Ann Coulter Needs to Shut the F**K Up (...and Other Random Thoughts)
It's time. Once and for all, Ann Coulter needs to shut her trap and simply disappear. For when she opens her mouth, nothing but outlandish, irresponsible, incendiary projectile vomit spews forth. She's a one-woman broadcast cesspool with a maniacal cackle and obnoxious permanent smirk. A vile, bigoted, narrow-minded, hate-filled, mocking, rabble-rousing contemptible miscreant who's infinitely more anti-American than any of the alleged "radicals" who reap her psychotic wrath. Her idea of patriotism is to incessantly trash our new president and commander-in-chief on his military leadership during wartime. Her idea of being a "great American" (a label staunch conservatives like Coulter, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh bestow on each other) is to proudly wear her homophobia and racial and religious intolerance on her sleeve like a badge of honor. Some say she's really smart and it's all just a big ruse to sell books and make money. I say she's evil personified regardless, and a danger to society. Yes, a danger, because there's a legion of massively uninformed, highly-impressionable folks out there all too eager to hang onto her mean-spirited lies, misinformation and character assassinations as if they were the truth.
JOE BIDEN, GEORGE BUSH AND KARL ROVE
Vice President Joe Biden, in boasting of President Barack Obama's recent 8-day overseas diplomatic trip, suggested to Fox News' Megyn Kelly that former President Bush was not an effective commander-in-chief: ...."I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office...Joe, he said, I'm a leader. And I said, Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one's following. People are beginning to follow the United States again as a consequence of our administration."
And that little anecdote got the panties of that Republican arbiter of truth, Karl Rove, in a snit: "I hate to say it, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I'd say he's a liar." We should all take what Rove says quite seriously, as exaggeration and lies is his specialty.
DID OBAMA BOW TO SAUDI KING?
The right-wing attack-machine is in full throttle this weekend over the "controversy" of whether President Obama "bowed" to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah during the recent G-20 Summit. One little bow? Is this really worse than the Bush family's decades-long ass-kissing orgy with the Saudi's? Let me remind my flame-throwing counterparts on the right about Dubya's make-out and hand-holding session with the Saudi Prince shortly after 9/11. Enjoy:
"PIRATES" HOLD AMERICAN HOSTAGE
A serious melodrama is unfolding off the coast of Somalia as Capt. Richard Phillips is being held captive on a boat. But can we please stop referring to the armed Somalis who've kidnapped him as "pirates?" This term conjures up Johnny Depp-like images of swashbuckling charmers with eye-patches shouting "Aye, Matey, where's the whiskey?! Arggggg!" Let's call them what they really are: vicious blood-thirsty terrorists.
IRAQ: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?
Five American soldiers were killed in Iraq Friday in a suicide-bomb attack in the northern city of Mosul, the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in over a year. The increase in deadly violence threatens the June deadline for withdrawal of American combat troops from cities, part of a U.S-Iraqi agreement which took effect this year. The top U.S. commander, Gen. Raymond Odierno, warned this week that we could instead see an increase in U.S. troops in Mosul and Baqubah, and expressed concerns about the escalation in Sunni-militant-led violence among Arabs and Kurds in the north. He also cited the "very dangerous" threat from Iranian-funded militants. Given that we can't fully pull out our troops for at least another 16 months, and the odds are, as the good General says, we'll have to increase our troop strength shortly in some major northern cities, it's unbelievable how the Republicans and Bush apologists still get away with their claims of success for the surge and for the war itself. Any idiot can see how fragile Iraq's Democracy is, and that without our troops, the country will likely fall like a house of cards.
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I certainly agree with everything you say about Ann Coulter. HOWEVER, let's leave it to the Ann Coulters of this world to insist that it's time for another American to "Shut Up". Everyone who can see Ann for what she is should know that path is not one that the rest of us can take and still respect ourselves.
Andy, I'm not a fan of Ann Coulter either. I did have a problem with one of your random thoughts, though:
"A serious melodrama is unfolding off the coast of Somalia as Capt. Richard Phillips is being held captive on a boat. But can we please stop referring to the armed Somalis who've kidnapped him as "pirates?" This term conjures up Johnny Depp-like images of swashbuckling charmers with eye-patches shouting "Aye, Matey, where's the whiskey?! Arggggg!" Let's call them what they really are: vicious blood-thirsty terrorists. "
We call them pirates because THEY ARE PIRATES. I have a real problem with the idea of always having to dumb down our diction because of people who are too ignorant to understand the world beyond the pop culture icons that they follow. If these people are unable to differentiate between an actual pirate and an overhyped, unrealistic Hollywood film then maybe Obama was right to tell parents to start being better regulators of their kids' TV watching, geez.
Definition of "pirate" (from dictionary.com)
1. a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
In other words, pirates are "sea terrorists". The term pirate works and should continue to be used. Ignorant people be damned.
Why are you picking on Ann Coulter? She represents a viewpoint different than yours, and therefore is part of the wonderful quilt of diversity that we are all supposed to tolerate, right? Aren't tolerance and respect for diversity two of the core values held dear by the progressive community? Or is this just empty rhetoric?
