankenstein" should rent it immediately. Gene Wilder, Terri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Gene Hackman, Marty Feldman, Kenneth Mars and Peter Boyle -- funny, funny stuff.
Favorite Frau Blucher (neigh!) line: "HE VAS MY BOYFRIEND!"
Librul |
07.26.03 - 3:20 pm | #
No one seemed to explain the Frau Blucher comment so I'll make a stab.
It's a reference to a character in Mel Brooks' comedy classic "Young Frankenstein." Cloris Leachman (Phyllis from the Mary Tyler Moore show) plays a harsh, sinister older woman who is the caretaker of the Frankenstein castle. Frau Blucher is so sinister that any time someone mentions her name the horses outside the castle rear and whinny.
Anyone who hasn't seen "Young Frankenstein" should rent it immediately. Gene Wilder, Terri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Gene Hackman, Marty Feldman, Kenneth Mars and Peter Boyle -- funny, funny stuff.
Favorite Frau Blucher (neigh!) line: "HE VAS MY BOYFRIEND!"
Librul |
07.26.03 - 3:20 pm | #
doh - sorry for the double post.
"Sedagive????"
Librul |
07.26.03 - 3:21 pm | #
But seriously, where can she go from here?
British intelligence has learned that this is the working title of her next book:
Liberals of Mass Destruction: How Joseph Goebbels Really Wasn't Such A Bad Guy
Seraphiel |
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07.26.03 - 3:42 pm | #
Im surprised that Ann hasn't attacked Jesus as a Socialist liberal.
She probably would if she ever read the Gospel.
Curtis |
07.26.03 - 4:21 pm | #
People who think that Ann is too obvious a liar, and too clearly a pathetic vicious clown to be taken seriously are in denial about the last century. Pathetic vicious clowns have killed a lot of people. Ann is no more stupid than Idi Amin, no more driven by hatred than Beria, no more clownish than Mussolini or Goering or Lt. Doe. The obviousness of her opportunism is not much greater than that of Mugabe or Charles Taylor or the late Mufti of Jerusalem or his pal Meyer Kahane. The difference between laughing at these people and screaming in terror is no more than the chance circumstance that makes it possible to turn off the TV or that makes it impossible to shield your genitals from their electric wires.
citizen k |
07.26.03 - 4:43 pm | #
Do you think we could get Borders to ban her books for calling ex-President Clinton white trash?
Banned at Borders
Borders bookstore, a treasure house of freedom of expression, bans a singer for her comments about the president's legs.
"IT SEEMS INCONGRUOUS that the words "ban" and "bookstore" should appear in the same sentence. But Borders Books & Music at Central Park apparently banished a singer at least in part because her commentary, including a remark about President Bush's legs, angered some customers."
The only real question with Coulter is this: Is she merely an opportunist or is she genuinely a crazy bitch?
Why can't she be both?
John D. |
07.26.03 - 6:12 pm | #
Coulter's methods seem to be catching on with her minions. Here's a clipping from TAPPED, The American Prospect website, from yesterday:
"FROM TODAY'S COLLEGE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Best quote of the day so far comes from a speech by young North Carolina state representative Patrick McHenry, who said: "John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards -- they might as well be named Uday, Qusay and Saddam when President Bush gets done with them." Then followed that up with the hope that Edwards wins the nomination so that Bush can send him "into hiding with bin Laden and Saddam."
So the next generation of conservatives will be about as thoughtful as the current one. Good to know in advance.
Also, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) gave a speech that was almost entirely about the impeachment of Bill Clinton, "the worst president in American history." Talk about living in the past. And people say Democrats haven't adjusted to the post-9-11 world."
I've already sent a note to TAPPED to let them know that it's FORMER Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA).
Shaun Hannity,Dick"dog collar"Morris,Ann Coulter,When they find they have no talent Fox puts them to work.Barnes,Kristol,Britt Hume,the intelectual side of Fox.I bet theres not one who had to wear a uniform wether they liked it or not.Lets put Shepard in charge when 101st infantry is given permission attack the Manhatan headquarters of Fox. I hear Rita Cosby is hiding in the building ready to interview Laci Peterson husband from the execution room . Or be the first to go for the jugular of the accusor of Kobe with her history she will be able distroy her fragile hold as these journalistic vampires destroy another unsuspecting victim.
Quisling |
07.26.03 - 6:48 pm | #
To Jorge: I hardly think you are the norm by which to judge others extreme. Moore is a fat SOB who is much more dangerous to this nation than Ann Coulter. His entire appeal is founded on feeding comfortable lies to dolts who really believe that conservatives are willfully evil people, instead of honest folks who have a different, and perfectly valid, point of view.
