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Hey, I like Ann Coulter.
Aside frrom her being smart, I think she is the most entertaining writer on the issues she touches. Yeah, she goes over the line at times, and then compounds the problem by not admitting a mistake or going to far. She is a provocateur, always walking a fine line. But the vast majority of what she writes is on point and humorous. Her last book was filled weith good stuff, but a couple instances where she went over the line and erred by not admitting a mistake allowed those who hate her to paint her opinions with a nice fat brush.
I don’t see what the big deal is with the clip (other than the dishonest smarminess of Blumenthal). Cannot someone level an insult anymore? What is a good one? Not particulalry, a little sophmoric for my taste. But sheeze, if you want to insult someone you call him something he doesn’t like, or doesn’t identify with. The Breck girl *is *effeminate. He just is. He is also—apparently 
—heterosexual. Now he might not find the characterization objectionable, in which case the insult loses any zing whatsoever and the person levelling the insult looks weak. But if he does object , then the intent of the insult to sting was successful.
So all you heterosexual macho guys who jump on Coulter for this, I call you all faggots. For all you heterosexual feminine beauties out there, you’re all bull dykes. All you proud gay men, I call you cunt lickers. All you super fit beings, I call you all fat slobs. All you attractice people, I call you ugly, hideous wastes of DNA. For all you brainiacs I reserve the slur of dense ignorami. For al you dummies, well, it really doesn’t matter what you get called does it, as it goes right over you heads.
Coulter’s toe went over the line again. Yikes! The horror. Of course I’ll still read some of her articles and buy her next book and laugh out loud from time to time.
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As a former constituent, I don’t particularly like John Edwards. Regarding national issues, he represented my views much better than Lauch Faircloth, but hey, Orrin Hatch did a better job than Faircloth in that regard. As far as I can tell, Edwards’ principal political credo seems to be that John Edwards should be elected to whatever he runs for, because, hey, he’s John Edwards.
But Ann Coulter is not someone who “goes over the line at times” – she’s a person who has made a career out of marketing divisive lies as political commentary, simply for the publicity it gets her. She is a vile individual who, admittedly, has the right to freedom of speech, but IMO her access to the public should be a weekly column used as filler by the Great Falls ND Weekly Shopper when they don’t have enough paid ads for garage sales to fill the paper.
She has, flat out, called every Democrat and liberal a traitor, and for that she should be haled into court, convicted of criminal libel, and sent to an appropriate women’s prison for the maximum term. And if you are supportive of her efforts to divide the American body politic by publishing falsehoods, you deserve every epithet this board has ever hurled at you, and then some.
The thoughful, intelligent conservatives of this board (like Bricker and Mr Moto) have distanced themselves from the invective hurled like decayed garbage by Coulter. It’s regrettable and somewhat surprising to see you failing to do so as well. But, in my experience, par for the course.
—heterosexual. Now he might not find the characterization objectionable, in which case the insult loses any zing whatsoever and the person levelling the insult looks weak. But if he does object , then the intent of the insult to sting was successful.