Nice try. I personally believe democracies should be able to defend themselves against fascists. Germans learned that sad lesson some time ago. No tolerance toward intolerance.
While I will defend her right to speak to my own death, the particular "speech" that Ann Coulter makes is vicious, wrong, lies, and HARDLY a simple difference in opinion.
Here's a few points that she makes which are both untrue and great examples of WHY we don't like her, since she's destroying the tone of politics in America:
"Liberals hate America."
"Liberals hate all religions except Islam."
"Democrats actually hate working-class people."
"Liberals hate society."
"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do."
"Democrats... will destroy anyone who stands in their way. All that matters to them is power."
"Liberals can't just come out and say they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race."
"Liberals seek to destroy sexual differentiation in order to destroy morality."
"That's the whole point of being a liberal: to feel superior to people with less money."
"Liberals are crazy"
All of these are quotes from page 9 of Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them. Sounds like a bad source, except that he cites them all....
Oh....My.....God......You talk about Ann Coulter's opinions and you quote lines from a comedians ( I use this term loosely ) book? I bet I could fill up 10 pages of stupid crap Al Franken has spoken in just the last year.
Yeah , but then you have rachel maddow exploring oral sex euphemisms and John Mccain or Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller
And I will say the same thing to you that I say to liberals who are offended by Ann Coulter. DON'T LISTEN TO THEM!
I for one feel sorry for the Somali people. Since they haven't had a central government since 1991, they were able to enforce their own waters. As a result, international boats came in and emptied their coastline of fish, therefore they have nothing left to eke out a living on. That and they dumped MASSIVE amounts of waste in their water and along their coastline. The average Somali today is in dire straits and the piracy is a DIRECT response to that. The international community should be focusing on regaining an effective central government in Somalia, because that is the long-term solution to not only this, but many other situations affecting Somalia. People need to eat, plain and simple.
I meant to say that they WEREN'T able to enforce their own waters
The Somalis are pirates, not terrorists. Their goals were not political, only monetary, so consequently they're not terrorists as defined by the State Department.
Indeed.
Surely it would be far more useful if you put some perspective on that story rather than sounding suspiciously similar to Coulter and her ilk and using that sweeping 'terrorist' label.
There is no way to condone what the Somalian pirates are doing, but there is at least some degree of background to the story rather than the simple 'American captured by blood-thirsty terrorist' rhetoric.
Maybe it would be expedient to ask why are they attacking foreign vessels? Maybe more expedient to ask why you only care now, when the pirates have been operating for a number of years?
Unfortunately, Ann strikes a chord with Main Street America.
All the bluster and panic in the world can't take that from her.
What main street do you live on? I don't know any of those main street Americans and don't want to know them.
ANN cOULTER IS A GAY WOMAN WHO CANT FIND A PARTNER SHE IS THE MOST MISINFORMED LADY ONEARTH,SHE PUT ONHER RADIO THE APRILFOOLS JOKE AND WAS SERIOUS THAT oOBAMA CANCELED ALL GM AMD CHRYLSER CARS FROM NASCAR,SHE AGAIN ISNT THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY .vERY DIM IN FACT.mR cLINTON TOLD HER ONE TIME THAT HE WAS gay SO SHE WONT KEEP PESTERING THE EXPRESIDNET FOR SEX,HAHA VERY BRIGH WOMAN vcOU;LTEN BELONG IN A MENTAL PALCE WITH BECK OREILLY ANDD HANITY
Hmmmm....I don't even know how to respond to this post. Guess I just won't.
Good idea :)
I kind of, well, like gay women. Am I wrong?
Wow, a call to silence dissenting opinion. Sorry Andy, I would much rather read "outlandish, irresponsible, incendiary projectile vomit" and make my own judgement.
If they're gonna act like pirates, they could at least dress appropriately. As for Ann, she sells millions and millions of books. For each one bought by the rightwingers, one is bought out of curiousity by the lefties. She's a smart gal.
Are they buying them and burning them perhaps? Who is buying her books?
I know that I will never buy one, and if, for some unknown reason, a relative were to buy one of them FOR me, I would burn it as soon as I was away from them!
I really like that cartoon. It's good the artist depicted her riding sidesadle so she looks lady like.
"A vile, bigoted, narrow-minded, hate-filled, mocking, rabble-rousing contemptible miscreant who's infinitely more anti-American than any of the alleged "radicals" who reap her psychotic wrath."
Kudos, Andy - never have I read a more accurate summation of this contemptible harridan.
I do not know if Ann Coulter is evil, maybe hateful. I do not think she believes 95% percent of what she says, but that detachment is in a way worse. She is just selling hateful snake oil to her gullible followers. She throws gasoline on the fires of any civil discourse and probably helps the left through her attempts at polarization.
PIRATES = TERRORISTS period.
Terrorists have political goals.
Pirates just want money.
Words do matter.
Pirates are NOT terrorists. The only similarity between them is that they are both criminals. Pirates have an economic goal, whereas terrorists have a political goal!!
Freedom of speech.......hmmmm - does that mean freedom to misinform and lie?
Rove - how would he know - was he in the room with Biden and Bush?
And, you get the mock outrage whenever a liberals says anything from the wacko right-wingers.
Double-standard.
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