He promulgates far out conspiracy theories with the likes of Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal that have a worldwide and receptive audience. Go to the bazaars in the Northwest Provinces of Pakistan, Al Qaeda's new stomping grounds, and you will find tables full of their trash.
I have to think like Dorian Grey. there is a painting of Annthrax Blucher, where she is horribly fat, has multiudes of facial hair, brown/black greasy curly hair, and large potrubing moles with MORE hair.
pansypoo |
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07.26.03 - 10:36 pm | #
Bill S: That "link" is nothing more than vacant whining. One of the more pathetic things about right wing dolts is their admiration for this kind of imitation prose: chaotic invective held together by mere ill will and pomposity.
citizen k |
07.26.03 - 10:37 pm | #
"He promulgates far out conspiracy theories with the likes of Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal that have a worldwide and receptive audience"
Such as?
Enlighten us with specific examples please. (If possible include book title and page number - thanks .I'd like to look up those 'conspiracies' myself)
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Aria |
07.26.03 - 11:05 pm | #
I was led to believe that 'blucher' was the German word for the sound a horse makes...in essence, Frau Neigh.
Yes? No??
Zappa 25 |
07.26.03 - 11:46 pm | #
Citizen K: Is not.
Aria: Jeez, are you so purblind? Just this once, I'll help you get started on the path to enlightenment. Try this and peruse that. These are conspiratorial screeds of striking ignorance, malevolence and willful disinformation.
Most likely, you have already been suckered in by these glib poseurs and will not see anything wrong with such contemptible agitprop. But, the point of this exchange is that, I find Messrs. Moore, Vidal and Chomsky far more extreme than Ms. Coulter, and far more detrimental to the safety and well being of the people in this country. And, liberals lionize these scoundrels with Oscar nominations for base mockumentaries, fete them in style in the salons of Manhattan, and indoctrinate our collegiate youth with their nasty lies.
As far as I am concerned, these three (and others) have blood on their hands from 9-11. They aided and abetted it. They stoked the fires of rage in foreigners who have no context in which to judge American leaders and American culture. It is no less a crime than teaching a child to hate the "other", to see their fellow human beings as wicked animals, and sending them out to blow themselves up along with women and children waiting at a bus stop.
Bill S. |
07.27.03 - 1:03 am | #
"Moore's chief conceit is that he is the lonely truth teller, seeking out the story no one else is brave enough to touch"
So THIS is where Coulter got the idea for her posturing.
This is what they do. They co-opt everything. IF they want to revise history, they first call their opponents historical revisionists. If Gore says he wants to put a lock-box on Social Security, then Bush says it too, only louder, with more advertising dollars.
Thereby they create the impression that Republicans and Democrats are exactly alike. Voters who aren't paying enough attention go to the polls, disgusted with the monotonous sameness of it all, and vote for the Greens. And Bush wins.
This is the most intellectually dishonest routine imaginable, and it has to be fought with the gloves off.
AlanH |
07.27.03 - 1:05 am | #
P.S. It hardly needs to be said that Bush was full of shit when he talked about the lock box, and Gore wasn't.
AlanH |
07.27.03 - 1:07 am | #
P.P.S. Bill S., you idiot, do you imagine these people have the luxury of reading Chomsky and watching Michael Moore films?
AlanH |
07.27.03 - 1:14 am | #
It is no less a crime than teaching a child to hate the "other", to see their fellow human beings as wicked animals, and sending them out to blow themselves up along with women and children waiting at a bus stop.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Our troll for this thread has pointed out the difference between Coulter and Moore: incitement to violence.
At no point, that anyone has been able to cite, has Moore ever advocated savagery against his fellow man. He calls some of them stupid, irresponsible, dimwitted, any number of things. But he never expressed regret that Timothy McVeigh hadn't chosen the NYT building instead, or anything of the sort.
We should all give the troll a round of applause for making the point so eloquently, that this is the problem with modern Republican groupthink: it teaches that violence is a perfectly acceptable solution, when diplomacy just isn't stylish enough.
Seraphiel |
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07.27.03 - 1:28 am | #
That bit about hating the "other" is more co-opting: it's lifted from a Clinton speech. I don't have the reference handy, but it's quoted in The Clinton Wars.
AlanH |
07.27.03 - 1:38 am | #
Oh my God, you're right, Bill S. I never realized that Moore, Vidal and Chomsky were "poseurs".
