Personally, I think Coulter’s popularity is just further proof of the liberal media bias. After all, it’s the liberal media that’s helped make the right’s most embarrassing mouthpiece so ubiquitous.
I’m surprised she’s not attacking the media for putting her on the air as part of their conspiracy to discredit the right wing.
Quite correct. However, wacky plus rabidly rightwing plus unable to comprehend opposition is at the very least equivalent to “blithering”.
Of course they are, and in the context of a stroll home through a bad part of town, I hope they’re [legally] packing some heat.
Being in control of and responsible for an airplane full of passengers (with their airline having full liability if they pop off a poorly aimed antiterrorist round into the forehead of the child in row 7, by the way) is a different context.
Article, Sept. 12 as quoted:
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
“We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals,
by making them realize that they can be killed too,”
www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/ bookman/2002/021402.html
C’mon **Scylla, you knew this! These two quotes are on her favorite hits album! It’s like insisting I prove that Elvis sang “Blue Suede Shoes”.
Just curious if anybody’s read Slander.?
No matter which side you’re on, it’s a good read. Her tone is somewhat different than in her columns, and it’s researched and footnoted to death.
Again, it almost seems to me in those instances where she does go off on one of her tirades, that… well… she’s doing it on purpose, for effect, and, she kind of rations it out, as if it’s the bait that keeps her fans reading.
I think in the book she does a superior job of supporting her premises.
It’s different from her columns though, and if you’ve just seen her columns or seen her on TV, but haven’t read the book you may not see what I mean.
She’s not a Rush Limbaugh, or a Pat Buchanan.
Well… I’m willing to believe she’s a nice enough girl when she’s on her meds.
Awwright, I’m getting out of here!
But Elucidator, seriously, do you think those two quotes are meant to be taken at face value?
You don’t have to answer. I’m fleeing the scene here!
I haven’t read her stuff, which I guess is bad (kind of ignorant of me). The exposure of her I’ve received is through Howard Kurtz’s excellent Washington Post column. Now, Howard’s certainly in the media mainstream, but I’ve found him to be very evenhanded in dealing with conservatives, liberals, and independents alike. So when he says she’s kind of a kook (and supports this with quotes from her, online and in print), I tend to believe him.
'Nuff said.
This is interesting:
http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment100301.shtml
As soon as I got to the “how about…NO ARABS?” part in that first article Scylla linked to, I started hearing the Church Lady’s voice in my head. “Could it be…SATAN?”
Scylla, don’t run! We wants to pound ya some more…
You said:
BWA-ha-ha-ha!, [wipes away tears of laughter] Silica, Coulter’s not one tenth of the careful researcher and documenter of, oh, David Brock! Who could forget the imagery of Anthrax Coulter crawling drunkenly across the club.
Jake Tapper finds numerable, easily fact-checkable, glaring errors. I’ll bet she doesn’t hold truck in editors – they’re a liberal myth or something:
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/07/tapped-s-07-08.html
Read a little further:
A) Pakistanis are not Arabs, so the first part of her little aside is not only irrelevant to the point she’s trying to make, but also extraordinarily prejudicial.
B) Excluding a whole group of people, with no other commonality than they happen to be of Arabic descent is, to my mind, not only irrational and unsound but utterly disgusting. She wants everyone who isn’t an Arab to get their little card so they can breeze through the airport security measures but Arabic people have to stand in line and get searched. What’s wrong with this picture…
Oh… as for this little gem:
See point A above.
Upon preview:
[monty python]
LEFT HEAD:
All right. All right, not biscuits, but let’s kill him anyway.
ALL HEADS:
Right!
MIDDLE HEAD:
He buggered off.
RIGHT HEAD:
So he has. He’s scarpered.
[/monty python]
side point - who in the world considers Spence Abraham a moderate??? big pal of John- I’m -so -conservative -it- hurts- Engler?
Scylla: *Just curious if anybody’s read Slander.? […] Her tone is somewhat different than in her columns, and it’s researched and footnoted to death.
[…] I think in the book she does a superior job of supporting her premises. *
Hee hee ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Scylla, dear, just because somebody puts footnotes into their book doesn’t mean that the material cited in the footnotes necessarily supports what they’re claiming. A dishonest and polemical writer can lie just as easily with a documentary apparatus as without one. Check out a few of the corrections from this site:
In other words, her book purporting to document “liberal lies about the American right” is itself a perfect example of the dishonesty, distortion, malevolence, incompetent reportage, and outright lying that she claims liberals are guilty of. Pot, meet kettle.
(My favorite example: Coulter’s “documentation” of “liberal media bias” includes the data that the New York Times archive contains 109 examples of the phrase “far right wing” but only 18 uses of “far left wing”. But the first figure includes such items as the following: “…the Magic trailed deep into the fourth quarter. Then Nick Anderson hit a 3-pointer from the far right wing.”
Sorry, Scylla, but those of us who make a living doing documentary research that has to get past a more critical audience than a troop of enraged dittoheads are not likely to be impressed by Ann Coulter’s performance in “supporting her premises”.)
And yet she’s still around, while people like Stephen Ambrose have had to apologize for their journalistic misdeeds. Why is this? Why is it that when the National Review fired her (or had her quit), she was able to run to another venue, just like that?
In other words - who are her fans???
Too late, Scylla, they got you!
Annie and Scylla, sitting in a tree…K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
Kimstu, plaudits and raves on a job well done! However, once the stake is pounded firmly in place, do not forget to remove the head and stuff the mouth with garlic.
dan, meet Scylla. **Scylla, this is dan.
That should take care of the introductions.
don’t forget december
~sigh~
And I was doing so well with that particular memory repression, thanks a lot, wring.