Thanks for "enlightening" me.
From now on, Ann Coulter, Michael Weiner, and Bill O'Reilly are my heroes!
Go home and wash the stench off yourself.
I can smell it from here.
Curtis |
07.27.03 - 2:16 am | #
Why can't she be both? John D.
she probably is both .
in kindness to her can we organise a party of hunks who can sing her an old lefty frizzell song circa 1950 or so
" if you got the money honey i got the time "
badri |
07.27.03 - 3:35 pm | #
libdevil
if i read some recent articles correctly the house vote deals about a key provision of this aweful afront to bill of rights. will senate follow the suite ? big question.
... The House of Representatives has unexpectedly voted to ban funding for the anti-terrorism law’s “sneak and peek” or “black bag” warrants.
The provision allows police or government agents to search homes secretly or confiscate property ....
..and say sneak and peak warrants are unconstitutional. Especially ominous, they say, is that agents can be dispatched from any part of the intelligence apparatus.
“It opens the door to nationwide search warrants and allows the CIA and National Security Administration to operate domestically,” said the amendment’s sponsor, Congressman “Butch” Otter, a conservative Republican. ..
AlanH: What a racist comment. You think just because they live in undeveloped areas, Muslims are illiterate? I have just related in a previous post how Chomsky is a hero in the bazaars of Northwestern Pakistan. Go travel there (like I have) and see for yourself.
"Still, it isn't hard to imagine using the same methods to write the same book from precisely the opposite point of view, and indeed someone has already done it: Michael Moore, in Stupid White Men. Moore's book calls for U.N. observers to monitor American elections, accuses pretty much everyone on the right of corruption and venality -- and has been a major bestseller both here and in Britain. The real question, then, is not what makes so many people buy books by Ann Coulter, but what makes so many people lap up the Coulter-Bruce-Moore formula. Perhaps it's a longing for clarity, a reflection of the deep human need to find a straight path through the modern jungle of information. Perhaps it's laziness. We all have media overload nowadays -- too many sides of the story are too easily available. "
Seraphiel: Ann Coulter has never incited people to violence. What is this link to Tim McVeigh you are trying to create. Are you insinuating Coulter wrote "The Turner Diaries"?
Quite the contrary, Moore, Chomsky, Vidal and their ilk ARE inciting loony-tunes Islamic radicals to violence against America. Just peruse some of the jihadi websites like "clearguidance" and see for yourself.
And for anyone (like Curtis) who just wants to engage in abusive language without making any point whatsoever, let me preemptively say, fuck you asshole. Keep your worthless foul language and lack of intellect to yourself.
Bill S. |
07.27.03 - 5:19 pm | #
Ann Coulter has never incited people to violence.
Wow, dumber than advertised. One of the Queen of the Nutmeg State's most infamous statements:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."
Chris Vosburg |
07.27.03 - 6:31 pm | #
We should all give the troll a round of applause for making the point so eloquently, that this is the problem with modern Republican groupthink: it teaches that violence is a perfectly acceptable solution, when diplomacy just isn't stylish enough.
Right on, Seraphiel, and although conservatives regularly whine that they are unfairly portrayed as people who enjoy killing, it sure as hell wasn't liberals pumping their fists and cheering in my local tavern when the bombs started dropping in Iraq. Disgusting.
Incidentally, Wolfowitz hammered another nail into the coffin of this dead, dead, dead issue by saying to Russert in his appearance today on MTP, "The sacrifices that our troops are making are spectacular."
It's an interesting choice of words, "spectacular," inasmuch as its primary sense is "highly entertaining."
Lurking Conservative Apologists may be moved to say he "mis-spoke."
Well, save your keystrokes, trolls: He used the first word that came to mind, and it portrayed him in an unfavorable light; that's for sure. Surely, nobody wants to think of themselves as the kind of guy for whom death is entertainment, but when conservatives speak extemporaneously, that's often the message that repeatedly comes through loud and clear.
Chris Vosburg |
07.27.03 - 7:03 pm | #
Bill, if I'm wrong and they are reading Chomsky, watching Michael Moore films, then I admit it. But if getting the truth out is inflammatory enough to incite people to violence, the solution is not to shut up. The solution is to change policy.
And you haven't explained why you're quoting Clinton. . .
AlanH |
07.27.03 - 7:18 pm | #
Wow, the Farmer's post was only 1K words? Seemed more like 10K.
Dr. Fill |
07.28.03 - 9:31 am | #